So farewell then... [Archive] - Page 51

D24Saint

15/02/2020, 6:12 PM

Caroline Flack, 40 years old.

Suicide apparently, very sad anyone in a similar boat reach out for help !

Eminence Grise

17/02/2020, 6:28 AM

Harry Gregg, ex NI and Man Utd keeper, 87.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2020/0217/1115734-united-legend-hero-of-munich-harry-gregg-dies-aged-87/

John83

17/02/2020, 11:30 AM

Caroline Flack, 40 years old.

Suicide apparently, very sad anyone in a similar boat reach out for help !
I'd never heard of her, but it seems she got a hard time in the papers (understandably enough) after a domestic violence charge. I'll let folks google for the salacious details.

pineapple stu

17/02/2020, 11:56 AM

A lot of stuff on social media too afaik.

Would people really complain if Twitter were shut down?

NeverFeltBetter

17/02/2020, 1:14 PM

Harry Gregg, ex NI and Man Utd keeper, 87.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2020/0217/1115734-united-legend-hero-of-munich-harry-gregg-dies-aged-87/

Only remaining footballing survivor of that crash is Bobby Charlton (one stewardess and a couple of other passengers are still alive). Gregg pulled him from the wreckage.

Eminence Grise

09/03/2020, 12:38 PM

Actor Max von Sydow, 90.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/09/max-von-sydow-star-of-the-exorcist-and-the-seventh-seal-dies-aged-90 (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/09/max-von-sydow-star-of-the-exorcist-and-the-seventh-seal-dies-aged-90)

Closed Account 2

19/03/2020, 3:31 PM

Peter Whittingham, ex Cardiff City and Aston Villa footballer has died aged 35.

SkStu

21/03/2020, 6:19 AM

Kenny Rogers, 81. He wrote some damn fine music.

nigel-harps1954

22/03/2020, 2:17 PM

Kenny Rogers, 81. He wrote some damn fine music.

He was a damn fine singer. Didn't write too much of his songs..

pineapple stu

22/03/2020, 2:23 PM

Lorenzo Sanz (https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51991851), ex Real Madrid President. Died of coronavirus aged 76.

Also Betty Williams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Williams_(peace_activist)), who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the Peace People movement in Derry in the 70s.

Eminence Grise

24/03/2020, 9:43 AM

Tragicomix...

Albert Uderzo, indomitable Gaul and co-creator of Asterix, 92, in his sleep of heart complications.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/24/asterix-creator-albert-uderzo-dies-at-92

the 12 th man

02/04/2020, 3:56 PM

Eddie Large,one half of Little and Large,in hospital for something else when he got Covid-19.

nigel-harps1954

03/04/2020, 4:32 PM

https://news.sky.com/story/bill-withers-dies-singers-hits-include-lean-on-me-and-aint-no-sunshine-11968103

Bill Withers.

Ain't no sunshine when he's gone.

pineapple stu

04/04/2020, 12:12 PM

Alan Merrill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Merrill) of the Arrows (A Touch Too Much, I Love Rock n Roll - later covered by Joan Jet), of coronavirus.

Eminence Grise

06/04/2020, 4:04 PM

Honor Blackman, 94, Bond Girl and Avenger. A full life, she achieved go leor.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/06/honor-blackman-james-bond-pussy-galore-avengers-dies-aged-94

the 12 th man

06/04/2020, 4:09 PM

Pep Guardiola's mother.

Closed Account 2

06/04/2020, 10:24 PM

Radomir "Raddy" Antic, a great player back in the day and more recently a double winning manager with Atletico Madrid. Also managed Real Madrid and Barcelona.

dejadem

09/04/2020, 11:36 AM

John Prine, complications related to COVID-19

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/john-prine-obit-253684/

D24Saint

12/04/2020, 12:08 PM

Sterling Moss has finally completed the race , RIP.

the 12 th man

12/04/2020, 1:09 PM

Tim Brooke Taylor of The Goodies fame.

pineapple stu

12/04/2020, 3:10 PM

Peter "The Cat" Bonetti (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/12/peter-bonetti-former-chelsea-and-england-goalkeeper-dies-aged-78), of the 1970 World Cup match against Germany fame, and latterly a postman on the Isle of Mull.

Another of the 1966 squad gone.

pineapple stu

17/04/2020, 11:34 AM

Very quickly followed by Norman "bite yer legs" Hunter, of coronavirus

D24Saint

17/04/2020, 12:49 PM

Brian Dennehy actor RIP he played a fine Bull McCabe and he was great in Rambo.

jbyrne

28/04/2020, 8:29 AM

michael robinson RIP..... one of my early Irish international heroes...

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/former-ireland-international-michael-robinson-dies-aged-61-1.4239844

dejadem

04/05/2020, 7:39 AM

Sam Lloyd (lawyer Ted Buckland in Scrubs)

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2020/0502/1136243-scrubs-actor-sam-lloyd-dies-at-55/

John83

04/05/2020, 11:48 AM

Sam Lloyd (lawyer Ted Buckland in Scrubs)

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2020/0502/1136243-scrubs-actor-sam-lloyd-dies-at-55/
Oh no.

In January 2019, Lloyd was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and cancer in January 2019, just weeks after his wife, Vanessa, gave birth to their first child.
There's no good way or time to die, but that has to be one of the worst. Imagine the guilt you'd feel, knowing your kid was about to grow up without a dad, you wife was about to become a single mother.

I only really know his work on Scrubs, which is a minor recurring role but he was great in it.

the 12 th man

04/05/2020, 9:10 PM

Dave Greenfield from The Stranglers died today https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52537293

the 12 th man

17/06/2020, 8:19 AM

Willie Thorne Snooker player/commentator.

Eminence Grise

18/06/2020, 9:00 AM

Vera Lynn, 103. Bluebirds grounded till further notice.

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2020-06-18/vera-lynn-dead-dies-well-meet-again/

Eminence Grise

19/06/2020, 12:28 PM

Ian Holm, actor, 88, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/19/ian-holm-dies-alien-chariots-of-fire-bilbo-baggins, and Spanish author (The Shadow of the Wind) Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 55, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/19/carlos-ruiz-zafon-author-of-the-shadow-of-the-wind-dies-aged-55.

Eminence Grise

28/06/2020, 9:56 PM

Clive James Postcards from... was one of the TV shows I remember. That and his Guardian column 'Reports of my Death'. Oh! He also gave us the Cuban pop sensation that is Margarita Pracataaaaaan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=8hpkP2mb4SA&feature=emb_logo)...

And seven months on Clives James and Margarita Pracatan are a double act again.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jun/26/margarita-pracatan-obituary

the 12 th man

06/07/2020, 9:00 AM

Legendary Composer Ennio Morricone.

D24Saint

06/07/2020, 9:32 AM

Legendary Composer Ennio Morricone.

A lot of his work is legendary but gabriel's oboe from the mission is my personal favourite.

peadar1987

11/07/2020, 7:10 PM

RIP Big Jack

the 12 th man

13/07/2020, 8:26 AM

Actress Kelly Preston,succumbed to breast cancer.

The Donie Forde

17/07/2020, 8:37 AM

Gerry Coyne, ex Cork Hibs and Limerick, passed away last Saturday aged 72.

D24Saint

29/08/2020, 7:46 AM

Chadwick Boseman RIP , he was fine actor in movies like The Blank Panther, 42 & Get On Up.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/chadwick-boseman-obit/

D24Saint

31/08/2020, 8:59 AM

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2020/0831/1162260-ex-carlisle-united-owner-john-courtenay-dies-aged-70/

John Courtenay of Umbro & Carlisle fame RIP.

tetsujin1979

01/09/2020, 10:59 PM

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2020/0831/1162260-ex-carlisle-united-owner-john-courtenay-dies-aged-70/

John Courtenay of Umbro & Carlisle fame RIP.

Did he have a login here?

backstothewall

12/09/2020, 12:12 AM

Diane Rigg (aka Tracy Bond)

CraftyToePoke

12/09/2020, 6:28 PM

Jamaican reggae pioneer Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert, 77.

Pressure Drop & more

the 12 th man

16/09/2020, 8:21 PM

Pat Smullen Flat jockey at 43 from pancreatic cancer.

tetsujin1979

16/09/2020, 9:55 PM

Pat Smullen Flat jockey at 43 from pancreatic cancer.

That has a really low survival rate, two friends of mine have lost parents to it, and it's what Liam Miller had.

osarusan

21/09/2020, 7:00 PM

Ang Rita 'Snow Leopard' Sherpa, the only man to climb Everest 10 times without bottled oxygen, and the first (and I believe, only) man to, incredibly, summit Everest without bottled oxygen during winter.

the 12 th man

06/10/2020, 7:49 PM

Eminence Grise

06/10/2020, 9:29 PM

Oldies? Would you ever go take a flying Jump for yourself!!

John83

07/10/2020, 12:15 AM

Oldies? Would you ever go take a flying Jump for yourself!!
I didn't know you were into classical music, Eminence. :p

nigel-harps1954

07/10/2020, 12:23 AM

One for the oldies here,musician Eddie Van Halen dead at 65

https://www.wrtv.com/entertainment/legendary-musician-eddie-van-halen-dies-at-age-65?fbclid=IwAR3eKaxItyrv9xLJ_O074WhIlw5VGHBXoYTmcc lRzExzXPEZ7sQtPDcLODA

I was terribly upset by this news earlier.

Now I'm more upset at being labelled as an oldie