Re: Celebrity Death List MMXIX/The Death Thread 2019

by Big Dog Wed 11 Dec 2019, 19:38

David Bellamy. Dead at 86

by skully Thu 12 Dec 2019, 01:27

by JGK Thu 12 Dec 2019, 01:47

Just before the Tories will the election.

by Blackadder Thu 12 Dec 2019, 09:36

JGK wrote:Just before the Tories will the election.

Poor bastard couldn't stand more Tories shambles.

by Big Dog Fri 13 Dec 2019, 20:49

RIP Peter Snell. Great middle distance runner.

by skully Sat 14 Dec 2019, 23:02

by horace Sun 15 Dec 2019, 01:18

Big Dog wrote:RIP Peter Snell. Great middle distance runner.

great runner for (in his sleep?) for the Snoozies. As a lad I was very interested in middle distance running when the challenge of breaking the 4 minute mile was live. IIRC Snell came a little after but was a great miler and half miler.

by WideWally Tue 17 Dec 2019, 11:50

RIP Basil Butcher.

A top class batsman & member of the outstanding West Indies teams of the 60s.

by skully Tue 17 Dec 2019, 12:15

by taipan Tue 17 Dec 2019, 14:39

horace wrote:
Big Dog wrote:RIP Peter Snell. Great middle distance runner.

great runner for (in his sleep?) for the Snoozies. As a lad I was very interested in middle distance running when the challenge of breaking the 4 minute mile was live. IIRC Snell came a little after but was a great miler and half miler.

I think Bannister was 54. Snell and Elliot late 50s/60s. Then Ron Clarke

by horace Fri 20 Dec 2019, 21:54

taipan wrote:
horace wrote:
Big Dog wrote:RIP Peter Snell. Great middle distance runner.

great runner for (in his sleep?) for the Snoozies. As a lad I was very interested in middle distance running when the challenge of breaking the 4 minute mile was live. IIRC Snell came a little after but was a great miler and half miler.

I think Bannister was 54. Snell and Elliot late 50s/60s. Then Ron Clarke

Thought Bannister broke the 4 minutes a bit later than 54. IIRC, a month or so later John Landy beat Bannister's record. In the 50s and 60's, middle distance racing was part of the popular imagination in Oz - prolly because we had a number of world class runners. Athletic meets attracted huge crowds. Their feats often made the front and back pages of our local papers. Nowadays it rarely cracks a mention.

by taipan Sat 21 Dec 2019, 07:23

A quick google confirms 1954

by WideWally Sat 21 Dec 2019, 19:59

RIP Martin Peters

by skully Sat 21 Dec 2019, 21:20

RIP.

That's 5 from the 66 World Cup winning team (Peters, Alan Ball, Ray Wilson, Gordon Banks and Bobby Moore).

by Red Mon 23 Dec 2019, 00:34

Former Victorian premier John Cain has passed away aged eighty-eight.

by horace Mon 23 Dec 2019, 04:30

Red wrote:Former Victorian premier John Cain has passed away aged eighty-eight.

RIP. John was a top drawer quality person. The National Tennis Centre was built on his insistence as was the light towers at the G.. I hope the centre or a court is named after him. He left positive contributions in just every aspect of public life. A demon worker, post politics he gave lectures and did some research at Melbourne Uni for a long time. A most decent man.

by JGK Mon 23 Dec 2019, 07:02

horace wrote:
Red wrote:Former Victorian premier John Cain has passed away aged eighty-eight.

RIP. John was a top drawer quality person. The National Tennis Centre was built on his insistence as was the light towers at the G.. I hope the centre or a court is named after him. He left positive contributions in just every aspect of public life. A demon worker, post politics he gave lectures and did some research at Melbourne Uni for a long time. A most decent man.

Didn't he send Victoria broke?

by horace Mon 23 Dec 2019, 10:50

JGK wrote:
horace wrote:
Red wrote:Former Victorian premier John Cain has passed away aged eighty-eight.

RIP. John was a top drawer quality person. The National Tennis Centre was built on his insistence as was the light towers at the G.. I hope the centre or a court is named after him. He left positive contributions in just every aspect of public life. A demon worker, post politics he gave lectures and did some research at Melbourne Uni for a long time. A most decent man.

Didn't he send Victoria broke?

dumbarse bankers and Pyramid Building Society did that. His government carried the can.

by skully Thu 26 Dec 2019, 22:46

With 5 days left, latest status. Only 7 knocked off this year (so far).

skully wrote:Leah Bracknell (English actress) DEADED
Linda Nolan (Irish singer / actress)
Babiker Awadalla (former Prime Minister of Sudan) DEADED
George Haigh (oldest surviving English footballer) DEADED
Sir Stirling Moss (F1 legend)
Jack Miller (Aus MotoGP rider) – u30

Big Dog wrote:Bob Hawke (Politics) DEADED
Carol Channing DEADED
Little Richard
Ronnie Wood
Neil Harvey (Sport)
Lil Yachty (U30)

Fred Nerk wrote:Ben Cousins (sport)
Dame Margaret Guilfoyle (pols)
James O. Allsup (u-30) - US alt right Rent-a-mouth, the new millennium's latest and most obnoxious strain of instant sleb
Barry Humphries
Peter Noone (Herman of Hermits fame)
Dr Bruce Reid

OP Tipping wrote:Franco Menichelli (sport)
René Felber (politics)
Post Malone (U30)
Phil Rudd (drummer)
Bill Wyman (guitarist)
Carole Ann Ford (actress)

horace wrote:Eric Abetz - far right Oz politician
Derryn Hinch - motor mouth Oz politician
Garfield Sobers - legend
Jamie Oliver - bell-end fraudulent cook
Emma Watson - under 30 actress
Nick Cave - legend musician

Red wrote:Majak Daw (under 30)
Clive Palmer (politics)
Ray Illingworth (sport)
Prince Phillip
Betty White
Olivia de Havilland

JGK wrote:The Iron Sheik (sport)
Vera Lynn
Clive James DEADED
Henry Kissinger
Mikhail Gorbachev (politics)
Sophia Florsch (u30 race car driver)

Growler wrote:Jimmy Carter - Ex POTUS (Politics)
Sir Alex Ferguson - Legendary Man U manager (Sport)
Jennifer Lawrence - Actress (Under 30)
Paul McCartney - Beatle
Jimmy Osmond - singer
Rose West - Mass Murderer

Blackadder wrote:Olivia Newton John
Rico Nasty (u/30 Hip Hop Artist)
Bob Simpson (sport)
Al Gore (politics)
Bob Barker
Vin Scully

embee wrote:Bill Lawry
Chris Yarran
Carmen Lawrence
Catherine Birnie
Bradley Edwards (accused claremont serial killer)
Harley Bennell u-30

Bradman wrote:Jimmy Hannan DEADED
Nobby Stiles (sport)
Akihito (Emperor of Japan - politics)
Neale Daniher
Nick Jonas (u30)
Johnny Clegg

by skully Fri 27 Dec 2019, 22:34

4 days for Mr Dog to kill off Little Richard, Ronnie Wood, Neil Harvey or Lil Yachty.

by lardbucket Sun 29 Dec 2019, 02:29

Just noticed on a music site that Sue Lyon (former Donovan squeeze and star of Lolita and Night of the Iguana popped her clogs recently.

by Big Dog Sun 29 Dec 2019, 05:36

lardbucket wrote:Just noticed on a music site that Sue Lyon (former Donovan squeeze and star of Lolita and Night of the Iguana popped her clogs recently.

Married five times. Seemed she was 'squeezed' quite a bit. Twisted Evil

by lardbucket Tue 31 Dec 2019, 01:21

Neil Innes. A sad way to end 2019.

by lardbucket Tue 31 Dec 2019, 04:14

by OP Tipping Tue 31 Dec 2019, 13:08

Nice work, skully

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