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Robert Duvall, chameleon of the silver screen, dies at 95
In "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now," he became one of the most respected acting talents of his generation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/02/16/robert-duvall-actor-dead/

[Mudwall Gatewood 3.0]

Robert Duvall, chameleon of the silver screen, dies at 95
In "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now," he became one of the most respected acting talents of his generation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/02/16/robert-duvall-actor-dead/

"Uva uvam vivendo varia fit."

Augustus McCrae is gone.  I actually broke down with this news.  I've enjoyed few fictional characters; Gus was one that I truly enjoyed.

[Onslow]

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/wilkes-county-schools-superintendent-mark-byrd-dies/83-3fab77fa-51b4-4cb7-865b-0a223cbbeb39

Damn. 

This guy was once the principal of Elkin City HS.  My wife worked under his supervision. He was very accomplished, smart, and cared deeply about his staff and students. This is a terrible loss.

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Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84
One of the starring acts at Woodstock, he and his band, the Fish, came out of the Bay Area's psychedelic rock scene. He went on to a long career as a solo artist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/arts/music/country-joe-mcdonald-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R1A.wzyK.gH_rR7E-GcK9&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Biruté Galdikas, Champion of Endangered Orangutans, Dies at 79
With Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, she was one of three prominent researchers of great apes who were sometimes called the "trimates."

Biruté Galdikas, a primatologist who fulfilled her childhood ambition to study and preserve the lives of wild orangutans in the tropical rainforests of Borneo, where her half-century of research and conservation made her one of the world's leading experts on that elusive and critically endangered great ape, died on March 24 in Los Angeles. She was 79.

Her death, in a hospital, was caused by lung cancer, according to Orangutan Foundation International, which she started in 1986.

Dr. Galdikas was one of three daring women who revolutionized primatology, following in the tradition of Jane Goodall, who studied chimpanzees in Tanzania, and Dian Fossey, who lived among mountain gorillas in Rwanda.

Like them, Dr. Galdikas (pronounced gal-dee-kuhs) was mentored by Louis Leakey, the British-Kenyan paleoanthropologist whose study of early hominid fossils established the origins of mankind in Africa. The three women were like daughters to Dr. Leakey, and sisters to one another.

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Dr. Galdikas appeared on the cover of the October 1975 issue of National Geographic in a photograph taken by her husband at the time, Rod Brindamour. The cover and its accompanying article by Dr. Galdikas attracted a new level of attention to endangered orangutans. Credit...National Geographic, photograph by Rod Brindamour

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/science/earth/birute-galdikas-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YFA.KOBW.FyD6g0oPRjHi&smid=url-share

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Wayne Perkins, Guitarist to the Stars, Dies at 74
Mr. Perkins worked with Bob Marley, Joni Mitchell and many others, almost joined the Rolling Stones and turned down an offer from Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Wayne Perkins, a versatile guitarist who injected Southern rock into the reggae of Bob Marley and the Wailers' breakthrough album, "Catch a Fire," auditioned for a spot in the Rolling Stones and turned down an offer to join Lynyrd Skynyrd, died on March 16 at his home in Argo, Ala., outside Birmingham. He was 74.

His sister Nadine Sims said his death was caused by a stroke, and that he also had ongoing medical issues related to brain tumors and severe back pain.

Mr. Perkins was a laconic, self-effacing musician rooted in the Southern twang of country and blues. But he could adapt to a wide range of styles, including the melancholy pop of Joni Mitchell's "Car on a Hill" and Mr. Marley's swaying "Concrete Jungle."

"He was a monster guitar player — I called him a guitar slinger — who had a monster voice," the journalist Glynn Wilson, who has written extensively about Mr. Perkins, said in an interview.

Mr. Perkins recorded and toured — mostly in the 1970s and '80s, his most productive decades — with A-list artists like Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Percy Sledge, John Prine, Roger McGuinn, Jerry Jeff Walker and Bobby Womack.

His work on tour with Mr. Russell's Shelter People band in the early 1970s impressed Eric Clapton, and in 1975 Mr. Clapton recommended him to Mick Jagger, who was looking for a guitarist to replace Mick Taylor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/arts/music/wayne-perkins-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b1A.sEEx.63ZRDYNsM4J1&smid=url-share