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That comes as a surprise, I thought she was well gone

Ahhh as I recently discovered, she ain't dead yet!

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tks jon its hell to get old

tks to you also Gregg

Henry Gibson of Laugh-In fame.

He also played the gay Nazi in the first Blues Brothers movie.

Mary of Peter, Paul, and

The great pianist Alicia de Larrocha.

I had the privilege of meeting her when I was a student around 1971 (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville). My piano teacher at the time, Ruth Slenczynska, was a good friend of hers. Both women are very tiny, less than five feet tall. But boy could they whip that Steinway D into submission. Miss Slenczynska, now living in New York, is now around 84 and is suffering from macular degeneration I hear. Laroccha was 86

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and language maven William Safire (79) died in Rockville, MD of pancreatic cancer.

You beat me to it.
The Times never let on that he was even ailing; he was just "on hiatus".
Given his diagnosis, I am impressed that he carried on with his Sunday Magazine column until just a couple weeks ago.
He will certainly be missed.

Fighter for tolerance and freedom, and last surviving leader of the '43 and '44 Warsaw uprisings, cardiologist and atheist Marek Edelman (90) died of 'old age' in Warsaw, Poland.

Has Death taken another Holiday?

Hardly, (s)he's only paying selective attention...

Late on this one, but:

Irving Penn, icon of fashion & celeb photography

Al Martino

Captain Lou Albano, wrestling icon

Bruce Wasserstein, dealmaker and my boss's boss's boss's boss's boss. Best wishes to the Wasserstein family.

Soupy Sales, Slapstick Comedian, Dies at 83

From today's NY Times

It seems that every day brings another "end of an era". Are we feeling old yet?

And, unreported in the obit, there was of course the equally infamous episode, albeit unknown/unseen to the TV viewing world at the time, with the totally naked woman behind the door, as a prank on Soupy, who was sincerely taken aback but never truly speechless. That bit, with a couple of different camera angles, has been broadcast in at least one retrospective of the Soupy Sales Show.

Vitaly Ginsburg , 93, famous Russian physicist, Nobel prize winner (2003).
Beside being a great scientist, he was a well-known and vocal atheist, and a fighter against clericalization of Russian society.

Okay. The wiki also says:
So, color me confused.

I'm not sure why these obituaries are getting more and more obscure, and why the word "atheist" seems to matter so much (at this point). The dude is dead, so -- as far as that goes -- he's finally finding out what's what right now. Anyway, the word atheist seems to be overloaded somewhat. Was he anti-God or was he anti-establishment-who-claim-to-be-God's-representatives-on-Earth? [i.e., sounds more like a social/political/religious matter than one of philosophical/spiritual/metaphysical concern.] A n y w a y.

So what's next... do we start declaring whether these dead folks were straight or gay? How many partners they had? Hmm, haven't any "famous" Devil worshipers died around here yet?

This is really ridiculous this time. Ginsburg's Jewish interests were not that public but his fight against clerics who wanted to introduce the Church's beliefs and rituals to schools and every avenue of society's life really was. Not so many people so openly declared war on Church establishment. He also was a fighter against charlatans in science and self-proclaimed gurus who kind of became more numerous lately in certain countries including Russia.
To answer your question, he was a non-believer as well.