Geoffrey Robertson KC, he worked on the OZ trial along with many other cases defending civil liberties and free speech, he's only 77
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:28 (one month ago) link
Wow.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:29 (one month ago) link
Whitey Herzog was still alive this week.
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:25 (one month ago) link
This isn't really that surprising, because he isn't that old, and he certainly isn't famous but the boy who provided the voice on Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge is still alive. Which makes me happy. His name is Josef Protschka and he was 80 this year.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2024 07:28 (one month ago) link
this reminded me that one of my most vivid music listening experiences was on a train out of Rome listening to Gesang der Jünglinge, so this also makes me happy. Good work, Josef.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:44 (one month ago) link
gnna to tell my grandchildren that herbert halbik and josef protschka are the same age and the same guy
― mark s, Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:55 (one month ago) link
He did become an operatic tenor as an adult, he didn't end up as a bus driver or something. That would have been cool though.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:56 (one month ago) link
Masanori Murakami, turns 80 in a couple of weeks--first Japanese MLB player, pitched for the Giants in '64 and '65. And pitched really well: 90 innings, 65 hits, 100 strikeouts, 23 walks. He was 21 years old. I was mystified, so checked his Wikipedia page; the Japanese commissioner, Yushi Uchimura--Bowie Kuhn's brother, evidently--forced him to return to Japan after the '65 season.
https://i.postimg.cc/7PJ017j8/masanori.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 April 2024 02:31 (one month ago) link
(Wasn't another Japanese player till Hideo Nomo in 1995.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 April 2024 02:33 (one month ago) link
Jackie Robinson's widow Rachel (101!)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 April 2024 20:54 (one month ago) link
I know...I've posted about her at least once in this thread. Time passes, I'll assume she died and I forgot about it, and then she'll be in the news--she was in one of the clubhouses (Mets', I think) on Jackie Robinson Day last week.
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 April 2024 22:01 (one month ago) link
I've posted her once too, itt.
― nickn, Monday, 22 April 2024 17:49 (one month ago) link
PJ Proby, 85.
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Monday, 22 April 2024 19:10 (one month ago) link
Norman "Spirit in the Sky" Greenbaum, 81.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 19:22 (one month ago) link
Picked up a nice copy of this not two weeks ago.
https://www.discogs.com/release/1684951-Norman-Greenbaum-Back-Home-Again
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 19:24 (one month ago) link
Howard Wilkinson, 80
― prog ain't no religious cult (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 20:23 (one month ago) link
Having belatedly learned of the death of Bruno Latour and Jean-Luc Nancy, I checked up on big names in French Philosophy and many I figured were gone are still here - most surprisingly Luce Irigiray at 93 and Helene Cixous at 86 (I thought both had died decades ago)
Also the painter Alex Katz (who I knew was old and living, but wasn’t sure he was ~still~ living) is in fact alive at 96
― ed.b, Friday, 26 April 2024 17:53 (one month ago) link
Robert Duvall, 93
― suicide is painful (Matt #2), Monday, 20 May 2024 12:19 (two weeks ago) link
Don McCullin (b.1935)
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:44 (two weeks ago) link
"Bones" Howe... I mean I suppose he's not that famous but he is still alive.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:14 (two weeks ago) link
Is that surprising?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:19 (two weeks ago) link
He's 91!
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:20 (two weeks ago) link
I was confusing him with Bones Hillman LOL
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:21 (two weeks ago) link
Who is dead, btw
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:22 (two weeks ago) link
Colin Jeavons, 94.
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Monday, 3 June 2024 11:47 (three days ago) link
Millie Perkins, 88.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Monday, 3 June 2024 21:37 (three days ago) link
NFL great Sonny Jurgensen, 89
― Josefa, Monday, 3 June 2024 21:56 (three days ago) link
Mina, 84
released a duet with Blanco (20) last year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UITfDm-8Bk
― felicity, Monday, 3 June 2024 22:00 (three days ago) link
actress-singer Janis Paige, 101Appeared in Esther Williams' first aquamusical Bathing Beauty in 1944; co-starred in Doris Day's debut film Romance on the High Seas in 1948; starred in the original The Pajama Game on Broadway in 1954... among numerous credits.― Josefa, Tuesday, March 26, 2024 8:21 AM (two months ago)
Appeared in Esther Williams' first aquamusical Bathing Beauty in 1944; co-starred in Doris Day's debut film Romance on the High Seas in 1948; starred in the original The Pajama Game on Broadway in 1954... among numerous credits.
― Josefa, Tuesday, March 26, 2024 8:21 AM (two months ago)
Passed away yesterday.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 01:19 (two days ago) link
Jean Chrétien, 90
― beamish13, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 01:55 (two days ago) link