He Pingping, the world’s tiniest man, will be buried in the world’s tiniest coffin in the world’s tiniest plot with the world’s tiniest tombstone on top of it after he passed away on Saturday in Italy. Pingping was just 21-years-old. Pinping was in Rome shooting a television show when he complained of chest pains. He was taken to the hospital, but doctors couldn’t save him. The Telegraph believes that he died of heart complications, but this hasn’t been confirmed. Guinness World Records declared Pingping the smallest man alive in March 2008. Pingping measured in at 29 inches tall. The editor-in-chief of Guinness said these kind words about Pingping:

”From the moment I laid on eyes on him I knew he was someone special – he had such a cheeky smile and mischievous personality, you couldn’t help but be charmed by him. He brightened up the lives of everyone he met, and was an inspiration to anyone considered different or unusual.”

Rest in peace, Pingping.

Andrew Koenig, best known for his role as Boner on Growing Pains, went missing on February 14th in Vancouver. Everybody (including that crazy Kirk Cameron) was hoping that Boner would turn up safe and sound. Unfortunately, it seems that isn’t going to happen. The Vancouver Sun says that police believe they found Andrew’s body in Stanley Park this afternoon. The police will hold a news conference shortly to give more details.

Andrew’s father Walter Koenig, who played Chekov in Star Trek, is expected to attend the press conference.

Andrew completely cleared out his Los Angeles apartment three weeks ago. Friends say he started to sell his stuff, but eventually just gave everything away. Andrew told his landlord he was going to Vancouver to visit his friends. Andrew’s friends also said he was suffering from clinical depression at the time that he went missing.

At today’s press conference, it was confirmed that the body found by police this afternoon was in fact Boner. Andrew Koenig’s father Walter said that his son committed suicide. Walter added:

“What you can learn from this … is that there are people out there who really, really care. Before you make that final decision … talk to somebody.”

Rest in peace, Boner. . .

J.D. Salinger, the author of one of the only books I read in high school word for word, has died at the age of 91. J.D.’s son said that his father passed away from natural causes at his home in New Hampshire.

For the past few decades, J.D. has lived in total isolation in his small house. Every time the neighborhood kids would trespass on his lawn, he’d turn the sprinklers on them (I made that up). But even though J.D. hasn’t been in the public eye, he has been in most of our lives thanks to his books Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zoe.

Rest in Peace, J.D.