So farewell then...

[the 12 th man]

Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel..."Come up and see me"..

[Crosby87]

Louis Gossett Jr from the film that makes all of you all tear up, An Officer And A Gentleman.

[OwlsFan]

World's oldest man, Juan Vicente Perez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Vicente_P%C3%A9rez

[Eminence Grise]

Twenty-six times capped Joe Kinnear (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/07/joe-kinnear-former-tottenham-player-and-wimbledon-manager-dies-aged-77), 77.

[EalingGreen]

Twenty-six times capped Joe Kinnear (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/07/joe-kinnear-former-tottenham-player-and-wimbledon-manager-dies-aged-77), 77.This is well worth a 10 minute sit-down with a cup of tea:
https://archive.ph/xWNck

Certainly a character was Joe!

[Crosby87]

OJ Simpson

[seanfhear]

OJ Simpson
A real bad wrong-un.

[Crosby87]

Dickey Betts of the Allmans

[tetsujin1979]

RIP Charlie Hurley
1783420710481735986

[OwlsFan]

Probably one of the few on here to see Charlie play. My parents brought me to my first game in 1962 vs Iceland (won 4-2) and Charlie played in that I think. Commanding centre back of the old school.

[OwlsFan]

Bernard Hill, the Captain in the Titanic movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Hill

[seanfhear]

Bernard Hill, the Captain in the Titanic movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Hill
Yosser Hughes ~ ~ Very famous character from the 1980's ~ From ; Boys From The Black-Stuff ~ Iconic television series set in Liverpool.

[CraftyToePoke]

Steve Albini. 61

This one got me.

[OwlsFan]

Michael "Jimmy" James, a Jamaican-British soul singer, known for songs like "Come to Me Softly", "Now Is the Time" and "I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me" https://youtu.be/FCrO2B2CkpI

Based in Britain, he performed as the lead singer of Jimmy James and the Vagabonds from the mid-1960s

[Crosby87]

Dabney Coleman....

Tootsie? Wargames? 9 to 5? Cloak and Dagger?

You lads loved him in the 80s

[Demesne Lad]

Frank Ifield, British/Australian singer and yodeler of the 1960s, aged 88; the second-ever artist (after Elvis) to score three consecutive number one singles in the UK.

[OwlsFan]

Black Lace singer Colin Gibb has danced his last conga https://www.msn.com/en-ie/entertainment/music/black-lace-founder-and-agadoo-singer-colin-gibb-dies-aged-70/ar-BB1nxk1F?ocid=winp2fp&cvid=0f5095119a644798c0b7c58557b087b8&ei=8

[pineapple stu]

William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut who took the famous Earthrise photo. Died age 90 in a plane crash - he was the pilot, so safe to say he had a full life till the end.

https://img.mobygeek.com/2018/12/26/earthrise-aa96.jpg

[D24Saint]

Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh 93 famed GAA commentator and RTE Journalist and Sligo fan Tommy Gorman 68.

[NeverFeltBetter]

"This is hurting you, isn't it?" is certainly a big part of my memories of '02.

[OwlsFan]

"This is hurting you, isn't it?" is certainly a big part of my memories of '02.

Tommy was a close friend of Keane's and a Man U fan. It was like Mary Lou interviewing Gerry Adams - no difficult question was ever going to be asked. Tommy Gorman was probably one of the few people Keane would have done the interview for.

Sad and bizarre losing two big RTE personalities on the same day. RIP.

[D24Saint]

Joe Wallace ex Wexford Youths player and son of Mick Wallace only 30 years old the chap was.

[Eminence Grise]

John O’Mahoney (https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2024/0707/1458648-double-all-ireland-winning-manager-john-omahony-dies/), former Gaelic footballer, manager and pundit, TD and Senator, and my old teacher for five years in secondary school, only 71.

He was nick-named Savage in school, one of those opposite names that only teenage lads can come up with with absolute certainty their logic is right. I don’t think I ever saw him lose his temper – and it wasn’t for lack of trying from some of the yahoos he taught…

We’re in his classroom. Two of the lads have been having fun all day, hurling insults in Aussie accents straight out of Home and Away, Season 1. 'Tim' has his arms crossed on the desk, head down on them, eyes shut. He hears the door close and thinks it’s John leaving (it’s one of the lads coming in late).
Tim: (jumps up, nearly overturning his chair) Fahck off ya pommie baaahstud.
John: What’s that, now, Tim?
Tim: (realising his mistake) Aaaah… nothing, sir. Just playing a game with one of the lads.
John: Well, maybe don’t.

Another time, checking homework in class, I realised I didn’t have mine with me. I knew it was done – mine was always done. I was sure it was in my locker. He told me to get it. But it wasn’t: I'd left it at home. Walking back to his classroom I knew I was going to get detention. I’d never been on detention (if you think I'm boring now, I was the most boring swot of a kid you could imagine!). He saw me walk in, clocked the empty hands. And carried on teaching.

That was as far as those things went. Nobody sent to the principal, no punishment handed out. No need, point made. He had a knack of knowing what worked for the person. It served him well. And those of us lucky enough to have been on the receiving end of it.

[seanfhear]

John O'Mahoney ~ ~ The Great Connaught manager of ~ Mayo / Galway / Leitrim ~ Had success with all of them and Two All-Irelands with Galway ( John being from Mayo )

[CraftyToePoke]

Shannen Doherty.
Beverly Hills 90210. RIP


Would have been the inspiration for repeated spells of me time for several on here back in the day I bet. Durty feckers.

RIP.

[SkStu]

Jacoby Jones, former Ravens WR (and won me a lot of fantasy football points), dead at 40. Found at his home.

[Crosby87]

And Richard Simmons who got you in shape!

[Crosby87]

Bob Newhart. It was a good run.

[dahamsta]

You're going too fast Mrs. Webb!

[backstothewall]

6 time world snooker champion Ray Reardon

[seanfhear]

6 time world snooker champion Ray ReardonDracula !

[Crosby87]

Learned something new-the green material on a billiards table is called baize.

[OwlsFan]

Learned something new-the green material on a billiards table is called baize.

https://foot.ie/threads/274828-Today-I-Learned/page5 Perhaps post here ?

Duke Fakir - member of the Four Tops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Fakir

[backstothewall]

UK Gladiators referee John Anderson

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jqv9dlyxwo

[OwlsFan]

Craig Shakespeare, former English football player and manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Shakespeare

[joey B]

Graham Thorpe,former England cricketer …

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/former-england-batting-star-graham-thorpe-has-died-aged-55-13191124

[seanfhear]

Graham Thorpe,former England cricketer …

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/former-england-batting-star-graham-thorpe-has-died-aged-55-13191124
55 ~ ~ Very young man.

[backstothewall]

Ta-ta for now Jack Karlson. Once guilty of eating a succulent Chinese meal.

[OwlsFan]

Phyllis Furness - Ireland's oldest person (109)

Evelyn Thomas - American singer who included among her releases the song HIGH ENERGY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Thomas

[EalingGreen]

Jimmy McLaughlin, aged 83.

Had a fine playing career and an even more distinguished management career, in the LOI, including in his native Derry.

Comprehensive profile here:
https://nifootball.blogspot.com/2007/08/jim-mclaughlin.html

[backstothewall]

Nell McCafferty

[SkStu]

Sven Goran Eriksson

[OwlsFan]

Masamitsu Yoshioka (106), last surviving Japanese airman who attacked Pearl Harbour in 1941

[OwlsFan]

Footballer Sol Bamba https://www.msn.com/en-ie/sports/football/former-premier-league-defender-dies-aged-39/ss-AA1pQiJs?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=d02f60b6ecbf409fa7a3efec96b3c8ff&ei=13

[OwlsFan]

James Darren (actor and singer) who appeared, inter alia, in the Guns of Navarone and TJ Hooker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Darren

[seanfhear]

James Darren (actor and singer) who appeared, inter alia, in the Guns of Navarone and TJ Hooker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Darren
Fine looking man ~ It has to be said.

[Eminence Grise]

I'll always associate him with The Time Tunnel (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060036/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). Loved it as a kid and managed to catch all the episodes not too long back repeated on Legend, I think it was.

[OwlsFan]

Ron Yeats, former Liverpool and Scottish international footballer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Yeats

[D24Saint]

James Earl Jones 93 , actor famous for voicing Darth Vader.

[pineapple stu]

And for narrating The Raven in the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror...