Sturgeon's Law especially applies to digital photography.
Anyway, I was just noticing the vast array of the famous and infamous popping of the mortal coil recently.
The inventor of modern advertising Leni Riefenstah.
The inventor of the end of the world Edward Teller
The inventor of the Man in Black Johnny Cash
The inventor of ripping-of-British-sitcoms-about-domestic-humiliation-for-American-comsumption iteration 1978 John Ritter [okay trying too hard there]
The one that was really shocking was the sudden murder of Sweden's foreign minister, Anna Lindh