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@quotation
-Robert J. Chassell started working with GNU Emacs in 1985. He wrote
+Robert J. Chassell (1946--2017) started working with GNU Emacs in 1985. He wrote
and edited, taught Emacs and Emacs Lisp, and spoke throughout the
world on software freedom. Chassell was a founding Director and
Treasurer of the Free Software Foundation, Inc. He was co-author of
the @cite{Texinfo} manual, and edited more than a dozen other
books. He graduated from Cambridge University, in England. He had an
abiding interest in social and economic history and flew his own
-airplane. He passed away on 30 June 2017.
+airplane.
@uref{https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/goodbye-to-bob-chassell,
"Goodbye to Bob Chassell"}