Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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

who?

He's no Wildman of Widnes.

he hasn't even done bird for stealing a kebab ffs!

My first thought was the Storage Wars guy.

Madonna will be up there right now with Prince and MJ, having the concert of all eternity. The Big Three, under one roof!

— Limmy (@DaftLimmy) November 25, 2020

Lol, took me a second.

Friend just sent me this.

A god, no? Admire a complex soccer genius (5, 8)

that's a lovely lil clue

There was this one too, but don't like it as much:
Soccer player and fans adored an amigo (5, 8)

not sure i see the anagram indicator there, - 'fans'?

seems tenuous!

Yeah, it's weak sauce. Like fans a deck of cards or something.

Daria Nicolodi, actress from Dario Argento films & mother of Asia Argento

RIP. Also co-scripted Suspiria.

Sad, as far as I can see the cause of death hasn't been revealed yet but she was "suffering" from something.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/25/939166405/james-wolfensohn-former-world-bank-chief-and-champion-of-the-poor-dies-at-86

James Wolfensohn, Chief of the World Bank among many other accomplishments, 86. Not gonna go into details, but I remember him really shaking up the place.

Tony Hsieh, former Zappos CEO, from injuries sustained in a house fire while visiting family in Connecticut for Thanksgiving.