Oh dear.
Now that 2011 is nearly over, all and sundry are coming out with their "those we lost" lists for the year. I will post as many as I can, as I find them.
Got any candidate sites? Links? Send them my way!
CNN
New York Times
The Onion
Mental Floss
ARTINFO
The Mirror
The Nation
Blackamericaweb.com
famousdead.com
deathlist.net
ranker.com
Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Kim Jong-Il impersonator loses income due to death of original
The problem with hitching your wagon to a star is that when the star falls, so does your little red vehicle. This was the fate of engraving shop owner Kim Young-sik, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. The lookalike for the late North Korean dictator had some fun with his doppelganger second career as his impersonator. Now, however, after the death of his model, that option is seen as tasteless and taboo. Darn.
Sean Collins
Passionate surfer, surf forecaster, and creator of surfline.com -- via the New York Times.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Sam Rivers
Saxophonist and composer -- via the L.A. Times. Although classified as part of the free jazz movement, he could play any style, as well as a broad range of instruments. Additionally, he spearheaded the D.I.Y. movement of loft performance -- concerts in private spaces that allowed musicians the playing time and audiences they needed when clubs and concert halls wouldn't do the trick.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Ted Markland
Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. May be best remembered for playing Reno in the TV Western series "High Chaparral."
Walt Ketchum
Did a lot of things to make a living, but he loved to play the trumpet -- via the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
John Geddes Lawrence Jr.
Medical technologist; a plaintiff in a landmark gay-rights legal case -- via San Diego Gay and Lesbian News.
Monday, December 26, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Hugh Carless
Career diplomat who accompanied Eric Newby to Afghanistan in 1956, an expedition that formed the substance of the classic travel memoir, Newby's "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush" -- via the Telegraph.
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