One of my favorite pro wrestlers, Vader, passed away on Monday.
Non wrestling fans may remember him from his appearances on Boy Meets World
https://youtu.be/pJcsckrw5Fs
He had the weirdest head on him, but man that dude could play.
Dammit.
Also obligatory “fuck Phil Anselmo” comment.
The first Otousan, the white dog in the Softbank commercials, passed away at the age of 16 today. His two sons are carrying on in his place.
If you grew up watching Nickelodeon, you’ve lost a piece of your childhood.
Best Spider-Man artist. Also crazy Ayn Rand worshipping recluse.
Ray Emery, former professional hockey goalie (aged 35), has drowned while swimming in Hamilton harbor. Emery was known for his abrasive personality as well as not being shy about getting involved in a fight on the ice. However, he also won a Stanley Cup as a backup goalie for the Chicago Blackhawks in 2013. He also won a William S. Jennings trophy together with Blackhawks starting goalie Corey Crawford that year. This is even more surprising considering he was diagnosed with in 2010 with Avascular necrosis, which cost him multiple surgeries and 13 centimeters of his right leg. For his successful return to professional hockey he was nominated for the Bill Masterton Trophy.
Edit: Something that apparently has passed me entirely by (and I honestly only found out just now) is that Emery was also involved in an assault of his then fiancee Keshia Chante in 2016, which makes my feelings about him rather more confusing. However, I wanted to add this here for full disclosure about the man.
“Shinobu Hashimoto, a screenwriter whose creative partnership with director Akira Kurosawa helped launch Japanese cinema to international prominence in the 1950s, died July 19 at his home in Tokyo. He was 100.”
“…he was best known for his work with Kurosawa, in widely imitated films that ranged from the sword-fighting period piece “Seven Samurai” (1954) to lyrical explorations of justice and mortality in “Rashomon” (1950) and “Ikiru” (1952).”
Not a celebrity, but a person that should be better known:
"And then, in the early 1980s, Mrs. Herzig Yoshinaga picked up a red bound volume sitting on the corner of an archivist’s desk. As she later told the Los Angeles Times, the book contained the original draft of a 1943 government report on internment, apparently the last such copy in existence. “I began thumbing through the report, and then, when I came upon an important section, I nearly hit the ceiling.”
Mrs. Herzig Yoshinaga, who was 93 when she died July 18 at a hospital in Torrance, Calif., had uncovered evidence suggesting America’s World War II internment policy had racist motives and was not a result of “military necessity,” as Pentagon officials claimed.
Her findings helped persuade Congress to pass the 1988 Civil Liberties Act, which granted $20,000 in reparations to each survivor of the camps and a formal apology from President Ronald Reagan."
I am late to the game on this one but FrankerZ has passed
Stan Mikita, Hockey Hall of Famer and innovator of using curved stick blades, has passed at age 78. Even the non-hockey fans here will at least have heard his name, as the name used in Wayne’s World to parody the famous Tim Horton’s donut shop chain. Mikita himself had a cameo as well.
Jim Neidhart passed away yesterday. It sucks.