Re: Celebrity Death List MMXXIV/The Death Thread 2024

[lardbucket]

Ken Palmer, former English Test cricketer (just once) and later Test umpire.

[skully]

RIP.

[Fred Nerk]

RIP or something like that, professional Toorak 'kept woman' and anti-feminist rent-a-gob from the 1980s, the appallingly named and generally just appalling Babette Francis. (No known evidence that Babbles was Bruce's mother, Lardy, but willing to hear submissions on the matter)

[lardbucket]

Appallingly named - I agree. Had she never thought of changing her name to Babette Lamington- Nurdler, or indeed anything more respectable than the unfortunate Francis?

Even Babette Smith would have been OK.

[Red]

RIP Raymond Lawler who was a seminal Australian playwright.

[Fred Nerk]

Best known for'Summer of the 17th Doll'.

Aged 103, probably close to exactly 100 years after the last time he was called 'Raymond'.

[WideWally]

RIP Anshuman Gaekwad, aged 71

He played 40 tests for India between 1974 & 1984 mainly as an opening batsman. His father Datta Gaekwad, also an test cricketer, passed away earlier this year.

[Fred Nerk]

If Billy B had heard of him he would doubtless have been much better known by now as Inhuman Awkward
Was a late addition to the 77-78 Oz venture after Mohinder Amarnath's little bro got injured. A grafting opener who suffered from always having at least one same-only-better player ahead of him. Also served on BCCI for many years (unless I'm very much Murray W)

[WideWally]

He only played 1 test against Australia but 22 against West Indies!

[skully]

RIP.

[lardbucket]

He only played 1 test against Australia but 22 against West Indies!

Could have made himself unavailable for some of those difficult matches (“done a Boycott”).

[embee]

Sunny had already played that card

[lardbucket]

I have just become aware of the recent demise of an Australian Nobel laureate, Robin Warren, who shared his Nobel Prize for Medicine with Barry Marshall after they discovered the cause of most peptic ulcer disease to be Helicobacter pylori, and thus curable with antibiotics rather than the previously employed barbaric surgery and/or endless gastric acid neutralisation or suppression. Their discovery (Warren was the pathologist who saw the organism on the biopsy slides) has improved the lives of millions. I would have expected more publicity of his passing, and grateful public acknowledgment of his contribution to science and medicine.

[skully]

RIP Graham Thorpe at 55 after mystery illness since mid-2022.

News released 15 minutes ago by Surrey.

[skully]

Given Thorpe's illness (still no details), maybe we missed an opportunity.

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) DEADED
June Lockhart
Eva Marie Saint
Noah Cyrus (under 30)

[skully]

Bump

All time Noms list in spoiler tags for space reasons.

Spoiler:

[Fred Nerk]

Rot in hell William Lewis Calley

The scapegoat for the My Lai massacre, sentence to life in klink, served six months....

[lardbucket]

Multiple Grammy winner, genius keyboardist Shaun Martin of the great jazz ensemble Snarky Puppy. I was lucky to see him / them play twice.

[Fred Nerk]

Turned out I was a couple of years early re centenarian Oz playwright Ray Lawler

[lardbucket]

Jack Karlson, legend.

[lardbucket]

just noted: Chi Chi Rodriguez, golfer, golf’s Hall of Fame.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-Chi_Rodríguez

[lardbucket]

We also missed the recent passing of Maurice Williams, who wrote this when he was 15 years old:

(Most will be more familiar with later versions)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Z_hskvz1M

[skully]

just noted: Chi Chi Rodriguez, golfer, golf’s Hall of Fame.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-Chi_Rodríguez

RIP Chi Chi.

[skully]

RIP to he Byron Bay Bluesfest after 35 years. Next year's event will be the last.

lardy will be very sad about that.

[lardbucket]

I’ll be there though.

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