Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).
There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
• Steven Barron
forgotten person (archived link)
• Ward Christensen
co-inventor of computer bulletin board system (BBS) (archived link)
• Sherry Coben
writer and creator, Kate & Allie (archived link)
• Mitzi Gaynor
actress, South Pacific (archived link)
• Luis Gonzalez
forgotten person (archived link)
• Lilly Ledbetter
activist
• Megan Marshack
in flagrante delicto (archived link)
• Mario Morra
film editor, Cinema Paradiso
• Andreas Münzhuber
Nazi (archived link)
• John Nady
cordless micropohones (archived link)
• Roxanne Otero
in county jail (archived link)
• Alvin Rakoff
filmmaker, Say Hello to Yesterday
• Alex Salmond
ketchupped (archived link)
• Lillian Schwartz
computer artist (archived link)
• Richard Secord
Oliver North's criminal sidekick (archived link)
• Elizabeth Marie Torres
forgotten person (archived link)
• Alex Wright
in county jail (archived link)
• Toni Vaz
Image Awards (archived link)
• Patrick Watz
in county jail (archived link)
• Philip Zimbardo
psychologist, "Stanford Experiment" (archived link)
