2014 Necrology

[Echoes]

So they left us in 2014:



Pierre Ryckmans aka Simon Leys (respect!)
André Gernez
Kristof Goddaert
Pino Cerami (disgusted that there had been no news article on CN )
Pete Seeger
Eli Wallach
Phil Everly
Alfredo Martini

Robert Alan Dahl
Fred Branfman
Robert Serra (Venezuelian activist)
Jaime Huélamo
James Garner
Jimmy C. Newman (Cajun singer)
Georges Hamel (Quebec singer)
Ramon Hoyos
Willy Monty
Annefleur Kalvenhaar
Manuel de Sica
Gerard Vianen

Category: a little sad

Bobby Keys
Alister MacLeod
Igor Decraene
Charles Fillmore
Joe Cocker
Jack Bruce
Richard Kiel
Dorothy Mitchum
Mimi Lorenzini (French prog rock guitarist)

Queen Fabiola of Belgium
Lauren Bacall
Robin Williams
Richard Attenbrough
Giovanni Pinarello
Glen A. Larson
Eusebio
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Luis Aragones
Alain Resnais
Mickey Rooney
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jack Brabham
Nadine Gordimer
Mike Nichols
David Haines
James Foley
Steven Sotloff
Harold Ramis
Alfredo Di Stefano

Ralph Henry Baer
Ariel Sharon
Jean-Luc Dehaene
Saul Zaentz
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Shirley Temple
William Clay Ford
Scott Asheton
James Schlesinger
Edward Chevardnadze
Tommy Ramone
Ian Paisley
Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier
Jacques Barrot
Leo Tindemans


RIP all though

Predictions for 2015?

 

[LaFlorecita]

I would also like to take a moment to honor all innocent victims of political, religious and ideological warfare, terrorism and tragic accidents this year. To many of us these victims are just a number, but to some they were family, or friends.

 

[LaFlorecita]

I would also like to take a moment to honor all innocent victims of political, religious and ideological warfare, terrorism and tragic accidents and natural disasters this year. To many of us these victims are just a number, but to some they were family, or friends.

 

[Christian]

Udo Jürgens, legend of german-speaking music

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Quite a few musicians checked out this year.
Of these Jack Bruce was the biggest loss.

But as always the music is forever.

 

[Amsterhammer]

I'll miss Jack Bruce, Joe Cocker, Lauren Bacall, Robin Williams, James Garner and Ben Bradlee. Off the top of my head.

Happy New Year.

 

[blackcat]

So they left us in 2014:


Category: very sad

Pierre Ryckmans aka Simon Leys (respect!)

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational...erre-ryckmans-aspects-of-culture-1996/5706524

 

[ebandit]

will

So they left us in 2014:

Predictions for 2015?

after being stuck in an endless loop trying to log in for ages........i almost

lost the will to live

but seriously through 2015 eat well drink a little and live to the full

Mark L

 

[Echoes]

Bumping my morbid thread. Happy New Year.

2015:


René Girard (French-American historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science, founder of the Mimetic Theory, Huge Respect!)
Sergio Sollima (Italian Film Director, Western Spaghetti “Zapata” Master; Respect!!)
Henri Beaugé-Bérubé (French soldier)
Michel Menu (French Resistant and scouting figure)
Claude Criquielion (Belgian cyclist, former World Champion)
Norbert Dedeckere (Belgian cyclocrosser)
Patrick Gaudy (Belgian cyclocrosser & MTB’er, crash while training)
Yevgeni Primakov (Russian politician)
Bernard d’Espagnat (French Physician)
Erik De Vlaeminck (Belgian cyclist, 7-time cyclocross World Champion)

Anthony Hervey (American activist, a black man killed by other black men just for wearing the Confederate flag)
Béatrice Pignède (French journalist)
Richelieu Levoyer (Ecuadorian politician)
Guilherme Silva (Portuguese Junior cyclist, killed in a crash while training)
Jonathan Baratto (Belgian cyclist, killed while training, at age 24)
Giorgio Albani (Italian cyclist and team director of Eddy Merckx at Molteni)
Omar Sharif (Egyptian Actor)
André Brûlé (French cyclist & cyclocrosser)
Wendell Holmes (American soul guitarist)
Little Jimmy Dickens (American country singer)
Jim McCann (Irish musician, member of the Dubliners)
Edgar Froese (German musician, leader of Tangerine Dream)
BB King (American blues guitarist)
Tarek Aziz (Iraqi politician)
Stéphane Steeman (Belgian comedian)
Chris Squire (British Bassist, member of Yes)
Cecil (Zimbabwean lion shot down by an American dentist)
Hiroyuki Agawa (Japanese author & essayist)
Ali Saad Dawabsha (Palestinian baby, 18 months, burned to death by Israeli extremists)
Bernard Van de Kerckhove (Belgian cyclist)
Oleg Peshkov (Russian pilot, place shot down by Turkish missile)
224 passengers & crew members on board of the Russian Kogalymavia Flight 9268 in Northern Sinai
50+ innocent civilians killed in a terrorist attack in Beirut, Lebanon

Juan Bosch Palau (Spanish film director who directed Westerns like Italians did)
Ian Steel (British cyclist, Peace Race winner)
Geraldine McEwan (British actor: Miss Marple)
Florence Arthaud (French sailor)
Daevid Allen (Australian singer; member of Soft Machine)
Patrice Dominguez (French tennis player)
Richard Anthony (French singer)
Pierre Brice (French actor, famous for his German western films)
Patrick McNee (British actor)
James Horner (American soundtrack composer)
Wilfried David (Belgian cyclist; car crash)
Sonja David (wife of the previous one, killed in the same car crash)
François Mahé (French cyclist)
Gerrit Voorting (Dutch cyclist)
Dallas Taylor (American drummer, backing Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young but fired at Young’s request and backing Manassas)
Tim Drummond (American bassist for Neil Young a.o.)
Dieter Moebius (Swiss musician)
Buddy Buie (American “Southern Rock” singer-songwriter, leader of Atlanta Rhythm Section)
Nova Pilbeam (British actress; famous for her roles in Hitchcock’s British period films)
Lynn Anderson (American country music singer)
Bill Keith (American banjo player)
Don Rendell (British Jazz musician)
Elias Skaff (Lebanese politician)
Philippe Washer (Belgian tennis player)

Arturo Paoli (Priest & Missionary aged 102, Jew Rescuer during WWII, advocate of the Liberation Theology but Conciliarist & close to Paul VI)
Samir Kuntar (Lebanese activist, he was a resistant, killed by Israel but himself killed a child girl, so …)

Jules Bianchi (French pilot)
Christopher Lee (British actor)
André Brink (South African author)
Demis Roussos (Greek singer)
Sherif Kouachi (French murderer)
Said Kouachi (French murderer)
Amedy Coulibaly (French murderer)
Camille Muffat (French swimmer)
Alexis Vastine (French boxer)
Gunter Grass (German author)
Percy Sledge (American singer)
Ben E King (American singer)
Zito (Brazilian football player)
Rev. Clementa Pinckney (American politician)
Maureen O’Hara (Irish Actress)
Justin Wilson (British pilot)
Aylan Kurdi (Syrian baby, migrant found dead on a Turkish beach)
John Guillermin (British film director)
Moses Malone (American basketball player)
123 French people killed in terrorist attacks in Paris
Jonah Lomu (New Zealand rugby player)

Charb (French cartoonist)
Cabu (French cartoonist)
Wolinski (French cartoonist)
Sir Leon Brittan (British politician)
Abdallah ben Abdelaziz Al Saoud (Arabian monarch)
Pedro Zerolo (Spanish activist)
Satoru Iwata (Japanese game programmer)
Theodore Bikel (American actor & singer)
Jerome Kohlberg (American bankster)
Antoine Lahad (Lebanese soldier)
Wes Craven (American film director)
Ahmed Chalabi (Iraki politician)
André Glucksmann (French essayist, Maoist left-winger for the Iraq War)
Helmut Schmidt (German politician)
Melissa Mathison (American screenplay writer)
Omar Mokhtar El-Hariri (Lybian politician)
Licio Gelli (Italian bankster and murderer)
Zahran Alloush (Syrian rebel, killed by the Syrian Army)