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Mamadou Sanou (Baba Commandant) instrumentalist / singer with his Mandingo Band who toured the world a lot in 2023 passed away in his home town of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. All we know at the moment is, a fatal bout of malaria was the reason.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 November 2023 16:18 (two years ago)

Jean Knight. Thank you for the stone-cold guaranteed floorfiller <3

― Madchen, Monday, 27 November 2023 16:18 (two years ago)

RIP Jean. Bummer.

― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Monday, 27 November 2023 16:25 (two years ago)

RIP <3

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 November 2023 17:51 (two years ago)

Investor Charlie Munger, 99

CNBC has gone to wall-to-wall coverage. What will they do when Warren Buffett goes?

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 22:22 (two years ago)

Damn, Baba Commandant just played here in town a few months ago and I couldn't go because I had to do something work-related that night. Heard it was a great, joyful show. R.I.P.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 23:15 (two years ago)

Photographer Larry Fink, 82
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/larry-fink-dead-1234687738/

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 05:13 (two years ago)

Scott Kempner, Founding Member of NYC Bands The Dictators and Del-Lords

https://bestclassicbands.com/scott-kempner-obituary-dictators-del-lords-11-29-23/

― nickn, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 22:44 (two years ago)

oh, wow, RIP.

― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 22:45 (two years ago)

Frances Sternhagen

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/29/entertainment/frances-sternhagen-death/index.html

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 November 2023 00:48 (two years ago)

Henry Kissinger

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 30 November 2023 01:50 (two years ago)

Fact check: true.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-dead-obituary/

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 November 2023 01:50 (two years ago)

its early here for a drink but

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 November 2023 02:06 (two years ago)

https://professionalmorondotcom.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/patsy-stone.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 30 November 2023 02:07 (two years ago)

Hahah the classic

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 November 2023 02:08 (two years ago)

faaaak

― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 30 November 2023 02:30 (two years ago)

RIP everybody else who has died but Henry Kissinger.

― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 07:35 (two years ago)

Fact check: true

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 30 November 2023 07:43 (two years ago)

Dean Sullivan, Jimmy Corkhill from Brookside, 68

https://news.sky.com/story/brookside-actor-dean-sullivan-who-played-jimmy-corkhill-dies-aged-68-13019373

― Alba, Thursday, 30 November 2023 08:54 (two years ago)

Dean Sullivan, beloved Scouse actor who played Jimmy Corkhill on Brookside, 68.

― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 30 November 2023 09:07 (two years ago)

oh no, Jimmy Corkhill was a classic. RIP

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 30 November 2023 09:08 (two years ago)

Jimmy!!! RIP!

― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 09:12 (two years ago)

The Corkhills were the greatest TV soap family ever

― boxedjoy, Thursday, 30 November 2023 09:56 (two years ago)

Shane McGowan, 65

― Number None, Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:00 (two years ago)

Can't be the only one thinking "that's the Christmas No1 locked in then"

Also RIP to a great songwriter and singer with a lot of demons - this track is probably already a cliche but it's energising to see him and them glowing at standing on stage in the most popular Irish TV show, where the memory of the nation is made, level with the generation before them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAEFKjqPtlU

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:08 (two years ago)

He didn't write it, of course! Here's one he did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvV5mryQF1I

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:10 (two years ago)

pic.twitter.com/1OPVekSDyX
— The Pogues (@poguesofficial) November 30, 2023

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:14 (two years ago)

Aw, fuck.

― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:30 (two years ago)

What a day. RIP Shane.

― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:45 (two years ago)

Former Chancellor, Alistair Darling

― ailsa, Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:49 (two years ago)

No way!

― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:50 (two years ago)

Busy day on the obituary desks today

― ailsa, Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:53 (two years ago)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67578993

― ailsa, Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:53 (two years ago)

^ link for Alistair Darling

― ailsa, Thursday, 30 November 2023 12:54 (two years ago)

I saw a fairly recent (rare) interview with MacGowan recently, mostly supervised by his wife... it seemed he mostly sat around watching old movies and having an occasional weak gin & tonic. Not such a bad way to spend the final days

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:30 (two years ago)

Elliot erwitt

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Erwitt

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 1 December 2023 04:32 (two years ago)

whoa. talk about "people you thought were dead but aren't"

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 December 2023 05:46 (two years ago)

I completely missed that Fernando Botero passed in September but never understood Mark S's post of the "y tho" baby then because I never saw that meme anywhere. (which is probably a good thing)

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 December 2023 08:55 (two years ago)

Playwright and artist John Byrne:

https://news.stv.tv/scotland/slab-boys-and-tutti-frutti-writer-and-artist-john-byrne-dies-aged-83

― ailsa, Friday, 1 December 2023 10:43 (two years ago)

― Madchen, Friday, 1 December 2023 11:41 (two years ago)

So gutted to hear about John Byrne, he was a big factor in my childhood, my Dad was a Slab Boy alongside him.

― MaresNest, Friday, 1 December 2023 12:33 (two years ago)

FFS everybody is dying. One of Paisley's favourite sons!

― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Friday, 1 December 2023 12:45 (two years ago)

aww RIP John Byrne, a real polymath. bit shocked to read about the circumstances of his birth in the obits tho!

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 1 December 2023 12:59 (two years ago)

Yes, 0_o

― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Friday, 1 December 2023 13:18 (two years ago)

Sandra Day O'Connor

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 1 December 2023 15:00 (two years ago)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67590697

Brigit Forsyth, probably best known as Bob's wife Thelma in The Likely Lads.

― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 1 December 2023 18:39 (two years ago)

FFS everybody is dying (Part 2)

― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Friday, 1 December 2023 18:46 (two years ago)

spent so much time watching WHTTLL, one of the best sitcoms. Bridget was utterly convincing as Thelma, was a surprise to first see her elsewhere and realise she wasn't really like that.

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 December 2023 18:49 (two years ago)

Brigit, sorry - my phone doesn't like that spelling.

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 December 2023 18:49 (two years ago)

Had no idea Sandra Day O'Connor had still been alive.

― clemenza, Friday, 1 December 2023 18:51 (two years ago)

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