Notable Passings and other milestones

[zooterkin]

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[bignickel]

Marjoe Gortner, 82.

I was just thinking about him the day before he passed.

Had this idea of skit in my head of some agent on the BBC going on about "What happened to all the curly headed main men on TV? We used to have Tom Baker, Gareth Roberts, Colin Baker, Steven Pacey, Barry Andrews, William Katt! Somebody get me Marjoe Gortner on the line!"

 

[Andy_Ross]

Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102.

Eva Marie Saint – a life in pictures

We look back at the life and eight-decade career of the Oscar-winning actor, who has died aged 102

www.theguardian.com

 

[JayUtah]

Margaret Hamilton has died, aged 90. (The Apollo computer science pioneer, not the Wicked Witch of the West.)

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

news.mit.edu

 

[Andy_Ross]

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[alfaniner]

Mike Ditka, famous coach of 'Da Bears.
I never watch football, but even I've heard of him.