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Karl Anton Rickenbacher The Swiss conductor, a protégé of von Karajan and Boulez, has died aged 73. Had a heart attack sitting at his piano.

... better known as Raymond Weil

That would be the actor whom my family will always call Charlie, because he played a character called Charlie in Brookside. I dunno his real name though. He was also a psychiatrist in an episode of 'Nightingales', in which it was revealed that "Ding Dong" Bell (played by David Threlfall) was a serial horse rapist... Philip McGough The OFAH character was Arnie in the episode "Chain Gang" - the one with the gold chains and bogus ambulances.

Ron Noades The former Crystal Palace chairman has died aged 76.

Stan Stennett dead

Confirmed by BBC also Wikipedia states "At the time of his death, he was the oldest living former President of Cyprus" - not too many candidates for that title, I suspect. Not few enough to have a shining new oldest living former President of Cyprus, I guess. BTW, 94 ain't bad for a fat bloke. regards, Hein Clerides is the one on the right (if you ignore the chap in the blue Frank Spencer hat). The "fat bloke" you refer to is on the left and is Rauf Denktash who left us early last year, but he did reach 87, so not bad indeed!

Confirmed by BBC also Wikipedia states "At the time of his death, he was the oldest living former President of Cyprus" - not too many candidates for that title, I suspect.

I think that leaves just Ray Reardon and Rex Williams still alive from the original eight Pot Black players. The others were Gary Owen, John Pulman, Fred Davis, Kingsley Kennerley and John Spencer.

TMZ tweeted it too, sad loss. Wonder if they'll write out Mrs Krabappel? Confirmation

Please can you list all the people you have heard of so that we know only to post their deaths?

I read that earlier but I only just realised this on looking at it the 2nd time round - scroll down and look at the picture that supposed to be a graffiti of Chopper Read....... that's actually Merv Hughes the Australian cricket legend....... haha...... stupid. Dead (aplologies if posted elsewhere) - I now see it was (in the "Hooroo, Mate" thread, but only 1 minute before this!)

John Hipwell The scrum half who played 36 tests for the Wallabies, 9 of them as captain, has died aged 65.

Elmore Leonard is out of sight. Please move to authors thread if desired.

Selçuk Yula The Turkish international who played 22 times for his country, 3 of them as captain, has died aged 53.

Ah, that explains why the name sounded familiar! It was his brother I was thinking of. Having said that, Steve did play nearly 500 games in the football league between 1969 and 1983, so not so obscure.