Fatality: 2018 edition

[lunatic59]

Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea.

 

[lunatic59]

The question remaining is whether his pallbearers will first have to assemble his coffin...

I hope not ... it won't have all the pieces.

 

[lunatic59]

Suicide never makes sense.

 

[Clementine_3]

Dang.

 

[lunatic59]

 

[johnlgalt]

R. I. P. John Perry Barlow, cofounder of EFF

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/co-founder-of-eff-john-perry-barlow-dead-at-70/

 

[Clementine_3]

And Reg E. Cathey

 

[lunatic59]

Wow, that one surprises me. I thought he was long gone.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Jack Hynes, Boston Newscaster has passed away. Over 48 years of telling what it is in New England news has passed away. Look him up.

 

[lunatic59]

Wow.

While I disagree with practically everything he preached, I do have to admit he was quite a charismatic and influential person.

 

[johnlgalt]

R. I. P. Barbara Ann Alston, (The Crystals)

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43171117

 

[dontpanicbobby]

A Woman's Rights Leader. She knew "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) was wrong.

I was 6 or 7 years old when they sang it but it just sounded good to me at the time.

 

[johnlgalt]

She played Grandma in One Day at a Time (Bonnie Franklin's character's mother). Enough for me - I watched that show religiously with my folks as a kid.

I'm with you - I didn't even realize she was still around all this time.

 

[Deleted User]

British actress Emma Chambers has died of natural causes at 53.

I best remember her quirky role as Hugh Grant’s sister in “Notting Hill.”

That's very young to die. I wondered what the term "death by natural causes" means. I think it's just some way of saying that someone died through illness, not referring to a specific illness though, or referring to an underlying cause.

 

[johnlgalt]

Natural causes as in not suicide / murder / accident, self-inflicted.

So, yes, some sort of illness / disease versus some sort of human-caused death.

 

[johnlgalt]

Few here are likely to know her, but she was well known in India. Sad that she passed away In connection with traveling for her nephew’s wedding. She appeared in over 300 films.

“Bollywood actress Sridevi died over the weekend after she drowned in a hotel bathtub in Dubai, despite initial reports stating that she went into cardiac arrest at a family wedding. She was 54.
Sridevi, said to be Bollywood's first female superstar, was in the United Arab Emirates for her nephew's wedding. She was found dead Saturday evening, the BBC reported.”

Being Indian, I knew (of) her well, and watched many, many movies that she was in.

 

[Deleted User]

Sir Roger Bannister - 88.
First person to run a sub 4 minute mile.

 

[lunatic59]

David Ogden Stiers

... best known for playing Major Charles Winchester on "M*A*S*H" -- has died after a battle with bladder cancer.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

That's what @rootabaga said.

Sad enough to post twice though. He did work at Boston General Hospital before the war.

 

[lunatic59]

Oh. Missed that. I must have had a tear in my eye when i posted.

 

[johnlgalt]

R. I. P. Russ Solomon, founder of Tower Records.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/new...-records-founder-was-92/ar-BBJUsAZ?li=BBmkt5R

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Trevor Baylis, creator of the clockwork or wind-up radio, has died at 80.

 

[Deleted User]

Ken Dodd - 90
British comedian

 

[lunatic59]

Hubert de Givenchy, 91

 

[Dngrsone]

Stephen Hawking, the most brilliant man of our age, has died at 76.