Dead Celebrities Thread

[SueEllen]

UK Civil Rights Activist Roy Hackett at 93.

He was a lead organiser of the Bristol Bus boycott in 1963

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ett-dies-at-93

[vetran]

Olivia Newton John

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...st-cancer.html

Olivia Newton-John dies at age 73 after long battle with breast cancer: John Travolta pays tribute to star who died peacefully at home surrounded by family

• Olivia Newton-John's death was announced by her husband on Monday
• The actress died at home in southern California, surrounded by her family
• 'Olivia has been a symbol of triumph and hopes for over 30 years,' her husband, John Easterling, said
• Newton-John shot to fame in the 1978 film Grease as the iconic Sandy
• She famously overcame a 1992 cancer diagnosis but the disease returned in 2013 and then again in 2017
• In a 2020 interview, she said: 'It’s been a part of my life for so long. I felt something was wrong. It’s concerning when it comes back, but I thought "I’ll get through it again"

[SueEllen]

A couple more -

Fashion designer Issey Miyake
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/...r-dies-aged-84

Song writer of Baby Love Lamont Dozier

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...er-dies-age-81

[vetran]

Noot Noot

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-aged-85.html

Original Pingu voice actor Carlo Bonomi dies aged 85: Tributes are paid to Italian star who gifted the world with the iconic 'noot, noot' phrase

• Bonomi voiced the much-loved character from its creation in 1990 until 2000
• The Italian star made up the 'Penguinese' language based on Milan's dialect
• He never used a script and provided the voices for all the show's characters

[SueEllen]

The Grim Reaper's appears to be busy...

[SimonMac]

Noot Noot

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-aged-85.html

His best work

https://youtu.be/5g2LaMuS0mk

Probably NSFW, it’s plasticine but also very ****ed up

[ladymuck]

Dropping like flies this week.

Raymond Briggs, 88

https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...s-dies-aged-88

[WTFH]

That Beluga whale...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62487300

[vetran]

Randy Ralph

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...n-dies-83.html

Farewell to 'Randy Ralph': Topshop founder who was dubbed 'five-times-a-night Halpern' when model, 19, spilled details of their affair dies aged 83 - after taking brand from a single concession to a high street giant

• Sir Ralph Halpern has died at the age of 83, his family has announced
• The fashion giant rose to success in Burton Group before he was ousted in 1990
• Founded Topshop in 1968 as a concession before first store opened in Croydon
• Marriage derailed after 19-year-old model Fiona Wright exposed their affair
• Papers branded him a 'flashy' man who 'couldn't keep his trousers on'.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Major Arthur Hogben.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituari...fely-tackling/

Defused a Fat Hermann bomb by steaming the explosives out, for which he was decorated.

The explosion of the fuze alone cracked windows in the area.