Re: Celebrity Death List MMXVII/The Death Thread 2017

[Big Dog]

'Bran Nue Day' writer, not named publicly for cultural reasons, but easily found on Google.

Jimmy Chi - Chinese/Japanese/Anglo-Australian father and a Scottish/Bardi Aboriginal mother. Thats one heck of a mix.

[JGK]

'Bran Nue Day' writer, not named publicly for cultural reasons, but easily found on Google.

Jimmy Chi - Chinese/Japanese/Anglo-Australian father and a Scottish/Bardi Aboriginal mother. Thats one heck of a mix.

Was he also gay and disabled?

[skully]

Left-handed and had a speech impediment?

[JGK]

And bald?

[WideWally]

RIP Bruce Stewart who wrote Broken Arse

and RIP Michael Bond who wrote Paddington Bear

[WideWally]

RIP Wally O'Connell

Outstanding Rugby League player in the 40s & 50s. Played five eighth for Australia, NSW, Easts & Manly & also coached Manly.

[Fred Nerk]

Another Great Wally of Australian sport......alongside Grout, Lewis, Lindrum, Steve Wallis, Shane Watson....

[JGK]

Another Great Wally of Australian sport......alongside Grout, Lewis, Lindrum, Steve Wallis, Shane Watson....

You left off the current Cricket Australia Chairman.

[horace]

And bald?

Just caught up with news of the passing of the writer. Of Bran Nue Day. He had a phenom parentage. Great film. I thought the ripostes ending with the crack about baldness were marking the demise of Skully, which would be tragic or the Mad Monk from terminal Relevance Deprivation Disorder.

[Big Dog]

John Monckton - dual Olympian

[JGK]

John Monckton - dual Olympian

He was a fencer?


I'll get me coat...

[horace]

Belated RIP for Graeme Carberry who recently passed away. One of the first AFL officials to come out-be outed as gay. Also famous for being head-butted by the thug Phil Carman.

[skully]

Wife of Marvel comics Stan Lee has died at 93. Stan himself is 93.

[Red]

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/drama/true-blood-star-nelsan-ellis-dead-at-39-20170709-gx7ipk.html

Nelsan Ellis dead at 39.

[WideWally]

Chuck Blazer

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/chuck-blazer-who-touched-off-soccer-scandal-dead-at-72/2017/07/12/1e387a80-6777-11e7-94ab-5b1f0ff459df_story.html?utm_term=.494853d43222

[lardbucket]

A sad day - the only woman ever to win the Fields Mathematics Prize, gone at just 40 years of age. Breast cancer ...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-16/renowned-mathematician-dies/8712838

[skully]

Breast cancer - wotaqunt.

RIP Prof. Mirzakhani .

[JGK]

Martin Landau, 89.

[skully]

RIP. I have the Mission Impossible theme as my ring tone.

[Bradman]

RIP. I have the Mission Impossible theme as my ring tone.

Appropriate.

[Big Dog]

RIP George A. Romero. Father of the Zombie movie genre.

[taipan]

RIP George A. Romero. Father of the Zombie movie genre.

How do you know he's dead?

[Big Dog]

RIP George A. Romero. Father of the Zombie movie genre.

How do you know he's dead?

Heh heh. I thought about adding a note.

[Growler]

Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, aged just 41.

Suicide by hanging at his home this morning, according to reports.

, and sadness for his 2 wives and six children.

Linky

[skully]

Shit!!! What a waste of a highly talented man.

RIP Chester.

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