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I’ll help you out here. The details are he was some bloke’s dad and he died.

Frane Selak - 91 Not a celebrity in the usual sense, but death has tried to claim him many times and is known as the world's most unlucky luckiest man. 1962 - Survived a train crash where everyone on board (17) died except him. 1963 - Survived the next year where he was blown out of a plane door and landed in a haystack. Plane crashed and everyone else on board died. 1966 - Bus that he was riding in skidded off the road and into a river drowning four. Selak swam to shore with a few cuts and bruises. 1970 - Car caught fire as he was driving and he managed to escape before the fuel tank blew up. 1973 - Engine of his car was doused with hot oil from a malfunctioning fuel pump, causing flames to shoot through the air vents. Selak's hair was completely singed in this incident, but he was otherwise unharmed. 1995 - Struck by a bus but sustained only minor injuries. 1996 - Avoided head-on collision with a truck on a mountain curve by swerving in a guardrail. He was ejected from the car when the door flew open, (he wasn't wearing a seatbelt) managed to hold onto a tree, and watched his car plummet down 300 ft into a gorge. Death must have wanted to reward him after that because in 2003 he won the lottery and got €900000.

Ageing Hollywood glamour puss Angie Dickinson turned 89 yesterday. Many Happy returns!

A helpful list, thoughtfully compiled by end times authority Dr Dave Williams on what heathens, unbelievers and agnostics should do in the event of missing the rapture

Sports coach Doyle Royal dead at 101 https://www.mymcmedia.org/101-year-old-tennis-soccer-champion-and-war-hero-doyle-royal-dies/ I was also going to report the death of Welsh novelist Emyr Humphreys at 101 but I see someone has allready done that so I won't bother.

Tower of Power bassist Rocco Prestia has died at 69

Thought I'd resurrect this as there has been no focus on the silent era recently. Cary needs to be scrubbed off your list @drol. Also, Wiki users have agreed to remove Donnie "Beezer" Smith from the list. There doesn't seem to have been evidence of him being alive for years now. I think the last time something concrete appeared was 2004(?). So that leaves just 5: Don Marion Davis, 102 Silas Hathaway, 101 (though not confirmed alive since he was about 98?) Mildred Kornman, 95 and the two remaining Watson siblings: Billy, 97 and Garry, 92. Will 2021 be the year when the silent era loses the last of its screen cast?

The deaths of Helen Reddy and Mac Davis yesterday marks the fourth time two Muppet Show guest stars died on the same day: Andres Bossard/Nancy Walker - March 25 1992 Dizzy Gillespie/Rudolf Nureyev - January 6 1993 Milton Berle/Dudley Moore - March 27 2002 Mac Davis/Helen Reddy - September 29 2020

There's no need to lower the tone of debate.Keep it civilized!

We might have missed this but Jackie Dennis, Scotland's "first pop star" who reached #4 in the UK Charts in April 1958 with La Dee Dah, dead at 77: https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/retro/scotlands-first-pop-star-leith-born-jackie-dennis-dies-aged-77-2986316 He got a Times Obit: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jackie-dennis-obituary-f2qdq087p (Paywall)

Damn there are some idiotic comments on here... Anyway, happy 96th birthday Mr. President, the first one out of 43 other men in US history to reach this milestone. I hope Rosalynn is OK with this

Quino, creator of the "Mafalda" comics, that I distinctly remember from the late 80s/early 90s in my weekly TV magazine, dead at 88: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54362413

Top japanese chef Taku Sekine commits suicide after allegations of sexual abuse: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54349630

Great list @arghton! Seems we're at the stage where there's nobody in the Royal family, close or extended, older than the Queen and Philip. Not family but worth noting that Dame Frances Campbell-Preston, the Queen Mother's right hand lady and confident, is still alive. Here's a 102nd birthday interview from earlier this month.

Meanwhile, back at the Trump vs Bidon debate Having watched some edited highlights - has to be the worst debate between presidential candidates I've ever seen. I've heard comments from a couple of Americans near-enough apologizing to the rest of humanity that it's come to this in their country. The big winner last night - IMHO - was China

Dead So Far: Georg Ratzinger - 1 July Everton Weekes - 1 July Earl Cameron - 3 July Nick Cordero - 5 July Ennio Morricone - 6 July Mark Naley - 6 July - No Obit Johnny Beattie - 9 July Paik Sun-yup - 10 July  Judy Dyble - 12 July Zizi Jeanmaire - 17 July John Lewis - 17 July Lone Dybkjaer - 20 July - No Obit Stuart Wheeler - 23 July David Hagen - 24 July  John Saxon - 25 July Olivia de Havilland - 25 July Lee Teng-hui - 30 July Sydney Lotterby - 30 July Wilford Brimley - 1 August Bob Ryland - 2 August John Hume - 3 August Sumner Redstone - 11 August Hal Singer - 18 August Frankie Banali - 20 August "Bullet" Bob Armstrong - 27 August Pat Smullen - 15 September Stanley Crouch - 16 September Ruth Bader Ginsburg - 18 September Lee Kerslake - 19 September Michael Lonsdale - 21 September Jackie Stallone - 21 September Tommy DeVito - 21 September Juliette Greco - 23 September Bob Gibson - 2 October Mohammad-Reza Shajarian - 8 October Conchata Ferrell - 12 October Marge Champion - 21 October Bruce Reid - 27 October - No Obit Nobby Stiles - 30 October Death Impends: 1098 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Wheeler; Hagen; Teng-hui; Redstone; Banali; Armstrong; DeVito; Gibson) (Sub: de Havilland [2 Hearts]) (MD: J [8]; A [3]; S[10]) Cards Played: Joey Russ: 1066 Points (Ratzinger; Cordero; Dyble; Jn Lewis; Wheeler; Hagen; Teng-hui; Banali; Armstrong; Gibson) (MD: J [2]; A [A]; S[5]) Cards Played: Sean: 1019 Points (Cordero; Jn Lewis; Wheeler; Teng-hui; Brimley; Hume; Banali; Stiles) (Sub: Weekes [Q Spades]; Ginsburg [7 Diamonds]) (MD: J [4]; A [6]; S[5]) Cards Played: An Fear Beag: 981 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Teng-hui; Redstone; Banali; Smullen; Gibson; Stiles) (Sub: Cordero [5 Diamonds]) (MD: J [J]; A [6]; S[4]) Cards Played: gcreptile: 933 Points (Ratzinger; Hagen; Banali; Armstrong; Crouch; Kerslake; Shajarian) (Sub: Cordero [A Diamonds]) (MD: J[J]; A [J]; S[Q]) Cards Played: msc: 851 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Wheeler; Hagen; Banali; Armstrong; Singer; Gibson) (Sub: Cordero [Q Spades]) (MD: J [K]; A [K]; S[3]) Cards Played: Grim Up North: 839 Points (Cordero; Jn Lewis; Hagen; Banali; Armstrong; Smullen; Kerslake; Stiles) (Sub: de Havilland [9 Clubs]) (MD: J [2]; A [8]; S[5]) Cards Played: The Quim Reaper: 818 Points (de Havilland; Teng-hui; Hume; Redstone; Banali; Ginsburg; Stiles) (MD: J [4]; A [10]; S[4]) Cards Played: Perhaps: 768 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Teng-hui; Redstone; Banali; Smullen; Gibson) (Sub: Kerslake [K Hearts]; Stiles [J Clubs]) (MD: J [2]; A [5]; S[2]) Cards Played: Banana: 680 Points (Jn Lewis; Hagen; de Havilland; Teng-hui; Banali; Smullen) (Sub: Cordero [J Clubs]) (MD: J [10]; A [10]; S[A]) Cards Played: Captain Chorizo: 677 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Hagen; Teng-hui; Banali; Armstrong)(MD: J [6]; A [9]; S[Q]) Cards Played: YoungWillz: 646 Points (Morricone; Jn Lewis; Redstone; Ginsburg; Kerslake; Stiles) (MD: J [K]; A [9]; S[A]) Cards Played: Clorox Bleachman: 546 Points (Ratzinger; Cordero; Jn Lewis; Banali; Armstrong) (MD: J [A]; A [J]; S[J]) Cards Played: The Old Crem: 544 Points (Cordero; Lewis; de Havilland; Hume; Redstone) MD: J [Q]; A [A]; S[8]) Cards Played: Yorkshire Banker: 491 Points (Weekes; Beattie; Teng-hui; Banali) (Sub: Cameron [Q Diamonds]) (MD: J [9]; A [2]; S[K]) Cards Played: DeathByArsenic: 474 Points (Jeanmaire; Lonsdale; Greco; Ferrell) (MD: J [10]; A[J]; S[3]) Cards Played: theoldlady: 472 Points (Cameron; Jn Lewis; Banali; Stiles) (MD: J [5]; A[4]; S[8]) Cards Played: Bibliogryphon: 384 Points (Weekes; Jeanmaire; Stallone) (MD: J [A]; A [K]; S[2]) Cards Played: JoeMoneypenny: 379 Points (Weekes; Sun-yup; Ryland) (MD: J [4]; A [Q]; S[K]) Cards Played: Great Uncle Bulgaria: 372 Points (Ginsburg; Stallone; Stiles) (MD: J [8]; A[3]; S[J]) Cards Played: markb4: 264 Points (Jn Lewis; Ginsburg) (Sub: de Havilland [6 Diamonds]; Champion [9 Hearts]) (MD: J [8]; A [Q]; S[9]) Cards Played: Toast: 234 Points (Lotterby; Lonsdale) (Sub: Stiles [6 Spades]) (MD: J [K]; A [6]; S[9]) Cards Played: Miracle Aligner: 221 Points (de Havilland; Stiles) (MD: J [7]; A [2]; S[7]) Cards Played: CalebH: 34 Points (MD: J [Q]; A [10]; S[Q]) Gooseberry Crumble: 28 Points (Sub: Saxon [4 Clubs]) (MD: J [3]; A[9]; S[Q]) Guy From Future: 26 Points (MD: J [4]; A [9]; S[K])

No point in restarting this game, deaths are going to go right down again. Yesterday was just a slight blip. Have confidence we are in control of this virus now.

Considering her poor health was known I am shocked she is a miss.

A poor president, but an unstoppable sex machine.

I think that, on balance, Boris Johnson is a bit incompetent. Apologies, I misspoke there. Boris Johnson and his wretched cronies are all the absolute pinnacle of cuntery, and are and always have been dishonest, disorganised, clueless, dangerous, backwards and generally completely fucking useless and the sooner we dispose of this septic nappy full of turds that we call our government the fucking better.

I had the misfortune to play cricket in a public park in bloxwich a few years ago. Once we cleared the dogshit off the wicket some 'travelling folk ' decide to drive their horses at us during the game. Every year we play bloxwich we end up conceding the fixture because the rain dance didnt work.

Oh I've heard of far worse names than those! Some people name their children Chastity, Tarquin, Marigold, Jupiter etc

I approve of this thread tbh. At the rate of nobodies having babies, Gooseberry is sure to knock me off the top row of most posts by Christmas.