Global RIP thread

[bust]

In the documentry you can clearly see something not quite right in his upper left arm. Lots of lumps and badly swollen veins.

[Mekong]

Scott Weiland, former frontman of the US rock band Stone Temple Pilots, has died at the age of 48.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35003719

[dean]

Actor Robert Loggia, whom you might remember from Scarface, Pritzi Honor and Independence Day, and who danced on a giant piano board with Tom Hanks in Big, died from dementia at age 85. A very good character actor, RIP!

[Flashermac]

Tibor Rubin, Holocaust survivor and Korean War Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 86

 

 

LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) — Tibor Rubin, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who joined the U.S. Army out of gratitude for his liberation from the Nazis, then earned the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Korean War, died of natural causes Saturday in Garden Grove. He was 86.

 

Rubin had a Hungarian accent and a Jackie Mason-like sense of humor, said his nephew, Robert Huntly. Rubin's parents and younger sister were killed by the Nazis, and wounds and starvation had left him disabled. But his comic demeanor betrayed little trace of this history, Huntly said.

 

After his military service, Rubin worked for years at his brother's Long Beach liquor store and said little of his wartime deeds, which included defending a hill single-handedly for 24 hours and saving the lives of as many as 40 of his fellow POWs in a camp in North Korea, according to his biographer Daniel M. Cohen.

 

Decades later, supporters successfully argued the Jewish corporal had been denied recognition during the war because of the anti-Semitic leanings of a superior. Rubin was called to the White House in 2005, 55 years after his combat service — to receive the medal from President George W. Bush. An Army spokeswoman said at the time that the government's investigation had found evidence that wartime papers recommending that he receive citations for bravery had been tossed out.

 

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http://www.stripes.c...-at-86-1.382721

[bust]

Doug Tompkins, the co-founder of The North Face and Esprit clothing lines, died Tuesday while kayaking in Patagonia, Chile. He was 72. Cause of death apparently hypothermia...........how ironic

[YimSiam]

RIP John Trudell, Native American voice. In a world like this, what can you fucking do but move on to the next, right?

[dean]

Holly Woodlawn, transgender Warhol star name-checked in ‘Walk on the Wild Side,’ dies http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article48451855.html

[bust]

Dr Harry Butler a great contributor to conservation in Australia, truly a top bloke who I grew up watching.

Often attributed for inspiring Steve Irwin.

 

[Flashermac]

Madame Claude: France's most famous brothel keeper dies

 

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35162401

[Flashermac]

RIP Willie Nelson... maybe.

 

Awaiting verification. Too much fake "news" these days.