We remember... in 2010

[Gerald]

The past 12 months have seen the deaths of sporting legends, Hollywood stars and political heavyweights. Here - at the end of another year - we pay tribute to some of the famous faces no longer with us.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12052144






Note: 26 December 2010 Last updated at 00:31 GMT

[Platapus]

It saddens me that many of these people's deaths did not get a lot of press here in the US. :(

[Gerald]

:hmmm:

[mookiemookie]

A few you may not have heard:

December: Ted Kennedy's Famous Dog, Splash, Dies
December 24: 20th century financial titan Roy Neuberger dies 107
December 17: Lina Romay, who sang with Xavier Cugat orchestra and became a film and TV actress died Natural Causes. 91
December 9: John duPont, heir to Du Pont chemical fortune and convicted murderer, dies in prison 72
December 2, 2010: Don King's wife, Henrietta, dies at 87
November 30: Garry Gross, fashion photographer known for his 1970s nude images of Brooke Shields, taken when she was 10 years old (heart attack) 73
October 20, 2010: Bob Guccione, founder and publisher of Penthouse (79)
July 19, 2010: David Warren, Australian inventor of the black box flight-data recorder. 85
June 16, 2010: Ronald Neame, director of 'Poseidon Adventure'dies 99
June 1, 2010: Ron Zappe, Zapp's potato chip founder, dies 67
May 31, 2010: Chris Haney, co-creator of board game Trivial Pursuit (59)
March 15, 2010: Pingping, the world's shortest man, 29 inches tall, died of heart complications at the age of 21.
March 6, 2010: Bruce J. Graham, Chicago Architect Who Designed Sears Tower, Dies 84. Complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
February 28, 2010: T-Bone Wolk, bass player for Hall & Oates, dies 58
February 16, 2010: Ronald Howes, inventor of Easy Bake oven dies 83
February 9, 2010: Fred Morrison, Frisbee Inventor, Dies 90?
January 17, 2010: Glen W. Bell Jr - Taco Bell Founder 86
January 10, 2010: Donald E. Goerke, creator of SpaghettiO's, dies at 83 of heart failure

[Jimbuna]

Your right Mark...I've honestly never heard of any of them :doh:

*not intended in a disrespectful context*

[Sailor Steve]

I used to subscribe to an encyclopedia yearbook, and every year I was amazed at the number of famous people who had died - the ones I recognized instantly, and the ones who I had no knowledge of but realized they meant something to a great many people somewhere else.

A nice tribute. Thanks, Vendor. :sunny:

[Rockstar]

Oh come on, remembering 2010 by listing a bunch of dead people. Don't you people have a life of your own?

For me 2010 will be remembered when my wife and I traveled from the Maritime Provinces to the out island in the Bahamas. Bare pole in storms, speeding along at 9kts under a full and well trimmed sail plan, or motoring in the calms.

Skinny dipping in the warm turquoise waters of the south. Diving, fishing and having a cookout on the beach. Learning to plan life around the tides and weather rather than an alarm clock. Exploring the Chesapeake Bay and learning more about U.S. history in four months than what anyone would in four years of college. Navigating in thick fog up in Maine. Hiking the Acadia trails. Building bonfires on Hell's Half Acre to cook up lobster.

Meeting new people, a rescue, sharing meals, making friends all who happened to be very alive and well. We will remember 2010, it was a wonderful time to be amongst the living.

[Castout]

Oh come on, remembering 2010 by listing a bunch of dead people. Don't you people have a life of your own?



On the contrary when we remember the dead we honor their lives and thus gain a bit more appreciation of our own. It's a sobering reminder to our own mortality. That by acknowledging our own frailty and mortality we are reminded to live better and to treat other people with deserving respect and appreciate what time has been given to us.

There's a saying here that it's better to give remembrance to someone's death than going to party.

[kranz]

I have heard about the death of John DuPont coz I'm using one of theirs teflon oils to lubricate my bicycle's chain. I hope I've fed your "Americocentrical hunger" :O:

[Gerald]

In this case, it is unlikely to do with to provide our friends across the Atlantic with the news, unless you have a very different view, the item was about them that we appreciated!

[Lionclaw]

Stephen J. Cannell (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004798/)

1941 - 2010

R.I.P. :(

[Gerald]

He was a good man, RIP!