Notable Deaths of 2023

[Uomo Senza Nome]

Reeves Callaway, founder of Callaway Cars and a legend in the Corvette world, has died. Callaway Cars confirmed in an email that he passed on Tuesday after injuries sustained in a fall in his Newport Beach, California home. He was 75.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/a44548100/reeves-callaway-callaway-cars-dead-at-75/

I will hug my C8 tonight and tell him it will all be ok.

[NT2C]

Reeves Callaway, founder of Callaway Cars and a legend in the Corvette world, has died. Callaway Cars confirmed in an email that he passed on Tuesday after injuries sustained in a fall in his Newport Beach, California home. He was 75.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/a44548100/reeves-callaway-callaway-cars-dead-at-75/

I will hug my C8 tonight and tell him it will all be ok.

Pour out some washer fluid in memory of him.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Jim Scoutten, long time host of "Shooting USA", passed away July 18th 2023 at the age of 77.

[EBuff75]

Legendary crooner Tony Bennett, best known for singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," has died, according to his longtime publicist, Sylvia Weiner.  He passed away Friday at age 96.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/21/entertainment/tony-bennett-dead-at-96/index.html

[NT2C]

Legendary crooner Tony Bennett, best known for singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," has died, according to his longtime publicist, Sylvia Weiner.  He passed away Friday at age 96.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/21/entertainment/tony-bennett-dead-at-96/index.html

My wife and I attended a couple of his concerts at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts and are both saddened by this news.   

[majorhavoc]

Tony Bennett definitely wasn't my kind of music but I did recognize his talent. He won my grudging admiration over the past 10 -20 years with his willingness to work with much younger performers from a very broad range of genres.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Tony Bennett was also a veteran of WW2.

He was drafted into the US Army in 1944 and was assigned to the 255th Infantry Regiment of the 63rd Infantry Division.

Towards the end of the war, Bennett was involved in the liberation of a concentration camp (the Kaufering subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp). He'd later write in his autobiography about this experience and say "I saw things no human being should ever have to see."

[Uomo Senza Nome]

Tony Bennett was also a veteran of WW2.

He was drafted into the US Army in 1944 and was assigned to the 255th Infantry Regiment of the 63rd Infantry Division.

Towards the end of the war, Bennett was involved in the liberation of a concentration camp (the Kaufering subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp). He'd later write in his autobiography about this experience and say "I saw things no human being should ever have to see."

Bennett was the real deal in WWII. Unlike a lot of future entertainers of his generation who did USO shows or were clerk-typists he served on the front lines in tough fighting until the war ended, then did shows. The experience made him a life long pacifist. He was no coward though. He got demoted for dining with blacks in a segregated Army and marched Selma to Montgomery in 1965 and was neck deep in the civil rights movement for 40 years. His driver was murdered by the Klan.

It is difficult to mourn a man who lived such a long and amazing life who did what he loved for 70 long years, championed justice and always tried to make the world a better place. All the while he was a class act. We are all a little poorer without him in the world, his type is a real rarity in the world and vanishing breed.

[EBuff75]

Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor, who became as well known for her remarkable music as her personal life, has died, according to RTE, Ireland's public broadcaster. She was 56. 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/26/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-death/index.html

[mzmc]

Rolling Stone: Sinead O'Connor Dead at 56

The Irish Times: Sinéad O'Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56

BBC News: Sinéad O'Connor: Irish singer dies aged 56

[wee drop o bush]

Rolling Stone: Sinead O'Connor Dead at 56

The Irish Times: Sinéad O'Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56

BBC News: Sinéad O'Connor: Irish singer dies aged 56

I think it's fair to say that Ireland is in mourning tonight for Sinéad O'Connor 
I hope she's at peace now🕊�

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

It's sad to think most people will likely remember Sinead O'Connor for the negatives in her life rather than her long career as a singer.

[Anianna]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk

[Uomo Senza Nome]

It's sad to think most people will likely remember Sinead O'Connor for the negatives in her life rather than her long career as a singer.

I think more than a few of the events that people think of as "negative" were actually heroic. Speaking truth to power is a tough way to go in life but she did it. She had no regrets either. I'd much rather look back at a time I stood for the helpless, then feeling guilty about not doing it 30 years later. If Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson support you, and Madonna is against you, you are probably doing something right. I'd also say that history bore out her actions and if it didn't say; condone the techniques, her argument was sound and just.

Still, we all do dumb shit at times, and I hope when I am gone my friends and family remember all the dumb shit I did through my life and laugh uproariously at it, while raising a glass.

[EBuff75]

I figured this might interest some people here.  The last of the "four horsemen of sasquatch," Peter Byrne, has passed away at 97. 

The Abominable Snowmen and Bigfoot hunter, Peter C. Byrne has died on at the age of 97, on Friday, at around noon, July 28, 2023.  He lived a long and dedicated life in pursuit of cryptozoological subjects, and achieved what few could imagine, routinely finding sponsorships for his searching for Yeti and North American Sasquatch, for almost six decades.

http://www.cryptozoonews.com/byrne-obit/

[Barr]

Paul Reubens Has Passed.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman, has passed away. Reubens died July 30th, 2023 at the age of 70.

Cause of death is listed as cancer.

There goes another piece of my childhood.

ETA: Barr beat me to it by a few seconds.

[MacWa77ace]

Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman, has passed away. Reubens died July 30th, 2023 at the age of 70.

Cause of death is listed as cancer.

There goes another piece of my childhood.

ETA: Barr beat me to it by a few seconds.

Your super secret name is 'chimp-O', heh heh.

[flybynight]

Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman, has passed away. Reubens died July 30th, 2023 at the age of 70.
Cause of death is listed as cancer.
There goes another piece of my childhood.
ETA: Barr beat me to it by a few seconds.

https://youtu.be/C5P5eQiKNQs

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

In honor of Paul Reubens, I present this video.


https://youtu.be/BodXwAYeTfM