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999,763 George Mallory 999,764 Sandy Irvine Also, Fanny Craddock's in twice - once as Cradock, with Johnny. (make up your own jokes here).

More evidence that suggests many sensationalized disasters were pre-planned: In the 2013 Superman movie 'Man of Steel', the planet is threatened by some kind of trident-shaped aircrafts or something. A character in the film warns that the trident is going to crash somewhere in the South Indian Ocean. At a few points in the scene, there is a large piece of debris that clearly reads, "MIA 6370". The logo of Malaysian Airlines is a sideways double-trident. The number of the missing Malaysian airplane is 370. It went missing in the South Indian Ocean. "MIA" means "Missing In Action". I also read someone interpret it as "Malaysian International Airlines", but thats not the official name of the airlines, I don't think.

Looks a bit like Roy Jenkins to me.

999,722 Alistair Sim 999,723 Tiny Tim

999691 Howard Staunton 999692 Ruy Lopez 999693 Aron Nimzowitsch 999694 Bobby Fischer 999695 Mikhail Tal 999696 José Raúl Capablanca 999697 Vasily Smyslov 999698 Wilhelm Steinitz 999699 Mikhail Botvinnik 999700 Tigran Petrosian

Now they are to play on: http://www.abc.net.a...s-break/5396282 If he'd copped it, I'm thinking Back (Again) in Black, would've been a worldwide smash.

Who? Author of Brave New World, Crome Yellow, After Many A Summer etc. Rather well known in an Anglo-Californian sort of way. You'll be delighted to learn that I read some of his books. My point was rather that I was an infant when he died. That, and a joke. Oh well. regards, Hein Six and a half years later, I will explain Pooka's joke to Magere. The passing of Huxley (and that of another famous early British fantasy/SF writer, C. S. Lewis), which would normally have been big news, was completely overshadowed by the fact that JFK was assassinated that same weekend. PS - it was also the weekend that Dr Who debuted on television, so quite a momentous time for SF afficionados. How should DeathList commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the biggest triple celebrity death weekend of all time?