Gone (you can keep this suit of lights)

At about this time of the year for the past 6 years, Mario Axiaq and I have been putting together a list of obituaries for people known for their public life in Malta. It is an exercise that works hand in glove with Mario's aboutmalta.com project to chronicle Malta day by day and MaltaMedia's round-up of the year gone by.

Here's the list for this year, so far:

RICHARD AQUILINA, Footballer
(Died: 9 January 2006)

MARIO AZZOPARDI, Journalist
(Died: 7 February 2006)

CHARLES ARRIGO, Broadcaster
(Died: 13 February 2006)

ANTHONY M. ABELA, Professor of Sociology
(Died: 4 April 2006)

JOE MAGRIN, Technician
(Died: 10 April 2006)

KALĊIDON AGIUS, Politician
(Died: 24 May 2006)

FRANS "Il-BUDAJ" BALDACCHINO, Għannej
(Died: 21 June 2006)

JOSEPH BALDACCHINO, Politician
(Died: 21 June 2006)

ĠUŻE CHETCUTI, Author
(Died: 18 July 2006)

Fr ALEXANDER BONNICI, Religious historian
(Died: 26 July 2006)

Fr DWARDU FENECH, Professor of Semitic Languages
(Died: 5 August 2006)

Fr PAUL GALEA, Sociologist
(Died: 14 August 2006)

VINCENT BORG BONACI, Goalkeeper
(Died: 19 August 2006)

ĠUŻEPPI DELCEPPO, Footballer
(Died: 20 August 2006)

PAUL CARACHI, Journalist & politician
(Died: 31 August 2006)

LEWIS PORTELLI, Sports writer & broadcaster
(Died: 7 September 2006)

HERMAN FARRUGIA, Politician
(Died: 11 October 2006)

EMANUEL BONNICI, Politician
(Died: 12 September 2006)

Fr MARK SAID, Dun Ġorġ Preca's postulator
(Died 2 October 2006)

JIMMY FARRUGIA, Politician
(Died: 25 November 2006)

If you think there's anyone else we should include in this list, please contact me. We'd also appreciate any corrections to dates of death as listed here, because we don't always get things 100% right.