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Greg Lee, the lead singer of Hepcat, died yesterday of cardiac arrest. He was 53.
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Stanley Cup winning hockey player Chris Simon committed suicide. He was 52.
MGibster
Legend
In one of his reviews, Roger Ebert wrote that any movie with M. Emmett Walsh can't be all bad. Like Wilford Brimley, Walsh always seemed as if he was older than he actually was. He was 47 when he played Bryant in Bladerunner, and while I didn't always remember his name I always recognized him from the many movies and television shows he appeared in.
billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him)
Women's Chess Champion, Lisa Lane, died on February 28. And got very little notice, much like women's chess in general.
www.yahoo.com
She Might Have Inspired One of Netflix’s Biggest Shows. She Died Last Month. No One Wrote About It.
Why Lisa Lane left chess behind, very soon after she found it.
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
Multiple Hugo winning author Vernor Vinge has passed of Parkinson's Disease at age 79
arstechnica.com
Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79
Vinge won multiple Hugo awards and created a sci-fi concept that drives AI researchers.
arstechnica.com
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
And a comment from me, he was probably one of my top 10, maybe top 5 SF authors. While I loved Fire Upon the Deep and Deepness in the Sky; it was his Marooned in Realtime series that really made me go "huh!" in a good wayMultiple Hugo winning author Vernor Vinge has passed of Parkinson's Disease at age 79
Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79
Vinge won multiple Hugo awards and created a sci-fi concept that drives AI researchers.
trappedslider
Legend
1 of the few remaining survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor has died at 102
Richard C. “Dick” Higgins, one of the few remaining survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died, a family member said Wednesday. Higgins died at home in Bend, Oregon, on Tuesday of natural causes, granddaughter Angela Norton said. Higgins was a radioman assigned to a patrol...
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Legend
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Legend
Laurent de Brunhoff, ‘Babar’ heir and author, dies at age 98
"Babar" author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father's popular picture book series about an elephant-king, has died at 98 after being in hospice care for two weeks.
apnews.com
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Grammy winning gospel singer Sandra Crouch died on St. Patrick's Day. She was 81.
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