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Kurt Sanderling The celebrated conductor has died 2 days before his 99th birthday. Had him on my DDP list last year or the year before. Typical!

Playing a saxaphone whilst walking down the outside of a skyscraper "Finn Martin ... plunged 20 metres to his death in front of a shocked audience in Leipzig on Friday evening. In the party trick known as ‘Vertigo’, which Martin had successfully pulled off countless times before, the 49 year-old was due to vertically walk down the facade of a building while playing to cheering fans. He was scheduled to perform four 15-minute sets while images were projected onto the building behind him. After the musician’s harness suddenly broke and Martin crashed to the ground, a doctor confirmed that he had died from the impact. Police are working on the assumption that the safety equipment failed, but are investigating whether anyone on the team had been working while drunk"

Salvatore Licitra The Italian tenor has died aged 43 following injuries suffered in a scooter accident in Sicily. In 2002 he famously stood in for Pavarotti on what would otherwise have been his last performance at the New York Met.

Bernard Gallagher (or possibly Bernard Gallacher) The former Aston Villa full-back has died aged 45 (or 44)

He seems to like his drink... regards, Hein It would appear urinating on aircraft (but not in the toilet) is becoming quite commonplace.

Shammi Kapoor The Bollywood actor and director, sometimes called "the Elvis Presley of India", has died aged 79. He belonged to the Kapoor acting dynasty. Of 3 famous brothers (himself, Raj and Shashi) only Shahshi now survives.

John Wood The prolific stage and screen actor has died aged 80. IMDB bio.

apparantely he was killed today, but i pre-announced his death on monday .Is this the first time a member has posted the death of someone 3 days before it actually happened? Don't feel so smug, your scattergun approach was bound to hit a target eventually.

Gil Bernal Not a good week for saxophonists!

Frank Foster The saxophonist, composer and arranger who for many years played with the Count Basie Orchestra, has died aged 82.

Michael Cacoyannis "the Cyprus born-filmmaker who directed the 1964 film classic 'Zorba the Greek', starring Anthony Quinn, has died at an Athens hospital. He was 89". He was nominated for 3 Oscars for that film. Alternatively known as "Mihalis Kakogiannis" or "Michalis Cacoyiannis".

Pierre Jonqueres d'Oriola "Pierre Jonqueres d'Oriola, who won show jumping gold medals for France at the 1952 and 1964 Olympics, has died. He was 91."

This makes him the second member of X Japan to have hung himself in just over a decade. Still never listened to a note of their music, but I think they were like "the band" for Japs in the 90s. So I see. The former lead guitaritst Hide. This is what apparently happened following his death: "Within one week, three fans had died in copycat suicides, and of the 50,000 people who attended his funeral in Tsukiji Hongan-ji, nearly 60 were hospitalized and about 200 received medical treatment in first aid tents."

Magnus Malan The South African Defence Minister during the latter part of the Apartheid era has died aged 81.

Taiji Sawada The former bassist with Japanese heavy metal outfit X has died after trying to hang himself following his arrest for violent behaviour on a Delta Airlines flight.

Segway boss's death due to "multiple blunt force injuries to the chest and spine consistent with a fall while riding a gyrobike". Jimi Heselden's death was reported in the 2010 deaths thread (now closed). I wonder exactly how many deaths as a result of people falling down a steep cliff whilst riding a gyrobike has this coroner had to deal with previously?

Wladimir Klitschko Sr The Klitschko brothers' father has died aged 64. A former colonel in the Soviet Air Force, he played a key role in the clean-up of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and had been suffering from cancer for a long time.

Owner of killer bear chokes to death on sex toy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/9534413.stm - about half-way down. Ta OoO. More confirmation here. His gentle Scottish voice was one of the most recognisable voices in British sport.

Awaiting link, but former BBC Golf commentator Alex Hay has reportedly died.

Further supporting evidence "Prior to being in Motörhead, the English guitarist cut his chops in the bands Bastard and Warfare ... After leaving Motörhead, Würzel appeared on albums by several other punk and metal bands, including Splodgenessabounds , WVKEAF and Disgust"

Josef Suk The celebrated Czech violinist, great-grandson of Dvorak and grandson of the composer Josef Suk (Dvorak's son-in-law) has died aged 81.

Billy Costello The former WBC Light Welterweight champion has died aged 55.

Rumours are circulating that Jiang Zemin has died. Being China, I wouldn't expect much clarification either way for some conseiderable time. According to this article, as "Jiang" means river, searches on one of China’s most popular social media sites containing that word (e.g. searching for info on China's largest river, the Yagntze) came back with a message stating “According to the relevant laws, regulations and policies, the results of this search cannot be displayed.”