YoungWillz 21,050 Posted July 11, 2015 Jim Bede, US aircraft designer and owner of Bedecorp, the latest in a series of business ventures, 82, aneurysm. http://www.bedecorp.com/ Now Jim's the latest. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted July 13, 2015 President of Nintendo, Saturo Iwata, 55, bile duct cancer. http://kotaku.com/nintendos-president-has-passed-away-1717386412 Apologies because I forgot about the Video Game Nerds thread. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted July 13, 2015 President of Nintendo, Saturo Iwata, 55, bile duct cancer. http://kotaku.com/nintendos-president-has-passed-away-1717386412 Apologies because I forgot about the Video Game Nerds thread. Y-Dub, this was posted in my DP and three of us all said the obvious line: "Game Over!" You swung and missed my friend. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted July 13, 2015 President of Nintendo, Saturo Iwata, 55, bile duct cancer. http://kotaku.com/nintendos-president-has-passed-away-1717386412 Apologies because I forgot about the Video Game Nerds thread. Y-Dub, this was posted in my DP and three of us all said the obvious line: "Game Over!" You swung and missed my friend. SC Lol, it's not game over, he's just moved onto a higher level, and we've to catch up! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted July 13, 2015 Ed Hardy founder Christian Audigier, 56, has cancer: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3029279/Ed-Hardy-founder-Christian-Audigier-stands-inspirational-message-revealing-battle-cancer.html It seems like the treatment is going fine though. Dead Back from a trip... This death mystified me a little. Audigier was apparently wealthy and still relatively young. The cancer was not very progressed, officially, and while I had him in my database, I didn't think he was very likely to die. But the cancer thought otherwise.... @ YoungWillz: I would have posted that death here as well. It seems he was much more businessman than game designer. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted July 15, 2015 Tom Fritz, former CEO of Inland Northwest Health Services, died Monday while fishing on Lake Coeur d’Alene, just six months after he retired from the organization he led for 16 years. He was 63. SC http://m.spokesman.com/stories/2015/jul/14/Tom-Fritz-found-dead-in-Lake-CoeurdAlene/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted July 15, 2015 Hans Barlach, german co-owner of the Suhrkamp Verlag, probably Germany's most prominent publisher, is dead at 59 of pneunomia: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/suhrkamp-aktionaer-hans-barlach-ist-tot-a-1043762.html (link in german) He was one side of a highly publicized battle for the control of the Suhrkamp Verlag in the past 2 years. He lost the battle and was then excluded from the company decisions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted July 29, 2015 Jan Kuczyk, founder of the Kulczyk Holding Company and Poland's richest man is dead at 65 from complications after surgery: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/poland-s-richest-man-jan/2014964.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted July 31, 2015 Oh where to post this one? I guess this wins out.The former managing director of Todd Motors, and former chairman of Todd Corporation, Sir John Todd (88) died at his Wellington home last night after a period of ill heath. The patriarch of one of New Zealand’s wealthiest families, Sir John was knighted in 2011 after retiring from the helm of the Todd Corporation, according to the New Zealand Herald. He was a philanthropist, as well as a patron of the Arts, and chairman of the family’s charitable Todd Foundation. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted August 4, 2015 Father of the leveraged buyout, Jerry Kohlberg, has died of cancer at 90: http://fortune.com/2015/08/03/private-equity-pioneer-jerry-kohlberg-passes-away/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted August 4, 2015 Vincent Marotta Sr., one of the co-founders of Mr. Coffee, and basically the inventor of the modern way to drink coffee, has died at 91: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mr-coffee-vincent-marotta-obituary_55c02195e4b06f8bedb5cf37 The company took off when Joe DiMaggio became their main promoter. Marotta was chairman and chief executive of Mr. Coffee until a leveraged buyout in 1987. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted August 5, 2015 Johanna Quandt, matriarch of german car company BMW, is dead: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/bmw-johanna-quandt-ist-tot-a-1046916.html(link in german) One of Germany's richest people... Edit: Link in English and DDP-qualfying, but noone chose her, a bit of a miss (for me). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted August 5, 2015 Huh, something I didn't know, Johanna Quandt was a step-relative of Joseph Goebbels: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-27/nazi-goebbels-step-grandchildren-are-hidden-billionaires Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 6, 2015 Search came up empty hope this month old obit isn't a reboot. Michael J. Birck, one of Tellabs' six co-founders and its CEO, 77, died Monday. He retired as Tellabs' chairman in 2013 after disclosing in August 2012 that he was being treated for an uncommon form of bone marrow cancer and would not run for re-election to its board. Birck had retired from his role as CEO in 2004, at age 65. SC http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-birck-tellabs-obit-0708-biz-20150707-story.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted August 11, 2015 John Jursich, a man who helped McDonalds overcome the danger of bankruptcy and who restructured the company in the 50s in the way it went on to spread across the globe, has died at 87: http://patch.com/illinois/deerfield/man-who-saved-mcdonalds-has-died-0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 14, 2015 There has been so little information released about the health of Samsung chief Lee Kun-Hee, who has been in hospital for nearly a year, that the Korean press are speculating he may have died some time ago. Wrong brother! Lee Maeng-hee, the elder brother of South Korea's Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, died on Friday at the age of 84 after a years-long battle with cancer. The elder Lee, also the father of CJ Group Chairman Lee Jay-hyun, passed away at a hospital in Beijing where he was being treated for lung cancer that had spread to other parts of his body, said a CJ group official. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted August 14, 2015 Brian Seville, head of Lstar Capital. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted September 4, 2015 Leon Gorman, a grandson of L.L. Bean who led a modernization and expansion of the outdoors retailer after the founder’s death, died Thursday. He was 80. Gorman, who died in his Yarmouth home surrounded by family after battling cancer, led the Maine-based company as CEO or chairman for 46 years before retiring as chairman of the board in 2013. He retained the title of chairman emeritus. SC http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/leon-gorman-longtime-ll-bean-leader-dies-at-80/2015/09/03/38e20bec-5245-11e5-b225-90edbd49f362_story.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cat O'Falk 3,290 Posted September 4, 2015 Sir Adrian Cadbury has bit off more than he can chew and gone to chocolate heaven. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,533 Posted September 4, 2015 Sir Adrian Cadbury has bit off more than he can chew and gone to chocolate heaven. He was only given his knighthood at the beginning of the year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted September 5, 2015 Sir Adrian Cadbury has bit off more than he can chew and gone to chocolate heaven. He's gone all gooey on the inside. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted September 5, 2015 Sir Adrian Cadbury has bit off more than he can chew and gone to chocolate heaven. Now I wonder what chocolate hell looks like, it's probably full of mint chocolate and chocolate cakes with orange jelly inside. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,141 Posted September 5, 2015 Sir Adrian Cadbury has bit off more than he can chew and gone to chocolate heaven. Now I wonder what chocolate hell looks like, it's probably full of mint chocolate and chocolate cakes with orange jelly inside. Hershey bars 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted September 5, 2015 If Hershey bars count as chocolate then I'm a Rowntree's fruit pastel... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,586 Posted September 6, 2015 Sir Adrian Cadbury has bit off more than he can chew and gone to chocolate heaven. He was only given his knighthood at the beginning of the year. Is this significant? Do they rush through honours for people who may not be expected to last much longer? I remember Robert Stephens got his less than a year before he died. John Hurt anyone? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
