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German soccer player Andreas Brehme, most famous for kicking the winning goal for Germany against Argentina in the 1990 FIFA World Cup Fina, died at 63 years: https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/fussball/bundesliga-andreas-brehme-ist-tot-87228352.bild.html He won the 1990 FIFA World Cup playing for German manager Franz Beckenbauer. He won also the Guerin d'Oro as the Serie A Footballer of the Year in 1989 and won league titles with clubs like Kaiserslautern and Bayern Munich.

I can understand that you might not have heard of Robin Windsor if you have never watched Strictly, but rather than make yourself look like a twat by commenting "who?", try using Google to educate yourself, or just don't comment at all. Simple.

It's David McCallum's omission that stings.

List of first deaths of overall winning teams by WC and years after: 1930 - Angel Melongo, 15 years 1934 - Umberto Caligaris, 6 years 1938 - Pietro Serantoni, 26 years 1950 - Washington Ortuno, 23 years 1954 - Werner Kohlmeyer, 20 years 1958 - Zozimo, 19 years 1962 - Zozimo, 15 years 1966 - Bobby Moore, 27 years 1970 - Everaldo, 4 years 1974 - Heinz Flohe, 39 years 1978 - Ruben Galvan, 40 years 1982 - Gaetano Scirea, 7 years 1986 - Jose Luis Cuciuffo, 18 years 1990 - Andreas Brehme, 34 years

Given that our country has become a reactionary, stagnating, polluted, crumbling, asset-stripped, neoliberal hellscape, they aren't doing a very good job.

There are two S Club Juniors — One Step Closer: The real song is: 11 S Club Juniors — One Step Closer. Then... 20 S Club Juniors — One Step Closer must be sacrificed.

Instinctively checking "Deaths In 2024" every time your fingers are idle is a much healthier habit than instinctively clicking on TikTok or Xformerlyknownastwitter. Leaves you less liable to get brainwashed by the Chinese government or Indian cryptocurrency fraudsters as well.

I have just checked and apparently you can see Jessica on UK TV six times a week. Who knew? That Angela Lansbury is on the box more often than Newsnight!

Oh, that's shocking. The 1990 players are childhood heroes for me... is it starting now? One by one they'll be gone?

@RoverAndOut I agree with you. I am a fan of Friends and Matthew Perry. An actor/actress should be honored from a POV of notable works/fame. If they have a place in Theater + Film + Television, that's a lot of remembrance. Matthew Perry didn't make any notable films and his television resume extends to other shows such as West Wing + The Odd Couple. People are just sensitive because the death is still raw.

Shoving this in here as it's where his death gained most attention. Looking for some opinions from people who may be more versed in this than me: A movie thing I follow on Facebook is reporting that BAFTA have released a statement responding to "criticism" that Matthew Perry was not included in the "In Memoriam" section of Sunday's show. They've said he will be honoured in the TV awards later this year, which, to me, makes perfect sense. "Friends" is undoubtedly the crowning achievement of his life, I fully expect he'll get the moving, talking image treatment in the TV "In Memoriam" bit. He was not, to me, a particularly notable film actor, all his best work was on TV. Does appearing in a movie suffice to appear or not? I commented as much underneath and have some people vehemently disagreeing with me. As far as I can see the only film he did that I've even heard of is "The Whole Nine Yards". Haven't seen it. Am I missing something or is it perfectly reasonable for Bafta to save him for the TV awards? Sorry that this contains no relevant death information - I couldn't find a specific thread in the extra curricular that seemed suitable and people to get off-topic briefly (or in some cases not so briefly) elsewhere...

David Davies, 3rd Baron Davies (wiki) dead at 83. Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords from 1944 until his expulsion in 1999 (though if memory serves, he wouldn't have been allowed to take his seat until he turned 21). He succeeded to his title so early as his father was killed fighting during World War II. Engineer by trade. Times death notice:

Times QO for Harry Greenway. Died on 18th January "after a long illness". Which, to my personal knowledge was Alzheimer's as per my post from 2021.

I see the Diana fans are out in force claiming that it’s Karma and that she got him the cancer from beyond. Delusional fools. Reminds me when he got COVID and they were shouting Karma on twitter. All I did was ask what you had to do for Karma to slam you into an underpass. I was not popular…

Hopefully, my inbox has enough space now - you may submit your teams for March.

To tee up Fucking Good Job Gillian's school phones 'policy', Dr Death posted this promo: ...which Labour swiftly edited for accuracy.

Grim snippet from Wiki re. the 1st Baron Davies: 'In 1944, while launching a new X-Ray mobile scanning unit at Sully Hospital...Davies volunteered to undergo the first routine chest scan. The scan revealed advanced cancer from which he died from a few months later in June 1944.' The 2nd Baron Davies only held the title for 3 months.

Former professional dancer Robin Windsor dead https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13103037/Strictly-Come-Dancing-star-Robin-Windsor-dies.html

Good spot, I'd missed that. Thanks

Et voila

Harry Greenway reportedly dead:

J. Robert Oppenheimer am become dead on this day 57 years ago, aged 62. - The "J" in his name stood for Julius- which was also his father's name. J. Robert was also the third cousin of voice actor Alan Oppenheimer (best known as the voice of He-Man's Skeletor). - After majoring in chemistry, Oppenheimer worked under the tutelage of future Nobel Laureates Patrick Blackett and Max Born, and would befriend other well-known nuclear physicists such as Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, and Werner Heisenberg. - Outside of nuclear physics, Oppenheimer had an interest in astrophysics, and studied white dwarfs and neutron stars- and would successfully predict the existence of black holes in 1939. - Oppenheimer had in interest in Hindu mythology, and nicknamed his car "Garuda" after Vishnu's avian mount. This fascination is also the origin of his most famous quote: - After the nuclear bombs he helped design were dropped on Japan, he had a falling out with president Harry S. Truman due to him feeling responsible for all the deaths that occurred- Truman described him as a "fucking cretin" and lambasted him for his perceived weakness. - Oppenheimer would be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics three times (1946, 1951 and 1967), but never won. - Oppenheimer had a smoking addiction, and was diagnosed with throat cancer in the fall of 1965, dying after just over a year battling it.