Re: Celebrity Death List MMXXIV/The Death Thread 2024

[skully]

One wonders why he martyred himself by coming back to Russia for his inevitable imprisonment and death.

I'm not a violent man, but a jacketed hollow point bullet needs to have Putin's name on it.

[skully]

Have to admit, I'm amazed none of us nommed Navalny.

Ray Anthony - Glenn Miller Band trumpeter
Elizabeth Waldo - Violinist and composer
Graham Bailey - ex-Sheffield United defender
Guillermo Antonio Rodríguez - former dictator of Ecuador
Caren Marsh Doll - old stage actor and dancer
Foolio - u30 rapper

Graeme Pollock (sport)
Barry Jones (pols)
David Dobrik (born 1996) - an 'Influencer'
Shirley McLaine
Eric Burdon
John Spalvins

Yvonne Chabot-Curtet (sport)
Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark (politics)
Kyle Rittenhouse (u30)
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Clint Eastwood
Ri Pyong-chol

Henry Blofeld
Barry Cable 
Ric Evans 
Clayton Oliver 
Daniel Kerr
Penny Wong

Wes Hall
Bill Lawry
Benjamin Netanyahu
Marcus King
Volodymyr Zylenskyy
Joe Biden

Dickie Bird
Gene Hackman
Ian Chappell
Ian Sinclair
MJK Smith
L'il Xan (u30 rapper)

Khamtai Siphandone (Politics)
Sandy Roberts
Vic Seixas (Sport)
June Lockhart
Eva Marie Saint
Noah Cyrus (under 30)

[embee]

Mike Procter

[lardbucket]

That’s a sad loss. What a player.

[WideWally]

RIP Mike

7 tests, 41 wkts @ 15.02, 226 runs @ 25.11
401 FC matches, 1514 wkts @ 19.53, 21936 runs @ 36.01 inc 48 centuries (6 in a row at one stage)

[skully]

Aw, RIP to a fabulous player.

[lardbucket]

5 consecutive FC centuries wasn’t it?

[WideWally]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/hundreds-in-consecutive-innings-282971

[lardbucket]

We missed a former Indian captain (half of a father-son combo, too) about a week ago.

Datta Gaekwad … a good innings, 95 years. He had been India’s oldest livingTest cricketer.

[lardbucket]

Also Andreas Brehme, who kicked the winning goal v Argentina in a WC final that was always going to deliver annoyance and pleasure in almost equal measure to England fans (Germany won, Argentina lost).

[lardbucket]

Also … the great Henry Rono of Kenya.

No Olympic competition for Kenya in 76 or 80 (boycott) but there seems little doubt he would have won several long distance medals at those meets, if he’d competed. Establishing 4 distance world records in about a month in 1978 was the feat I remember best. Incredible runner.

[Fred Nerk]

RIP Tich

The penny drops at last - the deceased one is 'Tich' from Dave Dee Dozy etc, late-60s British band who gave us the wonderful Legend of Xanadu (without a roller skate in sight

The music has never been better. Indeed RIP Tich.

[WideWally]

RIP Stan Bowles aged 75

One of my favourite footballers - a Queens Park Rangers legend

https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/2024/february/24/stan-bowles-rip/

[embee]

Steve Marsh

aged 99

Champion wozzie footballer in the 1950s

in the Australian Football Hall of Fame

[skully]

Geez, we haven't killed anyone yet in 2024 and it's March. That despite our lists being full of long term oxygen thieves.

[embee]

Lance Corporal Jack Fitzgibbon ....son of former Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon in a parachute training accident

[Fred Nerk]

RIP Steve Lawrence, aged 88 - crooner, husband and singing partner of Eydie Gorme, also played Jake & Elwood's manager in the Blues Brothers

[WideWally]

RIP Duncan Fearnley aged 83

[horace]

RIP. Put out your hand made cricket bats.

[skully]

Aye, RIP. AB used one for years.

[WideWally]

RIP Eric Carmen aged 74

[skully]

Aw shit, RIP.

[Fred Nerk]

But is he gone all the way?
RIP Eric

[lardbucket]

That was a great rock song. There’s still a cult following.

Expect he’s all by himself now, despite his earlier wishes.

[Fred Nerk]

Also RIP Karl Wallinger (Who the hell's he, I hear you ask? Well, he wrote a couple of the very best songs of the 80s: Waterboys' The Whole of the Moon, and the prophetic Ship of Fools by World Party)

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