Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Ray Clemence

Sad. I can still see the waves of applause as he ran towards the Gwladys Street end at Goodison in ‘80s derbies. Followed by 45min of abuse.

he seemed a much better person than Shilton, some argue he was a better keeper as well.

Jude Stéfan, French poet, 90. RIP.

he seemed a much better person than Shilton,

Bars don't come any lower. He did seem like a nice fellow though.

RIP Stéfan.

Eric "monster monster" Hall

Bruce Swedien, who engineered Thriller

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bruce-swedien-audio-engineer-michael-jackson-dead-1091779/

Katy "Sheggi" Clarkson, singer of the Fat Tulips and the Melons

Writer and journalist #JanMorris has died at 94. Her son Twm has said in a statement - "This morning at 11.40 at Ysbyty Bryn Beryl, on the Llyn, the author and traveller Jan Morris began her greatest journey. She leaves behind on the shore her life-long partner, Elizabeth." pic.twitter.com/TqmcLtR42J

— Vincent Dowd (@dowdv) November 20, 2020

RIP. Love her book about Trieste

Pvmic, Dominic Grant, permanent fixture on 70s tv light entertainment as the front man of Guys 'n' Dolls.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/20/dominic-grant-dead-guys-n-dolls-singer-dies-suddenly-aged-71-13627794/

https://dailynous.com/2020/11/20/judith-jarvis-thomson-1929-2020/ :(

I imagine every philosophy undergrad has read some of her stuff. RIP

wow jan morris! amazing writer, crazy coincidemce because i just started the nyrb edition of HAV

The guy who invented the ice bucket challenge https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/23/ice-bucket-challenge-co-creator-patrick-quinn-dies-aged-37

apparently someone known as the "Wildman of Widnes" has died according to UK twitter, he looked like a grotesque doorman/drug-dealer type that you'd cross the road to avoid!

rip

I was going to go a bit further down the wormhole and discover a bit more about this "maverick" but it was too grim!

with moaty in heaven no doubt

wildman's criminal career began when he did time for a "bit of kebab theft"

a lot more of that goes on that you'd expect, some people just want free kebabs

was it him making it smell so bad there?

he was brutalised by his older brother, who once beat him up with a broomstick after catching him throwing one off (and I don't mean throwing a bad kebab out of the window)

A broomstick? What year was that, 1785?

Is this some Twitter nonsense because googling Wildman of Widnes isn't bringing up very much of anything.

no he was real alright, I've just watched him on the True Geordie podcast on youtube, now I'm going to hell.

https://wtop.com/national/2020/11/nycs-first-african-american-mayor-david-dinkins-has-died/

David Dinkins, NYC mayor, 93

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/23/daniel-cordier-obituary

Daniel Cordier, French Resistance fighter, 100

David Dinkins won't you please be my mayor
you'd be doing us a very big favor

er, Mister Dinkins, won't you please be my mayor

RIP Dinkins. Pretty crappy that Giuliani outlived him, although there is some justice in how their respective reputations are going to end up.

Diminutive French magician Christophe Dominici

RIP legend Christophe Dominici 🙏

67-capped French former winger has died suddenly 😢

pic.twitter.com/Mu05Y7GftL

— Jared Wright (@jaredwright17) November 24, 2020

Hal Ketchum, of complications from Alzheimer’s.

John O'Brien, founder of Dalkey Archive.

damn rip

RIP. Hope he founds a good celestial assistant in the next phase of his journey.

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Ooof.

Probably shouldn't have gone there.

Honestie Hodges, who was handcuffed by the police outside her home in Grand Rapids, Mich., when she was 11, a frightening incident that drew outrage and national headlines in 2017, died of COVID-19 on Sunday. She was 14.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/obituaries/honestie-hodges-dead-coronavirus.html

Breaking news so no real verified reports, but Diego Maradona

!

whoa

Only Clarin - an Argentine sports media source - reporting his death at present and all others second hand from there, but they reported a couple of hours ago he'd had a heart attack so they've been on the story.

Less famous but also Grimes collaborator i_o - just 30 years old.

https://pitchfork.com/news/i-o-grimes-violence-collaborator-has-died/

Less famous but also Grimes collaborator i_o - just 30 yo/

Maradona reported by the Guardian now.

Keep up, Andrew, he's all over the news on the telly!

It's completely overshadowed the death of Heavy D (not that one, who died in 2011, the other one)

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/heavy-d-dead-celebrity-big-brother-arsenal_uk_5fbe66dcc5b66bb88c632905?utm_hp_ref=uk-celebrity