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Note to self - use the search function.
:irish: Must be the Oirish in me. Can't be having with these new fangled machines.
Sidney Lumet, '12 Angry Men' and 'Network' director, dies
April 9, 2011, 11:47 AM EST
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sidney Lumet, the award-winning director of such acclaimed films as "Network," "Serpico," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "12 Angry Men," has died. He was 86. Lumet's death was confirmed Saturday by Marc Kusnetz, who is the husband of Lumet's stepdaughter, Leslie Gimbel. He said Lumet died during the night and had suffered from lymphoma.
Trevor Bannister, Are You Being Served's Mr Lucas, dies aged 76
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Trevor Bannister, who played the role of ladies' man Mr Lucas in the department store comedy Are You Being Served? has died at the age of 76.
He suffered a heart attack on Thursday at his allotment in Thames Ditton, Surrey, his brother John told the BBC.
"He was a good lad, we were all very fond of him," he said, adding that the actor had been doing some repair work on his shed when he became ill.
Bannister had a lengthy career including appearances in the long-running police drama Z Cars, and more recently a stint in Last of the Summer Wine.
He also made regular appearances in the theatre and in pantomime.
In 2009, he gave a reading at the funeral of his co-star Wendy Richard, who played Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? and later Pauline Fowler in EastEnders.
Born on 14 August 1936 in the village of Durrington, Wiltshire, Bannister enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts after two years' national service.
His first break in theatre had come when he was hired for a repertory company in Folkestone at 15, and his West End stage debut was in 1960 when he appeared in Billy Liar, with Albert Finney.
Are You Being Served? ran from 1972 until 1985, but Bannister left the show in 1980 when it was at the height of its popularity, going on to play Peter Pitt in the 1988 BBC sitcom Wyatt's Watchdogs.
He also had minor roles in Keeping Up Appearances, The Saint and The Avengers and played three different characters in Coronation Street.
Five years ago he played Sir John Tremayne in the 70th anniversary production of the Noel Gay musical, Me And My Girl, which toured the UK.
Frank Thornton, who appeared as Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served?, said he had "many, many happy memories" of Bannister. "He was a very good friend over a long time," he said.
"We often met with him and his wife – he was recently at my 90th birthday celebrations in January and that was the last time we saw him. We shall miss him sorely."
His agent, David Daly, said: "I have known and worked with Trevor Bannister as his agent for 24 years. He has been a wonderful friend as well as a very talented client and I shall miss him greatly."
^ Captain Peacock should be worried, Mr Humphreys, Miss Brahms, Mrs Slocombe and her pussy and now Mr Lucas have all passed away in the last 4 years.
you asked for it.
mrs slocombes pussy
YouTube - MrsSlocombesPussy
Marathon legend Grete Waitz dies
Published: 19/04/2011 at 09:31 PM
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Norwegian race legend Grete Waitz, who won nine New York marathons and a world title, died of cancer on Tuesday, her Norwegian cancer foundation announced. She was 57.
"She died overnight in hospital," Helle Aanesen, the co-founder of the Active Against Cancer Foundation, told AFP of Norway's most famous long distance runner.
Waitz, whose maiden name was Andersen, had been undergoing treatment for cancer since 2005.
She won nine New York marathons between 1978 and 1988, more than any other athlete, male or female.
Her reputation was such in the Big Apple that a half-marathon named after her, the "Grete's Great Gallop", is held every year in Central Park.
"We will forever celebrate Grete in our hearts and as an inspiration and role model for women?s running," said Mary Wittenberg, president of the New York Road Runners club that organizes the New York Marathon.
"We are sad to lose a dear friend and our most decorated champion. Her strength and grace throughout her fight with cancer were incredible and when so many people would have crumbled she stood strong and positive."
Waitz became marathon world champion at the first athletics world championships in Helsinki in 1983 and won the silver medal at the Los Angeles Olympics the following year.
She also won the London marathon in 1983 and in 1986.
The head of the Norwegian athletics federation, Svein Arne Hansen, called her "the greatest Norwegian athlete of all times".
In a statement, he praised her "not only for her sports performances, but also as a model for womens' sport".
Waitz also broke the 3,000-metres world record twice, in 1975 and 1976, and won five cross-country world championships.
She also won a total of 33 Norwegian championships in all disciplines.
There was praise also from IAAF president Lamine Diack who called Waitz "one of the brightest flames of the modern athletics era".
"The dedication, perseverance and fortitude with which Grete carved out her athletics career on the track, across the country and on the road is an example to us all, as is the positive way she tackled the illness that beset her life in recent years," he said
Doctor Who actress Elisabeth Sladen dies
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Doctor Who star Elisabeth Sladen, who was also in spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures, has died aged 63.
Sladen appeared as Doctor Who assistant Sarah Jane Smith in the BBC television sci-fi series between 1973 and 1976, opposite Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker.
The Liverpool-born actress appeared in four series from 2007 of The Sarah Jane Adventures on children's channel CBBC.
Sladen had been battling cancer for some time and leaves actor husband Brian Miller and daughter Sadie.
Only Fools and Horses writer John Sullivan OBE dies
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John Sullivan, who wrote one of the best-loved British sitcoms, Only Fools and Horses, has died at the age of 64.
He had been in intensive care for six weeks at a hospital in Surrey, battling viral pneumonia.
He also wrote Citizen Smith and Just Good Friends, and the third and final episode of his latest work Rock & Chips will be shown on BBC One on Thursday.
Sir David Jason, who played Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses, said he was "devastated" at the loss of his friend.
He said: "We have lost our country's greatest comedy writer but he leaves us a great legacy, the gift of laughter. My thoughts at this time are with his lovely family."
Nicholas Lyndhurst, who played Del's brother Rodney, said he was "shocked" and "deeply saddened" and described his friend as "without doubt" Britain's finest TV writer.
He said: "He was a shy and self-effacing man, but had a huge passion for his work and was looking forward to writing more Rock & Chips, I hope the last episode makes him proud."
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Trigger: If it's a girl they're gonna name it Sigourney, after the actress. And if it's a boy they're gonna name him Rodney, after Dave.
Del: No, no not goodbye Margaret, no just Bonjour.
Once Del Boy famously followed his "He who dares, wins!" with the further wisdom "He who hesitates... don't."
As Raquel once reassured a jealous Del: "Derek, will you get it into your thick skull: I'm not trying to meet intelligent and sensitive people, I'm happy with you."
Shame. The best British comedy sine Monty Python.
Legendary.
Well........since Fawlty Towers, at least.
Well........since The Young Ones, at least :)Quote:
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In the words of Del ''The world was his lobster''
Youngest on Hillary's Everest team dies
9:25 AM Monday Apr 25, 2011
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Sherpa mountaineer Nawang Gombu, the youngest member of the climbing team that first scaled Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, died yesterday at his Indian home at the foot of the Himalayas. He was 79.
Friends and family were at Gombu's bedside when he died after a brief illness in Darjeeling, about 650km north of Kolkata, his son Kursung Phinjo Gombu said.
The first person to summit Everest twice, Gombu was considered one of the last of the so-called "Tigers of the Snow" - a small group of Sherpa mountaineers who scaled the Himalayas to bring fame and prestige to their ethnic community that originates from the mountains of eastern Tibet and Nepal.
Gombu was about 21 when he joined his uncle Tenzing Norgay and Hillary on the famous 1953 expedition, but he did not reach the top of the world's highest mountain until 10 years later when he guided the first American expedition led by mountaineer Jim Whittaker to the summit.
The 1963 expedition members were then invited to the White House, where Gombu placed a traditional white katha-style scarf around the neck of President John F Kennedy.
Gombu achieved fame two years later as the first to summit Everest twice, when he guided an Indian team to the top. He is also credited with pioneering dozens of new routes through the Himalayas and helping to open the region to tourists and trekkers seeking new and increasingly extreme climbing challenges.
Gombu's career includes numerous Indian and international awards including a Coronation Medal from Queen Elizabeth II and a Hubbard Medal from the National Geographic Society for his climbing feats.
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Ted Lowe dies aged 90
Legendary snooker commentator Ted Lowe has died aged 90 on the opening day of the World Championship final.
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'Whispering Ted Lowe', as he was affectionately known, covered the sport for 27 years after beginning on the popular television programme Pot Black.
Wife Jean said: "His health had been deteriorating for the last 10 weeks. He went into a hospice a week ago and I never left his side.
"But I could see he was slowly going. He still loves snooker and was watching it on TV."
BBC commentator John Virgo, a former player who went on to work alongside Lowe, highlighted just how integral his hushed tones were to snooker, which enjoyed immense popularity in the 1980s.
"He set a standard for us all," Virgo said. "He was wonderful, he had an impish sense of humour and, while cricket had its John Arlott and Wimbledon had its Dan Maskell, we had Ted Lowe.
"He was one of the BBC greats. It's a sad day for snooker and he'll be sadly missed."
Dennis Taylor, also now a commentator with the national broadcaster, spoke of Lowe covering his infamous 1985 black-ball world title victory over Steve Davis.
"He had a lovely, lovely voice. To hear his voice and have him commentating on the 1985 final makes it special," Taylor said.
"No praise is high enough: I had such great times with him, and I couldn't have learnt from anyone better."
Jimmy White, who reached six World Championship finals but never won the top prize, tweeted his grief: "Still in shock and so saddened. Absolutely gutted. He was a great friend of my dad's and an absolute gentleman. I loved him dearly."
Lowe recounted his big break at the BBC to Radio Berkshire, where he was born, in 2007. When commentator Raymond Glendenning turned up at the Crucible having had a little too much to drink, he was called upon to fill the gap.
"I was scared to death commentating on Joe Davis, who was a God to me," he reminisced. "Of course, sitting in the crowd I was terrified they would hear what I had to say, so I started whispering.
"The producer loved it."
Boxing legend Sir Henry Cooper dies aged 76
01 May 11 21:07
Boxing legend Sir Henry Cooper has passed away at the age of 76.
The former English, Commonwealth and European heavyweight champion fought 55 times and is revered for his knockdown of Muhammad Ali in 1963.
London-born Cooper, who won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year twice, was knighted in 2000.
Alongside figures such as Frank Bruno, Tommy Farr and Lennox Lewis, Cooper is regarded as one of the all-time best British heavyweights.
Cooper, won the British, European and Commonwealth titles but never won a world title and retired in 1971 after losing to Joe Bugner.
More to follow.
more Henry Cooper
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Cooper famously floored Muhammed Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, in 1963. He floored the American in the fourth round with 'Enry's 'Ammer - his trademark left hook - but Ali eventually won the 1963 non-title fight at Wembley. Ali later said on British television that Cooper "hit me so hard that my ancestors in Africa felt it". Ali triumphed again when they boxed three years later but Cooper remained a favourite with the British public.
Boxing record
Total fights 55
Wins 40
Wins by KO 27
Losses 14
Draws 1
2 May 2011
Osama Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden came to the world's attention on 11 September 2001, when the attacks on the United States left more than 3,000 people dead and hundreds more injured.
In a matter of three years, the Saudi-born dissident had emerged from obscurity to become one of the most hated and feared men in the world.
Osama Bin Laden was born in 1957, apparently the 17th of 52 children of Mohamed Bin Laden, a multimillionaire builder responsible for 80% of Saudi Arabia's roads.
His father's death in a helicopter crash in 1968 brought the young man a fortune running into many millions of dollars, though considerably less than the widely published estimate of $250m.
Mujahideen
While studying civil engineering at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Bin Laden came into contact with teachers and students of the more conservative brand of Islam.
Through theological debate and study, he came to embrace fundamentalist Islam as a bulwark against what he saw as the decadence of the West.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 changed Bin Laden's life forever. He took up the anti-communist cause with a will, moving to Afghanistan where, for a decade, he fought an ultimately victorious campaign with the mujahideen.
Intelligence experts believe that the US Central Intelligence Agency played an active role in arming and training the mujahideen, including Bin Laden. The end of the war saw a sea change in his views.
Lucrative investments
His hatred of Moscow shifted to Washington after 300,000 US troops, women among them, were based in Saudi Arabia, home of two of Islam's holiest places, during the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq. Bin Laden vowed to avenge what he saw as blasphemy.
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Bin Laden was the chief suspect behind the Nairobi embassy bomb
Along with many of his mujahideen comrades, he brought his mix of fighting skills and Islamic zeal to many anti-US factions within the Middle East.
American pressure ended brief sojourns in Saudi Arabia - which removed his citizenship in 1994 - and then Sudan, and Bin Laden moved back to Afghanistan in January 1996.
The country, in a state of anarchy, was home to a diverse range of Islamic groups, including the fundamentalist Taleban militia, which captured the capital Kabul nine months later.
Though geographically limited, Bin Laden's wealth, increasing all the time through lucrative worldwide investments, enabled him to finance and control a continuously shifting series of transnational militant alliances through his al-Qaeda network.
Sometimes he worked as a broker, organising logistics and providing financial support. At other times, he would run his own violent campaigns.
In February 1998, he issued a fatwa - or religious edict - on behalf of the World Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, stating that killing Americans and their allies was a Muslim duty.
'Most wanted'
Six months later, two bombs rocked the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Some 224 people died and nearly 5,000 were wounded. He was indicted as chief suspect, along with 16 of his colleagues.
Almost overnight, Bin Laden became a major thorn in the side of America. A byword for fundamentalist Islamic resistance to Washington, he soon appeared on the FBI's "most wanted" list, with a reward of up to $25m on his head.
The US fired 75 sea-launched cruise missiles into six training camps in eastern Afghanistan in a failed attempt to kill him. They missed their target by just one hour.
As well as the African bombings, Bin Laden was implicated in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, a 1995 car bomb in the Saudi capital Riyadh and a truck bomb in a Saudi barracks, which killed 19 US soldiers.
"I always kill Americans because they kill us," he said. "When we attack Americans, we don't harm other people."
In the case of the bombs in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, his words rang hollow. The vast majority of the dead and injured were African, not American.
The arrogance of wealth saw Bin Laden make the government of Kazakhstan a multi-million dollar offer to buy his own tactical nuclear weapon.
It comes as no surprise, then, that both the US and Israel are believed to have sent assassination squads after him.
Cult status
Then came the events of 11 September 2001. Two hijacked aircraft smashed into, and destroyed, the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
Another aircraft ploughed into the Pentagon in Washington and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Altogether more than 3,000 people died in the attacks, which led to the US-led operation against the Taleban.
Allied forces moved into Afghanistan late in 2001. At the time, it was believed that Bin Laden might have been killed during the battle for the Tora Bora cave complex.
In reality, he had slipped across the border into Pakistan, a country in which he achieved the sort of cult status usually reserved for pop stars or film actors.
In February 2003, an audio tape, purporting to be of Bin Laden, was delivered to the al-Jazeera television company.
Of the impending US-led invasion of Iraq, the voice said: "This crusaders' war concerns, first and foremost, all Muslims, regardless of whether the Iraqi socialist party or Saddam remain in power.
"All Muslims, especially those in Iraq, should launch a holy war."
The US conceded that the voice was probably Bin Laden's.
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Bin Laden exhorted all Muslims to wage war against America
Careful timing
The last known sighting of Bin Laden by anyone other than his very close entourage remains in late 2001 as he prepared to flee from his Tora Bora stronghold.
He was widely assumed to have travelled east, across into Pakistan to be given hospitality and shelter by certain local Pashtun tribesmen loyal to the Taleban and opposed to their own government led by President Pervez Musharraf.
The hunt for Bin Laden took a dramatic turn with the arrest in Pakistan, in 2003, of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
The head of al-Qaeda's operations and the suspected mastermind of the Twin Towers attack, it seemed as though the net had begun to close in on Bin Laden himself.
A major offensive to capture Bin Laden was launched by the Pakistani army along the Afghan border in May-July 2004.
But a year later, Mr Musharraf admitted the trail had gone cold.
Though al-Qaeda has been prolific in issuing audio messages, often on the internet and featuring the network's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, videos of Bin Laden himself have been rare.
His appearances have been carefully timed and aimed, analysts say, at influencing Western public opinion by driving a wedge between citizens and their leaders.
One such video was issued in 2004 - the same year as the Madrid bombings - and days before the US election.
A second surfaced as the sixth anniversary of the 11 September attacks approached, timed to quell rumours that he had been dead for some time.
To his supporters, Bin Laden was a fighter for freedom against the US and Israel, not, as he was to many in the West, a terrorist with the blood of thousands of people on his hands.
That last announcement is wrong in this thread IMO! It is called "RIP Famous Person Thread".
If I were not an atheist I could say may he roast in hell for all eternity. No resting in peace.
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Nit pickers.:)Quote:
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Seems like we need a thread for dispatched/dead "bona fide bad guys" , made a new one in the lounge :)
How do we quantify "bad guys" ?
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Keep it simple. Change title of this thread to "The RIP/RIH Famous Person Thread".Quote:
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"Famous dead people".Quote:
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Let them rest as they will.
does 'famous' necessarily mean 'good'? and who would be the judge of good?
When either, or both, George Bush and son W pass away, would they be similarly disqualified?
Or are we to believe they are the good guys?
Maybe it should be 'lives of note' - OBL did have an impact on many people - spare him a (nasty) thought next time you're held up at airport security.
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Last WWI combat veteran Claude Choules dies aged 110
5 May 2011
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The world's last known combat veteran of World War I, Claude Choules, has died in Australia aged 110.
Known to his comrades as Chuckles, British-born Mr Choules joined the Royal Navy at 15 and went on to serve on HMS Revenge.
He moved to Australia in the 1920s and served in the military until 1956.
Mr Choules, who had been married to his wife Ethel for 76 years, was reported to have died in his sleep at a nursing home in his adopted city of Perth.
He is survived by three children and 11 grandchildren. His wife died three years ago.
Mr Choules' 84-year-old daughter, Daphne Edinger, told the Associated Press news agency: "We all loved him. It's going to be sad to think of him not being here any longer, but that's the way things go."
Demolition officer
Born in Pershore, Worcestershire, in March 1901, Mr Choules tried to enlist in the Army at the outbreak of WWI to join his elder brothers who were fighting, but was told he was too young.
He lied about his age to become a Royal Navy rating, joining the battleship HMS Revenge on which he saw action in the North Sea aged 17.
He witnessed the surrender of the German fleet in the Firth of Forth in November 1918, then the scuttling of the fleet at Scapa Flow.
Mr Choules remembered WWI as a "tough" life, marked by occasional moments of extreme danger.
After the war he served as a peacekeeper in the Black Sea and in 1926 was posted as an instructor to Flinders Naval Depot, near Melbourne. It was on the passenger liner to Australia that he met his future wife.
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Mr Choules was a Chief Petty Officer in the Australian Navy
He transferred to the Royal Australian Navy and after a brief spell in the reserves rejoined as a Chief Petty Officer in 1932.
During World War II he was chief demolition officer for the western half of Australia. It would have been his responsibility to blow up the key strategic harbour of Fremantle, near Perth, if Japan had invaded.
Mr Choules joined the Naval Dockyard Police after finishing his service.
But despite his military record, Mr Choules became a pacifist. He was known to have disagreed with the celebration of Australia's most important war memorial holiday, Anzac Day, and refused to march in the annual commemoration parades.
He took a creative writing course at the age of 80 and recorded his memoirs for his family. They formed the basis of the autobiography, The Last of the Last, which was published in 2009.
The last three WWI veterans living in Britain - Bill Stone, Henry Allingham and Harry Patch - all died in 2009.
Another Briton, Florence Green - who turned 110 in February and was a waitress in the Women's Royal Air Force - is now thought to be the world's last known surviving service member of WWI. An American veteran, Frank Buckles, died earlier this year.
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Taking to the skies on his 103rd birthday
Claude Choules was the last link with a war that wiped out a generation.
Now, like the conflict in which he fought, he has passed into history.
Poly Styrene. Lead singer of the tremendously influential and utterly splendid early punk group X-Ray Spex died of cancer last week. RIP.
YouTube - X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours!
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Maybe the thread can become "RIP the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" That way we cater for when Marmite passes too.
Golfing great Seve Ballesteros dies, aged 54
AFP From: Herald Sun May 07, 2011 3:02PM
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Late golf legend Seve Ballesteros waves as he appears in public for the first time after surgery on a cancerous brain tumor.
SEVERIANO Ballesteros, who died aged 54, was one of golf's all-time greats, a charismatic figure who lifted five majors, led the European challenge to the decades-long US supremacy and turned a new generation onto the sport.
For two decades, from the mid-1970s to the 1990s, 'Seve' was one of the sport's most celebrated personalities.
He collected 87 career titles and was a crucial ingredient in Europe's rediscovered love affair with the Ryder Cup, before retiring in 2007 with back problems.
Known for his flamboyant and imaginative style of play, he famously won one of his three British Open titles by playing a shot from a temporary parking lot.
Ballesteros was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour after losing consciousness at Madrid airport on October 6, 2008.
He underwent four operations to remove the tumour and reduce swelling in his skull, as well as chemotherapy. He called his battle against the tumour the "hardest challenge of my life".
"During my career I was one of the best at getting around obstacles on golf courses. Now I want to be the best at confronting the most difficult match of my life with all my strength," he had said in a statement when he revealed his illness.
Born in the village of Pedrena near the northern port of Santander on April 9, 1957, he rose from humble beginnings (his father was a greenkeeper) in Spain, a country with little or no track record for golf.
But his three older brothers were all golf pros as well as his uncle, who was Spanish professional champion four times and was sixth in the 1965 Augusta Masters.
His brother Manuel gave him a 3-iron as a present, and he sharpened his skills on the beach near his home on moonlit nights. At the age of 12, he won a caddies tournament with a score of 79.
Ballesteros announced his presence as a teenager in 1976 when he finished second at the British Open, just two years after turning pro aged 16.
He could have won. He led at the midway point but a final round of 74 left him six shots behind eventual champion Johnny Miller at Royal Birkdale.
Topping the European Tour Order of Merit that year - he would go on to do so on another five occasions - was a measure of compensation.
In 1979, aged 21, he became the youngest winner of the British Open.
A year later, he was the first European to make the breakthrough at the Augusta Masters, opening the floodgates for the likes of Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer, Ian Woosnam, Sandy Lyle and his Spanish compatriot Jose Maria Olazabal.
That first of two Masters titles made him, at 23, the youngest winner before Tiger Woods reduced the bar in 1997.
Across the 1980s Ballesteros bestrode the green like a sporting behemoth, adding further British Open titles in 1984 and 1988 and also winning five World Match Play Championships.
His Ryder Cup exploits were equally impressive, spearheading the landmark 1985 win over the Americans, the first since 1957.
Two years later the Ballesteros-inspired Europeans won on American soil for the first time and what had been a one-way contest had been changed for ever.
His Ryder Cup partnership with compatriot Olazabal proved the most successful in the history of the event - the pair notched 11 wins with two further matches halved out of 15 pairs.
He also skippered the 1997 Ryder Cup winning team on home ground in Valderrama.
Back problems though started to trouble him in the late 1990s and his form and confidence gradually ebbed away. On July 16, 2007, he announced his retirement, although having turned 50 he was eligible for the Champions Tour and European Seniors Tour.
"I no longer have the desire and I am no longer willing to give away the things I did before," an emotional Ballesteros said at the time.
"I gave away all my teenage years and fought day and night to give my all and focus 100 percent on my golf game. I have a number of good years ahead of me and want to spend some time with my three children and friends and family."
He had already been limiting his schedule in the preceding years - a 2005 Madrid Open showing marked a brief comeback which saw him also enter the 2006 British Open Championship.
In 1988, he married Carmen Botin, the daughter of Emilio Botin, head of Santander bank and one of Spain's richest men. The couple had three children and divorced in 2004.
Ballesteros was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1999, where he joined the likes of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.
Golf Digest magazine in 2000 ranked him as the greatest golfer Europe has produced.
Tributes flow for boxing legend Rose
Tributes are flowing for one of Australia's sporting greats, the legendary Australian boxer Lionel Rose, who died aged 62.
Rose had been suffering from health problems since having a stroke in 2007 that left him partially paralysed with speech difficulties.
Rose made Australian sporting history in 1968 when he became the first Indigenous boxer to win a world championship.
He beat Japan's Fighting Harada in Tokyo to claim the world bantamweight title.
When he returned to Australia, Rose was greeted by more than 100,000 people outside the Melbourne Town Hall.
In 1968 he was named Australian of the Year for his achievement.
Three-times boxing world champion Anthony Mundine says Rose is Australia's greatest ever fighter.
"It's very sad news and tragic news that one of the legends of the sport and possibly the best Australian fighter that's ever lived has passed away, but that's a part of life," he said.
Mundine says Rose has been an inspiration to Australian boxers and his death is a loss for all Australians.
"He was the pioneer not just for Indigenous Australians. He was the first Australian world champion, he wasn't the first Indigenous but the first Australian champion," he said.
Former Australian Boxing Federation president Brad Vocale, who is also Rose's cousin, says Rose is an Australian sporting legend.
"He created history. He made all Australians proud, especially my race my people," he said.
"He made us all very, very proud. He gave us all something to fight for and something to live for."
Mr Vocale says Rose had an incredible career as a boxer, with 53 fights for 42 wins.
"His professional record he had 53 fights, 42 wins and 11 losses," he said.
"He had a few of those losses near the end of his career when he was probably fighting for the love of fighting more so after his world championship days were well and truly over."
Rose also became a recording artist in the 1970s and had two top 10 hits - I Thank You and Please Remember Me - as a country musician.
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the rich bloke who managed to marry Brigitte Bardot dies
Gunter Sachs, playboy
Like his father before he shot himself. But for a reason I can relate to. He was diagnosed with Alzheimers and did not want to go down that path.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrAndy
Cyclist Wouter Weylandt dies after Giro d'Italia crash
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2011/05/1076.jpg Weylandt won a stage of last year's Giro d'Italia Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt has died after crashing during Monday's third stage of the Giro d'Italia.
The Leopard-Trek rider fell at high speed during a descent about 20km (12.4 miles) from the finish of the stage from Reggio Emilia to Rapallo.
The 26-year-old lay motionless on the roadside as paramedics tried to resuscitate him.
"Despite immediate treatment there was nothing we could do," doctor Giovanni Tredici told Italian television.
"Weylandt was the victim of a fall and we are still trying to reconstruct the dynamics of what happened.
"We tried for 40 minutes to resuscitate him."
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Obituary: John Walker
John Walker dies at 67; founding member of the Walker Brothers
May 10, 2011
John Walker, 67, a guitarist and singer who was one of the founding members of the Walker Brothers, a 1960s rock band whose biggest hit was "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)," died of liver cancer Saturday in Los Angeles, according to his personal assistant, Polly Klemmer.
Walker and two other Americans, bassist Scott Engel and drummer Gary Leeds, moved to London in 1964 and called themselves the Walker Brothers, each adopting Walker as his surname, although they were not related. They had instant success as teen idols in the United Kingdom with their first British recording, 1964's "Love Her," and a string of hits quickly followed, including "Make It Easy on Yourself" and "My Ship Is Comin' In."
The Walker Brothers' singles "specialized in high melodrama, brilliantly augmented by string arrangements," according to the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. In the United States, the band made Billboard's top 20 pop charts with "Make It Easy on Yourself" in 1965 and "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" in 1966.
The band broke up in 1967, with the members embarking on solo careers, but had a brief reunion in the mid-1970s. Walker returned to the United States in the 1980s.
Born John Maus in New York in 1943, he moved with his family to California as a youngster. He learned to play the guitar as a teenager and began using the name Walker professionally when he was 17. Walker and Engel regularly played at Gazzari's on the Sunset Strip before joining Leeds and moving to Britain.