R.I.P. THREAD

[Scot Dutchy]

He wont be missed.

[Alan B]

No, he won't. But what state is the country in to replace him? They've only known a dictatorship for the last 26 years. Free democratic elections may be the furthest from their mind.

[Animavore]

Pascal Hanratty. Local legend, and town drunk. Told he wouldn't live past Christmas in 2005, his lifestyle caught up with him in the end.

[Animavore]

Holy shit! Jerry Lewis.... is still alive!

[DougC]

Eileen Muriel Younghusband, BEM
(née Le Croissette; 4 July 1921 – 2 September 2016)
A filter officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in World War II. She worked in the filter room, a top-level British air defence hub which assessed radar reports in order to give air raid warnings. Later, while posted to Belgium, she was part of a team of mathematicians who alerted Allied forces to the first V-2 rocket launched against London. Younghusband completed a university degree at the age of 87 and subsequently published three books about her wartime experiences – two memoirs and one children's book.
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[DougC]

Richard Clive Neville
(16 December 1941 – 4 September 2016)
Australian writer and social commentator who came to fame as an editor of the counterculture magazine Oz in Australia and the United Kingdom in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was educated as a boarder at Knox Grammar School and enrolled for an arts degree at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Australian political magazine The Monthly described Neville as a "pioneer of the war on deference".
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B.B.C.

[DougC]

Duane Edgar Graveline
(March 2, 1931 – September 5, 2016)
American physician and NASA astronaut. He was one of the six scientists selected in 1965, in NASA's fourth group of astronauts, for the Apollo program. He was best known for being immersed in water for seven days as part of his zero gravity deconditioning research while a United States Air Force (USAF) research scientist. He was consultant to magician David Blaine for Blaine's week of water immersion in 2006, correctly predicting Blaine's profound weakness from deconditioning.
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Donald Ranvaud
(December 5, 1953 – September 5, 2016)
British film producer and film journalist.Ranvaud had producing roles on a number of Oscar-nominated films including The Constant Gardener (2005), City of God (2002), Central Station (1998) and Farewell My Concubine (1993). He is now best known for his work in the Latin American film industry, especially in Brazil and Bolivia.
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Isabelle Dinoire
(1967 – 22 April 2016)
French woman who was the first person to undergo a partial face transplant, after her Labrador retriever mauled her in May 2005. She underwent a 15-hour operation in November 2005 in which surgeons transplanted the nose, lips and chin from a brain-dead donor at a hospital in Amiens. She died at age 49 in April 2016, though her death was not announced until more than four months later.
B.B.C.
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[DougC]

Cecil Bustamente Campbell OD
(24 May 1938 – 8 September 2016)
Known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. He was regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ska and rocksteady music. The records he released in the 1960s influenced and shaped the course of Jamaican contemporary music and created a legacy of work that later reggae and ska artists would draw upon.
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[DougC]

Alexis Arquette
(born Robert Arquette; July 28, 1969 – September 11, 2016)
American actress, musician, and cabaret performer. She had roles in Last Exit to Brooklyn and The Wedding Singer, and the TV Program The Surreal Life. Recently she appeared in Californication.
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[DougC]

Greta Zimmer Friedman
(92)
The woman kissed by a sailor in an iconic photograph marking the end of World War Two.
B.B.C.

[DougC]

Sylvia Gore MBE
(25 November 1944 – 9 September 2016)
English football player and coach.[1] She scored the England women's national football team's first goal in its first official match, a 3–2 win over Scotland in Greenock in 1972, and was involved in women's football for 60 years.
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[aliihsanasl]

Legendary Turkish actor Tarık Akan dies at 66

[Ironclad]

Pascal Hanratty. Local legend, and town drunk. Told he wouldn't live past Christmas in 2005, his lifestyle caught up with him in the end.

Pretty young and a kind soul.

[DougC]

Edward Franklin Albee III
(March 12, 1928 - 16 September, 2016)
American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). His works are often considered as well-crafted, realistic examinations of the modern condition.
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B.B.C.

[DougC]

William Patrick "W.P." Kinsella, OC, OBC
(May 25, 1935 – September 16, 2016)
Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel Shoeless Joe (1982), which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989. His work has often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues. Kinsella, who had suffered from diabetes for decades, elected to die by assisted dying on September 16, 2016.
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[DougC]

Bahman Golbarnezhad
(12 June 1968[1] – 17 September 2016)
Iranian Paralympic racing cyclist competing in C4 classification events. Golbarnezhad had represented Iran in two Summer Paralympic Games, first in 2012 in London. He had been hospitalized on 17 September 2016 after being injured in a C4-5 cycling road race at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics.
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B.B.C.

[DougC]

Charmian Carr
(born Charmian Anne Farnon; December 27, 1942 – September 17, 2016)
American actress and singer best known for her role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in the film version of The Sound of Music.
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B.B.C.

[DougC]

Curtis Lee Hanson
(March 24, 1945 – September 20, 2016)
American film director, film producer and screenwriter. His directing work includes the psychological thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), the neo-noir crime film L.A. Confidential (1997), the comedy Wonder Boys (2000), the hip hop drama 8 Mile (2002), and the romantic comedy-drama In Her Shoes (2005).
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[DougC]

John Royer "Jack" Garman
(September 11, 1944 – September 20, 2016)
American computer engineer, former senior NASA executive and a noted key figure of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. As a young specialist on duty during the final descent stage on 20 July 1969 he dealt with a series of computer alarms which could have caused the mission to be aborted.
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[DougC]

John Mulvaney AO CMG PhD
(26 October 1925 – 21 September 2016)
Australian archaeologist and known as the "father of Australian Archaeology".
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