Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah, ruler of oil-rich Kuwait, dead at 86

AC/DC original drummer Colin Burgess dead at 77

Bob Pardo, Vietnam War F-4 fighter pilot extraordinaire and savior of another crippled F-4 crew, dead at age 89.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/us/bob-pardo-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H00.hVn7.1RBcXTv00TnX&smid=url-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/us/bob-pardo-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H00.hVn7.1RBcXTv00TnX&smid=url-share

Quote"When we got back to Ubon, they didn't know whether to court-martial me or pin a medal on my chest," he recalled in an interview with an Air Force publication in 1996. "Some people felt I should have let Earl and Bob eject and take their chances, so I could land my aircraft safely."

"Pardo's Push" entered Air Force legend, an extraordinary act of aerial ballet, but one that would never be prescribed in any pilot manuals or flying simulators.

Tom Smothers, one half of TV comedy legends the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86

Gaston Glock, the man behind the gun, dies aged 94.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/obituary-gaston-glock-man-behind-gun-dies-aged-94-apa-2023-12-27/

Quote from: EBuff75 on December 27, 2023, 02:35:27 PMGaston Glock, the man behind the gun, dies aged 94.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/obituary-gaston-glock-man-behind-gun-dies-aged-94-apa-2023-12-27/

I was actually carrying my Glock 17 today while I was out running errands.

Tom Wilkinson, two-time Oscar-nominated actor from films including "Shakespeare in Love," "The Full Monty" and "Michael Clayton," has died. He was 75.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/30/entertainment/tom-wilkinson-death/index.html

NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough dead at 84

Quote from: NT2C on December 31, 2023, 12:57:19 PMNASCAR legend Cale Yarborough dead at 84

Last time I watched NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt Sr. was still alive. Even so, I knew who Cale Yarborough was though he was probably long retired from the sport by that point.

Shecky Greene -- one of the staple entertainers of the "Borsht Belt" and associate of the Rat Pack
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/comedy-legend-shecky-greene-dead-at-97

Ken Squire --- NASCAR announcer
https://www.foxnews.com/us/iconic-nascar-announcer-ken-squier-dead-88