Kermit Love, a costume designer who also helped design several of the Muppets, including Big Bird and Snuffleupagus, died last Saturday. He was 91.
Love also played Willie the vendor on Sesame Street. It should be worth noting that Kermit the Frog is not named after Love, but after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of Jim Henson, who oddly enough, also died this year.