In the months of November and what's already gone of December, according to these folks that keep me posted on the subject, I outlived a series of mre or less famous characters, as it follows:
Karl Koch died of suicide by self-immolation. He was a West German computer hacker who sold information from US military computers to the KGB.
Found on Wiki, here, few more interesting details:
* called himself "hagbard", after Hagbard Celine. He was involved in a Cold War computer espionage incident.
As his moniker would suggest, he was heavily influenced by The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. Besides adopting his pseudonym from a character in the book, he also named his computer "FUCKUP" ("First Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultra-Micro Programmer"), after a computer designed and built by that character. He was addicted to cocaine and became extremely paranoid, convinced he was fighting the Illuminati like his literary namesake.
Koch was loosely affiliated with the CCC. He worked with the hackers known as DOB (Dirk-Otto Brezinski), Pengo (Hans Heinrich Hübner), and Urmel (Markus Hess), and was involved in selling hacked information from US military computers to the KGB. Eventually he and Pengo came forward and confessed to the authorities.[1]
Koch was found burned to death with gasoline in a forest near Celle. The death was generally considered a suicide.
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Ian Curtis died of suicide by hanging. He was a lead singer of Joy Division
and this is what Wiki has here on him:
* was the songwriter, lyricist and singer of the English post-punk band Joy Division. Joy Division released its critically-acclaimed debut album Unknown Pleasures in 1979, and recorded their follow-up Closer in 1980. Suffering from epilepsy and a failing marriage, Curtis committed suicide in May 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first North American tour.
In 1995, Curtis's widow Deborah published Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division, a biography of the singer. His life and death have been dramatised in the films 24 Hour Party People (2002) and Control (2007).
(now I will probably get to search and watch at least one of the movies above)
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Duk Koo Kim died of a severe head injury sustained in a boxing match. He was a lightweight boxer knocked unconscious in a title bout against champion Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini.
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Ivan VI of Russia died by murder. He was an infant Tsar of Russia (1740-41) who was imprisoned most of his life.
*and Wiki says here more:
was proclaimed Emperor of Russia in 1740, as an infant, although he never actually reigned. Within less than a year, he was overthrown by the Empress Elizabeth of Russia, Peter the Great's daughter. Ivan spent the rest of his life as a prisoner and was killed by his guards during an attempt made to free him.
