That summer, he recorded his hundredth career kill — ninety-one of them in Ramadi.
He has just spent the last few years of his career killing innocent people under the orders of General Sarrano, commander of the sinister Dead Echo galactic army.
The voice made him one of Brazil's most popular singers for nearly 30 years, a pioneer in adapting American soul music to Brazilian tastes; the outsized cravings for drugs, alcohol and food derailed his career, killing him in 1998, just as he seemed to be getting back on track.
This brought his total number of career kills to six, making him a flying ace.
As a sniper he recorded the most career kills in US Military history.
The deadliest sniper is generally considered to be Finn Simo Häyhä, credited with 542 career kills, 500 of which occurred during a 100-day period in the Winter War with the Soviet Union.
Nichols's directing career continues, if fitfully (his last movie was "Charlie Wilson's War," from 2007); May's, the greater, if briefer, career, was killed by a masterpiece, "Ishtar," in 1987.
In the course of her career, Agatha Christie killed hundreds of characters: some by drowning, some by stabbing, and one with a crowbar.
The former pitcher Pascual Perez, who had a troubled career, was killed at his home in the Dominican Republic in an apparent robbery, the police said Thursday.
