MetaFilter posts tagged with obits

Erik Naggum (1965-2009)

e.e. coli — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:00:14 -0800

If anyone could flame from beyond the grave, it is he. Erik Naggum was a young programmer and Usenet philosopher who exemplified the new breed of smug Lisp weenie. His hatred for Perl, C++ and XML fueled his Olympian rants. He was cruel, but smart; he was articulate, but he used arguments ad hominem; he left a trail of scorched earth, but he had devoted friends. I didn't know him, but I enjoyed his expression of free thought. He died young after years of torment; R.I.P. Thanks, Google Groups.

Throw on your dead (Fidel Castro)

spock — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:02:13 -0800

Premature , prepared, and alternative obituaries for Cuba's Fidel Castro. Time to get ready for the real thing? Conjecture and hope about Life After Fidel: Time to get to know Fidel's brother Raul.

Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin (22 February 1962 - 4 September 2006. May he RIP.

Effigy2000 — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 21:33:58 -0800

Steve Irwin, better known as The Crocodile Hunter, is dead after a sting-ray barb went through his chest. He is survived by his wife and two children and both he and his larger than life persona will be missed.

Tramp The Dirt Down?

Sk4n — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:43:46 -0800

Haughey Dead No, not that one. Charles Haughey – Former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, and probably the most controversial figure in recent Irish political history, has died of complications arising from prostate cancer.

Please make them stop dying.

ed — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:26:12 -0800

And the great ones keep dying. RIP Dennis Weaver.

Robert Moog

teletype1 — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:50:45 -0800

Robert Moog has passed away after battling a brain tumor for several months. There aren't any news stories up yet, but simply key his name into Google and it's plain to see his influence on every aspect of music. The family has a caringbridge page filled with tributes and several journal entries.

I am a man of few words, but many riddles

QuestionableSwami — Wed, 18 May 2005 12:04:58 -0800

Actor/impressionist Frank Gorshin, aka The Riddler of the Batman TV series, has died at age 72.

Philip Johnson dead at 98

gwint — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:10:41 -0800

Architect Philip Johnson -- first winner of the first Pritzker Prize, and builder of glass houses, is dead at 98. He outlived his rival Frank Lloyd Wright by 47 years. He helped bring modernism to America but would later leave it behind.

Alexander Hammid, 1908-2004

pxe2000 — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 18:00:18 -0800

Filmmaker Alexander Hammid died earlier this week at the age of 96. By far one of the most prolific and eclectic underground filmmakers, his filmography included marital industrial films, home movies of his cats, and work as an editor on Gian Carlo Menotti's filmed opera The Medium. However, he is best known as the first husband of iconclastic director and actress Maya Deren.

Pat Tillman

treywhit — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:12:28 -0800

NFL player , who walked away from a $3.6 million contract in the aftermath of 9/11 to join his brother in the Special Forces, dies in Afganistan. Unselfishness personified.

Helmut Newton, 1923-2004

matteo — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:36:28 -0800

Helmut Newton Killed in Crash Photographer Helmut Newton lost control of his Cadillac while leaving the Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood and crashed into a wall across the street. (more inside)

Bye, bye Floquet!

samelborp — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:17:31 -0800

Copito de Nieve, a.k.a. Floquet de Neu, the only known white gorilla dies at age 37. It was one of the symbols of my hometown Barcelona. Snowflake was the star of the Barcelona Zoo, he always surrounded by female gorillas (not surprisingly he produced 22 offspring but none of them albino) and was famous because of his bad mood and tendency to throw things around. He was finally put down today as his skin cancer condition was aggravating. There it goes a no small part of my childhood (although I preferred the dolphins, always so cheerful)... Snowflake no longer lives with Virunga and Coco... (sigh!)

There's a Death Wish joke in here somewhere...

tomcosgrave — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 02:50:44 -0800

Charles Bronson (1921 - 2003)
The BBC were showing Once Upon a Time in The West last night. I guess he died while I was watching it, which is kind of odd...

Walter Sisulu (1912-2003)

tomcosgrave — Mon, 05 May 2003 18:17:01 -0800

"You, Walter, are indeed like a miracle that God has made."
African National Congress veteran Walter Sisulu, born in 1912, the year the ANC was founded, has died, the ANC said on Monday. He's the guy who practiced law with Nelson Mandela and spent a lot of time in jail with him. I saw his cell, the prison courtyard and the quarry in which they toiled and laboured on Robben Island just a couple of weeks ago.

Google your life away

majikwah — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:49:11 -0800

GoogObits I have always had a fascination with the obituaries page and dead pools. I have hosted a small dead pool for friends for the past few years and have collected obituaries of famous and sent them out as email salvos to friends. But this is an inspiration to us all. The joy of google, the fascination with the obit. Enjoy the dead.

y2karl — Sat, 20 Jul 2002 11:48:24 -0800

Alan Lomax , the legendary collector of folk music who was the first to record towering figures like Leadbelly, Muddy Waters and Woody Guthrie, died yesterday at a nursing home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 87. Mr. Lomax was a musicologist, author, disc jockey, singer, photographer, talent scout, filmmaker, concert and recording producer and television host. He did whatever was necessary to preserve traditional music and take it to a wider audience. (NY Times- Registraion Required) And... Additionally... And this. Also...

BGM — Tue, 09 Jul 2002 11:37:37 -0800

Actor Rod Steiger Dies at 78 One of the great character actors. I still remember how blown away I was by him in "In The Heat of the Night". R.I.P.

BentPenguin — Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:19:24 -0800

In 1997, Scott Shuger created for Slate.com what would quickly become the wildly popular column "Today's Papers." The column was innovative in its brief and snarky discussions about that day's headlines on all the major news dailies. The differences between each paper's choice of stories covered, and the variances from paper to paper in their coverage of those same stories was illustrative in a fashion we now take for granted around here on MeFi. Shuger died suddenly over the weekend in a scuba mishap and is remembered here by his colleagues at slate.com.

GriffX — Tue, 14 May 2002 13:22:00 -0800

Rose, the Dalmatian who greeted the rich and powerful at the Inn at Little Washington, died this morning at age 13...

bradlands — Sun, 24 Feb 2002 19:08:00 -0800

The National Obituary Archive is filled with details and biographies about those who left this life recently and tragically, the famous and infamous, and even one or two notes about just plain folks.

sixdifferentways — Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:53:29 -0800

Stanley Marcus Dies at 96 We've all heard corporate propaganda about "customer service." He really practiced it. Neiman's has really been expanding their online shopping services. Can Web retailers in the 21st century learn anything from such old-skool customer service? (NYT password link obituary is here)

chrish — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 06:06:57 -0800

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Dave Thomas, the portly pitchman whose homespun ads built Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers into one of the world's most successful fast-food franchises, has died. He was 69 ... The cause of death was not given.

Electric Jesus — Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:37:42 -0800

RIP, Mr. Dressup. For Canadians who were growing up in the 70s and 80s, the loss of this icon is a sad, sad happening. If only there were people to teach today's kids how to have fun with pipecleaners and cardboard instead of whining for $300 in video games. What became of old-fashioned imagination?

Mossy — Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:30:34 -0800

Mefi Book of Condolence We do not know how many perished on that terrible day, but however many, we do know that there are many, many grieving families who have lost somebody special. Please take a moment to add your comments of support and condolences to this thread. Please just sign and add a comment of support to those who lost loved ones, save discussion for other threads.

wackybrit — Sun, 05 Aug 2001 21:49:25 -0800

HRH Elizabeth The Queen Mother is Dead This reminds me of a documentary I saw a year ago about US news channels, and the fact that they have the logos and segments already prepared for the deaths of important old-timers. This was funnier though.