h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Arnold Palmer: 'The King' of golf dies at 87



http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2016/09/25/arnold-palmer-obituary/1881465/

And John D Loudermilk, songwriter of "Tobacco Road"

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/23/tobacco-road-song-writer-john-d-loudermilk-dies-nashville

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3AWbZcLpGw

Incidentally, the Nashville Teens wern't from Nashville, but from Woking, Surrey.

Cricketing legend Max "Tangles" Walker - of melanoma - just 68 ...

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-28/former-australian-cricketer-max-walker-dies/7883808?pfmredir=sm



As they say in Australia "a real good bloke"

Can't believe no one hat Simon Peres on their list. It's just been announced that he died 2 weeks ago.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37492153

whoops, sorry. On re-reading (well, it's early morning for my brain) I correct that. He had a stroke 2 weeks ago and after a recovery, died this morning, Tel Aviv time.

I can't believe this awesome person isn't on anyone's let, including mine.

I didn't realise this person created the truly amazing St Martin's in the Field Chamber Orchestra, or that it has created the largest volume of recorded chamber music in the world.

Thank you for all the music, Sir Neville Mariner. You have given myself and a great many people globally a great deal of pleasure. And you will continue to do so for many years to come.

Rest in Peace, Sir Neville Mariner. You sure packed a great deal into your 92 years.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37535272

MMF

Yes, he certainly popularised chamber music for a new generation. Personally I prefer the recordings made with period instruments, but they probably wouldn't exist today without Marriner's work.

Portrait painter Andrew Vicari

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/world-famous-welsh-artist-andrew-11971860

I wrote about him in A43081986 - his mural cured the Millennium Stadium Jinx.

I was listening to some Mariner just the other day but, not knowing anything about him, I assumed he died centuries ago...

Cleethorpes songwriter Rod Temperton

Wrote Michael Jackson's Thriller among many other disco hits:

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/hull-links-to-michael-jackson-s-thriller-remembered-as-songwriter-rod-temperton-dies/story-29781133-detail/story.html


GB, can you arrange a blue plaque?

It's on my list!

I bet he had a big house!

One that strikes home to me. And probably gives DNA a quirky smile.

I came across Shooglanigty through a neighbour who worked in Borneo with Orang-Uganda. She.heard someone playing music and burnt it onto her MP3 then introduced it to me. Two years later I saw them at Broadstairs Folk Week promoting TROOTS.

And so I bid farewell to Angus R Grant, fiddler for Shooglenifty
You have provided me, my friends and the people in Borneo
who look after orphaned Orang-Utans a great deal of pleasure.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/37610327?client=safari

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MMF

http://folking.com/shoogleniftys-angus-r-grant-dies-aged-49/

Italian playwright Dario Fo has died aged 90
The Nobel Prize winner was best known for his political satire including "The Accidental Death of an Anarchist"
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/oct/13/dario-fo-nobel-winning-playwright-dies-aged-90

I listened to that on the radio recently. It starred Adrian Edmonson. Gloriously absurd, as most things he does are. <3

Jean Alexander http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37666251

Klim Churyumov, 79, co-discoverer of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, which has been the target of the Rosetta spacecraft and Philae probe

I can't find an English link but here's an interview at the ESA: http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/54598-klim-churyumov/

I'm so glad he was able to follow the whole Rosetta mission to its conclusion

I am surprised that it has not been noted that King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand passed away in the last few days.

He was the world's longest-reigning monarch before his death and greatly loved in Thailand, the mourning will be long and quite complex.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/13/asia/thai-king-bhumibol-adulyadej-dies/