R.I.P. THREAD

[Skinny Puppy]

Louis Jourdan 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015
was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including The Paradine Case(1947), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Gigi (1958), The Best of Everything (1959), The V.I.P.s (1963) and Octopussy (1983). He played Dracula in the 1977 BBC television production Count Dracula, and played Dr. Sorell in the TV films Fear No Evil and Ritual of Evil.
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I just watched an episode of Columbo a few weeks back with Jourdan as the guest star. He was a fine actor and had such a charming personality.

[DougC]

Clark Terry
(December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015)
American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee. He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–1951), Duke Ellington (1951–1959) and Quincy Jones (1960). Terry's career in jazz spanned more than seventy years and he is among the most recorded of jazz musicians.
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[DougC]

John Rowlands
(1938 – 23 February 2015)
Welsh language author of several controversial novels, and a Professor of Welsh Literature.
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[Animavore]

Stephen Merrill, who died from an uppercut - from Batman

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2123900

[aban57]

Stephen Merrill, who died from an uppercut - from Batman

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2123900

What a weird way to deal with grief... Bu it's harmless so I guess I'm OK with that.

[DougC]

Gérard Ducarouge
(23 October 1941, 24 February 2015 in Neuilly)
French former Formula One car designer. Like many designers, his background was based in aeronautical engineering.
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[DougC]

Eugenie Clark
(born May 4, 1922 – February 25, 2015)
Sometimes referred to as The Shark Lady, was an American ichthyologist known for her research on poisonous fish of the tropical seas and on the behavior of sharks. She was a pioneer in the field of scuba-diving for research purposes.
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Terry Gill
(25 October 1939 – 25 February 2015)
English Australian character actor who carved a nichè in Australian television playing police officers.
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The Sydney Morning Herald

[DougC]

Augustine Baker
A Sierra Leonean who worked with children orphaned by Ebola has died of the disease himself. Augustine Baker had been admitted to an Ebola treatment centre after becoming ill last week. He had worked for an orphanage run by a UK charity on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
B.B.C.

[DougC]

Fritz Joachim Raddatz
(3 September 1931 – 26 February 2015)
German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer and romancier.
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Martha Cohen, CM, AOE, LL.D.
born Martha Ruth Block
(1920 - 2015)
Community Builder and Philanthropist, Member of the Order of Canada. Sspearheaded a variety of major civic projects.
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[DougC]

Avijit Roy
US engineer, writer and blogger of Bangladeshi origin. Dr. Avijit Roy was prominent advocate of the free thought movement in Bangladesh. He was an engineer by profession, but well-known for his writings in his self-founded site, Mukto-Mona—an Internet congregation of freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists, and humanists of mainly Bengali and South Asian descent. He was hacked to death by Islamist killers in Dhaka on 26 February 2015.
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RS thread by murshid

[Animavore]

Leonard Nimoy. 83.
No description needed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/ ... at-83.html

[aban57]

Leonard Nimoy. 83.
No description needed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/ ... at-83.html

I just discovered it, and was going to put the exact same message as you did... RIP

[BlackBart]

I'm actually filling up here.

[THWOTH]

[smudge]

[Fallible]

[Skinny Puppy]

So sad to hear about Spock. He really brought a lot of enjoyment into this world.

As a fan of his I’d like to post a URL. For anyone that loves his work, you may be unaware of some sterling work which he and John de Lancie did together some years back. These stories are top-notch dramatizations. I bought them all and I’ve listened to them more times than I can even begin to remember.
http://alienvoices.net/

[THWOTH]

[DougC]

Sad.

If we get his body and fire it onto the Genesis Planet, he will live again!

[DougC]

Patrick Whitefield
(born Patrick Vickers, 11 February 1949 – 27 February 2015)
British permaculture teacher, designer, author, and consulting editor for Permaculture Magazine. He was regarded as one of the leading and pioneering permaculture authorities in Europe.
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Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov
(9 October 1959 – 27 February 2015)
Russian statesman and liberal politician, a current member of regional parliament of Yaroslavl Oblast, a co-chair of the RPR-PARNAS political party (a part of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe), one of the leaders of the Solidarnost movement and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. He was murdered on a Moscow street in February 2015.
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RS thread by Varangian