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We're getting there. I think this makes six teams on two hits each, and we can add the 92 year old Earl Holliman to the list of actors who can bring the pool to a close.

@Book gets a 2nd hit with Rhonda Fleming.

Rhonda Fleming is a hit for two players: The Mad Hatter and The Old Crem!

I know it's been posted elsewhere, but I felt Rhonda Fleming's death deserved a mention in this thread too. https://deadline.com/2020/10/rhonda-fleming-dies-film-tv-star-hollywood-golden-era-was-97-obituary-1234599156/

Name: John P Wren-lewis Registration Date: Apr 1949 [May 1949] [Jun 1949] Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun Registration District: Chatham Inferred County: Kent Spouse: Shirley D Wren Volume Number: 5b Page Number: 565 Found this. His first wife? Also, what are the odds of marrying a woman also with the surname of Wren?! This case just gets weirder and weirder. Comment – I've just thought about this. @RoverAndOut is right. He is not in the birth index as John Wren-Lewis. There are several profiles of John P Lewis which could fit. Is it possible he changed his name legally to include his first wife's family name before they were wed? It's strange but strictly speaking not impossible. Even if he remarried, there are reasons why he may have kept part of his first wife's name. She could've died before her time. Or perhaps because he was renowned in his field, he had already become known by that name so it wouldn't make much sense to change it by that point? Anyway. Is this our fellow?... Name John P-J Wren-Lewis Residence 1963 Brentford and Chiswick East England Name John P-J Woodroffe Wren-Lewis Residence 1961 Brentford and Chiswick East England Name John P-J Woodroffe Wren-Lewis Residence 1960 Brentford and Chiswick East England Name John P-J Wren-Lewis Residence 1964 Homefields England Name John P-J Wren-Lewis Residence 1965 Homefields England Name John P-J Wren-Lewis Residence 1962 Brentford and Chiswick East England Surely this is him? Woodroffe is interesting... seems he liked fiddling with his name. Can we link him to Brentford or Homefields? *goes to Google where the bloody hell Homefields is*

Ok, lots to work through here and after a preliminary look, my first thought is that I'm struggling to be sure that any of these three women are the same person! Obviously it's difficult given the time that's passed.to compare the woman on the tv clip with the woman in Australia and the woman on Facebook but they all look quite radically different. The Facebook woman *I think* is now back in the UK (lots of references to Bristol among the friends on the profile, etc.) but how that matters to the story I'm not sure. One loose end I can immediately get rid of though is Patricia Ann Faraday - she's not your woman. On the directors page on Company House, it lists her and 'Peter Faraday' as directors: Peter Faraday married Patricia A Smith in 1994, I've popped the Ancestry marriage record below. It seems too perfect for the Shoalhaven Ann Faraday to be the same one, given that's where they were living and I suppose maybe she did end up working as a school cleaner, but I agree it seems unlikely. John Wren-Lewis is himself an enigma. I'm not sure he was born with that name - there's no one called Wren-Lewis born according to the GRO records. There is a John W Lewis born in Wandsworth in March q. 1923 that looks promising, but it would mean he was 83 not 82 when he died (not beyond the realms of possibility). That said, the record of his death here says he's "John Peter Wren-Lewis", so we may be back to square 1. With them travelling so much, it's difficult to pin down Fiona too - no idea where she was born for a start or when. The reference to her that wiki uses is from an academic paper she wrote referencing a bus journey with John and Fiona in India in 1980. There's no mention of how old Fiona is and also the wording is interesting: 'Sometime in 1980, John Wren-Lewis, my daughter Fiona and I found ourselves on a crowded Indian bus' - note, "my daughter" not "our daughter" - is Fiona not John's? Not sure if that means she was born pre-1970 when they got together (but then how old does that make Ann?!) For what it's worth, the Fiona on the Facebook profile doesn't look (to me) at least nearly 40 - which she'd have to be to have been around in 1980, even as a baby. Anyway, that's my preliminary thoughts - maybe she just became a cleaner in an Australian school who wants her tv coverage restoring..?

Placebo is getting me through the night better than coffee.

Lord Sacks - Former chief rabbi of England has Cancer. This is his third time being diagnosed with cancer after having it in his 30's and in his 50's. He is now 72. What type of cancer has not been mentioned.

I tipped Variety.

Tom Maschler has been blown away by the wind: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/16/tom-maschler-obituary

Go Earl, go Earl!

Rhonda Fleming is a hit for me and another contestant here

She had notable roles in films Directed by Hitchcock and Fritz Lang and had top female billing opposite Bob Hope,Charlton Heston and Bing Crosby. Given all the big names of the 40s and 50s she worked with have long since died she might not get anything in the next few days,but it would be one of the biggest misses of the year if she doesn't get any obit writeups.

Well, to be honest, I have had it but can perfectly understand Seans point of view. Yes people are dying from it but countless millions more are recovering with no or few side effects. No, that in itself, is not great but the flu would kill just as many if it was as virulent. We are going around in fucking circles with how to manage this virus and getting nowhere. One lock down and now another and the fucking thing is still out there spreading. We either ALL lockdown for a month and test everybody who comes into the country or we accept that me may need to change tack and tackle it in a different way. Sweden has gone in a completely different direction with it. They did royally fuck up with not protecting the care homes and the vulnerable, however, BUT maybe that is a line we need to be thinking more about. Protest the vulnerable and the elderly and let the rest get on with it. I think we have to accept that, even with these local lockdowns, it will just put off the 3rd wave only temporarily. I can't help feeling that, if they had not locked down the country earlier this year, it would have killed many more but it would also have burned the virus out. We have to start thinking out of the box, what is happening now is not working, is it.

Horrible Histories started when I was 7 and is the primary reason I landed on this morbid corner of the internet.

I was generally commenting about US politics last night on Twitter and got retweeted by a pro Republican bot. It's username was just a bunch of random numbers, lol. It got reported.

Bear Bare

That is not denying it, she is merely espousing a theory on how to get through it.

Updated - and we see gcreptile, on the strength of his unusual names becoming his usual solo hits, taking the lead as we round the 1/6th pole. Upstart HDS having a strong start, and a few of the top regulars filtering in below him. As before, if you think points were missed, do please let me know. SC Scoreboard #2 - 13 Oct 2020 gcreptile (21) HDS (19) Banana (17) Joey Russ (14) Death Impends (13) Etushispushingupdaisies (12) Sir Creep (11) msc (11) CaptainChorizo (10) Book (10) The Old Crem (9) WEP (7) markb4 (5) The Old Lady (5) Toast (5) GuyFromFuture (3) Yorkshire Banker (2) Wormfarmer (2) Great Uncle Bulgaria Yvonne DeathByArsenic Joe Moneypenny Bibliogryphon

Last living adult iconic figure well known from the 1930s. You could make a case for HM the Queen who was obviously well known but a child in that decade. A little bit of history died with Olivia. You can't really say that about Leah Bracknell or most other deathlisters.

Gail Halvorsen, the Berlin Airlift's "Candy Bomber", has turned 100.

Are you sure you're not 12?