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GUN, I had it in early March. I went on a night out with a group of people working in Westminster/Whitehall and we all came down with symptoms a week later. I didn’t post anything on here as I didn’t want ppl to put me in a sweepstake I’m an asthmatic too. The symptoms lasted 8 days for me but only two days were “bad” (ie refusing to move from the couch, refusing to talk to anyone, and watching nothing but re-runs of Supermarket Sweep and Bullseye on Challenge). You’ll be fine. There’s an upside to it too – at the end of your bedstay you’ll have a spring in your step and a new lease of life. Let us know when you’re on the mend!

Giuseppe Aldo Rossi dies at 106 https://www.ilmessaggero.it/spettacoli/morto_giuseppe_aldo_rossi_9_aprile_2020-5162806.html (in italian)

Notable to me I seem to have the ‘rona. Hopefully I don’t get to feature on the daily deaths stats in a few weeks. 51 year old male runner with mild asthma. No BMI issues or other underlying health conditions that I know of.. Not looking forward to the next couple of weeks. Cheers to all, GUN

Don't worry, you'll be out of the Cup in a few weeks time so you can start posting Cup possibilities to help folk out whenever you want. (Hey, twas an open goal...)

World's oldest Covid-19 survivor- she seems to made of strong stuff.

I think the gist is basically: the on the day figure is of those who have tested positive for Corona. Every sudden death in a hospital or care home has to go through various checks which take a week or two, and many of those are being picked up as Corona-related postmortem.

Yeah, to be truly sure of his survival we need a credible report that he tried to shag one of the nurses

Good luck to you GUN! Take care! In our prayers. @Grim Up North

Twitter reporting the death of Dame Jocelyn Barrow, the first Black woman governor of the BBC, at age 90.

Cheers YW, I’ll have a look through Ancestry tomorrow when at my desk. I was able to find Walker’s FB page from the full name you’ve given. She was born in Feb. Still can’t find a full date. Seems like a lovely woman judging from her posts. Sadly suffering from a rare form of cancer and in and out of hospital.

I heard that a teaspoon of marmite twice a day helps with any breathing problems.

Never found anything for previous posts. I'll have a trip through the acts soon.

Rooting for you.Best wishes and take care

Best of luck GUN I'm sure you can win this.

Leaves Rusty Goffe, 71, and Albert Wilkinson, 82, as the only surviving actors to have portrayed oompa loompas in WWATCF. All three should obit I imagine?

Joyeux Anniversaire Jean-Paul Belmondo. 87.

Well it was ok until you joined.

Are you the one who's been posting Jimmy Greaves updates?

One of those who paved the way others, perhaps.

This will be the list with the names of centenarians picks in this deadpool and a little description of them. I keep updating new names of famous centenarians here. Survivors 2024 1. Inah Canabarro: b. 1908 june 8, brazilian supercentenarian and religious sister. 3. Ethel Caterham: b. 1909 august 21, british supercentenarian. 4. Saalumarada Thimmakka: b. 1910 (claimed), indian environmentalist. 5. Marie-Rose Tessier: b. 1910 may 21, french supercentenarian. 7. Andrée Bertoletto: b. 1911 january 1, french supercentenarian. 8. Margarete Tröstl: b. 1911 february 26, austrian supercentenarian. 9. Marita Camacho Quirós: b. 1911 march 10, former first lady of Costa Rica, widow of former president Francisco Orlich. 10. Fauja Singh: b. 1911 april 1 (claimed), british Sikh centenarian marathon runner of Punjabi indian descent. 11. Viola Fletcher: b. 1914 may 5, american Tulsa race riot survivor. 12. Anne Baker: b. 1914 may 14, british writer of historical biographies, she received a merit award from the NSPCC for more than 50 years of volunteer work. 13. Edith Renfrow Smith: b. 1914 july 14, american student. 14. Lessie Benningfield Randle: b. 1914 november 10, american Tulsa race riot survivor. 15. James Clayton Flowers: b. 1915 december 25, american tuskegee airman. 16: Bill Monfort: b. 1916, Pearl Harbor survivor. 17. Geneviève Callerot: b. 1916 may 6, french farmer and novelist. 18. Käthe Menzel-Jordan: b. 1916 september 7, german architect and preservationist. 19. Frederico Fischer: b. 1917 january 6, brazilian athlete, is the current Masters M90 and M95 world record holder in the 100 metres. 20. Frank Chuman: b. 1917 april 29, japanese-american attorney. 21. Song Ping: b. 1917 april 30, chinese communist revolutionary and a retired high-ranking politician, he was a member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee and is considered the only living member of the Second Generation of Chinese Leadership. 22. Ena Collymore-Woodstock: b. 1917 september 10, jamaican barrister and magistrate. 23. Yang You: b. 1917 october 17, chinese scientist. 24. Sir Lloyd Geering: b. 1918 february 26, new zealand theologian who faced charges of heresy in 1967. 25. Elisabeth Waldo: b. 1918 june 15, american violinist, composer, songwriter, conductor and ethnomusicologist. 26. Brenda Milner: b. 1918 july 15, british-canadian neuropsychologist, referred as "the founder of neuropsychology". 27. Elly Laabs: b. 1918 august 12, german centenarian. 28. Paul Mwazha: b. 1918 october 25, zimbabwean clergyman. 29. Caren Marsh Doll: b. 1919 april 6, american stage and screen actress and dancer specialising in modern dance and tap, she appeared in motion pictures with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Studios from 1937 to 1948, including dance stand-in in The Wizard of Oz and Ziegfeld Girl. 30. Osman Nuhu Sharubutu: b. 1919 april 23, ghanaian islamic cleric. 31. Władisław Siemaszko: b. 1919 june 8, polish publicit and lawyer. 32. Nancy Stratford: b. 1919 june 12, american aviator. 33. Eileen Bennett: b. 1919 july 8, british actress. 34. John Allman Hemingway: b. 1919 july 17, irish Royal Air Force fighter pilot. 35. Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit: b. 1919 august 15, argentine human rights activist. 37. Howard Bier: b. 1919 august 20, american politician. 38. Jean Schmidt: b. 1919 august 21, american catholic nun and chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team, known as Sister Jean. 39. Klaus Obermeyer: b. 1919 december 2, german-american businessman, founder of Sport Obermeyer, Ltd. 40. Marianne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn: b. 1919 december 9, german noble and photographer. 41. Henry Hu: b. 1920 january 20, chinese barrister in Hong Kong, served as the vice-chairman of the Reform Club, Legislative Council member and vice-chairperson of Urban Council. 42. Marthe Cohn: b. 1920 april 13, french author, nurse, former spy and holocaust survivor, she wrote about her experiences in the book Behind Enemy Lines. 43. John Alexander Cruickshank: b. 1920 may 20, scottish World War II veteran, he is the last living recipient to have been awarded the Victoria Cross during the World War II. 44. Yvonne Alice Curtet: b. 1920 may 28, french olympic athlete. 45. Sir Patrick Duffy: b. 1920 june 17, british econoist and Labour Party politician. 46. Thomas Franklin Vaughns: b. 1920 july 7, american tuskegee airman. 47. Émile Idée: b. 1920 july 19, french road bicycle racer. 48. Charles Burrell: b. 1920 october 4, american classical and jazz bass player. 49. Paul Ignatius: b. 1920 november 11, american government official. 50. Ira "Ike" Schab: b. 1920 december 3, american Pearl Harbor survivor. 51. Franca Pilla: b. 1920 december 19, italian socialité, aka Franca Ciampi, widow of former president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. 52. Iris Cummings: b. 1920 december 21, american Olympic swimmer and aviator. 53. Juan Mariné: b. 1920 december 31, spanish cinematographer and Spanish Civil War veteran. 54. Elizabeth Kelly: b. 1921 march 29, british actress, known for her roles in television series and oper soaps. 56. Pe'l Schlechter: b. 1921 april 20, luxembourg architect and graphic designer. 57. Zeynep Korkmaz: b. 1921 july 5, turkish scholar and dialectologist. 58. Edgar Morin: b. 1921 july 8, french philosopher and sociologist. 59. Ella Blumenthal: b. 1921 july 25, polish holocaust survivor. 60. Joe Caroff: b. 1921 august 18, american graphic designer. 61. Eddy Goldfarb: b. 1921 september 5, american toy inventor. 62. George Joseph: b. 1921 september 11, american insurer. 63. Betty Reid Soskin: b. 1921 september 22, american ranger with the National Park Service, she retired at 100. 64. Julia Dingwort-Nusseck: b. 1921 october 6, german business journalist. 65. Ted Bassett: b. 1921 october 26, american racehorse breeder. 66. Margot Friedländer: b. 1921 november 5, german holocaust survivor. 67. Ken Stevens: b. 1922, american Pearl Harbor survivor. 68. Hugo Broch: b. 1922 january 6, german pilot. 69. Ray Anthony: b. 1922 january 20, american trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter and actor. 70. Rhoda Wurtele: b. 1922 january 21, canadian olympic alpine skier. 71. Induratana Paribatra: b. 1922 februry 2, thai royal. 72. William R. Lucas: b. 1922 march 1, american scientist. 73. John Luckadoo: b. 1922 march 16, american pilot. 74. Thomas Rew: b. 1922 march 18, american Air Force major general. 75. Ann Wylie: b. 1922 april 12, new zealand botanist. 76. Valérie André: b. 1922 april 21, french general officer, neurosurgeon and aviator. 77. Gerald Holton: b. 1922 may 23, american physicist. 78. Judy Hall: b. 1922 july 2, australian pianist. 79. Annette Warren: b. 1922 july 11, american singer and actress. 80. Rachel Robinson: b. 1922 july 19, american professor and nurse. 81. Sara Luzita: b. 1922 august 11, spanish dancer and actress. 82. Arch Jelley: b. 1922 august 13, new zealand athletics coach. 83. Annabel Maule: b. 1922 september 8, british actress, notable in theatre, radio, television and film. 84. Peter Sichel: b. 1922 september 12, german-american wine merchant. 85. William Leuchtenberg: b. 1922 september 28, american historian. 86. Yang Chen-Ning: b. 1922 october 1, chinese theoretical physicist. 87. Pauline Clayden: b. 1922 october 12, british ballerina. 88. Gaositwe Chiepe: b. 1922 october 20, botswana politician and diplomat. 89. Dieter Gruen: b. 1922 november 21, german-american scientist. 90. Jacqueline White: b. 1922 november 27, american actress. 91. Du Daozheng: b. 1923, chinese journalist. 92. Virginia Halas McCaskey: b. 1923 january 5, american owner of the Chicago Bears of the NFL. 93. Vija Vētra: b. 1923 february 6, latvian dancer and choreographer. 94. David H. Murdock: b. 1923 april 11, american businessman and philanthropist. 95. Sen Soshitsu XV: b. 1923 april 19, japanese Grand Master of Urasenke. 96. Francis Graham Smith: b. 1923 april 25, british astronomer. 97. Paul Shooner: b. 1923 may 2, canadian politician. 98. René Henry Gracida: b. 1923 june 9, american roman catholic bishop. 99. James H. Harvey: b. 1923 july 13, american USAF officer. 100. Rudolph A. Marcus: b. 1923 july 21, canadian chemist and Nobel Prize recipient. 101. Jack Van Nordheim: b. 1923 july 31, american naturalist, author and influencer. 102. Aileen Adams: b. 1923 september 5, british consultant anaesthetist. 103. Socorro Ramos: b. 1923 september 23, filipino entrepreneur. 104. Margaret Papandreou: b. 1923 september 30, greek-american first lady, widow of Andreas Papandreou. 105. Mary Morello: b. 1923 october 1, american activist. 106. Robert Kuok: b. 1923 october 6, malaysian businessman, investor and philanthropist. 107. V. S. Achuthanandan: b. 1923 october 20, indian politician. 108. Ida Vitale: b. 1923 november 2, uruguayan poet, translator, essayist, lecturer and literary critic. 109. Guillermo Rodríguez Lara: b. 1923 november 4, ecuadorian politician and military leader, President (1972-1976). 110. Józef Hen: b. 1923 november 8, polish novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and reporter. 111. Gloria Whelan: b. 1923 november 23, american poet, short story writer and novelist. 112. Vincent Ball: b. 1923 december 4, australian radio, stage and screen actor. 113. Johnny Pate: b. 1923 december 5, american jazz bassist. 114. Jacqueline Fleury: b. 1923 december 12, french resistance fighter. 115. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat: b. 1923 december 29, french mathematician and physicist. 116. Grégoire Maertens: b. 1924 january 1, belgian Esperanto speaker. 117. Anne Vernon: b. 1924 january 9, french actress. 118. Khamtai Siphandone: b. 1924 february 8, laotian politician, Prime Minister (1991-1998) and President (1998-2006). 119. Charles Coste: b. 1924 february 8, french cyclist. 120. Tomiichi Murayama: b. 1924 march 3, japanese politician, Prime Minister (1994-1996). 121. William H. Webster: b. 1924 march 6, american attorney and jurist. 122. Art Schallock: b. 1924 april 25, american baseball player. 123. Laurie Webb: b. 1924 may 6, welsh actor. 124. Gwen Moffat: b. 1924 july 3, british mountaineer and writer. 125. Eva Marie Saint: b. 1924 july 4, american actress. 126. Oscar Wyatt: b. 1924 july 11, american businessman and millionaire, he founded Coastal Corporation. 127. Marianne Bernadotte: b. 1924 july 14, swedish actress, fashion icon, philanthropist and Countess of Wisborg. 128. Duchess Marie Christine of Württemberg: b. 1924 september 2, liechtenstein royal. 129. Russell M. Nelson: b. 1924 september 9, american religious leader and surgeon.

De Telegraaf would've been nice, alas

Madonna needs to retire because she is past it but her ego won't let her. Her performance last year at Eurovision was awful.

Pictured at Ed Asner's 90th birthday do earlier this month: Looking a bit older, but still fantastic for 93. It wouldn't be a surprise if she were to outlive him. And she clearly wants to get her money's worth out of that top!