Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts

Sunday, January 01, 2023

2022 Death Roll

Every year, I post a message about those people who have passed in the previous year who were noteworthy to me. I usually post RIPs to personal friends individually in social media, but this is the full list for 2022:

Friends

Sam Goldenhar
Rudy Roberson (Mr. Rudy)

Athletics

Jeremy Giambi
Ray Guy
Franco Harris
Pelé
Odalis Perez
Gaylord Perry
Bill Russell
Bruce Sutter

Government

Madeline Allbright
Queen Elizabeth II
Mikhail Gorbachev

Hollywood

Kirstie Allie
Peter Bogdanovich
James Caan
Gilbert Gottfried
Philip Baker Hall
Anne Heche
Howard Hessman
William Hurt
Sally Kellerman
Angela Lansbury
Ray Liotta
Bob McGrath
Nichelle Nichols
Sidney Poitier

Music

Don Coffman
Ronnie Cuber
Naomi Judd
Meat Loaf
Loretta Lynn
Christine McVie
Olivia Newton-John
Vangelis
Alan White

Media

Roger Angell
Vin Scully
Barbara Walters

 

Saturday, January 01, 2022

#RIP2021

 This is a collection of people that were notable in my life somehow that passed in 2021.

2021 Death Roll


Friends

Irvin Barron
Jeff Eaton
Steven Grover
Lance Hosey
Doug Moffat
Juli Parsons
Michelle Steiner
Lynne Hsu Xavier

Athletics


Henry Aaron
Ray Fosse
Tommy Lasorda
John Madden
Mike Marshall
J. R. Richard
Eddie Robinson
Leon Spinks
Don Sutton
Bill Virdon

Business


James White

Education


C. Sidney Burrus

Hollywood


Ed Asner
Ned Beatty
JoAnna Cameron
Olympia Dukakis
Mira Furlan
Charles Grodin
Hal Holbrook
Cloris Leachman
Gavin MacLeod
Christopher Plummer
Stephen Sondheim
Dean Stockwell
Cicely Tyson
Betty White

Media


Norman Juster
Larry King
Roger Mudd

Music


Chick Corea
Curtis Fuller
Dusty Hill
Howard Johnson
Sammy Nestico

Politics


Walter Mondale
Colin Powell
Desmond Tutu

Science


Michael Collins