RIPs

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David Soul: Starsky & Hutch actor dies aged 80
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67895679

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Mario Zagallo: Brazil's four-time World Cup winner dies aged 92
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67900776

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Al Jazeera bureau chief's son Hamza al-Dahdouh among journalists killed in Gaza
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67905566

Also learnt today that Major Mike Sadler, MC, MM, a British WW2-era Army officer, namesake of Sadler's Passage in Stonington Island, Antarctica and the last of the original Special Air Service (SAS) & Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), has died this past Thursday.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5876891/Last-surviving-original-SAS-hero-awarded-Frances-highest-honour-bravery.html

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James Morrison's partner Gill Catchpole found dead at their home
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-67910325

Franz Beckenbauer: German football legend dies aged 78
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67917047

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JPR Williams: Wales and British and Irish Lions legend dies aged 74 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67912287

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Trailblazer & first woman  presenter on Radio 1 Annie Nightingale aged 83

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/annie-nightingale-death-bbc-radio-1-b2477652.html

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Emmerdale and Hollyoaks actress Georgina Hale has sadly passed away.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tv/emmerdale-actress-georgina-hale-dies-28425724

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Mary Weiss Shangri-Las lead singer dies aged 75

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68040491

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record producer and founder of the bands Boney M, No Mercy and Milli Vanilli, Frank Farian aged 82

https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/23/boney-m-founder-frank-farian-dead-aged-82-20159307/?ico=just-in_article_must-read

[Dandontdare]

Are they sure it was him?

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Carl Weathers has sadly passed away.

https://deadline.com/2024/02/carl-weathers-dead-1235812684/

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Jonnie Irwin: Escape to the Country and A Place in the Sun host dies aged 50
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63760036

[Marbles]

Wayne Kramer (MC5) - Kick Out the Jams, motherf*ckers

I read his autobiography a few years ago, he led an incredible life - he was the subject of the Clash's song 'The Prisoner'

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Ian Lavender: Dad's Army star dies aged 77
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68204488

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Michael Jayston is familiar to those who followed Only Fools And Horses but forever Peter Guillam in the BBC's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
https://www.itv.com/news/2024-02-05/only-fools-and-horses-actor-michael-jayston-dies-aged-88