The deaD of 2023

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Harris Mann. designer of the Allegro and Princess, has died aged 85 (p/w).

 

He was also once a colleague of our own @Rotten Ali (or vice versa)

[alt obits guy 3,098]

Betty Tyson, who spent 25 years in prison on a murder charge for which she was later exonerated, has died. She was 75.

 

https://apnews.com/article/betty-tyson-exonerated-murder-conviction-overturned-f036fb7f2ea32e9ca9d7bfa109b1920b

[gcreptile 10,234]

Willie Coyle, possibly "Scotland's finest Bridge player", dead at 85:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/08/26/willie-coyle-greatest-scots-bridge-player-died-obituary/

[Sinbabad 826]

American songwriter Bob Feldman died aged 83. He notably wrote "My Boyfriend Is Back".

 

I don’t know if this the proper thread, is there a songwriter topic or something ?

Edited August 26, 2023 by Sinbabad

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56 minutes ago, Sinbabad said:

American songwriter Bob Feldman died aged 83. He notably wrote "My Boyfriend Is Back".

 

I don’t know if this the proper thread, is there a songwriter topic or something ?

There is. Its called "Songwriters"...

 

[Sinbabad 826]

1 hour ago, time said:

There is. Its called "Songwriters"...

 

Ok thanks. I use the search but didn’t find it.

[YoungWillz 19,099]

No idea why he has a Wiki page.

 

Sonny Seiler, a Savannah based former trial attorney who seemed to have owned the line of English bulldog UGA mascots known as Uga reportedly dead: 

Appeared in a couple of movies, including one where he played the judge in a fictionalised version of a real life trial in which he was the defending attorney.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0782608/

 

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3 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

No idea why he has a Wiki page.

 

Sonny Seiler, a Savannah based former trial attorney who seemed to have owned the line of English bulldog UGA mascots known as Uga reportedly dead: 

Appeared in a couple of movies, including one where he played the judge in a fictionalised version of a real life trial in which he was the defending attorney.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0782608/

 

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, both the book and the film, were quite popular in this part of the world in the 90s and early 2000s. Many of the people dramatized became low-level famous because of them. 

[YoungWillz 19,099]

6 hours ago, arrowsmith said:

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, both the book and the film, were quite popular in this part of the world in the 90s and early 2000s. Many of the people dramatized became low-level famous because of them. 

There's IMDB famous and Wiki notable. Must be a cultural thing I'm not seeing. 

[wannamaker 1,067]

Hernán Chacón Soto, one of the seven men recently sentenced for the murder of Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara back in 1973, has committed suicide aged 86.

[YoungWillz 19,099]

Local nobody but popular talking point Faye Fantarrow reportedly dead: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/faye-fantarrow-sunderland-singer-dies-27632108

 

Also a DDP pick?

 

It's a low bar isn't it when you haven't really done anything on your own merit but recorded with Dave Stewart. (Reflected fame).

[msc 17,762]

25 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Local nobody but popular talking point Faye Fantarrow reportedly dead: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/faye-fantarrow-sunderland-singer-dies-27632108

 

Also a DDP pick?

 

It's a low bar isn't it when you haven't really done anything on your own merit but recorded with Dave Stewart. (Reflected fame).

 

I did ask about her last year but was told "msc, you can do better", basically! 

 

In my defence, the BBC made her sound far more famous than she turned out to be, but if others picked her I can understand that and her being allowed - the press made her out to be a bigger deal last year.

 

That said, RIP. A sad story all round, and no age.

[YoungWillz 19,099]

1 minute ago, msc said:

 

I did ask about her last year but was told "msc, you can do better", basically! 

 

In my defence, the BBC made her sound far more famous than she turned out to be, but if others picked her I can understand that and her being allowed - the press made her out to be a bigger deal last year.

 

That said, RIP. A sad story all round, and no age.

Everybody can do better. Well done for not picking her!

 

Whoever she was, she really had no notability whatsoever in my humble opinion. Precisely the type of pick which shouldn't get the DDP treatment. 

[gcreptile 10,234]

August 26th.... just in case anyone played her for ABC...

I didn't because I thought she seemed on the mend.

 

Possibly my B-team is DDP team of the month? Possibly beaten by Banana's B-team. This is the year of the B-teams and second choices...

Edit: Ah, Banana's B-team has her, too. Shades of the year my B-team did better than my main team. Maybe both of us might end up regretting we should have divided the names differently, me for a 2nd time.

[Banana 855]

8 hours ago, gcreptile said:

August 26th.... just in case anyone played her for ABC...

I didn't because I thought she seemed on the mend.

 

Possibly my B-team is DDP team of the month? Possibly beaten by Banana's B-team. This is the year of the B-teams and second choices...

Edit: Ah, Banana's B-team has her, too. Shades of the year my B-team did better than my main team. Maybe both of us might end up regretting we should have divided the names differently, me for a 2nd time.

Never really considered her too much for the main squad as I don’t recall the severity of her cancer and she seemed to being well. And like you I even thought she was on the mend judging by me dropping her from DbyN. 

[Esox masquinongy 18]

Jimmy Buffett, “Margaritaville” singer, Parrothead cult leader, part-time restauranteur, and full-time mango smuggler, has died at age 76. RIP

 

 

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No more buffets for Jimmy!

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Gayle Hunnicutt according to the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/03/gayle-hunnicutt-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Dire Straits Jack Sonni dead

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/rock-legend-dead-at-68/ar-AA1g3wc5?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=1f7d3cb5bf8c42f7af24ffa225c77cf3&ei=30

[YoungWillz 19,099]

From Surprised Still Alive thread:

 

On 15/01/2023 at 16:16, drol said:

Mau Mau uprising field marshal Muthoni Kirima is still alive at 92. And she is so good she has two wiki pages: Muthoni Kirima and Muthoni wa Kirima. One page cites the other, so this must be the work of some authentic mental retard.

Muthoni Kirima reportedly dead: https://www.citizen.digital/news/president-william-ruto-mourns-freedom-fighter-muthoni-wa-kirima-n326741

[arghton 6,124]

6 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

From Surprised Still Alive thread:

 

Muthoni Kirima reportedly dead: https://www.citizen.digital/news/president-william-ruto-mourns-freedom-fighter-muthoni-wa-kirima-n326741

Leaves Muthoni Mathenge, widow(?) of MIA Mau Mau commander Stanley Mathenge and hater of Queen Elizabeth II, probably the last "notable" figure of the Mau Mau Uprising. She's around 103 and has been extremely frail for the last few years.

[YoungWillz 19,099]

On 27/08/2023 at 17:39, YoungWillz said:

@Bibliogryphon mentioned Roger Ordish in Ideas etc for 2023.

 

He reportedly died (yesterday?) so won't make 2024 @msc: 

 

 

On 27/08/2023 at 17:47, msc said:

Already at the "1000% cert obit" but surely dying right after Parky pretty much makes that a slam dunk.

 

Could have been a DDP contender (or pick) had he lasted another 4 months and change.

Took a wee bit longer than expected but the Times weighed in for Roger Ordish: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roger-ordish-obituary-czq67hq6q

 

But not picked.

[YoungWillz 19,099]

Frank Lynch, who opened Glasgow's iconic Apollo Theatre 50 years ago reportedly dead: https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-apollo-theatre-owner-frank-27676606

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Vasyl Pavlovich Karlenko died on 10/Sep aged 72, he was born in Bohuslav, and was a Ukrainian biathlete member of the Ukrainian and USSR national teams in 1969-1978. professor at the department of athletics, winter sports and cycling at the Ukrainian National University of Physical Education and Sports. Former coach of the Ukraine national biathlon team. Honorary member of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, vice-president of the Biathlon Federation of Ukraine

https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-sports/3759608-pomer-kolisnij-trener-zbirnoi-ukraini-z-biatlonu-vasil-karlenko.html

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On 08/09/2023 at 11:52, YoungWillz said:

Frank Lynch, who opened Glasgow's iconic Apollo Theatre 50 years ago reportedly dead: https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-apollo-theatre-owner-frank-27676606

 

The Apollo had a conveniently ignominious end  - https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/23777143.bulldozers-fire-last-days-glasgow-apollo/

 

"On October 25, 1988, the derelict Apollo theatre on Renfield Street was devastated by fire. The alarm had been raised at 4am and fire crews from all over the city converged on the site. At the height of the fire, eight pumps, four turntable appliances and 60 firefighters were involved.

 

"Eleven months before the blaze, in September 1987, bulldozers had demolished the front and rear of the building, leaving only the huge central portion intact, after building control inspectors had deemed parts of the Apollo to be unsafe.

 

"At that time in September 1987, the building's owners, Ainsley Developments, were in receivership, and it was the Receiver who called in Burnthills Demolition.

 

A few weeks prior to the demolition, city councillors had given planning permission to a London-based film and cinema company, Maybox, which wanted to build an £8.5m, 14-screen cinema on the site. Maybox had reportedly bought the property for £600,000."