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Obituaries -- names from the old Forum
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Margaret Groeing, inspiration for the cartoon character Marge Simpson
Dr. Joyce Brothers, psychologist and columnist*
Jorge Rafael Videla, brutal Argentine dictator* (Roast in Hell!)
Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for the Doors
Henri Dutilleux, French composer*
Jean Stapleton, "Edith Bunker"
Senator Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ, died in office*
"Deacon" Jones, American football star*
Esther Jane Williams -- turned swimming into an art form for the movies*
"Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez, satanist and serial killer, now with his buddy in Hell*... One of the vilest people I have ever heard of.
Kakiemon Sakaida, Japanese potter and designated a Living Treasure*
Kenneth Geddes Wilson, theoretical physicist*
Slim Whitman, country singer
James Gandolfini, actor*
Gary David Goldberg, scriptwriter and TV producer*
Douglas Carl Engelbart, engineer and inventor*
Douglas Dayton, founder of Target Stores*
Lo Hsing Han, heroin kingpin active in Burma/Myanmar* (Roast in Hell!)
Senji Yamaguchi, atomic-bomb survivor and peace advocate*
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, director of the Mukhabarat, the secret police of Saddam Hussein (Roast in Hell!)
William H. Gray, clergyman turned US Representative
Nadezhda Popova, Soviet pilot and one of the first military female pilots in the USSR
Stephen Rakes, Boston businessman, suspicious death allegedly connected to fugitive Whitey Bulger*
Helen Thomas, journalist
Ossie Schechtman, who supposedly scored the first basket in the National Basketball Association*
Arthur Donovan, American football star*
Karen Black, actress
Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko, Ukrainian serial killer, 52 victims (Roast in Hell!)*
David Frost, British journalist and TV star*
Governor-General of Grenada Sir Paul Scoon, in office during the American invasion of Grenada*
Rochus Misch, last survivor of Hitler's bunker*
Cal Worthington, colorful car dealer in greater Los Angeles "This is my dog spot"... "Spot" of course was never a dog.
Ray Dolby, sound engineer (Dolby Labs)*
Frederik Pohl, SF author
Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrialist (Toyota)*
Ken Norton, boxer*
Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese industrialist (Nintendo)*
Evelyn Lowery, wife of civil rights leader Dr, Joseph Lowery*
Adalbert Brunke, German-born South African clergyman, supporter of Nelson Mandela*
Tom Clancy, novelist
Vo Nguyen Giap, North Vietnamese general, drove out the French from northern Vietnam and the US from southern Vietnam*
Ruth Rogan Benento, inventor of wash-and-wear fabrics*
Philip Chevron, guitarist
Scott Carpenter, astronaut
Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminals (Roast in Hell!)*
Tom Foley, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives*
"Bum" Phillips, American football coach*
Jovanka Budisavljević Broz, former First Lady of Yugoslavia (wife of Josip Broz Tito)*
Vladimir Keils-Borok, physicist involved in forecasting earthquakes*
Lou Reed, singer
Former US Representative Ike Skelton
Manfred Rommel, German politician, son of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel*
thousands, Hurricane Yolanda*
John Kenneth Taverner, British composer*
Paul Crouch, televangelist*
Paul Walker, actor*
Nelson Mandela, political dissident and political prisoner of racist South Africa who became President of the post-racist South Africa
Peter O'Toole, actor
Tom Laughlin, actor
Joan Fontaine, actress
Ray Price, country musician
George Rodrigue, artist*
Janet Dailey, romance novelist
Larry Lujack, Chicago dee-jay
Edgar Bronfman, businessman and entrepreneur*
Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47 (one of the best rifles ever made)
George Jerome Waldo Goodman, a/k/a Adam Smith, author and economics broadcaster*
Saul Zaentz, entertainment mogul*
Alicia Rhett, actress, best known as "India Wilkes:" in Gone With the Wind*
Phil Everley, one of the Everley Brothers
Amiri Baraka, born as LeRoi Jones, poet
Sir Run Run Shaw, Chinese movie mogul
Russell Johnson, the Professor from Gilligan's Island
Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor*
Pete Seeger, folk singer
Maximilian Schell, Austrian actor*
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, actor
Joan Mondale. Wife of Walter.
Vasiľ Biľak. Czechoslovak traitor -- signed the letter asking for Soviet assistance through the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia*
Ralph Kiner, baseball star and commentator*
Shirley Temple, child star and diplomat
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist  but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.


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RE: Obituaries -- names from the old Forum - by pbrower2a - 05-15-2016, 11:46 PM

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