Usually I don't post about deaths of famous figures, but Arthur C Clarke was something special. This is the main who brought us the notion of a communications satellite (which he never patented) and the man who wrote 2001 and shared an Oscar with Kubrick for the screenplay adaptation.

I read every single piece of Arthur C Clarke's science fiction I could find when I was younger. The 2001 novels, the Rama novels, the short stories, etc. It was all so brilliant and he created such immersive futuristic worlds and scenarios.