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This may not mean much to non-Americans - and maybe not even to those below a certain age - but, Mike Connors, star of the 1960's TV series "Mannix" has died at the age of 91.
'Mannix' was broadcasted in Europe too. During years, it was an almost iconic and very popular Saturday evening tradition (although programmed somewhat later in the evening, because it was considered too violent for children).
 
'Mannix' was broadcasted in Europe too. During years, it was an almost iconic and very popular Saturday evening tradition (although programmed somewhat later in the evening, because it was considered too violent for children).

Mannix was just on a couple of hours ago here. I listened to it, couldn't watch because I was busy with some work.
 
He was a great actor! Whatever role he played, he played well.
Yes indeed, every part I've seen him play - a good many - have been something special.

Perhaps the one most in the spirit of CruxForums was Caligula

 
Roger Walkowiak (1927-2017), a French cyclist who won, rather unexpectedly, the Tour de France in 1956, his greatest victory in his otherwise modest career.
Curiously, he did not win a stage in his Tour in 1956. Actually, Walkowiak is the only winner of a Tour who never won an individual stage in any edition of the Tour de France.
Walkowiak was the oldest Tour winner still alive (upon his death, Frederico Bahamontes (winner 1959) is now the oldest Tour winner alive).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Walkowiak
 
Richard Hatch (May 21,1945 - Feb 7, 2017)
American TV actor best known for playing Apollo in the original version of "Battlestar Galactica" (1978-79)
He also played a very different character in the reboot of the series from 2004-2005.
Interestingly, I see that both Hatch and Hans Rosling died of pancreatic cancer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/richard-hatch-dead-.html?_r=0

He was better in the reboot than in the original!

For Rugby fans, Joost van der Westhuizen has died, February 6, 2017, age 45. One of the best scrum halves in the game in the late 1990s. As a Springbok fan, he was a fantastic player to watch. Certainly one of the best players ever to wear the green and gold.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/feb/06/joost-van-der-westhuizen-obituary

Sad. The obit had this passage:
But it was his tackle on the fearsome Jonah Lomu, who was in full flight, that sticks in the memory and at the game’s final scrum close to the All Blacks’ try-line it was Van der Westhuizen who was helping push the New Zealand pack backwards as the seconds ticked away.
Which reminds us that the great Jonah Lomu was also taken from us all too early, in 2015 at the age of 40. The quintessential unstoppable force.
 
Carol Lloyd, iconic Brisbane 70s rock chick, passed away today after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis.
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She was an in-your-face singer who would come on stage in nothing more than a fur coat and sequins stuck over her nipples and openly lesbian when to be so in Queensland under an arch-conservative government could mean arrest.
Pp saw Carol and Railroad Gin so often at the UQ refec though it was always through the fug of herbal tobacco smoke :D.

Here is Carol, Railroad Gin and their classic A Matter Of Time.

 
For Rugby fans, Joost van der Westhuizen has died, February 6, 2017, age 45. One of the best scrum halves in the game in the late 1990s. As a Springbok fan, he was a fantastic player to watch. Certainly one of the best players ever to wear the green and gold.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/feb/06/joost-van-der-westhuizen-obituary
Joost was a sublime player, an absolute gentleman and a wonderful ambassador for rugby.

Let him take up the "the game they play in heaven" with those All Black players also recently lost.
 
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