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Italien basketball player Anna Maria Giotto has died at 105, couldn’t find a proper obit tho

Mike Bailey dead.

Waldir Lucas Pereira, a Brazilian footballer whose career as a striker took him around the globe, but most notably for a decent spell in the top two divisions in France with Ajaccio. has succumbed to COVID-19 aged 39.

Actress and author Judy Balaban (wiki) appeared for a microsecond during Piers Morgan's Life Stories with Joan Collins tonight and wasn't looking too great. Presumably on oxygen? Will most likely obit due to her friendship with Grace Kelly and the apparent fame of her family members. EDIT: apologies for the shite pic, I've discovered ITV Hub is anti-screenshot. She appears at 11:58 if anyone gives a fuck.

https://janashakthimedia.com/freedom-fighter-suram-ramayya-passes-away/ Indian freedom fighter S. R. Ramaiah dead at 102 (or 103?) He was born in 1918 or 1919 and I'm not sure if he's been mentioned here even once, so he wasn't probably in the top ten of the most known living centenarians of India.

He is not a weirdo. Not more than the average DL user. He just likes every post which reports a new death and most of us comes here for that, so I can't really see anything wrong with it.

Bercow, newly defected from Tory to Labour, has his say on the matter, eloquently as ever.

Leon Uris, American author of historical fiction, nonfiction and screenplays whose works include numerous bestselling novels, died of kidney failure at his Long Island home on Shelter Island on this date in 2003. He was 78 years old. His first novel, "Battle Cry", was based on his own experiences in the Marines. Uris is the best-selling writer of "A God in Ruins", "Exodus", "QB VII", "Mila 18", "Redemption", "The Angry Hills", "Topaz" and "Trinity", among others. His best-known novel may be "Exodus", translated into over fifty languages, which was made into a feature film in 1960. Leon Uris was buried in Quantico National Cemetery in Quantico, Virginia.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/mark-peel-dead-campanile-top-chef-1235001120/ Celebrity chef Mark Peel, top chef masters contestant who co-founded California restaurant Campanile dead at 67 nine days after revealing that he was fighting an agressive form of cancer. He founded the restaurant with Nancy Silverton (b. 1954), another celebrity chef who was Peel's wife back then. Peel and Silverton were also Madoff victims. Giorgos Hatziparaskos, Phyllo Master of Greece is in his late 80s

Obit.

https://www.znbc.co.zm/news/chief-justice-irene-mambilima-is-dead/ Irene Mambilima, current Chief Justice of Zambia since 2015 has died aged 69. Fell ill in Cairo on the 10th of June and died there in a private hospital yesterday.

Apologies GUN. Clerical error - I entered the death date on my spreadsheet as 07/05 rather than 07/06. No-one else was affected The leaderboard has been updated.

Luis del Sol, a member of the Spain squads at the 1962 and 1966 World Cups dead at 86.

Claydes Charles Smith died on this day 15 years ago, aged 57.

Paul Weller Live at the Barbican https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000x9rb Chilled and mellowed sat here with a bourbon, wondering what it would have been like to have kids having just read about a great, great, great grand-mother on the BBC.

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

Yes, I always take Chilean likes as "thank you for the information", tbh.

Richard O’Sullivan, Robin of ‘Man About The House', has lived in a care home since 2003 after a stroke, news reports of him being frail. Could die anyday in my opinion

Japanese scientist Isamu Akasaki, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for his creation of energy-saving sources of white light, died at 92 years: https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2021040200887/ First hit for me

Nice idea, thanks for running this DP I will take Paul Berg for chemistry, Henry Kissinger for Peace, Wole Soyinka for Literature, Luc Montagnier for Medicine, Isamu Akasaki for Physics and Amartya Sen for Economics.

Mexican TV presenter, clown and singer Cepillin, who worked on the educational programming channel Televisa, died at 75 years: https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/muere-cepillin-el-payaso-cantante-de-los-ninos

German composer Helmut Winschermann dead at 100: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14243660

Japanese Artist Toko Shinoda died at 107 years: https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/03/d82cea216d29-renowned-japanese-sumi-ink-artist-toko-shinoda-dies-at-107.html

He's famous, getting on and conspicuously ill; so doubtless he's trying to stay calm and rest whilst the Celebrity Big Brother producers are banging on the door!

That's your Sarah Lilian Priest dead.