Jerry Nelson, one of the original Muppeteers, died last night after a battle with cancer. Nelson was already a professional puppeteer when Jim Henson hired him to fill in while Frank Oz served in the military in the 1960...

Astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died today in La Jolla, California of pancreatic cancer. The announcement was made by her company, Sally Ride Science. Ride, who was a physicist, became a househo...

Val Patterson of Salt Lake City, Utah, prepared hi...  ...tterson of Salt Lake City, Utah, prepared his own obituary ahead of time. In it, he got a lot of things off...  ...If this sort of thing catches on, it may make the obituary

Andy Griffith, who most Americans know as Sheriff...  ...ew York Times has an extensive biography in their obituary notice. Griffith was 86 years old. Link

Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld passed away at th...  ...e's just one of the many episodes featured in his obituary : Instead he faked an epileptic fit and, when t...

We've followed the saga of Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island Tortoise, for years. But George has been around much longer, and was believed to be around 100 years old. Fausto Llerena, George's keeper for the past 40...

Ray Bradbury, author of classic works of fiction such as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man, died this morning in Los Angeles. His grandson, Danny Karapetian, shared these words with io9 abo...

Eduard Khil, a longtime pop star in the Soviet Union, became famous in the west only a couple of years ago when his rendition of the wordless song "I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home" became an internet hit. Khil's pe...

(YouTube link) Disco diva and five-time Grammy winner Donna Summer died this morning after a long battle with cancer, which she tried to keep out of the press. Summer was 63 years old. Link -via Boing Boing...

Actor and comedian George Lindsey, best known for playing the character Goober Pyle on television, died Sunday in Nashville. He had been ill since suffering a stroke in March. He introduced the character of Goober — t...