2026 Deaths/Obits: "The last time/ever we saw their faces..."

A bit late getting this thread started.

First entry has to be Catherine O'Hara.

Whatta gem.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/catherine-ohara-mourned-fans-costars-9.706...

Robert Duvall.

You knew it was coming but tough nonetheless:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/robert-duvall-actor-dead-9.7092488

And now Frederick Wiseman too:

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/16/1184170407/frederick-wiseman-obituary

American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/17/us/reverend-jesse-jackson-death

>2 CliffBurns:, I'm part of the crowd that's only realizing now, he played Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird". I never recognized him.

Alfredo Bryce Echenique:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce82j8j8l25o

Dan Simmons https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/books/dan-simmons-dead.html

Philosopher Juergen Habermas:

https://apnews.com/article/juergen-habermas-dead-germany-2b541721af6cb19abfaa923...

>5 Cecrow: never did either

interesting "He was born with a cleft palate that required repeated operations as a child, an experience that helped inform his later thinking about language.

Habermas said he had experienced the importance of spoken language as “a layer of commonality without which we as individuals cannot exist” and recalled struggling to make himself understood. He also spoke of the “superiority of the written word,” and said that “the written form conceals the flaws of the oral."

Len Deighton:

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

Chuck Norris (1940-2026) kicked the bucket earlier today (but Death is still building up courage to tell him).

UFO chaser Nick Pope:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/ufo-expert-nick-pope-dies-at-60-after-can...

Craig Venter, Geneticist https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/science/j-craig-venter-dead.html

>2 CliffBurns: oh yes I adored him as Gus in Lonesome Dove . He also was known for teaching the women he worked with the tango . Im also a dancer so this hit a chord with me .

>15 phonelady61: >2 CliffBurns: Argentinian tango no less, much harder than ballroom.

I belatedly see from the most recent Ansible that Ian Watson passed on 13th April.

>17 RobertDay: Lisa Tuttle's piece in THE GUARDIAN was a good send-off for Watson, methinks:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/15/ian-watson-obituary

Marjane Satrapi:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0nnj51jyo

>19 CliffBurns: WHAT??!??! Persepolis was foundational for me. Wow.

Jane Yolen:

https://file770.com/jane-yolen-1939-2026/