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Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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