Brazilian football player Fernandao (full name Fernandao da Costa) died in a helicopter crash at age 36.
And here I was wondering who was going to be my next long-term coma patient after Ariel Sharon died.
BBC news is reporting that Rik Mayall has died. There doesn’t seem to be any other information so far.
He, along with Adrian Edmondson, was one of my first comedy heroes. I feel like I’ve grown up laughing at him. Sad news.
How awful. He was far too young.
Indeed. For me, his finest work was narrating George’s Marvelous Medicine for Jackanory.
Sounds like it’s a doctor who’s not involved with the case, who is basically going on the absence of updates to the public on his condition for the past two months.
It blew my mind when I found out that not only did Nigel Planer (Neil the Hippie) grow up to narrate the Discworld novels, he also played the thumb-sucking wizard in The Hogfather.
Aww. Fred really did “drop dead”.
From what I’ve heard, he never fully recovered from the 1998 accident which almost killed him.
Very Bad News indeed.
Former baseball player Bob Welch has died.
Jazz baritone saxophonist Fred Ho died back in April, giving me a smooth 54 points.
GIGObuster also gets 54 points for Ho.
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According to CBS News, Ruby Dee is dead at 91.
According to Twitter, Rue McClanahan died, again: "Golden Girls" star Rue McClanahan goes viral four years after her death - CBS News
I love this quote: “I get all my news on Twitter. I don’t watch TV. Now I am growing skeptical about the things I read.” Bwah ha ha ha!
She died on Wednesday. To bad it wasn’t on a Tuesday.
yeah. mega face palm, that. 
Maybe she wanted on The Walking Dead?
Still, we’re gonna miss her.
…R&B chart success in America in 1950 with Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool.
signed to Ray Charles’ Tangerine Records, where he released Falling In Love Is Wonderful in 1963
career resurgence in the early 1990s when he appeared in the finale of David Lynch’s TV drama Twin peaks and released a Grammy-nominated comeback album, titled All the Way…
This has been your mid-pacific death report - over to Australia/Japan/Siam/India.