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Michelle Young, a sixteen year army veteran, passed away due to suicide at the age of 34. She is survived by a twelve year old daughter. Along with serving in the US Army, Staff Sergeant Michelle Young was a beauty and fitness influencer on Instagram and donated her time and resources to...

A South African Aerospace engineer named Paul Potgieter who was known as the 'Father' of the Rooivalk Attack Helicopter passed away in a car accident a few weeks ago. He worked on many other things for the South African Defense Contractor Denel (formerly Atlas) and for various aerospace and...

Rest in Peace Sitcom Showrunner Norman Lear Passed Away at the Age of 101. He created a lot of popular sitcoms including the Family, Sanford & Son, Good Times and The Jeffersons. https://www.joblo.com/norman-lear-all-in-the-family-and-sanford-son-producer-dies-at-101/ He retired from writing...

Sandra Day O'Connor's story is just as amazing as well growing up on a Texas Cattle Ranch as her origin story and somehow ending up the surprise pick of President Ronald Reagan to be the first female Justice of the Supreme Court in 1981. Wouldn't be twelve years until Ginsburg joined the court...

For those curious, Matthew Perry also voiced 'Benny' the leader of the Chairmen and the Tops Casino in Fallout: New Vegas in what was apparently his only real computer or video game voice role. Matthew Perry was apparently a huge fan of Fallout 3 and pretty outspoken about it to and which...

Tard speculation is Tard speculation. He just released a best selling autobiography about his life like less than a year ago, so I'm doubtful that he suddenly decided to off himself due to irrelevance after decades of having a moderately relevant career. It's probably due to health reasons...

Joe Wurzelbacher or "Joe the Plumber" passed away at the age of 49 due to pancreatic cancer. He became famous when he asked a tax question to Barack Hussein Obama on the latters 2008 campaign trail. His tax policy question was if Obama would tax him more for the success of him potentially...

Hong Kong American Singer Coco Lee passed away from suicide reportedly due to dealing with depression. She was 48 years old. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4936990

Hollywood Actor Treat Williams was killed in a Motorcycle Accident in his home state of Vermont. He was 71 years old. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/treat-williams-hollywood-legacy-co-stars-friends-pay-tribute-actors-life-career He was a pretty distinctive actor though the works I best...

Wouldn't surprise me. He was actually a highly capable agent from what it appears. It doesn't even seem like his betrayal was ideologically or even to a degree financially based but more borne out of narcissism and pride IMHO. A lot of other double agents had extremely poor spycraft and the fact...

Author Cormac McCarthy passed away at the age of 89. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65898867? He wrote many uplifting books, several of which were adapted into equally upbeat films like the neo-Western No Country for Old Men that took place in 1980's West Texas and the...

Robert Hanssen, a twenty five year veteran of the FBI and likely one of the most damaging spies in US history, was found unresponsive in his cell in ADX Florence, the Supermax Prison Facility where he was being held since 2002 after a guilty plea and being sentenced to 15 consecutive life...

Sienna Weir, an Australian Miss Universe candidate, passed away at the age of 23 in a horse riding accident.

British Fashion Designer Vivienne Westwood passed away at the Age of 81. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64122181

Ali Ahmed Aslam, the Glaswegian (Glasgow, Scotland) Chef who craeted Chicken Tikka Masala has passed away at the age of 77. https://boingboing.net/2022/12/22/inventor-of-chicken-tikka-masala-dies.html

Apparently Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian who lived in the Paris International Airport from 1988 through til 2006 died, ironically enough, in that same airport of a heart attack. Apparently in the weeks before his death, he ended up living at the airport again... His story was part of the...

Supernatural and Horror Writer Peter Straub Passed Away Age of 79 He might be best known for his collaborations with Stephen King with The Talisman and Black House. https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3730644/ghost-story-and-the-talisman-author-peter-straub-has-passed-away/

Apparently she's going to be launched into space. https://boingboing.net/2022/08/25/lieutenant-uhuras-ashes-headed-to-space.html Or her ashes rather... so yeah... she's being launched into space. Both Roddenberrys and Scotty are already up there, so good company.

This is sad. Losing Norm MacDonald and Gilbert Gottfried and even Bob Saget so soon one after the other. I will always remember Gilbert Gottfried for his nuanced takes on modern history. I hope Gilbert Gottfried didn't pass away from Throat Cancer... that would've been a terrible way to go...

Stephen Wilhite, a computer scientist responsible for the invention of the computer imagery known as the GIF (Graphic Interchange Format), passed away yesterday at the age of 74 from complications related to Covid. He invented this format in the 1980's while working with Compuserve, the oldest...