2016 claims another. RIP, Mr. Thicke. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

2016 claims another. RIP, Mr. Thicke. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Alan Thicke, everyone’s favorite dad from Growing Pains, has died. He was 69.

Reports from TMZ say Thicke was playing hockey with his 19-year old son, Carter, when he suffered a heart attack. Again, this is from TMZ, so take that for whatever it’s worth, but his son Robin Thicke’s publicist has confirmed his father’s passing.

Thicke recently appeared on Fuller House and This is Us and tweeted as recently as Tuesday afternoon.

He is survived by his sons, Carter and Robin, and his wife, Tanya.

No reports indicate Thicke had been ill.

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