http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/24/i-wanted-to-be-jillian-when-i-grew-up-friends-family-remember-la-victim-jillian-johnson/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 July 2015 05:15 (ten years ago)
Flora MacDonald:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/flora-macdonald-longtime-politician-dead-at-89-1.3168239
She ran for the PC leadership in 1976, the first political convention I ever paid attention to--wrote a paper on it for a high school history class. She was fifth on the first ballot with 9.1%; Joe Clark ended up winning, then beat Trudeau in the next election.
― clemenza, Sunday, 26 July 2015 20:21 (ten years ago)
Ann Rulehttp://www.inquisitr.com/2288726/true-crime-author-ann-rule-dies-writer-spent-a-lifetime-in-the-minds-of-serial-killers/
― MrDasher, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 16:05 (ten years ago)
In other "thought they'd died years ago" news: Sir Peter O'Sullevan. 97!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/horse-racing/33709124
― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:53 (ten years ago)
As noted on the Apprentice thread, Stuart Baggs:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-33719515
― ailsa, Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:06 (ten years ago)
http://bangordailynews.com/2015/07/29/obituaries/coleen-sheran-singer
― mookieproof, Friday, 31 July 2015 04:49 (ten years ago)
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/6649400/lynn-anderson-country-star-rose-garden-dead
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 31 July 2015 20:56 (ten years ago)
Kind of definitively 1971 for me. This was great too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAw-YYKkqWE
― clemenza, Friday, 31 July 2015 21:39 (ten years ago)
roddy piper
― mookieproof, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:03 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDKdHuyQpHY
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 31 July 2015 22:37 (ten years ago)
what a bummer
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 August 2015 02:21 (ten years ago)
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGJ1y_Qsa3g
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1vzwla_wwf-wrestlemania-v-piper-s-pit-with-morton-downey-jr_sport
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Saturday, 1 August 2015 02:34 (ten years ago)
Cilla Black has gone.
― Alba, Sunday, 2 August 2015 11:33 (ten years ago)
Buddy Emmons
― Eternal Return To Earth (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 01:46 (ten years ago)
richard schweiker, one of the last moderate/liberal republicans, and reagan's proposed running mate in 1976:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/us/richard-s-schweiker-reagan-confidant-dies-at-89.html?_r=0
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 03:04 (ten years ago)
Billy Sherrill:
http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2015/08/04/breaking-legendary-producer-billy-sherrill-dies/31110363/
I know him primarily for The Fabulous Charlie Rich, but I know he was behind a ton of famous records.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:36 (ten years ago)
Sherrill's a big co-star in Jimmy McDonough's Tammy Wynette bio. Very strange man...RIP.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:43 (ten years ago)
NOOOOOOOOOO
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 19:06 (ten years ago)
robert conquest
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 19:41 (ten years ago)
Canadian TV host Chris Hyndman:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/christopher-hyndman-co-host-of-cbc-s-steven-and-chris-dead-at-49-1.3178833
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 01:58 (ten years ago)
George Cole
http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=41280
― Alba, Thursday, 6 August 2015 10:18 (ten years ago)
Until quarter of an hour ago, he could easily have gone on the "people you were surprised to find out were still alive" thread.
― ailsa, Thursday, 6 August 2015 10:28 (ten years ago)
Neville Neville (you've torn your dress)
― Madchen, Friday, 7 August 2015 22:22 (ten years ago)
frank gifford
― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 August 2015 18:58 (ten years ago)
rip :(
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 August 2015 19:11 (ten years ago)
maybe i should reread 'a fan's notes'
― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 August 2015 19:13 (ten years ago)
David Nobbs, creator of Reggie Perrin
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/09/david-nobbs-reginald-perrin-creator-dies
― ailsa, Sunday, 9 August 2015 22:40 (ten years ago)
Coleen Gray, self-described 'Goody Two Shoes' girl in The Killing, Nightmare Alley, Red River, Kiss of Death
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-coleen-gray-20150804-story.html
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 August 2015 04:20 (ten years ago)
Uggie - the scene stealing dog from The Artist
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/12/uggie-the-dog-star-of-the-artist-dies-aged-13
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 09:06 (ten years ago)
What a pup!
― Madchen, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 09:16 (ten years ago)
i hated your movie, dead dog
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 12:04 (ten years ago)
tbf he didn't have final cut
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 12:42 (ten years ago)
lol goddamn
― goole, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 16:18 (ten years ago)
:( RIP Blakey. I hope he finally has Butler.
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:36 (ten years ago)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33914037
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:39 (ten years ago)
film and television director Herbert Wise, who earned Bafta and Emmy nominations for helming all 13 episodes of I, Claudius (1976)
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/12/herbert-wise
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 August 2015 14:26 (ten years ago)
Butler died some years ago, so yes he did.
― Mark G, Saturday, 15 August 2015 18:15 (ten years ago)
Julian Bond: http://twitter.com/splcenter/status/632796265894555648
;_;
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 August 2015 09:14 (ten years ago)
Music manager Jazz Summershttp://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33950404
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 16 August 2015 20:35 (ten years ago)
http://pitchfork.com/news/60814-bob-johnston-producer-for-bob-dylan-leonard-cohen-johnny-cash-has-died/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 August 2015 17:59 (ten years ago)
David Prior, the schlock auteur
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0697935/#director
― polyphonic, Monday, 17 August 2015 20:44 (ten years ago)
Yvonne Craig, Batgirl on the TV show.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/yvonne-craig-dead-batgirl-1960s-816226
― clemenza, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 05:03 (ten years ago)
...and the heroine of Mars Needs Women!
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 05:58 (ten years ago)
awww
― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 09:26 (ten years ago)
Faceplams: https://search.yahoo.com/search?cs=bz&p=Yvonne+de+Carlo&fr=fp-tts-611&fr2=ps
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 20:28 (ten years ago)
Bud Yorkin, TV/film director-producer best known for his Norman Lear collabs
http://deadline.com/2015/08/bud-yorkin-dead-all-in-the-family-producer-was-89-1201501347/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 21:09 (ten years ago)
idgi
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 21:51 (ten years ago)
Y DeCarlo and Y Craig are different people. Though it doesn't seem surprising that if you searched for Y DeCarlo you would also get Y Craig because the first name match and the the latter is all over the news now.
― nickn, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 21:54 (ten years ago)
A glitch in how Yahoo is generating the info on their Yvonne Craig page (pulling Yvonne De Carlo's wiki link). nbd, it happens.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 21:55 (ten years ago)
Louis Stokes, first black Congressman from Ohio, chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and one of the founders of the Congressional Black Caucus. (I see the Stokes Federal Building and drive or bike past Stokes Blvd. every single day in Cleveland.)
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/19/432878721/louis-stokes-ohios-first-african-american-u-s-congressman-dies-at-90
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:51 (ten years ago)