BREAKING: Charles Manson dead at 83, California prison officials confirm. https://t.co/O0pXTKDQ3y pic.twitter.com/WJMhkXWPfZ— ABC News (@ABC) November 20, 2017
There's a RIP thread for musicians and actors over in movies and TV. Post the AC/DC guitarists there.
Well, to be fair, his people did get a few b-list celebrities and some random rich folks. If they bleed, it leads.
Della Reese R.I.P. She may not have been consequential to anyone else here but she had a hell of set of pipes!
I remember her most from that scene in Harlem Knights, with Eddie Murphy. Sooooo, now youre gonna shoot off my pinky toe?
actual significant person in the Politics sense of the term John Anderson has died at 95 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/04/john-anderson-congressman-dead-95 The 10-term GOP congressman originally sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, but he later waged an independent campaign against the Democratic president Jimmy Carter and his Republican challenger, Ronald Reagan. Anderson received 7% of the national vote. The second world war veteran was from Rockford, Illinois, and earned a law degree from the University of Illinois. He first won his congressional seat in 1960 and served in Congress until 1981. Anderson was raised in a conservative home, the son of Swedish immigrants who read the Bible daily and attended church each week, and his strong faith remained a constant throughout his life, his daughter said. She said he “evolved both personally and professionally on social issues” through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and was proud to cast the deciding vote in the House rules committee for the Open Housing Act of 1968, which prohibited discrimination in the sale, financing or rental of housing. Diane Anderson said her father had become disillusioned with the direction of the Republican party and what he saw as a move to the far right. I voted for him in the first election (GOP primary, 1980) I was eligible for.
Bringing it full circle, isn't that what the Trumps were found guilty of violating just a few years later?
Maybe not consequential but she led to the fall of consequential people Christine Keeler, key figure in 1960s British sex-and-spy scandal, dies at 75 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...rsonalization_enabled:false&OCID=ansmsnnews11
Anna Mae Hayes, passed away on Jan 7th at age 97. Hays is famously the first woman ever to be promoted to the rank of general. President Eisenhower wrote the Executive Order allowing women to be promoted to that level, and in 1970, she and another woman, Elizabeth Hoisington, were promoted to general the same day, but Hays was the first one pinned due to her name being alphabetically earlier. I met General Hays, my parents were very good friends with a friend of hers. Somehow we all got invited to her house for dinner and she was going to cook for us -- she was a notoriously poor cook. She had decided that she was going to fix up Chicken Helper, and while we were in the living room, she went into the kitchen to prepare. She opened the box of Chicken Helper and we heard her swearing: she didn't know that Chicken Helper didn't include the chicken. The daughter of Salvation Army officers, Gen. Hays had dreamed of becoming a nurse since she was a young girl, wrapping bandages around the legs of a kitchen table where her parents frequently invited the infirm to dinner. She went on, in Vietnam, to oversee a 4,500-person nursing corps whose robust use of antibiotics, whole-blood transfusions and speedy helicopter evacuations was unforeseen when she began assisting doctors at a dirt-floored hospital in Ledo, India, in January 1943. https://taskandpurpose.com/anna-mae-hays-female-general/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...85626af34ef_story.html?utm_term=.be5f4cd2957b
Nigel, the world's lonliest bird. Not a person and arguably not consequential. So sue me. He's worthy of mention, I think.
In case you don’t know who the hell Nigel is https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ew-zealand-gannet-dies-concrete-replica-birds The last phrase in the 5th paragraph is brilliant writing.