Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

Now doing 'The Floral Dance' with Lemmy and Bowie.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/nyregion/former-daily-news-reporter-dies-abruptly.html?action=click&contentCollection=Magazine&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

On Sunday, Mr. Feeney died in a New Jersey hospital of complications from a staph infection in his kidneys, his mother, Reba Willis, said.

Mr. Feeney, who was 32, went into cardiac arrest at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, N.J., the town where he grew up, just west of New York City, according to an obituary in The News. His sudden death was mourned by many in the journalism world, from reporters who worked with him on the city’s crime beat to those who fought alongside him to improve diversity in American newsrooms.

Signe Anderson of the Jefferson Airplane (that's her on It's No Secret) died the same day as Paul Kantner.

@AP
BREAKING: Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, has died at age 74.

Oh no, don't tell me...

BMX legend Dave Mirra by suicide. 41 years old. http://deadsp.in/i2x8kgZ

voice actor/impressionist joe alaskey

http://www.avclub.com/article/voice-actor-joe-alaskey-was-also-damned-good-impre-231742

Benoît Violier, chef of the Swiss Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville, regarded by many as one of the best restaurants in the world. Apparently a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Mary Fiumara, Boston homemaker and lungy star of this commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ti1hnLiLw

Edgar Mitchell of Apollo 14, one of the dozen men to walk on the moon

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-05/edgar-mitchell-astronaut-with-epiphany-in-space-dies-at-85

^also a Roswell believer

Seeing notices on FB that Dan Hicks (& His Hot Licks; Charletons) has died.

http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.2566576

Eddy Wally, Belgian language singer best known to Brits from Eurotrash. Also apparently an Internet meme in recent years.

Bingo, apparently

from the Banana Splits?

Lol.

James Goode, legendary Houston restaurateur & businessman

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/houstonchronicle/obituary.aspx?n=james-douglas-goode-jim&pid=177627387

xpost yes.

https://gooferie.com/2016/01/20/bingo-from-the-banana-splits-dies/

maybe not.

Daws Butler (voice) died in '88
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124889/?ref_=tt_cl_t18

Terry H Winkless (inside the suit) still alive
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935288/

Trifon Ivanov, aged 50!

http://skandalno.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/trifon_ivanov.jpg

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ivanov-trifon-bulgaria-crown.png

Judge Scalia, apparently. See the supreme court thread.

http://www.kvia.com/news/breaking-surpreme-court-justice-scalia-dies-during-hunting-trip-in-marfa/37981652

😁

Oh yeah, Where is Dick Cheney?!!!

UK indie band Viola Beach.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35572838

Jesus

Awful.

Vanity?

http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/15/vanity-dies-singer-nasty-girl/

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former UN secretary general, at 93.

Was one of those names I knew before I knew the person.

"the Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Neither does the United States."

God rest ye.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/george-gaynes-dead-1201707777/

Henry from Punky Brewster/Commandant Lessard from the Police Academy franchise. Made it all the way to 98!

Aww, RIP. I think I mentioned him on the famous people you were surprised to learn are still alive thread a year or two back. He's great in Tootsie.

http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/_img/1424-3.jpg

Think I'll rewatch Tootsie asap.

Awwww

also his Giving-a-speech-while-receiving-a-below-the-lectern-blow-job performance should never be forgotten.

I actually used that line "I think we should just look at this.." in a presentation once, it wasn't until some time after I remembered where it came from.

Andrej Zulawski. Who apparently has just recently finished his first film in 15 years. You made probably the best horror film ever, RIP.

Acel Moore, trailblazing black journalist

http://6abc.com/news/longtime-philadelphia-journalist-acel-moore-dies/1199634/

William Tankersley, CBS in-house censor in the Smothers Bros/ Norman Lear era

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/arts/television/william-h-tankersley-watchdog-for-cbs-taste-standards-dies-at-98.html

harper lee

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/02/harper_lee_dead_at_age_of_89_t.html

Aww

Thank goodness she cranked that new book out just in time.

Seriously though, she's been both dead for decades and more alive than any American. It's like the death of the person who wrote the dictionary. RIP.

Renato Bialetti, coffee pot king, last week. Ashes put in a Moka pot urn.

http://qz.com/618734/italys-coffee-pot-king-was-buried-in-the-appliance-that-made-him-famous/

Umberto Eco?

Confirmed.

well this is quite the year

:(