David Chesler's Obituaries page

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Too many times recently, the top news stories of the day have included an obituary.
Note: This list does not include tragic deaths (as in earthquakes, plane crashes, or fires) that made the news; only obituaries of people that were famous in life.

In particular, there are no entries for deaths in the September 11, 2001 acts of terrorism. Some of the thousands who died were more famous than others. That is all.

Dates for 1999 added from article in Boston Herald article January 2, 2000, page 17; dates for 1998 to be added from AP Year-End articles dated December 17, 1998.
I've tried to add dates now as I add entries, and I have added dates and entries from various
sources (sometimes listed in HTML <!-- comments -->) as I've come across them

It had been a slow summer, Concorde and Kursk notwithstanding. I liked that.


Old People in the News
See also Dead People Server - Settling Trivial Arguments...
For an irreverent look at celebrity obituaries, see Stiffs.Com, home of the Celebrity Dead Pool A correspondent suggests these people about whom, when I read their obituary, I will exclaim that I hadn't realized they were still alive. Said correspondent suggested these would be on most such lists: See Gerontology Research Group for known Supercentenarians. Also see list and article on Wikipedia.
Table of supercentenarians
"Famous" here means celebrities, people whose name I would have recognized before their obituary, at least ex officio. Special attention is given to those people I'd have assumed to be long dead. Others whom, based on press coverage, I should have recognized are also included. This list tends to be Boston-centric (as should be the rest of the Universe); many of those listed are local celebrities.

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