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.
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Previously on "Famous people you will be sad to hear have died"
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostPatrick 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 wouldn't be sad to see Ronnie Irani or his fat mate Alan Brazil belly up.
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Billy Connolly
Bill Bryson
Billy McNeill
and just so I am not accused of being "Billyist", Nelson Mandela!!!
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostFreeman Dyson. For having a cool name, and when he talks balls, they're really really big.
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What no "Famous people you will be glad to hear have died" thread yet?
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Originally posted by LightshipKirk Douglas (the ORIGINAL Spartacus!)
Muhammad Ali
Stephen Hawking
Surprised no one has mentioned Nelson Mandela.
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Originally posted by LightshipKirk Douglas (the ORIGINAL Spartacus!)
Muhammad Ali
Stephen Hawking
p.s. I am Spartacus
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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.
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Eddie Izzard - comic genius
Stephen Fry - our own 'Renaissance Man'
Robert De niro
Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
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