Notable Deaths of 2026

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Actor James Tolkan, best known for his roles in "Top Gun" and the "Back To The Future" trilogy, passed away on March 26th, 2026 at the age of 94.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tolkan

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Admin Edit: Confirmed to be Fake News

Can animals be considered Notable ?

I ask because Jonathan the world's oldest known living land animal (a Seychelles giant tortoise) passed away today at the astonishing age of 193 years old.

Apparently, Jonathan the Tortoise was hatched somewhere around 1832 thus making him around 193 or 194 years old and he possibly could've been older than that considering there's not an exact date of his birth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_(tortoise)

[Uomo Senza Nome]

Can animals be considered Notable ?

I ask because Jonathan the world's oldest known living land animal (a Seychelles giant tortoise) passed away today at the astonishing age of 193 years old.

Apparently, Jonathan the Tortoise was hatched somewhere around 1832 thus making him around 193 or 194 years old and he possibly could've been older than that considering there's not an exact date of his birth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_(tortoise)

Are we sure about this? I am skeptical that it might be a poor April Fool's Day joke. None of the local news on St. Helena is reporting it, the source seems to be a seldom used X Account that is "experiencing suspicious activity". Nothing on the Instagram account. 

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Can animals be considered Notable ?

I ask because Jonathan the world's oldest known living land animal (a Seychelles giant tortoise) passed away today at the astonishing age of 193 years old.

Apparently, Jonathan the Tortoise was hatched somewhere around 1832 thus making him around 193 or 194 years old and he possibly could've been older than that considering there's not an exact date of his birth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_(tortoise)

Are we sure about this? I am skeptical that it might be a poor April Fool's Day joke. None of the local news on St. Helena is reporting it, the source seems to be a seldom used X Account that is "experiencing suspicious activity". Nothing on the Instagram account.

That's a good point, Uomo.

If this turns out to be a bad April Fool's joke, I'll delete this post.

ETA: So far only USA Today has posted anything about Jonathan the Tortoise being deceased. I'm seeing stuff slowly trickle in, but nothing concrete in terms of confirmation.

Probably best to wait until St. Helena Island themselves confirms it.

[majorhavoc]

Starting to see more confirmations coming in.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Starting to see more confirmations coming in.

It appears Jonathan's Wikipedia page has scrubbed any mention of his death.

I guess Wikipedia is waiting on official confirmation of his passing before allowing updates to the page again.

Still, regardless of his passing or not, this animal lived 193/194 years and was around at the same time as some major historical events happened.

Granted, he was just an animal and likely had zero clue as to what was going on other than trying to survive, but still.

[Uomo Senza Nome]

I'm going to say he is the world's best known tortoise.

[Uomo Senza Nome]

Wikipedia updated:

On 1 April 2026, a Brazilian X account purportedly owned by Hollins reported that Jonathan had died. After major news sources including BBC News and USA Today published articles reporting on Jonathan's death^[13], the post was later confirmed to be false by Governor Phillips, who stated that Hollins neither made the post nor owned an X account,^[2][14] as well by Hollins himself.^[4]

You certainly weren't the only fooled. 

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Wikipedia updated:

On 1 April 2026, a Brazilian X account purportedly owned by Hollins reported that Jonathan had died. After major news sources including BBC News and USA Today published articles reporting on Jonathan's death^[13], the post was later confirmed to be false by Governor Phillips, who stated that Hollins neither made the post nor owned an X account,^[2][14] as well by Hollins himself.^[4]

You certainly weren't the only fooled.

Got it.

I'll go ahead and delete my post about Jonathan's supposed death since it's been proven false now.

[EBuff75]

John Nolan, a British stage and screen actor whose career spanned decades of theater, television and film — including roles in Christopher Nolan's "Batman" trilogy and the CBS drama "Person of Interest" — has died at 87

https://variety.com/2026/film/obituaries-people-news/john-nolan-dead-batman-person-of-interest-1236719535/ 

[EBuff75]

Irish singer Moya Brennan, best known as the lead singer of Grammy and Bafta-winning group Clannad, has died. She was 73.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crm112y4jyzo

[majorhavoc]

Sid Krofft, older brother of sibling duo behind pyschedelic 60's and 70's kids shows.
Sid Krofft, older brother of sibling duo behind pyschedelic 60's and 70's kids shows.

If names like "H.R. Pufnstuf" and "Land of the Lost" sound vaguely familiar, you might be a child of the 1970's.  Personally, I don't remember these all that fondly, but I can't deny they were a staple of my childhood.  Reading the article I would have sworn I most certainly never saw a live action Saturday morning TV show starring a walking, talking lump of seaweed.  But one look at the included production still brought it all rushing back.  I bet I haven't thought about that trainwreck of children's programing in a solid half century.

The best thing I can say about Marty and Sid's bizarre creations is that they must have played an unconscious role in setting me up to appreciate "Pew Wee's Playhouse" in my 20's.  Which I maintain to this day is the most ingeniusly off-kilter kids show ever produced.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

I didn't grow up with Sid and Marty Krofft's stuff, but I have seen some of their work via YouTube.

I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of drugs that were probably consumed to come up with some of their stuff.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Bob Kevoian, co-host of the famed morning radio show " The Bob and Tom Show" on radio, passed away on April 17th, 2026 at the age of 75.

Cause of death is listed as stomach cancer, which he'd been battling since 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kevoian