The 2024 Noteworthy Deaths Thread

[rodericb]

Will be sadly missed. He did a nice pasta sauce too.

[Chauffard]

Z listers, DJs and car drivers ? this has been a notably poor December for noteworthy demising, let's hope the new year can deliver some surprises.

[spikeyhead]

Chauffard said:

Z listers, DJs and car drivers ? this has been a notably poor December for noteworthy demising, let's hope the new year can deliver some surprises.

PH thanks you for your sophisticated contribution

[Johnspex]

Be fair! He posts on average twice every day. He probably doesn’t have much time to think about his posts, you know, with all that TV to watch and computer games to play and so on.

[oobster]

Probably fairly unknown to most on here, Jack Bond, a Director who worked on the Pet Shop Boys film ‘It Couldn’t Happen Here’ in the 1980s.

[SpudLink]

oobster said:

Probably fairly unknown to most on here, Jack Bond, a Director who worked on the Pet Shop Boys film ‘It Couldn’t Happen Here’ in the 1980s.

The first and only time I have ever walked out of the cinema before the end of the film. Truly woeful.

That’s not a comment on the man himself, just my opinion of the film.

[sunbeam alpine]

blue_haddock said:

Sorry, but -

"You will never be forgotten...

...The Amnesia Family"

[gareth_r]

Swansea and Wales rugby lock forward Geoff Wheel, 73.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c...

[SpudLink]

Chauffard said:

Z listers, DJs and car drivers ? this has been a notably poor December for noteworthy demising, let's hope the new year can deliver some surprises.

Does the brother of the Prime Minister meet your criteria of noteworthy?

Nick Starmer, 60.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjdw3vjy82o

[Cold]

Osamu Suzuki, former CEO of the Japanese manufacturer, 94.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/obituar...

[brake fader]

SpudLink said:

Does the brother of the Prime Minister meet your criteria of noteworthy?

Nick Starmer, 60.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjdw3vjy82o

no nor would the prime minister

[eldar]

brake fader said:

SpudLink said:

Does the brother of the Prime Minister meet your criteria of noteworthy?

Nick Starmer, 60.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjdw3vjy82o

no nor would the prime minister

Can you suggest someone you would consider noteworthy.

[MarkwG]

The death of the government leader of any country is noteworthy, irrespective of ones opinion of them.

[ajprice]

Olivia Hussey, 73. Was Juliet in 1968 Romeo and Juliet, and was in the original Black Christmas, and the IT TV series. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd6q5yzjq5o

[Vasco]

Boxer Paul Bamba age 35.

[yellowjack]

ajprice said:

Olivia Hussey, 73. Was Juliet in 1968 Romeo and Juliet, and was in the original Black Christmas, and the IT TV series. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd6q5yzjq5o

I'm currently watching her in 'Death On The Nile', the version with Peter Ustinov "giving his Poirot".

[Esquire]

Vasco said:

Boxer Paul Bamba age 35.

Seems an odd one although some mention of mental health issues

[CT05 Nose Cone]

yellowjack said:

ajprice said:

Olivia Hussey, 73. Was Juliet in 1968 Romeo and Juliet, and was in the original Black Christmas, and the IT TV series. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd6q5yzjq5o

I'm currently watching her in 'Death On The Nile', the version with Peter Ustinov "giving his Poirot".

Damn, I only watched Black Christmas a few days ago. It really holds up and the killer is genuinely unnerving.

[NDA]

CT05 Nose Cone said:

yellowjack said:

ajprice said:

Olivia Hussey, 73. Was Juliet in 1968 Romeo and Juliet, and was in the original Black Christmas, and the IT TV series. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd6q5yzjq5o

I'm currently watching her in 'Death On The Nile', the version with Peter Ustinov "giving his Poirot".

Damn, I only watched Black Christmas a few days ago. It really holds up and the killer is genuinely unnerving.

Many teenage boys, myself included, fell in love with Olivia when we watched Romeo & Juliet whilst at school.

[tdm34]

Former President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100.