Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

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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 :(

wanderly braggin' (seandalai), Saturday, 26 November 2016 03:07 (seven years ago) link

Fidel Castro.

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

clemenza, Saturday, 26 November 2016 05:36 (seven years ago) link

eagerly awaits further "this fucking year" wailing

brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 26 November 2016 08:27 (seven years ago) link

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

this is cracking me up for some reason

soref, Saturday, 26 November 2016 12:16 (seven years ago) link

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

brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 26 November 2016 12:31 (seven years ago) link

Close but no cigar.

darling you were wonderful you really were quite good (snoball), Saturday, 26 November 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link

Sad, so it is.

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 November 2016 15:46 (seven years ago) link

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.

j., Saturday, 26 November 2016 16:32 (seven years ago) link

Actor Ron Glass (Harris on Barney Miller).

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

nickn, Saturday, 26 November 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link

:(

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 November 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link

RIP

Y Kant Jamie Reid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 November 2016 23:08 (seven years ago) link

This year RIP Ron

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 November 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link

awww shit no way

Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Sunday, 27 November 2016 08:30 (seven years ago) link

Oh man.

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 November 2016 09:02 (seven years ago) link

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

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link

RIP. I will be crying in the chapel tonight.

Wall of Def Jam (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link

Micky Fitz, singer of Oi band The Business.

Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 2 December 2016 08:39 (seven years ago) link

xp RIP

darling you were wonderful you really were quite good (snoball), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link

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

nickn, Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:16 (seven years ago) link

Cult/genius French comics artist Gotlib

Dinsdale, Sunday, 4 December 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link

Merde.

Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 December 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link

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

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 5 December 2016 15:02 (seven years ago) link

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

i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 December 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link

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.”

curmudgeon, Monday, 5 December 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link

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.

A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Monday, 5 December 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link

Indian actress and politician Jayalalithaa Jayaraman

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

soref, Monday, 5 December 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link

Actor Peter Vaughan

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

Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 13:25 (seven years ago) link

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

mark s, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 13:31 (seven years ago) link

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

heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link

Yes, he'll always be Felix to me.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link

he was married for a a while to BILLIE WHITELAW

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

Darcy Sarto (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link

rip grouty :(

Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link

People you thought were dead... RIP.

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link

Well, what can I say but

2016.

Mark G, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link

1994 heisman trophy winner rashaan salaam, age 42

mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link

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

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link

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

mark s, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:30 (seven years ago) link

i first became aware of Vaughan in this

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

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link

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

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 13:17 (seven years ago) link

Greg Lake.

Three Word Username, Thursday, 8 December 2016 11:35 (seven years ago) link

Fuck!

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 8 December 2016 11:45 (seven years ago) link

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

Three Word Username, Thursday, 8 December 2016 11:48 (seven years ago) link

Feel sorry for Carl Palmer today :(

heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 8 December 2016 12:11 (seven years ago) link

"The Christmas We Get We Deserve"

Mark G, Thursday, 8 December 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link

john glenn (1921-2016)

mark s, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link

good astronaut, lousy senator

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link

damn

Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link


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