The 2024 Noteworthy Deaths Thread

The 2024 Noteworthy Deaths Thread

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Bonefish Blues

30,257 posts

233 months

Wednesday 1st January
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'Seen looking healthy on 18th december.'

How would you know?

SpudLink

6,569 posts

202 months

Wednesday 1st January
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We don’t know the exact date of her death, but presumably it should be noted in the 2025 thread?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

MarkwG

5,294 posts

199 months

Wednesday 1st January
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Mikebentley said:
MarkwG said:
Mikebentley said:
I know she had lots of surgeries but how exactly do you spend £2 billion plus millions in support payments per year.
Her choice, obviously, but many charities crying out for that kind of support.
I’ve not seen anywhere that she gave to charities. Just curious how you spend billions.
Sorry, was on the 'phone when typing earlier - me neither, I'd like to think in that situation, I'd prioritse helping those less fortune above shopping for plastic surgery, & I'm certainly no oil painting. Tbf lot's of wealthy people do that, notably Bill Gates & his ex wife, for example.

yellowtr

1,189 posts

236 months

Wednesday 1st January
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SeeFive said:
Johnnie Walker was also a petrolhead. He raced stock cars and I think later on midgets.

As a kid I was going to be autograph hunting him in the pits at Tongham raceway one evening but unfortunately he broke his leg in an accident before I got there.
He did indeed race Midgets as my Dad worked on his car and also raced with him as well.

Dbag101

683 posts

4 months

Wednesday 1st January
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yellowtr said:
He did indeed race Midgets as my Dad worked on his car and also raced with him as well.
Is that like dwarf bowling? I didn’t think that was allowed now:

Mikebentley

6,929 posts

150 months

Wednesday 1st January
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MarkwG said:
Mikebentley said:
MarkwG said:
Mikebentley said:
I know she had lots of surgeries but how exactly do you spend £2 billion plus millions in support payments per year.
Her choice, obviously, but many charities crying out for that kind of support.
I’ve not seen anywhere that she gave to charities. Just curious how you spend billions.
Sorry, was on the 'phone when typing earlier - me neither, I'd like to think in that situation, I'd prioritse helping those less fortune above shopping for plastic surgery, & I'm certainly no oil painting. Tbf lot's of wealthy people do that, notably Bill Gates & his ex wife, for example.
Me too if I were ever that fortunate and do what I can even now. I read the linked article and it appears she royally spanked the lot. That face cost a few million just leaving the other 2 billion plus she splurged. Let’s hope the spending of it was more productive to society than the option of leaving it in a bank somewhere.

ajprice

29,910 posts

206 months

Wednesday 1st January
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Sgt Peppers v5, a bottle of Johnnie Walker next to the drum


tdm34

7,427 posts

220 months

Thursday 2nd January
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Osamu Suzuki has died aged 94 on 25/12/2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/business/osamu-...

Chauffard

642 posts

7 months

Thursday 2nd January
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I do the Donald Sutherland stare occasionally and no-one ever gets the film reference, they concluded I was having a stroke, uncultured proles.

cuprabob

16,103 posts

224 months

Thursday 2nd January
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tdm34 said:
Osamu Suzuki has died aged 94 on 25/12/2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/business/osamu-...
Already mentioned a few pages back in a post by "Cold" on Friday 27th Dec.

Ferodocastrol

4,703 posts

235 months

Thursday 2nd January
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Wayne Osmond 73

Bluevanman

8,137 posts

203 months

Thursday 2nd January
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Ferodocastrol said:
Wayne Osmond 73
Wrong year smile

jeremyc

24,990 posts

294 months

Thursday 2nd January
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Ferodocastrol

4,703 posts

235 months

Friday 3rd January
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jeremyc said:
thumbup

Vasco

17,575 posts

115 months

Friday 3rd January
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Ferodocastrol said:
jeremyc said:
thumbup
Thanks.

Richard-390a0

2,707 posts

101 months

Friday 3rd January
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One of the last surviving Royal Navy bomb disposal specialists from the Second World War has died at the age of 100.

Boyd Salmon, who joined up as a rating, aged 17, went on to be commissioned as an officer in 1944 and was part of the Royal Navy's Enemy Mining Section.

The elite unit was responsible for clearing harbours, ports and shorelines of unexploded ordnance left by retreating German forces.

Mr Salmon from Lymington, Hampshire, died just before Christmas.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg6ykg1dlno