2015 In Memoriam: Dusty Rhodes

11^th June 2015 – Dusty Rhodes, 69

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2015 In Memoriam: Sir Christopher Lee

7^th June 2015 – Christopher Lee, 93

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In Memoriam: May 2015

May 2015 – Bob Wareing, 84

Labour MP for Liverpool West Derby from 1983 to 2010.

1^st May 2016 – Grace Lee Whitney, 85

Actress who played Janice Rand in Star Trek.

In Memoriam: April 2015

1^st April 2015 – Dave Ball, 69

Guitarist for Procol Harum.

2015 In Memoriam: Malcolm Fraser

20^th March 2015 – Malcolm Fraser, 84

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Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983, and the beneficiary of Sir John Kerr’s move on Gough Whitlam. Whitlam and Fraser were sworn enemies, though they became friends later in life.

The Christmas Book of Ghosts (2015) published

The Christmas Book of Ghosts published last week, and has raised over £100 for charity.

You can find it here.


As way of welcome, I reprint my introduction here, in the hope it will entice more readers to look up our book, or, at the very least, donate some money to the charity.

Introduction

Michael S. Collins

In Memoriam: March 2015

1^st March 2015 – Daniel von Bargen, 64

Troubled actor known for his roles as Commandant Spangler in Malcolm in the Middle and Kurger on Seinfeld.

1^st March 2015 – Stuart McGrady, 29

Scottish footballer who played for Queens Park and Ayr United.

2015 Glasgow buildings deadpool: an update

As it is now December, here is an update in our 2015 Glasgow buildings deadpool from January.


In order of doom (with my January thoughts italicized):

2015 In Memoriam: Sam Simon and Sir Terry Pratchett

8th March 2015 – Sam Simon, 59





American screenwriter and producer who worked on Taxi and Cheers, but became best known for his role in bringing The Simpsons to screen. He had risen to become the producer on both Taxi and Cheers, and met Matt Groening when he was the executive producer of The Tracey Ullman show. It was thought that Simon's superior knowledge of TV would be the yin to the yang of Groening’s artistic talents.

In Memoriam 2015: Leonard Nimoy

27th February 2015 – Leonard Nimoy, 83

In Memoriam: February 2015

1st February 2015 – Beryl Platt, 91


Mathematician, one of the first female aeronautics expert, and Conservative peer, Baroness Platt of Writtle.



“She was only 20, and a new Cambridge graduate, when in 1943 she joined Hawker Aircraft in its experimental flight test department at Langley, Berkshire, in top-secret work on fighter aircraft: the Hurricane, Typhoon, Tempest and Fury. She was present when the Last of the Many, the final Hawker Hurricane – an aircraft that had shot down more enemy aircraft in the Battle of Britain than the rest of UK air and ground defences combined – rolled off the production line in July 1944.”
Tom Corby, Guardian obit