Monday 4 October 2004

Obscure Obituaries

Randy Cassingham's Honorary Unsubscribe Recognizes the Unknown, the Forgotten and the Obscure People who Had an Impact on Our Lives.

Examples include:

  • Hovercraft inventor Christopher Cockerell
  • First on-air TV weatherman Clint Youle
  • MAD cartoonist Dave Berg
  • Frisbee developer Ed Headrick
  • Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle
  • "Spanish Flea" composer Julius Wechter
  • "Hawkeye Pierce" model Keith Reemtsma
  • SF Writer Poul Anderson
  • Vinyl inventor Waldo Semon
  • Concentrated orange juice creator Wallace R. Roy
  • Colour TV broadcast pioneer Walter D. Scott
...and hundreds of others

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