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Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84. See his NY Times profile.

This is the first celebrity (meaning well known artist/musician/author/actor etc.) deaths that have happened in my lifetime that truly saddened me (most celebrities I like are still young and a few have been dead before I liked them).

I, regrettably, have yet to read many of his books. I did see him on The Daily Show back in 2005 and he was definitely edging on senility back then, so maybe it really was his time. Commedy Central has an archive of that appearance (though the list they mention is dead on their site, here is a mirror).

So it goes.

(Via DF Linked List.)