Celebrity picks for Derby Dead Pool 2009: R

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Raabe, Meinhardt (Died in 2010) Born 2 September 1915  (Jefferson County, Wisconsin, USA) Dwarf actor who played a Munchkin coroner in the original 1939 film version of "The Wizard of Oz". Betty White And The 19 Dwarfs A Rattly Score Of Old Puffins Breathless In Seattle Drunkasaskunk

Race, Steve  Born 1 April 1921  (Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England) Died 22 June 2009  (location of death unknown) Age at death: 88  (read death notice) Composer, musician & radio/TV broadcaster. Bloody Dead Rep One Hit Wonders

Radcliffe, Daniel Born 23 July 1989  (Fulham, London, England) Harry Potter. Now starring in a stage show where he takes his clothes off. Nefarious Skullduggery

Radebe, Lucas Born 12 April 1969  (Diepkloof, South Africa) Popular former Leeds United & South African footballer who, since retirement, has had a torrid time with both his & his wife's (who died in 2008) health. Camden Cadavers

Rafferty, Gerry (Died in 2011) Born 16 April 1947  (Paisley, Scotland) Scottish singer & songwriter. Addams Family Christmas Card List 2008 Carkers Convention 2009 Dans Death List Of Doom Darling Did You Forget To Take A Breath? Rude Kid

Rainer, Luise Born 12 January 1910  (Düsseldorf, Germany) Actress - the first thesp to win two Oscars in consecutive years (1936 and '37). Asadoornail Breathless In Seattle Diet Of Worms Eternity Tours Auditioning For Oscar's "in Memoriam" Montage Old People Party Of 20 One Foot In The Grave Pool Ghoul ThePoitouTeam Worm Farmer

Ramone, Tommy Born 29 January 1952  (Budapest, Hungary) Last surviving member of the Ramones. Born Tamas Erdelyi. Die, Die, Die My Darling

Rampling, Godfrey  Born 14 May 1909  (Greenwich, London, England) Died 20 June 2009  (Bushey, Hertfordshire, England) Age at death: 100  (read death notice) Athlete, a member of the gold medal winning 4x400m British relay team in the 1936 Olympics. Later an army officer & father of Charlotte. Diepod Shuffle

Ramsay, Gordon Born 8 November 1966  (Johnstone, Scotland) Foul-mouthed ex-footballer, now a foul-mouthed celebrity chef. Billy Dodds Knew II Today's The Day The Maggots Have Their Picnic Undertakertom

Ramsay, Jack Born 21 February 1925  (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) Former NBA basketball coach, most notably with the Philadelphia 76ers and the Portland Trail Blazers. Reckoned to be one of the 10 greatest coaches of all time, but will that be enough to get him a UK obit? 666 Dead Man Walking Blues Death From Down Under Doornails R Us Knowing My Luck I'll Reincarnate As A Mayfly Again! Nicole Kidman Is A Slag Agoodtimetokickit

Randi, James Born 7 August 1928  (Toronto, Canada) Stage magician. Survived heart surgery in 2006, and is still performing. Sleep Tight

Randolph, Joyce Born 21 October 1924  (Detroit, Michigan, USA) Actress, perhaps best known (especially in the US) for playing Trixie Norton on "The Honeymooners". C U Dead 2009

Raphael, Sally Jessie Born 25 February 1935  (Easton, Pennsylvania, USA) American talk show host. Heads In A Bag

Rather, Dan Born 31 October 1931  (Wharton, Texas, USA) Long time news anchor for CBS News until 2005. Carolann's Coffin Compadres

Ray, Mary Josephine (Died in 2010) Born 17 May 1895  (Prince Edward Island, Canada) One of the oldest people in the World at the start of 2009. Oldies But Goodies Wawix World

Ray, Rachel Born 25 August 1968  (Glen Falls, New York, USA) US celebrity chef & television presenter. Team Rumsfeld II

Rayner, Claire (Died in 2010) Born 22 January 1931  (Stepney, London, England) Former nurse who went on to write about family health issues, becoming one of the UK's best-known agony aunts. She has also published a number of books about gardening as well as some fiction. Reportedly close to death in 2003 due to serious complications during surgery on a tendon, resulting in multiple organ failure, pneumonia and septicaemia. Annus Horribilis Konstabel Els And His Merry Harbingers The Norwegian Blues Died In A Nasty Accident Digging The Grave Grampus 8 My Hamster Six Foot Under Forgotten But Not Gone Y-Shaped Coffin

Rea, Chris Born 4 March 1951  (Middlesbrough, England) Gravelly-voiced singer/songwriter of "The Road To Hell" fame. Grassyknoll Grayson Pacman

Rea, Jackie (Died in 2013) Born 6 April 1921  (Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) Ex snooker player, who played for over 45 years at the highest level & Northern Ireland Champion until Higgins & Dennis Taylor came along. Holicaust

Reagan, Nancy Born 6 July 1921  (New York City, New York, USA) Born Anne Frances Robbins, and subsequently nicknamed Nancy, the former First Lady took the surname Davis after her mother's remarriage. Apparently she gives her date of birth as 6 July 1923, though in reality it was two years earlier. She had a relatively short and uneventful career as an actress which ended when she married Ronnie in 1958. Since then she has been known for her anti-drugs campaigning and her dubious astrological beliefs. 5 Feet And 1 To Go Armchair Morgue Asadoornail Ash Cream Banobo Kings Beginnings of Rigor Wheels Blade Runners Bodybags'R'Us Bronxboy422 Busby's Babes But I'm Not Dead Yet Chelski Pensioners II Dead And Don't Know It Dead Enders Dead Keyne II: D Is For Davis...and Dead!  Dead'nt He Do Well?? Death From Down Under Digging The Grave Four Horsemen Of The Magic Roundabout Going Ready Or Not Grassyknoll Grayson Grim McGraw Harry Patch's Love Child I Am Jack's Complete Lack Of A Pulse I Drink Your Milkshake Illinois Reaper Beater 3.0 International House of Death Irish Rover Just Die Allready Kennedy Driving School Mave's Graves Naked Florida Gravediggers Noah Reason And The Youth In Asia Oh...If Only It Were True Owt To Stop Me Coffin? Perish, The Thought Pool Ghoul Puzlman's Passing Picks Riding The Jesus Train Mike Oxards Showbusiness 20 Putting The Fun Into Funeral Stahlmatt Steeny Stokes's Stiffs Tazmans Hit List Team Rumsfeld II The Caulkhead Coffin-Kickers Voted Out For Good! Wawix World We're Your Friends To The Bitter End.... You Must Be Croaking!

Reardon, Ray Born 8 October 1932  (Tredegar, Wales) Six-times world snooker champion. 6ft Under The Baulk Line Johnny Foreskin And The Pullbacks

Redford, Robert Born 18 August 1937  (Santa Monica, California, USA) Heart-throb actor who didn't make the big time until the age of 32, with his role as The Sundance Kid, alongside Paul Newman's Butch Cassidy. Went on to star in "The Sting" (again with Newman), "A Bridge Too Far", and so forth. End Of Time Gwynhafyr Sadmackem

Redgrave, Corin (Died in 2010) Born 16 July 1939  (London, England) Member of the Redgrave acting dynasty: son of Sir Michael, brother of Lynn and Vanessa, etc. Grobler's Stiff Ones  The Voodoo Gurus

Redgrave, Vanessa Born 30 January 1937  (London, England) Stage, TV & film actress, now the elder statesperson of the famous Redgrave acting dynasty. Corpse Bride You're Not Acting Like Yourself Today -- Are You Dead?

Redknapp, Harry Born 2 March 1947  (Poplar, London, England) Football manager, successful but has rather dubious traits when it comes to loyalty. Currently in charge of Spurs. You're Dead And You Know You Are

Reed, John (Died in 2010) Born 13 February 1916  (Close House, Bishop Auckland, Durham, England) Actor, dancer & singer, best known for being part of the D'Oly Carte Opera Company. Grobler's Stiff Ones

Reed, Lou (Died in 2013) Born 2 March 1942  (Freeport, Long Island, New York, USA) He of Velvet Underground fame. The Johnnie Stalker 2009 Voodoo Blend

Reeves, Keanu Born 2 September 1964  (Beirut, Lebanon) Canadian actor, star of "The Matrix" and "Speed" amongst others. Nefarious Skullduggery

Reich-Ranicki, Marcel Born 2 June 1920  (Wloclawek, Poland) German writer, one of the greatest names in post-WW2 German literature. Deathpig Pooil Vaaish

Reid, Frances (Died in 2010) Born 9 December 1913  (Wichita Falls, Texas, USA) Actress - played Alice Horton in the long-running US TV series "Days of Our Lives". Harry Patch's Love Child Holicaust

Reiner, Carl Born 20 March 1922  (Bronx, New York, USA) Actor, director, producer, writer & comedian - not a bad CV all in all. C.A.Daver Going Ready Or Not

Rendell, Ruth Born 17 February 1930  (London, England) Best-selling crime novelist, dubbed by the tabloids "The Queen of Crime". in eternum+'s Wrinkly Dicks

Renfro, Maggie (Died in 2010) Born 14 November 1895  (Athens, Louisiana, USA) One of the oldest people in the World at the start of 2009. Oldies But Goodies

Reno, Janet Born 21 July 1938  (Miami, Florida, USA) Former US Attorney General between 1993-2001. You're Dead Now, So Shut Up! Kennedy Driving School Noz4news Oh...If Only It Were True

Resnais, Alain Born 3 June 1922  (Vannes, Brittany, France) French film director. ThePoitouTeam

Reveley, Mary Born 22 September 1940  (Saltburn, Cleveland, England) Top horse racing trainer, rather reclusive. 20 From The Turf - Now Under It

Reynolds, Ryan Born 23 October 1976  (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Actor in television & film, and husband of Scarlett Johansson. Nefarious Skullduggery

Richard, Cliff Born 14 October 1940  (Lucknow, India) Actor, singer, colostomy bag-wearer and insufferably smug Christian. C'mon... Who Doesn't Want Me To Get 20/20 Force 10 To Hell Sqwidge's Motley Crew Wot The Deuce

Richard, Little Born 5 December 1932  (Macon, Georgia, USA) Singer, songwriter & pianist, an early star of rock n' roll. Octopus of Odstock

Richard, Wendy  Born 20 July 1946  (Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England) Died 26 February 2009  (Westminster, London, England) Age at death: 65  (read death notice) TV actress who has appeared in many a British sitcom over the last 40 years, most notably in "Are You Being Served?" For over 20 years she played Pauline Fowler in the BBC soap "EastEnders". Died after a long battle with cancer. AbraCadaver A Kick In The Ghoulies Are You Still Dying, Darling? Ashes To Ashley Cole (I Hope) Beerbutton 2 Bestie's Boys Blade Runners  Bodybags'R'Us Breathless In Seattle Brown Bananas  Brown Bread Burn Baby Burn Canadian Paul Carkers Convention 2009 Come On Baby, Light My Fire! Dans Death List Of Doom  Darling Did You Forget To Take A Breath? Dead And Dusted Dead As A Dodo  Dead By Dawn Dead Centre Of England Dead Enders Dead Ends Deader Than A Dead Thing Livin' On A Prayer Dead Ringers Death By Impailer Death On The Rocks  Death Can Be Funny  Deathlist.net Death Stalks United Deceased Hose Died In A Nasty Accident Diepod Shuffle Dr Death's Diabolical Dice Of Doom  Drop Dead Celebration  Drunkasaskunk Eddie's Parade Of Darkness And Despair Eejit End Of Time  Ethnic Cleansing Every Shroud Has A Silver Lining Fallen Off The Twig Feng Shui Pig Final Curtain Flanges Final Few  The Forest Lawn Jockeys  Four Horsemen Of The Magic Roundabout  Fritzl's Dead Certs From Dust To Dung Globaltruth Cooking Small Fish Going Green Graham Reaper's Dead Army Grim Rita Head For The Gates!! Heart Attack, Liver Failure? Excellent! Loadsa Points Heaven Knows They're Miserable Now Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Hide And Go Die Hippoposthumous  How Much For Those Stem Cells? Hunting Halos I Am Jack's Complete Lack Of A Pulse If I'm Spared Myself, Of Course I Kissed A Corpse And I Liked It  I'll Pick 'Em Till They Croak  Impaled On The Antlers Of Doom International House of Death  Irish Rover  It's Life Jim, But Not As We Know It  It's Worse Than That, He's Dead Jim! It Tolls For Thee Brady, Tobin And Huntley Starring In "Friends Behind Bars"  Jims Deadbeats  Johnny Foreskin And The Pullbacks Just Die Will You Knowing My Luck I'll Reincarnate As A Mayfly Again!  Kurt Cobain's Trigger Finger Lidders Late Lamentables Lord Football Lulu's Stiffs! Madonna's Hand of Bod  Master Mind Mave's Graves Meet Your Maker Misers Morbid Curiosity Now That's What I Call SIGNIFICANT 2009 Octopus of Odstock Oh! One Bar Gas Fire And A Tin Of Dog Food Only Fools & Corpses  Over My Dead Body The Pale Rider Owt To Stop Me Coffin? Past Their Sell By Date  Pulse  Pushing Up The Daisies Retliv Forest Ringo's Kiss Of Death! Rude Kid Stephen Hawking's Karaoke Machine Mike Oxards Showbusiness 20 Shovelful Of Dirt Sometimes They Come Back Sorry God, I Thought You Were Kenny Rogers Sqwidge's Motley Crew STAB_in_the_DARK  Stephen Hawking's Football Boots Stiff Steaks  Stiff & the Tears  Stoke Up The Furnace I Shan't Be Long The Beatles Are Dying In The Wrong Order  The Blue And White Reaper  The Caulkhead Coffin-Kickers The Dead Certs Dead Rancid Corpses  The Delightful Dead The Funeral Director 09 Redmega's Megadead Malingerers The Last Gasp  The Living End The Misfortune Tellers The Norman Bates Fan Club This Mortal Coil  Time Is NOT On Our Side! Toasted Brown Bread Tomb It May Concern Tonight Matthew I'm Going To Be Badly-Torn Boy Oh, What A Beautiful Mourning! Valley of Death  Wake Up & Smell The Coffin We'reAllGonnaDie! Who Turned Out The Lights?  Windsor The Troll Win One For The Dead Wormer, He's a Dead Man! Marmalard, Dead! Niedermeyer... You Keep Hanging On  You Mean He's Not Already? You're Dead And You Know You Are

Richards, Keith Born 18 December 1943  (Dartford, Kent, England) The guitar-playing Rolling Stone with the distinctive death-warmed-up constitution. 5 Feet And 1 To Go Assumed Room Temperature Wheels Buzzards Criptkicker2 Dead Ringers Death By Dumb Luck Force 10 To Hell Globaltruth It Doesn't Hurt It Just Smells It's Life Jim Kackers United Lucifer's Legionaires Pop The Clog! Snort The Ashes Stahlmatt Steeny 2009 Crematorium Cheerleaders Today Is A Good Day To Die Wot The Deuce

Richardson, Jerry Born 11 July 1936  (Spring Hope, North Carolina, USA) Owner of the Carolina Panthers American football team. Lawyers, Guns And Money And Coffins And Tombstones

Richey, Kenny Born 3 August 1964  (Zeist, Netherlands) Scottish/US ex-con who was on Death Row for 20 years, before being released. Drunkasaskunk Now That's What I Call SIGNIFICANT 2009

Richie, Lionel Born 20 June 1949  (Tuskegee, Alabama, USA) Cheesy but enjoyable pop singer. Undertakertom

Richie, Nicole Born 21 September 1981  (Berkeley, California, USA) Adopted daughter of singer Lionel Richie, former best-friend-forever-until-I-fall-out-with-you to Paris Hilton, and utterly vapid reality TV star. Death-Defying

Rickles, Don Born 8 May 1926  (New York City, New York, USA) Stand-up comedian, comic actor and talk show whore. Bloody Dead Rep Circling The Drain One Bar Gas Fire And A Tin Of Dog Food

Rickman, Alan Born 21 February 1946  (Hammersmith, London, England) British actor, in a heap of successful films, including "Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves", "Die Hard", and the Harry Potter films. Death By Dumb Luck

Riley, Jack Born 30 December 1935  (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) Actor, voice of Stu Pickles in "Rugrats", which might be enough these days to earn him a UK obit. Moldy Oldies

Rimell, Mercy Date and place of birth unknown Former racehorse trainer, widow of legendary trainer Fred Rimell. Born in 1919. 20 From The Turf - Now Under It

Rivers, Joan Born 8 June 1933  (Brooklyn, New York, USA) Gruff-voiced, surgically-enhanced comedienne, talk show host and general all-purpose celebrity. Carrion Luggage Bez001 Lord Gravedigger Steeny The Norman Bates Fan Club

Rivette, Jacques Born 1 March 1928  (Rouen, France) French film director, in films for aeons. Short Distance Clara

Robert, Alain Born 7 April 1962  (Valence, France) The self-styled "French Spiderman". Nutcase who climbs up the outside of skyscrapers for the hell of it, without ropes or other safety equipment. Addams Family Christmas Card List 2008 Konstabel Els And His Merry Harbingers Steeny  Tonight Matthew I'm Going To Be Badly-Torn Boy

Roberts, Oral  Born 24 January 1918  (Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, USA) Died 15 December 2009  (Newport Beach, California, USA) Age at death: 91  (read death notice) Oddly- yet appropriately-named American TV evangelist. 1 Dead In Ohio Dead And Don't Know It Dead By Dawn Dead, Dead And Never Called Me Mother Food For Worms Gary Glitter's Ghoulies Kackers United Riding The Jesus Train

Robinson, Robert (Died in 2011) Born 17 December 1927  (Liverpool, England) Journalist & presenter on TV (original host of "Ask The Family") and radio (current host of "Brain of Britain"). Grim Rita Lidders Late Lamentables The Douglas Bader Dance Troupe 2009

Robson, Alan Born 1 October 1953  (Benwell, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England) Radio presenter, who often specialises in all things paranormal. If he dies this year, he'll have even more chance to explore this.... It's Tyne To Meet Your Maker

Robson, Sir Bobby  Born 18 February 1933  (Sacriston, Co Durham, England) Died 31 July 2009  (County Durham, England) Age at death: 76  (read death notice) Football manager who has taken charge of, among others, Ipswich Town, PSV Eindhoven, Barcelona, Newcastle United and of course the English national side. It's Grim Up North 2 Days Older Than Grass 666 6ft To Go AbraCadaver  Addams Family Christmas Card List 2008 A Kick In The Ghoulies Are You Still Dying, Darling? Are They Dead Yet? Ashes To Ashley Cole (I Hope) Bang Bang You're Dead  Baz And Barry's Burial Bonanza Bazzilliant Beerbutton Bestie's Boys Bez001 Billy Dodds Knew II Bodybags'R'Us  Bring On The Rigor Brown Bread Lawyers, Guns And Money And Coffins And Tombstones Busby's Babes But I'm Not Dead Yet  Canadian Cadaver Dogs Canadian Paul Carkers Convention 2009 Checking Out By Christmas Chelski Pensioners II C.A.Daver Clara Butt & Plum  Short Distance Clara  Clathrate Gun Come On Baby, Light My Fire! Cut Price Funerals  Corpse Bride Crazycarl Crofty's Coffin Crew Dave's Bunglalow Of Death Dead Cert Dead And Dusted  Dead As A Dodo Dead By Dawn Dead Centre Of England Dead Calm Dead Enders Dead Ends Dead Loss  Dead Man Walking Blues Dead Men Walking Livin' On A Prayer  Dead Ringers Death From Down Under Death By Hemeloids Death Can Be Funny Deathlist.net Deceased Hose Died In A Nasty Accident  Die Now....Die Now....Show Us You've Pegged Diepod Shuffle  Doornails R Us Down Under The Daisies Dr Death's Diabolical Dice Of Doom Liz's Lately Lamented Drunkasaskunk Eejit End Of Time Erith Sickos  Ethnic Cleansing Fantaka 2009 Feng Shui Pig Flanges Final Few The Forest Lawn Jockeys Four Horsemen Of The Magic Roundabout From Dust To Dung Globaltruth  Cooking Small Fish Going Green Going Underground Graham Reaper's Dead Army Grampus 8 My Hamster Grassyknoll Grayson  Grendel's Graveyard Guild Of Master Reapers Researched To Death Head For The Gates!! Heaven Knows They're Miserable Now Hippoposthumous Fox In A Box How Clean Is Your Hearse? Hunting Halos I Am Jack's Complete Lack Of A Pulse If I'm Spared Myself, Of Course I'll Pick 'Em Till They Croak I'll Sleep When You're Dead Impaled On The Antlers Of Doom Irish Rover It Doesn't Hurt It Just Smells It's Life Jim It May Be You? It's Life Jim, But Not As We Know It It's Worse Than That, He's Dead Jim!  It Tolls For Thee Jellydead Jims Deadbeats Johnny Foreskin And The Pullbacks Just Die Will You Knowing My Luck I'll Reincarnate As A Mayfly Again! Kurt Cobain's Trigger Finger Lard Bazaar Lidders Late Lamentables Lord Football Lord Gravedigger Luck of the Dead  Lulu's Stiffs! Madonna's Hand of Bod Weakend At Bernies Master Mind Mave's Graves Meet Your Maker Milksnatcher Bites The Dust!! Misers My Toes Are Real People Nescafe Nice Little Urner  No Noose Is Good Noose No Penalties, It's Sudden Death! Northern Foxiles Now That's What I Call SIGNIFICANT 2009 Old People Smell Of Piss  One Bar Gas Fire And A Tin Of Dog Food  One Foot In The Grave Only Fools & Corpses Optimus Prime's Rusty Nuts Over My Dead Body The Pale Rider Past Their Sell By Date People I Think Might Die In 2009 United Perish, The Thought Picktons Pork Pies Plowing The Deep Pop The Clog! Pulse Agoodtimetokickit  Retliv Forest R.I.P. It Up And Start Again Rude Kid Sadmackem  Mike Oxards Showbusiness 20 Shovelful Of Dirt Siegfried Baboon's Simian Shapeshifting Showboat Show Putting The Fun Into Funeral Six Foot Under Dads Army, Dead, Dead, Dead, Alive, Dead, Dead  Sorry God, I Thought You Were Kenny Rogers Forgotten But Not Gone STAB_in_the_DARK Stephen Hawking's Football Boots Still Warm-Ish Stokes's Stiffs Stoke Up The Furnace I Shan't Be Long The Beatles Are Dying In The Wrong Order The Blue And White Reaper The Caulkhead Coffin-Kickers The Conqueror Worm The Dead Certs Dead Rancid Corpses The Douglas Bader Dance Troupe 2009  The End of the World As We Know It The Final Whistle The Funeral Director 09  Redmega's Megadead Malingerers The Grateful Undead  The Grateful Dead  The Last Gasp The Living End The Dorset Jury The Misfortune Tellers  The Newstreet Boys Death Squad The Pale Horseman's Six Feet Undercover Brothers  The Terry Fenwick Invitational Select XI The Voodoo Gurus  They're Dead, Y'Know! This Mortal Coil Tick Tock Stopped Ticking  Today's The Day The Maggots Have Their Picnic Tonight Matthew I'm Going To Be Badly-Torn Boy To The Other Side  Oh, What A Beautiful Mourning! Wake Up & Smell The Coffin Wawix World Wednesday 'Til I Die We'reAllGonnaDie! We're Your Friends To The Bitter End.... We Spin Terror Windsor The Troll Wishy-Washy Wormer, He's a Dead Man! Marmalard, Dead! Niedermeyer... Yer Maw Used To Be Athletic You Keep Hanging On You Must Be Croaking!  You're Dead And You Know You Are Youth In Asia Helpline

Rockefeller, David Born 12 June 1915  (New York City, New York, USA) Absurdly rich banker (of Chase Manhattan fame); son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller Sr. Bronxboy422 Cap'n Ohtz Deathpig Researched To Death

Rodgers, Bill Born 28 October 1928  (Liverpool, England) One of the "Gang of Four" who split from the Liberal Party to form the SDP. Dead Commons

Rogen, Seth Born 15 April 1982  (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Comedian, obsessed with swearing & sex - like most men then.... Nefarious Skullduggery

Rogers, Kenny Born 21 August 1938  (Houston, Texas, USA) Bearded country & western singer. Hung Like Jesus

Rogers, Peter  Born 20 February 1914  (Rochester, Kent, England) Died 14 April 2009  (Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire, England) Age at death: 95  (read death notice) Producer of the "Carry On" films. Blade Runners Death Can Be Funny Final Curtain Brady, Tobin And Huntley Starring In "Friends Behind Bars" Luck of the Dead

Rogers, Rodney Born 20 June 1971  (Durham, North Carolina, USA) Former basketball player. Badly injured in an accident in 2008, and now left paralysed. We Spin Terror

Rohmer, Eric (Died in 2010) Born 4 April 1920  (Tulle, Corrèze, France) French film director & screenwriter. ThePoitouTeam

Rollins, Sonny Born 7 September 1930  (New York City, New York, USA) Jazz tenor saxophonist, with a long career in music. Dead Dogs Won't Play Fetch

Rolph, Sue Born 15 May 1978  (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England) Successful British swimmer of the 1990's. It's Tyne To Meet Your Maker

Romero, George A Born 4 February 1940  (New York City, New York, USA) American director & writer, a fan of Zombie movies, as he has made at least 5 of them! Kurt Cobain's Trigger Finger Sexystf

Ronaldo, Cristiano Born 5 February 1985  (Funchal, Madeira, Portugal) Sublime talent, who has the following traits - brilliant goals, the constant step over & falls over dramatically in a heap if an opponent even looks at him. C'mon... Who Doesn't Want Me To Get 20/20

Rooney, Andy (Died in 2011) Born 14 January 1919  (Albany, New York, USA) News commentator on the popular weekly American TV programme "60 Minutes". Stahlmatt

Rooney, Mickey Born 23 September 1920  (Brooklyn, New York, USA) The young Joe Yule, Jr (as he was then named) had already appeared as Mickey McGuire in 50 short films by the time he was 13. He has followed a fairly busy acting schedule since then, but has never really regained the same recognition as an adult. He underwent surgery for a perforated colon in 1999, and had part of it removed, presumably leaving him with a semi-colon. Are They Dead Yet? Asadoornail Beerbutton 2 Billy Dodds Knew II Bitter Violet Blade Runners Bodybag Circling The Drain C U Dead 2009 Dead As A Dodo Dead, Dead And Never Called Me Mother Dead'nt He Do Well?? Dead Ringers Death By Dumb Luck Death From Down Under Death By Hemeloids Dress re-Hearse-als Going Ready Or Not Grim McGraw Heads In A Bag Heart Attack, Liver Failure? Excellent! Loadsa Points Holicaust Hurry Up Please, You'll Be Late Illinois Reaper Beater 3.0 Brady, Tobin And Huntley Starring In "Friends Behind Bars" Kurt Cobain's Trigger Finger Laughter Kills Mr & Mrs Drummerboy .....norfolk & Good Noz4news Oh...If Only It Were True Pure Dead Brilliant Sicksadworld Soylent Green Recipe Soylent Dreams Steeny The Blue And White Reaper Not Sleeping Just Bloody Dead Valley of Death Wednesday 'Til I Die Wep 2.0 - World's Eternity Prophet Reloaded  Yer Maw Used To Be Athletic

Ros, Edmundo (Died in 2011) Born 7 December 1910  (Port-of-Spain, Trinidad) Musician, vocalist and band leader. Some call him the "King of Latin American Music". Others call him "Edmundo". He's known worldwide for his unique blend of modern and traditional Latin American music. Nice. Coffin It Up

Roth, Philip Born 19 March 1933  (Newark, New Jersey, USA) Author of fiction. One of his best known works, rather aptly for DDP pun purposes is "The Ghost Writer". First You're Born, Life Is Hard, Then You Die

Roundtree, Richard Born 9 July 1942  (Crenshaw, Mississippi, USA) Actor, star of "Shaft". 2009 Crematorium Cheerleaders

Roussopoulos, Theodoros Born 13 September 1963  (Kyparissia, Greece) Greek former cabinet minister who was embroiled in a major land-sale scandal in 2008. Rabbitsnuffer

Routledge, Patricia Born 17 February 1929  (Birkenhead, Cheshire, England) Actress & comedienne, forever remembered for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in "Keeping Up Appearances". Drop Dead Celebration Moldy Oldies

Roy, Deep Born in Nairobi, Kenya  (exact date unknown) 4'4" dwarf actor who played all of the Oompa-Loompas in Tim Burton's 2005 adaptation of Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Born 1957. Betty White And The 19 Dwarfs

Rubik, Erno Born 13 July 1944  (Budapest, Hungary) Puzzle designer, of Rubik's cube fame. You're Terminated, Farquahar

Rubinstein, Zelda (Died in 2010) Born 28 May 1933  (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) Diminutive actress, best remembered as the eccentric medium Tangina Barrons in the "Poltergeist" films. Betty White And The 19 Dwarfs

Ruini, Camillo Born 19 February 1931  (Sassuolo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) Italian Roman Catholic cardinal. ...the Salmon Mousse!!!

Rundgren, Todd Born 22 June 1948  (Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA) American rock singer & songwriter. I'll Get The Oven On

Ruscio, Al (Died in 2013) Born 3 June 1924  (Salem, Massachusetts, USA) Veteran character actor. Beerbutton 3

Rushdie, Salman Born 19 June 1947  (Bombay (now Mumbai), India) Novelist who ruffled so many feathers in his native India with his novel "Midnight's Children" that he was forced to leave the country. Clearly having learnt nothing from the experience, he went on to write "The Satanic Verses" in 1988, which was critical of the Islamic faith. It resulted in rioting, book-burning, and Ayatollah Khomeini declaring a fatwa (effectively a death penalty) on his ass. He has been in hiding ever since, and the fatwa was reaffirmed by the new Ayatollah in early 2005. Dead Loss Pushing Up Daisies The Grateful Dead

Russell, Jane (Died in 2011) Born 21 June 1921  (Bemidji, Minnesota, USA) Well-endowed actress of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" fame. Jellydead Luck of the Dead Not At All Well

Russell, Ken (Died in 2011) Born 3 July 1927  (Southampton, Hampshire, England) Film Director & former Celebrity Big Brother contestant. He'll now probably be remembered more for the latter than most of his films. Pushing Up Daisies

Ryan, Arthur Date and place of birth unknown Primark founder, who shuns publicity. Born sometime in 1937. I Kissed A Corpse And I Liked It

Ryan, Christopher Born 11 December 1942  (Bristol, Somerset, England) Actor, often in comic roles - including as Mike in "The Young Ones". Roadkill Wombats

Ryder, Shaun Born 23 August 1962  (Little Hulton, Greater Manchester, England) Lead singer of the Happy Mondays from the end of the '80s to the mid-'90s. Now vocalist with Black Grape. I'll Sleep When You're Dead

Ryder, Winona Born 29 October 1971  (Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA) Actress, now producer & occasional shoplifter too. Picktons Pork Pies

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