Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

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 :(

"The Christmas We Get We Deserve"

john glenn (1921-2016)

good astronaut, lousy senator

damn

http://www.ballardian.com/images/ernst_memories.jpg

who's still with us? buzz, valentina tereshkova, not many

he and Fidel bring my birth era to a close

Death had the chance to kill an entire classic rock band in one calendar year, and instead finished off the Mercury 7? What a fucking dick.

maybe Death can finish off the Keating 5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

Yeager will outlive them all.

which is crazy bc when i saw The Right Stuff as an eight yr old, Chuck Yeager's cameo role was pointed out to me and i remember thinking how crazy it was that Chuck Yeager was IRL an elderly man. in 1983!

@TVSource
BREAKING: Soap Icon Joe Mascolo, known as the legendary Stefano DiMera on #Days of our Lives, has passed away at the age of 87

NO wow that guy was amazing. hadn't thought of him in years. 87 is plenty old but wow. A big part of my adolescence was the Stefano DiMera storyline.

omg same, wow

His parents were immigrants from Italy, Peter Mascolo (1901–2008) and Anna Mascolo (née DeTuccio) (1910–2010), who had their 80th wedding anniversary shortly before his father died.

damn