Marvin Minsky
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35409119[/url]

The Classic Land Rover
 

[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35285258"]"The last of Jaguar Land Rover's classic Defenders[/URL] will roll off the production line this week, ending 68 years of production - does this mean the carmaker's best off-road days are behind it?"

I first heard of this vehicle in the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_the_lioness"]"Born Free" books by Joy Adamson.[/URL]

From 22 Jan: [url=www.nytimes.com/2016/01/23/sports/skiing/bill-johnson-us-olympic-downhill-skiing-champion-dies-at-55.html]Bill Johnson, U.S. Olympic Downhill Skiing Champion, Dies at 55[/url] | NYT

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35491123"]Bugs Bunny[/URL]
Ok, so it's not the first time BB has hit the obit columns.

[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35506000"]Edgar Mitchell[/URL]

[QUOTE=Batalov;425442][URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35506000"]Edgar Mitchell[/URL][/QUOTE]

This could go in so many threads here:

Justice Scalia
 

[url]http://nypost.com/2016/02/13/supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-dead-at-79/[/url]

[url]http://news.yahoo.com/u-supreme-court-justice-scalia-dead-san-antonio-220951983.html[/url]

[Right after splitting the Scalia-related posts off into the Soap Box I added a note to the effect of keeping the RIP thread apolitical and suitably solemn, i.e. with posts of a flavor found in the approximate triumvirate "X shall be missed", "I shall not see Y's like again" and "I spit on Z's grave". Alas an overzealous thread cleaner-upper has been at work in the interim, as I now see just as I was preparing to post this followup to the above thought:]

...Or in a similar vein, recalling Byron’s epithet/faux-epitaph for the 19th century (late) British Lord Castlereagh:
[i]
Posterity will ne’er survey
a Nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveller, and piss!
[/i]
(I would dub this quip Yeatsian by way of Yeats's own "horseman, pass by" [url=http://wintonbates.blogspot.com/2013/10/do-i-understand-meaning-of-w-b-yeats.html]self-epitaph[/url], but Byron predated Yeats by the better part of a century.)

Christopher Zeeman
[URL]http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/science/zeeman[/URL]
[URL]http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-sir-christopher-zeeman-1925-2016[/URL]

[url=http://m.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2016/02/harper-lee-has-died-89]Harper Lee Has Died at 89 | Mother Jones[/url]
[quote]In 2015, more than five decades after [i]To Kill a Mockingbird[/i] was published, her second novel, titled Go Set a Watchman, was released, after a 304-page manuscript following up on the classic was discovered.[/quote]
That's some hiatus between her two and only novels!

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35620368"]Umberto Eco[/URL]