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(07-13-2020, 11:08 PM)Matrix Dragon Wrote: [ -> ]Just confirmed from multiple sources, Grant Imahara of MythBusters, dead at 49

A photographer's obit/memorial of him.

Peter Green, cofounder of Fleetwood Mac, has died.

So has Regis Philbin.

RIP George Elroy Boyd, writer-in association with the Neptune Theatre in Nova Scotia, one of the founding news anchors of CBC Newsworld, and the first black national-news anchorman in Canada.

Actor John Saxon has died at 83.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-...television

And we just lost Olivia de Havilland:

https://ew.com/movies/gone-with-the-wind...UCJu1ngies

Former Maple Leafs player Eddie Shack dead at 83
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5663614?fbclid=...SUM87tBPao

RIP Malik B, founding member of the rap group The Roots

No cause of death listed.

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Herman Cain, US ex-presidential candidate (R, 2012)

COVID-19

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53614490

Sir Alan Parker. Director of Bugsy Malone. Splurged.

Wilford Brimley (actor and spokesman)
https://comicbook.com/irl/news/wilford-b...0VmrbQXVJY

RIP John Hume, one of the architects of the Good Friday peace agreement.

RIP William English, co-creator of the computer mouse.

(Douglas Engelbart came up with the idea, William English actually built it. Then he refined it.)

Quote:The device was called a mouse because of the way the cursor, then called a CAT, seemed to chase the device's path across the screen.

(2 days ago) RIP Frances Allen, pioneer for optimizing compilers.
Found at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24066832.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_E._Allen.

RIP Pete Hamill, columnist. Heart and kidney failure.

RIP Brent Carver, Tony-Award-winning actor

RIP Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer-winning novelist. Stroke.

Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, USAF Ret., aged 95.

Quote:Scowcroft served as a military aide to President Richard Nixon, and was chosen by [President Gerald] Ford to serve as national security adviser after Mr. Nixon's resignation. He oversaw the evacuation of American officials from Vietnam in 1975. Although he left the White House after President Jimmy Carter was elected, he advised the president on arms control and helped formulate the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1979.
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He was one of the few Republicans who challenged President George W. Bush's decision to engage in another conflict in Iraq. In a 2002 op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Scowcroft wrote that "there is scant evidence to tie Saddam [Hussein] to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks."

Quote:In 2016, Scowcroft publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.

RIP Salome Bey, Canada's "First Lady of the Blues".

"No cause of death was given, but the family's release said the singer began showing signs of dementia in 2004."

RIP Frances Allen, first woman to win the Turing Award.

Alzheimer's.

Both Trini Lopez (https://www.newsmax.com/thewire/trini-lo...id/981761/) and Sumner Redstone (https://www.usnews.com/news/business/art...dies-at-97) died yesterday.

(3 weeks ago actually) RIP Joan Feynman (93, astrophysicist, Richard's younger sister) [ Discussion ].

RIP Grand Chief Joseph Norton, chief of the Kahnawake Mohawk nation, following a fall.

Perhaps best-known outside of indigenous communities as one of the people who negotiated an end with honour to the Oka Crisis.

Not a political post.

'He was known as the nice Trump'. Robert Trump

Ben Cross of Chariots of Fire and the revised Star Trek has passed on:


https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news...est-update

And a quick memorial...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSav51fVlKU

Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) passes away due to colon cancer 8(
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ch...-1.5704780

Well, crap.

Joe Ruby, co-creator of Scooby Doo, passed away today:
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/joe-rub...234750948/

Leslie Hamilton Freas, twin sister of Linda Hamilton (and her stunt double in Terminator 2)
https://comicbook.com/movies/news/termin...YdWGRPQjzo