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The Pocket Rocket has gone to join his brother in the great hockey rink in the sky:

https://globalnews.ca/news/6640221/henri-richard-death/

Finally free of this tiresome planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/ma...es-aged-90

"Out on a cloud of love"... RIP Laura Smith

RIP Al Worden, command module pilot of Apollo 15

The Gambler has gone on to play the eternal great game...

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wir...1-69724237

*sniff* I'd say he more than broke even.

Asterix co-creator dies at age 92
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...dies-at-92

And we have our first celebrity coronavirus victim in the thread:

Terrence McNally, Tony Award-Winning Playwright, Dies From Coronavirus Complications

Tom Coburn, the Republican known as "Dr No" is dead

https://news.yahoo.com/former-republican...53913.html

Country singer Joe Diffie
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/countr...m-covid-19

(03-29-2020, 05:23 PM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]Country singer Joe Diffie
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/countr...m-covid-19

damn it, now i need to get him another round over by the jukebox

RIP Adam Schlesinger, Emmy and Grammy-winner from Fountains of Wayne

RIP Jazz great Ellis Marsalis Jr. dead at 85

Both dead after contracting coronavirus.

Julie Bennett, voice actor, dead of COVID-19 complications at 88.
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2020/04/0...ronavirus/

RIP Bill Withers

You know his music:

RIP Shirley Douglas, actress (Lolita, Dead Ringers, etc.), activist, daughter of Canada's medicare founder Tommy Douglas, and mother of Kiefer Sutherland.

EDIT: Not related to the current pandemic.

Sadly, one of the original Bond girls has left us:

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/lifestyle/cele...r-BB12eeSg

(04-06-2020, 12:56 PM)Pyeknu Wrote: [ -> ]Sadly, one of the original Bond girls has left us:

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/lifestyle/cele...r-BB12eeSg

When she was making that movie, an episode of The Avengers referenced it, with Steed getting a Christmas card "from Mrs Gale!  Whatever can she be doing at Fort Knox?"

RIP John Prine

Hal Willner (Music Producer and SNL supervisor)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/a...es-aged-64

RIP Mort Drucker

"Indeed, Mort Drucker proved to be one of the most popular artists of the group that collectively came to be known as the 'Usual Gang of Idiots.'"
- from the citation upon his induction to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame

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RIP Stirling Moss, arguably the greatest F1 driver never to win the world championship.

"If you're not trying to win at all costs, what on earth are you doing there?"
- Stirling Moss

John Conway
Mathematician (Game of Life, and much more).
CoD: Covid.

Tim Brooke-Taylor (BBC link) (The Goodies, u.a.) Covid again.

Well, crap.

(04-12-2020, 09:27 PM)aku Wrote: [ -> ]John Conway
Mathematician (Game of Life, and much more).
CoD: Covid.

xkcd salutes him today. 
 
The mouseover text gives his years of birth and death.