The Recently Dead List

1997/1998 season. Entries in red were on someones list.
NAME
Died
Age
Comments:
William Burroughs
04/08/97
83
Heart attack
Jeanne Calment
05/08/97
122
Worlds oldest person
Princess Diana
31/08/97
36
Car crash
Dodi Fayed
31/08/97
42
Car crash
Mother Theresa
05/09/97
87
Heart attack
Sir Georg Solti
05/09/97
84
Some conductor or similar. Peacefully in his sleep
Jeffrey Bernard
12/09/97
65
famous for being "Unwell"
Burgess Meredith
12/09/97
88
Actor - Joker in Batman TV series
Stig Anderson
20/09/97
66
ABBA manager
George Thomas
22/09/97
88
Lord Tonypandy. Cancer
Roy Lichtenstein
29/09/97
73
Pop Artist
John Denver
13/10/97
53
Singer - plane crash
Harold Robbins
15/10/97
81
Crap American novelist
Michael Hutchence
22/11/97
37
INXS lead singer - suicide
Richard Vernon
04/12/97
72
Slartibartfast
Shirley Crabtree
5/12/97
64
"Big Daddy" - wrestler, heart attack.
Billy Bremner
06/12/97
54
Footballer, later manager (Leeds + Scotland)
Frank Muir
02/01/98
77
God called his bluff!
Sonny Bono
06/01/98
62
Skiing accident "Tree got you, Babe!"
John Wells
11/01/98
61
Humourist
Carl Perkins
19/01/98
65
Died of a stroke - Someone trod on his blue suede shoes.
Enoch Powell
08/02/98
85
Send them all back home . . . .
Falco
08/02/98
40
'Rock me Amadeus' - died in a car crash
Carl Wilson
08/02/98
51
Member of Beach Boys. Cancer.
Lloyd Bridges
14/03/98
85
Picked the wrong week to give up breathing.
Dr Benjamin Spock
21/03/98
94
"I am not Leonard Nimoy"
Tammy Wynette
10/04/98
55
Heart Attack
Cozy Powell
10/04/98
50
Car Crash - Fast drummer, lousy driver
Pol Pot
17/04/98
73
Heart Attack
Linda McCartney
25/04/98
56
Celebrity vegetarian. Cancer
Carlos Casteneda
27/04/98?
72?
The first Brazilian time traveller
Frank Sinatra
23/05/98
82
Heart attack?
Catherine Cookson
11/06/98
91
Just too old.
Johnny Speight 
06/07/98
78
Creator of Alf Garnet.
Roy Rogers
06/07/98
86
The Singing Cowboy
Alan Shepherd
21/07/98
74
First american in space
Tiny Roland
26/07/98
80
Old Rich Guy. Businessman, owned the Lonhro group.