In Remembrance--2011

[Dannyalcatraz]

Frank Neuhauser, the first US spelling bee champ, has died.

First national spelling bee winner dies at 97 - US news - Life - msnbc.com

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Dorothy Young, Houdini's last assistant, has died.


Yahoo!

 

[freyar]

Lanford Wilson, playwright, has died at age 73. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for Talley's Folly.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice-presidential candidate (she was Walter Mondale's running mate), died today of blood cancer. She was 75.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Harry Coover, the inventor of Super Glue, died last Saturday. He was 94.

 

[freyar]

Paul Baran, who developed the ideas that led to packet switching technology, died at age 84. His work in the 1960s helped create Arpanet, a predecessor of the internet.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Richard Leacock, a cinema verite documentary filmmaker known for such films as Primary and Monterey Pop, died last Wednesday. He was 89.

 

[Mark CMG]

Harry Coover, the inventor of Super Glue, died last Saturday. He was 94.

He stuck around a long time.

 

[Fast Learner]

He stuck around a long time.

But was surprisingly brittle.

 

[Truth Seeker]

1950s screen idol Farley Granger dead at 85

Farley Granger, the 1950s bobby sox screen idol who starred in the Alfred Hitchcock classics "Rope" and "Strangers on a Train," has died. He was 85.

In Remembrance.