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osarusan
23/05/2018, 10:10 AM
Author Philip Roth.

Portnoy's Complaint, The Human Stain, American Pastoral would probably be his most famous works.
the 12 th man
23/05/2018, 7:06 PM
Actor Clint Walker who starred in old Westerns.
dejadem
28/05/2018, 6:56 AM
Alan Bean, Apollo Moonwalker and Artist

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/family-release-regarding-the-passing-of-apollo-skylab-astronaut-alan-bean
OwlsFan
28/05/2018, 1:00 PM
Irishman Brendan Ingle (one of 15 children) regarded by the Guardian "as one of the most important men in the history of the sport (boxing) in Britain". I wonder was he an Owl or a Blade https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/may/25/brendan-ingle-obituary
Eminence Grise
07/06/2018, 9:33 AM
Peter Stringfellow, 77. Kept his illness private - didn't want to make a thong and dance about it.

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2018/0607/968780-peter-stringfellow-death/
OwlsFan
08/06/2018, 9:30 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/04/22/the-worlds-oldest-person-died-at-117-she-was-the-last-known-person-born-in-the-19th-century/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d3825daed895

Oldest person in the world died the other day at a whopping 117 years old. The last known person from the 19th century.

I don't really get this. I always assumed that the new century began when it was 1900 or 2000 etc. but according to the article the 20th century began on January 1st 1901. So we should have all worried about the "millennium bug" on 2001 and not 2000 ?!
NeverFeltBetter
08/06/2018, 11:42 AM
Anthony Bourdain, TV chef/author, dead at 61, suicide.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html

Kitchen Confidential is a fascinating read, if only because of his detailed assessment of when the best day to order fish from a restaurant is. His series, most of which are still on Netflix, are quite entertaining. His Irish episode, filmed right before the recession, is interesting viewing if you want a look at what Celtic Tiger thinking was like in the food industry.
pineapple stu
08/06/2018, 12:46 PM
I don't really get this. I always assumed that the new century began when it was 1900 or 2000 etc. but according to the article the 20th century began on January 1st 1901. So we should have all worried about the "millennium bug" on 2001 and not 2000 ?!
The first century started in the year 1 AD, and because there's 100 years in a century, it must have gone on to the year 100 AD.

Then the second century starts in 101, and goes on to 200.

But the problem with the millennium bug was Operating Systems programmes dividing the year (or specifically, the last two digits of the year). So dividing by 98 - fine. Dividing by 99 - fine. Dividing by 00 - planes fall out of sky (or not, as the case may be)
OwlsFan
08/06/2018, 2:14 PM
The first century started in the year 1 AD, and because there's 100 years in a century, it must have gone on to the year 100 AD.

Then the second century starts in 101, and goes on to 200.

But the problem with the millennium bug was Operating Systems programmes dividing the year (or specifically, the last two digits of the year). So dividing by 98 - fine. Dividing by 99 - fine. Dividing by 00 - planes fall out of sky (or not, as the case may be)

But if the century starts in 0 and ends in 99, is that not also a century ? So the new century can start with 0 ?
pineapple stu
08/06/2018, 2:23 PM
It's a century, sure. Any group of 100 years is a century. 1919-2018 is a century.

But the first century is 1AD to 100AD. So the second century can't start in 100AD, because then 100AD is in two centuries, which can't make sense.

So the second century is from 101-200, and ultimately then the 21st century is from 2001 to 2100
Eminence Grise
10/06/2018, 9:38 PM
First Bond girl, Eunice Gayson.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/10/eunice-gayson-obituary
OwlsFan
11/06/2018, 11:39 AM
First Bond girl, Eunice Gayson.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/10/eunice-gayson-obituary

My God, I must be getting old when a Bond Girl dies at 90 years of age !!
OwlsFan
13/06/2018, 3:40 PM
Ballymaloe founder Myrtle Allen dies at 94 https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/ballymaloe-founder-myrtle-allen-dies-at-94-1.3528971
OwlsFan
21/06/2018, 9:08 AM
One time Australian golfing great Peter Thompson https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/20/golf/peter-thomson-golf-spt-int/index.html
pineapple stu
22/06/2018, 4:01 PM
Former Irish international Ron Healey (https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/newsireland/former-republic-of-ireland-international-ronald-healey-dies-while-out-cycling/ar-AAyZINg?li=BBr5HCU&ocid=mailsignout)

Not a name I remember to be honest - two caps in 77/80.

I'm sure OwlsFan will remember more!
OwlsFan
25/06/2018, 10:39 AM
Only a very very fuzzy memory to my shame because he is a contemporary. You would think that we should remember everyone who played for Ireland, especially in a unique position like goalkeeper. I'd be in my late-teens at the time sticking pictures of Irish players all over the bedroom. I used to get them from Goal magazine. I remember I had ones of John Dempsey, Frank O'Neill, Tony Dunne, John Giles (before he become a pundit ;) ), Terry Conroy etc. They're up in the attic now in a plastic box.
OwlsFan
28/06/2018, 1:17 PM
Joe Jackson, patriarch of the Jackson family https://pitchfork.com/news/joe-jackson-father-and-manager-to-michael-janet-and-the-jacksons-dead-at-89/
OwlsFan
02/07/2018, 2:13 PM
One that was missed (June 16). Álvaro Rodríguez Ros, a Spanish international, who played for Shels back in the 1960s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Ros
OwlsFan
03/07/2018, 9:52 AM
So it's bye bye baby, baby goodbye to Alan Longmuir once of the Bay City Rollers https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/alan-longmuir-dead-bay-city-rollers-bassist-edinburgh-mexico-tributes-a8426271.html
OwlsFan
09/07/2018, 10:01 AM
Spurs legend Alan Gilzean https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44757890
the 12 th man
09/07/2018, 9:36 PM
Tab Hunter,elderly American Actor https://www.thewrap.com/tab-hunter-actor-closeted-gay-50s-hollywood-golden-boy-dies-at-86/
OwlsFan
11/07/2018, 11:10 AM
Former UK politician, Lord Carrington https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/former-foreign-secretary-lord-carrington-dies-aged-99-37100663.html Interesting (to me at least) that he served as a tank commander in the Normandy fighting.
NeverFeltBetter
11/07/2018, 11:28 AM
That's so weird: I'm reading Anthony Beevor Arnhem, and the last chapter I read last night mentioned him in terms of the fighting over Nijmegen Bridge.
Eminence Grise
11/07/2018, 1:09 PM
Unionist politician John Laird, Lord Laird.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/11/lord-laird-obituary
OwlsFan
13/07/2018, 3:15 PM
Last-but-one Battle of Britain fighter ‘ace’ who downed 14 enemy aircraft, most of them when he was 19 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wing-commander-tom-neil-obituary-mtw75zvpd
OwlsFan
24/07/2018, 9:45 AM
Paul Madeley once of Leeds United https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/23/paul-madeley-former-leeds-united-england-dies-age-73
OwlsFan
01/08/2018, 8:58 AM
Bernard Hepton, one of the stars of the TV series, Colditz https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/31/bernard-hepton-star-of-colditz-and-le-carre-dies-aged-92
nigel-harps1954
16/08/2018, 3:27 PM
Aretha Franklin gone to the great gig in the sky.

Carole Kings Tapestry is one of my favourite albums of all time. But she wrote the perfect song for someone else. This is truly one of the most powerful songs of all time by one of the biggest voices of all time.

RIP


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHsnZT7Z2yQ
pineapple stu
17/08/2018, 8:34 PM
Back in January, but Paul Alcock, aged 64.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nintchdbpict000001327128.jpg?w=960
Eminence Grise
18/08/2018, 11:03 AM
Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, aged 80.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/18/kofi-annan-former-un-secretary-general-dies

Who was it dubbed him Instant Kofi because he got to trouble spots so quickly? Private Eye? Phoenix?
OwlsFan
18/08/2018, 11:56 AM
Back in January, but Paul Alcock, aged 64.

The start of the demise of Sheff Wed. Di Canio was not supported by the club (if it was Ferguson he would have stood by his player) and was transferred and the club went downhill to be relegated 2 seasons later never to return to the Premier League.
Eminence Grise
26/08/2018, 9:52 AM
US Senator, John McCain, 81.

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2018/0826/987560-john-mccain/
Eminence Grise
26/08/2018, 6:35 PM
Playwright Neil Simon, 91.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/aug/26/neil-simon-playwright-dies-91-latest-broadway
Eminence Grise
06/09/2018, 7:18 PM
Smokey finally out-run the Bandit.

Burt Reynolds, 82. No details yet.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/hollywood-star-burt-reynolds-has-died-aged-82-37291094.html
OwlsFan
13/09/2018, 2:53 PM
Finella Fielding from a few of the Carry On... movies and others

2711
OwlsFan
17/09/2018, 1:11 PM
Actor Dudley Sutton

2714

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/15/actor-dudley-sutton-dies-aged-85
OwlsFan
18/09/2018, 8:54 AM
Former England and Ipswich player Kevin Beattie https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-45541588
pineapple stu
19/09/2018, 4:20 PM
Denis Norden (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-25738224) of It'll be Alright on the Night. And others.

Always looked old, even 20 years ago. Got to 96.
Eminence Grise
20/09/2018, 6:16 AM
Stop the lights! Bunny Carr, aged 91.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/0920/994889-bunny-carr/
OwlsFan
20/09/2018, 10:02 AM
Stop the lights! Bunny Carr, aged 91.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/0920/994889-bunny-carr/

Bunny: What's Hitler's first name ?
Contestant: Heil !!

Must have been tough at school having the name Bunny.
the 12 th man
20/09/2018, 4:31 PM
Bunny: What's Hitler's first name ?
Contestant: Heil !!

Must have been tough at school having the name Bunny.

Knew a guy called Les Behan...
Eminence Grise
20/09/2018, 4:33 PM
Had a lecturer in college who knew Bunny, and given the subject matter we were studying Carr Communications used to come up regularly. Every time it did, someone would ask with wide-eyed innocence: 'Bunny Carr? Isn't he the fella who ran off with all that money from Gorta?' Not a word of truth in it, but the lecturer would spend the next ten minutes solidly defending the bould Bunny and we just kicked back and enjoyed the show.

He's retired, and I now have his job. But I tell you, if any smart-alec tries the likes of it with me... I'll probably fall into the same trap!
OwlsFan
24/09/2018, 9:04 AM
Chas from Chas and Dave fame https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45620174
tetsujin1979
28/09/2018, 10:08 AM
the football journalist James Lawton passed away yesterday, at the age of 75. Always enjoyed his work.
the 12 th man
01/10/2018, 8:10 PM
Geoffrey from kids show "Rainbow" https://news.sky.com/story/rainbow-presenter-geoffrey-hayes-dies-aged-76-11514303
OwlsFan
02/10/2018, 9:20 AM
Charles Aznavour, one of a handful of French crooners who made it big in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/01/from-drag-queens-to-dead-marriages-charles-aznavour-was-far-from-easy-listening
the 12 th man
02/10/2018, 4:51 PM
We very harshly used to call him Charles Aznovoice...
Eminence Grise
02/10/2018, 8:03 PM
Well, eventually you were proven right...
Eminence Grise
02/10/2018, 8:20 PM
Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham, 78, in Lubbock, TX: the Peggy Sue of the Buddy Holly song.
http://time.com/5413125/peggy-sue-gerron-dies-buddy-holly-song/
paul_oshea
03/10/2018, 12:40 PM
Charles Aznavour, one of a handful of French crooners who made it big in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/01/from-drag-queens-to-dead-marriages-charles-aznavour-was-far-from-easy-listening

sold 180million records too and did a lot for charity. He was of armenian descent parents displaced during the genocide.