The Duke of Edinburgh was born into the Greek and Danish royal families. He was born in Greece, but his family was exiled from the country when he was eighteen months old. After being educated in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, he joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, aged 18. He married Britain’s Princess Elizabeth, who would later become Queen Elizabeth II, in 1947. Philip had four children with Elizabeth: Charles, Prince of Wales; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. A sports enthusiast, Philip helped develop the equestrian event of carriage driving. He was a patron, president, or member of over 780 organizations. He served as chairman of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, a self-improvement program for young people aged 14 to 24. He was the longest-serving consort of a reigning British monarch and the longest-lived male member of the British royal family. He retired from his royal duties in 2017, having completed 22,219 solo engagements since 1952. Philip died today, two months before his 100th birthday.
traina is on the board, and Maphisto’s Sidekick, hotkarl, and Macroman all get hits.
Madoff was an American market maker, investment advisor, financier, and convicted fraudster who served a federal prison sentence for offenses related to a massive Ponzi scheme. He was at one time non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, before being revealed as and later confessing to having been the operator of the largest Ponzi scheme in world history, and the largest financial fraud in U.S. history. Prosecutors estimated the fraud to be worth $64.8 billion based on the amounts in the accounts of Madoff’s 4,800 clients as of November 30, 2008. He was sentenced to 150 years in Federal prison in 2009. He made off for the next world today only serving twelve of those years, passing away at age 82.
I was reading the WSJ obit this morning. His sons turned him in, and stopped talking to their mom when she supported him. One of them hanged himself with a dog leash a few years later. The other died of cancer, so he outlived them both.
Lloyd’s acting career spanned 9 decades. He worked with Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Howie Mandel, among others. His credits stretch from the earliest known U.S. TV drama, 1939′s “On the Streets of New York” to 21st-century projects including “Modern Family” and “The Practice,” with his best known character being Dr. Daniel Auschlander in “St. Elsewhere.” He appeared in over 60 films and television shows, with his roles including Bodalink in Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight (1952), Mr. Nolan in Dead Poets Society (1989), and Mr. Letterblair in The Age of Innocence (1993). In the 1980s. He died today at age 106.
frummie and, who else, Maphisto’s Sidekick get a hit.
Zzzzzzz this is boring it’s like Grim Reaper is on strike or something? It’s total tumeweed I guess that’s good thing but this is a total drout. Lots of Indians dying atm. Isn’t Bob Dole like 100
Sir Cullen was a New Zealand politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, also Minister of Finance, Minister of Tertiary Education, and Attorney-General. He was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1996-2008, when he resigned following a defeat in the general election. He resigned from Parliament in April 2009, to become the deputy chairman of New Zealand Post in 2009 and chairman from 2010-2016. He died of lung cancer on August 19.
Ms. Harding was an English singer, model and actress. Her professional career began in 2002 with ITV reality series Popstars: The Rivals, during which Harding won a place in the girl group Girls Aloud. The group achieved twenty consecutive top ten singles (including four number ones) in the UK, six albums that were certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), two of which went to number one in the UK, and accumulated a total of five BRIT Award nominations. In 2009, Girls Aloud won “Best Single” with their song “The Promise”. She moved on to acting, appearing in Bad Day, the BBC television film Freefall, Run for Your Wife and St. Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold. Harding contributed three solo songs to the soundtrack of St. Trinian’s 2. She also modelled for Ultimo lingerie. In late 2012, she reunited with Girls Aloud to celebrate their tenth anniversary. In 2015, Harding briefly appeared in the soap opera Coronation Street and released her first extended play record Threads. She won Celebrity Big Brother 20 in 2017. She died on September 5 at the age of 39.
Our first tragic death of the year means hotkarl is closing in on first place. Werewolf and traina also score.
