Rest In Peace Deaths Of Note

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US Navy Captain Sandy Coward IV had an ironic last name but had an illustrious career that spanned over three decades including flying A-7E Corsair Attack Jets off of the USS Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War. He also was one of the select test pilots for the YF-17 and prototype F-18 Hornets. He commanded pilot schools, carrier air wings and even worked on the development of the F-22 Raptor before finally being posted at the US Naval Academy where he headed up candidate guidance.

He retired in 1990 from the Navy and passed away from cancer at the age of 79. He was survived by his wife of 41 years, four children and nine grandchildren.

 

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Charles Coolidge, America's Oldest Medal of Honor winner, dies at the age of 99.


In the Vosges Mountains of Eastern France in October of 1944, he earned his Medal Of Honor by, as a Technical Sergeant, he assumed command of an isolated group of 28 soldiers that were subjected to German attacks backed by tanks continously for four days.

He was drafted into the Army in 1942 and served with the Texas National Guards 36th Infantry Division. He is survived by his three children and numerous grand and great children.
 

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Bernie Madoff, Ponzi Scheme Pioneer, dead at 82. He was only in year 12 of his 150 year sentence.


Here's an article on some of his highest profile victims. They include everyone from celebrity charitable foundations to nonprofits founded by Nazi Hunters and Holocaust Survivors.
 

Husky_Khan

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Italian Horror Movie Poster Artist Enzo Sciotti Passed away at the age of 77. He helped illustrate over three thousand movie posters, including many for the Italian Horror Film Boom that was fostered by legendary filmmakers like Dario Argento.

In America, some of the movie posters he designed include the ones for Cujo, Critters, Maximum Overdrive and perhaps most famous of all, Army of Darkness.

 

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Charles Geschke, the businessman and computer scientist who co-founded Adobe Inc and helped create the Portable Document Format or pdf, passed away fromcancer at the age of 81. He's survived by three children and seven grandchildren.

Originally working for Xerox, he and John Warnock founded their own company where they made innovations in desktop publishing using 'Postscript' which allowed computer users to compose documents onscreen which would look exactly like they would if you printed them out. This helped spawn an entire category of new software development.

He was also kidnapped in 1992, held at gunpoint for four days until a ransom of $650,000 was paid. The FBI however tracked the ransom payment, rescued him and arrested all three Kidnappers.

 

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Charles Geschke, the businessman and computer scientist who co-founded Adobe Inc and helped create the Portable Document Format or pdf, passed away fromcancer at the age of 81. He's survived by three children and seven grandchildren.

Originally working for Xerox, he and John Warnock founded their own company where they made innovations in desktop publishing using 'Postscript' which allowed computer users to compose documents onscreen which would look exactly like they would if you printed them out. This helped spawn an entire category of new software development.

He was also kidnapped in 1992, held at gunpoint for four days until a ransom of $650,000 was paid. The FBI however tracked the ransom payment, rescued him and arrested all three Kidnappers.

Sounds like he had a VERY interesting life
 

Husky_Khan

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Tawny Kitaen, music video vixen, passed away last Friday morning at the age of 59. She had over forty acting credits to her name but was most well known for appearing in numerous 80's music videos with her most famous performance being where she showed off her acrobatics (such as cartwheels on luxury cars) in a Whitesnake video titled "Here I Go Again." This success and exposure later translated into an acting career where she appeared in films like Bachelor Party and television shows like Seinfeld as well as appearing on the reality series Surreal Life for one season.

She's survived by two daughters, from a marriage to baseball player Chuck Finley.


Her last tweet was praising someone for the creation of fan art of her:

 

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BJ Thomas, the singer of Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head and Hooked on a Feeling as well as winning five Grammy Aawrds and numerous chart topping songs is dead at the age of 78 from Cancer.

 

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