2010----In Remembrance.

[Truth Seeker]

MITS Founder and Altair Inventor Ed Roberts Dies Aged 68

Henry Edward Roberts, designer of the Altair 8800 personal computer that inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to enter the software business, has died aged 68.

In Remembrance.

 

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John Forsythe, best known as Charlie in Charlie's Angels and Blake Carrington in Dynasty, died yesterday. He was 92.

Forsythe also starred in Bachelor Father and The Powers That Be.

 

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White House Butler Dies

Eugene Allen, who was butler for eight U.S. presidents, died March 31. He was 90.

Allen got his start as a dishwasher during the Truman administration. At the time, he couldn't use public facilities in his own state (Virginia). He eventually rose to White House maitre d' before he retired.

 

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WCW and WWE wrestler Chris Kanyon, who also wrestled masked under the name "Mortis", died April 2nd from an overdose of medication (apparently a suicide). He was 40 yrs old.

 

[Truth Seeker]

R.I.P. Burton Joseph

Famed First Amendment attorney Burton Joseph passed away last Wednesday at the age of 79 as the result of brain cancer, according to the New York Times. Joseph had a long involvement with the comic industry and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, including winning the appeal on the Fund’s first case, the defense of Friendly Frank’s comics in the mid-eighties. He became the Fund’s legal counsel in 1996 and since then advised the Fund and people that came to it for help in innumerable cases and incidents.

In Remembrance.

 

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British actor and political activist Corin Redgrave, brother of Lynn and Vanessa, died today. He was 70.

 

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Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, died today of pancreatic cancer. She was 64.

 

[Truth Seeker]

‘Dynasty’ actor Christopher Cazenove dies

British actor Christopher Cazenove has died at the age of 64 after losing a battle with septicaemia, his family said on Wednesday, the second "Dynasty" star to die in the past week.

In Remembrance.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Afro-Cuban singer Perez Grillo dies

Afro-Cuban music pioneer Graciela Perez Grillo has died in New York City at age 94.

Perez Grillo was known as the First Lady of Latin Jazz. Her best-known songs include "This is Graciela," "Intimate and Sentimental" and "That's the Way I Am."

In Remembrance.

 

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Malcolm McLaren, the creator of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols, died today of cancer. He was 64.

Besides the Sex Pistols, McLaren also managed Bow Wow Wow and did several songs himself, most notably "Buffalo Girls".