Death announcements for persons of note

[Terre]

Farewell Niel Innes

In the wardrobe of my soul, in the section labelled shirts.

[pjknibbs]

Brave Sir Robin's chief minstrel gone...

[Terre]

Artist Syd Mead, best known for his work in Blade Runner.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50955699

[RegisterMe]

Unusual one for this thread but Qasem Soleimani - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-50979463

I suspect that this will have ramifications.

[felter]

Neil Peart aged 67, Drummer and lyricist for Rush for 45 years has passed away after a three and a half year fight with brain Cancer. Kind of explains why the quit touring.

R.I.P. Neil

[pjknibbs]

Derek Fowlds, famous as the slightly dim civil servant Bernard Woolley in "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" has died:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51147182

Think that's all the main guys from those series gone now.

[EDIT] And turns out Christopher Tolkien died this week as well, but apparently that wasn't important enough for the national news, just the local Oxfordshire news:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-o ... e-51143879

[Alee Enn]

RIP Terry Jones, from Monty Python's Flying Circus
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/monty-python- ... 10119.html

[fiksal]

sad stuff

[pjknibbs]

RIP Terry Jones, from Monty Python's Flying Circus
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/monty-python- ... 10119.html

Gosh darn it. Still, between him and Graham Chapman the afterlife is starting to get a good comedy troupe together...RIP, Terry.

[RegisterMe]

Kobe Bryant. 41. Legend. And apparently his little girl might have been with him .

[pjknibbs]

Nicholas Parsons has died at the age of 96:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51278023

[felter]

Kirk Douglas has dies at 103, he had a good run anyway, in more than one way.

R.I.P. Kirk.

[Praefectus classis]

Kirk Douglas was a great actor and one of the last (if not the last) from the Hollywood golden era.

I think he should have a funeral like he did in The Vikings.

R.I.P.

Link

[Ronald Sandoval]

sad news RIP

Spartacus

[berth]

Heather Couper, British astronomer and science populariser has died: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51562165

A great communicator.

[pjknibbs]

I was surprised to hear that one, she was older than I thought she was--she looked really young (like, student young!) in those programmes she did back in the 80s.

[Terre]

Larry Tesler has died aged 74.

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center scientist, the creator of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more.

[burger1]

Physicist And Iconoclastic Thinker Freeman Dyson Dies At 96 (Dyson Sphere)

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/28/81043323 ... dies-at-96

[RegisterMe]

Physicist And Iconoclastic Thinker Freeman Dyson Dies At 96 (Dyson Sphere)

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/28/81043323 ... dies-at-96

[RegisterMe]

Katherine Goble Johnson died on February the 24th, aged 101. What a remarkable, trailblazing woman. I'd not heard of her until today when I read her obituary in the Economist.