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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.

Please observe the usual rules about posting ettiquette and note that this is in On-Topic Conversations.

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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Mhazard Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#1477: Apr 8th 2019 at 3:34:15 PM

He passed away in his sleep from acute heart failure on April 5th.
Well, hopefully it was quick and painless, rather than the alternative of him being suddenly woken up by excruciating chest pain before eventually dying. BTW, did he by chance have a preexisting cardiac condition, or did this heart failure come out of left field for everyone?

Edited by MarqFJA on Apr 8th 2019 at 1:34:31 PM

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#1478: Apr 18th 2019 at 7:07:43 AM

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

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Quag15 Since: Mar, 2012
#1479: Apr 18th 2019 at 3:20:27 PM

[up]Awful way to go. May he rest in peace.

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (USA) (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#1480: Apr 29th 2019 at 2:08:33 PM

John Singleton, ‘Boyz N the Hood’ Director, Dies at 51:

John Singleton, whose powerful debut film, “Boyz N the Hood,” earned him an Oscar nomination for best director, the first for an African-American, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 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.

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lrrose Since: Jul, 2009
#1481: May 2nd 2019 at 3:31:27 PM

Peter Mayhew, best known for playing Star Wars's Chewbacca, passed away on Tuesday.

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#1482: May 2nd 2019 at 3:49:48 PM

So close to May the 4th too.

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No longer a forum herald
#1483: May 2nd 2019 at 3:54:35 PM

The one fight that not even a Wookie could win.

Rest in peace.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#1484: May 2nd 2019 at 4:16:49 PM

He lasted longer than most did, considering his health problems.

RIP.

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Soban Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#1485: May 2nd 2019 at 4:52:43 PM

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.

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#1487: May 2nd 2019 at 8:36:02 PM

F

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TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
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#1488: May 13th 2019 at 7:08:49 AM

The 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.)
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#1489: May 13th 2019 at 7:31:53 AM

Much like June Foray, she lasted a really long time. We should all be so lucky.

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#1490: May 13th 2019 at 7:39:43 AM

I had thought that she died decades earlier. I'm surprised that she lived this long.

Rest easy and que sera, sera.

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speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#1491: May 14th 2019 at 1:55:58 PM

Tim Conway died today. What a bummer.

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#1492: May 15th 2019 at 5:10:06 AM

I just realized that he voiced Barnacle Boy. May he and Ernest Borgnine join forces to fight crime in the Great Beyond.

Edited by alnair20aug93 on May 15th 2019 at 8:12:29 PM

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atimnie The Video Guy from Chicago Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
The Video Guy
#1493: May 15th 2019 at 12:21:00 PM

I think Tim may be too busy laughing it up with Harvey Korman again.

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MachThreeSlug Doin' stuff from Australia Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Doin' stuff
#1494: May 16th 2019 at 4:04:18 AM

Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke passes at age 89.

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#1496: May 17th 2019 at 4:37:47 AM

RIP Tardar Sauce. You will always be everyone's favorite grumpy cat.

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#1497: May 17th 2019 at 5:25:58 AM

F for Tardar Sauce.

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KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#1499: May 17th 2019 at 6:37:36 AM

Yeah. 102 is a good age to die. RIP.

RIP Tardar Sauce

Also, bye Hawke (IDK about him)

Edited by KazuyaProta on May 17th 2019 at 8:38:16 AM

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rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (USA) (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#1500: May 21st 2019 at 10:52:35 PM

Norma Miller, Lindy-Hopping ‘Queen of Swing,’ Is Dead at 99:

Norma Miller, who danced the Lindy Hop on Harlem sidewalks as a child, and as a teenager dazzled crowds on international tours in the 1930s and early ′40s doing the same kicks, spins and drops that had made it a Jazz Age jitterbug craze, died on Sunday at her home in Fort Myers, Fla. She was 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.

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