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Well, when you consider the bits in bold, I’d say Izzard’s the lucky one.

All business travel is not simply for a meeting and to 'press the flesh'. We are sending service engineers round the world to repair machinery that is critical in the food production process. All countries do not have that expertise locally. Covid tests before they fly, isolation for a week and a covid test at end of that week before they can return to work. Hauliers are moving from country to country and will have to stay overnight in various places - if there is something on a supermarket shelf it has had to be transported there somehow. Hmmm - I think we probably are - most of deaths are in over 70s group and they are well through vaccination of them. NHS wise we need to get vaccines to all over 50s to reduce demand on hospitals but the death numbers should start tailing off quite dramatically even if the case numbers stay high.

1895 Louis Pasteur, chemist 1896 Alfred Nobel, entrepreneur and inventor 1897 Johannes Brahms, composer 1898 Otto von Bismarck, politician (Sorry Empress Sisi) 1899 Johann Strauss, composer

I really liked this, great idea. Not decided if I agree with every choice but that doesn't matter ha

This is the moment the other Betty found out: Picture

I'm going to suggest that you're a more unpleasant troll than Iain.

15th January Michael Apted Kay Ullrich Katharine Whitehorn Reginald Foster 22nd January Phil Spector Grace Robertson Paul Nihill 29th January Larry King Catherine Ennis Margaret Weston Gerry Cottle

There was a period of 9 months without a death in 2018.

It was a generalisation GUN. Even I appreciate that clearly some travel is necessary. It's where that line is drawn. I'd hazard your engineers and their compadre's from similar industries are a tiny percentage of the people still flying all over the place. It's the same as the speeding or drinking jokes - Anyone slower than me is a roadhogging old fool, faster than me is a maniac - drinking less than me a party pooping bore and more than me an alcoholic etc. The govt(s) should have stopped all un-necessary flights, but they (mostly) haven't. I've probably mentioned it elsewhere but I was laughing heartily* at the woman getting off a flight from some Greek holiday island and immediately going on national television and lambasting her fellow passengers as covidiots for not wearing masks. Seriously, take a look at yourself. I hate Little Richardjohn, but you couldn't make it up. *this may be a euphemism.

Bobby Seale

I bet Eddie Izzard is furious. They've ran hundreds of marathons for charity and not a sniff of a knight/damehood from the Queen, or an offer to sing a song with Michael Ball, or to have a gin named after them. This fella does a few laps of his garden and he's received all of the above, and an interview on Life Stories with Piers Morgan. Poor Eddie.

Danny Ray, James Brown's well known emcee and "cape man", has died. He was 85. Ray died of natural causes. https://www.wrdw.com/2021/02/03/longtime-james-brown-emcee-danny-ray-has-died/

Facebook post reporting the death of novelist and short-story writer Harry Mark Petrakis (wiki) aged 97. EDIT: Chicago Sun Times obituary.

Great list which gives importance not only to the death of the person but to the event related (as seen with Charb in 2015 for exemple). Well done !

Haya Harareet, of Ben-Hur fame, is dead at 89.

It would be appropriate for the Rush Limbaugh show to be permanently hushed during Black History Month.

So, no one won this round but the 2nd round of 2021 is now opened. 10th of February : Philip 12th of February : Bentrovato 14th of February : j0neseur0 19th of February : Chilean Way 20th of February : Dying Probably 26th of February : redrumours 28th of February : Cant Wait 3rd of Marc : The Red Death 11th of March : frleon 12th of March : Bibliogryphon 30th of June : WEP 25th of December : The Quim Reaper Good Luck to everyone, hope I didn't miss anyone !

Thread here explaining the reasoning behind the Burma/Myanmar naming convention, which may or may not be of interest (just like everything else really).

So was I!!!!

1) Not outing her, as she’s not closeted. She’s open about it, just doesn’t talk to the press about her private life. That’s different. 2) I’m sure if you look on Google it’s already plastered over the net, being discussed on other forums, boards, social media, and whatnot. 3) You’re literally anonymously posting on a Forum where you speculate about celebrity health and discuss their deaths. Please don’t think you have a moral high ground.

The oldest has died first... Just made this list 4 weeks ago, why not posting here: 30.04.1920 - 02.02.2021 Captain Tom Moore No. 1 13.12.1920 - 06.02.2021 George P. Shultz No. 3 10.06.1921 - 09.04.2021 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh No. 6 17.01.1922 Betty White 27.05.1923 Henry Kissinger 22.07.1923 - 05.12.2021 Bob Dole No. 11 10.10.1923 - 13.03.2021 Murray Walker No. 5 12.12.1923 Bob Barker 20.04.1924 Leslie Phillips 01.10.1924 Jimmy Carter 20.07.1925 Jacques Delors 16.10.1925 Angela Lansbury 13.12.1925 Dick van Dyke 06.03.1926 Alan Greenspan 21.04.1926 Queen Elizabeth II 24.05.1926 Stanley Baxter 28.06.1926 Mel Brooks 03.08.1926 Tony Bennett 16.02.1927 June Brown 20.02.1927 Sidney Poitier 01.03.1927 Harry Belafonte 16.04.1927 Pope Benedict XVI 18.08.1927 Rosalynn Carter 05.01.1928 - 19.04.2021 Walter Mondale No. 7 12.05.1928 Burt Bacharach 20.06.1928 Jean-Marie Le Pen 29.12.1928 Bernard Cribbins 02.07.1929 Imelda Marcos 05.09.1929 Bob Newhart 25.09.1929 Barbara Walters 08.10.1929 Betty Boothroyd 27.02.1930 Joanne Woodward 03.06.1931 Raúl Castro 14.04.1932 Loretta Lynn 22.06.1932 Prunella Scales 18.02.1933 Yoko Ono 29.04.1933 Willie Nelson 23.12.1933 Emperor Akihito 30.01.1937 Vanessa Redgrave 02.03.1937 - 17.09.2021 Abdelaziz Bouteflika No. 8 19.04.1939 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 20.02.1940 - 19.09.2021 Jimmy Greaves No. 9 30.01.1941 Dick Cheney 14.08.1941 David Crosby 16.04.1942 - 28.11.2021 Frank Williams No. 10 12.01.1951- 17.02.2021 Rush Limbaugh No. 4 11.07.1953 - 05.02.2021 Leon Spinks No. 2 25.12.1957 Shane MacGowan 23.02.1959 Linda Nolan 12.04.1971 Shannen Doherty

Andrew Yang positive.

Every time this thread bumps up I hope, that this list finally gets its first hit! But then it's always: "Oh, the next German I never have heard of has died!" But at least this thread is kept alive, so all is well...

ACNH

the_engineer and Tempus Fugit really need to have an edgy-off