The 2024 Noteworthy Deaths Thread

[shakotan]

craigjm said:

Kowalski655 said:

Bryan Ansell, the guy who started the process that turned Games Workshop from a small hobby shop into the Warhammer juggernaut it is today. Also designed a lot of other stuff for geeks to move around a table.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Ansell
Significant enough I hope, we even have a Warhammer thread here

I never realised that war hammer grew out of those games workshop places

Games Workshop was the store, Warhammer was the game (or series of games depending on your perspective). Was never quite sure why they rebranded - probably because the other GW 'brands' gradually died off.

[Kowalski655]

GW used to be a game shop in west London, Hammersmith IIRC, I would go across London as a teenager to look at all the rules and boardgames they sold, along with the Virgin games store on Oxford Street. Their high street shops used to be all GW but I guess Warhammer is bigger now

[pingu393]

Kowalski655 said:

GW used to be a game shop in west London, Hammersmith IIRC, I would go across London as a teenager to look at all the rules and boardgames they sold, along with the Virgin games store on Oxford Street. Their high street shops used to be all GW but I guess Warhammer is bigger now

It is actually quite a flash buiding on a Nottingham industrial estate.

It used to be very anonymous...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9417199,-1.17442...

[Earthdweller]

Major Mike Sadler, MC, MM, Legion d'honneur , ex LRDG, SAS and MI6 passes away aged 103

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12926611/...

Historian Damien Lewis, who has penned several books on the wartime history of the SAS, paid tribute to the hero, telling MailOnline: 'Mike Sadler was one of the originals and one of the bravest of the brave and we now no longer have any surviving members of 1 SAS from the war.

'So this is the passing of a legend, the passing of a generation, the passing of an era. It is immensely tragic because our ability to capture these stories from first hand testimony is becoming so difficult. The lights are going out all over Britain.'

[pingu393]

Earthdweller said:

Major Mike Sadler, MC, MM, Legion d'honneur , ex LRDG, SAS and MI6 passes away aged 103

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12926611/...

Historian Damien Lewis, who has penned several books on the wartime history of the SAS, paid tribute to the hero, telling MailOnline: 'Mike Sadler was one of the originals and one of the bravest of the brave and we now no longer have any surviving members of 1 SAS from the war.

'So this is the passing of a legend, the passing of a generation, the passing of an era. It is immensely tragic because our ability to capture these stories from first hand testimony is becoming so difficult. The lights are going out all over Britain.'

Chapeau, sir. Every time I saw him interviewed, I was really surprised how well he appeared, despite his age.

I was under the impression that he was never actually a member of the SAS, but he was one of the first people selected by Stirling and Lewes. He was selected because of his exceptional navigation skills.

[FourWheelDrift]

Glynis Johns, 100, actress (Mary Poppins, A Little Night Music, The Sundowners), Tony winner (1973).

[Nethybridge]

Noteable and noteworthy indeed.

Actress, singer and a producer of many rock albums in the 1970s

What a gal.

[sidewinder500]

Nethybridge said:

producer of many rock albums in the 1970s

That has to be irony, unless you got her mixed up with Glyn Johns...

[Frankthered]

FourWheelDrift said:

Glynis Johns, 100, actress (Mary Poppins, A Little Night Music, The Sundowners), Tony winner (1973).

Sad.

[gazza285]

John Diggins, guitar maker, most famously for bassist Mark King, and guitarists Tony Iommi and Angus Young.

[Eric Mc]

Frankthered said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Glynis Johns, 100, actress (Mary Poppins, A Little Night Music, The Sundowners), Tony winner (1973).

Sad.

Time to dig out "The Court Jester" again. My favourite Glynnis Johns (and Danny Kaye) film.

[Legacywr]

gazza285 said:

John Diggins, guitar maker, most famously for bassist Mark King, and guitarists Tony Iommi and Angus Young.

That's pushing it, even with the current thread title

[Blib]

Legacywr said:

gazza285 said:

John Diggins, guitar maker, most famously for bassist Mark King, and guitarists Tony Iommi and Angus Young.

That's pushing it, even with the current thread title

As a guitar maker, he produced notes.

So, 'notable'.

[gazza285]

Legacywr said:

gazza285 said:

John Diggins, guitar maker, most famously for bassist Mark King, and guitarists Tony Iommi and Angus Young.

That's pushing it, even with the current thread title

World famous guitar luthier…

[SpudLink]

Blib said:

Legacywr said:

gazza285 said:

John Diggins, guitar maker, most famously for bassist Mark King, and guitarists Tony Iommi and Angus Young.

That's pushing it, even with the current thread title

As a guitar maker, he produced notes.

So, 'notable'.

There's a guitar website describing him as "Legendary Guitar Builder". So even though he may not be of interest to those who don't care about guitars (most of us), his passing will be worthy of note to more than just his family and friends.

[droopsnoot]

It's a good job the thread was renamed to "noteworthy" so we don't have to have a load of arguments about someone is a celebrity or not.

[Eric Mc]

droopsnoot said:

It's a good job the thread was renamed to "noteworthy" so we don't have to have a load of arguments about someone is a celebrity or not.

That was the intended aim.

[Biker's Nemesis]

SpudLink said:

Blib said:

Legacywr said:

gazza285 said:

John Diggins, guitar maker, most famously for bassist Mark King, and guitarists Tony Iommi and Angus Young.

That's pushing it, even with the current thread title

As a guitar maker, he produced notes.

So, 'notable'.

There's a guitar website describing him as "Legendary Guitar Builder". So even though he may not be of interest to those who don't care about guitars (most of us), his passing will be worthy of note to more than just his family and friends.

This is of interest to me as a Level 42/Mark King fan.

[33q]

Derek Draper ..... RIP

[GT3Manthey]

33q said:

Derek Draper ..... RIP

That’s sad news .