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I can confirm Biblio looked at every entry carefully. He turned down one of my Olympians on the spurious reason that they had never won an Olympic medal and I'd misread their bio!

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Noted Surf guitarist Takeshi Terauchi has died at a hospital in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, due to pneumonia. He was 82 years old. He was the first Japanese guitar hero and responsible for the popularization of electric guitar among Japanese youth in the 60's. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210619/k10013093571000.html

The term no staff winners came from Banana and I took it as above no group winners but I looked at each entry on merit there were some photographers who might have potentially fallen foul of the rule and some quite obscure names recipients who players have taken at their own risk.

Looks like you set off a chain reaction. Kaunda died June 17th, Singh died on June 18th. Dilip Kumar better watch out because today is June 19th, chances are the Grim Reaper has already arrived at his doorstep.

Someone make him stop.

Basically just meant that you’d have to be named as the winner. Multiple people can win in the same year and be eligible as long as they’re named.

Eddy Detroit, most notable for his collaboration with Avant-Folk greats Sun City Girls, has killed himself on June 15 by leaping from atop the 17-story Fellowship Towers, a subsidized apartment building in central Phoenix where he’d been living. He was 68. https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/eddy-detroit-has-died-phoenix-punk-percussionist-11563416?fbclid=IwAR3Ga4cxctEMLi6USAdHllV_3QvpFsKcDtkhTp0iELq781WdX5NYfLx2plk

Frank Borzage, one of Hollywood's greatest directors of well acted romantic love stories, died of cancer after a long illness in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on this date in 1962. He was 68 years old. Borzage had won two Oscar Awards as Best Director. In 1929, the first year of the Oscars, for "Seventh Heaven", starring Janet Gaynor and the second in 1932 for "Bad Girl". He was extremely well liked by his actors and crew who enjoyed the unusually peaceful and intimate atmosphere he created on his sets. In 1961 Borzage was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Director's Guild of America. Frank Borzage was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California in the Garden of Everlasting Peace.

This is going to be coming up a lot over the next year I suspect...

https://www.nbc.na/news/president-geingob-confers-honour-national-hero-former-ndf-chief-john-mutwa.46368 John Mutwa, Chief of Namibia's Defence Force 2013-2020 has died aged 60. President Hage Geingob declared three days of mourning.

Spooky stuff indeed.

You can piss off and fuck off, you and you cunts that play games of “football” by carrying the fucking thing.

Goddamn jumped up colonial, what do you know? Go back to your rounders, netball and rugby for girls with body armour.

American film director Vincent Sherman died on this day 15 years ago, aged 99.

Albert Tubilandu, Zaire's 1974 World Cup goalkeeper is dead. https://www.radiookapi.net/2021/06/17/actualite/sport/foot-rdc-deces-de-lancien-gardien-de-des-leopards-albert-tubilandu

I assumed, and wasn't corrected, that it was restricted to named recipients. So... 1960: Vance Trimble, Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, "for a series of articles exposing the extent of nepotism in the Congress of the United States." was OK as its specifically a Pulitzer for Trimble. But... 1983: Boston Globe, "for its balanced and informative special report on the nuclear arms race." Some guy who worked for the Boston Globe in 1983 and had cancer wasn't allowed. No named recipients here, just the paper itself But I could be wrong?

Yeah, because metric rules our lives. I’m absolutely sick of having to order 568ml of beer at the pub. Give these fuckers 2.54cm and they take 1.6km.

Let’s go folks List of misses: Star Trek Actors: Lisa Banes, Deep Space Nine (14 Jun 2021) Fran Bennett, The Next Generation (12 Sep 2021) Gavan O'Herlihy, Voyager (15 Sep 2021) Willie Garvey, Voyager (21 Sep 2021) William Lucking, Deep Space Nine/Enterprise (18 Oct 2021) Camille Saviola, Deep Space Nine (28 Oct 2021) Kathryn Hays, Original Series (25 Mar 2022) World Series Champions: Art Ditmar, New York Yankees '58 (11 Jun 2021) Dick Tidrow, New York Yankees '77 '78 (10 Jul 2021) Ray Fosse, Oakland Athletics '72 '73 (13 Oct 2021) Don Demeter, Los Angeles Dodgers '59 (29 Nov 2021) Julio Lugo, Boston Red Sox '07 (15 Nov 2021) Tommy Matchick, Detroit Tigers '68 (4 Jan 2022) Tommy Davis, Los Angeles Dodgers '63 (3 April 2022) Pulitzer Prize Winners: Stephen Dunn, Poetry '01 (24 Jun 2021) James Polk, National Reporting '74 (15 Jul 2021) Danish Siddiqui, Feature Photography '18 (16 Jul 2021) Jim Sheeler, Feature Writing '06 (Sep 2021) Martin J. Sherwin, Biography/Autobiography '06 (6 Oct 2021) Walter Mears, National Reporting '77 (3 Mar 2022) Summer Olympic Gold Medalists: Valentina Sidorova, Fencing '76 (9 Jun 2021) Anatoly Chukanov, Cycling '76 (12 Jun 2021) Markis Kido, Badminton '08 (14 Jun 2021) Donald Arnold, Rowing '56 (27 Jun 2021) Janet Moreau, Track & Field '52 (1 Jul 2021) Ted Nash, Rowing '60 (3 Jul 2021) Peter Neusel, Rowing '64 (22 Jul 2021) Pete George, Weightlifting '52 (28 Jul 2021) Cesare Salvadori, Fencing '72 (8 Aug 2021) Volodymyr Holubnychy, Race Walking '60 '68 (16 Aug 2021) Ivan Patzaichin, Canoeing '68 '72 '80 '84 (5 Sep 2021) Jahangir Butt, Field Hockey '68 (7 Sep 2021) Dietmar Lorenz, Judo '80 (8 Sep 2021) Kathleen Partridge, Field Hockey '88 (13 Sep 2021) Yuriy Sedykh, Hammer Throw '76 '80 (14 Sep 2021) Jan Jindra, Rowing '52 (20 Sep 2021) Orlando Martinez, Boxing '72 (21 Sep 2021) Earle Wells, Sailing '64 (1 Oct 2021) Jerry Shipp, Basketball '64 (7 Oct 2021) Gulraiz Akhtar, Field Hockey '68 (1 Nov 2021) Carl von Essen, Fencing '76 (11 Nov 2021) Lostar Claesges, Cycling '64 (12 Nov 2021) Virginio Pizzali, Cycling '56 (14 Nov 2021) Aleksandr Timonishin, Rowing '68 '72 (26 Nov 2021) Manuel Santana, Tennis '68 (11 Dec 2021) Yury Sharov, Fencing '64 (12 Dec 2021) Carie Graves, Rowing '84 (19 Dec 2021) Rolf-Dieter Amend, Canoeing '72 (4 Jan 2022) Mino De Rossi, Cycling '52 (7 Jan 2022) Viktor Mazin, Weightlifting '80 (8 Jan 2022) Anatoly Alyabyev, Biathlon '80 (11 Jan 2022) Hans-Jurgen Dorner, Football '76 (19 Jan 2022) Rex Cawley, Track & Field '64 (21 Jan 2022) Keto Losaberidze, Archery '80 (23 Jan 2022) Szilveszter Csollany, Gymnastics '00 (24 Jan 2022) Voldemaras Novickis, Handball '88 (31 Jan 2022) Boris Melnikov, Fencing '64 (5 Feb 2022) Bill Lienhard, Basketball '52 (8 Feb 2022) Duvall Hecht, Rowing '56 (10 Feb 2022) Jozef Zapedzki, Sport Shooting '68 '72 (15 Feb 2022) Oleksandr Sydorenko, Swimming '80 (20 Feb 2022) Abdul Waheed, Field Hockey '60 (21 Feb 2022) Ivanka Khristova, Shot Put '76 (24 Feb 2022) Kathleen Nord, Swimming '88 (24 Feb 2022) Kevin Neufeld, Rowing '61 (26 Feb 2022) Dean Woods, Cycling '84 (3 Mar 2022) Paula Marosi, Fencing '64 (4 Mar 2022) Charles Greene, Track & Field '68 (14 Mar 2022) Alexandra Zabelina, Fencing '60 '68 '72 (27 Mar 2022) UK Cabinet Ministers: James Brokenshire, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, '16–'18 (7 Oct 2021)

Hard-bop pioneer, componist and pianist Freddie Redd, who continued performing well into his 90s, died at 92 years; https://www.wbgo.org/music/2021-03-17/freddie-redd-pianist-and-composer-known-for-the-connection-has-died-at-92 He was both actor and musician in the 1961 film The Connection by experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke.

Senegalese singer Thione Seck, who formed the band Raam Daan, died at 66 years: https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/musique/mort-du-chanteur-thione-seck-lune-des-stars-de-la-musique-senegalaise-14-03-2021-ABJADA4HERDAPGI6E5VJYLNBIU.php His album Orientation was nominated for BBC3 Radio's World Music Album of the Year in 2006.

Milkha Singh: India's 'Flying Sikh' dies from Covid

I have 20 celebrity names for 2022, of course thats if they survive the remaining of 2021.... 1. Betty White 100 2. Marla Gibbs 91 3. Barbara Eden 91 4. Julie Andrews 87 5. Eva Marie Saint 98 6. Norman Lear 100 7. Sidney Poitier 95 8. Jimmy Carter 98 9. Rosalynn Carter 95 10. Queen Elizabeth II 96 11. Dick Van Dyke 97 12. Bob Barker 99 13. Angela Lansbury 96 14. Mel Brooks 96 15. Tony Bennett 96 16. Harry Belafonte 95 17. Ed Asner 93 18. Bob Dole 99 19. Henry Kissinger 99 20. Renee Taylor 89

Michelle Fazarri, once ranked nr 2 in women's wrestling, has stage 3 cancer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Fazzari https://globalnews.ca/news/7902892/hamilton-olympic-wrestler-cancer/

I'm surprised that Christopher Walken doesn't have his own thread.