Frank Frazetta,artist of well know book covers, album covers and posters, died May 10, 2010.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/05/frank-frazetta-painted-with-fire-.html

Don't even know if anyone reads this community any more, but for those that do, sad news that Mark Linkous, singer and songwriter with Virginian band, Sparklehorse has committed suicide at the age of 47I got into Sparklehorse at roughly the same time as I started listening to my favourite ever band, Grandaddy. It was easy to hear similarities ( Read more... )

Fred Morrison, 90, a pilot and carpenter most often credited with inventing that most ubiquitous of backyard toys, the Frisbee, died Feb. 9 at his home in Monroe, Utah.

Fascinating story, well worth a read.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100118/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obit_taco_bell_founder

RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. - Glen W. Bell Jr., an entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Taco Bell chain, has died. He was 86 ( Read more... )

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/01/14/rb-great-teddy-pendergrass-dead-at-59-after-cancer-battle/

Teddy Pendergrass, one of the most successful R&B singers of the 1970s and ’80s, ( Read more... )

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/12/20/2009-12-20_actress_brittany_murphy_dies_at_32_of_heart_attack_report.html

Movie star Brittany Murphy is dead of a heart attack at 32 ( Read more... )

Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died ( Read more... )

got this from britpopart

Jim Carroll, 60, a poet-turned-punk rocker whose book "The Basketball Diaries" chronicled his descent from elite high school basketball star to Times Square drug addict, thief and prostitute, died Sept. 11 at his home in Manhattan after a heart attack ( Read more... )

Two sad deaths overnight:

Patrick Swayze (1952-2009) has died from pancreatic cancer, aged 57. BBC News obituary here.

and

British celebrity chef, Keith Floyd (1943-2009) has died of a heart attack.
"Floyd shot to fame in the 1980s in ground-breaking cookery shows, fronted with huge enthusiasm and wineglass in hand ( Read more... )

NORFOLK, Va. - Frank Batten Sr., who built a communications empire that spanned newspapers and cable television and created The Weather Channel, died Thursday. He was 82 ( Read more... )