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Dead aged 94 - a DDP pick. Obituaries: The Guardian

"Funny" how those eternal glioblastoma sufferers Bayh and Lewis died within a week of each other. While Bayh became a more and more popular hit, Karen Lewis got forgotten, at least in the DDP.

Dead.

She will take the title after the death of her husband at age 125.

Man the DDP championship is going to be predictable until 2047

I am a time traveller from 29 november 2046 when queen elizabeth will take the title of the oldest living person at age 120.

German sociologist, philosopher and university professor Hans Albert, one of the strong critics of the continental hermeneutic tradition (Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer), has joined the Club today. https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/zeitfragen/hans-albert-feiert-100-geburtstag-3465/ He is a critical rationalist. His works (I read the "Analysis and critics of the religion") do uncover "undiscovered premises as well as new and often fatal consequences" in several worldviews or topics. I would give a lot to know what he thinks about Deathlist.

Potential daily double points with Lewis and Wright

It isn't

Wish granted as soon as I get home from work.

I challenge you. Man fires cannon at a baby shower. Cannon explodes, man hit by shrapnel, man dies.

Confirmed to be fake news. Don't base yourselves on random Facebook posts, please.

Former welterweight title challenger Jean Josselin dead at 81 after a short stint in hospital.

Different but somewhat related story. Some time before the first world war – someone else look it up, please – there was a reform of German coinage. At the time, one mark (Reichsmark then) was worth 1/20 £ (suppose both were tied to silver so the rate was fixed?), and accordingly size and diameter were matched to the British shilling. This specification of the mark piece survived all the way to 2001. Both world wars and re-unification. It survived the currency reform after hyper-inflation in 1923. The post-war reform in 1948. The design changed so many times and the alloy, too – but diameter and size were unchanged, and the same held true for shilling/5p in the UK till the 5p became smaller in 1990. The exchange rate, however, changed massively in favour of DM. Hence, my uncles, whenever travelling to the UK, would collect as many 5p as possible and carry a huge jar home – these coins would be accepted by most cigarette machines. For 1DM you'd get six or seven 5p pieces.

Now the last survivor from Nixon's Cabinet and the oldest living US Cabinet member.

Im talking about for the future of the pool if that wasn’t glaringly obvious

He actually died on the 110th anniversary of old Ronnie Reagan's birth.

Isn't it a bitch when posts come back to bite you on the arse?

Good call.

Dead. EDIT: Confirmation from Washington Examiner.

Harry Fielder was 'The King of the Extras'. It would probably be easier to list what he didn't appear in throughout the 60s and 70s and beyond. http://www.harryfielder.co.uk/ His coffin will be carried by non speaking extras, the music will be via the performing rights society and the vicar will only be allowed to say a few words but get paid more. RIP legend.

If memory serves, he is the one who finds Marty Hopkirk's body in Randall and Hopkirk [deceased]

Spinks has been KO'D, and as such a few cup competitors were able to score with him. Among them, BabyBlue get their joker points for Spinks, and as such take the lead against CalebH, who did also have Spinks. Meanwhile, ThereWillBeDeaths7 extends his lead even further. I'm beginning to think he's actually up against GuyFromSixMonthsAgo. Baby Blue vs CalebH 6 - 3 Djemba Djemba vs JoeMoneyPenny 3 - 0 BuffaloPhil vs nantonian2013 0 - 6 The Old Crem vs YorkshireBanker 0 - 0 Markb4 vs Charles De Gaulle 0 - 0 GreatUncleBulgaria vs Gooseberry Crumble 0 - 0 ThereWillBeDeaths7 vs GuyFromFuture 7 - 0

Welcome to the club! I have built up a small collection of these picks over the past few years: Latvian mathematician and chess player Elmārs Zemgalis (2014) - He received an obit written by his family. Actress Anna Teluren (2018) - She did not even get an obit on major German news wires - The only one which came up after I infomed them was from a small tv station. Former Sudanese Prime Minister Babiker Awadalla (2019) - He received Arabic obituaries from doubtful source. Some of my hits almost shared that fate, before an unexpected obit came up: Actress Hansi Knotek (2014) - Her death was publicly announced month after she died when an Austrian newspaper tried to interview her on occasion of her 100th birthday. Painter Katherine Fryer (2017) - She lasted a few months long on the "list of theLost" before a minor obir came up. The final risk, that an allowed pick does not receive a proper obit (in time) is for me also part of the game. Since some of my nominees are obscure choices, I got used to research several international sources - in some less known languages as well. Following the nomination period (Who will be rejected?) and besiedes the normal expectation (Who will die?) I have always a third challenge: "Who will score?" Crossing my fingers for you @msc that an obit will come up. It's February and you'll never know.

Did anybody die? Stop posting shit.