Dead at 84. I continue to recommend (as I have often before) that everyone read his Harrison Bergeron. As speculative fiction (a very short story–read it and come back, even), the vision he posits there is becoming a very dread reality in our society today, a bit at a time…
"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."