Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

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

Donald Thorin, cinematographer of Thief, Purple Rain, Midnight Run

http://varietylatino.com/english/2016/gente/noticias/donald-e-thorin-dies-cinematographer-purple-rain-237956/

Marisol

Marisol Escobar Popularity
# 33943 Most Popular Person
# 18 Sculptor
# 33 85 Year Old
# 3 Person Named Marisol
# 2 Gemini Sculptor

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/marisol-escobar.html

Strange things, internet pages...

Afeni Shakur

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/arts/music/afeni-shakur-mother-of-tupac-shakur-is-dead.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=https://t.co/RtXBV9VTpa

:-(((

Isao Tomita, synth pioneer

John Stabb

http://wtop.com/music/2016/05/d-c-punk-rocker-john-stabb-dies-after-cancer-battle/

Reg Grundy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36222958?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

That Lonnie Mack track upthread is so great. A lot of guys play the same notes and runs in the blues, so to shine you really have to bring something special to the table. Whatever that thing is, Lonnie had it.

Indeed. I saw him once at the Bottom Line in NYC decades ago and he really delivered the goods. I believe there may have been at least one other future ilxor in the audience that evening.

William Schallert

Oh no, RIP. I can only imagine he must have been heartbroken when his TV daughter died. But that is pure speculation of course.

Your link is hinky, hold on.

William Schallert

In an interview for this obituary in 2009,

"Hey, you're old and probably going to die soon, so maybe you could give us some exclusive quotes to remember you by...?"

Oops.
I actually thought he was older.

Had never really thought about the fact that Tomita must be old by now.

Tony Cozier. A great. RIP

Sally Brampton, first editor of Elle UK, writer on depression, and mentor to dozens of fashion journalists.

(xp) came here to post that link, RIP TC.

Mark Lane, among the first (and longest lasting) of the Warren Commission skeptics

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/us/mark-lane-who-asserted-that-kennedy-was-killed-in-conspiracy-dies-at-89.html

katherine dunn

http://www.wweek.com/news/2016/05/12/katherine-dunn-author-of-geek-love-dies-at-70

Darwyn Cooke

https://joeshusterawards.com/2016/05/14/darwyn-cooke-1962-2016/

Last surviving Casablanca actress Madeleine Lebeau dies

William Herz - last surviving participant of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast.

Beatles press officer Tony Barrow

Julius La Rosa, pop singer/DJ/actor still most famous for being fired from Arthur Godfrey's radio show in 1953

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julius-la-rosa-dead-godfrey-894207

RIP. Didn't know he was still around.

Makiko Futaki, key animator on nearly every Ghibli film as well as Akira and Wings of Honneamise.
You can watch clips of some of her best work here.

Susannah Mushatt Jones passed away a few days ago - up until that moment, the world's oldest living person and the last American born in the 19th century. She was 116 years, 311 days.

(The oldest now is Emma Moreno from Pallanza, Italy - the only remaining person alive verified to have been born in the 1800s).

There's a thread for the world oldest person (and cat)

WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON!!!!

Oh, I see.

Guy Clark, Nashville songwriter extraordinaire

http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/05/17/guy-clark-dead-74/80932338/

Jane Little, double-bassist and founding member of the Atlanta Symphony and record holder for longest tenure with a symphony orchestra (71 years):

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/16/us/jane-little-atlanta-symphony-orchestra/

I feel your pain, nurse Mary Anne Noland of Richmond, Va. RIP.

https://twitter.com/thegarance/status/732629278555267074

Emilio Navaira, who, after Selena, was seen as the one to bring Tejano music into the mainstream.

http://m.chron.com/entertainment/music/article/Tejano-star-Emilio-Navaira-reportedly-dead-of-7520484.php

http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/18/marlene-marder-kleenex-liliput-dies/

At 61. guitarist and more

aw, rip.

aw, loved kleenex/lilput...

morley safer

Ah, hell. I wondered why Liliput/Kleenex threads were being revived. RIP.

didn't know Safer was alive, or merely 84

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/19/morley-safer-dead/

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/original-beastie-boys-member-john-berry-dead-at-52-20160519

^this was the fourth from top story on the Guardian website earlier which was somewhat o_0

can only assume that someone just saw 'dead Beastie Boy' and uploaded it without noticing that it was a guy who played on one single in 1982

He did name the group and uh, well he was in an obscure band with Jack Rabid too...I like the story too of his Dad screamin at them, when they were playin at his home

i can't believe you used "obscure" and "Jack Rabid" in the same sentence

The band was called Even Worse

I have the Even Worse compilation CD. Don't think John Berry played on it though.

Alan Young, 96, natural causes
Wilbur on Mr. Ed, voice of Scrooge McDuck