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Hadn't see this. Big Buddy Holly fan!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
Doug "Deadly" Ellis, former chairman of Aston Villa https://www.theguardian.com/football...ellis-obituary
Peter Brackley, the football commentator has died. He did a lot of the football Italia games.
Just came to post the same thing. Sad news. Great commentator.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...italia-dies-67
yeah saw it online last night on twitter. had forgotten he was on channel 4s italian soccer in the early 90s!
Paul Allen, co founder of Microsoft (not the Spurs midfielder of the 1990s)
Easy mistake to make since booting was a feature of both their careers.
Cheer up, Charlie...
Actress, Diana Sowle, aged 88. Mrs Bucket in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/201...the-age-of-88/
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
Comic Book icon Stan Lee dead at 95
Irish crooner Sonny Knowles https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/201...-died-aged-86/
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/201...n-dies-aged-87
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.
Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor best known for her role as Harriet Oleson in Little House on the Prairie. https://www.today.com/popculture/lit...ies-93-t142056
Don't look now. English director, Nicholas Roeg.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34603072
A bit late but BBC newsreader Richard Baker https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainme...eporting-story
Pete Shelley.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46476369
Peter Armitage who appeared in a fair few episodes of Coronation Street died a week or so ago https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-a8669026.html
Actress Sondra Locke https://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...8a70b031d41c75
Former Lib Dem leader, Paddy Ashdown, 77.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...n-dies-aged-77
Paddy Pantsdown as the press dubbed him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
Been a fairly high rate of attrition over the festive season…
Sister Wendy Beckett, art critic and TV presenter, 88
https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...ckett-obituary
June Whitfield, actress, 93.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...field-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/soc...-37671618.html
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 !
Phil Masinga, Leeds and South Africa striker, 49.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2019...-dies-aged-49/
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
RIP.
Long suffering TV-husband of Hyacinth Bucket, Clive Swift, 82.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/201...-dies-aged-82/
Dick Miller - Murray Futterman in Gremlins - 90.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47069723
Jeremy Hardy
Comedian & radio presenter
https://www.independent.ie/entertain...-37772892.html
Actor Albert Finney https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47175304
and former RTE Presenter Arthur Murphy https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/201...-died-aged-90/
Someone who you may have thanked from time to time, Stewart Adams, credited with developing ibuprofen.
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/...ingham-2490268
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2019/0...stewart-adams/
It was invented in Nottingham, which is fortunate now that Keano is back in town. Betcha the first team players are already stockpiling it...
England World Cup winning goal-keeper Gordon Banks https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47196017
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
Kissing sailor in iconic NY World War Two photo https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0218/10...ilor-new-york/
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The woman died in 2016.
They'll hardly bury him, will they? I mean, the establishment couldn't subject him to another cover up.
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.
Peter Tork of the Monkees https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47319788
No more Talk Talk for Mark Hollis https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/m...t-64-1.3806214