davieddy: It's Uncwilly's thread.

[URL="http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0817/rta.html"]Amateur Irish cyclist Paul Healion has been killed in a crash[/URL]

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Reimers"]Ed Reimers[/URL], actor, "in good hands with Allstate", Admiral Fitzpatrick in Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles".

[URL="http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Accident_at_Russian_hydroelectric_plant_kills_ten"]Accident at Russian hydroelectric plant kills ten[/URL], 60+ injured, more missing. Russia's biggest hydroplant.

[URL="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gSLS6cNXfFQ3ymuHwI-NWDsAGsmA"]Russian jets collide, and commander of stunt team dies.[/URL]

[URL="http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/basketball/other_nba/view.bg?articleid=1191148&srvc=sports&position=recent"]European league basketball player Lavelle Felton, 29, shot.[/URL]

[URL="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1618779/20090814/lit.jhtml"]'Lit' drummer Allen Shellenberger, 39[/URL].

Not a good season to be a younger musician or athlete.

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dae-jung"]Kim Dae-jung, South Korean leader[/URL], oh dear.

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Novak"]Robert Novak[/URL], would a "plumber" have helped him with his leak?

Missed this one earlier:
[URL="http://www.roadbikeaction.com/fly.aspx?layout=content&taxid=69&cid=2066"]Oleksandr Shapoval, 19, Ukrainian cyclist, race accident.[/URL]

[URL="http://www.times.co.sz/index.php?news=10095"]Tiffany Simelane, 21, Miss Swaziland 2008, suicide [/URL]:unsure:

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8209372.stm[/url]
Hildegard Behrens, opera singer, dies at the age of 72.

[URL="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/disney/orl-bk-disney-death-081709,0,6075527.story"]3rd employee death at Disneyword during summer[/URL]
Happiest place on earth????:cry:

[URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6073703/Champion-aerobatic-pilot-Vicki-Cruse-dies-in-air-crash.html"]Vicki Cruse, 40, aerobatic pilot, air show accident[/URL]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;185595][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy_(ice_hockey)"]Ted Kennedy dead at 83[/URL]
[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Silver"]the ice hockey player[/COLOR][/SIZE][/QUOTE]

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy]The other Ted Kennedy[/url]

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Mikhalkov"]Sergey Mikhalkov[/URL], 96, Russian poet, he wrote the national anthem of Russia/Soviet Union 3 times.

[URL="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/wire/chi-ap-bkc-gramblingdeath,0,7384186.story"]Henry White[/URL], 21, American college basketball player, after falling ill during practice.
It has been a harsh summer for atheltes.

FWIW, updates on past enrollees.
Billy Mays, drugs, not natural causes, nor injury from a plane incident.
[URL="http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-jackson-alive-video,0,6873553.htmlstory"]Michael Jackson, alive????[/URL]

[QUOTE=99.94;186587][url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8209372.stm[/url]
Hildegard Behrens, opera singer, dies at the age of 72.[/QUOTE]

Here's the [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/arts/music/20behrens.html]New York Times[/url] obituary.

I remember seeing her in the memorable [url=http://www.amazon.com/Wagner-Nibelungen-Levine-Metropolitan-Complete/dp/B00006L9ZT/ref=pd_bxgy_m_text_b]PBS broadcasts[/url] of the wonderful (music- rather than lavish-staging-emphasizing) James-Levine/Metropolitan-Opera production of Wagner's [i]Ring[/i] cycle in the early 1990s - fabulous stuff. Apparently her dedication to [i]The Ring[/i] eventually cost her her voice...