Dearly Departed of 2024

[robkelk]

RIP Niklaus Wirth, creator of (amongst other things) the Pascal programming language.

[Bob Schroeck]

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.

[Kilroy]

Actor David Soul has died at the age of 80.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/...r-AA1mw3FM


Kilroy

[robkelk]

RIP Adan Canto

[robkelk]

RIP Ed Broadbent, considered by many to be the best Prime Minister that Canada never had.

[Shepherd]

Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners, dies at 99:
https://ew.com/joyce-randolph-dead-the-h...ss-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-o...or-8426095

[Kilroy]

Writer and TV critic Tom Shales has died at the age of 79 of COVID-19 with kidney failure.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/13/122462569...ngton-post

[Bob Schroeck]

Peter Shickele of "PDQ Bach" fame, age 88

[robkelk]

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

[Mamorien]

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!)

[robkelk]

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.

[Bob Schroeck]

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".

[robkelk]

RIP Frank Farian, the record producer who created the groups Boney M., No Mercy, and Milli Vanilli.

[robkelk]

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

[Norgarth]

RIP Carl Weathers

Actor from Rocky, Predators and The Mandalorian

[robkelk]

Toby Keith

Outspoken country music performer

[Bob Schroeck]

William Post, inventor of the Pop-Tart, age 96.

[robkelk]

RIP Alexei Navalny, outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.

Suddenly, while in custody.

[ECSNorway]

Steve Miller - of "Steve Miller and Sharon Lee", authors of the 'Liaden' space-opera stories - passed suddenly yesterday.

[Norgarth]

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.

[aku]

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-mille...y-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.

[Bob Schroeck]

Comedian Richard Lewis, age 76

[robkelk]

RIP Brian Mulroney, past Prime Minister of Canada.

Americans might remember his impromptu duet with Ronald Reagan during a summit meeting.

[aku]

Resubmission: Akira Toriyama, Creator of Dragon Ball.

[Bob Schroeck]

Also a repost:

Singer Steve Lawrence, age 88