IN REMEMBRANCE--2013

[GrayLinnorm]

Conrad Bain, best known for playing Mr. Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes, died Monday. He was 89.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Pauline Friedman Phillips, better known as Abigail Van Buren, better known as "Dear Abby" (and the twin sister of fellow advice columnist Ann Landers), died yesterday after a long battle with Alzheimer's (her daughter has been doing the column for the last few years). She was 94.

 

[weiknarf]

Lynn Willis, formerly of Chaosium, passed. Per Greg Stafford via rpg.net link

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Robert F. Chew, best known as The Wire's Proposition Joe, died Thursday of apparent heart failure. He was 52.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Earl Weaver, who managed the Baltimore Orioles for 17 seasons, died today of an apparent heart attack. He was 82.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Stan Musial has died.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8860690/st-louis-cardinals-hall-famer-stan-musial-dies-age-92

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Michael Winner, best known for the Death Wish films, died yesterday. He was 77.

 

[billd91]

Stanley Karnow, best known for his reporting on the Vietnam War and PBS documentaries on the war and Southeast Asia, has died. He was 87.

Stanley Karnow Dead

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the Andrews Sisters, died today. She was 94.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

An accident at the X-Games has claimed the life of snowmobiler Caleb Moore.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/31/us/x-games-moore-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t1