Obituaries

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Carl Weathers who was in Rocky, Predator and The Mandalorian passed away.

List of works: imdb

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Carl was an exceptional human being who lived an extraordinary life. Through his contributions to film, television, the arts and sports, he has left an indelible mark and is recognized worldwide and across generations.

'He was a beloved brother, father, grandfather, partner, and friend.'

Former professional football player Weathers shot to worldwide fame playing heavyweight champion of the world Apollo Creed in 1976's Rocky.

02/02/24 (2:30)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zEstn4jvTh8

[Brigantia]

The last of the Dad's Army platoon has departed; Ian Lavender has died just a few days before his 78th birthday.
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/i...-b1137117.html

I would guess that "Don't tell him, Pike" is fondly remembered by those who grew up with this classic series:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_YMVPXmaKds

[Satori]

Toby Keith, the American country western musician, died yesterday evening of stomach cancer at the age of 62. RIP.

[thepainterdoug]

How has this gone un noticed? Mike Gill killed
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/mike-gil...hot-in-rampage

[Open Minded Dude]

After recently with Franz Beckenbauer, here's another hero of 1990 (and my childhood) who today has passed away. And yes, it was another sudden heart attack (already mentioned in that thread but he deserves a mention here, too).

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I6yQTwJXsp4

Just like Goetze in 2014 - also with 1-0 against Argentina (for the 4th World Cup title) - he was the scorer for our 3rd World Cup title 14 years earlier.
Concededly, the validity of this very penalty was more than 'questionable', but another clear foul in the box before that had not been not granted, so it was only fair as a kind of concession, moreover since Germany was the far better team on that day anyway. A deserved win in the end. Oh those sweet childhood memories.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_GmZx3tWY

[Inversion]

Actor/comedian Richard Lewis has died at age 76 of a heart attack and he had Parkinson's disease.

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Richard Lewis has died at the age of 76 after a years-long battle with Parkinson's disease, it has been confirmed
The Curb Your Enthusiasm star Lewis - who is survived by his wife Joyce Lapinsky - had an illustrious career in Hollywood as an actor, writer, and comedian
Variety confirmed Lewis had passed due to a heart attack
David shared a heartbreaking tribute to his 'brother' Lewis, saying: 'He had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest.
'But today he made me sob and for that I’ll never forgive him'

02/28/24 (0:45)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QO8eWsOyCSo

[DNA]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
How has this gone un noticed? Mike Gill killed
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/mike-gil...hot-in-rampage

Yeah this looks like a hit.
Has the democratic party fallen to the level of organized crime?

[Bill Ryan]

I was rather shocked to read this.

Famed Everest Documentarian David Breashears Dies at 68

• https://explorersweb.com/david-breashears-dies

The mountaineering community has lost a luminary.

David Breashears died at 68 on March 14 at his home in Massachusetts, Outside reported. Friends said he died of natural causes, and his family submitted a statement to the outlet.

It is with great sadness that we share the news that our beloved David passed (of natural causes) this morning. He was a brother, father, friend, colleague and a caring, passionate advocate of adventure, exploration and the health of our planet. We are heartbroken by this loss and respectfully request privacy at this difficult time.

A venerated climber and photographer, Breashears earned his best-known success as the director of the 1998 IMAX film Everest.

His relationship with the mountain proved enduring. He first summitted Everest in 1983 and claimed its first repeat ascent by an American in 1985. His rescue efforts in the 1996 Everest disaster (which informed the 2008 Frontline documentary Storm Over Everest) highlighted his contributions to climbing.

In all, Breashears summitted world’s tallest peak five times.

Along with numerous documentaries, Breashears’ film credits included Cliffhanger, Seven Years in Tibet, and even David Lee Roth’s Just Like Paradise music video (which featured the famous Yosemite route Heaven).

His nonprofit, GlacierWorks, uses science, art, and storytelling to highlight climate change in the Himalaya.

[Inversion]

Louis Gossett Jr. passed on 03/29/24 at age 87. He was in the mini-series Roots in 1977 and has 200 works to his credit on imdb.

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03/31/24 (1:25)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Swvo9zLsQE

[Sue (Ayt)]

World's oldest man, Juan Vicente Pérez, dies aged 114

Guinness World Records is saddened to learn of the death of the world's oldest man Juan Vicente Pérez (Venezuela, b. 27 May 1909) at the age of 114.

He would have turned 115 next month.

His death was confirmed by Freddy Bernal, the governor of Táchira, Venezuela, where Juan lived.

Juan was announced as the oldest man living at 112 years and 253 days, as of 4 February 2022.


He attributed his longevity to "working hard, resting on holidays, going to bed early, drinking a glass of aguardiente every day, loving God, and always carrying him in his heart."

Juan Vicente was married to Ediofina del Rosario García for 60 years until her passing in 1997. Together, they established a family of 11 children, consisting of six sons and five daughters.

More at Link

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UK Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs dies age 94


The late physicist Peter Higgs stands in front of a photograph of the Large Hadron Collider at the Science Museum's "Collider" exhibition in November 2013, in London. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

(London) — Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a century later, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh said on Tuesday.

The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the CERN research centre near Geneva was widely hailed as the biggest advance in knowledge about the cosmos for over 30 years, and pointed physics towards ideas that were once science fiction.

“For me personally it is just the confirmation of something I did 48 years ago, and it is very satisfying to be proved right in some way,” the British scientist told Reuters at the time.

“At the beginning, I had no expectation that I would still be alive when it happened.”

Edinburgh University, where Higgs held a professorial chair for many years, said he had passed away peacefully on Monday at home following a short illness.

“Peter Higgs was a remarkable individual — a truly gifted scientist whose vision and imagination have enriched our knowledge of the world that surrounds us,” said Professor Sir Peter Mathieson, the university Principal and Vice-Chancellor.

Higgs described himself as “incompetent” in the physics laboratory at school and at first preferred maths and chemistry. But inspired by quantum physicist Paul Dirac, who had attended the same school, he went on to specialise in theoretical physics.

What came to be known as the Higgs boson would solve the riddle of where several fundamental particles get their mass from: by interacting with the invisible “Higgs field” that pervades space.

That interaction, known as the “Brout-Englert-Higgs” mechanism, won Higgs and Belgium’s Francois Englert the Nobel prize in physics in 2013. Englert’s collaborator Robert Brout died in 2011.

‘An incredible thing’

In 1964, Higgs’ first paper on the model was rejected by an academic physics journal at CERN as being “of no relevance to physics”. His revised paper, although published weeks after Englert and Brout’s, was the first to explicitly predict the existence of a new particle.

“Over a weekend … I gradually realised that I knew two things that had to be brought together,” he said. “I had to go back to my office on the Monday and check that I hadn’t made a mistake about this.”

The tantalising vision promised to fill a gap in the “Standard Model” — the basic theoretical framework of physics — if only the particle’s existence could be proven.

For nearly three decades, physicists at CERN and at Fermilab in Chicago replicated the “Big Bang” by smashing particles together, hoping to glimpse the Higgs boson in the resulting mini-explosions.

CERN’s massive Large Hadron Collider finally proved to be the sledgehammer needed to crack the nut, and in 2012 two experiments there independently found the Higgs boson.

Englert and Higgs were in the packed auditorium at CERN to hear the announcement of the discovery, while hundreds of thousands watched online.

“We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature,” CERN Director General Rolf Heuer said, to a roar of applause.

Higgs, clearly overwhelmed, his eyes welling up, told his fellow researchers: “It is an incredible thing that it has happened in my lifetime.”

‘What award?’

The Higgs boson completed the Standard Model, but fully understanding it is a work in progress. Its discovery allowed theoreticians to turn their attention to the vast portion of the universe that remained unexplained, as well as esoteric ideas such as the possibility of parallel universes.

An atheist, Higgs loathed the nickname “the God particle,” which headline writers frequently bestowed on the boson that bore his name.

He had strong views on what was good and bad about science and resigned from a movement for nuclear disarmament when it began campaigning against the harnessing of nuclear energy.

In 1962 Higgs married Jody Williamson, an American linguist and nuclear disarmament campaigner, who died in 2008. They had two sons.

Higgs was modest about his achievements and shy of the media. In an interview on the Nobel prize website, he recounted how, on the morning that the 2013 Nobel announcement was due, he had anticipated media attention and taken steps to avoid it.

He left his house in Edinburgh, where he was emeritus professor at the university, and went for a walk around the harbour, and then to lunch and an art exhibition.

On his way home, a former neighbour congratulated him on his award.

“I said: ‘What award?’” he recalled, chuckling.

Reporting by Robert Evans and Tom Miles, additional reporting by Farouq Suleiman; editing by Pravin Char and Mark Heinrich

[Inversion]

O.J. Simpson died of cancer at age 76. His jersey number with the Buffalo Bills & San Franscico 49ers was 32.

He was in a episode of Dragnet that aired on 10/03/68 as if a tell of the event on 06/12/94.

An excerpt from Dragnet '67: Episode 3 (Community Relations - DR-10). Season 3, Episode 3

"The satisfaction you'd receive from helping your fellow man.... of being a vital, important member of your community. Maybe those things are important to you... maybe they're not."

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OJ Simpson has died aged 76 after a short battle with prostate cancer.

The notorious murder suspect, who was later found civilly liable for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman passed away surrounded by his family at his home in Las Vegas on Wednesday night.

Simpson became one of the most infamous figures in America after he was charged with the murders in 1994.

04/11/24 (1:16)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8HzQkiBBWxQ