Tigger, inventor of the artificial heart

(this and previous post via boingboing)

Paul Winchell has died. We elders know him as the alter ego of Jerry Mahoney, but he was also the voice of Tigger and Gagamel...
Winchell also held 30 patents, including one for an artificial heart, a disposable razor and a flameless cigarette lighter. He donated his early artificial heart to the University of Utah for research. Dr. Robert Jarvik and other researchers at the university went on to construct the first artificial heart implanted into humans.

Ironically, John Fiedler, the voice of Piglet, has also died...they both died within a day of each other...