John Prine died April 7 from complications related to coronavirus. The Grammy-winning folk and country singer-songwriter was 73. He had been hospitalized March 26 and placed on a ventilator two days later.
You don’t say!
Apparently, he got better
It does use a Moore neighborhood; the top center cell does die out in the first iteration step. See the link posted above by Peter Morris: https://bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
LOL
The sister of a claimant King of Spain, Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Parma the “Red Princess”, died of Covid-19 on 26 March. She was a professor, a socialist activist, and — although I’d never heard of her — quite famous in some circles.
For me, John Conway is, by far, the most famous of all mentioned. I’d never met him, but have a friend who was nearby when he invented Life, and especially when he invented the surreal numbers for game theory. My friend vividly remembers Conway’s eyes “wild with the excitement of this discovery.”
The term “surreal numbers” was coined by Donald Knuth in a book of the same name, in which he shows huge respect for this great mathematician by naming him with the Tetragrammaton as " J. H. W. H. Conway"!
Not to beat a dead horse, but note that there is no “hovering” on smartphones and tablets I wouldn’t be surprised if that constitutes at least half of the board’s readers.
I don’t click on blind links. I would be in favor of a rule that the point of a post should be in the post and clicking a link shouldn’t be needed to understand it.
There is no “hovering” on Android, but if you long-press it tells you the URL and asks if you want to open it.
Yeah, I really didn’t expect anyone to click on the link, I only included a live link as a source. I just expected people to read the name of the link, which was of the form “source, name of person who died, here’s who he was”. Anyway, I apologize for not realizing first that the site software was going to obscure the name of the link, and second that it’s harder than I realized for others to read that obscured name.
Hmm, maybe I should try one of the few buttons in this edit window…
https://www.dpreview.com/news/1140248282/mendel-mendlowits-founder-of-adorama-has-passed-away
Is that better?
eta: nope, it still shortens the name so you can’t just read it out. 
Just type the relevant information in your post, would be my suggestion. This is a message board after all. Not a list of links
Isn’t there a tag to show the full link without shortening?
I’m not a great typist. And I’m particularly bad at remembering weird names. SO much easier to cut and paste existing text (like the link, which conveniently had the full name, who he was, and that he died of covid all spelled out.) And I was on my phone, which is bad for typing (but which does let me preview the name of a link.)
Anyway, I apologize to those who had trouble reading my post. It wasn’t my intention.
As a fellow cut’n’paste person, my suggestion is copy/paste the address and the headline. I personally like to clean it up and ue the proper tags but you’d be fine just pasting those two bits together.
Yes, that’s what I do on other sites I chat on. I didn’t do it here because this site is much fussier about copyright than anyplace else I post. So I was trying to respect that.
Anyway, here’s another death that hits home. (Although he was 91 and no cause of death is mentioned, so maybe it’s something else. But he lived in NJ, so covid is likely.)
Mort Drucker, Master of the Mad Caricature, Is Dead at 91 https://nyti.ms/2ViYpIn
No one here is going to get upset with copying headlines. That’s definitely not a copyright violation.
Drucker lived in Woodbury NY, not NJ, but COVID is prevalent there too and also it’s 30 minutes from NYC. According to the local paper, Newsday:
Woodbury Total Cases: 143
Cases per 100K people: 1,662
It looks like he’s not being counted as a COVID death:
According to NBC, “his daughter did not give a specific cause of death and said that he was not tested for the coronavirus. He died at his home in Woodbury, New York”
According to this article, News - Heavy.com
"CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted that it was not coronavirus. “A friend of Mort Drucker’s, cartoonist John Reiner, emails me: ‘I’m sorry to say that Mort passed away last night. I saw him last Friday-he was having trouble breathing – Was not the Coronavirus as he was quarantined for weeks with no other outside contact…”
On the other hand “having trouble breathing” sounds like coronavirus and there have been cases of self-quarantined people somehow catching it. So basically his cause of death is still undetermined.
Donald Reed Herring, 86, oldest brother of Elizabeth Warren.
Elizabeth Warren’s oldest brother dies of covid-19, Washington Post, April 23, 2020.
Rapper Fred the Godson
I happened to see the movie Music and Lyrics earlier this week, and as the closing credits rolled I made sure to pay attention to the actual songwriter of the original music in the film, as I thought they did a good job of presenting songs that could plausibly be pop hits (both in the '80s and in 2007, the “present day” of the setting). Then I saw it was Adam Schlesinger. :eek: I was sort of glad I didn’t know that while watching, as it would have added a melancholy tinge not appropriate to the movie’s lighthearted tone. But I’m also glad I found out. Very well done, RIP.