Deid

[swaddon2]

Felix Baumgartner, 56. Austrian daredevil who famously jumped from the stratosphere to Earth in 2012. Killed in a paragliding accident.

[swaddon2]

Ozzy Osbourne, 76. Lead singer with Black Sabbath.

[TheDeeDon]

Ozzy Osbourne, 76. Lead singer with Black Sabbath.

Was it two weeks ago he did the final Sabbath gig.

I don't like his music, but undoubtedly a huge influence in music.

RIP

[WhenTattieFlooredChas]

Ozzy Osbourne, 76. Lead singer with Black Sabbath.

I'm normally a bit "everyone has to go sometime", but this one makes me really sad. What an inspiration - musically, not necessarily as a role model!

He has left an incredible catalogue of work - both from Sabbath and solo times - that shaped so much of what came after and will continued to be enjoyed for many years to come.

Thanks Ozzy, you were legendry in my eyes (I managed to avoid the reality show period )

[swaddon2]

Hulk Hogan, 71. Wrestler.

[TheDeeDon]

Clementina Dinah Hitching or best known as Cleo Laine - Jazz Singer - 97

[WhenTattieFlooredChas]

James Whale: 90s 'outspoken and controversial' (thought I should stay polite) right wing TV and radio presenter. 74. Cancer

[57vintage]

Stella Rimington, CEO of MFI, the hush-hush self-assembly furniture and spy chain. Age top secret, but she was 90 - you ain?t seen me, right?

No evidence of Novichok - she was a Milk Tray girl.

[hajduk]

Terry Reid Deid.

'Mayfly' playing on repeat today.

[57vintage]

Jim Lovell.

Twice a hero (bracketed with Yuri Gagarin, Stirling Moss, Davie Johnston, and John Lennon at the time) as he piloted Apollo 8, the first manned space capsule to orbit the moon, losing radio contact as the crew visited the dark side for 25 minutes, and Earth’s breeks remaining unsoiled - but it was close - until he said, “Aye aye mins, Houston, ye radges” as contact was restored. That was pioneering stuff. Formthat alone, he’s on the honours board of the Third Stone From The Sun.

Even more heroically, he took Apollo 13 back to terra firma after an oxygen tank exploded and knocked the mission way off course, like a Stuartie Green cover drive, using chuddy, shoelaces, and a copy of the People’s Journal placed in the command module in case onybody spewed due to lift-off g-forces, to engineer a Heath Robinson solution to the potential catastrophe. The mission lifted off the day before the 1970 Scottish Cup final, and up in my crammed, untidy loft, there’s a copy of the P&J from the morning of the game illustrating three spacemen, hine above our planet from which is emanating “Hampden roar” and Jim saying to his trusties, “I reckon the Dons have won the cup”. The Apollo 13 film is almost equal to Team of the Decade.

RIP Jim, a top red.