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Always a fan of Pass Notes in the Guardian. One that was probly pacifically designed to push the nucular button of @Toast @time @The Quim Reaper (and indeed myself) today. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/23/annoying-mispronunciations-do-they-make-you-go-nucular-probly

Mila Ximenez, Spanish TV personality / journalist / gossip lady is dead at 69: https://www.elperiodico.com/es/yotele/20210623/muere-mila-ximenez-69-anos-11834849 I hoped she would survive into the new month. But there had been very dire news in recent days.

https://www.ruetir.com/2021/03/01/the-last-2-nazi-life-prisoners-sentenced-in-italy-died-they-never-did-a-day-in-jail/ Wilhelm Karl Stark died on December 14, 2020. He was 100 years old. Accused of various massacres committed in ’44 in various locations in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines (Italy).

An Obituary in English: https://www.then24.com/2021/06/23/mila-ximenez-dies-at-69 Rest in peace, Mila.

Rene Robert dead

Brian London reportedly dead, aged 87

(presumably 'former' any time now) Police Constable Benjamin Monk, guilty of manslaughter of Dalian Atkinson.

One week warning.

Maureen O'Sullivan, actress best remembered for two reasons, her role of "Jane" in the "Tarzan" films of the 30's and 40's and as the real-life mother of Mia Farrow, died in Scottsdale, Arizona, of complications from heart surgery on this date in 1998. She was 87 years old. O'Sullivan memorably quipped, when told that Frank Sinatra was hoping to marry her daughter, "At his age, he should marry me!". Her own career was a distinguished one, including performances in such major Hollywood films as "Anna Karenina" (with Greta Garbo), "A Day at the Races" (starring the Marx Brothers), "The Thin Man" and more recently "Hannah and Her Sisters" (with her daughter) and "Peggy Sue Got Married". O'Sullivan rest in peace in Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery located in Niskayuna, Schenectady County, New York.

Could sneak into Ironic Deaths when it happens!

Another terminally ill film fan - this time, he wants to see the new Bond movie: https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/22/james-bond-fan-with-cancer-and-weeks-to-live-begs-to-see-no-time-to-die-14813711/

While Wiki sticks with sources you wouldn't necessarily take in a million years as confirmation, here is the Gazette notice for Patricia Marmont, which is really official confirmation: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3823356

David R. Edwards, co-founder & leader of influential Welsh post-punk band Datblygu has died aged 56.

He's 80 the week after next, that bouncing between extremes takes it out of people a quarter of his age.

Spanish illustrator and writer Bernat Cormand dies at 48: https://www.archyde.com/the-illustrator-and-writer-bernat-cormand-dies-at-the-age-of-48/ The illustrator, writer, university professor, literary critic and director of the magazine Atril has died in Barcelona at the age of 48 and has left the children's and young adult book sector, where he was well known and appreciated, in a state of shock. In 2008 he began to publish illustrated albums: he debuted with "El dibujante de osos" (2008), in which he told the story of a cartoonist who travelled to the North Pole to paint the last remaining species of bear; he continued with "The Perfect Child" (2013), about a model young man who, at night, when no one sees him, dresses up, and five years later came "The Happy Days" (2018), centered on a boy's discovery of homosexual love. One of the illustrations of "The Happy Days", by Bernat Cormand:

All current christmas songs I am fed up of hearing the same 15 songs every December.

Alfons Cànovas Lapuente died in March aged 103.

About 95% of music released after 1985. Percentage increases for anything produced by boybands, dance/house/rave/trance etc music of the early 90s and rap music (with its preceding silent C). And 'lonely this Christmas' by Mud, not because it's dreadful in itself, but had it never existed 'Wombling Merry Christmas' would have been the 1974 Christmas number one.

Last living liberator of Auschwitz, David Dushman, dead at 98: https://amp.rte.ie/amp/1226352/ https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article231625427/David-Dushman-Letzter-Befreier-von-Auschwitz-mit-98-Jahren-gestorben.html

Jameela Jamil, "The Good Place" star, model, presenter and activist said recently: "Celebrities are useless". Would you agree or disagree with this opinion? Do you think the same? If you are agree... Whom are you thinking about? In my case ... in this pair... I'm bad... Hell is my destiny... What do you think of this?

Actor Ng Man-Tat, recipient of a 1991 Hong Kong Film Award for his supporting role as Rambo in the film A Moment of Romance, died at 70 years: https://www.cna.com.tw/amp/news/firstnews/202102275004.aspx He also earned a Golden Bell Award nomination for his starring role in the Taiwanese television series The Hospital.

German classical cellist and member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Wolfgang Boettcher dead at 86 years: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/philharmoniker-und-musikpaedagoge-berliner-cellist-wolfgang-boettcher-gestorben/26952192.html

German wikipedia claims that SS Totenkopf Division Nazi Johann Rehbogen, died in November 2019. He was picked here and there last year, including in the DDP 2019 and 2020, after he was deemed unfit for trial.

Peter Falk didn't have Alzheimer's any more, 10 years ago today.