| NAME |
Died
|
Age
|
Comments: |
| Akira
Kurosawa |
06/09/98
|
88
|
Japanese film
director |
| Patricia
Hayes |
19/09/98
|
88
|
Comedy
Actress |
| Susan
Barrantes |
19/09/98
|
61
|
Fergies Mum - car
crash (the fashionable way to die) |
| Flo-Jo |
21/09/98
|
38
|
Florence
Griffith-Joyner, Medal winning athlete. |
| Gene
Autrey |
02/10/98
|
91
|
Singer and actor -
another singing cowboy. |
| Roddy
McDowell |
03/10/98
|
70
|
Planet of the Apes
actor. |
| Joan
Hickson |
19/10/98
|
92
|
Miss Marple
actress |
| Ted
Hughes |
29/10/98
|
68
|
Poet Laureate -
died of cancer |
| Giant
Haystacks |
01/12/98
|
50
|
Wrestler - real
name Martin Ruane, died of cancer |
| Lord
Grade |
13/12/98
|
91
|
Lew 'it would be
cheaper to lower the atlantic' Grade |
| King Hussain |
05/02/99
|
63
|
Clinically dead 5/2/99. Life support for a couple of
days |
| Iris
Murdoch |
08/02/99
|
79
|
Altzheimers
Disease |
| Brian Moseley |
09/02/99
|
67
|
Coronation Streets Alf Roberts. |
| Derek
Nimmo |
24/02/99
|
66
|
Actor - fell down
stairs and caught pneumonia |
| Gene
Siskel |
?/2/99
|
53
|
American film
critic |
| Dusty
Springfield |
02/03/99
|
59
|
What did she do to
deserve this? |
| Stanley
Kubrick |
07/03/99
|
70
|
Film director -
best known for The Shining and 2001 A Space
Oddysey. |
| Yehudi
Menuin |
12/03/99
|
82
|
Eric wants you to
bring your banjo |
| Rod
Hull |
17/03/99
|
63
|
Fell off the roof.
Emu can't fly, neither can he. |
| Ernie
Wise |
21/03/99
|
73
|
Comic duo back
together again. |
| Lionel
Bart |
03/04/99
|
68
|
Musical
(de)composer. Consider yourself . . . . dead |
| Bob
Peck |
04/04/99
|
53
|
Actor. Died of
cancer |
| Boxcar
Willy |
12/04/99
|
67
|
That's his name,
not what he died of. (it was leukaemia) |
| Anthony
Newley |
14/04/99
|
67
|
Actor, singer,
composer, all round smartarse. |
| Jill
Dando |
26/04/99
|
37
|
Murdered.Crimewatch
caught up with her. |
| Rory
Calhoun |
28/04/99
|
76
|
Actor famous for
standing up and walking about (?) |
| Alf
Ramsey |
01/05/99
|
79
|
England Manager - won us the World Cup in
1966 |
| Oliver
Reed |
02/05/99
|
61
|
Actor - remember
that late night talk show? |
| Johnny
Morris |
07/05/99
|
82
|
Animal Magic
presenter |
| Dirk
Bogarde |
08/05/99
|
78
|
Actor. Died of
heart attack |
| Dana
Plato |
08/05/99
|
34
|
Diff'rent Stokes
actress - drug overdose |
| Shel
Silverstein |
09/05/99
|
66
|
Songwriter - Dr.
Hook stuff and 'A Boy named Sue' |
| Jean
Eavis |
16/05/99
|
60
|
Co-founder of
Glastonbury Festival (more hair less beard) |
| Sir Christopher
Cockerell |
01/06/99
|
88
|
Inventor of
hovercraft |
| Mel
Torme |
05/06/99
|
73
|
Singer/songwriter
roasting on an open fire |
| Anne
Haddy |
06/06/99
|
71
|
Helen Daniels from
Neighbours (died of kidney disease) |
| DeForrest
Kelly |
11/06/99
|
79
|
Dammit Jim, I'm a
corpse, not a doctor. Boldly gone. |
| Lord
Such |
16/06/99
|
58
|
"Screaming" -
Monster Raving Loony Party, and first celebrity
suicide |
| Cardinal Basil
Hume |
17/06/99
|
76
|
One dead Catholic.
Cancer |
| Harry "Buster"
Merryfield |
23/06/99
|
78
|
Only Fools and
Horses actor - brain tumor. |
| Guy
Mitchell |
01/07/99
|
72
|
Some old singer
from the 50's |
| Forrest
Mars |
01/07/99
|
95
|
A mars a day rots
your teeth away. . . |
| Mario
Puzo |
02/07/99
|
78
|
Author of Godfather
novels |
| Joaquin
Rodrigo |
06/07/99
|
97
|
Was Spanish
composer, now decomposer. |
| Bill
Owen |
12/07/99
|
85
|
The Last of the
summer wine, at last! |
| John F Keneddy
Jr |
17/07/99
|
38
|
Like Father like
Son - Dead! (tell him planes don't float) |
| King
Hassan |
23/07/99
|
70
|
King of
Morroco |
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