time 8,595 Posted August 18, 2018 Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, Peace Prize recipient, dead aged 80. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ObakeFilter 893 Posted August 18, 2018 2 minutes ago, time said: Kofi Annan, former UN General Secretary, Peace Prize recipient, dead aged 80. Looks like we are getting the rule of three with Aretha Franklin being the first. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,927 Posted August 18, 2018 So JpdC and Ban Ki-moon are the only living former UN General Secretaries. Guess who'll go first... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heef 166 Posted August 18, 2018 4 minutes ago, drol said: So JpdC and Ban Ki-moon are the only living UN General Secretaries. Guess who'll go first... And Antonio Guterres. Never thought that he looks the healthiest of chaps tbph. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,438 Posted August 18, 2018 Blimey, thought he'd be a Deathlist mainstay eventually tbh. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,386 Posted August 18, 2018 Who'd've thought Kofi before Javier? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Doornail 38 Posted August 18, 2018 Commemorating the sad news by having a coffee and a naan. 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 18, 2018 2 hours ago, ObakeFilter said: Looks like we are getting the rule of three with Aretha Franklin being the first. I'm sorry but you really need to explain what you meant by this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ObakeFilter 893 Posted August 18, 2018 33 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: I'm sorry but you really need to explain what you meant by this. "rule of three" = celebrities dying in threes during a relatively short amount of time (each celebrity dying w/n a week of each other). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mad Hatter 1,092 Posted August 18, 2018 1 minute ago, ObakeFilter said: "rule of three" = celebrities dying in threes during a relatively short amount of time (each celebrity dying w/n a week of each other). No offense but everytime someone says that they always end up looking like a moron. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ObakeFilter 893 Posted August 18, 2018 11 minutes ago, The Mad Hatter said: No offense but everytime someone says that they always end up looking like a moron. Looking like a moron for speculating? Isn't it something the whole DeathList idea is based upon? Well, whatever you say. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted August 18, 2018 If stress is the biggest killer he did well to make it to 80. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted August 18, 2018 5 hours ago, ObakeFilter said: Looks like we are getting the rule of three with Aretha Franklin being the first. I guarantee, 3 black folk die every week. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,571 Posted August 19, 2018 19 hours ago, Doornail said: Commemorating the sad news by having a coffee and a naan. I will listen to Squeeze Black Kofi is Dead 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,727 Posted August 19, 2018 Sad to hear. Mr. Annan always struck me as one of the very few - best ones. Smart, articulate, grounded, a statesman and a gentleman. RIP! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,386 Posted August 30, 2018 Sir James Mirrlees, Scottish economist and Nobel Prize in Economics winner of 1996, has died aged 82. Edit: The Times, Financial Times, Daily Mail obituaries. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted September 23, 2018 2009 Physics Laureate Charles K. Kao, who'd been fighting dementia for nearly two decades, dead at 84. DDP pick. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,438 Posted September 23, 2018 A pick for me in the Alt Obits pool. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,927 Posted September 23, 2018 2009 Physics Prize Laureate Charles Kao has died at 84 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. I think he was picked somewhere by @Sean, but I could not find where. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cat O'Falk 3,290 Posted September 23, 2018 39 minutes ago, drol said: 2009 Physics Prize Laureate Charles Kao has died at 84 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. I think he was picked somewhere by @Sean, but I could not find where. Here? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,438 Posted September 24, 2018 Kao gets the most half-assed QO from the Mail I've seen in some time. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,727 Posted October 3, 2018 1988 Physics Prize Laureate Leon Max Lederman dead at 96 years https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/science/leon-lederman-died-particle-accelerators.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CastAway 488 Posted October 3, 2018 Should be noted that latest winner of Physics (well, 1 of 3 to share the prize this year) Arthur Ashkin is currently 96 - and the oldest winner of the Nobel Prize. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted October 3, 2018 2 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said: 1988 Physics Prize Laureate Leon Max Lederman dead at 96 years https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/science/leon-lederman-died-particle-accelerators.html Just 3 left alive from the original list of 48 laureates then Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mercarte 145 Posted October 4, 2018 Nobel Prize laureates aged 85+: (Age calculated at the beginning of 2019)Physics:1957: Tsung-Dao Lee, 921957: Chen Ning Yang, 961969: Murray Gell-Mann, 891972: Leon Cooper, 881972: Robert Schrieffer, 871973: Leo Esaki, 931973: Ivar Giaever, 891974: Antony Hewish, 941975: Ben Mottelson, 921977: Philip Warren Anderson, 95 1978: Arno Penzias, 85 1979: Sheldon Lee Glashow, 86 1979: Steven Weinberg, 851987: Karl Alexander Müller, 911988: Jack Steinberger, 971990: Jerome Isaac Friedman, 881996: David M. Lee, 87 1997: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, 851999: Martinus Veltman, 872000: Herbert Kroemer, 902000: Žores Ivanovič Alfërov, 882002: Masatoshi Koshiba, 922002: Riccardo Giacconi, 872005: Roy Glauber, 932009: George Elwood Smith, 882013: Peter Higgs, 89 2013: François Englert, 862014: Isamu Akasaki, 89 2017: Rainer Weiss, 86 2018: Arthur Ashkin, 96Chemistry: 1967: Manfred Eigen, 911980: Paul Berg, 92 1980: Walter Gilbert, 861982: Aaron Klug, 921986: John Charles Polanyi, 89 1986: Dudley Herschbach, 861990: Elias James Corey, 90 1991: Richard Ernst, 851992: Rudolph Marcus, 95 1995: Paul Crutzen, 85 1996: Robert Curl, 852008: Osamu Shimomura, 902010: Akira Suzuki, 882013: Martin Karplus, 88Literature:1993: Toni Morrison, 872013: Alice Munro, 87Peace: 1973: Henry Kissinger, 951980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 871984: Desmond Tutu, 871990: Michail Gorbačëv, 872002: Jimmy Carter, 94Medicine:1962: James Dewey Watson, 901977: Roger Guillemin, 941977: Andrew Viktor Schally, 921978: Werner Arber, 891978: Hamilton Smith, 871981: Torsten Wiesel, 941986: Stanley Cohen, 961992: Edmond Fischer, 982000: Paul Greengard, 932000: Eric Kandel, 892002: Sydney Brenner, 91 2008: Luc Montagnier, 86 2012: John Gurdon, 852015: William C. Campbell, 882015: Tu Youyou, 88Economics:1987: Robert Solow, 941990: Harry Markowitz, 91 1998: Amartya Sen, 85 1999: Robert Mundell, 862002: Vernon Smith, 91 2006: Edmund Phelps, 852005: Robert Aumann, 88 2009: Oliver Williamson, 86 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites