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Dearly Departed of 2024 - robkelk - 01-05-2024
RIP Niklaus Wirth, creator of (amongst other things) the Pascal programming language.
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - Bob Schroeck - 01-05-2024
Glynis Johns, age 100. If you're going "who?", she was probably best known to American audiences as Mrs. Banks in Mary Poppins, but had a substantial acting career beyond that role.
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - Kilroy - 01-05-2024
Actor David Soul has died at the age of 80.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/david-soul-the-actor-who-portrayed-the-blond-half-of-tvs-starsky-and-hutch-dies-at-80/ar-AA1mw3FM
Kilroy
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - robkelk - 01-10-2024
RIP Adan Canto
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - robkelk - 01-12-2024
RIP Ed Broadbent, considered by many to be the best Prime Minister that Canada never had.
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - Shepherd - 01-15-2024
Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners, dies at 99:
https://ew.com/joyce-randolph-dead-the-honeymooners-actress-8426184
Bill Hayes, who acted in over 2,000 episodes of Days of Our Lives, dies at 98:
https://ew.com/bill-hayes-dead-days-of-our-lives-actor-8426095
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - Kilroy - 01-16-2024
Writer and TV critic Tom Shales has died at the age of 79 of COVID-19 with kidney failure.
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/13/1224625692/tom-shales-dead-tv-critic-washington-post
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - Bob Schroeck - 01-18-2024
Peter Shickele of "PDQ Bach" fame, age 88
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - robkelk - 01-22-2024
RIP Norman Jewison
His credits include Fiddler On The Roof, Jesus Christ Superstar, Moonstruck, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, and In The Heat Of The Night
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - Mamorien - 01-22-2024
(01-22-2024, 04:03 PM)robkelk Wrote: RIP Norman Jewison
His credits include Fiddler On The Roof, Jesus Christ Superstar, Moonstruck, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, and In The Heat Of The Night
And, as the article notes, the original versions of The Thomas Crown Affair and Rollerball. (Mainichi hitotsu mamechishiki, la-la-la!)
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - robkelk - 01-24-2024
RIP David Mills
Do you have a clock on your computer? Does the time match everybody else's time? Thank David Mills for inventing and implementing Network Time Protocol, the way for computers to do that.
He also wrote what's believed to be the very first FTP client software.
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - Bob Schroeck - 01-24-2024
Melanie, age 76
If you're going "who?", she performed at Woodstock, and was famous for "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" (which she wrote about the festival) and "Brand New Key".
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - robkelk - 01-28-2024
RIP Frank Farian, the record producer who created the groups Boney M., No Mercy, and Milli Vanilli.
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - robkelk - 01-30-2024
RIP Chita Rivera
Among other roles, she was in the original Broadway cast of Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, and Chicago, and had the title role in the 1993 performance of Kiss of the Spider Woman
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - Norgarth - 02-02-2024
RIP Carl Weathers
Actor from Rocky, Predators and The Mandalorian
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - robkelk - 02-06-2024
Toby Keith
Outspoken country music performer
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - Bob Schroeck - 02-14-2024
William Post, inventor of the Pop-Tart, age 96.
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - robkelk - 02-16-2024
RIP Alexei Navalny, outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.
Suddenly, while in custody.
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - ECSNorway - 02-21-2024
Steve Miller - of "Steve Miller and Sharon Lee", authors of the 'Liaden' space-opera stories - passed suddenly yesterday.
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - Norgarth - 02-21-2024
(02-21-2024, 10:09 AM)ECSNorway Wrote: Steve Miller - of "Steve Miller and Sharon Lee", authors of the 'Liaden' space-opera stories - passed suddenly yesterday.
ah man, I only discovered the Liaden stories 5 or 6 years ago and have been working my way through the series.
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - aku - 02-22-2024
(02-21-2024, 12:07 PM)Norgarth Wrote:(02-21-2024, 10:09 AM)ECSNorway Wrote: Steve Miller - of "Steve Miller and Sharon Lee", authors of the 'Liaden' space-opera stories - passed suddenly yesterday.
ah man, I only discovered the Liaden stories 5 or 6 years ago and have been working my way through the series.
Obit at https://file770.com/steven-richard-miller-july-31-1950-february-20-2024/
And a bit over a meter of shelf space for everything I have. I am missing most of the early/ier chap books.
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - Bob Schroeck - 02-29-2024
Comedian Richard Lewis, age 76
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - robkelk - 02-29-2024
RIP Brian Mulroney, past Prime Minister of Canada.
Americans might remember his impromptu duet with Ronald Reagan during a summit meeting.
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - aku - 03-10-2024
Resubmission: Akira Toriyama, Creator of Dragon Ball.
RE: Dearly Departed of 2024 - Bob Schroeck - 03-10-2024
Also a repost:
Singer Steve Lawrence, age 88