Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

This might shed some light:

http://www.france24.com/en/20161125-france-child-rape-statute-limitations-celebrity-flament-hamilton-photographer

On Saturday 22 October 2016, in the French talk-show Salut les Terriens ! on TNT C8 channel, the anchor host Thierry Ardisson gave the name of David Hamilton as the presumed rapist of now radio RTL presenter Flavie Flament. According to Ms Flament these acts would have been committed when she was 13 years old, in Cap d'Agde (Hérault, South of France). They are now largely reported in her novel La consolation, a romanticized story based on her alleged life experiences, and in social media like Twitter.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] The brother of Ms Flament has called certain revelations in her book into question.[21] On Tuesday 22 November 2016 David Hamilton announced that he is planning to file several complaints because of defamation. When the press agency AFP called him the artist declared that he is not to blame. "I didn't do anything wrong", he affirmed, while confirming that he only took a portrait picture of Flavie Flament, "29 or 30 years ago". This photo was published.[22]

Xp

Fuck off 2016

http://www.factmag.com/2016/11/25/pauline-oliveros-dies-deep-listening-composer/

Marcos Ana

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Communist-Poet-Longest-Serving-Prisoner-of-Franco-Dies-at-96-20161125-0001.html

Fuck off 2016

http://www.factmag.com/2016/11/25/pauline-oliveros-dies-deep-listening-composer/

― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Saturday, November 26, 2016 12:01 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ffffffff :(

Fidel Castro.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953

eagerly awaits further "this fucking year" wailing

Martin McGuinness @M_McGuinness_SF
#Cuba - End of an Era. #FidelCastro RIP #Sad

this is cracking me up for some reason

could have hardly been more bathetic unless he'd called him a great lad

Close but no cigar.

Sad, so it is.

Amy Fiscus ‏@amyfiscus 10h10 hours ago

Of the 4 bylines on the NYT, LAT and WaPo Castro obits, only one still works at the paper where it was published. Another has himself died.

Actor Ron Glass (Harris on Barney Miller).

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/ron-glass-dead-barney-miller-firefly-dies-1201927179/

:(

RIP

This year RIP Ron

Colonel Abrams

http://www.vanyaland.com/2016/11/27/rip-house-rb-vocalist-colonel-abrams-reportedly-died-age-67/

awww shit no way

Oh man.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/blog/20845197/legendary-orioles-vocalist-diz-russell-has-died

Doo-wop/r'n'b singer with the Regals, the Orioles (led by Sonny Til), and the Legendary Orioles

RIP. I will be crying in the chapel tonight.

Grant Tinker

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-tinker-dead-tv-executive-878704

Andrew Sachs

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/01/andrew-sachs-dies-after-alzheimers-aged-86

Micky Fitz, singer of Oi band The Business.

xp RIP

Peng Chang-kue, creator of General Tso's Chicken, at 98.

http://www.vice.com/read/the-man-who-bestowed-general-tsos-chicken-on-the-world-has-died-vgtrn?utm_source=dmfb

Cult/genius French comics artist Gotlib

Merde.

Billy Chapin--the kid from Night of the Hunter--at 72.

Rest in peace, John (as uttered in Pearl's inimitable, weirdly-petulant '50s child star cadence)

http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/herb-hardesty-best-known-as-fats-dominos-saxophonist-dies-at-91/362631252

If listeners didn’t know Hardesty’s name, they would certainly know his saxophone, which is heard on such Fats Domino-Dave Bartholomew hits as “Ain’t That a Shame,” “I’m Walkin’,” “Blue Monday,” “I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday” and even Lloyd Price’s 1952 classic “Lawdy Miss Clawdy.”

multiple olympian Sammy Lee
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/sports/sammy-lee-dies-asian-american-olympic-gold.html
quoth wikipedia:

Lee's parents moved to Highland Park, a suburb of Los Angeles. At the time, however, Latinos, Asians and African-Americans were only allowed to use the nearby Brookside Park Plunge in Pasadena, on Wednesdays, on what was called "international day": the day before the pool was scheduled to be drained and refilled with clean water. Because Lee needed a place to practice and could not regularly use the public pool, his coach dug a pit in his backyard and filled it with sand. Lee practiced by jumping into the pit.

Indian actress and politician Jayalalithaa Jayaraman

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38215826

Actor Peter Vaughan

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38225796

three things i did not know abt peter vaughan:
(i) his birthname was peter OHM
(ii) he was born in WEM
(iii) he was married for a a while to BILLIE WHITELAW

Aww that's too bad. Loved him as Christopher Eccleston's dad in Our Friends in the North.

Yes, he'll always be Felix to me.

he was married for a a while to BILLIE WHITELAW

and for a while they shared a house with his best friend Donald Pleasence!

rip grouty :(

People you thought were dead... RIP.

Well, what can I say but

2016.

1994 heisman trophy winner rashaan salaam, age 42

Listing to Radio 4 this afternoon, every newsreader managed to stumble over the name "Maester Aemon" in a different way

they were only supposed to say GROUTY, it was agreed the rest of his wel lloved 70 year career be forgotten

i first became aware of Vaughan in this

http://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/ActorsV/17582-19636.gif

Pakistani artist, musician, fashion designer and preacher Junaid Jamshed dies in PK-661 plane crash.

Greg Lake.

Fuck!

Cancer. John Wetton who also has cancer is still hanging in there.

Feel sorry for Carl Palmer today :(