Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

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)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/arts/design/tony-gleaton-67-dies-leaving-legacy-in-pictures-of-africans-in-the-americas.html?_r=0

Great photographer who walked away from the fashion photo industry, to take pics in US south, Mexico and elsewhere.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 August 2015 01:30 (ten years ago)

xp - but this isn't the 'Yvonne Craig' page - this is what happens when you search for Yvonne de Carlo (rather than "Yvonne de Carlo") on the news page - you get the Yvonne that's in the news who was the youngest member of The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo - that's the search doing its job properly.

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 August 2015 07:27 (ten years ago)

http://www.afropop.org/24572/remembering-doudou-ndiaye-rose-1930-2015/

Senegalese percussionist

― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 August 2015 00:51 (ten years ago)

Formula One car designer and driver Guy Ligier
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2015/08/25/guy-ligier-1930-2015/

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 18:04 (ten years ago)

TV medium Colin Fry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34051952

― Belvita Bloke (soref), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 18:39 (ten years ago)

http://worldmusiccentral.org/2015/08/22/saharawi-music-star-mariem-hassan-dies-in-refugee-camps/

Mariem Hassan, one of the leading artists in the Saharawi music scene, passed away this morning, August 22, 2015, in the refugee camps near Tinduf (Algeria). “Mariem Hassan died this morning in the Saharawi refugee camps near Tinduf (Algeria), surrounded by her family,” said Manuel Dominguez, her longtime producer, manager and friend. Although she had been living in Spain for many years, she chose to spend her last days with her family in the refugee camps in the Sahara.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 August 2015 15:34 (ten years ago)

darryl 'chocolate thunder' dawkins

― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:16 (ten years ago)

goddam, rip

― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:29 (ten years ago)

Melody Patterson, who was 16 when she first appeared as Wrangler Jane of "F Troop"

http://variety.com/2015/tv/obituaries-people-news/f-troop-actress-melody-patterson-dies-at-66-1201576106/

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 August 2015 10:58 (ten years ago)

Al Arbour, 4x champ Islanders coach (hockey i think)

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nhl/story/_/id/13532455/hall-famer-al-arbour-coached-new-york-islanders-four-stanley-cup-titles-dies

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 August 2015 19:24 (ten years ago)

Oliver Sacks :(

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/30/oliver-sacks-dies-aged-82-eminent-neurologist-author-awakenings

― Number None, Sunday, 30 August 2015 12:09 (ten years ago)

you'd think this would generate more discussion 'round here

― rip van wanko, Sunday, 30 August 2015 22:52 (ten years ago)

― drash, Sunday, 30 August 2015 23:29 (ten years ago)

i am v sad fwiw

i was obsessed with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat in high school

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 August 2015 23:31 (ten years ago)

Wes Craven

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wes-craven-horror-maestro-dies-818806

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 August 2015 01:36 (ten years ago)

I had no idea that Sacks had come out as gay in his memoir until i read his last NY Times piece about 3 weeks ago.

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 August 2015 01:41 (ten years ago)

(unless that was general knowledge before the book?)

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 August 2015 01:42 (ten years ago)

was going to say 'it's v sad' but then reconsidered (how can anyone presume to make such a judgment on another person's life, ultimately), i.e. that iirc he seems to have had brief intense relationship in his youth & ever since chose decades of celibacy & solitude (most of his life)

― drash, Monday, 31 August 2015 02:12 (ten years ago)

(especially such a full rich & wonderful life)

― drash, Monday, 31 August 2015 02:19 (ten years ago)

(i regret bringing up that angle; this is one of the problems with biography & the crudeness/ presumptuousness of its-- one's-- my-- projections)

― drash, Monday, 31 August 2015 02:29 (ten years ago)

RIP

http://www.thomasvan.com/wp-content/files/Your-Erroneous-Zones.jpg

― ... (Eazy), Monday, 31 August 2015 13:55 (ten years ago)

https://craftyordie.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/brule.jpg?w=232&h=300

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 August 2015 14:12 (ten years ago)

(Steve Brule not dead)

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 August 2015 14:13 (ten years ago)

dead people are dying everyday

― am0n, Monday, 31 August 2015 14:39 (ten years ago)

Tell it to George Burns. He's 119 and going strong.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 August 2015 15:37 (ten years ago)

Natalia Strelle

― Madchen, Monday, 31 August 2015 18:48 (ten years ago)

CNN with the troll headline: "Doctor played by Robin Williams dies", click through to learn which one!

― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Monday, 31 August 2015 18:57 (ten years ago)

Punch Adams still with us i guess

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:25 (ten years ago)

sorry Patch

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:27 (ten years ago)

Want to see a movie called "Punch Adams" about a doctor who punches sick kids back to health. "Suck it up, sicky!"

― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:30 (ten years ago)

Crying here!

― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 31 August 2015 20:04 (ten years ago)

always loved oliver sacks' articles, have never read any of the books, alhough i think we perhaps have the man who mistook his wife for a hat at home and i will eventuall get round to it im sure.

was just re-reading his piece on prosopagnosia (face-blindness) from the new yorker, super fascinating, well-writen article:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/30/face-blind

― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Monday, 31 August 2015 20:14 (ten years ago)

His autobiog is a fantastic read.

― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 03:20 (ten years ago)

Uncle Tungsten is pretty good too, as a childhood memoir.

― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 17:15 (ten years ago)

Dean Jones: http://variety.com/2015/film/news/dean-jones-the-love-bug-star-dies-at-84-1201584259/

― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 22:24 (ten years ago)

sad beep

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 23:31 (ten years ago)

terrible thing to lead yr obit

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 September 2015 04:06 (ten years ago)

Did you just disparage The Love Bug?

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 September 2015 04:12 (ten years ago)

why not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am8qrrZAtP4

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 September 2015 04:34 (ten years ago)

Rico Rodriguez

― Madchen, Friday, 4 September 2015 19:13 (ten years ago)

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