The 2024 Noteworthy Deaths Thread

[Bonefish Blues]

'Seen looking healthy on 18th december.'

How would you know?

[SpudLink]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Sgt Peppers v5, a bottle of Johnnie Walker next to the drum

[tdm34]

Osamu Suzuki has died aged 94 on 25/12/2024

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

[Chauffard]

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]

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]

Wayne Osmond 73

[Bluevanman]

Ferodocastrol said:

Wayne Osmond 73

Wrong year

[jeremyc]

2025 thread is here

[Ferodocastrol]

jeremyc said:

2025 thread is here

[Vasco]

Ferodocastrol said:

jeremyc said:

2025 thread is here

Thanks.

[Richard-390a0]

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