Ronnie Hazlehurst, composer of classics such as the themes to Yes Minister and Blankety Blank, has died aged 79.

Bet the music at his funeral will be a hoot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7023501.stm

Joe Mitty – founder of the Oxfam charity shop that was first set up in 1949.

Alan Coren

Satirist, former editor of Punch magazine and stalwart of The News Quiz, aged 69.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7052510.stm

Deborah Kerr.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7051206.stm
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Alan Coren is a real loss. Will miss his remarks about Germans on the News Quiz.

Joey Bishop the last of the Rat Pack.aged 89

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr, the commander of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, aged 92.

Lecce's kit manager, Antonio De Giorgi who was struck by lightning and killed at the end of the their training session yesterday.

I don't think I can remember losing so many of my colleagues at one time. I'm not in the same brigade but this really hurts...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7076175.stm
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My Jamaican missus trying to describe Amy Winehouse the other day: "What's the name of that coke head woman who went to St Lucia?"

Nils Liedholm - former player and coach for Milan

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/nov5k.html
http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/articles/liedholmgg.html

The "Baron" was possibly one of Milan's greatest players.

Anyway, back to more important things.

Hilda Braid, who played Nana Moon in Eastenders, has died, aged 78. Wasn't she also in Rentaghost?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7081599.stm

Giovanni Lavafiume wrote:

The "Baron" was possibly one of Milan's greatest players. Anyway, back to more important things. Hilda Braid, who played Nana Moon in Eastenders, has died, aged 78. Wasn't she also in Rentaghost? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7081599.stm

She was certainly in Citizen Smith, kept calling Robert Lindsay's character Foxy IIRC

How are you feeling now, bnb ?

Norman Mailer - author, 6 - time husband and scrapper.
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I'm cool, Verno, though it's amazing how the Sun and other trash tabloids which demonised us a couple of years ago as pool playing, sleeping on the job, uncaring, greedy and workshy suddenly seem to think we are heroes now . Gosh, I just can't work it out.

House is great. We seem to have friends over every weekend. But the missus is getting up herself. Just because we have a few trees down the end of our lovely big garden she wants the house to have a name. Bit naff/middle class for my liking. And she's from Essex/East London! I just want a 'sit on' lawnmower !
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My Jamaican missus trying to describe Amy Winehouse the other day: "What's the name of that coke head woman who went to St Lucia?"

Evel Knievel, motorcycle stuntman, aged 69.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7122258.stm

Didn't spot this at first - Don't give the house a name, bnb.

It's now regarded as 'frightfully aspirant chav' in the circles where naming your house was once de rigeur for social respectability.

I've just made that up, but.

1. Use your admin privileges to edit this post so that everything after 'respectabiliy' disappears.

2. Summon the missus to the computer and show here this message.

3. Tell her I know what I'm talking about (this may be the really hard part, as my observation is based on a conversation with a cavalry officer), and that her desire to name the house will mark her out as a someone who will put on a large amount of weight, start wearing pink leggings and call her children 'Chlamidya' and 'Mourinho' and who is therefore merely an petit bourgeois arrivisté with whom one simply should not socialise.

That do the job for you?

By the way, is it true that Kenevil's funeral will involve firing the coffin into the grave from a large cannon, over a line of 15 London buses?

That's me up to 2 now - I need a strong December again like last year if I'm to retain my title.  Someone turn Thatcher's heating off!

1. Fidel Castro
2. Ariel Sharon
3. Michael Foot
4. Margaret Thatcher
5. Kirk Douglas
6. Ronnie Biggs
7. Charlton Heston
8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
9. Charlie Watts
10. Evel Knievel  x
11. Lady Bird Johnson  x
12. Harold Pinter
13. Gary Glitter

Presumably the actor Anton Rogers wasn't on anyone's list. He's gone onto fresh fields.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2993905.ece

Ike Turner, musician and infamous wife-beater has passed on.

Hopefully this isn't a racing cert for next year's totodeath, but it would be unfair of me not to point out that Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7141458.stm

It would be equally unfair not to point out that Charlton Heston was diagnosed with the same generic condition several years ago and has gamely frustrated everyone who's put him on their totodeath list every season since...