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http://www.suomensotilas.fi/viimeiset-poistuvat-ss-rottenfuhrer-sakari-haikala-kuollut/ SS-Rottenfuhrer Sakari Haikala died on 23rd of May. Haikala, born 1923, joined SS (Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS) in 1941 at the age of 17 from "patriotism". It's unknown if he participated in any war crimes. A book about his life called "Koska kotimaa meidät lähetti" was published in 2016. He publicly defended himself and was often called "Hitler's bloodhound" for defending the actions of the SS and has said that he hasn't felt any regret for volunteering to join it. He has beaten up people for calling him a nazi and was also known for hating neonazis. The Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS had around 1400 members, four of which are still alive according to the article. Two of them are over 100 years old, other one of these being Veikko Kasslin.

Laughing about the unfortunate things in life is something I very much enjoy doing. Sometimes things on this site are absolutely in bad taste - it's what keeps me coming back When my elderly relative was suffering from alzheimers, her primary caregiver, her daughter, was the one to always poke the most fun at her condition. We all cope with life in different ways Have a laugh, I hope people laugh at me rather than get dull and offended. My Dad has a great sense of humour, he'll probably laugh right with you before forgetting what you were talking about

Damn. He was a friend to my uncle (who played trombone) and my mother. I met him a couple times. RIP SC

Fuck off you strange hoe. Is this because I reacted with a confused emote to one of your many cringy ass posts? You’ve provided nothing to this forum but unusual posts and arse licking. Oddball.

Just for the record, Colin Baker isn't known to be terminally ill. He did campaign for the then terminally ill Brian Rix in 2016, however. And yes, his weight is still an issue as it has been for most of his career so I wouldn't be surprised if he's gone in the next 5 years. Hopefully not, though. He's a complete grump but he's *our* grump. I was told years about Tom being very frail when not in performance mode due to the boozing in his past, but the person who told me that (a name actor) has since died themselves!

You can always join game V Which could be in nine months or two years

A few 1950s/1960s lesbian pulp fiction novel authors are still alive. The most known ones are probably: Marijane Meaker (b. 1927) Launched the genre Sally Singer (b. 1930) Wrote Three Women in 1958. Interviewed in 2004, probably still alive but has lead a private life. Ann Bannon (b. 1932) Known from the Beebo Brinker Chronicles, called the Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction. Annselm L. N. V. Morpurgo/Artemis Smith (b. 1934) Unisex movement founder. Other gay novel authors from before the Stonewall riots: John Rechy (b. 1931) City of the Night, 1963

Well, congratulations to you and your father. Don't lose your sense of humour, @John Key. It's hard sometimes.

Oh it's not deathers unless he's managed a complete change of style that none of his other alts has been able to maintain. Also MN is female, or at least says so. The apparent obsequious sycophancy is a little cloying I guess - not a deathers forte either. Each to their own, I'm ever so 'umble myself sir....

It's not that I don't believe in any form of aliens, I'm sure there's aliens even microbial but not that they're visiting us in space ships and travelling 100s of light years. Now if they're using wormholes then they fall into ultraterrestrial category. US government has known since the late 80s that gravitational waves existed. Bob Lazar and Ning li both saying gravity is a wave and Ning li using that as a given in her work . She disappeared off the map in the early 2000s with most saying she defected to china. With unlimited money, 1000s of other scientists and nearly 20 years to work on it yes I do believe china could build anti gravity drones. Another interesting theory is they're maintenance drones for the simulation we live in

The legendary singer Tony Bennett has Alzheimer's disease. 50% of people of 85 years of age suffer from Alzheimer's disease. To say that a sick man of Alzheimer is a living dead... is so much fun! Do you have any idea how much a woman suffers when she sees her husband in these conditions? And their children? It's so really funny. If your father is sick... I can laugh about that now, right? Maybe you don't like looking yourself in a mirror, @Perhaps. But... you need it.

So you're telling me we only discovered gravitational waves a few years ago, but the Chinese had advanced enough anti-gravity high-speed drones with no exhaust in the mid 2000s? I've always though it was ridiculous to just say aliens don't exist. I think our perception of what aliens might be is however flawed. Think of how many species of life we know of on our own planet. How many of those species are intelligent? Us. That's it.

Phyllis Ridgway's vaccine unnecessarily premature. She's dead: https://globalnews.ca/news/7922913/phyllis-ridgway-dead-canada-toronto/

Scottish crime novelist Val McDermid is 66 today, which is about 400 years old in Fife Years. The Tony Hill novels were adapted into popular ITV detective series Wire in the Blood. Her recurring serial killer from the late 90s, Jacko Vance (played by John Michie on TV) was based on Jimmy Savile. He never sued despite it being quite spot on about his MO as he never realised it was meant to be him!

Reagan's Secretary of Labor [sic] Raymond J Donovan death notice: https://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/obituary.aspx?n=raymond-j-donovan&pid=198897373&fhid=17074 DDP pick, but I don't see his death reported here yet or indeed in a QO place.

I am really older than both.

Thread for Microsoft founder and general IT guru Bill Gates, also notable for being the son of former DeathList star William H. Gates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates He famously started Microsoft in a garage, has been known for working for 90 hours without sleep, and has become one of the world's biggest philantropists. However, now it turns out that his marriage was a mess, he's been having affairs for many years, and he's been frequently meeting with disgraced "investor" Jeffrey Epstein. Until quite recently, I would have said that it's 20 years too early to start a thread for him, but what if his post-career "clean nice-guy" image was just a facade? Could he be a heart attack waiting to happen?

As per the American list, I also did a list of the early cosmonauts who were still alive. While the Russian programs were smaller, it's more complicated as the Soviets started out with 20 candidates, of which 12 went into space on various programs, along with 3 who weren't in original 20. From tests, 20 candidates were put forward to go to 'Star City' and train and, of these, 6 were selected for accelerated training and were known as the 'Vanguard Six', the Soviet equivalent of America's 'Mercury Seven'. During training, 2 of the 6 were replaced. The eight selected were: Yuri Gargarin - First man in space on Vostok 1, b. 1934, d. 1968 Gherman Titov - First manned mission lasting a full day on Vostok 2, b. 1935, d. 2000 Andriyan Nikolayev - Part of first simultaneous manned flights on Vostok 3, Soyuz 9, b. 1929, d. 2004 Pavel Popovich - Part of first simultaneous manned flights on Vostok 4, b. 1930, d. 2009 Anatoly Kartashov - Suffered minor haemorrhaging in a centrifuge test and was replaced, never flew in space, b. 1932, d. 2005 Valentin Varlamov - Injured a cervical vertebra in a swimming accident during training and was replaced, never flew in space, b. 1934, d. 1980 Valery Bykovsky - Replaced Kartashov; longest solo orbital flight on Vostok 5, also flew on Soyuz 22 and 31, b. 1934, d. 2019 Grigori Nelyubov - Replaced Varlamov; dismissed from program in 1963 for drunk and disorderly conduct and committed suicide three years later, b. 1934, d. 1966 Of the remaining 12, 7 more went into space on various programs, as listed below: Vladimir Komarov - Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1, first cosmonaut to go into space more than once, first man to die on a space mission when Soyuz 1 crash landed, b. 1927, d. 1967 Pavel Belyayev - Voskhod 2, b. 1925, d. 1970 Alexey Leonov - Voskhod 2, first spacewalk, Soviet commander of Apollo-Soyuz mission 1975, b. 1934, d. 2019 Yevgeny Khrunov - Soyuz 5/4, b. 1933, d. 2000 Boris Volynov - Soyuz 5, 21, b. 1934 (aged 86) Georgy Shonin - Soyuz 6, b. 1935, d. 1997 Viktor Gorbatko - Soyuz 7, 24 and 37, b. 1934, d. 2017 The remaining 5 selected for initial cosmonaut training were: Ivan Anikeyev - Dismissed from program in 1963 for drunk and disorderly conduct, never flew in space, b. 1933, d. 1992 Valentin Bondarenko - Died due to injuries sustained in a fire during a low pressure isolation experiment, never flew in space, b. 1937, d. 1961 Valentin Filatyev - Dismissed from program in 1963 for drunk and disorderly conduct, never flew in space, b. 1930, d. 1990 Mars Rafikov - Dismissed from program in 1962 for "a variety of offenses, including womanizing and 'gallivanting' in Moscow restaurants, and so forth", never flew in space, b. 1933, d. 2000 Dmitri Zaikin - Backup commander for Voskhod 2, left the space service in 1969 due to stomach ulcers while training for the Soyuz program, never flew in space, b. 1932, d. 2013 In addition to this, 3 cosmonauts went into space who were not part of the original 20. These were: Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 6, first woman in space, b. 1937 (aged 84) Konstantin Feoktistov - Voskhod 1, first civilian in space, b. 1926, d. 2009 Boris Yegorov - Voskhod 1, first physician in space, b. 1937, d. 1994 Knowing where to stop the cosmonaut list is tricky, since the next program, Soyuz, started in 1967 and has continued ever since. I to list the first stage of Soyuz, up to the Soyuz 11 disaster in 1971, after which there was a 2 year gap. This roughly correlates with Apollo 17, the last pre-Space Shuttle astronaut mission. (Vladimir Komarov, Soyuz 1 mentioned elsewhere) Georgy Beregovoy - Soyuz 2, b. 1921, d. 1995 Vladimir Shatalov - Soyuz 4, 8 and 10, b. 1927 (aged 93) Aleksei Yeliseyev - Soyuz 5/4. 8 and 10, b. 1934 (aged 86) (Boris Volynov, Soyuz 5/4, 21 mentioned elsewhere) Valeri Kubasov - Soyuz 6 and 19 (Apollo-Soyuz mission), b. 1935, d. 2014 (Georgy Shonin, Soyuz 6 mentioned elsewhere) Anatoly Filipchenko - Soyuz 7 and 16, b. 1928 (aged 93) Vladislav Volkov - Soyuz 7 and 11, b. 1935, d. 1971 (Viktor Gorbatko, Soyuz 7, 24 and 37 mentioned elsewhere) Vitaly Sevastyanov - Soyuz 9 and 18, b. 1935, d. 2010 (Andriyan Nikolayev, Soyuz 9 mentioned elsewhere) Nikolay Rukavishnikov - Soyuz 10, 16 and 33, b. 1932, d. 2002 Georgy Dobrovolsky - Soyuz 11, b. 1928, d. 1971 Viktor Patsayev - Soyuz 11, b. 1933, d. 1971 Soyuz 11 was the first craft to successfully dock with the Salyut space station. While re-entry was successful, all three cosmonauts were found dead in the capsule after a malfunction caused the capsule to depressurise. The last year or two has seen the last member of the Vanguard Six pass away, and most of the other early survivors: only one of the original intake of 20 cosmonauts in 1959 is still going (Boris Volynov), plus Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, who was part of the programme but not from the original intake. Only 4 cosmonauts from the first 11 Soyuz missions are still alive, which includes Volynov, and this takes the program up to 1972. In early 2016, when I first did these lists, there were 21 Americans and 8 Soviets alive from missions up to 1972, this has now reduced in the past 5 years to just 13 Americans and only 5 Soviets. Still, who says communism isn't good for your health, eh?

Blues electric guitarist Denny Freeman, who released the album Diggin on Dylan in 2012 and has worked with artists like Lou Ann Barton, died at 76 years: https://www.guitarworld.com/news/austin-guitar-great-denny-freeman-who-played-with-jimmie-and-stevie-ray-vaughan-dies-aged-76

This thread can be summarized as a non-stop facepalm.

Looking a bit more like a The Walking Dead extra in this Daily Mail article. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9653163/Tony-Bennett-94-enjoys-stroll-hometown-NYC-wife-Susan-Crow-54.html

OJ Simpson's lawyer F Lee Bailey dies aged 87

Death Notice for Morris Prigoff, better known as Moe or The Doc, who appeared on Storage Wars Texas: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/dallas-tx/morris-prigoff-10089659