In Remembrance---2009

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• Oct 26, 2009

• #421

Longtime character actor Lou Jacobi died last Friday. He was 95.

Jacobi was in both the stage and screen versions of The Diary of Anne Frank. He also appeared on The Dean Martin Show, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Arthur, and other movies and TV shows.

 

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• Oct 30, 2009

• #422

Coyotes kill Canadian folk singer

Two coyotes have attacked and killed a 19-year-old folk singer in Nova Scotia, eastern Canada, officials say.

Taylor Mitchell, a promising musician from Toronto, died in hospital after the animals pounced as she hiked alone in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.

In Remembrance.

 

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• Oct 31, 2009

• #423

Tsien Hsue-shen, the father of China's space program, died today. He was 98.

 

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• Nov 4, 2009

• #424

Troy Smith, the founder of Sonic Drive-In, died October 26. He was 87.

 

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• Nov 5, 2009

• #425

Claude Levi-Strauss, the father of modern anthropology, died October 30. He was 100.

 

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• Nov 5, 2009

• #426

Shel Dorf, who founded the San Diego Comic-Con, died Tuesday of diabetes. He was 76.

 

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• Nov 7, 2009

• #427

Robert H. Rines, an inventor and composer who claimed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, died Sunday. He was 87.

Rines held more than 80 patents, and helped improve resolution in radar, sonar and ultrasound imaging. Some of his inventions were used to try to prove the existence of Nessie. He wrote music for stage productions (winning an Emmy for a piece about Fiiorello LaGuardia) and founded the Franklin Pierce Law Center.

 

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• Nov 8, 2009

• #428

Boxing referee Lou Filippo, a member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame who had small parts in the Rocky movies, died Monday. He was 85.

 

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• Nov 9, 2009

• #429

Russian physicist Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel laureate and one of the fathers of the Russian hydrogen bomb, died yesterday. He was 93.

 

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• Nov 10, 2009

• #430

Jerry Fuchs, a drummer for indie rock bands including !!!, died Sunday from injuries after falling down an elevator shaft. He was 34.