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I bet you're expecting me to post Nick Drake aren't you. Well I'm going for Soviet film director Alexander Dovzhenko instead.

 

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I bet you're expecting me to post Nick Drake aren't you. Well I'm going for Soviet film director Alexander Dovzhenko instead.

 

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You rebel Handy!! :D

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Local booze bag George Best 10 years today.

Yeah don't look TWO POSTS ABOVE YOURS or anything.

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Or post a picture in honour of a true legend.

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Favourite quote - I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

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I remember BBC World showing his funeral with the title "Best funeral". I, for one, thought it was a bit overrated.

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Annoying Alex Higgins wannabe.

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Stan Berenstain went for a final walk down the sunny dirt road, this day 10 years ago aged 88.

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Michael Bentine in 1996

 

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The man behind the building of the Suez Canal!

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Michael Bentine in 1996

 

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The man behind the building of the Suez Canal!

 

Only after he'd got permission from Queen Cleopatra,

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Gary Speed in 2011

 

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After this day 40 years ago, aged 50, Ross McWhirter compiled no more records.

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5 years ago, aged 84, Lelsie Nielsen.

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Among the many quotes:

Dr Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.

Elaine Dickinson: A hospital? What is it?

Dr Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.

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Dr Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.

:D

 

First time I saw that flick it was :lol:

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I meant to post Peter Hujar from 2 days ago but forgot and I'm not waiting another year. He's probably best remembered for photo of Candy Darling on her death bed.

 

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George Harrison, musician better known as "The Quiet Beatle", died on this day in 2001 aged 58.

 

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Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey died on this day in 1530 aged 57.

 

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He's buried a couple of miles up the road from me although his grave is symbolic as the exact position within Abbey Park is unknown.

 

Map: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/52%C2%B038'56.8%22N+1%C2%B008'10.7%22W/@52.6491121,-1.137431,190m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0

 

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Following the University of Leicester's finding of the grave of King Richard III, there have been calls to go looking for Tommy.

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Giant Haystacks died on this day in 1998.

 

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On this day in 2008 Danish architect Jørn Utzon died, aged 90.

 

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He's best known for a performing arts centre he designed in Sydney, Australia:

 

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She called for a revolution of the heart which became much for difficult for Dorothy Day this day 35 years ago aged 83.

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couple hours early but Oscar Wilde - 85 years.

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couple hours early but Oscar Wilde - 85 years.

I know there's a time difference between the U.K. and the U.S. but I didn't realise it is 30 years. :unsure:

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couple hours early but Oscar Wilde - 85 years.

 

I know there's a time difference between the U.K. and the U.S. but I didn't realise it is 30 years. :unsure:

Yup, was looking at another person from 1930 and forgot what I was doing. Condolences to the Wilde estate.

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couple hours early but Oscar Wilde - 85 years.

I know there's a time difference between the U.K. and the U.S. but I didn't realise it is 30 years. :unsure:

Yup, was looking at another person from 1930 and forgot what I was doing. Condolences to the Wilde estate.

 

You were lying in the gutter but staring at the stars Sir C.

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One for the dead popes society, Pius VIII (Francesco Saverio Castiglioni) died this day 185 years ago aged 69. His papacy lasted just over a year. Because his post mortem revealed no clue as to the cause of death (age possibly?), it was assumed he had been poisoned. Cue Dan Brown.

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