Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

aww dr bombay :( though I must admit I had no idea he hadnt died long ago.

aw man sages

Henry Heimlich, of Manoeuvre fame
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38351903

I dont look forward to the false stories that he died choking.

oh he's that guy wins used for a Haim pun once:p

Whoever it was has to do a Dead Pool next year. This year was the first time it got missed, and look what happened..

― Mark G, Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:55 PM (four days ago)

it got missed in 2015 as well. I'm not sure if this was a matter of ilx growing up and developing a social conscience or of the organizers being too lazy to start a new thread.

I have a strong apocalyptic feeling about 2017, so if there's a dead pool next year I'm gonna take a risk and fill my ballot with celebrity babies. sorry, Prince Alexander Duke of Södermanland, but if the world ends next year, you're going with it, and I may as well get some posthumous fake internet points out of the deal.

oh he's that guy wins used for a Haim pun once:p

haha good times

that was a real "rib-tickler"!!!!

http://www.who2.com/famous-people-died-at-age-99-years-old/

sadly all too brief!!!

imho 109 is the most tragic age a human can die at

rolling obit is much better than deadpool imo

xp 68 tho

Heimlich's family is, uh, interesting. His wife co-authored a book on homeopathy, one son became a Christian radio talk-show host and another has a website dedicated to showing what a fraud his dad was.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

http://m.tmz.com/#article/2016/12/18/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/

too soon

It is a condition of my age that I knew her best from the cop-slapping incident, which she later spoofed in the second Naked Gun movie ("This happens every fucking time I go shopping"). RIP.

oh my fucking god

it took me 8 hours to kill someone. so sorry

The link mentions the same thing I thought of first--that I thought of her as being famous for being famous before I knew what that meant (i.e., I never knew what she was famous for, just that she was everywhere).

I didn't know that she apparently dated Ataturk!

Imago YOU BASTARD

for me growing up zsa zsa was probably the most famous person alive. Was an adult before I found out she was actually an actress.

weirdly she was in a film from the late 60s this afternoon on uk gold and i was trying to work out what age she was (she looked old even then)

the link i posted hasn't updated yet

it's all this metal i'm listening to, giving me weird powers. 'a list of celebrities who died aged 99 is too brief!' *bang*

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/19/zsa-zsa-gabor-actor-and-socialite-dies-aged-99

Her last marriage was also her longest lasting: she tied the knot with Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt in 1986. He has also battled ill-health in recent years, hospitalised twice in 2010, once after swallowing a bee and another time following his gluing his eye shut.

lolwhut

keeps the bees out iirc

lol

Was an adult before I found out she was actually an actress.

debatable

Eva clearly the talent in the family

only 3 ZZG films i can name off the top of my head are Touch of Evil (20 seconds of screen time), Queen of Outer Space, Moulin Rouge (Huston, not Baz ADD)

She did a good job (basically playing herself, natch) as Aumont's assistant/wife in Lili.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38365805

Rabbi Lionel Blue

My favourite Thought for the Day regular growing up, though I realise that doesn't sound much of an accolade.

songs of faint praise

he was good. rip

nyt zsa zsa obit is a treat (including the gift of my new dn)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/18/movies/zsa-zsa-gabor-often-married-actress-known-for-glamour-dies.html

Howard Bingham, Muhammad Ali's personal photographer.

http://www.pdnonline.com/features/industry-updates/obituaries/obituary-howard-bingham-muhammad-ali-photographer-77/?platform=hootsuite

Dr. Rachel Owen

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/12/rachel-owen-longtime-partner-of-thom-yorke-passes-away-from-cancer/

Michèle Morgan, French film icon whose career spanned 7 decades

http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2016/12/20/mort-de-l-actrice-michele-morgan-rendue-celebre-par-son-role-dans-le-quai-des-brumes_5052118_3382.html

RIP. Appeared in more than one classic. Wasn't sure she was still alive but know someone who met her in recent years

"I have never had the opportunity to play sexy women. I must believe that my charm was not in my ass."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michele-morgan-french-actress-fallen-idol-dies-at-96-958050

Hello new dn

Gordy Tapp of Hee Haw

#Because2016

y'know these folks droppin' in their 90s had a good run

Tapp was Canadian! token on Hee Haw

"Charlie Farquharson" (played by Don Harrow, father of director Mary) was also Canadian

every gordie is canadian

How?

every gordie is canadian

Definitely,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyZdanTLW40

Lou Harris, king of the pollsters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lou-harris-pollster-for-presidents-and-others-officeholders-dies-at-95/2016/12/19/e7f49c2a-c626-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.ba6498f61055

Status Quo's Rick Parfitt dies

Vesna Vulovic who survived falling what may or may not have been 10,000 metres without a parachute in 1972.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/24/vesna-vulovic-serbian-survivor-of-fall-from-plane-explosion-dies-at-66

RIP Alexandrov Ensemble:(