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IF you take a look at Wikipedia’s latest deaths, there are plenty, but we’ve put together a few that caught our eye, some known to us and some not.
Rex Peers Mossop February 18, 1928 – June 17, 2011 Mossop was an Australian rugby league and rugby union footballer, a dual- code international representative and an Australian television personality from 1964 until 1991. In his fi nal years, Mossop had suff ered from Alzheimer’s disease. He died at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. His match commentaries, and indeed his other forays into the public domain, were often fi lled with tautologies that became known as Mossopisms. These mistakes also led to his nickname, Rox Messup. Some of his classics included: “If I keep getting Boyd and O’Grady mixed up, it’s because they look alike, especially around the head.” “Tiny, diminutive, little Mark Shulman.” “He seems to be favouring a groin injury at the top of his leg.” “Now the referee’s giving him a verbal tongue lashing.” “I don’t think the male genitals or the female genitals should be rammed down people’s throats … to use a colloquialism.” “He’s made a great yardage of 25 metres.”
Alan Haberman July 27, 1929 – June 12, 2011
Haberman was an American supermarket executive who is credited with popularising the use of the barcode in commerce internationally. He was a founder and board member of the Uniform Code Council.
Oliver William Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes May 17, 1926 – June 8, 2011 He was dean of Lincoln, UK, in the latter part of the 20th century. He was born into a noble family, the younger son of the 20th Baron Saye and Sele, was educated at Eton and was commissioned in the
Green Howards, having won the Sword of Honour at Sandhurst, although WWII ended before he saw action. He subsequently went up to New College, Oxford. Ordained in 1954, after a spell as a curate at St Mary Magdalene, New Milton, he became chaplain of Clifton College in 1958. Following this he was rector of Lambeth before his elevation to the deanery. Described by a notable church historian as “the last aristocrat to make his mark on the church”, in retirement he lived near his old cathedral in Lincoln until his death. He was a cousin to actor Ralph Fiennes.
Shrek
1994 – June 6, 2011 Shrek was a merino wether (castrated male sheep) belonging to Bendigo Station, a sheep station near Tarras, New Zealand, who gained international fame in 2004 after he avoided being caught and shorn for six years. Merinos are normally shorn annually, but Shrek apparently hid in caves, avoiding muster. He was named after the fi ctional character in books and fi lms of the same name. After being caught on April 15, 2004, the wether was shorn by a professional in 20 minutes. The shearing was broadcast on national television in New Zealand. His fl eece was enough wool to make suits for 20 men, weighing 27 kilograms – an average merino fl eece weighs around 4.5 kilograms. Shrek became a national icon.
He was taken to parliament to meet the New Zealand prime minister, Helen Clark in May 2004. To celebrate his 10th birthday, 30 months after his initial shearing, Shrek was shorn again on an iceberg fl oating off the coast of Dunedin, New Zealand. Shrek was put down on the advice of a veterinary surgeon.
William John “Bill” Hunter February 27, 1940 – May 21, 2011 Hunter was an Australian actor of fi lm, stage and television.
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He appeared in more than 60 fi lms and won two Australian Film Institute awards. During his teens, Hunter was a champion swimmer and briefl y held a world record for the 100 yards freestyle until his record was broken by future gold medal Olympian John Devitt in the very next heat 10 minutes later. Hunter had qualifi ed for the Australian swimming team in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, but a bout of meningitis ended his Olympic hopes.
Ella Frieda Schuler (née Winkelmann) September 5, 1897 – May 7, 2011 Schuler was an American supercentenarian who, at the age of 113 years and 244 days, was the oldest living person in the state of Kansas. Schuler at the time of her death was the eighth oldest verifi ed living person. She left behind six grandchildren, 15 great- grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren. She also used Facebook, which at the time made her the site’s oldest member. Due to the fact that Facebook does not allow members to identify their date of birth as being prior to January 1, 1900, Schuler was unable to register her actual date of birth with the site.
Claude Stanley Choules March 3, 1901 – May 5, 2011 Choules was the last World War I combat veteran in the world and was the last military witness to the scuttling of the German fl eet in Scapa Flow. He was also the last veteran to have served in both world wars and the last seaman from the WWI. At the time of his death, he was also the third oldest verifi ed military veteran in the world and the oldest known living man in Australia. He was the seventh-oldest living man in the world. Choules became the oldest man born in the United Kingdom following the death of Stanley Lucas on June 21, 2010. He died in Perth at the age of 110.
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