8 posts tagged with obituary by Fiasco da Gama.
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George Pell 1941–2023

Cardinal George Pell, who was the most senior Catholic official to be convicted of child abuse before his convictions were quashed, one of Australia’s most influential and controversial Catholic clergymen, has died.
posted by Fiasco da Gama on Jan 10, 2023 - 36 comments

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 1931--2022

Mikhail Gorbachev, last President of the Soviet Union, has died aged 91.
posted by Fiasco da Gama on Aug 30, 2022 - 73 comments

Peter Cundall

Peter Cundall, the host (1990–2008) of the ABC's Gardening Australia, and host of gardening programs since 1967, has died. [more inside]
posted by Fiasco da Gama on Dec 5, 2021 - 11 comments

Danny Ray

In what became an iconic part of Brown’s concerts, Ray would walk onstage mid-“Please, Please, Please” and drape Brown with a cape, only for the singer to explode out of the cape with a second wind.
Danny Ray, 'cape man' and emmcee for James Brown, has died at 85. [more inside]
posted by Fiasco da Gama on Feb 9, 2021 - 14 comments

Dean Jones 1961–2020

'To stand on the southern side of the MCG when [Dean] Jones strutted to the crease during a day-night game was to understand Hemingway's endless platitudes for bullfighters'.
posted by Fiasco da Gama on Sep 24, 2020 - 12 comments

Toots Hibbert

Toots Hibbert, Reggae Pioneer Who Infused Genre With Soul, Dead at 77.
posted by Fiasco da Gama on Sep 12, 2020 - 44 comments

Jonathan Keith Idema

"It will probably always be unclear who, exactly, Jonathan Keith Idema really was".
posted by Fiasco da Gama on Jan 26, 2012 - 33 comments

Crystal Lee Sutton

Crystal Lee Sutton was fired for trying to organise a union. The incident was made into the 1979 film Norma Rae. Last week she died at the age of 68.
posted by Fiasco da Gama on Sep 14, 2009 - 23 comments

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