Obituary

Robin Williams, comedian and actor, has died.

Tina Brown, 1953–2013

Publications from the Guardian to USA Today ran premature obituaries for the still-living Tina Brown, who will be 60…

Out of nowhere, or Monaco, comes the sad news that Barbara Piasecka Johnson, who was the maid to and then third wife of J. Seward Johnson I (born 1895!), has now died, far too young at the age of 76.

Today is a very sad day in that Beastie Boy Adam Yauch has died. He was a terrific musician and filmmaker and a warm, funny person who a lot of people loved. I got to know him a little bit in the ’90s because my roommate from college helped him run his Tibetan-Freedom organization, The…

Don Tyson, the Arkansas businessman who turned his family’s chicken farm into a fortune 500 company, Tyson Foods, has died of cancer. He helped develop Chicken McNuggets for McDonald’s and KFC’s Rotisserie Gold. As Little Rock financial analyst Mark A. Plummer told The New York Times in…

Sad day in funk yesterday: Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Garry Shider, a longtime lieutenant in George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic empire, died of cancer at the age of 56. Born and raised in Plainfield, New Jersey, Shider joined Clinton’s outfit for…

Sony has announced that it will cease production of the 3.5-inch floppy disc in Japan by March 2011. Japan was one of the last markets where Sony was producing the relatively small-storage discs (they’re still for sale in the States, but an Amazon listing for a 10-pack of…