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David Prowse has become one with the Force:

Darth Vader star dead at 85: British actor David Prowse dies   | Daily Mail Online

(11-25-2020, 07:52 PM)aku Wrote: [ -> ]Diego Maradona Age 60, Heart Attack.

I heard there was some confusion among music fans who heard about his death and though it was Madonna who died.

Author Ben Bova passed at age 88

Complications from Covid-19 and a stroke.

Ah, jeeze.

(11-20-2020, 12:31 AM)ECSNorway Wrote: [ -> ]After another support cable let go, the Arecibo Radio Telescope Observatory has been declared Not Safely Repairable and is to be decommissioned.

RIP, Arecibo, 1963-2020.

https://www.space.com/arecibo-observator...-destroyed

Goodbye for real now. I.e. the remainder has collapsed by itself.

https://boingboing.net/2020/12/01/areceb...lapse.html
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-huge-puert...scope.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25264555

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France from 1974 to 1981, of COVID complications at age 94.

RIP André Gagnon, composer and pianist.

Amongst his other works, he wrote the soundtrack to The Pianist

Chuck Yeager - High Flight

(12-07-2020, 11:38 PM)aku Wrote: [ -> ]Chuck Yeager - High Flight

Well damn.

Dame Barbara Windsor from EastEnders has passed on:  Dame Barbara Windsor: Carry On and EastEnders actress dies aged 83 - BBC News

OK, this one isn't about a single person, but I couldn't think of a better thread for it.  It's sure not a "feel-good" story, unless you support the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.

Suicides are up in Japan lately.  Way, way up.  As in more people killing themselves in October alone than COVID deaths in all of 2020.  Suicides among women have increased by 83%; men only by 22% – although that increase still leaves men with a higher raw number (1302 males as opposed to 851 females).  For further contrast, the overall rate of Japanese suicides had actually decreased in 2019 ... and then 2020 brought it roaring back.

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God made me an agnostic — who are you to question His wisdom?

Country singer Charley Pride

Country's first black superstar

Covid-19 complications

Actor and wrestler Tommy "Tiny" Lister, age 62.

He was in a lot, but the role I remember him best from was the President in The Fifth Element.

(12-12-2020, 09:35 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: [ -> ]Actor and wrestler Tommy "Tiny" Lister, age 62.

He was in a lot, but the role I remember him best from was the President in The Fifth Element.

For me, it's the tattooed prisoner in The Dark Knight and Finnick in Zootopia.

A couple notes:

Former GM of the Québec Nordiques has passed on from COVID-19 complications: https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/12/...a-covid-19

Charley Pride has also died because of the pandemic: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music...it-192455/

Grammy-award-winning country-music singer K.T. Oslin. on December 21. Parkinson's and COVID.

Robert Thacker, a pilot in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, died November 25 at 102 (his death wasn't reported to any news outlet until last week).  His first experience of combat was delivering an unarmed B-17 bomber to Pearl Harbor and arriving during the Japanese attack.  Later accomplishments included, in 1947, "the longest nonstop flight, 5,051 miles, ever made by a propeller-driven fighter, according to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, near Dayton, Ohio."

George Blake, double agent (and that's all I'll say about him)

Ty Jordan, star runningback for University of Utah, killed in accidental shooting
https://www.deseret.com/sports/2020/12/2...Ue5dlc-Ax8

Jon Huber, AKA Brodie Lee of AEW, formerly Luke Harper of WWE, passed on at 41 due to non-COVID lung condition:

https://www.f4wonline.com/aew-news/aews-...sue-328646