Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

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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)

other reports saying he hasn't died but is very seriously ill.

thomasintrouble, Monday, 29 April 2019 14:04 (seven years ago)

Stevie Chalmers, only the guy who scored the winner in the '67 European Cup Final ffs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48091417

Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Monday, 29 April 2019 14:07 (seven years ago)

Singleton being pulled off of life support today. Only 51.

https://t.co/Xcy5fsrxrV

Simon H., Monday, 29 April 2019 17:51 (seven years ago)

bummer; he had a lot more to say.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 April 2019 18:18 (seven years ago)

Stop-motion animator Bruce "The Amazing Mr." Bickford, 72. Did some great work with Frank Zappa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqp71DOJ3aY from 2:39 on, but Inca Roads is great, so watch the whole thing.

WmC, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:46 (seven years ago)

Stevie Chalmers, only the guy who scored the winner in the '67 European Cup Final ffs.

Who's left? Craig, Clark, Wallace, Auld, Lennox, Fallon (sub gk).

Beaten home and away by Dundee Utd in that quintuple season so, y'know, couldn't have been *that* good.

Michael Jones, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 11:12 (seven years ago)

Michiro Endo, singer for seminal Japanese punk band The Stalin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3OMoHX7qzA

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:51 (seven years ago)

xp. the arabs also beat barcelona home and away that season

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:54 (seven years ago)

Boon Gould, founding guitarist w/Level 42

Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 16:29 (seven years ago)

Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca himself:

https://www.facebook.com/thewookieeroars/posts/2375211675851881

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:35 (seven years ago)

ahhrrrrrrr i p

deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:53 (seven years ago)

"Uncle" Russ Gibb

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8509569/russ-gibb-detroit-grande-paul-is-dead

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:59 (seven years ago)

Jah Stitch, the 'original ragamuffin'

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/02/original-raggamuffin-jah-stitch-pioneering-reggae-vocalist-dies-aged-69

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Friday, 3 May 2019 05:47 (seven years ago)

:(

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 3 May 2019 06:46 (seven years ago)

a bit amazed at the attention paid to peter mayhew, an actor whom few could pick out of a lineup

mookieproof, Friday, 3 May 2019 17:29 (seven years ago)

but the way he stood there

d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:30 (seven years ago)

When you play a character that well known over the course of 40 years nobody really cares what the actor looks like. That's not what he got paid for.

(Also "few" is doing a lot of work there. SW fandom is not some tiny niche of people.)

Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:35 (seven years ago)

he appeared at a lot of fan conventions & was very fan-friendly, even as his physical health waned - i think that probably accounts for the recognizability factor too

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:36 (seven years ago)

I didn't realize just how tall he was--7'3''!

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:36 (seven years ago)

all my words do a lot of work

mookieproof, Friday, 3 May 2019 17:42 (seven years ago)

Hey man, you never know how that beard's gonna look until you let it grow all the way in.

Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 18:26 (seven years ago)

xpost -- See here.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2019 18:28 (seven years ago)

Where? We can't see it Ned

Mark G, Friday, 3 May 2019 18:44 (seven years ago)

So sad.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2019 18:48 (seven years ago)

a bit amazed at the attention paid to peter mayhew, an actor whom few could pick out of a lineup

― mookieproof, Friday, 3 May 2019 17:29 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he played a big role in our childhoods

deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Friday, 3 May 2019 19:56 (seven years ago)

Freddie Starr

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-freddie-starr-dead-comedian-15022018

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 May 2019 21:32 (seven years ago)

Jim Fowler, Host of 'Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom,' Dies at 89

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jim-fowler-dead-mutual-omahas-wild-kingdom-host-was-89-1209218?fbclid=IwAR0zfoE-42bJ3PGC-USB4ieQfxqNFVCnAwKG1Jvn0gQMsIytm1Wu82j002o

nickn, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:04 (seven years ago)

will always think of Fowler as the guy who showed up w/ animals who pissed on Johnny Carson

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:22 (seven years ago)

“I’ll be sitting here in the tent with a banana daiquiri while Jim artificially inseminates an angry yak...”

suzy, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:00 (seven years ago)

Jerome Ackerman, who stood at the heart of L.A.'s Midcentury Modernism movement, dies at 99

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jerome-ackerman-designer-craftsman-dead-20190509-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1RIo55bGwRi6NwLu1-26McN3kbjiOJFfbO960lqJ5WAKuq-SGMiu4uOa8

nickn, Friday, 10 May 2019 20:22 (seven years ago)

Peggy Lipton:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-peggy-lipton-dead-20190511-story.html

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 May 2019 01:47 (seven years ago)

Damn RIP

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 12 May 2019 01:53 (seven years ago)

Bummer

flappy bird, Sunday, 12 May 2019 05:02 (seven years ago)

Alvin Sargent, screenwriter of Straight Time, Paper Moon, Ordinary People et al

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48238573

... (Eazy), Sunday, 12 May 2019 06:13 (seven years ago)

This is horrible and sad...

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/may/12/silver-king-wrestler-and-nacho-libre-star-dies-at-london-show

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 May 2019 10:22 (seven years ago)

RIP. Is that Janeane Garofalo standing behind him in that Jack Black Instagram?

Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 May 2019 11:40 (seven years ago)

Brian Walden

calzino, Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:16 (seven years ago)

... people you thought...

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 May 2019 16:01 (seven years ago)


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