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A couple of notables from 21 years ago,

Peter Jones (The Book, not the Dragon), who died aged 79    &       Larry Linville (Major Burns, not any other one ), who died aged 60.

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Actress Natalie Schafer died on this day 30 years ago, aged 90.

 

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American circus ringmaster James Anthony Bailey died on this day 115 years ago, aged 58.

 

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Australian amateur actor & speech therapist Lionel Logue died aged 73, today in 1953. Best remembered as the man who helped the Duke of York, later King George VI, to control his stammer.

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He was portrayed by Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech.

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End of the fight for Joe Louis on this day 40 years ago, aged 66.

 

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A hat-trick of deaths this day last year, seemingly announced within minutes of each other...

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 Peter Bonetti, aged 78                                      Tim Brooke-Taylor OBE, aged 79                                                                                                        Sir Stirling Moss, aged 90.

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Scottish author Muriel Spark died on this day 15 years ago, aged 88.

 

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Simone de Beauvoir died on this day 35 years ago, aged 78.

 

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Greta Garbo, the legendary, talented and mysterious Swedish actress of the 20s and 30s, died on this date in 1990.

 

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Its 28 years since Leslie Charteris, leslie-charteris-1961-753620.JPG author, best known for The Saint, died aged 85.

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Quite a deadly day in UK history, today

1912:  RMS Titanic sank c1500 lost

1941: Deadliest raid of the Belfast Blitz c900 casulaties

1989: Hillsborough disaster. 96 killed.

 

Other notables

1982 Arthur Lowe

1984 Tommy Cooper

1988 Kenneth Williams

1993 Leslie Charteris

2009 Clement Freud

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French novelist, Jean Genet, died on this day 35 years ago, aged 75.

 

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Thirty years ago today, Oscar winning director Sir David Lean died aged 83

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Famous for such epics as Dr. Zhivago, Bridge on the River Kwai & Lawrence of Arabia, he won Best Director Oscars for the latter two, and was nominated a further 5 times.

 

Lean was married 6 times & divorced 5, the second of each was to actress Kay Walsh (from 1940-49), who died 16 years ago today, exactly 14 years after ex-husband Lean, aged 93.

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Actress Lucille Bremer died on this day 25 years ago, aged 79.

 

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George Jennings, inventor of the flushing public toilet, died 139 years ago, aged 71.

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He;s responsible for the ornate underground toilets that used to be almost ubiquitous, but were closed down to save money/prevent cottaging.

 

He's also responsible for the phrase 'spend a penny' becoming a euphemism for our toilet visits - he designed the toilets for The Great Exhibition in 1851, for which a charge of one penny was levied. At the close of the exhibition, he persuaded the authorities to leave the toilets open.

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South African writer Bessie Head died on this day 35 years ago, aged 48.

 

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English footballer and manager John Lyall died on this day 15 years ago, aged 66.

 

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Its 10 years since the death of Elisabeth Sladen

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4 hours ago, time said:

Its 10 years since the death of Elisabeth Sladen

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One of my first childhood crushes

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American naval officer and test pilot, Albert Scott Crossfield, died on this day 15 years ago, aged 84.

 

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Steve Marriott died on this day 30 years ago, aged 44.

 

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John Maynard Keynes died on this day 75 years ago, aged 62.

 

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On 20/04/2021 at 13:42, The Ashes Urn said:

Steve Marriott died on this day 30 years ago, aged 44.

 

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