DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[Frunobulax]

Actor Roger Mosely, 83, best known as TC Calvin on Magnum PI, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/variet...roger-e-mosley-dead-magnum-pi-1235335543/amp/

 

[Zombie_61]

Oliva Newton-John. Way too young.

And battling breast cancer for the last 30 years. Strong woman!

 

[Lean'n'mean]

English author, graphic novelist, cartoonest & illustrator, Raymond Briggs, died yesterday aged 88.

 

[GHT]

Songwriter Lamont Dozier, who co-wrote hits for The Supremes & Four Tops has died.

Songwriter Lamont Dozier has died at age 81. Along with Brian and Eddie Holland, Dozier co-wrote dozens hits for The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops and others. His death was announced by his son on Instagram.

"Heat Wave," "How Sweet It Is," "Stop In The Name of Love," "You Keep Me Hangin' On," "Nowhere To Run," "Bernadette"... Holland-Dozier-Holland were talented, prolific songwriters who were instrumental in making Motown "the home of Hitsville, U.S.A."

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/09/1116472786/lamont-dozier-motown-died?t=1660130638447

 

[Turnip]

Wolfgang Petersen passed away at the age of 81 on 12.08.2022.

Rest In Peace, great old man!

 

[belfastboy]

Wolfgang Petersen passed away at the age of 81 on 12.08.2022.

Rest In Peace, great old man!

It as if they all bought their beards at the same prop store!

 

[Tiki Tom]

Dasfeedanya, Tovarish!
Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 91.
when I was 30 years old I walked through Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. If you would have told me that the wall would be gone in less than a year, I would not have believed you.
I almost forgot that he received a Nobel Peace Prize For that nuke treaty.
In retrospect, those were amazing times.
R.I.P.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/europe/mikhail-gorbachev-dies-intl/index.html

 

[Trenchfriend]

Salute, Gorbi !!

 

[Benny Holiday]

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

96 years of age, seven decades of service to the UK and the Commonwealth. God bless our gracious Queen.

 

[Tiki Tom]

God bless the Queen.
She has been at the helm my entire life, and I am now an old man.
A steady and calm hand on the tiller through some rough seas.
She has earned a bit of rest.
R.I.P.

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P.!!

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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96 years of age, seven decades of service to the UK and the Commonwealth. God bless our gracious Queen.

Indeed and what a lovely picture of her too.

 

[belfastboy]

God bless the Queen.
She has been at the helm my entire life, and I am now an old man.
A steady and calm hand on the tiller through some rough seas.
She has earned a bit of rest.
R.I.P.

Yes, she has been one of the through lines of my life....a constant. I am a Canadian, she was my Queen but no strong connection to her or the institution other than her presence for the entirety of my life. I think I am weeping more for me than for her as her death brings to the forefront my own mortality as I contemplate the lengthy thread of my life.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

If this doesn't bring a smile to your face, nothing will.

 

[Tiki Tom]

The legendary Dr Frank Drake has died at the age of 92.
He was most famous for “the Drake Equation“ (how many of us have an equation named after us?) in which he attempted to calculate the number of civilizations that might exist in the universe. It makes us laugh now, but —at the time— he kinda started the whole “are we alone?” conversation.. And did so in a serious, academic way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

He also was the guy who launched SETI.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-legendary-frank-drake-shaped-the-search-for-alien-life/

He certainly was not afraid of thinking outside the box! At the time, it was considered to be “way out there” thinking. Now it is fairly mainstream, I think.

R.I.P.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Actress Marsha Hunt, one of the last survivors of 1930s Hollywood, has died just short of the age of 105. She did most of her work for Paramount and MGM until her career was brought up short by the blacklist in 1950. She remained active in a reduced capacity on stage and in television, as well as carefully-selected films, but became far more interested over the second half of her life in matters of social justice.

Of the 151 performers, writers, directors. producers, and musicians listed in "Red Channels" in June of 1950, she was the last survivor. She also had the immense satisfaction of outliving every one of her accusers.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Actress Marsha Hunt, one of the last survivors of 1930s Hollywood, has died just short of the age of 105. She did most of her work for Paramount and MGM until her career was brought up short by the blacklist in 1950. She remained active in a reduced capacity on stage and in television, as well as carefully-selected films, but became far more interested over the second half of her life in matters of social justice.

Of the 151 performers, writers, directors. producers, and musicians listed in "Red Channels" in June of 1950, she was the last survivor. She also had the immense satisfaction of outliving every one of her accusers.

Wow. Great lady, great story. R.I.P.

 

[Bushman]

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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96 years of age, seven decades of service to the UK and the Commonwealth. God bless our gracious Queen.

It's Earth-shattering when somebody who's seemed immortal dies. She was Britain's longest reigning monarch, and for over three generations, the only monarch many Britons knew.

On the same day of Her Majesty's passing, we also lost the original CNN anchor, Mr. Bernard Shaw. https://www.nbcnews.com/media/berna...sfYGvIYHsvg9Sv07dSE7lhAcBAk0Eb5Qz5f00VGznh4KA

 

[Lean'n'mean]

American/French Photographer, William Klein, has died aged 96.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

American jazz composer & pianist, Ramsey Lewis, has died aged 87.