Obituaries -- names from the old Forum

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S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A food chain*
Gerald Wilson, jazz musician*
Polly Bergen, actress*
Christopher Hogwood, early music performer*
Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian dictator and kleptocrat, bled a very poor country for his indulgence before being overthrown* (Roast in Hell!)
Elizabeth Pena, actress*
one of Greece's Greatest Generation, Ioannis Charalambopoulos* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannis_Charalambopoulos
Christophe de Margerie, French oil executive*
Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-Republic born fashion designer*
Stephan Hessel, advocate of the Arab Spring*
Oscar Taveras, baseball player*
Brittany Maynard, advocate of patient rights*
Thomas Louis Magnozzi, NPR's Car Talk
Big Hank, rapper
John Doar, enforcer of civil rights*
Alvin Dark, baseball star and manager*
Jayne Byrne, former Chicago mayor
Carl Sanders, former Governor of Georgia, led the state away from segregation*
Mike Nichols, director*
Roberto Gómez Bolaños, a/k/a Chespirito and televisiion executive, Mexican comedian*
Viktor Tikhonov. Soviet/Russian hockey coach*
Jean Beliveau, Canadian hockey player*
Ralph Bear, inventor of Pong*
Ken Weatherwax, actor
Lydia Mordkovich, Russian violinist*
Arthur Gardner, actor and film producer*
Joe Cocker, musician*
Louise Rainer, first person to win two Academy Awards (after fleeing Hitler)*
Edward K. Hermann, actor*
Mario Cuomo, former New York Governor
Donna Douglas, actress "Beverly Hillbillies"
former US Senator Edward Brooke*
Stuart Scott, sports broadcaster
victims of the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo*
Rod Taylor, actor*
Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
Ervin Drake, songwriter*
Tony Verna, inventor of instant replay*
Ethel Lang, last living person born under Queen Victoria*
former US Senator Wendell Ford*
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Ernie Banks, "Mr. Cub", Hall of Fame baseball star*
Edgar Froese, electronic musician
Charles Hard Townes, physicist and educator*
Rod McKuen, poet, singer, songwriter
Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist
Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker, former President of the German Federal Republic*
Kenji Goto, Japanese photojournalist, lynched and murdered by ISIS*
Charles Sifford, golfer -- first African-American to play in the PGA*
Dean Smith, basketball coach
William Casper, golfer*
Lelsey Gore, singer
Eugenie Clark, ichthyologist (sharks and poisonous fish)*
Earl Francis Lloyd, first black NBA player*
Leonard Nimoy, actor, "Spock" on Star Trek -- our favorite Vulcan*
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov -- Russian liberal politician*
Michael Graves, architect*
Terry Pritchett, fantasy writer
Charles Bednarik, American football player*
Lee Kwan Yew, first Prime Minister of Sngapore*
Hans Erni, Swiss artist*
oldest living person at the time
Robert Schuller, TV preacher
Elmer Lach, great hockey player*
Sarah Brady, gun-control advocate*
Lon Simmons, sports broadcasting voice in the San Francisco Bay Area
Stan Freberg, multifaceted TV figure*
Raul Castro, former Arizona Governor, not to be confused with Fidel's brother*
Judith Malina, German-born American film and stage actress*
Lauren Hill, college basketball player and cancer victim*
Günter Grass, German author (The Tin Drum)*
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Iraqi general and war criminal* (Roast in Hell!)
Sawyer Sweeten, child actor*
Sid Tepper, songwriter*
Władysław Bartoszewski, Polish politician and survivor of the Polish Underground*
Jayne Meadows, actress*
Jane Nidetch, founder of Weight Watchers*
Ben King, singer
Maya Mikhaylovna Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer and administrator*
Stuart Archer, British recipient of the George Cross for gallantry and heroism, only one not in military action (bomb disposal)*
Jim Wright, former Speaker of the House*
Elizabeth Wilson, stage actress, many awards*
Liquori "Coco" Tate and Benjamin "BJ" Deen, police officers killed in duty in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Rutger Gunnarson, Swedish musician, ABBA*
Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, Deputy leader of the Infernal State, killed in airstrike. (Roast in Hell!)
victims of a Philadelphia-area train crash
B.B. King, jazz musician*
Abu Sayyaf, ISIS oil minister. Kidnapper and rapist of an American female captive* (Roast in Hell!)
Anne Meara, comedienne*
Beau Biden, son of the US VP and promising politician*
Betsy Palmer, actress
Leonard Merullo, last living person to play in a World Series (1945!) involving a Chicago Cub* (The Cubs have a good chance this year)
Tareiq Aziz, foreign minister of Iraq under Saddam Hussein*
Vincent Bugliosi, prosecuting attorney in Los Angeles, wrote Helter Skelter about Tate-LaBianca murders*
Christopher Lee, British actor
Randolph Coleman, jazz saxophonist*
Walter Weller, violinist and conductor*
Kirk Kerkorian, entrepreneur*
Ralph Richards, founder of Comcast*
Gunther Schuller, wide-ranging musician*
Dick Van Patten, actor*
Joseph de Pasquale, violist*
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov, Soviet and Russian diplomat, tried to broker a settlement in First Gulf War (Saddam Hussein was the cause of the failure)*.
Chris Rock, rock bassist*
Sir Nicholas George Winton, organizer of a rescue of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia just before WWII*
Charlie Sanders, football star*
James Horner, film composer
Ken Stabler, quarterback*
Omar Sharif, Egyptian-born international actor*
Satoru Iwato, President of Nintendo*
Lithang Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Tibetan clergyman and political prisoner*
Alan Curtis, hadpsichordist*
George Coe, actor*
Theodore Bikel, actor*
E L Doctorow, novelist*
Wayne Carson, songwriter
Bobbi Brown, singer*
Ivan Moravec, Czech pianist*
Wolfgang Gönnenwein, German conductor and musicologist*
James H. Allen, a/k/a "Rusty Nails", kid-show host in Portland, Oregon*
George Robert Acworth Conquest, historian of Communist terror and mass murder*
Lynn Anderson, country singer
Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, head of the brutal secret police of Pinochet's Chile, international terrorist. (Roast in Hell!)

Quote: By coincidence I have a little Chilean wine -- I just drank a toast to this nasty man's death. Cheers!

Gestapo, KGB, SAVAK, BOSS, DINA, Mukhabarat -- they are much the same despite the differences of ideology.

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Frank Gifford, American football star and sports announcer*
Julian Bond, civil rights leader*
Khaled al-Asaad, Syrian archaeologist, protector of antquities at Palmyra, executed for doing so by ISIS*
Harry Volkman, one of the first celebrity weathermen
Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, #2 man in ISIS, killed in air strike. (Roast in Hell!)
Wang Dongxing, bodyguard of Mao Zedong and politician*
Augusta Marie Chiwy, heroine of the Battle of the Bulge*

Quote:Augusta Marie Chiwy (6 June 1921 – 23 August 2015) was a Belgian nurse who served as a volunteer during the siege of Bastogne. She worked with US Army doctor John "Jack" Prior and fellow Belgian nurse Renee Lemaire, treating injured soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge.

Chiwy, the daughter of a Belgian veterinarian from Bastogne and his Congolese wife, was born in the Belgian Congo. She returned to Belgium at the age of nine. In 1940, when she was 19, she went to Leuven to be trained as a nurse.

On 16 December 1944, the day the Germans launched their offensive, Chiwy returned to her family in Bastogne for Christmas. At that time the town seemed safely in American hands, but within days was surrounded by German troops advancing into Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. Chiwy attended to civilian and military casualties with her uncle, a doctor, until 21 December, when she volunteered to serve as a nurse at the first-aid station of the 20th Armored Infantry Battalion, 10th Armored Division, commanded by Dr. John Prior. Chiwy worked at the aid station in the Rue Neufchateau, and even donned an Army uniform in order to go out into the field to collect the wounded while under fire.

On 24 December 1944, the first aid station was hit by a German bomb, killing over 30 wounded men and another volunteer nurse Renee Lemaire. Chiwy was with Prior in an adjoining building and was blown through a wall, but survived unhurt. She continued to assist the American forces until the siege was finally lifted two days later.

After the war Chiwy worked at a hospital treating spinal injuries, married a Belgian soldier and had two children.

She rarely spoke of her experiences after the war, and it was assumed in some historical accounts of the battle that she had died there. British historian Martin King, while researching his book Voices of the Bulge, finally tracked her down in a retirement home near Brussels, hearing her story, and bringing her to public attention.

Stephen Ambrose makes a passing reference to her in his book Band of Brothers, under the name "Anna", and she also briefly appears in the television series based on the book, portrayed by Rebecca Okot.

In July 2015 a documentary film about Chiwy entitled Searching for Augusta: The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne, produced by Martin King and directed by Mike Edwards, won the Emmy Award for Historical Documentary.

Chiwy died on 23 August 2015 near Brussels, Belgium.

On 24 June 2011, Chiwy was made a Knight in the Order of the Crown. The medal was presented in the name of King Albert II of Belgium by Belgium's Minister of Defence Pieter De Crem. On 12 December 2011, Chiwy was awarded the Civilian Award for Humanitarian Service by the United States Department of the Army. It was presented to her by the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman.

Wayne Dwyer, self-help author
Dean Jones, actor*
Moses Malone, American basketball player*
Wes Craven, filmmaker*
Sir David Valentine Willcocks, British conductor and overall musician, heavily involved with choral music*
Jackie Collins, author of books few people admit reading*
Yogi Berra, baseball catcher and colorful character*
Eric Arturo Delvalle Cohen-Henríquez, Panamanian politician ousted by Manuel Noriega and returned later*
Grace Boggs, political activist
John Berg, art director for Columbia Records* (noteworthy album covers)
Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress*
former US Senator and actor Fred Thompson
Günter Schabowski, East German political figure, literally opened the Berlin Wall (if by mistake)*
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi, Iraqi politician*
George Barris, car customizer*
Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor of the German Federal Republic*
Robert Craft, conductor*
P.F. Sloan, singer-songwriter*
Joseph Engelberger, physicist, engineer, and entrepreneur* Robots.
Scott Wieland, singer
Brian Rush, one of the best posters on the old T4T forum
Douglas Tompkins, founder of The North Face and Esprit*
Akiyuki Nosaka, Japanese polymath*.
Kurt Masur, German conductor
Ozell Sutton, Marine, civil rights advocate, and associate of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller in his reforms of Arkansas racial realities
René Saorgin, French organist
Meadowlark Lemon, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
Natalie Cole, singer
Wayne Rogers, "Trapper John" on M*A*S*H *
Gilbert Kaplan, entrepreneur and conductor, if of only one work (Mahler's Symphony #2, the fitting successor of Beethoven's Ninth)*
Gisela Raquel Mota Ocampo. Mexican politician, assassinated on her inauguration day
Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer*
Pierre Boulez, conductor and composer*
second-in-command of the Infernal State, killed in an airstrike (Roast in Hell!)
David Bowie, rock musician
last known survivor of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906*
Monte Irvin, baseballplayer*
Alan Rickman, actor
Dan Haggerty, actor (associated with bears)

Quote:Bears and humans have much in common (similar diets, territoriality, ferocity, aggression, intelligence, capriciousness, cunning, upright gait, and occasionally size). Both species see in each other much of what they dislike about themselves.

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Glen Frey, singer/songwriter*
Jimmy Bain, rock musician
Abe Vigoda, actor*
Paul Katner, Jefferson Airplane
Aurèle Nicolet, Swiss flutist*
Richard Taber, ecologist