Significant people's (not celebrities) deaths

Current Affairs
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HR Giger, artist and creator of the ‘Alien’ creatures, passed away a few days ago.

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Ibrahim Toure, younger brother of Kolo and Yaya.

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Total disaster for the French oil company as their chief executive gets totalled by somebody who definitely wasn’t teetotal.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/21/total-boss-killed-plane-crash-christophe-de-margerie-drunk-driver
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Total boss killed in plane crash: investigators blame drunk driver[/SIZE]
Christophe de Margerie, who was killed when a private jet collided with a snow plough, was one of the world’s most recognisable oil executives

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3 months ago, de Margerie was quoted as saying that “There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars”

Any other oil exec thinking along those lines will be forever holding their peace after this.

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[SIZE=6]Raphael Ravenscroft dead: ‘Baker Street’ musician, who played the most famous saxophone solo for just £27, dies aged 60[/SIZE]

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9808109.ece/alternates/w620/Raphael-Rafferty-PA.jpg

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Ben Bradlee, the former Editor of the Washington Post who oversaw the Watergate story, has died aged 93. What an extraordinary life he led.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ben-bradlee-legendary-washington-post-editor-dies-at-93/2014/10/21/3e4cc1fc-c59c-11df-8dce-7a7dc354d1b1_story.html

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Fucks sake

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I know, you must he cut up about it mate.

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+1, some fucking no mark politician is a celebrity to this cunt but one of the primary players in the greatest scandal of all time that bright down the President of the greatest country of all time isnt. Fuck sake.

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Sad to hear of the passing of Brian Farrell. The consumate political broadcaster and interviewer, he called out many a politician with his intelligence. A fixture on our TV screen at home when I was growing up on Today Tonight during tumultuous times in Ireland. A noted academic and writer also.
Disappointed there wasn’t a decent obituary in the Irish Times today.

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[QUOTE=“Fitzy, post: 1043709, member: 236”]Sad to hear of the passing of Brian Farrell. The consumate political broadcaster and interviewer, he called out many a politician with his intelligence. A fixture on our TV screen at home when I was growing up on Today Tonight during tumultuous times in Ireland. A noted academic and writer also.
Disappointed there wasn’t a decent obituary in the Irish Times today.[/QUOTE]

He is/was a worthy celebrity you cunt.

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So post him in the celeb deaths thread pal.

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:rolleyes: He’s in there.

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So what’s the problem then?

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:rolleyes:

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So what was the point of all of that?

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Fucking hell, that silly hardware store bag boy hasn’t got a fucking clue :rolleyes:

RIP Brian

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@farmerinthecity needs to get familiar with this thread.

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[QUOTE=“Fitzy, post: 1043709, member: 236”]Sad to hear of the passing of Brian Farrell. The consumate political broadcaster and interviewer, he called out many a politician with his intelligence. A fixture on our TV screen at home when I was growing up on Today Tonight during tumultuous times in Ireland. A noted academic and writer also.
Disappointed there wasn’t a decent obituary in the Irish Times today.[/QUOTE]

nonsense

he was an journalist more than happy to work under the confines of section 31, channel 4 led the way back then in regards to Ireland and RTE failed us misearbly

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He was in the celebrity death thread nearly 24 hours before you waded in. If Brian Farrell doesn’t qualify as a celebrity, there’s no such thing as a celebrity. Quite part from his intellectual and academic prowess, a giant of Irish broadcasting.