People die every day. Some of them are famous, some important, many newsworthy. This thread is for announcements of deaths in the news, discussions of the legacy of those recently deceased people, and memorials of same.
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To start with, the last of the original Von Trapp Singers has died, Maria Von Trapp, 99, in Vermont. (This is the daughter of Captain Von Trapp, not her stepmother who was also named Maria. In the musical, they called her Louisa.)
http://news.yahoo.com/maria-von-trapp-99-dies-vermont-005546425.html
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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:28:19 AM
Ed Mclachlan, cartoonist for several publications, including The Spectator and Private Eye
, has died aged 84
Stoika Milanova, Bulgarian classic violinist, died almost a week ago at age 79
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Rohan de Saram, British cellist, died last week at age 85
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Humberto Ortega, ex-military chief of Nicaragua, died almost a week ago at age 77
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Taylor Rousseau Grigg, TikTok star, died from a sudden illness at age 25
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Christopher Ciccone, artist, designer and younger brother of Madonna, has passed away from cancer Friday at the age of 63.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/madonna-brother-christopher-ciccone-dead-1235794103/
Cissy Houston, Grammy award winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston, has passed away at the age of 91 from Alzheimer's disease.
https://people.com/cissy-houston-whitney-houston-mom-dead-age-91-alzheimers-disease-7501905
Dragon Ball Z narrator Doc Harris has passed away, aged 76
.
Ouch. My condolences to his family and friends.
While I grew up with the Latin American dub's narrator voice (and I'm unaware of that actor's current status), I do know how iconic the narrator himself has been for the series. And some of his narrating lines became legendary (like the "At that moment, Cell felt the real terror" one said when Gohan went furious towards Cell during their fight. Or the "Find our next time" one, of course).
EDIT: Typo fix.
Edited by MyFinalEdits on Oct 7th 2024 at 2:46:00 PM
135 -> 180 -> 273 -> 191 -> 188 -> 230 -> 300 -> 311Ed Wheeler, actor of Law & Order and Blue Bloods, 88:
Johan Neeskens, Dutch soccer player and manager, 73:
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/41662053/netherlands-legend-johan-neeskens-dies-aged-73
Indian industrialist, tycoon and philanthropist, Ratan Tata, who was chairman of chairman of the Tata Group from 1990 to 2012 and interim chairman from October 2016 through February 2017, has sadly died aged 86.
While never worked in TATA, that company pushed a lot of competition in Guadalajara, Mexico in the Information technologies after the 2008 crisis, making the IT companies to grow in my city (and of course, having more options to work after IBM fell down). I will always be grateful for the oportunities his company brought to the city and project it as a big option in near shoring development.
Rest in peace.
Edited by Travsam on Oct 10th 2024 at 5:18:51 PM
Ethel Kennedy, human rights activist and widow of Robert F. Kennedy, has passed away at the age of 96.
https://people.com/ethel-kennedy-dies-complications-stroke-7502928
Arie L. Kopelman, former president and chief operating officer of Chanel, 86:
Man, rough personal life for Ethel Kennedy. Husband is assassinated while she's pregnant with his child, loses one son to a drug overdose, loses another in a skiing accident, then spends her last years seeing a third son completely going off the rails.
Hopefully she's at peace now.
"We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist."Nobuyo Oyama, best known as Doraemon's seiyuu from 1979 to 2005 and Monokuma up to her retirement in 2016 due to dementia, passed away of old age at 90 on Sept. 29; her management agency announced it today.
Man, TARAKO, Monokuma's second seiyuu, died earlier in March and now the original.
Edited by terumokou on Oct 11th 2024 at 1:40:22 AM
Burning love!Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, French Catholic prelate, 79:
https://sspx.org/en/news/death-bishop-bernard-tissier-mallerais-47993
Pierre Christin, French writer of Valerian & Laureline, died over a week ago at age 86
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Richard S. Hamilton, mathematician and professor, died five days ago at age 81
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Edited by Angeldeb82 on Oct 4th 2024 at 11:52:21 AM