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Shot-putter and personality Brian Oldfield (USA) has died aged 71. Finished 6th in the '72 event, turned pro, got back his amateur status for the '80 Olympics only to miss out because of the US boycott. Notable also for developing the spinning throw, rather than the conventional 'glide' across the circle, he was known to smoke between throws, wear 'unconventional' attire whilst competing, and also appeared in Playgirl.

Thirty years since Patrick Troughton became a relative dimension in time and space.

Trumpeter Tony Terran, last surviving member of Desi Arnaz's Ricky Ricardo Orchestra, frequently appearing on I Love Lucy, has died aged 90. He aslo performed with numerous artists, including Elvis Presley, Diana Ross, Dean Martin, Barbra Streisand and more household names.

Raul is still alive (afaik) but his (and Fidel's) sister isn't.

yw YW, Just happened to check twitter and it was there. Right place at the right time!

Credit where it's due, that's the work of Andrew R @ExcelPope https://twitter.com/ExcelPope/status/845326712317657089/photo/1 (not a criticism or anything btw)

45 years since Dutch artist MC Escher ascended the impossible stairway, aged 73.

Ludwig van Beethoven, decomposing since this day 190 years ago.

... They think it's all over ... it is now, for Kenneth Wolstenholme, fifteen years ago, aged 81.

George Weinberg, psychotherapist who coined the term 'homophobia', dead aged 86, cancer. Apparently he got on to thinking about the subject when asked to disinvite a lesbian friend from a dinner party.

Now he dies weekly in Benidorm

Do you really believe this, or are you just trolling? If the latter, well done, drew me in good n proper, if the former, you're getting a bit close to zorders territory imo.

England doesn't have its own Parliament. Eta, one woman died in the incident. Still 'excellent'?

Former FC Barcelona president Agusti Montal Costa dead aged 82. Responsible for the slogan 'Mes Que Un Club' and also for signing Johan Cruyff.

That's the first of my Ron's gone.

Omsin the turtle dies from blood poisoning. Omsin means piggy bank; she was so named as she swallowed coins thrown in her pond by tourists for luck. Nearly a thousand coins weighing 5kg were removed in an operation two weeks ago.

Excellent work though.

I can't remember if the ones I tried to watch were based on books or not, as I can't remember the the titles. Reading of the books came some years later. My knowledge of Oxford is sadly limited to its railway station, where I once spent a glorious half-hour waitng for a connecting train one dismal Sunday afternoon.

I was unaware of this sonnet until I came across it via twitter. Every line of the poem is an anagram of the title. (This is probably where everyone says 'yes, we've known about it for years).

I never got into the TV adaptations - tried watching a couple of times but they never 'grabbed' me, which the books did. Much the same with Wingfield's Frost.

Scouse git again.

No it isn't

David Rockefeller for a few of us. eta - That takes Shaun to 8 hits, he's just waiting for John McCain's mom & Mel Gibson's dad.

St. Patrick's day bonus, as Maureen Haughey, widow of Charles dies aged 91.