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Former US representative of Oregon, Elizabeth Furse dead of a fall at 84: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/04/former-oregon-congresswoman-elizabeth-furse-has-died.html She was born in the British colony of Kenya, grew up in South Africa, and married a US citizen. Then she became the first naturalized American to win a seat in Congress. Interesting.

Idriss Deby now being reported dead within hours of re-election:

Died without a single interesting, amusing or informative post in his thread, including this one. Dickie O, or rockabilly, he was not - just a boring old man whose sole purpose in life was to provide the 8th hit of AD 2021.

Bloody hell you're impatient

Surely the national treasure that is Sir David Attenborough...

Walter Mondale is hit No. 7 for the DL and also a hit for Bibliogyphon, Dying Probably, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Joey Russ, The Daredevil and TomTomTelekom.

The NYT's endorsement of him in 1984 said that he had "the flair of a trigonometry teacher" or something to that effect, which is quite a thing to say about the guy you're saying should be your country's next leader. It was, of course, more of an anti-endorsement of Reagan than an endorsement for Mondale. I've always thought of him as more or less a fundamentally decent guy, but certainly not suited for running for higher office. He was the kind of person who was better suited for a long career as a legislator than in the executive. Of course, nobody was beating Reagan that year anyway.

Breaking News: Walter Mondale is DEAD at 93 years old! That is now 7 out of 50 gone in the year of 2021! The Death List needs to updated!

Allow me to participate in starting the tsunami of votes for Bob Dole

I guess Walter Mondale gets the distinction of being hit #100 this year. It is a consolation prize for losing 49 states when he ran for President

Walter Mondale has died at age 93. https://www.axios.com/walter-mondale-dies-vice-president-f8b5bfaf-bec1-44c5-8120-811c6f1a664b.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=politics-breaking

Germaine Ahidjo, the first former First Lady of Cameroon, living under sentence of death in absentia from the country, has reportedly died aged 89 in her home of exile, Senegal: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.cameroon-info.net/article/cameroun-urgent-deces-de-germaine-habiba-ahidjo-lex-premiere-dame-du-cameroun-398040.html Her husband died in 1989. Yeah, you heard right.

If André Maranne is indeed dead, Banana wins.

https://petscan.wmflabs.org/ Bit fiddly, and also there isn't one whole category for Righteous Among the Nations. But searching: Catholic_Righteous_Among_the_Nations Living_people gives us one hit, for instance. Józef Walaszczyk

According to Wikipedia, dead! Currently trying to get some confirmation on whether this is correct.

My second option...

Seriously no-one had Walter Mondale here......

It'd be a shame to wake 'em at this hour.

As Homer said " No wonder he won Minnesota!"

Surprising for me that he's gone before both Carter and Dole (his rival VP candidate in 1976).

The latest big managerial dismissal seems a good time for an update, although it's been a relatively quiet month. Changes in green as usual. Hits mentioned here (13): Eddie Howe (Bournemouth - mutual consent), Russ Wilcox (Southend - new manager confirmed), Hayden Mullins (Watford - new manager confirmed), Mark Molesley (Weymouth - moved to new club), Sabri Lamouchi (Nottingham Forest - sacked), Garry Monk (Sheffield Wednesday - sacked), Philip Cocu (Derby - sacked), Slaven Bilic (West Ham - sacked), Frank Lampard (Chelsea - sacked), Bradley Quinton (Welling - sacked), Darrell Clarke (Walsall - moved to new club), Chris Wilder (Sheffield United - sacked), Alex Neil (Preston - sacked) Also hits (10): Gerhard Struber (Barnsley - moved to new club), Mark Bowen (Reading - resigned), Mark Kennedy (Macclesfield - resigned), Richie Wellens (Swindon - moved to new club), Stuart McCall (Bradford - sacked), Joey Barton (Fleetwood - sacked), John Askey (Port Vale - sacked), Neil Harris (Cardiff - sacked), Paul Lambert (Ipswich - sacked), Lee Bowyer (Charlton - resigned) Misses (20): Paul Cook (Wigan - resigned), Graham Coughlan (Mansfield - sacked), Michael Jackson (Tranmere - new manager confirmed), John Sheridan (Wigan - moved to new club [technically ineligible for this game though]), Ben Garner (Bristol Rovers - sacked), Sam Ricketts (Shrewsbury - sacked), Phil Parkinson (Sunderland - sacked), David Dunn (Barrow - sacked), Vladimir Ivic (Watford - sacked [ineligible]), Ian Holloway (Grimsby - resigned), Tony Pulis (Sheffield Wednesday - sacked [ineligible]), Jake Buxton (Burton Albion - sacked), Glyn Hodges (AFC Wimbledon - sacked), Jason Tindall (Bournemouth - sacked [ineligible]), Keith Curle (Northampton - sacked), Paul Tisdale (Bristol Rovers - sacked [ineligible]), Dean Holden (Bristol City - sacked), Michael Jolley (Barrow - sacked [ineligible]), Steve Ball (Colchester - sacked), Ross Embleton (Leyton Orient - sacked), Darren Moore (Doncaster - moved to new club), Harry Kewell (Oldham - sacked), Kenny Jackett (Portsmouth - sacked), Aitor Karanka (Birmingham - sacked), Richie Wellens (Salford - mutual consent [ineligible]), Mark Molesley (Southend - sacked [ineligible]), Mark Cooper (Forest Green - sacked), John Sheridan (Swindon - sacked [ineligible]), Jose Mourinho (Tottenham - sacked) Current leaderboard: @RoverAndOut - 12 (Howe, Monk, Mullins, Cocu, Lamouchi, Wilcox, Kennedy, McCall, Bilic, Barton, Lambert, Bowyer) @Great Uncle Bulgaria - 9 (Howe, Mullins, Cocu, Molesley, Askey, Quinton, Clarke, Lambert, Bowyer) @BuffaloPhil - 9 (Cocu, Struber, Lamouchi, Bowen, Wellens, Bilic, Barton, Bowyer, Neil) @msc - 6 (Howe, Struber, Lamouchi, Lampard, Lambert, Bowyer) @Miracle Aligner - 5 (Howe, Monk, Harris, Lampard, Wilder) Incredibly, just one scoring sacking this month, for BuffaloPhil and Alex Neil. Perhaps more damningly, 3 of the 6 sackings this month were ineligible as they've already sacked the manager in play at the start of the game this season, while 3 of those sacked were already picks for previous jobs they've left this season. Talk about a merry-go-round!

I momentarily misread that as "Lesbian" and was like "whaaaaat?"

Errrrrm...

Also the longest lived Presidential candidate from the two main parties is 1936 Republican candidate Alf Landon (who suffered a landslide defeat similar to Mondale) who lived to be 100. Some way yet for Mondale to go.