Celebrity Deaths Thread 2021

[teddymeow]

Japanese actress and singer Sayaka Kanda has died at 35. Police are investigating possible suicide.

I saw this yesterday. Not nice at all.

[Brad]

Kangol from UTFO has died. Cancer.

I think they probably promoted the first rap beef with Roxanne Roxanne, which was then flipped back by Roxanne Shante who, it turned out, wasn’t the Roxanne they were rapping about in the first place. Anyway, they weren’t all that but they were a part of my childhood

[Blobcat]

Sally Ann Howes, best known as Truly Scrumptious from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, has died at the age of 91

[Nu-Eclipse]

Former England and Yorkshire County cricketer Ray Illingworth has passed away, aged 89.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59789915

[briareos_kerensky]

Mark Taylor, designer of TMNT and He-Man toys, has died at 80.

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[teddymeow]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-59793726

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has died aged 90.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Janice Long, older sister of the late Keith Chegwin and best known as a presenter on BBC Radio 1 (the station's first ever female weekday show host) and the first ever regular female presenter of Top of the Pops during the 1980s, has died aged 66 after a short illness.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59795298

[briareos_kerensky]

Richard Marcinko, founder of SEAL Team Six (and also writer and protagonist of less-than-stellar videogames), has died the 25th of December.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Hugo Maradona, younger brother of football legend Diego, has died of a heart attack. He was 52.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/dec/28/diego-maradonas-brother-hugo-dies-in-naples-aged-52

[gunrock]

[MENTION=9465]Brad[/MENTION]: oh man, UTFO. They shined so bright for a while, then once the likes of Biz Markie, Mantronix and Just-Ice hit, instantly outdated. The Roxanne, Roxanne records and replies, went on forever... Roxanne's A Man being a (terribly trans and homo phobic) yet less formulaic spin on the theme.

[kryss]

John Madden (of American football stuff) passed away today.

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[Yakumo]

You know what this means, bloody EA coming out with Madden 2022 Memorial Edition.

[Anpanman]

Madden was a giant, won the Superb Owl coaching the Raiders and ended that career with the best win/loss record of all time.

Easily the best broadcasting analyst the game has ever seen, watched the 49ers win Superb Owl's with him doing the colour commentary.

Also developed what he envisaged as the training tool for kids which became Madden the game.

[Brad]

Superb Owls

[Nu-Eclipse]

Betty White of The Golden Girls (and a storied career that spanned eight decades on both small and big screen) falls one day short of 2022 and two weeks short of her century.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/dec/31/golden-girls-star-betty-white-dies-aged-99