Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

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Former MSNBC host (and more recently Russia Today host) Ed Schultz.

grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 5 July 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link

New Orleans jazz, r'n'b, and blues pianist Henry Butler at 69 from cancer

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/03/625632851/new-orleans-pianist-henry-butler-dead-at-69

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/obituaries/henry-butler-dead.html

curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 July 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link

7 Aum Shinrikyo members executed in Japan.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy3xex/what-is-aum-shinrikyo-sarin-attack?utm_source=dmfb

nickn, Friday, 6 July 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link

Spurs legend Alan Gilzean.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44757890

Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 8 July 2018 13:07 (six years ago) link

:( Old Spurs fan I worked with was forever singing his praises. RIP Alan.

Alan Alba (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 July 2018 13:09 (six years ago) link

22 Scottish caps in 8 years. LOL SFA.

Alan Alba (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 July 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link

I swear I thought he died in the 90s.

grawlix (unperson), Monday, 9 July 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link

Yr probably thinking of Troy Donahue, who we'll probably see a lot of mistakenly posted pictures of in the next few days

Josefa, Monday, 9 July 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link

Lord Carrington, 99

the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link

Famously resigned on the grounds that he'd failed at his job, a rare occurrence in politics.

Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link

Still have no idea why his name gained the extra "R" when he became ennobled.

Michael Jones, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link

It's like Haringey and Harringay all over again.

Madchen, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link

As long ago as April, but I only just now became aware: RIP F'Murrr, creator of probably my favourite comic of all time, <i>Le Génie des alpages</i>.

http://bdm.typepad.com/legeniedesalpages/images/parapluie4.jpg

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link

Alan Johnson, award-winning choreographer who did "Springtime for Hitler" and other Mel Brooks musical numbers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/obituaries/alan-johnson-81-springtime-for-hitler-choreographer-dies.html

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link

Clive King, author of Stig of the Dump

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44823636

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 July 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link

Sinatra's first wife Nancy, at 101

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 July 2018 09:36 (six years ago) link

clearly a mob hit :(

“There is no bitterness, only great respect and affection between Sinatra and his first wife,” Gay Talese wrote in 1966. “And he has long been welcome in her home and has even been known to wander in at odd hours, stoke the fire, lie on the sofa, and fall asleep.”

calzino, Saturday, 14 July 2018 09:42 (six years ago) link

Just got out of an imdb clickhole, and found that screenwriter & 70s game show stalwart (and husband of the late Patti Deutsch) Donald Ross died last month.

http://gr8erdays.com/2018/06/06/writer-donald-ross-widower-of-patti-deutsch-dies-75/

Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 July 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link

Not because of surprise, but because of the Match Game/Tattletales subtheme tie-in

Isora Clubland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 July 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link

cmon cmon havent all day

dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Friday, 20 July 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link

Shinobu Hashimoto, co-screenwriter of Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Rashomon, The Hidden Fortress and some other movies you may have heard of, exactly 3 months after his 100th birthday.

Eliza D., Friday, 20 July 2018 13:36 (six years ago) link

fuck me, that is some classic stuff he has had a hand on there. RIP.

calzino, Friday, 20 July 2018 13:38 (six years ago) link

in b4 official announcement of prince phillip, dead from racism poisoning at 146 years old

BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 July 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link

Not convinced, looks quite like a couple of other hoaxes so far. But guess we'll see at 5.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link

maybe he's going to be a dad again and someone misheard

StanM, Friday, 20 July 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link

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BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link

He's just dead, dead racist.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link

Think it's a slightly old-fashioned midlands thing to use 'dead' as a general intensifier, do other parts of the country / world do that? It's a feature in Mandarin too.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link

the scots think it's pure dead brilliant too

BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link

Every time someone starts a rumour about Prince Philip being dead, it adds another five years to his life. Please gossip responsibly.

— Hannah Erskine (@hanabizzle) July 20, 2018

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link

Def an Edinburgh thing at least. Dead keen. Deid annoying. Dead tired.

Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link

'Dead wrong' is probably nationwide.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link

Shinobu Hashimoto, writer of many Japanese film classics

https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/shinobu-hashimoto-scriptwriter-akira-kurosawa-dies-dead-at-100-1202879323/

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link

fuck me, that is some classic stuff he has had a hand on there. RIP.

omar little, Friday, 20 July 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link

for the next 25 minutes it's Schrödinger's Prince

StanM, Friday, 20 July 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link

goodnight racist prince

I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link

Adrian Cronauer, whose stint as a Vietnam DJ very loosely inspired a Robin Williams/Barry Levinson hit

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44897634

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link

RIP. It must be odd to have outlive the person who played you in your biopic.

Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 20 July 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link

so the royal bucket's status remains unkicked?

StanM, Friday, 20 July 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link

Keep the Prince alive.

Chase Knobbe? Have you Courtney Cox? (Tom D.), Friday, 20 July 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link

jonathan gold

na (NA), Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link

Oh shit.

... (Eazy), Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link

Goddammit.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link

This is totally fucked....

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 22 July 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link

cancer grrrr

curmudgeon, Monday, 23 July 2018 14:54 (six years ago) link


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