Sumar dauðans annar vertíð
 

In keeping with this thread: [URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=12169"]:ick:[/URL] and in honour of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallajökull"]Eyjafjallajökull[/URL], we begin a new season of:
[COLOR="DarkRed"][SIZE="5"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][B]The Summer of Death[/B][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][sup]™[/sup]

The current season runs from May 28 to Sept. 6.
Deaths from war, terrorism, and non-first world transport accidents are generally not mentioned.

Initial inductees/participants are (in no particular order):
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wooden"]John Wooden[/URL] aka Coach, age 99
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali-Ollie_Woodson"]Ali-Ollie Woodson[/URL], a Temptation, 58
Rudi Vis, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Vis"]scandaled British MP [/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dufferin_Roblin"]Dufferin Roblin[/URL], Canadian politician, 92
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Rhodes"]Joan Rhodes[/URL], British actress, stuntwoman, 89
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merata_Mita"]Merata Mita[/URL], Maori actress / director, 68
Chris Haney, creator of Trival Pursuit.
Arthur A. Link, US politician
Gabriele Sella, Olympic bicyclist, [URL="http://www.ilgazzettino.it/articolo.php?id=104681&sez=NORDEST"]motorcycle accident[/URL]
Garry Purdham, UK rugby player, shot in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings"]Cumbria shootings[/URL]
Dorothy DeBorba, 85, beat the Our Gang curse
Dennis Hopper, actor director
Gary Coleman, 42, American child actor, same cause as Natasha Richardson
Adrian Freeman, another athlete [URL="http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2010/0529/freemana.html"]killed in a motor vehicle accident[/URL]
Jeriome Robertson, [URL="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bb/7030765.html"]as above[/URL]
Floribert Chebeya, 46, Congolese human rights activist, [URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10223564.stm"]suspicious death[/URL]
Rue McClanahan, Golden Girl
Miss Ellie, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Ellie_(dog)"]ugly dog of note[/URL]
Paul Malliavin & Vladimir Arnold mathematicians
Richard Dunn, 75, [URL="http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/04/richard-dunn-of-tim-and-eric-fame-dies-at-75/"]rap video actor[/URL]

Early entrant:
Art Linkletter, 97, American showman.

[URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10244638.stm"]Brian Duffy - Photagrapher[/URL]

As noted in a nearby thread, we also recently lost mathematician [url=http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=13458]Walter Rudin[/url].

[URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10301459.stm"]Egon Ronay[/URL]

As mentioned earlier: Dennis Hopper
 

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJS8j9YYB9w[/URL]

[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper[/URL]

David

Jimmy Dean
 

No not James. Big Bad John.
[URL]http://www.gigwise.com/news/56845/Big-Bad-John-Singer-Jimmy-Dean-Dies-Aged-81[/URL]

See Music thread for the YouTube clip.

David

Bye, Bye, Byrd-ie
 

U. S. Senator Robert C. Byrd (D - WV) (1917-2010), longest serving Senator in U. S. history (1959-2010), and the last Senator to participate in a vote to admit a new State to the Union (i.e. Alaska and Hawaii).

Damn Yankees
 

Bob Sheppard, legendary New York Yankees (and New York Giants football) public address announcer, died July 11, three months shy of 100. If you ever heard his voice, you know that his reading you the phone book would be an epic auditory experience.

Then, two days later, (in?)famous Yankees owner George Steinbrenner passed away, age 80.

I'm thinking that the front office of Heaven's (or Hell's, depending on whether or not you're a Yankees fan, LOL) baseball team was needing some shaking up.

Alex Hurricane Higgins
 

Snooker (Pool to you Yanks) player extrordinaire

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uFcPjILC7k&feature=related[/URL]

:smile:

David

Jack Horkheimer: Astonomer, TV persona, Star Hustler, planetarium director.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Horkheimer:_Star_Gazer[/url]
[URL="http://www.jackstargazer.com/"]Official Website[/URL]
[URL="http://www.geekosystem.com/jack-horkheimer/"]RIP Jack Horkheimer, Astronomically Cool Geek[/URL]
[URL="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/21/1923244/Jack-Horkheimer-The-Star-Hustler-Dies-At-72?from=rss"]Slashdot[/URL]