question: Who was the first member to die on a team of animators Milt Kahl belonged to?
answer: John Lounsbery
context: Title: Thomas Szécsényi
  Passage: Thomas (I) Szécsényi (Hungarian: "Szécsényi (I.) Tamás" ; died 1354) was a Hungarian powerful baron and soldier, who rose to prominence during King Charles I's war against the oligarchs.  He belonged to the so-called "new aristocracy", who supported the king's efforts to restore royal power in the first decades of the 14th century.  He was the first member of the influential Szécsényi family.
  Title: Mickey's Circus
  Passage: Mickey's Circus is an animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released 1 August 1936.  Known crew include director Ben Sharpsteen and animators Milt Kahl, Frank Thomas, Al Eugster & Shamus Culhane.
  Title: John Houghton (martyr)
  Passage: Saint John Houghton, O.Cart. , (c. 1486 - 4 May 1535) was a Carthusian hermit and Catholic priest and the first English Catholic martyr to die as a result of the Act of Supremacy by King Henry VIII of England.  He was also the first member of his Order to die as a martyr.
  Title: Disney's Nine Old Men
  Passage: Disney's Nine Old Men were The Walt Disney Company's core animators, some of whom later became directors, who created some of Disney's most famous animated cartoons, from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" onward to "The Rescuers", and were referred to as such by Walt Disney himself.  All members of the group are now deceased.  John Lounsbery was the first to die, in 1976 from heart failure, and the last survivor was Ollie Johnston, who died in 2008 from natural causes.  All have been acknowledged as Disney Legends.
  Title: Thomas Pollock
  Passage: Thomas Allen Pollock (August 1, 1925 – August 17, 1994) was a Canadian ice hockey player.  He was a member of the Edmonton Mercurys that won a gold medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.  Pollock died of a stroke in 1994; he was the first member of the 1952 Olympic team to die.
  Title: Milt Kahl
  Passage: Milton Erwin "Milt" Kahl (March 22, 1909 – April 19, 1987) was an American animator.  He was one of (and often considered the most influential of) Walt Disney's supervisory team of animators, known as Disney's Nine Old Men.
  Title: Electoral district of Scoresby
  Passage: The Electoral district of Scoresby was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.  It was first created after the district of Upper Yarra was abolished in 1945.  George Knox was the last member for Upper Yarra and the first for Scoresby.  The electorate was abolished after a redistribution in 1976, being replaced by the district of Wantirna.  Geoff Hayes then became the first member for Wantirna.  After the 2002 redistribution, the electorate was replaced, once again returning as the Electoral district of Scoresby.  The first member for Scoresby, Kim Wells, was also the last member for Wantirna.  The seat was again abolished in 2014 and replaced by Rowville.
  Title: William Grayson
  Passage: William Grayson (1740 – March 12, 1790) was a soldier, lawyer, and statesman from Virginia.  He was one of the first two U.S. Senators from Virginia, and belonged to the Anti-Federalist faction, he was also the first member of congress from Virginia to die while holding office.
  Title: Lonesome Ghosts
  Passage: Lonesome Ghosts is a 1937 Disney animated cartoon, released through RKO Radio Pictures on December 24, 1937, three days after "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937).  It was directed by Burt Gillett and animated by Izzy Klein, Ed Love, Milt Kahl, Marvin Woodward, Bob Wickersham, Clyde Geronimi, Dick Huemer, Dick Williams, Art Babbitt and Rex Cox.  The short features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy as members of The Ajax Ghost Exterminators.
  Title: Demetrius I of Macedon
  Passage: Demetrius I ( ; Greek: Δημήτριος; 337–283 BC), called Poliorcetes ( ; Greek: Πολιορκητής, "The Besieger"), son of Antigonus I Monophthalmus and Stratonice, was a Macedonian Greek nobleman, military leader, and finally king of Macedon (294–288 BC).  He belonged to the Antigonid dynasty and was its first member to rule Macedonia.
citations: Milt Kahl Disney's Nine Old Men