Talk:Willie Rushton
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This week a host on the BBC said that Willie Rushton died in '97. Everything I have found online puts his death as 11 Dec '96. One bio states: "Willie Rushton died of complications after a heart operation on 11 December 1996". Could he have died "of complications" more than 20 days later? How can the date of death be found? Tlsg 01:39, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
- Once source for dating things is Google Groups, which contains an archive of Usenet posting, that you can search as you can webpages through Google Itself. Searching for Willie Rushdon died, I found a few references to his death on the 11th and 12th. All point to the 11th being the day, and pretty much rule out a death in '97. The references are these, from alt.obituaries, alt.games.mornington.cresent, and alt.callahans: [1] [2] [3]. These confirm that there were reports of his death on or around the 11th at least. You might be able to find news reports of the day from the Internet Archive. Silverfish 00:54, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
Wille Rushton wasn't a founder member of ISIHAC. Graeme and Tim were founder members, but the other panelists for the first few episodes were variously Bill Oddie, Jo Kendal and John Cleese. Clair 09:16, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
