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HE’S OUT Baseball player Bobby Brown has died aged 96. A member of the New York Yankees, he won four World Series in the 1950s. Our system often confused him with Bobby Brown the Scotland legend, and Bobby Brown the singer, and with two of the three dead in 2020 and 2021, lump on the […]

CARDIAC ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Actress Jessica Walter has died aged 80. The acclaimed actress was nominated four times for an Emmy (winning once for Amy Prentiss) and appeared in a number of films such as Ghost in the Machine, Slums of Beverly Hills, and Play Misty for Me. The latter and Grand Prix saw her nominated […]

Actor George Segal has died aged 87. Oscar nominated for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and BAFTA nominated for No Way to Treat a Lady, Segal was a regular in film since the 1950s. He won two Golden Globes, for The New Interns and A Touch of Class. He also appeared in films such as […]

NO LONGER WANDERER Footballer Frank Worthington has died aged 72 after suffering from dementia. A cult figure of the 1960s through 1980s, he won two second division titles with Huddersfield Town and Bolton Wanderers respectively yet should have gone further with his undisputed talents. A fan was Liverpool icon Bill Shankly who wanted to sign […]

KO’D Boxer Lee Noble has died aged 33, after a long battle with terminal cancer. Noble had his boxing debut in 2006 and had a 20-24-1 record, being best known for taking the later champion Billy Joe Saunders to a decision in 2009. He had beaten cancer twice before it came became terminally last year. […]

WOMAN AT POINT ZERO The Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World, Nawal el Saadawi has died aged 89. A feminist writer in 1950s Egypt (as safe a job as being the food taster for a Trump family member), she was considered an ideological foe of the government and imprisoned. In 1982, fresh from another […]

RIOT IN THE AFTERLIFE Scottish footballer Peter Lorimer has died after a battle with brain cancer aged 74. Lorimer debuted for Leeds in 1962 and spent the next 17 seasons at the club, winning two league titles and two FA Cups under Don Revie. He was part of the team which reached the 1975 European […]

NESTERDEADKO Opera singer Yevgeni Nesterenko has died aged 83. A regular on the Bolshoi Theatre stage, Nesterenko became so renowed as an opera singer, even the likes of Shostakovich were writing music specifically for him. He suffered in recent times from covid, and was a unique pick for the Fat Lady’s Singing Yevgeni Nesterenko8 January […]

LAPPED BY DEATH Motor racer Sabine Schmitz has died after a battle with cancer aged 51. An expert on the Nurburgring course, she went viral when she appeared on Top Gear and drove round the Nurburgring in a van. When Jeremy Clarkson left Top Gear, the Guardian wrote a jokey article that Schmitz should takeover […]

NAMES ARE FOR TOMBSTONES Trailblazing actor Yaphet Kotto has died aged 81. He played the formidable Bond villain Dr Kananga in Live and Let Die, a loose expy of real life dictator Duvalier, and remains the only black actor to play the main villain in the series. (The only Bond villain with the common sense […]