MARK STEYN: Ave atque vale 2019. “Here’s my take on some of those who left us these last twelve months. As I always say, it’s not intended to be a comprehensive list, because, as the late Diana Mosley used to drawl to me with aristocratic ennui, ‘People die non-stop’, which is very true. But here’s some of the passings I noted, sometimes for newsworthy reasons, sometimes for more personal ones, with more at the links — from congressmen to caliphs to conductors, suspected murderers to suspect suicides to courtroom cardiac arrests.”