RIP Wee Jum 1,558 Posted January 6, 2013 Can I have a "P" please Bob. Already a year since Bob Holness died 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RIP Wee Jum 1,558 Posted January 6, 2013 Teddy Roosevelt died in 1919 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RIP Wee Jum 1,558 Posted January 6, 2013 And Dizzy Gillespie in 1993 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,969 Posted January 7, 2013 Today is the 25th anniversary of the death of Trevor Howard. Probably best remembered for Brief Encounter and for playing a host of 'stiff-upper-lip' British types, he also starred as Sir Henry in Viv Stanshall's Sir Henry at Rawlinson End. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,373 Posted January 14, 2013 Bogie 56 years ago... There can't be many famous couples where one outlived the other as long as Bacall... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Unknown Man 560 Posted January 15, 2013 Lyricist Sammy Cahn died 20 years ago today at age 79. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,969 Posted January 16, 2013 25 years since The major, Ballard Berkeley, decided it was finally about that time Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,969 Posted January 18, 2013 Its the 50th anniversary of the death of former Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell. Was he killed by the Soviets? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,373 Posted January 19, 2013 Suzanne Pleshette of The Bob Newhart Show and The Birds among others 5 years ago Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,840 Posted January 19, 2013 Denny Doherty also died 5 years ago today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,022 Posted January 21, 2013 Billy Tipton, who managed a 34-year-long career as a jazz bandleader and a string of relationships without anyone realising he was actually a man, died today in 1989. His adopted son only discovered that his "father" was actually an adoptive mother when paramedics stripped Tipton's clothes while trying to save his life. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,373 Posted January 22, 2013 Hey, hey, LBJ! How long ago did you die today? 40 years is the answer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RIP Wee Jum 1,558 Posted January 23, 2013 Salvador Dalí in 1989 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RIP Wee Jum 1,558 Posted January 26, 2013 The greatest name in American politics, Nelson Rockefeller, oh and he was also Vice President to Gerald Ford died January 26, 1979 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,906 Posted January 26, 2013 Also on January 26 legendary Golden Era Hollywood Actor Edward G. Robinson died 40 years ago Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Dead Cow 620 Posted January 26, 2013 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach, died 218 years ago today! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,969 Posted January 28, 2013 Today, 28th January 2013 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,969 Posted January 29, 2013 125 years since the poet Edward Lear finally disappeared in his beautiful pea-green boat. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,373 Posted January 30, 2013 Gandhi and Orville Wright both died 65 years ago... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Dead Cow 620 Posted January 30, 2013 King Charles I died 364 years ago today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,969 Posted January 31, 2013 Its 68 years since Private Eddie Slovik was executed. He was the only US soldier to be executed for purely military reasons during WWII. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,397 Posted February 2, 2013 Today in 1907 (20 January according to the Julian calendar then still in use in Russia), Russian chemist and inventor of the periodic table that all students of chemistry know and love, Dmitri Mendeleev died, aged 72. regards, Hein 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Unknown Man 560 Posted February 2, 2013 Earl L. Butz, former US secretary of agriculture under presidents Nixon and Ford, died 5 years ago today at age 98. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,969 Posted February 4, 2013 Its 30 years today since Karen Carpenter died. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 8,662 Posted February 5, 2013 Today in 1907 (20 January according to the Julian calendar then still in use in Russia), Russian chemist and inventor of the periodic table that all students of chemistry know and love, Dmitri Mendeleev died, aged 72. regards, Hein I had a tie for christmas with the Periodic table and a picture of Mendeleev on. Bibliogryphon, CChem, MRSC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
