RIP

[Dr Sardonicus]

Rest in Peace Thomas R. Nicely thread already going here in Prime Gap Searches.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Gert Boyle

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gert Boyle, the colorful chairwoman of Oregon-based Columbia Sportswear Co. who starred in ads proclaiming her as “One Tough Mother,” died Sunday. She was 95.
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Boyle took over the small outdoor clothing company in 1970 after her husband died from a heart attack. At the time, she was a 46-year-old housewife and mother of three with no real business experience. But she helped build the struggling company into a national brand and retailer.
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Boyle’s father founded Columbia after the family fled Nazi Germany and settled in Portland. Her husband took over the business in 1964. When he died, the business took many calls wondering if Columbia would close and the bank urged her to sell the company.

Always plucky, she entertained an offer for its sale at the time but told a prospective buyer that for the price they were offering, she’d rather run it into the ground herself.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Robert Freeman

Photographer Robert Freeman, whose work included some of the Beatles' most recognizable album covers, has died at the age of 82.

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

Robert Freeman

Album covers presumably not including this version of Abbey Road... "this EP will knock your socks off!"

[Nick]

Stephen Cleobury

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Gahan Wilson

Stepson Paul Winters is reporting the death of Gahan Wilson:

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William Ruckelshaus

SEATTLE (AP) — William Doyle Ruckelshaus, who famously quit his job in the U.S. Justice Department rather than carry out President Richard Nixon’s order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 87.

Ruckelshaus served as the first administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which confirmed his death in a statement Wednesday.

The lifelong Republican also served as acting director of the FBI. But his moment of fame came on Oct. 20, 1973, when he was a deputy attorney general and joined his boss, Attorney General Elliot Richardson, in resigning rather than carry out Nixon’s unlawful order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Yasuhiro Nakasone

TOKYO (AP) — Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, a giant of his country’s post-World War II politics who pushed for a more assertive Japan while strengthening military ties with the United States, has died. He was 101.

[xilman]

Irving Burgie

I remember a version of his best-known work, the lyrics of which appear here http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/...lafonte3.shtml

[Nick]

Mariss Jansons

[tServo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._C._Fontana

Besides writing episodes for Star Trek, she was the writer who largely created Spock's backstory: his parents and his conflicted youth on Vulcan. She also contributed to the Vulcan culture.

She was a pioneering female writer when there were few women in that field.