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35 years ago aged 90 Harlan (Colonel) Sanders, kicked the bargain bucket.

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OMG! He looks just like the Colonel from KFC.

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Don Van Vliet AKA Captain Beefheart, died 5 years ago today...

 

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Don Van Vliet AKA Captain Beefheart, died 5 years ago today...

 

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He was mentioned on the previous page, but then again we've had a "Colonel" (Colonel Sanders) a "Captain" (Captain Beefheart) and a President (Simón Bolívar) all within a day of each other.

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15 years since the untimely demise of Kirsty MacColl aged 41 (ffs). Thank you for the days.

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15? Ffs.

 

Though as 'fairytail' came out when I was 21....

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15? Ffs.

 

Though as 'fairytail' came out when I was 21....

 

Not too keen on Fairytale but her songs are always on my ipod. New England, Freeword, Caroline ......

 

Such a sad loss.

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Aye , it was more of a 'song tied to a certain year' thing.

 

Like Floyd having the last hit of the 70's etc.

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15 years since the passing of Rob Buck 10,000 Maniacs and Leauge of Blind Women aged 42.

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Exactly 100 years ago this very day (19-Dec) a physician named Aloysius Alzheimer would die, leaving as his legacy his surname attached to a disease which had been called presenile dementia.

Mr Alzheimer's cause of death? You guessed it: heart failure after complications from rhuematic fever.

SC

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10 years ago today Vincent gigante also known as the mad don died. He was the head of a powerful crime family in new York and was notorious for pretending to be insane.

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It's been 11 years since the death of Italian opera singer Renata Tebaldi, aged 82.

 

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One for the royalists, Ethelbald King of Wessex died this day 1155 years ago, age - who knows!

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Bobby "Mack The Knife" Darin died on this day in 1973 at the age of 37.

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Gen George S Patton died this day 70 years ago aged 60. Just as well as he'd probably have invaded the Soviet Union.

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Or worse, could've been him instead of that fuckup MacArthur in Korea.

 

 

As dangerous as MacArthur was, he would've killed the World.

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75 years ago today, F. Scott Fitzgerald died at the age of 44

 

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A year ago Joe Cocker died.

 

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D Boon of the Minutemen died this day 30 years ago aged 27, after being thrown from the back of a van as it veered of the road - very rock 'n' roll.

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D Boon of the Minutemen died this day 30 years ago aged 27, after being thrown from the back of a van as it veered of the road - very rock 'n' roll.

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Love Minutemen

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Festivus Day death anniversary (12/23)

 

Victor Borge - 15 years ago.

Billy Barty the same day as Borge...but I don't want who the hell is Billy Barty backlash so I won't even mention Billy Barty.

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Festivus Day death anniversary (12/23)

 

Victor Borge - 15 years ago.

Billy Barty the same day as Borge...but I don't want who the hell is Billy Barty backlash so I won't even mention Billy Barty.

 

Won't mention who?

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Richard Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, was killed this day 40 years ago by Marxist terrorists; he was 46, .

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And did anyone mention Billy Barty famous short stature actor from Masters of Universe amongst others. I didn't want him overlooked.

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Aleister Crowley back in 1947

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My sister spent a holiday at his house near Loch Ness once.

I was/am jealous :D

 

Coincidentally , that house is up in flames today..

 

 

 

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The last leader of the Nazis didn't see Xmas 35 years ago, Karl Donitz died this day aged 89.

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