Notable death

@rookie54 said
rip eddie money
i got laid to his singing bettern zepplin
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eddie-money-dead-70-cancer_n_5d7bad1ee4b077dcbd5d08c3
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I gotta get that 45. It's been a while now. 😢

György Konrad - notable hungarian writer, former president of the PEN

Read a book by him if you get the chance.

Luigi Colani, notable designer died today aged 91

Ric Ocasek, lead singer of The Cars

Siegmund Jähn

first German Kosmonaut (1978)

Jacques chirac, former French PM

not that he would be known outside of Europe:

Karel Gott, check singer

(probably all Children in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can directly chime in his famous Biene Maja song:


YouTube

Diahann Carroll.

@moonbus said
Diahann Carroll.

Diahann Carroll was an American actress, singer, and model. She rose to stardom in performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones in 1954 and Porgy and Bess in 1959. Wikipedia
Died: October 4, 2019, Los Angeles, California, United States Trending
Born: July 17, 1935, The Bronx, New York, United States
TV shows: Julia, Dynasty, White Collar, The Diahann Carroll Show, MORE
Spouse: Vic Damone (m. 1987–1996), MORE
Books: The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way, MORE

Ginger Baker

Drummer in Cream
- Ginger
- Grumpy
- Brilliant

Actor Sid Haig
Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie films
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Haig

American actor Robert Forster, 78 (Breaking Bad among many other films), nominated for an Oscar for his role in Jackie Brown.

Stephen Moore (the voice of Marvin, the depressed android in Hitchhiker's Guide, among other roles).


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50035065

Elijah Cummings
U.S. House of Representatives

Walter Mercado
- Astrological Television Entertainer

(And all around positive influence for those who watched him.)