Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

http://worldmusiccentral.org/2016/02/25/cuban-musician-reinaldo-hierrezuelo-rey-caney-dies-at-89/

Cuban vocalist, songwriter and tres player Reinaldo Hierrezuelo, better known as Rey Caney, died on Tuesday, February 23rd in Havana. Rey Caney was a highly influential figure in Cuban music.

Reinaldo Hierrezuelo, was born December 30, 1926 in Santiago de Cuba. In 1930 Rey Caney founded the seminal Cuban band Cuarteto Patria along with his cousin Francisco (Pancho) Cobas, Emilia Gracia and Rigoberto “Maduro” Echevarría. They performed traditional trova, boleros and música guajira (Cuban country music).

In 1952, Rey Caney formed the popular duo Los Compadres together with his brother Lorenzo. They accompanied celebrated singer-songwriter María Teresa Vera and Compay Segundo throughout the world.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/22/entertainment/sonny-james-obit-feat/

From 1960 to 1979, he spent 57 weeks at the top of the charts, according to Billboard and the Country Music Hall of Fame. James was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006.

george kennedy

best in Cool Hand Luke and Modern Romance; eff off "Naked Gun star"

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/george-kennedy-dies-dead-airport-cool-hand-luke-1201718567/

can't believe you left out the eiger sanction

I haven't seen any of those Eastwood films he did! Not even Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

Who's calling him "Naked Gun star?" Both of the obits went with Airport in their headlines.

Liked him best in CHL and, yes, The Naked Gun flicks. Why can't I remember him in Modern Romance?

RIP.

it was a TMZ headline... He's the ship captain in the cheap scifi film Brooks is working on.

i will admit "Earthquakes bring out the worst in some people" is the funniest line in any disaster film.

Oh man, how could I forget the film (within a film) that inspired the line "uh, space floor?"

"I belive I know the code, sir"

"You know nothing!"

RIP

I haven't seen any of those Eastwood films he did! Not even Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

He's pretty scary in that.

i guess it's just those 2 films, actually

https://vimeo.com/156654781

Film editor and director Jim Clark

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/jim-clark-dead-dies-killing-fields-editor-1201719806/

William Schaap, radical lawyer, author, publisher (co-founded Lies of Our Times)

wondered if he was the late sportswriter/critic Dick Schaap's brother -- yes

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/03/william-h-schaap-radical-lawyer-and-publisher-dies-at-age-75/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/04/bernie-baby-the-adorable-4-month-old-sanders-lookalike-has-died-unexpectedly-from-sids/

tennis commentator bud collins

Delmer Berg, last known survivor of the antifascist Lincoln Brigade dies at 100

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/2/headlines/last_surviving_veteran_of_abraham_lincoln_brigade_dies_at_100

Gayle McCormick, singer of Tarentino faves Smith (My parents saw ZZ Top open for them in 1970)

http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/columns/joe-holleman/gayle-mccormick-lead-singer-of-smith-dies-of-cancer/article_2e05d308-f9ca-584f-9637-68dbbf3bc40f.html

John Thomas of Budgie

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-budgie-guitarist-john-thomas-dies/

novelist Pat Conroy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/pat-conroy-best-selling-author-of-great-santini-and-prince-of-tides-dies-at-70/2016/03/04/9390e9a4-e288-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html

Gayle McCormick, singer of Tarentino faves Smith (My parents saw ZZ Top open for them in 1970)

the ones who did the cover of "the weight" on the easy rider soundtrack? sad.

Nancy Reagan.

Farewell, uptight cold lady in Galliano gowns for whom we owe some debt for turning Ronnie into a peacenik.

Famous People You Forgot Were Still Alive.

Good riddance

First Angie Bowie's husband now this

my mom just asked me yesterday if nancy was still alive

Don Regan cackling in hell

callous Hollywood trollop

Yes, but remember when she ended America's drug problem with that Very Special episode of Diff'rent Strokes?

An attempt at balance.

One of those somebody-must-have-invented it guys:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/ray-tomlinson-email-inventor-and-selector-of-symbol-dies-aged-74

^^^ I worked with him for 3 years and was just about to post his obit; he was a fantastic guy and someone I regretted falling out of touch with

That's amazing.

Concur re: that's amazing

I am really saddened by every early Internet person who passes because even though my field isn't really Fundamentals Of Internet I do feel like a lot of the people who invented what I do are getting closer all the time and nobody, as far as I know, is trying to do even a cursory oral history of how this business started and who did what, like handling "the posse" in the early 90s or any of the series of other similarly nasty internet worms that followed Morris

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/6/11168718/ray-tomlinson-dead-inventor-of-email-obituary

as he liked to say, "It's the only preposition on the keyboard."

I read this a few years ago and learned lots:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qk3dIqeNL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Will take a look to see if Tomlinson's in there.

So why was the @-sign on keyboards before email? What was it used for?

price

as in "i bought 3 slices of pizza @ $2.00 each"

Okay, thanks for the info!

Don't know if this is true, but I was told it stood for 'each at', so is a combination of an e and an a.

bbc commentator tony gubba:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/21740038

doh, that's from 3 years ago

well rip anyway old tones. until next time!

We could do with a "people you forgot were dead" thread to sit alongside the "people you forgot were still alive (except half them are now dead)" one.

everything would be so much simpler if people just stopped dying tbh

People who died twice.

It's a blessing to live so long everyone thinks you're already dead.