h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

John Ackroyd, Isle of Wight inventor:
http://onthewight.com/john-ackroyd-inspirational-isle-of-wight-innovator-passes-away/?utm_source=OnTheWight&utm_campaign=54e8b46fab-OTW_AM_Newsletter+%2A%7CDATE%3Aj+M+Y%7C%2A&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_43c6e462e0-54e8b46fab-105577557&mc_cid=54e8b46fab&mc_eid=afb425025b

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He certainly deserves being remembered here.
a shorter URL
https://onthewight.com/john-ackroyd-inspirational-isle-of-wight-innovator-passes-away/

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Hal Holbrook

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/02/hal-holbrook-dies-aged-95-deep-throat-all-the-presidents-men-mark-twain

Picked three times in the past, twice by The Groob

Haya Harareet, best remembered for playing Esther in the 1959 epic film Ben Hur.
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-ben-hur-star-haya-harareet-dies-1.9508938

Leon Spinks: Ex-heavyweight champion who shocked Muhammad Ali dies aged 67
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/55961786

Harry Fielder. The name won't ring bells, but his homepage gave me cause to smile. I wish every actor would do this to their stills - look who he's worked with! I had fun naming them all (trying to)
http://www.harryfielder.co.uk/

Mary Wilson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55993045

Oh gosh, wasn't she on anyone's list?

She’s never been picked, but Diana Ross was picked once, in 2007.

Not so much Famous but Imfamous.
Larry Flynt, Hustler publisher and First Amendment activist, has died
https://boingboing.net/2021/02/10/larry-flynt-hustler-publisher-and-first-amendment-activist-rip.html

Chick Corea: Jazz musician dies aged 79
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56035168

Doug Mountjoy
Snooker Player. Age 78
https://twitter.com/SportingLife/status/1361024289340870669

And now in the Grauniad.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/feb/14/former-uk-snooker-champion-doug-mountjoy-dies-aged-78

I'm surprised none of us spotted this one coming as he was diagnosed with cancer just over a year ago.

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, Right Wing US broadcaster, born 12 January 1951; died 17 February 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/17/rush-limbaugh-obituary

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/17/rush-limbaugh-obituary

Deathlist roundup:

Laurence Ferlinghetti (picked by Feisor in 2007) d. 22 Feb

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/23/lawrence-ferlinghetti-obituary


Ronald Pickup (never picked up) d. 24 Feb

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/feb/26/ronald-pickup-obituary


Johnny Briggs (never picked), d. 28 Feb

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/feb/28/johnny-briggs-obituary


Glenn Roeder (picked twice by me in 2014-5) d. 28 Feb

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/feb/28/former-west-ham-manager-and-england-coach-glenn-roeder-dies-aged-65


Ian St John (never picked) d. 2 Mar

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/02/ian-st-john-liverpool-forward-and-tv-personality-dies-aged-82

Neville O'Riley Livingston aged 73

aka Bunny Wailer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56256885