The RIP Famous Person Thread

[harrybarracuda]

MADRID, Spain -- Real Madrid says football great Alfredo Di Stefano has died. He was 88.
The Argentine forward was taken to a hospital on Saturday after a heart attack. The club on Monday said Di Stefano had been in a coma since then at Gregorio Maranon hospital in the Spanish capital where he passed away.
Di Stefano helped Real Madrid win five straight European Champions Cups from 1956-60 and eight Spanish league titles. He was voted European player of the year in 1957 and '59.

The only man to score in five successive European Cup finals. I doubt that record will fall any time soon. Well, any time.

[Bobcock]

We think he did not want to go back into hospital.”

NHS is a very very scary place to end up.

Beachy Head the preferred way out.

Says a lot about compassion in our society.

RIP to the guy.

Must be the English, the NHS in Wales helped greatly in both my parents having peaceful and dignified endings.

As in overdosed them or just kept them morphined up until they passed away?

Neither.

[harrybarracuda]

Neither.

So they didn't die of cancer then?

[xanax]

Not reading this thread any more, too depressing.

[harrybarracuda]

Not reading this thread any more, too depressing.

Yeah well a thread about people dying can have that effect. Unless you think positively about what most the people above have contributed to the world.

In which case it's quite uplifting.

[harrybarracuda]

Father of champion jumps jockey Peter and grandfather of top rider Tom and trainer Michael, Scudamore senior won the world’s greatest steeplechase at Aintree on Oxo in 1959.

He won many of jump racing’s major prizes including the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Linwell in 1957, the 1956 King George VI Chase on Rose Park and the Welsh National on Creeola II in 1957.

Tom Scudamore paid his tribute, saying: “He was the original and the best. I wish I was half the jockey and, most importantly, half the man. Respected and loved by all who knew him.”

Top trainer David Pipe wrote on his Twitter page: “So sorry to hear of the passing of Michael Scudamore Snr. Thoughts are with the whole Scudamore family.”

And as an aside:

LAMMTARRA, unbeaten winner of the Derby, King George and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1995, has died at the age of 22.

What a great horse, made some nice money out of him.

[harrybarracuda]

Another News Crawler error!

Doh!

Thx Palexxx

[palexxxx]

^ sorry, he died last year. (28/3/13).

Richard Griffiths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[harrybarracuda]

I checked this one

Oscar-winning composer Ken Thorne died Tuesday, according to the funeral home handling his final arrangements. He was 90.

Thorne won an Oscar for scoring the 1966 musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and earned a Grammy nomination for writing the incidental score to the 1965 Beatles film "Help!"

He went on to receive an Emmy nomination for the 1995 CBS TV movie "A Season Of Hope." Thorne was born in England and lived in West Hills, California. He began playing piano at age five and was a professional musician by 15.

His other credits include "Superman II," "Superman III" and The Monkees' comedy "Head." For the Superman films, he showed talent for rearrangement when he took John Williams' iconic score and made it his own. Thorne is survived by his wife, Linda, and twin daughters Emily and Claire.

[harrybarracuda]

Well feck me I must have summoned the curse of Harry Potter with that Richard Griffith rick.

Harry Potter actor Dave Legeno has died at the age of 50.

The British star, who played werewolf Fenrir Greyback in the film franchise, was found by hikers in a remote area of California's Death Valley on Sunday (July 6).

According to TMZ, it is thought that Legeno had been hiking in the national park himself when he came into difficulties.

The area is notorious for its extremely high temperatures during the summer months, and Inyo County Sheriff's Department has indicated in its initial reports that they believe the actor died of heat-related issues. A coroner's investigation is pending.

[Sumocakewalk]

Poor man probably cooked to death. I once drove through Death Valley in the summer months in an old chevy with black vinyl seats and no air con. Had to roll the windows down for airflow, but it was like letting a blast of furnace hot air in. Not sure why anyone would want to go hiking in that heat, especially alone.

[Cujo]

Poor man probably cooked to death. I once drove through Death Valley in the summer months in an old chevy with black vinyl seats and no air con. Had to roll the windows down for airflow, but it was like letting a blast of furnace hot air in. Not sure why anyone would want to go hiking in that heat, especially alone.

So you had to 'valve' the windows.

[Sumocakewalk]

So you had to 'valve' the windows.

Not sure what it means to valve the windows.

Rolling the windows down made it more like a convection oven rather than a conventional oven. Either way it was like being slowly cooked. Best to keep on driving and get to a place where the temp is less hostile to life. Death Valley is a great place to visit in the middle of winter when the temps are very comfortable. Starting in April, the heat starts to kick in.

[harrybarracuda]

Drummer and producer Tommy Ramone, the last surviving original member of the influential New York punk quartet the Ramones, died Friday at his home in the Ridgewood area of Queens, New York. He was 65 and had been in hospice care following treatment for bile duct cancer.

Born Erdelyi Tamas in Budapest, Hungary, and known professionally as Tom or T. Erdelyi, Ramone played on the first three epoch-making Ramones albums, “Ramones” (1976), “Leave Home” (1977) and “Rocket to Russia” (1977). He also co-produced the latter two albums with Tony Bongiovi and Ed Stasium, respectively. He appeared on and co-produced the 1979 live Ramones opus “It’s Alive.”

After leaving the Ramones to concentrate on studio work, he co-produced the band’s 1984 album “Too Tough to Die” with Stasium. He was replaced in the lineup by Marc Bell (Marky Ramone), a former member of Dust and Richard Hell’s Voidoids.

One of the first high-profile releases to emerge from New York’s punk underground of the mid-‘70s, “Ramones” – reportedly recorded in six days on a budget of $6,400 – brought a pared-down, hyperactive style to the stuffy rock scene of the day. Tommy’s driving, high-energy drum work was the turbine that powered the leather-clad foursome’s loud, antic sound.

Tom Erdelyi emigrated to America in 1957 and grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, where he played with guitarist John Cummings – later Johnny Ramone – in Tangerine Puppets. He went on to study engineering and worked at the Record Plant (where he assisted on a 1969 Jimi Hendrix session) and other facilities.

The Ramones coalesced with the addition of fellow Queens musicians Jeffrey Hyman (aka lead singer Joey Ramone) and Douglas Colvin (bassist Dee Dee Ramone). Breaking in their act at Hilly Krystal’s Bowery club CBGB, the band was signed to Seymour Stein’s Sire Records, also the home of such other punk acts as Richard Hell, Talking Heads and the Dead Boys.

The Ramones finally disbanded in 1996 after a show at the Palace in Hollywood. Joey Ramone died of lymphoma in 2001; Dee Dee succumbed to a drug overdose in 2002; and Johnny expired from prostate cancer in 2004.

The Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

Erdelyi’s other production credits included the Replacements’ major label debut “Tim” (1985) and L.A. punk unit Redd Kross’ “Neurotica” (1987). In later years, he went the acoustic route, playing bluegrass and country music with his partner Claudia Tienan in Uncle Monk.

He is survived by Tienan and an older brother. A private funeral service is planned.

[RangsitRiot]

never heard of him.next

[harrybarracuda]

never heard of him.next

You've never heard of The Ramones?

What are you, 12?

[billy the kid]

RIP Tommy Ramone, thee original punk.
Gone but not forgotten,, .

[kmart]

Wow. That's the last one of the original Ramones.This feels a bit weird, tbh. Sort of like a reverse Spinal Tap, they were outlived by their drummers..?

Glad I managed to see them 3-4 times around their heyday. RIP Tommy.

[Bazzy]

RIP Tommy Ramone. He added 10 years to his life by leaving the band first.

[BaitongBoy]

Not sure what it means to valve the windows.

We have a "valve master" here on The Door who can educate you...

Might be on the Auto Thread...

[Latindancer]

Oh, there are many things that can be valved. I actually do it as part of my occupation.

[misskit]

^ We'll make sure to put that in your obit when the time comes.

[terry57]

Not reading this thread any more, too depressing.

Death is not depressing as long as one dies quickly. The best death is the heart attack where the punter drops dead on the spot.

The real lottery winners are the ones who die in their sleep.

I call these the lucky bastards .

Death is certainly depressing when the poor unfortunate sole must suffer with the slow death such as in cancers or debilitating strokes.

Now that's depressing.

[Latindancer]

The real lottery winners are the ones who die in their sleep.

I call these the lucky bastards .

Many people think this. But what if the stroke or heart attack gives you a nightmare and that's how you die ?

Give me a conscious death anytime.....but preferably listening to my favourite music, and/or having good friends there. Which is what you can do (sometimes) when you die of cancer.

[Mr Lick]

Nadine Gordimer, South African author, dies at 90




South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer has died in Johannesburg aged 90.

The writer, who was one of the literary world's most powerful voices against apartheid - died at her home after a short illness, her family said.

She wrote more than 30 books, including the novels My Son's Story, Burger's Daughter and July's People.

She won the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991.


'She cared most deeply'

The Nobel committee said at the time it was honouring Gordimer for her "magnificent epic writing" which had been "of very great benefit to humanity".

Writing from an early age, the author published her first story - Come Again Tomorrow - in a Johannesburg magazine at just 15.

Her works comprised both novels and short stories where the consequences of apartheid, exile and alienation were the major themes.

Gordimer's family said she "cared most deeply about South Africa, its culture, its people, and its ongoing struggle to realise its new democracy".

Committed to fighting apartheid, the author was a leading member of the African National Congress and fought for the release of Nelson Mandela. They went on to become firm friends.

A number of her books were banned by the South African government under the apartheid regime including 1966's The Late Bourgeois World and 1979's Burger's Daughter.

Her last novel, No Time Like the Present, published in 2012, follows veterans of the battle against apartheid as they deal with the issues facing modern South Africa.