Reply to: Famous people you will be sad to hear have died

[PRC1964]

Ian Hislop - He has entertained me for many years.
Ian Botham - A cricketing lifeline for those many ashes-less years.
Lech Walesa - A trade unionist who actually helped his union/country rather than himself.

[Ruprect]

Queen Mum

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Patrick Moore, what a star
Margaret Thatcher
Peter Snow (although his son is his clone and he may have stopped doing the election night stuff)
Bruce Forsyth (I'm not a big fan, but it will be the end of an era)

I've got Thatcher in an e/w double with Michael Parkinson

I wouldn't be sad to see Ronnie Irani or his fat mate Alan Brazil belly up.

[shaunbhoy]

Billy Connolly
Bill Bryson
Billy McNeill

and just so I am not accused of being "Billyist", Nelson Mandela!!!

[TimberWolf]

Freeman Dyson. For having a cool name, and when he talks balls, they're really really big.

I've just got around to reading my open browser tab on Freeman Dyson. Seems that he has been a busy chappie. Amongst other things, he helped create the field of operational research. I did that at uni, but it hasn't stuck in long term memory and never found a use. All I remember of it now is that involved a lot of crossings out or something in a grid for doing optimisations I think, and some simulations. Is it worth brushing up on, or has it been superseded by programming? Does anyone here use operational research methods?

[wobbegong]

Norman Wisdom.

[xoggoth]

What no "Famous people you will be glad to hear have died" thread yet?

[Clippy]

Kirk Douglas (the ORIGINAL Spartacus!)
Muhammad Ali
Stephen Hawking

Agreed.

Surprised no one has mentioned Nelson Mandela.

[TimberWolf]

So you don't expect him to talk?

[TimberWolf]

Kirk Douglas (the ORIGINAL Spartacus!)
Muhammad Ali
Stephen Hawking

Some good ones there.

p.s. I am Spartacus

[dang65]

I think the one famous person who I will be really, really sad when they go is Jimmy Page. But he's looking so healthy nowadays that he's bound to outlast me by years. But, say he got run over by a bus (perhaps at the Olympics opening ceremony), then I would be really sad.

[dang65]

Good one, don't forget Sean Connery as well!

So you don't expect him to talk?

[Naaarwich]

Eddie Izzard - comic genius
Stephen Fry - our own 'Renaissance Man'
Robert De niro
Tarantino - Pulp Fiction

[MarillionFan]

AtW

[Spacecadet]

Michael J Fox