I remember when he died. We were on an airplane. I was like nine or ten years old (just looked it up - I was 12) and I told my mother and she didn't believe me, she'd grown up with him too.
Pure human goodness indeed. According to Wikipedia he was a minister, "swam every morning, was a vegetarian, and neither smoked nor drank."
I feel myself getting super sappy but, seriously. He was amazing.