RIP Thread 2025: In Memoriam

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**Olthannon**

Crazy that's basically a week after that concert but what a send off.

A lot of my formative years spent listening to Sabbath. I tend to thing of Black Sabbath was so closely linked to Warhammer. I wonder how many tiny little plastic lads have died in battle while on of their tracks was on in the background..

**ingtaer**

And Shunsaku Tamiya died too, what a shame.

**Skinflint Games**

Olthannon wrote:
Crazy that's basically a week after that concert but what a send off.

A lot of my formative years spent listening to Sabbath. I tend to thing of Black Sabbath was so closely linked to Warhammer. I wonder how many tiny little plastic lads have died in battle while on of their tracks was on in the background..

Something I never knew about Ozzy (or Jack) : https://www.ozzy.com/archives/news/ozzy-osbourne-patient-number-9-limited-edition-in-ukrainian-flag-colors

**nels1031**

Terry Gene Bollea, better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan dead at 71.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination, but still a legend.

**ZergSmasher**

Good sweet Lord this has been an awful week for celebrities. Malcolm-Jamal Warner gone way too young, music legend Ozzy Osbourne gone, and now Hulkster? Of course they say these kind of deaths come in threes, so hopefully this is it for a while.

**Overread**

Whilst I never followed wrestling Hulk Hogan was a familiar name I think to anyone in the 90s - he was everywhere doing cameo's and such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPnZ4vu08aA

**Jammer87**

He also had a reality TV show. Hogan Knows Best.

**Easy E**

He lived longer than most of his peers in the wrestling community. The industry was really hard on its "stars".

**Ensis Ferrae**

Saw announcements today for Chuck Mangione who was apparently a big deal in the jazz community (and in the King of the Hill fandom?? Apparently he played himself in that show)

**Nevelon**

July has been rough. Stay safe out there.

**ZergSmasher**

Looks like I got beat to this one. RIP Chuck Mangione.

https://variety.com/2025/music/obituaries-people-news/chuck-mangione-dead-feels-so-good-jazz-horn-player-1236469147/

**MarkNorfolk**

Jazz singer and stalwart of the British 'guest performer slot' in what used to be called Light Entertainment shows Cleo Laine has died. A much more worthy loss to culture.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce78ddyjl76o

**Snrub**

And the hits just do not stop coming.

Apparently James Carter Cathcart, the voice actor for a number of notable Pokemon characters, has died.

**ingtaer**

Yeah, somewhere not on this forum.

**Ensis Ferrae**

Don't recall seeing it in this thread, but George Kooymans, of the practically one hit wonder (and what a hit it was) band, Golden Earring passed a couple days ago:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/george-kooymans-guitarist-golden-earring-dead-obituary-1235392319/

**Nevelon**

Ensis Ferrae wrote:
Don't recall seeing it in this thread, but George Kooymans, of the practically one hit wonder (and what a hit it was) band, Golden Earring passed a couple days ago:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/george-kooymans-guitarist-golden-earring-dead-obituary-1235392319/

At least 2 hits. There is “Radar Love” and “Twilight Zone” and... OK, I’m out. I’ll give you the “practically” one hit wonder.

**BrookM**

Ouch, a one hit wonder? Just ouch. But then again, they were a Dutch band. But come on now, When the Lady Smiles anyone?

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ingtaer wrote:
And Shunsaku Tamiya died too, what a shame.

Ah feth, will be building a small kit tonight as a belated honour. 🤘🏻

**ZergSmasher**

Loni Anderson, famous for her role on "WKRP in Cincinnati", has passed away at age 80.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/arts/television/loni-anderson-dead.html

**Lathe Biosas**

'The Walking Dead' actress Kelley Mack dies at 33.

Mack was best known for her role as Addy in the ninth season of "The Walking Dead."

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Oh now that is way too young :(

**Ensis Ferrae**

It's been announced today that former astronaut James Lovell has made his final journey to the stars

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/science/space/james-a-lovell-jr-dead.html

**ZergSmasher**

Ensis Ferrae wrote:
It's been announced today that former astronaut James Lovell has made his final journey to the stars

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/science/space/james-a-lovell-jr-dead.html

Given what nearly happened to him in space 55 years ago, it's lucky he's been with us this long. Apollo 13 is still one of my all-time favorite stories from the US Space Program. Those guys defied the odds and made it back in one piece. There's no telling what would have become of the space program if the worst had happened. And the movie with Tom Hanks playing Lovell just doesn't do it justice.

RIP to one of America's space heroes, and my condolences to his family and friends.

**MarkNorfolk**

Actor Terence Stamp, who starred as Superman villain, dies aged 87 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39d41g7nmlo

Farewell to the One True Zod.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Not a good day :(

**Ahtman**

I know most will probably remember him as Zod, but my favorite role off his was Bernadette in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

**ZergSmasher**

He also played Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, and he was in the movie My Boss's Daughter as well. RIP

**BorderCountess**

MarkNorfolk wrote:
Actor Terence Stamp, who starred as Superman villain, dies aged 87 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39d41g7nmlo

Farewell to the One True Zod.

::kneels before Zod::

**Ensis Ferrae**

Saw news right as I was heading to lunch today:

Brent Hinds, one of the founders of Mastodon passed on from a motorcycle crash.

https://apnews.com/article/brent-hinds-mastodon-dies-64bf2936826141287ef7a87b4845f068