Celebrity Death Thread 2016 Edition in Which Literally, Everyone, Died

[6souls]

Bud Collins, 86

[Omniyoji]

Awww, this one hurts. I used to call him Mr. Funny Pants when I was wittle...

R.I.P. Arthur ; ;

[Bregor]

Pat Conroy, author or "Prince of Tides" dies at 70, pancreatic cancer

http://www.wsj.com/articles/prince-o...-70-1457156456

[Aksannyi]

Damn, 2016, back at it again with that dying of cancer!

[FNH]

Joey, from the country duo Joey + Rory, 40 from cervical cancer.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...at-40-20160304

[Obev]

Tony Dyson, designer of the original R2D2 animatronic costume and like a million other special effects things.

Star Wars: R2-D2 original builder Tony Dyson dies - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35724496

[synistar]

Nancy Reagan at the age of 94 died of congestive heart failure.

[Sho]

Damn, old age finally got her.

[Mertron]

I think Ronald Reagan said it best, when he said

Who?

[kuronosan]

Damn, old age finally got her.

Trickle down rektonomics.

[Corrderio]

Not a celebrity in the typical sense, but Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of modern email, passed away on Saturday :

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/07/inven...nson-dies.html

[6souls]

George Martin, 90, Beatles producer

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/09/469750...-is-dead-at-90

[kuronosan]

NOOOOO

[Eurell]

George Martin

Panicked for a minute there.

[Zealot]

Panicked for a minute there.

That George Martin won't die until he falls asleep and starts a fire, perishing in the same blaze that consumes all of his story notes.

[Salodin]

That George Martin won't die until he falls asleep and starts a fire, perishing in the same blaze that consumes all of his story notes.

Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

Other forum posters have correctly predicted such tragedies happening, don't you fucking jinx this man's life.

[AidenCarby]

Jon English, 66. Surgical complications

[Devia]

Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer

http://variety.com/2016/music/news/k...er-1201728226/

[Richybear]

Fuck

[Omniyoji]

Eric Medalle & Akira Tago

It was recently reported that Eric Medalle – the Creative Design Director at The Pokémon Company International – passed away yesterday afternoon in an accident. Medalle was taking his daughter for a Sunday drive through a nearby park when a Douglas Fir was pushed over onto their SUV by heavy winds. His daughter only suffered minor injuries, and she was pulled from the back of the car by an anonymous bystander.

At The Pokémon Company, Medalle was responsible for designing nearly every TCG logo so far, and he also made the logos for Pokémon Dream Radar and Pokémon the Series: XY. In addition to serving as an artist for the Generation VI and V main series games, he also took part in some of the spinoffs, such as the Pokémon Ranger games and Pokémon Conquest.

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The Professor Layton games form a popular portable series that's spanned across the DS and 3DS, famous for their puzzle-based gameplay. Though fans still await the coming of the mysterious 'Layton 7', the series recently lost a great contributor on its development side.

It was recently reported that Akira Tago passed away on 6th March at age 90 due to interstitial pneumonia. Tago worked as the puzzle master on the series and had a hand in the development of many of the puzzles that appeared throughout the games. Tago was an academic and a psychologist, and before working on the Layton games he penned a popular line of quiz books called Atama no Taisō, which made their debut in 1966 and would go on to inspire the games.