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So who'd we lose this year?

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It's usually in the paper right about now but I figured we could have our own. These are the only ones that immediately come to mind. Call it morbid curiosity but which famous (infamous)people died this year? Sometimes people mention someone and ya never even realized that person had even died.

Peter Boyle
James Brown
William Hannah
Gerald Ford
Steve Erwin
Saddam Hussein
 
Mickey Spillane, author of the Mike Hammer stories, died July 17 at the age of 88.

Red Buttons, comedian, died July 13 at the age of 87.

June Allyson, actress but best known for Depends commercial, died July 8 at the age of 88.

Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd, died July 7 at the age of 60.

Aaron Spelling, tv mogul, died June 23 at the age of 83.

Kenneth Thomson, billionaire and one time media magnate, died June 12 at the age of 82.

Louis Rukeyser, business journalist best known for Wall Street Week, died May 2 at the age of 73.

John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, died April 29 at the age of 97.

Caspar Weinberger, one time US secretary of defense, died March 28 at the age of 88.

Oleg Cassini, designer, died March 17 at the age of 92.

Slobodan Milosevic, dictator, died March 11 at the age of 64.

Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, hockey hall of famer, died March11 at the age of 75.

John Profumo, politician best known for the Profumo scandal, died March 9 at the age of 91.

Kirby Puckett, hall of fame baseball player, died February 26 at the age of 45.

Darren McGavin, actor best known for Kolchak: The Night Stalker, died February 25 at the age of 83.

Dennis Weaver, actor best known for McCloud, died February 24 at the age of 81.

Don Knotts, comic actor best known as Barney Fife on the Andy Griffith show, died February 24 at the age of 81.

Curt Gowdy, broadcaster, died February 20 at the age of 86.

Andreas Katsulas, actor best known as G'kar on Babylon 5, died February 13 at the age of 59.

Peter Benchley, author best known for Jaws, died February 11 at the age of 65.

Betty Friedan, feminist, died February 4 at the age of 85.

Al Lewis, actor best known as grandpa on the Munsters, died February 3 at the age of 82.

Coretta Scott King, widow of the civil rights leader, died January 31 at the age of 78.

Chris Penn, actor best known for his role in Reservoir Dogs, died January 24 at the age of 40.

Anthony Franciosa, actor best known for his role in the series The Name of the Game, died January 19 at the age of 77.

Shelley Winters, actress, died January 14 at the age of 85.

Lou Rawls, singer, died January 6 at the age of 72.

Irving Layton, poet, died January 4 at the age of 93.
 
vping said:
It's usually in the paper right about now but I figured we could have our own. These are the only ones that immediately come to mind. Call it morbid curiosity but which famous (infamous)people died this year? Sometimes people mention someone and ya never even realized that person had even died.

Slight Correction:

Peter Boyle
James Brown
<s>William Hannah</s> Joseph Barbara (Hannah died in 2001)
Gerald Ford
Steve Erwin
Saddam Hussein

<span style="color: #993399"><span style='font-family: Comic Sans MS'><span style='font-size: 17pt'>Basil</span></span></span>
 
See WOW. I did not realize so many. Ed Bradley died too.
 
I had a huge crush on June Allyson as a kid. I loved her in teh old Jimmy Stewart movies, Strategic Air Command being my favorite.
 
MG related...Geoff Allen. Geoff worked at the Abingdon Assembly plant for some 26 years, most in Rectification. He purchased a white rubber bumpered "factory hack" and created a V8...he also owned a factory MBG/GT V8. Geoff and his wife, Jean, had relocated to Cheshire after living mor many years in Abingdon.
 
And let's not forget...
GRAMPA MUNSTER
Jean Kirkpatrick
Ed Bradley
Robert Altman
Jack Palance
Jane Wyatt
Cory Lidle (the baseball pitcher that crashed into the building)
Etta Baker AND Benny Smith AND Johnny Jenkins AND Willie Kent (great guitarists)
Patricia Kennedy Lawford (JFK's sister)
Ann Richards (former TX governor)
Glenn Ford
Wilson Pickett (In the Midnight Hour)
Maureen Stapleton
Joe Rosenthal (photographer)
Mike Douglas
Kenneth Lay
Jan Murray
Billy Preston
Vince Welnick (of Grateful Dead)
Lloyd Bentsen
Katherine Dunham
 
Just recently Canadian blues legend "Dutch" Mason passed away, within the blues music scene he was legendary
 
<span style='font-family: Comic Sans MS'><span style='font-size: 17pt'><span style="color: #666600">Shouldn't that avatar have you sittin on an MG Logo! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

Basil</span></span></span>
 
Yes it should. And since you're done moving the forum and probably have nothing to do, wanna fix that for me? And then fix that typo on the front page of the site please, it's bugging me.
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
"enhusiast" is easily readable, understandable, and not at all bugging to me /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
jaybird said:
Yes it should. And since you're done moving the forum and probably have nothing to do, wanna fix that for me? And then fix that typo on the front page of the site please, it's bugging me.
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

<span style='font-family: Comic Sans MS'><span style='font-size: 14pt'>Hows that? Anything else? Would you like the hotel moved a bit to the left, or..?</span></span>
 

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hheeheehahaaahaaaahoohooooo!!!!!!

You're a lovely fella, Basil. Just lovely.
 
Not bad for an amateur, not bad at all.
:devil:

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HEY, where's my devil???
 
(ya know how long it took me to find a goddess with a jaybird?))
 
for the afro cuban jazz music folks, pierre moerlen,ray barreto-76,jay mcshann-90,mongo santamaria-85,celia cruz-77,miguel diaz-45,dewey redman-45,frank amilio-80,don butterfield-83,lou rawls-72,--non music types-danna reeves-44,corretta scott king?,steve irwin?,jeane kirkpatric-80. all very sad.
 
Ummm Basil.

If you could do away with the flowing blonde locks and the silly girly dress, perhaps put a spanner in my hand instead of a bird...
>>insert jaybird's old devil face here<<
 
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