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Bob Saget (no cause of death as of yet)

RIP Glenda Simms, first Black president of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women.

Current president of the EU David Sassoli has passed on:

https://news.sky.com/story/european-parl...5-12513392

RIP Ronnie Spector, lead singer of The Ronettes

RIP Jacquie Black, past manager of the Indigenous Music Awards

RIP Vince Fontaine, Juno-Award-winning co-founder of Eagle & Hawk

RIP Alexa McDonough, first woman to lead a political party in Canada's Parliament.

(01-13-2022, 05:05 PM)robkelk Wrote: [ -> ]RIP Ronnie Spector, lead singer of The Ronettes

I heard a little tidbit on the radio yesterday morning.  In an interview once, Bob Seger said that in Night Moves, the line 'Humming a song from 1962' was written with Be My Baby by the Ronettes in mind.

RIP Rick Cook, author of Wizardry Compiled, etc. 5 days ago according to the referenced Wikipedia article.

Meat Loaf - Covid if TMZ can be believed


Hardy Krueger

Yvette Mimieux of The Black Hole fame has passed on:  https://variety.com/2022/film/news/yvett...mGo3xFwoBY

Comedian Louie Anderson
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/lo...-1.6322962

2022 better not turn out to be another 2016...

Sure, we've Global Thermonuclear War to come the way things are going. There's that to look forward to.

Pinball programmer and expert pinball player Lyman F. Sheats Jr. If you've ever played a later Williams pinball like Attack from Mars, and seen the default leaderboard (incredibly even scores like 40,000,000) say LFS, odds are that's a game he worked on.

Don Wilson of the Ventures has passed on:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music..._JpjrpNt8A

Fashion designer Thierry Mugler has passed on:

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/...hp&pc=U531

No longer on the air at WKRP...

RIP Howard Hesseman

RIP Harold R. Johnson, author

RIP Donny Gerrard, frontman for the '70s group Skylark

(01-09-2022, 11:04 PM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]Bob Saget (no cause of death as of yet)

Head trauma

Frank Beckmann longtime sportscaster for the Detroit Tigers, Detroit Lions, and Michigan University football
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/2022/...v84Ufo2F7Q

Who you gomna call? Not that movie's director, any more.

RIP Ivan Reitman

https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/14...8829310986

I can't find confirmation, but there's a rumor that P J O'Rourke has died. Which is a sad day for humor and means that the American Right has lost a voice of responsibility and common sense.

Edit: Confirmed. Damn.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/new-y...16004.html

RIP Dallas Good, co-founder, guitarist, and singer of The Sadies

Tom Veitch, author of a number of Star Wars EU stories (both comics and novels)
https://www.gamesradar.com/tom-veitch-th...at-age-80/