So farewell then...

[backstothewall]

Michael "Jim" Delligatti - Inventor of the Big Mac, or le Big Mac as they call it in France

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38162497/inventor-of-the-big-mac-dies-aged-98

[dahamsta]

Andrew Sachs, aka Manuel from Fawlty Towers

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/01/andrew-sachs-dies-after-alzheimers-aged-86

¿Qué?

[pineapple stu]

Ah... :(

There'll have to be a one-hour long Reeling in the Years for 2016.

[tetsujin1979]

Ah... :(

There'll have to be a one-hour long Reeling in the Years for 2016.
It'll be a box set

[nigel-harps1954]

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38225796

Peter Vaughan aged 93. Known best for his role as Grouty in Porridge. Later appeared in Game of Thrones.

[OwlsFan]

Michael "Jim" Delligatti - Inventor of the Big Mac, or le Big Mac as they call it in France

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38162497/inventor-of-the-big-mac-dies-aged-98

98 eh ? And they say fast food is bad for you!

[nigel-harps1954]

Greg Lake, aged 69. Of Emerson, Lake and Palmer fame, and also one of the greatest Christmas songs ever.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCEdrnaFlY

[OwlsFan]

Looking at Wikipedia, apparently it wasn't written about Christmas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Believe_in_Father_Christmas

[pineapple stu]

They keep on coming. John Glenn, the first American in space and the oldest man in space. The latter was 18 years ago, amazingly enough; he was 95 when he died.

[John83]

He was the second American in space. Sometimes people quote the fact that he was born before Alan Shepard, which seems an odd stat. Shepard was the first American in space, Glenn the first in orbit. He also flew for the navy in Korea, and was a senator. Some life.

[Eminence Grise]

Less than three weeks after William Trevor, another giant of Irish literature - poet and short story writer, John Montague.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1210/837929-john-montague/

Restaurant critic, AA Gill, three weeks after announcing he had cancer - 'a trucker’s gut-buster, gimpy, malevolent, meaty, malignancy'.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/10/aa-gill-dies-weeks-after-revealing-he-had-cancer-in-restaurant-review-sunday-times

[BonnieShels]

AA Gill is away

[OwlsFan]

They keep on coming. John Glenn, the first American in space and the oldest man in space. The latter was 18 years ago, amazingly enough; he was 95 when he died.

One of our teacher's canes at National School was named after him. Certainly a name I have never forgotten !!

[Eminence Grise]

I bet more than a few lads saw stars after encountering that.

[Eminence Grise]

Walter Swinburne, reunited with Shergar. Possibly. Maybe. Who knows?

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/dec/12/walter-choirboy-swinburn-dies-shergar-derby-horse-racing

[OwlsFan]

Former BBC weatherman Ian McCaskill http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38294661

[OwlsFan]

Gillian Bowler once of Budget Travel http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/iconic-irish-businesswoman-gillian-bowler-passes-away-35296797.html

[OwlsFan]

Still going down thick and fast in 2016: actress Zsa Zsa Gabor http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/18/actress-zsa-zsa-gabor-has-died-age-99-publicist-says/

[TheBoss]

I always noticed down the years, that Zsa Zsa Gabor was always on those lists of 'celebrities to die next/this year' predictions.

[Paddy Garcia]

Frank Murray. RIP

[pineapple stu]

Carrie Fisher in a critical condition after a heart attack on a plane (http://io9.gizmodo.com/carrie-fisher-in-critical-condition-after-heart-attack-1790454414). Currently in intensive care after having had CPR administered.

One last sting for 2016? :(

[nigel-harps1954]

Can't wait for this f**king year to end.

Rick Parfitt of Status Quo.

http://m.independent.ie/entertainment/music/status-quo-guitarist-rick-parfitt-has-died-in-hospital-in-spain-35319431.html

[nigel-harps1954]

To say 2016 has been a d!ck would be an understatement. What a pr!ck of a year.

George Michael the latest to pop.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/singer-george-michael-passes-away-peacefully-at-home-publicist-35320528.html

[BonnieShels]

Ah sure, why not like...

Liz Smith, famous for playing Nana in The Royle Family.

http://news.sky.com/story/royle-family-actress-liz-smith-dies-aged-95-10709109

In fairness she's 95. But still.

[OwlsFan]

Carrie Fisher in a critical condition after a heart attack on a plane (http://io9.gizmodo.com/carrie-fisher-in-critical-condition-after-heart-attack-1790454414). Currently in intensive care after having had CPR administered.

One last sting for 2016? :(

You'll have the "RIP police" after you for that one if she doesn't die.

Status Quo - bought all their records back in the day. As they place Ricky in the grave will they sing "Down, down, deeper and down."? RIP Ricky.

[pineapple stu]

You'll have the "RIP police" after you for that one if she doesn't die.
Alas, she passed away an hour ago. It really didn't sound good from the vague medical details; 20 minutes' CPR before the arrival of advanced care is not a good thing.

[BonnieShels]

Didn't see this on here...

Eddie Bailham, died on December 21st
http://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/fai-pays-its-respects-to-eddie-bailham-rip

[pineapple stu]

Richard Adams, author of Watership Down.

Aged 96, but still, another one for 2016's collection

[OwlsFan]

Didn't see this on here...

Eddie Bailham, died on December 21st
http://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/fai-pays-its-respects-to-eddie-bailham-rip

Thanks. Hadn't spotted that nor had any of my fellow Rovers friends of that vintage. Slightly before my era but had heard much about him and his tremendous shot.

[SkStu]

Carrie Fishers mum, Debbie Reynolds, also a famous actress, passed away today.

[Eminence Grise]

2016, a miserable, sadistic old ba5tard with an over-fondness for collecting icons, all too often before their time.

Unloved and unlamented, it was bumped off by its offspring, 2017, from whom we hope for better (though it’s welcome to keep company with Messrs Trump and Putin if it feels nostalgic for last year).

[Eminence Grise]

Art critic and writer John Berger, best known for 'Ways of Seeing'.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38492516
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/02/adrian-searle-on-john-berger-art-for-him-was-never-apart-from-being-alive

[Eminence Grise]

Two for those with memories of an older era...

Singer, Peter Sarstedt
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38548507

And one that passed me by at the tail end of 2016, William Christopher, best known as Fr Mulcahy in the TV series of MASH.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/mash-william-christopher-dead-84-father-mulcahy-1201950747/

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

T.K. Whitaker.

[nigel-harps1954]

First major footballing casualty of 2017. Graham Taylor dead at 72.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/753344/Graham-Taylor-Aston-Villa-England

[SkStu]

Do i not like that.

[Seagull]

William Peter Blatty, author of 'The Exorcist' RIP http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38613928

[KrisLetang]

William Peter Blatty, author of 'The Exorcist' RIP http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38613928

Did anyone read the article from the guy who directed the Exorcist about the exorcism he went to in Italy? I think it was in Vanity Fair last month..it was fascinating. Blatty believed some were real, the director didn't...until now.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Philly mafia Don, "Little" Nicky Scarfo.

http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/01/report-nicodemo-scarfo-has-died-in.html

[tetsujin1979]

former wrestler Superfly Himmy Snuka: http://www.wwe.com/article/wwe-hall-of-famer-jimmy-superfly-snuka-passes-away

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

former wrestler Superfly Himmy Snuka: http://www.wwe.com/article/wwe-hall-of-famer-jimmy-superfly-snuka-passes-away

He murdered a woman and got away with it. Good riddance.

[tetsujin1979]

Allegedly, although recent evidence suggests he did. Was declared unfit to stand trial last year.

[OwlsFan]

... Gorden Kaye, aka Rene, Le Cafe owner, from "Allo Allo" to "Adieu Adieu" !! http://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2017/0123/847134-allo-allo-star-gorden-kaye-dies-at-75/

[Eminence Grise]

John Hurt, 77 after pancreatic cancer.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/28/john-hurt-dead-the-elephant-man-alien-harry-potter-midnight-express

Edit - somehow ironic in a week when sales of 1984 rocketed.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/george-orwell-1984-alternative-facts-donald-trump-adviser-kellyanne-conway-amazon-sellout-bestseller-a7548666.html



(https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/28/john-hurt-dead-the-elephant-man-alien-harry-potter-midnight-express)

[TheBoss]

I think you mean coincidence rather than ironic ;)

[Eminence Grise]

No, I meant ironic: the coincidence is self-evident The irony is, firstly, commentary on where we find ourselves 30-odd years after the film, and, secondly, because I'm sure there will be screenings of the film on various channels both because of his death and the increased sales, and some people who only know him from Harry Potter or Doctor Who may realise too late just how brilliantly he played that kind of role. Now, if you want to point out that I'm conflating the book and film, I couldn't argue with you there.;)

[TheBoss]

I still don't see it from your explanation, to me its more of an apt coincidence than irony. Irony implies an event that is opposite to what is expected, I just don't see what is that opposite?

[OwlsFan]

Brunhilde Pomsel, the former secretary to Nazi Germany's propaganda boss Joseph Goebbels, has died aged 106. Like Manuel in Fawlty Towers, she knew nothing
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38793048

[Seagull]

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson has died. She lived it... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-38911818

[the 12 th man]

Jazz Legend Al Jarreau

http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/al-jarreau-dead#axzz4YUgIctVL