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Walter Raleigh routine was one of the funniest ones I've heard.

I've always found it rather odd how some people prefer to focus on his attendance at a pre-war funeral when he was 16 rather than his years fighting fascism in WWII. It's as if they would rather think he was actually a secret Nazi for some reason.

Trump's former VP Mike Pence has had pacemaker surgery for his sluggish heartbeat: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/us/politics/mike-pence-pacemaker-surgery.html

I still have one of his LPs and also a cassette recording of a radio show of his, timing is perfect, so good that he should really have been British.

Yes - going off the obituary of her father, John Asa Barber (1916-1997), it states his daughter to be "Bonni De Long" of Oregon. The US Public Records Index entry under that name matches the 10 Sep 1938 DOB. Her mother Myrna Belle Plouffe (going off the 1940 census and her birth index listing) seems to have later remarried and was known as Myrna Bowditch at her death the in early 2000s. I wonder if "Barker" is a transcription error. She was first married to a man with the last name "Salven" (per father's obituary in 1960), and then searching the California Marriage Index under that name brings up another marriage to a Julius Krauss in 1963. Public records show her DOB to match the IMBD month and day, but the year given is 1924. Last living in Palos Verdes Estates, CA. Also was curious and started to look at Rand Harper, but that one looks like a tough one. I wonder if it was a stage name.

Thank fuck for that.

I got curious and started to look into this one too. He seems to have married Ethel Morris (1922-1973) and had at least one daughter. Per a family tree which just includes Ethel, the daughter died in QLD, Australia... so perhaps he later went there?

As has been said, some of us of a certain age remember his comedy routines like 'The Driving Instructor & Bus Conductor. Personally, I always thought they were funny, his delivery was immaculate.

While I'm here, do any of you know who are the young man behind the Duke of Kent in this photo ? asking for a friend

Local news report of the death of Terry Gunn, 85. A Sussex wicketkeeper who's opportunities were limited by him being a contemporary of Jim Parks Jr.. Played 41 times in 7 seasons, generally when Parks was playing for England. He was a 'specialist wicketkeeper' i.e. excelled at wicketkeeping but couldn't bat., which probably didn't help his cause

Either that or Kentucky Fried will get his home address and open up next door!

DMX and Madoff a hit for me

Staying at my partner’s place. Probably not allowed but meh.

I remember seeing a couple of episodes of Newheart when it was shown in the UK but currently he will be recognized from Big Bang Theory

Sorted - it is our man. https://www.pressreader.com/uk/hull-daily-mail/20200420/page/41 Frederick Arthur Sharpe. There cannot be two FAS's born in the same month in the same place who died at the same age. To be fair, he played just one game for Wrexham in 1948 and that's it so - yes he played league football but only one game. @michaelf, see the research on this one and Gray and Taylor.

Hi, I'm tempted to agree with you on this one. The only thing that stops me slightly is that Gray played 242 times for Bradford City. I would've expected the A-Z of Bradford City, published in 1988, to have mentioned someone who played so much for them had died five years previously. As I've got to contact someone re. Jack Taylor, I'll ask them about David Gray. A new Who's Who 1946-1980 came out in 2019 but it's quite pricy. If it were a tenner, I'd buy it. Iv'e asked the question.

What a cunt.

Probably saved him dying on his feet. Second or third rate comedian. Looks funnier than he is.

Charmienne Harker is now Charmienne Krauss, appears to still be living in California (public records have her year of birth as 1924).

Quite a deadly day in UK history, today 1912: RMS Titanic sank c1500 lost 1941: Deadliest raid of the Belfast Blitz c900 casulaties 1989: Hillsborough disaster. 96 killed. Other notables 1982 Arthur Lowe 1984 Tommy Cooper 1988 Kenneth Williams 1993 Leslie Charteris 2009 Clement Freud

Thanks, friend.

A hat-trick of deaths this day last year, seemingly announced within minutes of each other... Peter Bonetti, aged 78 Tim Brooke-Taylor OBE, aged 79 Sir Stirling Moss, aged 90.

That'll be with all the sitting...

And one of the magnificent seven (?) involved in the 'try of the century'. The first of the gang to die.

Whatever else Henry Kissinger is, I doubt he is poor.