Please spare a moment to think of those who we lost during 2007. Closer to home, spare a bigger moment for those of your family and friends who you’ve lost in 2007. The list below is just a few selected people who many of us will have almost known, grown up with or seen in the newspapers over the years. These are the people that remind us of our mortality.
First and most important, our LSUK colleague, consultant and friend, Ian Adam-Thwaite
Also:
Benazir Bhutto, 54, Pakistani Prime Minister (1988–1990, 1993–1996),
Robert “Evel” Knievel, Jr., 69, American stunt performer
George Osmond, 90, American patriarch of the Osmond singing family.
Meredith Kercher, 21, British murder victim
Billy Ray Hamilton, 57, American death row inmate,
Deborah Kerr, 86, British actress (From Here to Eternity, Black Narcissus, The King and I),
Nicky James, 64, British pop singer (The Moody Blues),
Werner von Trapp, 91, Austrian-born musician and singer, member of the Trapp Family Singers who inspired The Sound of Music.
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, 94, former Princess of Greece, last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Myra Nicholson, 112, Australia’s oldest person, 11th oldest in the world,
Colin McRae, 39, British World Rally champion,
Ian Porterfield, 61, British football player and manager (scored Sunderland’s 1973 FA Cup winner),
Dame Anita Roddick, 64, British entrepreneur and founder of The Body Shop,
Jane Wyman, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan
Ronald Magill, 87, British actor (Amos Brearly on Emmerdale Farm).
Luciano Pavarotti, 71, Italian operatic tenor,
Jane Tomlinson, 43, British cancer campaigner,
Mike Reid, 67, British comedian and actor (EastEnders),
Jake, 12, American search and rescue dog for September 11, 2001 attacks and Hurricane Katrina,
Don Arden, 81, British rock manager, father of Sharon Osbourne.
Kelly Johnson, 49, British guitarist (Girlschool),
Nigel Dempster, 65, British journalist,
Sir Colin St John Wilson, 85, British architect who designed the British Library.
Bobby “Boris” Pickett, 69, American one-hit wonder singer (”Monster Mash”),
Boris Yeltsin, 76, first President of the Russian Federation (1991–1999),
John Inman, 71, British actor (Are You Being Served?),
Charles Forte, Baron Forte, 98, British hotelier.
Anna Nicole Smith, 39, American 1993 Playmate of the Year, widow of J. Howard Marshall,
Sidney Sheldon, 89, American author and TV producer (I Dream of Jeannie),
Magnús Magnússon, 77, Icelandic-born British television presenter (Mastermind, 1972–1997),
John Lennon said:
“Imagine all the people, Living life in peace”
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