Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)

A Great Reporter.

CBS tribute.

Yesterday I passed up buying his memoir, I shall return to the book shop to rectify that mistake.



UPDATE : July 18, 2009 - I have purchased his autobiography.

Dominick "Dom" DeLuise (August 1, 1933 – May 4, 2009)

I enjoyed watching him as the sidekick to Burt Reynolds in Smokey and The Bandit.

Beatrice “Bea” Arthur (May 13, 1922 - April 25, 2009)

Another Golden Girl has gone.

Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán Merino (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009)

A.K.A Khan Noonien Singh, archnemesis to James T. Kirk.

I'm, also, old enough to have watched Fantasy Island.

William Mark Felt, Sr. (August 17, 1913 – December 18, 2008)

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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (February 23, 1932 – December 18, 2008)

Star Trek's Nurse Christine Chapel.

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008)

Actor.

Businessman. Co-founded Newman's Own as maker of salad dressing, pasta sauce, lemonade, popcorn.

Philanthropist. Donates profits from Newman's Own.

Race Car Driver.

The Economists eulogy.

José Cuauhtemoc "Bill" Meléndez (November 15, 1916 – September 2, 2008)

Animated, Directed and Produced some and all of the Peanuts animated TV shows.

Philip Toll Hill, Jr. (April 20, 1927 – August 28, 2008)

Phil Hill, race car driver.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008)

An icon in the struggle against communism.

A Mother's Love: Sarah Conlon

Sarah Conlon.

Estelle Getty (July 25, 1923 – July 22, 2008)

Yes, I watched Golden Girls and enjoyed it.

George Carlin Dead!

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Stan Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008)

Special effects guru and make-up artist.

Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008)

One of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men.

A nice obituary in Economist.

His website along with fellow Nine Old Men Frank Thomas.

Why?

He worked on animated films that still gives me enormous pleasure, specially The Rescuers (1977).

Dith Pran (September 27, 1942 - March 30, 2008)

Survived pogrom by the Khmer Rogue, felled by cancer.

A Nice Tribute To Arthur C. Clarke

From The Joy of Tech.

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (December 16, 1917 - March 19 2008)

His 2001: Space Odyssey (as filmed by Stanley Kubrick) will always be one of the most gratifying film I've ever watched.

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (July 20, 1919-January 11, 2008)

Not for his fame as 'conqueror' of Everest.

But for his deeds in turning that fame for the betterment of Tibetans.

Oscar Peterson (August 15,1925-December 23, 2007)

A great jazz pianist...