R.I.P. THREAD

[chairman bill]

:waah:

Yep.

[Calilasseia]

Choppers the Chimpanzee

From the BBC new article ...

The last of the original PG Tips chimpanzees has died at Twycross Zoo.

Choppers, who was 48, played Ada in the adverts that were broadcast on TV from the 1950s.

The zoo said the "much-loved" ape had signs of heart and liver failure and the decision to put her to sleep was made on Wednesday.

From the article in more detail:

As a baby, Choppers was rescued from poachers in Liberia by a British couple who brought her to be cared for at Twycross in 1973.

However, a life in TV had a damaging effect on the ape and it was only in her twilight years that she learned how to behave like a chimpanzee, zoo bosses said.

After her co-habitant Louis, who played Mr Shifter in the PG Tips adverts, died in their enclosure in July 2013, Choppers was introduced to the other apes in the zoo's collection.

It was an attempt to encourage her to exhibit more chimp-like behaviour and according to Dr Charlotte Macdonald, director of life sciences at the zoo, Choppers took to it well.

"She loved grooming the other chimps and even the keepers, she was very friendly and sociable," she said.

"She integrated well into the larger group [after Louis died] and acted as a peacemaker, she wanted to be everyone's friend.
"We are very upset and she will be sadly missed."

[DougC]

Prince Rogers Nelson
Known as Prince
(June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016)
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. Prince was renowned as an innovator, and was widely known for his eclectic work, flamboyant stage presence, and wide vocal range. He was widely regarded as the pioneer of Minneapolis sound. His music integrates a wide variety of styles, including funk, rock, R&B, soul, hip hop, disco, psychedelia, jazz, and pop.
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[DougC]

Guy Hamilton
(16 September 1922 – 20 April 2016)
English film director. He directed 22 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four James Bond films.
B.B.C.
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Attila Özdemiroğlu
(5 January 1943 – 20 April 2016)
Turkish composer and arranger. He was best known for his award winning film scores in the 1970s and 1980s.
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[DougC]

Ariffin Mohammed
(1943 – 22 April 2016)
Was the cult leader and founder of Kerajaan Langit, (English: Sky Kingdom), a sect founded by him in Malaysia. His movement had a commune based in Besut, Terengganu, that was demolished by the Malaysian government in August 2005. Ariffin Mohammed, also known as Ayah Pin (Ayah is a common honorific meaning "father"), claimed to have direct contact with the heavens and was believed by his followers to be the reincarnation of Jesus, Buddha, Shiva, and Muhammad. Devotees of Sky Kingdom believe that one day, Ayah Pin will return as the Imam Mahdi. His followers considered him the king of the sky, and the supreme object of devotion for all religions.
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[DougC]

Inge King AM
(26 November 1915 – 24 April 2016)
German-born Australian sculptor. She received many significant public commissions. Her work is held in public and private collections. Her best known work is Forward Surge (1974) at the Melbourne Arts Centre. She became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in January 1984.
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Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba,
commonly known as Papa Wemba
(14 June 1949 – 24 April 2016)
Congolese rumba (later known as soukous) singer and musician. He was one of Africa's most popular musicians, and prominent in world music.
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B.B.C.


Billy Paul
(Paul Williams; December 1, 1934 – April 24, 2016)
Grammy Award winning American soul singer, most known for his 1972 number-one single, "Me and Mrs. Jones" as well as the 1973 album and single "War of the Gods" which blends his more conventional pop, soul and funk styles with electronic and psychedelic influences.
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[aban57]

Martin Gray

Martin Gray (born Mieczysław Grajewski; 27 April 1922 – 25 April 2016) was a Polish Holocaust survivor who emigrated to the West, and has published books in French about his experiences during World War II in which his family perished in Poland.

Au nom de tous les miens is a book that had a strong impact on me when I read it, 20 years ago. I still remember most of the story, unlike many books I read. This book tells an incredible story, about this incredible man. RIP.

[DougC]

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[DougC]

Xulhaz Mannan
Bangladesh gay rights activist and editor at the country's only LGBT magazine.
B.B.C.
Aca @ "Writer Avijit Roy hacked to death"

[DougC]

Harry Wu
(February 8, 1937 – April 26, 2016)
Chinese human rights activist. Wu spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps, and was a resident and citizen of the United States.
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[Scot Dutchy]

Barry Howard
star of Hi-de-Hi, dies aged 78
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/28/barry-howard-star-of-hi-de-hi-dies-aged-78

[DougC]

Philip Kives
(12 February 1929 – 27 April 2016)
Canadian business executive and innovative marketer. He is best known for founding K-tel, famous for its "As seen on TV" marketing strategies.
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[DougC]

Vasily Dmitrievich Zvyagintsev
(November 21, 1944 – April 30, 2016)
Russian science fiction author.
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[DougC]

Daniel Aaron
(August 4, 1912 – April 30, 2016)
American writer and academic who helped found the Library of America.
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Sir Harold Walter Kroto, FRS
(born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016)
Known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes.
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[DougC]

Solomon Wolf Golomb
(May 30, 1932 – May 1, 2016)
American mathematician, engineer and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, best known for his works on mathematical games. Most notably he invented Cheskers in 1948 and coined the name. He also fully described polyominoes and pentominoes in 1953.
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Fan Lichu
(8 June 1933 – 3 May 2016)
Chinese structural engineer, bridge specialist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).
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[Animavore]

Afeni Shakur Davis.
Black Panther activist and Tupac's mum.
(January 10, 1947 – May 2, 2016)

[Shrunk]

Afeni Shakur Davis.
Black Panther activist and Tupac's mum.
(January 10, 1947 – May 2, 2016)

I didn't know his mom was a Black Panther. Makes sense, though.

[Animavore]

She was one of the Panther 21.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_21

[DougC]

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
(4 June 1934 – 3 May 2016)
Swedish painter and sculptor.
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B.B.C.

[DougC]

Kaname Harada
(11 August 1916 – 3 May 2016)
Japanese flying ace of World War II. He was credited with shooting down as many as 19 Allied aircraft. Following the war, he worked as a farmer, before founding a kindergarten. He was an anti-war activist from 1991.
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Frank Levingston
(November 13, 1905 – May 3, 2016)
American supercentenarian, was the oldest living man in the United States and the oldest verified surviving American World War II veteran.
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