Notable death

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May he R.I.P.

-VR

Laura Lynch, founding member of the Dixie Chicks, at 65, when a car crossed to the wrong side of the road and hit her car.

Richard Franklin, actor (87) Dr. Who, Crossroads, etc.

Kamar delas Reyes (56) actor, One Life to Live, cancer...

Parasite film actor Lee Sun-kyun, age 48, found dead in Seoul.

Wolfgang Schäuble, German politician.

Notable fpor having served longest in the Bundestag (51 years), having been the president of the Bundestag since 2017.

Notable to me. A brother-in-law at 63. The second one in 3 months. There were 6 of us, 2 passed about 13 years ago, both of inoperable brain cancer, both at 48, leaving only 2 of us both of whom are the eldest with me being the oldest.

Jacques Delors 98

“Good riddance” (in a “ding-dong the wicked witch is dead” sort of way)

A man obsessed with the establishment of a “United States of Europe”

@great-big-stees said
Notable to me. A brother-in-law at 63. The second one in 3 months. There were 6 of us, 2 passed about 13 years ago, both of inoperable brain cancer, both at 48, leaving only 2 of us both of whom are the eldest with me being the oldest.

Tony Oxley, the British jazz drummer. 1938-2023.

Tom Smothers, half of Smothers Brothers sibling comedy duo, dies at 86.

http://tinyurl.com/5n63ex73

Influential musicians who passed in 2023

British actor Tom Wilkinson has died at the age of 75. Brilliant actor.

Shakespeare in Love, The Full Monty, Michael Clayton to mention a few of his films.

Heike Matthiesen (27 June 1964 – 22 December 2023) was a German classical guitarist who appeared internationally as a soloist and with ensembles. ~ wiki

She died of cancer on 22 December 2023. I've only just realized. A few days younger than me. Ouch.

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Australian investigative journalist, polemicist, and author John Pilger has died.

As far as I know, I read all his books.

@great-big-stees said
Notable to me. A brother-in-law at 63. The second one in 3 months. There were 6 of us, 2 passed about 13 years ago, both of inoperable brain cancer, both at 48, leaving only 2 of us both of whom are the eldest with me being the oldest.