IN REMEMBRANCE--2019 AD

[Truth Seeker]

Georges Loinger, Wartime Rescuer of Jewish Children, Dies at 108

Georges Loinger, a physical education teacher in France who saved hundreds of Jewish children from deportation to concentration camps by helping to smuggle them into Switzerland, died on Dec. 28 at his home in Paris. He was 108.

In Remembrance

 

[Nutation]

Harold Brown has died at 91. He was president of Caltech and Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Defense.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Sylvia Chase, former KRON news anchor and award-winning TV journalist, dies

Sylvia Chase, an award-winning television journalist who spent five years as a Bay Area news anchor, died Thursday in Marin County after a short illness. She was 80.

In Remembrance

 

[Truth Seeker]

John ‘Jack’ Lyle, one of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, dies at 98

Just three days before he’d planned to visit Jackson Park Harbor one final time, Jack Lyle, one of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, died Saturday at his South Side home.

In Remembrance

 

[freyar]

Sir Michael Atiyah, one of the great mathematicians of the last century, passed away Friday at age 89. He was awarded the Fields Medal and Abel Prize, generally considered the two highest awards of mathematics, among other prizes, for work in topology and geometry and their relation to theoretical physics. He was also president of the Royal Society (UK) from 1990-95

 

[freyar]

We seem to have missed this one in December:
Roy Glauber, Nobel Laureate in physics for his work on quantum optics (the quantum mechanical properties of light), passed away on December 26 at age 93. He was one of the last living people to have witnessed the original atomic bomb tests, having joined the Manhattan project theory division at age 18. And he was a a big supporter of the Ig Nobel prizes, playing a part in the award ceremonies annually.

Harvard Crimson obituary

 

[monsmord]

Long-time star of stage and screen, and long-time advocate for LGBTQ equality, Carol Channing has jied: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46878018

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Country singer Bonnie Guitar died Sunday. She was 95.

 

[trappedslider]

Carol Channing passed away the other day https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/broadway-legend-carol-channing-dies-at-97-proud-as-can-1831773851 and in honor of that

[video=youtube;YWAXJEe7Ve0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWAXJEe7Ve0[/video]

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

John Coughlin has died.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/john-coughlin-champion-u-figure-232446842.html