Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....

Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies at 46 - TIME https://apple.news/A1LIQY4g0S0CbSBD7KORsGg

Their song “Linger” is so incredibly beautiful and haunting. She will be missed.

That's the only song of theirs I know but its a good one.  Jeez, 46?

kibbegirl said:

Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies at 46 - TIME https://apple.news/A1LIQY4g0S0CbSBD7KORsGg

Their song “Linger” is so incredibly beautiful and haunting. She will be missed.

Wow, I am in shock on that one.  Sad.

Another one off the debut that might stir some memories:

is strange that now, when I hear such news, almost the first place I turn to is this thread? To see if you also know, so we can share memories. 

Such sad news indeed. 

Edwin Hawkins of the Edwin Hawkins Singers, of “Oh Happy Day” fame but also this anthem:

Hugh Wilson, whose favorite episode of “WKRP in Cincinnati” was the same as mine.

a gifted creator, he observed people and situations well. Sad news indeed.

DaveSchmidt said:

Hugh Wilson, whose favorite episode of “WKRP in Cincinnati” was the same as mine.

Mine too! "Who knew that turkeys couldn't fly?"

joanne said:

a gifted creator, he observed people and situations well. Sad news indeed.

marylago said:

Mine too! "Who knew that turkeys couldn't fly?"

Joanne’s comment gets to why I was such a big fan of the show during its original run. Watching “Turkeys Away” is an annual holiday tradition in my family, but there were many other great episodes, too, including ones that combined hilarity with thoughtfulness that the characters carried without needing a M*A*S*H-size hammer to hit you over the head with. (The Who concert, “Tiny Dancer,” Gordon Sims’s Army desertion, family relations, etc.)

A couple of years ago I received the new boxed set by Shout! as a gift, with nearly all of the original music restored after rights issues were settled. There are the inevitable duds, but I was impressed by how well so much of the series held up.

Hugh Masekela.

joanne said:

  

Hugh Masekela.

That’s sad news. Saw him at SOPAC three years ago, though it seems like just yesterday, his performance was so indelible.

40 years ago today...Terry Kath.

Simon Shelton, the purple Teletubby, has died, aged only 52. (I’m not into the Teletubbies, but families with UK connections will be very sad)

Ursula K. Le Guin.  She was 88.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

She was the real deal.  A giant of sci fi. 

nan said:

Ursula K. Le Guin.  She was 88.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

This household is shattered. 

Shemademedothis aka D is attending a class with 52 librarians from all around Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. You can imagine their reaction. She was the writer who got him into fantasy, speculative fiction, space fantasy and then SF. 

He couldn’t believe my collection of her books was nearly as big as his...

Second to Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin is a favorite. Long a champion of using people of color for her protagonists for no reason other than 'why not'. I appreciated it.   RIP

And I've just read that Naomi Parker Fraley, the real Rosie the Riveter (photo) died aged 96

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42787869

The Rev. Wyatt T. Walker.

A lion of the civil rights movement. Brilliant strategist, right hand man to Dr. King, spiritual leader and steadfast proponent of non violence as a mechanism for social change.

Mark E. Smith. Not nearly as well know as other recent musicians who died, but very influential in his relative obscurity. 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/24/mark-e-smith-lead-singer-with-the-fall-dies-aged-60

Warren Miller - skier, filmmaker, pioneer of sports films.

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/snow-sports/pioneering-inspiring-snow-sports-filmmaker-warren-a-miller-has-died-at-his-home-on-orcas-island-at-the-age-of-93/

No-one noted Peter Mayle, the author, died on 18 Jan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/obituaries/peter-mayle-who-wrote-of-a-year-in-provence-is-dead-at-78.html

He had a lovely writing style, and seemed to spark a whole new genre of travel/cultural observation light humour writing.

Also, Vila one of the oldest gorillas in the world, died at San Diego Zoo Safari Park. 

Matriarch of five generations, she was 60 years old and from the Congo. 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42847452

Invar Kamprad, aged 91...revolutionised how we think of home decorating

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-28/ikea-founder-ingvar-kamprad-dead-at-91/9368734

joanne said:

No-one noted Peter Mayle, the author, died on 18 Jan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/obituaries/peter-mayle-who-wrote-of-a-year-in-provence-is-dead-at-78.html

He had a lovely writing style, and seemed to spark a whole new genre of travel/cultural observation light humour writing.

You just did - you’re hardly no one!

Mort Walker

Professor Joseph Thomas Baker, marine scientist and rugby footballer

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-29/footballing-scientist-dr-joe-baker-obituary/9358750 

Without this man’s dedicated work, much of what we know and treasure about the Great Barrier Reef would have been lost many years ago. Amazing man, persistent, passionate, with a glorious sense of humour. 

Dennis Edwards, of the Temptations. 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/feb/02/dennis-edwards-temptations-dead-74

All the lovely voices of our young days are going....

OMG. Saw the Temptations in person at Palisades Park in the early sixties. One of the great moments of my early teenaged life.