The Recently Dead List
1997/1998 season. Entries in red were on someones list.
| NAME |
Died
|
Age
|
Comments: |
| William Burroughs |
04/08/97
|
83
|
Heart attack |
| Jeanne Calment |
05/08/97
|
122
|
Worlds oldest person |
| Princess Diana |
31/08/97
|
36
|
Car crash |
| Dodi Fayed |
31/08/97
|
42
|
Car crash |
| Mother Theresa |
05/09/97
|
87
|
Heart attack |
| Sir Georg Solti |
05/09/97
|
84
|
Some conductor or similar. Peacefully in his
sleep |
| Jeffrey Bernard |
12/09/97
|
65
|
famous for being "Unwell" |
| Burgess Meredith |
12/09/97
|
88
|
Actor - Joker in Batman TV series |
| Stig Anderson |
20/09/97
|
66
|
ABBA manager |
| George Thomas |
22/09/97
|
88
|
Lord Tonypandy. Cancer |
| Roy Lichtenstein |
29/09/97
|
73
|
Pop Artist |
| John Denver |
13/10/97
|
53
|
Singer - plane crash |
| Harold Robbins |
15/10/97
|
81
|
Crap American novelist |
| Michael Hutchence |
22/11/97
|
37
|
INXS lead singer - suicide |
| Richard Vernon |
04/12/97
|
72
|
Slartibartfast |
| Shirley Crabtree |
5/12/97
|
64
|
"Big Daddy" - wrestler, heart attack. |
| Billy Bremner |
06/12/97
|
54
|
Footballer, later manager (Leeds + Scotland) |
| Frank Muir |
02/01/98
|
77
|
God called his bluff! |
| Sonny Bono |
06/01/98
|
62
|
Skiing accident "Tree got you, Babe!" |
| John Wells |
11/01/98
|
61
|
Humourist |
| Carl Perkins |
19/01/98
|
65
|
Died of a stroke - Someone trod on his blue suede
shoes. |
| Enoch Powell |
08/02/98
|
85
|
Send them all back home . . . . |
| Falco |
08/02/98
|
40
|
'Rock me Amadeus' - died in a car crash |
| Carl Wilson |
08/02/98
|
51
|
Member of Beach Boys. Cancer. |
| Lloyd Bridges |
14/03/98
|
85
|
Picked the wrong week to give up breathing. |
| Dr Benjamin Spock |
21/03/98
|
94
|
"I am not Leonard Nimoy" |
| Tammy Wynette |
10/04/98
|
55
|
Heart Attack |
| Cozy Powell |
10/04/98
|
50
|
Car Crash - Fast drummer, lousy driver |
| Pol Pot |
17/04/98
|
73
|
Heart Attack |
| Linda McCartney |
25/04/98
|
56
|
Celebrity vegetarian. Cancer |
| Carlos Casteneda |
27/04/98?
|
72?
|
The first Brazilian time traveller |
| Frank Sinatra |
23/05/98
|
82
|
Heart attack? |
| Catherine Cookson |
11/06/98
|
91
|
Just too old. |
| Johnny Speight |
06/07/98
|
78
|
Creator of Alf Garnet. |
| Roy Rogers |
06/07/98
|
86
|
The Singing Cowboy |
| Alan Shepherd |
21/07/98
|
74
|
First american in space |
| Tiny Roland |
26/07/98
|
80
|
Old Rich Guy. Businessman, owned the Lonhro
group. |
