RIP Thread

[Top Londoner]

Jaysus, CusamanoReaper - it's been a busy morning for you!!

oh yes, I´m wiped out...

Which would account for you consigning poor old Eric Hobsbawn to a double death!

Hmmm,,,, Perhaps Quartz should relieve Cus of his duties for a short while?

[the playing mantis]

kevin curran. rip KC

[g88ner]

RIP Penguins - yes, you read correctly... PENGUINS!... who tragically had their lives cut short by an outbreak of Malaria at London Zoo

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19901679

[cusamano]

RIP Pramote Teerawiwatana

Pramote Teerawiwatana (14 June 1967 - 4 October 2012) was a badminton player from Thailand.

Teerawiwatana competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Tesana Panvisvas. They defeated Ashley Brehaut and Travis Denney of Australia in the first round, then were defeated in the round of 16 by Choong Tan Fook and Lee Wan Wah of Malaysia.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, Teerawiwatana competed with Tesana Panvisvas. They won in the Round of 32 but lost in the Round of 16 to a Malaysian doubles team.

[cusamano]

RIP Günter Böttcher

Günter Böttcher (July 24, 1954 - October 4, 2012) was a West German handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
In 1976 he was a part of the West German team which finished fourth in the Olympic tournament. He played in all six matches.

[cusamano]

RIP Claude Pinoteau

Claude Pinoteau (25 May 1925 – 5 October 2012) was a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, aged 87.

Filmography

1971 : It Only Happens to Others
1973 : Le Silencieux with Lino Ventura, Leo Genn et Suzanne Flon
1974 : La Gifle with Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot et Isabelle Adjani
1976 : Le Grand Escogriffe with Yves Montand, Agostina Belli et Claude Brasseur
1979 : L'Homme en colère with Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson et Donald Pleasence
1980 : La Boum with Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey et Sophie Marceau
1982 : La Boum 2 with Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey et Sophie Marceau one of my favourite films when I was a schoolboy
1984 : La Septième Cible with Lino Ventura, Lea Massari et Jean Poiret
1988 : L'Étudiante with Sophie Marceau, Vincent Lindon et Élisabeth Vitali
1991 : La Neige et le feu with Vincent Perez, Géraldine Pailhas et Matthieu Rozé
1994 : Cache cash with Michel Duchaussoy, Georges Wilson et Jean-Pierre Darroussin
1997 : Les Palmes de M. Schutz with Isabelle Huppert, Philippe Noiret et Charles Berling
2005 : Un abbé nommé Pierre, une vie pour les autres (documentary)

[cusamano]

RIP Edvard Mirzoyan

Edvard Mirzoyan (May 12, 1921 - October 5, 2012), was an Armenian composer.

[cusamano]

RIP Albert, Margrave of Meissen (1934–2012)

Prince Albert of Saxony, Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen (Albert Joseph Maria Franz-Xaver; 30 November 1934 - 6 October 2012) was the disputed head of the Royal House of Saxony and a German historian. The fourth child and youngest son of Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen and his wife Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis, he was the younger brother of Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, his predecessor as head of the Royal House of Saxony.

[cusamano]

RIP Gérard Gropaiz

Gérard Gropaiz (1 August 1943 – 6 October 2012) was a French swimmer who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

[cusamano]

RIP Chadli Bendjedid

Chadli Bendjedid (April 14, 1929 – October 6, 2012) was the third President of Algeria; his presidential term of office ran from February 9, 1979 to January 11, 1992.

[cusamano]

RIP Ivo Michiels

Henri Ceuppens (8 January 1923 - 7 October 2012), who wrote under the pseudonym Ivo Michiels, was a Belgian writer.

[cusamano]

RIP Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano

Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano (25 December 1974 – 7 October 2012) was a Mexican drug lord and top leader of the criminal organization known as Los Zetas. He was one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords.

Lazcano joined the Mexican Army at the age of 17 and later ascended to the Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales (GAFE), the Special Forces unit of the military. While in the army, he reportedly received military training from the Israeli and the United States army, but he eventually defected after eight years of service in 1998. Upon his defection, he was recruited by the drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén and Arturo Guzmán Decena with around 30 other soldiers to work as the enforcers of the Gulf Cartel, forming the paramilitary group known as Los Zetas.

He was killed in a firefight with the Mexican Navy on 7 October 2012. His body, however, was stolen by gunmen at a funeral home after the navy had handed the corpse to the state authorities.

[cusamano]

RIP Mervyn M. Dymally

Mervyn Malcolm Dymally (May 12, 1926 – October 7, 2012) was a California Democratic politician. He served in the California State Assembly (1963–1966) and the California State Senate (1967–1975), as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (1975–1979), and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1993). Dymally returned to politics a decade later to serve in the California State Assembly (2002–2008).

[cusamano]

RIP Roman Danylak

Roman Danylak, S.T.L., J.U.D. (December 29, 1930 – October 7, 2012) was a Canadian Ukrainian Catholic bishop.

[cusamano]

RIP Edward Archbold

Death of cockroach-eating contest winner may have been an allergic reaction, doctors reveal.
Mystery still surrounds the death of the father-of-two who collapsed moments after winning a cockroach-eating competition.
It will be weeks before an autopsy reveals what exactly it was that killed Eddie Archbold, 32, from West Palm Beach, Florida, but experts have said that eating the roaches and other insects should not have been the cause.
While participating in the Midnight Madness bug-eating competition at Ben Siegel Reptiles in Deerfield Beachon on Friday night, Eddie was eating so many live roaches he had to cover his mouth to keep them from crawling out, swallowing some of them whole and still alive.
He ate more than 60 grams of meal worms, 35 three-inch-long 'super worms' and a bucket of discoid roaches, according to the Miami Herald.

But he started vomiting and collapsed in front of the store shortly after.

Dr Bill Kern, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida, said it could have been an allergic reaction to the large amount of foreign protein that killed the 32-year-old.