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Haven't got a proper link as yet but actor Bruce Purchase, probably best known as the shouty Pirate Captain in the Doctor Who serial The Pirate Planet, has died aged 69.

 

Here's one: Link

 

"MISTER FIBULI!!!!!!!"

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Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyz writer & ambassador, is seriously ill after renal failure.

 

To quote Wikipedia:

On 16 May 2008 Aitmatov suffered kidney failure and was admitted into a hospital in Nuremberg, Germany, where he is reportedly in a coma.

 

The latest is that he is "stable" but "in a grave condition". Earlier link

 

Not sure how famous he is, but I suspect he would get an obit, especially if he might be nominated, as is rumoured, for a Nobel Prize.

 

He has died (According to his Wiki page)

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Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyz writer & ambassador, is seriously ill after renal failure.

 

To quote Wikipedia:

On 16 May 2008 Aitmatov suffered kidney failure and was admitted into a hospital in Nuremberg, Germany, where he is reportedly in a coma.

 

The latest is that he is "stable" but "in a grave condition". Earlier link

 

Not sure how famous he is, but I suspect he would get an obit, especially if he might be nominated, as is rumoured, for a Nobel Prize.

 

He has died (According to his Wiki page)

 

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Mitch Frerotte an offensive lineman who played in three Super Bowls for the Buffalo Bills, has died. He was 43.

 

Steroid abuse?

 

Well if his death was caused by his liver exploding, then you'll have your answer....

 

Welcome to the forum. :)

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Tim Russert has died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 58

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Tim Russert has died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 58

 

From"Meet The Press" to "Meet The Maker".....

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Tim Russert has died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 58

 

From"Meet The Press" to "Meet The Maker".....

 

 

Nah, he's not on his list... :)

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Frank Blackmore, inventor of the mini-roundabout, has died at the age of 92.

 

DDT, many of us probably saw the news of his death but took absolutely no notice of it... :birthday2:

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Brazilian samba legend Jamelao (aka Jose Bispo Clementino dos Santos) has died aged 95

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Frank Blackmore, inventor of the mini-roundabout, has died at the age of 92.

 

DDT, many of us probably saw the news of his death but took absolutely no notice of it... :birthday2:

 

A lot of us just went round in circles trying to process the information

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Japanese child killer/necrophiliac/cannibal/all round lovely chap Tsutomu Miyazaki has finally been executed 18 years after his conviction.

 

Japan's really picking up its own DL pace - that's 10 for the year, more than all of 2007.

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Kermit the Frog has croaked (well, the guy he was named after anyway).

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Cyd Charisse has danced her last.

 

I wonder if ex-DL candidate Tony Martin, her husband for some 60 years or so, will die shortly as a result...

That's sad, in a there-goes-another-tradition way. Cyd was was one of the greatest hoofers of all time, next to Tony Adams. :rip:

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Mike Dukes, who played linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers and two AFL teams from 1959 to 1965, was killed in a traffic accident earlier this week. He was 72.

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Sarah Bryant, was simply 'a woman soldier' today. Tomorrow she'll be on some national front pages.

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Rt Rev Graham Chadwick them high profile clerics get an obit every time!

They sure do, especially if they're called Chadwick. This time it's theologian (that's near enough to a cleric for me) the Very Rev Prof Henry Chadwick. Before long it'll be the Rev Owen Chadwick - the team that have him as a DDP unique pick must be gutted that's it's his younger brother who's been called to account.

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Michael White, psychotherapist. Didn't off himself like the last psychotherapist posted on a thread like this.

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Footless people of the North Pacific. This is a strange one, no proof they're dead, or that they died this year. Though the first one seems highly likely.

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Brewster Yale Beach, a man who outright proved that the Associated Press existed two years before anybody knew about it, has died at the age of 83. Yes, the Associated Press is reporting his death. Basically he said it originated in 1846 instead of 1848. He reported that the Associated Press was around earlier then we all thought and now they are reporting his demise. It's back and fourth. Yeah, that's what he did.

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