Notable death

Peanut the squirrel

R.I.P 😪

@Parasite said
The Harris Campaign.

Viesturs Meijers

Latvian Chess GM

Pepe Justicia

YouTube

British actor Timothy West has died, 90 years old.

@Torunn said
British actor Timothy West has died, 90 years old.

@Drewnogal said
Couldn’t quite remember who he was yesterday then heard about him on the news. He had done a very personal interview with his wife Prunella Scales who had been suffering with vascular dementia. He was described as having been a most wonderful carer for her during that time. She will be lost without him 😥

Thomas E. Kurtz - one of the developpers of BASIC, the very first programming language I (and a lot of my contemporaries) learned.

@Ponderable said
Thomas E. Kurtz - one of the developpers of BASIC, the very first programming language I (and a lot of my contemporaries) learned.

Bela Karolyi 82

https://apnews.com/article/bela-karolyi-gymnastics-olympics-obituary-751cc725b57045bd9125132f1cbc1982

Siegfried Thiele, German Composer

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Neale Fraser 91 Australian tennis player and Davis Cup captain

Ian Redpath Australian cricketer

Maybe a bit local:

Gerd Heidemann, journalist who discovered the "Hitler Diaries" which proved to be fake. There is a Film on this: "Schtonk" which I count under the best German films of the last century.

John Marsden, author of 'Tomorrow, when the War Began', aged 74