Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Shakespeare scholar, and editor -- via the New York Times. He was the guiding force behind the Signet Classic Shakespeares, so essential to getting the Bard in people's hands. I alwsys wondered who the hell Sylvan Barnet was; now I know. Thank you, sir!
A great actor in film, on stage and TV -- via the Guardian. Gifted with intensity, he made a career of playing baddies such as Snape in the Harry Potter movies, Gruber in "Die Hard," and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the otherwise woeful Costner "Robin Hood." He could do much more, and did in films such as "Truly, Madly, Deeply" and "Galaxy Quest."
Stockbroker; last survivor of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake -- via the San Francisco Chronicle. Normally I don't include folks for mention merely for having witnessed something; in fact, Del Monte was nly three months old at the time and would remember nothing. The last World War I combatant died in 2011; Del Monte's is another milepost passed.
