The Obituaries Thread

[Easy Bakes 253]

This is one of the big ones folks

Gene Wilder Dies At 83

Blazing Saddles thats all you need to say

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/movies/gene-wilder-dead.html?_r=0

 

I guess Willy wonka was good too

 

 

[Alejandro24 575]

The mexican music composer Juan Gabriel passed away yesterday (28-08-2016) at 66 because a heart attack.

 

Descanse en Paz.

[airman15 4,111]

The aviation community has taken a hit with the passing of a Boeing great..

Joe Sutter, the father of the 747 has passed.

The 747 revolutionized how we did transcontinental air travel. It's one thing to see them in a book but it's another one to be up close to one. I've only had the chance to see them passing the airport and I wish I had the opportunity to board one.

[Sabretooth78 808]

5 hours ago, airman15 said:

The aviation community has taken a hit with the passing of a Boeing great..

Joe Sutter, the father of the 747 has passed.

The 747 revolutionized how we did transcontinental air travel. It's one thing to see them in a book but it's another one to be up close to one. I've only had the chance to see them passing the airport and I wish I had the opportunity to board one.

Watching one both land and take off from TNCM (Princess Juliana) is quite the experience.

[madhatter106 3,903]

American playwright Edward Albee has died at the age of 88.

Tony and Pullitzer Prize winning author of such works as Seascape, A Delicate Balance, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

[madhatter106 3,903]

Conductor Sir Neville Marriner dies at 92.

Founder of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and a prolific recording artist, including work as supervisor for the soundtrack to the Academy Award winning film Amadeus.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

John Winterton, better known to us as A Nonny Moose, passed away on September 28th. I can't articulate the words necessary to describe his importance to this forum. All I can say is, we will all miss him very much.

 

[Easy Bakes 253]

RIP Nonny Moose.

we will miss you

 

 

 

[Fantozzi 4,067]

Andrzej Wajda, one of europes most astute filmmakers (academy award, palme d'or) and director of films as "Ashes and Diamonds" and "Danton" died last night at the age of 90.

[madhatter106 3,903]

Jack Chick, controversial publisher of Christian comic tracts, dies at 92.

Marketed and sold in bulk quantities for distribution by fundamentalist churches, Chick tracts promoted a whole host of conspiracies and groups (including Roman Catholics, Muslims, Freemasons, gays, Wiccans, pagans, and Jehovah's Witnesses) as doomed to eternal damnation.  Perhaps the best known of these tracts, Dark Dungeons preaches against the dangers of roleplaying games, saying they open the door to occult practices, witchcraft, and teen suicide.  Not surprisingly, groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center have designated Chick Publications as a hate group.

[airman15 4,111]

Bob Hoover has passed at 94

He was Chuck Yeager's shadow when he broke the sound barrier, became a legend of WWII by stealing an axis aircraft to escape imprisonment, and even helped guide a stricken airshow performer to safety from the ground. Another great of aviation this year..

[SteveMSim 275]

Florence Henderson, best known as the mom on The Brady Bunch TV series, died at age 82 yesterday.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2016/11/25/florence-henderson--the-brady-bunch-mom-dies/94411286/

[SteveMSim 275]

Former president of Cuba Fidel Castro is dead at 90.  For better or worse, Castro was one of the most influential figures of the latter half of the 20th Century.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Finally

[Fantozzi 4,067]

Fatima Jawara, 19, goalkeeper of the Gambia's national women's soccer team died attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe early this month. According to a UNHCR spokesman this was confirmed by two survivors of the shipwreck. Her getaway was financed by her player agent who wanted to support her dream of playing for an european club.

[Easy Bakes 253]

1st man to orbit the Earth  John Glenn Passes away at 95.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38257445

 

 

[Terring 6,473]

Oh, come on! John Glenn too? This is ridiculous. So many people. So many nice people has been passing away all this year. This is heartbreaking

@Easy Bakes: You mean "1st American to orbit the Earth". The 1st man was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

[airman15 4,111]

Please, no! Not Glenn!

We have already lost several legends in almost every respect, it's ludicrous..

[Easy Bakes 253]

1st american man to orbit the Earth  John Glenn Passes away at 95.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38257445

 

 

4 minutes ago, airman15 said:

Please, no! Not Glenn!

We have already lost several legends in almost every respect, it's ludicrous..

 

1 hour ago, Terring said:

Oh, come on! John Glenn too? This is ridiculous. So many people. So many nice people has been passing away all this year. This is heartbreaking

@Easy Bakes: You mean "1st American to orbit the Earth". The 1st man was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Well the man was 95. not 45 or something that would be unexpected 

 

 

 

[SteveMSim 275]

Greg Lake, co-founder of the rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, died at age 69.  His death comes nine months after that of bandmate Keith Emerson.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/greg-lake-emerson-lake-palmer-co-founder-dead-at-69-w454546

[Mewds45 132]

Carrie Fisher dies at age 69, due to a heart attack she suffered days ago.

http://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

I most remember Carrie Fisher from her role as the jilted bride in The Blue Brothers.

RIP.

[RipRap 4,400]

You have had to be kidding me.

Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's mother, dead at 84
George S. Irving, award winning Tony Award Winner, dead at 94
Liz Smith, BAFTA winning actress, dead at 95.

[Bdub01 201]

Let's not forget Ragnar Lothbrok. RIV. We'll miss you buddy!!!!

[madhatter106 3,903]

William Peter Blatty, author and producer, dies at 89.

Originally working as a comedy screenwriter for director Blake Edwards, Blatty would go on to pen the best-selling novel "The Exorcist," as well as serving as a producer on the film and writing its screenplay, for which he would receive an Academy Award in 1974.

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

RIP Gorden Kaye. The driving force behind 'Allo 'Allo.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38718282

[Fantozzi 4,067]

Namco founder and father of "Pac-Man" Masaya Nakamura died January 22 at the age of 91.

[airman15 4,111]

47 minutes ago, Fantozzi said:

Namco founder and father of "Pac-Man" Masaya Nakamura died January 22 at the age of 91.

This news hurts.. My old man introduced me to PacMan among the other classic games he knows. I have it in a collection of Namco greats for the PS2..

[Fantozzi 4,067]

Jazz singer Al Jarreau dies at the age of 76

 

 

[madhatter106 3,903]

Robert Osborne, host for Turner Classic Movies, dead at 84.

Osborne had been the face of the network since its premiere on cable television in 1994.