Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

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i remember his drawings from the record, though the specific big yin strip must be from before my time

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:49 (seven years ago)

You might even say I was Lucan out for you. *

I almost did.

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:02 (seven years ago)

david brion davis, historian of slavery

mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2019 19:53 (seven years ago)

SF/fantasy writer Gene Wolfe

No! Fuck, this one hurts. RIP.

pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 07:10 (seven years ago)

Les Reed, songwriter, composer of "Delilah", "It's Not Unusual", "There's a Kind of Hush" et al.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47948530

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 11:34 (seven years ago)

Kazuhiko Katou aka Monkey Punch, most famous for writing and drawing the Lupin III manga

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:54 (seven years ago)

Georgia Engel, most know for playing Georgette on the Mary Tyler Moore show.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713892952/georgia-engel-sweet-voiced-star-of-mary-tyler-moore-show-dies-at-70

nickn, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:01 (seven years ago)

Kazuhiko Katou aka Monkey Punch, most famous for writing and drawing the Lupin III manga

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:54 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark

oh man rip

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:03 (seven years ago)

it'd hard to play a wide-eyed innocent for laughs and not be boring; she was masterful

xp

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:03 (seven years ago)

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sl3-117-2109_large.jpg

Skylab/Space Shuttle scientist-astronaut Owen Garriott
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/skylab-and-space-shuttle-astronaut-owen-garriott-dies-at-88/

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 21:13 (seven years ago)

I’ve got a tattoo of Skylab with an astronaut on a space walk so apparently I have a 1/7 chance that I have a tattoo of that guy

joygoat, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 23:18 (seven years ago)

J. Geils

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/guitarist-j-geils-dead-at-71-108373

Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:06 (seven years ago)

^^Two Years Ago. It's been going around again.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:09 (seven years ago)

jesus my blood ran cold there for a second

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:12 (seven years ago)

Being Dead Stinks

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:15 (seven years ago)

j. geils: dead and loving it

Boris Bronfentrinker of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:18 (seven years ago)

damn it

Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:18 (seven years ago)

FWIW, I've probably seen that link shared more over the past few days than I did when it actually happened.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:24 (seven years ago)

my dad got tricked by the J Geils thing the other day.... and these obituaries, we keep tabs on them. we play games. and I think about this

flappy bird, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:02 (seven years ago)

Alan Garcia, who was President of Peru for ten years (iirc) has shot himself rather than getting arrested in a corruption probe.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-latin-america-47965867

ShariVari, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:34 (seven years ago)

Watergate burglar Janes McCord (in 2017 but just reported now)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-mccord-jr-watergate-conspirator-who-linked-break-in-to-the-white-house-dies-at-93/2019/04/18/11c2082e-6195-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html?utm_term=.ab19488ddd41

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 April 2019 10:51 (seven years ago)

Manga writer Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf & Cub, Hanzo the Razor, Lady Snowblood, Crying Freeman), 82 (pneumonia).

The Mod Who Banned Liberty Valance (WmC), Friday, 19 April 2019 12:09 (seven years ago)

I don’t read comics so had no idea those were all written by the same person!

mumsnet blvd (wins), Friday, 19 April 2019 12:12 (seven years ago)

8( i have a 3ft pile of his manga.

(LW&C books are currently £2 each on comixology btw. there are 28 of them, over 8000pp total)

koogs, Friday, 19 April 2019 12:13 (seven years ago)

I had no idea he was still alive! And now I miss Martin Skidmore.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 April 2019 12:13 (seven years ago)

wrote lots of golf manga as well. but i don't think this ever reached a western audience.

koogs, Friday, 19 April 2019 12:18 (seven years ago)

Just saw this. I do read comics but basically zero manga. Koike's work, though, is an exception because it's exceptionally good.

Joan Lunden just stole your laptop and I didn't even try to stop her (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 April 2019 18:41 (seven years ago)

Just saw that disco producer Don Ray died last month.

visiting, Friday, 19 April 2019 18:56 (seven years ago)

truly surreal that it took two years (!!) for anyone to get around to noticing that a major figure in the watergate scandal had died.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 April 2019 19:03 (seven years ago)

lyra mckee, journalist, 29 years old

Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 20 April 2019 21:46 (seven years ago)

Just saw that disco producer Don Ray died last month.

RIP, responsible for some great tunes.

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 April 2019 22:21 (seven years ago)

Billy McNeill

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41685748

Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 08:16 (seven years ago)

German actor Hannelore Elsner has died at the age of 76. Best known for her performance in the 2000 film 'Die Unberührbare (No Place to Go)', and deserved better roles than she usually got on German TV.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/nachruf-auf-hannelore-elsner-16153863.html

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 18:20 (seven years ago)

just found out last week that Tom Goodkind (of the NYC bands US Ape and the Washington Squares) died a couple months back

http://www.tribecatrib.com/content/tom-goodkind-activist-and-band-leader-was-local-renaissance-man

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:14 (seven years ago)

Ken Kercheval

https://www.thewrap.com/ken-kercheval-dies-dallas-actor-cliff-barnes/

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 19:56 (seven years ago)

Ted Kelsey, one of the great unintelligible radio actors and also Baron Greenback in Dangermouse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48036700

Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:00 (seven years ago)

Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor, 87. RIP.

pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:02 (seven years ago)

He was a fine Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe in Tous les matins du monde. Such a wonderful film (and novel).

pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:03 (seven years ago)

Mark Medoff, playwright of Children of a Lesser God

David Picker, United Artists exec who helped get the film careers of the Beatles and James Bond rolling

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:14 (seven years ago)

man someone sure is busy today

flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 22:16 (seven years ago)

Dick Rivers, French rocker.

glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 23:32 (seven years ago)

Fred Foss, DC jazz sax player and flutist who started in NY and played with Lionel Hampton, Tito Puente, Hugh Masekela and more has died (per Facebook and twitter)

curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 April 2019 04:25 (seven years ago)

This was mentioned on I Love Basketball, but it should be here too:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/john-havlicek-celtics-legend-who-stole-ball-dies-79-n998771

His career box shows amazing consistency in virtually every category, especially games played: from 71 to 82 every season for 16 years, no partial seasons. Looks like he never had an injury.

clemenza, Friday, 26 April 2019 05:10 (seven years ago)

Michael Wolf - only 64, one of my favourite photobooks is his (now rather expensive unfortunately) one on HK.

Michael Wolf: The man who found beauty in megacities

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12978/production/_106625167_dd7351c9-41e2-4539-9ff9-9c2666fd4d98.jpg

Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:05 (seven years ago)

Appropriately huge lol.

Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:06 (seven years ago)

Josef Šural, Czech footballer.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/josef-sural-death-czech-footballer-killed-minibus-crash-alantaspor-player-killed-kayserispor-dies-a8890641.html

Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Monday, 29 April 2019 07:05 (seven years ago)

[Appropriately huge; lol.

Just got to tidy that up for you

Luna Schlosser, Monday, 29 April 2019 12:55 (seven years ago)

And make my own mess ...

Luna Schlosser, Monday, 29 April 2019 12:55 (seven years ago)

John Singleton

(•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 29 April 2019 13:51 (seven years ago)

Jesus, that's rotten

Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Monday, 29 April 2019 13:53 (seven years ago)


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