The Unknown Man 586 Posted November 4, 2010 Legendary Cinicinatti Reds and Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson has died aged 76. And that's another for the list of the missed on this year's DDP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windsor 2,233 Posted November 4, 2010 'Storm Chaser', Matt Hughes, has died after committing suicide by hanging. He was 30 years old. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VSBfromH 74 Posted November 5, 2010 The Russian conductor Rudolf Barshai has died at the age of 86. He studied under Dmitri Shostakovich and was also a viola player and founder member of the legendary Borodin Quartet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Unknown Man 586 Posted November 6, 2010 Actress Jill Clayburgh has succumbed to chronic leukemia at the age of 66. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VSBfromH 74 Posted November 6, 2010 'Storm Chaser', Matt Hughes, has died after committing suicide by hanging. He was 30 years old. He actually died back in May, but the news is only becoming a hot topic now that they have a new series of the programme out... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,200 Posted November 6, 2010 Mike Craig, screen and comedy writer including for Morecambe and Wise, has lost his fight against Pick's Disease and his chance to be a decent pick on the DDP in 2011. link Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted November 6, 2010 Mike Craig, screen and comedy writer including for Morecambe and Wise, has lost his fight against Pick's Disease and his chance to be a decent pick on the DDP in 2011. link Can't say I've heard of him, but Pick's Disease is a very nasty form of frontal lobe dementia which progresses quickly. People unlucky enough to get the illness tend not to linger on for years on end like those who are afflicted with the bog standard variant of the condition. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,200 Posted November 6, 2010 Mike Craig, screen and comedy writer including for Morecambe and Wise, has lost his fight against Pick's Disease and his chance to be a decent pick on the DDP in 2011. link Can't say I've heard of him You were the one who suggested him as a pick on here in the first place! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TAFKAG 70 Posted November 6, 2010 Mike Craig, screen and comedy writer including for Morecambe and Wise, has lost his fight against Pick's Disease and his chance to be a decent pick on the DDP in 2011. link Can't say I've heard of him You were the one who suggested him as a pick on here in the first place! So he was. Is memory loss a symptom of Pick's Disease? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted November 6, 2010 Top North Korean general & one-time envoy to the USA, Vice Marshal Jo Myong-Rok, is criticially ill & possibly "dying" of kidney & liver disease. According to the report, he has two months "at the most" to live.You may well think, well so what? But, as the report concludes, Jo is effectively the second most powerful man in North Korea, so he'll probably get an obit somewhere. I might not be able to remember what I posted last year, but for some reason I can still remember what OoO posted three years ago . Jo Myong-Rok is dead, not of liver or kidney disease, but of a heart attack. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,647 Posted November 7, 2010 Be interesting to see how much coverage that death merits. I reckon he'll accrue the obits to count on every major dead pool this side of the RDP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,647 Posted November 7, 2010 Neil Fujita not well known as a personality but most of us have seen his work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted November 8, 2010 Emilio Massera, 83, who was prominent leader of Argentina's 1976-1983 military junta, has been hospitalised with heart problems. By an odd co-incidence, last week he was deemed healthy enough to face extradition for the alleged kidnapping, torture and disappearance of three Italians during the dictatorship. Maybe Emilio Massera wasn't faking after all. In any case, he's dead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted November 10, 2010 Author Philip Carlo has died after a long battle with ALS. A hit for 4 teams if the right obit is found... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VSBfromH 74 Posted November 12, 2010 Henryk Gorecki The Polish composer, whose Symphony No.3, "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" made the Pop Charts in 1992, has died aged 76. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689 Posted November 12, 2010 Henryk Gorecki The Polish composer, whose Symphony No.3, "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" made the Pop Charts in 1992, has died aged 76. If he should die, this very moment... I once got a cab back to civilisation from a Warp allnighter near the Millennium Dome with the bloke out of Lamb, you know. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,102 Posted November 14, 2010 Spanish director Luis Garcia Berlanga Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VSBfromH 74 Posted November 16, 2010 John Kluge Doesn't seem to have been posted at the time, but John Kluge died back on 7th September aged 95. He was the United States' richest man 3 years running prior to someone called Mr Gates coming along. His fortune was made in a number of ways, having acquired a controlling interest in Metropolitan Broadcasting (later Metromedia) back in 1959, which he eventually mostly sold off to Rupert Murdoch forming the basis for his Fox Network. Kluge was also the owner of the Harlem Globetrotters and Ice Capades Ice Skating extravaganza for many years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,618 Posted November 17, 2010 Robin Day has died; no, not that one, this one. He was the man who designed those stacking plastic chairs we've all tripped over at some time grown to know and love. He was 95 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lastorders 15 Posted November 17, 2010 Denise Borino-Quinn, who played Johnny Sack's morbidly obese wife Ginny on The Sopranos, has died of liver cancer aged 46. I believe this makes her the first Sopranos cast member to sleep with the fishes. I'm pretty sure that another cast member died a year or two ago. Unfortunately I can't remember his name, so there is the real possibility that I could be speaking shite. Those fishes will be feeding for months off of that carcass. If 2 cast members are dead then maybe it's a curse. You'll read about in the National Enquirer. Of course if you are talking shite then it's not a curse.... but it will be. It's inevitable Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lastorders 15 Posted November 17, 2010 Robin Day has died; no, not that one, this one. He was the man who designed those stacking plastic chairs we've all tripped over at some time grown to know and love. He was 95 Students around the world should shout his name as they lob his prized creations across the classrooms and out of top floor high school windows... Viva la Robin! For the French lesson obviously. I expect maths will result in a more calculated celebration... ahem Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VSBfromH 74 Posted November 18, 2010 Robin Day has died; no, not that one, this one. He was the man who designed those stacking plastic chairs we've all tripped over at some time grown to know and love. He was 95 You will see that his wife and creative partner Lucienne died at the beginning of the year. I recall Radio 4's "Last Words" programme covering her death. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,536 Posted November 20, 2010 Mackenzie Taylor, stand-up comedian recently in the news for taking part in a comedy festival showing how people with bipolar disorder aren't crazy self-destructive nutbags, has killed himself aged 32. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,647 Posted November 21, 2010 Mackenzie Taylor, stand-up comedian recently in the news for taking part in a comedy festival showing how people with bipolar disorder aren't crazy self-destructive nutbags, has killed himself aged 32. I would venture to suggest this is the gag for which he will be best remembered, the ultimate irony, or summat. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Estuarian Float 97 Posted November 21, 2010 Laurie Bembenek, an ex-Playboy model convicted of murder dies of liver failure at 52. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites