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
rollin' on dubs
Always sad when parents have to bury their child.
All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be on The First 48
The family of indie film actress Krystina Mae announced today that she passed away on March 1st after a long battle with cancer.
Bill C. Davis, famed playwright, died last week at age 69. R.I.P.
Lyric Chanel died at age 13. She had brain cancer.
That is far too young. My condolences to her family.
Michael Wolf Snyder died at age 35. He committed suicide.
Neville "Bunny Wailer" Livingston, reggae legend, has died at age 73.
https://www.tmz.com/2021/03/02/reggae-legend-bunny-wailer-dead-dies-73/
Lance Waldroup, star of Moonshiners, died suddenly at age 30. Awful!
https://www.tmz.com/2021/03/04/moonshiners-star-lance-waldroup-dead-dies-discovery/
Norton Juster, author of “The Phantom Tollbooth” and “The Dot and the Line”, has died at age 91.
Claudio Coccoluto, one of Italy's most influential and popular deejays and electronic music producers, passed away last week at 59 after a long illness. (I linked to his official site because the English wiki page is a micro stub.)
Diagnosis; Swine Flu
Roger Mudd, an iconic journalist and news anchor for NBC and CBS in the 60s and 70s, has died at the age of 93.
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Entombed frontman LG Petrov is dead at 49 from bile duct cancer.
Man, I heard about that. That sucks; I saw Entombed AD a few years back with Amon Amarth I think. Lotta metal greats are dying fairly young recently.
Lou Ottens — the inventor of the cassette tape — passed away last Saturday. He was 94.
Cliff Simon, the actor who played Ba'al on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Contiuum passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday. He was 58.
Edited by Mroh on Mar 11th 2021 at 4:07:45 AM
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Musician Raoul Casadei passed away at 83 for COVID-related complications. He was the king of "liscio", a genre of popular music that is for Italy what country music is to the US, in a sense.
Formerly Star Angel 125
Murray Walker, legendary F1 commentator, dies at 97.
R.I.P to one of the all-time greats. Now we're down to 3 Kings (Thomas Hearns, Roberto Durán and Sugar Ray Leonard).
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
Steven Spurrier — the wine merchant responsible for putting California wines on the map with the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 (which was depicted in the movie Bottle Shock) — passed away on March 9. He was 79.
Edited by MovieNut14 on Mar 14th 2021 at 7:18:46 AM
"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."
For a moment I thought you meant the former coach of the Florida Gators.
Musician/Composer
Animator Yasuo Otsuka died on March 15. He was 89.
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I was just wondering about him the other day. RIP.
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Condolences to his wife.
Edited by alnair20aug93 on Mar 16th 2021 at 11:39:31 PM
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Shit, that's young. Poor guy.
Wake me up at your own risk.