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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Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Actor Bradley Welsh was shot dead in Edinburgh.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/uk/bradley-welsh-trainspotting-dead-scli-gbr-intl/index.html
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Awful way to go. May he rest in peace.
John Singleton, ‘Boyz N the Hood’ Director, Dies at 51:
His death, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, was confirmed in a family statement after he was taken off life support. Mr. Singleton had been admitted to the hospital on April 17, reportedly after having a stroke. His family said he had a history of hypertension.
His mother, Shelia Ward, said last week that he was in a coma and filed court papers asking to be appointed his temporary conservator. Several of his children at the time opposed her trying to take control of his medical and financial decision making and publicly disputed her assessment of his medical state.
“Boyz N the Hood,” a bleakly realistic film about three teenagers growing up amid gang violence in South Central Los Angeles, established Mr. Singleton’s credentials and placed him in the conversation with more established African-American directors like Spike Lee, Bill Duke, Julie Dash, Robert Townsend and Reginald Hudlin.
Peter Mayhew, best known for playing Star Wars's Chewbacca, passed away on Tuesday.
So close to May the 4th too.
The one fight that not even a Wookie could win.
Rest in peace.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)He lasted longer than most did, considering his health problems.
RIP.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I met him at Dragon Con once, and a few times on Reddit. I remember shaking his huge hand. Always a friend to the fans and a Gentle Giant.
Good bye Buddy
Watch me destroying my countryF
ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔|I DO COMMISSIONS|ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔The long famed actress Doris Day has passed away of pneumonia at the age of 97.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Much like June Foray, she lasted a really long time. We should all be so lucky.
I had thought that she died decades earlier. I'm surprised that she lived this long.
Rest easy and que sera, sera.
ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔|I DO COMMISSIONS|ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔Tim Conway died today. What a bummer.
I just realized that he voiced Barnacle Boy. May he and Ernest Borgnine join forces to fight crime in the Great Beyond.
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ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔|I DO COMMISSIONS|ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔I think Tim may be too busy laughing it up with Harvey Korman again.
Who are the ones that we kept in charge? Killers, thieves, and lawyers. God's away, god's away, god's away on business... business.Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke passes at age 89.
I do lots of stuff. The real question is am I any good at that stuff.Grumpy Cat death: Instagram sensation dies aged seven
jamie-b-good.tumblr.comRIP Tardar Sauce. You will always be everyone's favorite grumpy cat.
F for Tardar Sauce.
ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔|I DO COMMISSIONS|ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔I M Pei, the Chinese architectwho designed the glass pyramid at the Louvre, has died aged 102.
While sad 102 is a very good age.
Knowledge is Power, Guard it WellYeah. 102 is a good age to die. RIP.
RIP Tardar Sauce
Also, bye Hawke (IDK about him)
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Watch me destroying my countryNorma Miller, Lindy-Hopping ‘Queen of Swing,’ Is Dead at 99:
Her longtime manager and caretaker, John Biffar, announced her death.
Among the cultural prodigies who arose after the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh’s “hop” from New York to Paris in 1927 — hence the dance’s name — Ms. Miller, known as the “Queen of Swing,” was the youngest recruit and last survivor of the original Lindy Hoppers, the all-black Herbert White troupe that broke in at Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom and popularized the Lindy Hop in Broadway shows, on tours of Europe and Latin America, and in Hollywood films.
In the movies, she danced and sang in memorable black-cast numbers in the Marx Brothers’ “A Day at the Races” (1937) and in the madcap Olsen and Johnson comedy “Hellzapoppin’ ” (1941). She later thrived as a choreographer, comedian, television actor and author, and was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2003 as a conservator of the Lindy Hop.
With her own black companies, the Norma Miller Dancers and Norma Miller and Her Jazzmen, she joined early fights to undermine segregation in the nightclubs and casinos of Miami Beach and Las Vegas, where black entertainers — even stars like Nat King Cole and Sammy Davis Jr. — drew big crowds but afterward had to leave through the kitchen and stay in segregated accommodations.
Vocaloid producer wowaka dies at age 31