Lou Reed

[Lou Reed]

Lou Reed is dead - the beginning of a new era? Pop culture has become old, many big stars are in their seventies now. Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, the remaining Beatles...

[Rumours]

Diverse conservative reporters announce the death of US Representative Bill Young (R-FL).

 

http://wonkette.com/531919/luke-russert-kills-us-congressman

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fox-s-gretchen-carlson-mistakenly-reports-death-of-rep-cw-bill-young-video

 

He's only in hospital though, but still in bad condition.

[George Bush Senior]

Bush Jr.'s heart problems were worse than previously known:

 

http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/george-w-bush-s-close-call-20131011?mrefid=HomepageRiver

[The Dead Of 2013]

I can't find the thread for food inventors. Hans Reigel inventor of the Gummi Bear has died at the age of 90

 

I wanted to use this death to start a business people thread. There were a couple of deaths in that category lately, like the Toyota and Nintendo bosses. But now it would be a double post. However, I also can't think of a smart and witty thread title.

[Hooroo, Mate.]

Also dead: Basil Dickinson, Australia's oldest olympian:

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-09/australias-oldest-olympian-dies/5011616

[The Next Piper At The Gates Of Heaven]

Former member of The Icarus Line and Nine Inch Nails, and ex-Buddyhead blogger Aaron North, 34, apparently is mentally ill and suicidal but insists that it's not because of the drugs.

 

http://m.spin.com/articles/aaron-north-nine-inch-nails-icarus-line/

[World's Oldest]

Police shoot 107-year-old man in Arkansas, USA.

 

http://edition.cnn.c...-old-man-death/

 

He could have been a contender...

[The 9th Death Of 2013]

Frustrated with Mandela... I say Vera Lynn.

[The 8th Death Of 2013]

Mandela. I had the feeling that he would survive one more member of the list, and that turned out to be Bernie Nolan, I was too afraid to post because I was very, very wrong when I voted for Kirk Douglas. But now it's Mandela's turn.

[Nelson Mandela]

His soul is now a prisoner of a machine.

[Mohamed Morsi]

Good call, this thread...

[Hollywood Possibilities]

Television and film director Jim Goddard is dead.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/jun/27/jim-goddard-obituary

[Pink Floyd]

Pink Floyd stage designer Mark Fisher is dead, at 66.

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mark-fisher-rolling-stones-and-pink-floyd-stage-designer-dead-at-66-20130627

[5. Pope Francis]

Admits that there is a "gay lobby"/velvet mafia in the Curia. Also says that he is too unorganised to do reforms.

[Pope Benedict XVI]

Benedict's health still declining.

[Michael Douglas]

Well, I wonder if he got the virus from his wife or from someone else... And if he got it from his wife, where did she get it from?

[Ideas And Possibilities For 2014]

Two suggestions:

Demi Moore who is approaching Lindsay Lohan territory, and Liza Minelli who has aged considerably, and if you watched the new Arrested Development episodes you know that she will not appear in any future episodes or a movie.

[Helmut Schmidt]

Helmut Schmidt has recently been on a media tour:

 

Here he is saying that the EU is in a deep institutional crisis:

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/altkanzler-helmut-schmidt-sieht-eu-institutionen-in-der-krise-a-902711.html

 

Here is his new book that came out last month:

http://www.amazon.de/Ein-letzter-Besuch-Begegnungen-Weltmacht/dp/3827500346/ref=la_B001HPX2P2_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369912412&sr=1-1

 

Here he is talking on german television about China last week:

http://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/talk/beckmann/sendung/02052013-weltmaechte-der-zukunft-100.html

 

 

He still looks remarkably well and is probably going to last a while longer. He mentions though that it's "his last visit to France", or that it was "his last visit to China."

[Iain Banks]

Health update:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/21/iain-banks-updates-fans-cancer

 

Either his health is already too bad for chemotherapy or he'll try it. We'll know soon enough.

[Stephen Hawking]

Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel. He's said to be "in very poor health".

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/08/stephen-hawking-israel-academic-boycott

[Kirk Douglas]

Heh, yes, but to be fair, the german paper 'Die Welt' picked up the story. It's a mainstream paper:

http://www.welt.de/newsticker/leute/stars/article115025155/Liegt-Kirk-Douglas-im-Sterben.html

[Roger Ebert]

Sad, I liked him... and he sounded strangely cheerful just two days ago.

Even sadder, I predicted it.

 

Edit: His website shows that the last movie he reviewed was 'The Host'. Did Stephenie Meyer's work kill him?

[The 5th Death Of 2013]

Kirk Douglas, a matter of days I think.

[Kirk Douglas]

Apparently, he's close to dying:

german source:

http://www.promiflash.de/naechster-schicksalsschlag-fuer-douglas-familie-13040435.html

 

They're quoting a report of Globe Magazine (whatever that is). Anyway, the Google tells me that there are numerous recent stories about him (could all be the same source though), e.g.:

http://www.showbizspy.com/article/258506/kirk-douglas-is-dying.html

[Who Should Be On The 2013 Deathlist?]

I want to suggest Roger Ebert, 70.

 

http://www.hollywood...h-update-406083

 

Edit: I have to admit that I didn't know Luise Rainer - as a german! And she's the only german Academy Award-winning actress, amazing.