Sean 6,006 Posted May 19, 2015 He bucks the rend of the good always dying young.Maybe he should get the number 1 spot next year? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,039 Posted May 19, 2015 He bucks the rend of the good always dying young.Maybe he should get the number 1 spot next year? Well, either that or he liked to party with Grevil Janner Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,293 Posted July 1, 2015 Dead. http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/News/Areas/Maidenhead/Sir-Nicholas-Winton-dies-aged-106-01072015.htm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,039 Posted July 1, 2015 Dead. http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/News/Areas/Maidenhead/Sir-Nicholas-Winton-dies-aged-106-01072015.htm Ah, doubly sad, because he truly was a legend and because he'd have been a shoo-in on next year's Deathlist. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,055 Posted July 1, 2015 ¡Dale!, Winton Little joke for our Latin American readers there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fergie86 358 Posted July 1, 2015 Sad news a true legend, thought he would go on forever, always thought it was funny how when i looked at his Wiki page that the 'young' Children he saved were now either dead themselves or were in there late 80's or 90's. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 17,833 Posted July 1, 2015 Legend and truly a great British hero, who had a well deserved long life. RIP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,293 Posted July 1, 2015 Anyone want to watch the HardTalk interview: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04v35ck/hardtalk-sir-nicholas-winton 23 DDP teams waiting for this to break into qualifying obit. Here's one, many to follow: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3146087/Kindertransport-organizer-Nicholas-Winton-dies-106.html and now on the BBC news ticker. Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11711414/Sir-Nicholas-Winton-dies-aged-106.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,489 Posted July 1, 2015 Now that is a sad loss. He lived a long life and perhaps outlived many of those that he saved. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted July 1, 2015 Why was he not on the DeathList? He would have been a better candidate than many that are on it this year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,006 Posted July 1, 2015 Very sad to hear this although I am of course not surprised.Why he wasn`t on DL baffles me! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,442 Posted July 1, 2015 Sad to see him go but at 106 years of life you can't really complain. Someone who earned his lifespan for sure. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
viGnoS 18 Posted July 1, 2015 Sir Winton made hit #10 for my personnal list and we are just at the half to the year thanks to him & RIP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,269 Posted July 1, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33350880 Sir Nicholas Winton, who organised the rescue of 669 children destined for Nazi concentration camps, has died aged 106. Bit difficult to sell this one to the kiddies isn't it. Half of them are completely flummoxed by words as long as "organised", and the other half, after a lifetime of assembly talks from Owen Jones, now firmly believe that rabid nutters who wanna kill Jews are our friends and "that's just their culture" and "we just have to respect that", so they'll be thinkin' he was a big old killjoy who was always bloody interfering! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,288 Posted July 1, 2015 I wonder if he's a prominent first victim of the heat wave... I wondered whether that might cause a couple of low hanging fruits to drop, so to say... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mike 48 Posted July 1, 2015 This is truly upsetting for me, was a giant inspiration to me for his immeasurable modesty. RIP. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mad Hatter 1,091 Posted July 1, 2015 Gone too soon he died way too young 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,617 Posted July 3, 2015 very sad. He was a example for me. what a shame he did not get the Nobel Prize. for Peace. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,161 Posted July 3, 2015 Well it would have been deeply disrespectful to have said so while he was alive but, perhaps, now it can be said. Didn't he have absolutely fucking HUGE ears!!!!!!!!!!! If we didn't know better we would have assumed that his mother had been given a good rogering by Dumbo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 11,283 Posted March 21, 2022 Times obit for Vera Gissing, Czech-born British writer, aged 93. One of the 669 children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton during WWII. She was the one who appeared directly next to Winton in the audience on the That's Life episode in '88. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,293 Posted September 22, 2022 Daughter of Sir Nick, his biographer and campaigner in her own right, Barbara Winton reportedly dead: https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/sir-nicholas-wintons-daughter-barbara-dies-aged-69/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,567 Posted January 7 Random resurrection of old thread but my wife took me to see One Life last night (because she likes Johnny Flynn) but I came on here to learn some more. The film was slightly dull but successfully had me crying at the That’s Life reunion and also made me aware of the story which was heroic. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
