Robin Williams – 1951 – 2014
Robin Williams had to learn to play Sax and Russian language. (Moscow to Hudson by Paul Mazurksy)
Update:
Oliver Sacks:A Man Could be Anyone.. (via New Yorker)
I sometimes joined the Williamses in the summer at Lake Tahoe. I would go for long swims in the lake, with Robin paddling next to me in a kayak. We would chat about neurology and biology, literature, history, biographies—he was startlingly well informed on pretty much everything under the sun, and this was a very different Robin—thoughtful, relaxed, not onstage, not “on.”
In addition to all his gifts, Robin was the kindest and most generous of men. William James, the great nineteenth-century psychologist, was called “that adorable genius.” For me, more than anyone I have ever known, Robin, too, was that adorable genius. It is infinitely sad that this unique human being, who gave so much and so fully of himself to all of us, should have taken his own life.
Stanley Kauffman Awakening Review
He loved Tour de France.. 
Lans Armstrong was his best friend.
via biker
See two great videos on Robin Williams from Ron Silliman
Robin Williams salutes Robert de Niro (youtube)
(Update: happy birthday Robert de Nero- Aug 17).
Robin Williams 