In Remembrance...2008

Knightfall · Apr 13, 2008

Graybeard said:
It was just reported that actor Charlton Heston has passed away at the age of 84.

I just heard about this. Good night, Mr. Heston

GrayLinnorm · Apr 15, 2008

Ollie Johnston, the last surviving member of Disney's Nine Old Men, the original group of animators that worked with Walt Disney, died yesterday. He was 95.

GrayLinnorm · Apr 15, 2008

John A. Wheeler, the physicist who came up with the term "black hole", died Sunday. He was 96.

Wheeler also helped develop the atom bomb.

GrayLinnorm · Apr 17, 2008

British actress Hazel Court, who made a career out of horror films in the 1950s and 1960s, died Tuesday of a heart attack. She was 82.

Court's most notable appearance was in The Raven.

GrayLinnorm · Apr 17, 2008

Edward Lorenz, who came up with chaos theory, died yesterday. He was 90.

dravot · Apr 18, 2008

Danny Federici, of the E Street Band passed away yesterday. He was 58.

USA Today Article

GrayLinnorm · Apr 22, 2008

R&B singer Al Wilson, whose song "Show and Tell" was a #1 hit in 1974, died yesterday of kidney failure. He was 68.

GrayLinnorm · Apr 23, 2008

Singer-songwriter Paul Davis suffered a heart attack today. He was 60.

Davis' song "I Go Crazy", originally written for Lou Rawls but recorded by Davis himself, had one of the longest runs (40 weeks) on Billboard's Hot 100. Other hits for Davis include "'65 Love Affair" and "Cool Night".

GrayLinnorm · Apr 29, 2008

Tristam Cary, a pioneer of electronic music, died last Thursday in Canberra, Australia. He was 82.

Cary was a co-designer of one of the first portable synthesizers, the VCS3 (Putney), which was embraced by London's musical avant-guarde in the 1960s and 1970s. Cary also composed scores for "Doctor Who" and TV dramas Jane Eyre and Madame Bovary and for Disney and Hammer films.