Weekly Death Blog (7/23-7/29) · 4:16am Jul 30th, 2016
Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.
July 24:
- Marni Nixon, 86, American singer (The King and I, West Side Story, My Fair Lady) and actress (The Sound of Music), breast cancer.
July 25:
- Tim LaHaye, 90, American Christian author (Left Behind series), stroke.
July 26:
- 19 mentally disabled Japanese people were stabbed to death in a facility in Sagamihara by a former employee of the facility. 20 more were injured in the attack.
- Miss Cleo, 53, American psychic, metastatic colon cancer.
- Sandy Pearlman, 72, American record producer and band manager (Blue Öyster Cult, The Clash, Black Sabbath), pneumonia as a complication from a stroke.
July 27:
- Jack Davis, 91, American cartoonist and illustrator (Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror, Georgia Bulldogs), co-founder of Mad.
- Jerry Doyle, 60, American talk show host and actor (Babylon 5), founder of EpicTimes.
- James Alan McPherson, 72, American writer (Elbow Room), awarded Pulitzer Prize (1978), pneumonia.
- Richard Thompson, 58, American cartoonist (Cul de Sac), Parkinson's disease.
July 29:
- Antonio Armstrong, 42, American football player (Miami Dolphins, BC Lions), shot by his teenage son. (His wife was also shot and killed.)
- Ken Barrie, 83, British voice actor (Postman Pat) and singer, liver cancer.
- Fred Tomlinson, British singer (The Two Ronnies, Monty Python's Flying Circus), composer ("The Lumberjack Song") and critic. (death announced on this date)
This one really hit me. I'm a hardcore B5 fan, and seeing them slowly go is painful.
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That show had an terrible attrition rate, it's a shame to see another one go.
It always sucks to lose good people.
4121616 I know what you mean, but Jerry's passing hit me harder than Richard Biggs, Tim Choate, Jeff Conaway, and Michael O'Hare combined. The only one even close was Andreas Katsulas.
4121797 At least, wherever they are (or not) Jerry is leaving new coffee stains on Andreas' hand-written books.
No one in their right mind would kill his own parents.
Seriously, that's fucked up.
4122124 A woman in Houston killed her two teenage daughters not too long ago. For no apparent reason.
4122141 I heard about that, too.
What a world we live in.