Academic Footnotes

[Ulitzer95 12,703]

Tweet reporting the death of American health economist Victor Fuchs (wiki), aged 99:
 

Do any of you give a Fuch? Probably not.

[wannamaker 1,415]

12 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Tweet reporting the death of American health economist Victor Fuchs (wiki), aged 99:
 

Do any of you give a Fuch? Probably not.

 

"Who Shall Live", not him apparently.

[drol 12,030]

Italian prominent philosopher, noted heterosexual, elder abuse victim Gianni Vattimo hospitalised in critical condition, but that could be a scam to protect his lover/carer who is under trial.

[max_bossetti 149]

On 18/09/2023 at 07:56, drol said:

Italian prominent philosopher, noted heterosexual, elder abuse victim Gianni Vattimo hospitalised in critical condition, but that could be a scam to protect his lover/carer who is under trial.

Dead

[drol 12,030]

18 minutes ago, max_bossetti said:

Dead

Ok, maybe not a scam after all.

[Funeralopolis 251]

11 minutes ago, drol said:

Ok, maybe not a scam after all.

in the photo posted by Caminada he looked like a real corpse on a hospital bed.

 

if it had been a scam, it would have been directed by Kubrick.

[Sly Ronnie 893]

1 hour ago, max_bossetti said:

Dead

 

He felt very weak thought towards the end.

[lilham 760]

Temple University's Acting President Joanne Epps, died on September 19th at age 72, after falling ill at a memorial event for historian and author Charles Blockson, 89, who died June 14th. Temple is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

https://www.inquirer.com/education/joanne-epps-temple-university-president-dies-20230919.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_L._Blockson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_A._Epps

[Sir Creep 7,070]

On 19/09/2023 at 20:22, lilham said:

Temple University's Acting President Joanne Epps, died on September 19th at age 72, after falling ill at a memorial event for historian and author Charles Blockson, 89, who died June 14th. Temple is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

https://www.inquirer.com/education/joanne-epps-temple-university-president-dies-20230919.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_L._Blockson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_A._Epps

You had every right to crosspost this in Ironic Deaths. Would you had.

[FinalChapter 75]

Hasn’t been publicly announced or reported on but author and political commentator Michael Parenti,  considered by many to the one of the leading Marxist intellectuals in the United States, is in the end-stages of Alzheimer’s disease according to his son and others who have reached out to him in the last year or so. 

[drol 12,030]

CAE member Pan Jingfu dead at 93, the first CAE death in three months.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,206]

On many a DDP shortlist, I imagine, but Kirsty Smitten has died.

 

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/kirsty-smitten-charity-match-memory-trailblazer-young-sheffield-woman-29-who-died-week-4363812

[The Old Crem 3,611]

24 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

On many a DDP shortlist, I imagine, but Kirsty Smitten has died.

 

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/kirsty-smitten-charity-match-memory-trailblazer-young-sheffield-woman-29-who-died-week-4363812

Would she have been accepted?

[Death Impends 8,011]

1 hour ago, The Old Crem said:

Would she have been accepted?

 

She developed an entirely new class of antibiotics, apparently the first in decades, and got relevant accolades for that unrelated to her illness. She'd have qualified.

[polar duck 878]

Aptly named economist David Dollar dead.

[The Old Crem 3,611]

Arthur Burns, British historian has died aged 60. Obit

[YoungWillz 21,086]

One of @gcreptile favourites, Roland R Griffiths being reported dead on the Musksite.

 

Obviously he knows Griffiths is a DDP pick.

 

Edit: https://thedalesreport.com/psychedelics/psychedelic-research-pioneer-roland-griffiths-passes-at-age-77/

[gcreptile 10,994]

14 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

One of @gcreptile favourites, Roland R Griffiths being reported dead on the Musksite.

 

Obviously he knows Griffiths is a DDP pick.

 

Edit: https://thedalesreport.com/psychedelics/psychedelic-research-pioneer-roland-griffiths-passes-at-age-77/

Big hit for me, in AltObits, too.

The B-Team breaks the Top 10 (he will obit).

[The Old Crem 3,611]

Nicholas Crafts, British economist who was Professor of Economic History at the University of Sussex Business School from 2019 until his death, Professor of Economics and Economic History at the University of Warwick from 2005 to 2019, and Professor of Economic History at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) between 1995 and 2005 has died aged 74. Times Death Notice

 

Roger Greenhalgh, British academic and writer has died 82. Telegraph

[drol 12,030]

Next dead CAE member Han Dakuang, aged 90.

[ObakeFilter 913]

 Natalie Zemon Davis (b. 1928), historian and researcher of socio-cultural events in the Early Modern Age, has passed away.

 

[drol 12,030]

Wang Dianzuo, double CAE and CAS academic, dead at 89.

[arghton 6,782]

On 03/05/2023 at 14:11, arghton said:

Here...

 

Members of CAS (born 1929 or before)

 

Chen Junwu (17 March 1927-) Oil-refinery engineer, Song Ping's brother-in-law, too ill to attend his sister's funeral in 2019.

 

Chen Junwu visited this month. Permanently hospitalised, his physical condition is so bad he can't pose for photos (probably hooked up to machines considering how some months ago they visited Wang Xiji who was described as "healthy" despite being very frail, having discolored hands and a nasogastric tube) and apparently unable to talk

[polar duck 878]

Economist and academic Anita Summers (wiki) dead at 98. Her son was Clinton cabinet member Lawrence Summers, and her brother was Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow.

[drol 12,030]

On 03/05/2023 at 13:11, arghton said:

Here...

 

Members of CAS (born 1929 or before)

 

Hu Yuxian 胡聿贤 (12 October 1922-) One of China's most notable seismic engineers.

 

 

 

Hu Yuxian dead of a sudden heart attack at 101.