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DeLorean
03/10/2018, 12:52 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/

Hadn't see this. Big Buddy Holly fan!
OwlsFan
12/10/2018, 8:57 AM
Doug "Deadly" Ellis, former chairman of Aston Villa https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/oct/11/sir-doug-ellis-obituary
Closed Account 2
14/10/2018, 9:34 PM
Peter Brackley, the football commentator has died. He did a lot of the football Italia games.
nigel-harps1954
14/10/2018, 10:35 PM
Just came to post the same thing. Sad news. Great commentator.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/oct/14/peter-brackley-tv-broadcaster-channel-4-football-italia-dies-67
Martinho II
15/10/2018, 12:53 PM
yeah saw it online last night on twitter. had forgotten he was on channel 4s italian soccer in the early 90s!
Closed Account 2
16/10/2018, 12:03 AM
Paul Allen, co founder of Microsoft (not the Spurs midfielder of the 1990s)
Eminence Grise
17/10/2018, 8:23 AM
Easy mistake to make since booting was a feature of both their careers.
The Fly
17/10/2018, 1:58 PM
https://orig00.deviantart.net/c497/f/2007/145/c/d/ba_dum__ching_by_draygone.gif
Eminence Grise
22/10/2018, 10:02 PM
Cheer up, Charlie...

Actress, Diana Sowle, aged 88. Mrs Bucket in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/1022/1005997-willy-wonka-star-diana-sowle-has-died-at-the-age-of-88/
pineapple stu
29/10/2018, 6:58 AM
The Leicester chairman is now confirmed to have been one of five who died in that helicopter crash on Saturday.

Looking at it, you can't help but think how much worse it could have been if it had happened ten minutes earlier - when people were still coming out of the ground - or two minutes later, when the helicopter would have been over houses/streets/shops rather than an empty car park
backstothewall
12/11/2018, 5:53 PM
Comic Book icon Stan Lee dead at 95
OwlsFan
16/11/2018, 10:25 AM
Irish crooner Sonny Knowles https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/1115/1011142-singer-sonny-knowles-has-died-aged-86/
Eminence Grise
16/11/2018, 2:01 PM
William Goldman, prolific novellist and screen writer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Marathon Man,The Princess Bride, Misery). Sadly, not mostly dead.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/16/butch-cassidy-and-princess-bride-scriptwriter-william-goldman-dies-aged-87
osarusan
20/11/2018, 8:08 PM
Paul Carr, former Limerick and Waterford United player.

I watched him play as a kid, he had huge talent. He can't have been much older than 50 either, if even that.
OwlsFan
23/11/2018, 9:37 AM
Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor best known for her role as Harriet Oleson in Little House on the Prairie. https://www.today.com/popculture/little-house-prairie-star-katherine-macgregor-dies-93-t142056
Eminence Grise
25/11/2018, 2:19 PM
Don't look now. English director, Nicholas Roeg.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34603072
OwlsFan
30/11/2018, 12:53 PM
A bit late but BBC newsreader Richard Baker https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41023864?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cywd23g0g3wt/obituaries&link_location=live-reporting-story
The Good Son
06/12/2018, 9:35 PM
Pete Shelley.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46476369
OwlsFan
14/12/2018, 10:48 AM
Peter Armitage who appeared in a fair few episodes of Coronation Street died a week or so ago https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/peter-armitage-dead-coronation-street-died-bill-webster-age-itv-a8669026.html
the 12 th man
15/12/2018, 12:22 PM
Actress Sondra Locke https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/she-deserved-better-star-sondra-lockes-obituary-slammed-online/news-story/34a56d7ab7b7211fcd8a70b031d41c75
Eminence Grise
22/12/2018, 9:48 PM
Former Lib Dem leader, Paddy Ashdown, 77.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/22/former-liberal-democrat-leader-paddy-ashdown-dies-aged-77
OwlsFan
27/12/2018, 9:58 AM
Former Lib Dem leader, Paddy Ashdown, 77.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/22/former-liberal-democrat-leader-paddy-ashdown-dies-aged-77

Paddy Pantsdown as the press dubbed him.
Eminence Grise
01/01/2019, 11:07 AM
Been a fairly high rate of attrition over the festive season…

Sister Wendy Beckett, art critic and TV presenter, 88
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/26/sister-wendy-beckett-obituary

June Whitfield, actress, 93.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/dec/29/june-whitfield-obituary

Ray Sawyer, the-one-with-the-eye-patch in Dr Hook and the Medicine Show, 81
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46724288

Peter Thompson, Liverpool and England winger twice cut from World Cup squads, 76.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/premier-league/liverpool/reds-winger-thompson-much-more-than-a-nearly-man-37671618.html
OwlsFan
07/01/2019, 3:58 PM
Can't believe June Whitfield was 93 ! Peter Thompson the hero of many a Liverpool fan I know. Similar type style to Steve Heighway if I recall but the Kop don't sing about Thompson !
Eminence Grise
13/01/2019, 9:34 AM
Phil Masinga, Leeds and South Africa striker, 49.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2019/0113/1022909-former-leeds-striker-phil-masinga-dies-aged-49/
osarusan
25/01/2019, 7:51 PM
Football journalist Hugh McIlvanney.
The Fly
26/01/2019, 10:18 PM
Football journalist Hugh McIlvanney.

It was always a delight to read his work and it feels somewhat demeaning to apply the prefix of 'sports' before 'writer' to describe him.

RIP.
Eminence Grise
01/02/2019, 5:18 PM
Long suffering TV-husband of Hyacinth Bucket, Clive Swift, 82.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2019/0201/1027015-keeping-up-appearances-star-clive-swift-dies-aged-82/

Dick Miller - Murray Futterman in Gremlins - 90.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47069723
dejadem
05/02/2019, 7:08 AM
Jeremy Hardy
Comedian & radio presenter
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/comedian-jeremy-hardy-dies-aged-57-after-suffering-from-cancer-37772892.html
OwlsFan
08/02/2019, 3:11 PM
Actor Albert Finney https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47175304

and former RTE Presenter Arthur Murphy https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2019/0208/1028393-rte-presenter-arthur-murphy-has-died-aged-90/
dejadem
11/02/2019, 8:26 AM
Someone who you may have thanked from time to time, Stewart Adams, credited with developing ibuprofen.
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/business/inventor-ibuprofen-created-boots-nottingham-2490268
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2019/0201/1026847-ibuprofen-stewart-adams/
Eminence Grise
11/02/2019, 12:38 PM
It was invented in Nottingham, which is fortunate now that Keano is back in town. Betcha the first team players are already stockpiling it...
OwlsFan
12/02/2019, 9:42 AM
England World Cup winning goal-keeper Gordon Banks https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47196017
Eminence Grise
16/02/2019, 11:09 AM
Bruno Ganz, 77. Swiss actor best known for playing Hitler in Downfall and Jonathan Harker in Werner Herzog's Nosferatu.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47264709
OwlsFan
19/02/2019, 10:31 AM
Kissing sailor in iconic NY World War Two photo https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0218/1031339-iconic-kissing-sailor-new-york/

2764

The woman died in 2016.
ForzaForth
19/02/2019, 10:55 AM
John Stalker
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/17/john-stalker-obituary
Eminence Grise
19/02/2019, 7:37 PM
They'll hardly bury him, will they? I mean, the establishment couldn't subject him to another cover up.
Eminence Grise
20/02/2019, 7:41 AM
Announced on Morning Ireland, but no link yet: Prof David Fitzpatrick, TCD historian and author, 71, after a short illness. One of the most influential historians of 19th-20th century Ireland over the past 40 years. Mentor and friend.
OwlsFan
21/02/2019, 5:46 PM
Peter Tork of the Monkees https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47319788
OwlsFan
26/02/2019, 2:15 PM
No more Talk Talk for Mark Hollis https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/mark-hollis-talk-talk-lead-singer-dead-at-64-1.3806214
OwlsFan
04/03/2019, 12:40 PM
Prodigy lead singer, Keith Flint https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2019/0304/1034174-keith-flint/
Fizzer
04/03/2019, 6:17 PM
Luke Perry, janey the stalwarts of my 90’s childhood are dropping like flies.
tetsujin1979
05/03/2019, 8:05 AM
King Kong Bundy, headlined WrestleMania II with Hulk Hogan.
Eminence Grise
18/03/2019, 8:45 AM
Former FG Finance minister, Richie Ryan, 90. Called Richie Ruin on Hall's Pictorial Weekly amidst the strikes and oil crises.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0317/1037005-richie-ryan-death/
OwlsFan
25/03/2019, 3:45 PM
My great friend, Dick O'Rafferty, who was one of the 10 guys I would invariably go to away games with. Dick died from a brain tumour on Sunday night. His last match was the away defeat in Wales. He was a "voyeur" on foot.ie and would often comment in person to me on posts he saw on the site but he never told me what his nickname or handle was or whether he ever posted.

2783
Eminence Grise
25/03/2019, 7:03 PM
Sorry to hear that, Owlsfan.... Hard to lose a friend....



Scott Walker, Walker Brothers and enigmatic solo artist, 76.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/25/scott-walker-experimental-pop-hero-dies-aged-76

The little clock's stopped ticking now... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLOTAJQF0Fo)
tetsujin1979
26/03/2019, 2:30 PM
Very sorry to hear that OwlsFan, RIP.
nigel-harps1954
26/03/2019, 2:43 PM
Sorry to hear that OwlsFan. Tough to lose a close friend. May he rest in peace.
passinginterest
26/03/2019, 6:07 PM
My great friend, Dick O'Rafferty, who was one of the 10 guys I would invariably go to away games with. Dick died from a brain tumour on Sunday night. His last match was the away defeat in Wales. He was a "voyeur" on foot.ie and would often comment in person to me on posts he saw on the site but he never told me what his nickname or handle was or whether he ever posted.

2783

A former colleague. Never worked together but would have bumped into him a few times via golf society. An absolute gentleman by all accounts, was speaking to a few colleagues this evening who worked with him and were very cut up at the news. Condolences to you Owlsfan. RIP.
Eminence Grise
27/03/2019, 8:51 PM
You've probably seen this, OF and PI, but if not it's a very fine tribute to your friend.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/international-soccer/vincent-hogan-the-very-best-irishman-i-knew-didnt-make-it-to-the-aviva-stadium-last-night-37956956.html