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Dead at 81. Telegraph obit, and just got a BBC Breaking News notification.

Esther Ranzen has been forced to pull out of a Westminster debate on assisted dying because she is too ill. She was planning to attend the debate on Monday. Dame Esther Rantzen sends message to MPs after pulling out of assisted dying debate No new information, second time in a month that she's not appeared at an event (see post above by @RadGuy). From the article: In a statement Dame Esther said: "While, sadly, my health issues (I have stage four lung cancer) prevent me from attending it myself, I will be watching the debate closely as it affects my own decision to go to Dignitas in Zurich if necessary, to protect my family from witnessing a painful death."

Not a death anniversary as such, but I missed my own anniversary on death list. Twenty years ago on the 20th April 2004, I joined the death list. (Actually it was a bit earlier as I lurked for a couple of months before joining).

George Baker, unused sub at the 58 competition, reportedly dead:

And it seems like Frank Field is the one and only hit in March and April for the Prediction Game... what a drought at the moment...

Easy tiger. Let's not get carried away eh? There's a lot more redemption than that required.

Leading American union organizer and current DDP pick Jane McAlevey has entered home hospice care.

45 years ago today Blair Peach died at the hands of the police. Either you know or you don't. Look him up.

Rob Dray out at relegated Taunton in National League South (Southern Premier next year). Bit harsh, they've had financial problems compounded by the fact that their pitch regularly floods in bad weather and they got massively behind with their fixtures and had a run at the end catching up. At one stage of the season they also had a ground sharing arrangement with Truro (also in NLS) so their pitch got a double pummelling at times.

Ro Jai-bong has died aged 88.

Frank Field a miss for me but a hit for some: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68887629 Probably need a scoreboard soon as the bodies pile high.

24/Apr/2024 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 43 Adele — Chasing Pavements 25 Taylor Swift — Love Story 15 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 10 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody +4 07 Rihanna — Russian Roulette -6

Shirley MacLaine is 90.

This video is from Lars Von Trier a few months ago. In 2022, he was diagnosed with parkinsons disease. You can clearly see the toll it's taking on his body. Overall, the way he talks about his situation is pretty grim as well.

For completeness I'm going to note that the IMDb page for Miss Jason has 2 different people confused. The drag queen Miss Jason (aka Jason Sutton) did appear in Maisie. The other Miss Jason is this British YouTube star, who appears in the Celeste music video. I watched that music video twice earlier and thought I was going mad when I couldn't find him and that's why. Mel C makes an appearance in that music vid strangely enough. So I'm guessing the YouTube star just pops up in random stuff but isn't a "performer" as such given the sensible Equity rule of not allowing the same name to be used by two individuals.

"Working assumption" - code for "unless the bastards try and knife me after the local elections."

24/04/24 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 41 Adele — Chasing Pavements 25 Rihanna — Russian Roulette 17 Taylor Swift — Love Story 14 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 13 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody +4 04 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind -6

1924: Ip Chun / Priscilla Pointer 1925: David Graham / June Lockhart 1926: Abdoulaye Wade / Noreen Riols 1927: Alvin Rakoff / Cleo Laine 1928: Noam Chomsky / Hazel Ascot 1929: Bob Newhart / Violeta Chamorro 1930: Peter Procter / Gladys West 1931: James Earl Jones / Isabel Martinez de Peron 1932: Indarjit Singh / Antonia Fraser 1933: Alexander Mitta / Yoko Ono Congratulations, Azrael.

Battlestar Gallactica’s Terry Carter dead at 95.

Thanks for both of these YW! I think he's the John Gordon who was born in 1936 and died in 2001 in Portsmouth in the GRO Index but there are a few other possibilities and I can't be sure so I've just marked him as deceased and put "c. 2001". Not finding much else on Google or Ancestry.

Wed 24 Apr 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 41 Adele — Chasing Pavements 25 Rihanna — Russian Roulette 17 Taylor Swift — Love Story 15 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody +4 14 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 6 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind -6

Scottish accordionist Fergie MacDonald reportedly dead: https://www.westcoasttoday.co.uk/news/moidarts-own-ceilidh-king-fergie-macdonald-dies-just-one-day-before-his-87th-birthday Known as the ceilidh king. If the report is right, Wiki has his dob wrong.

Thanks all! 1924 - Walter Bingham / Lili Lentz 1925 - Tony Christopher / Micheline Lannoy 1926 - Roger Corman / Rowena Jackson 1927 - William Daniels / Rosemary Harris 1928 - Jean-Marie Le Pen / Nancy Olson 1929 - Mark Rydell / Thelma Barlow 1930 - Gene Hackman / Katherine Jackson 1931 - Robert Duvall / Claire Bloom 1932 - John Williams / Anouk Aimee 1933 - Quincy Jones / Sian Phillips

Thirty-fifth round masterlist: Newjack: César Yanes Urías Bibliogryphon: Benedict XVI chilean way: Francisco Morales Bermudez Perhaps: Hans Modrow Funeralopolis: Branislav Soskic WEP: Josip Manolic TQR: Luis Echeverria Ulitzer95: Khamtai Siphandon Joey Russ: Jimmy Carter Thatcher: Arnaldo Forlani Lafaucheuse: Kim Yong-ju arghton: Angelo Sodano theoldlady: Lubomir Strougal RedRumours: Elizabeth II roaming_comrade: Jiang Zemin