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Former Governor General of Bahamas Arthur Dion Hanna dead at 93.

The thing that makes Carter's presidency interesting to me is just how much a product of its time it was. Presidents like Biden, Nixon, or Reagan ran multiple times before winning. Obama, had he not won in '08, would probably have been a top-tier candidate for decades to come. By contrast, the sequence of events that leads to Carter's presidency seems pretty intimately tied to him winning in the first post-Watergate election. The ideas he was running on and the image he presented were very much geared towards the moment. He was an obscure former governor from a state that was relatively unimportant at the time and somehow catapulted to the White House (where he was, arguably, in way over his head from minute one, but few politicians probably could have navigated that time very well). The Carter presidency seems like a historical oddity, like it shouldn't have even happened. The fact that '76 was so close and he was thrown out in a landslide four years later almost adds to this for me.

Helen Nicol (wiki) dead at 101. No idea who the oldest AAGPBL player is now, possibly Betsy Jochum (wiki) who turned 100 in February. There are still quite a few around.

Marcia Nasatir, the first woman ever to serve as a vice president of production in Hollywood dies at 95: https://www.deadline.com/2021/08/marcia-nasatir-dead-pioneer-female-film-executive-producer-1234808454/ She worked on box office hits like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Rocky", "Coming Home", "F.I.S.T.", "Three Days of the Condor" or "Carrie".

At first glance it appears Jack Grealish's girlfriend (who is named Sasha Attwood) had a pretty unsavoury hobby.

Jailed australian rapist Mustafa Kayirici, 31, supposedly only has a few months left to live: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/time-not-on-my-side-jailed-rapist-dying-of-cancer-court-told-20210804-p58fvb.html He was described by the Daily Mail as a "face-tattoed serial sex monster" and "ice addict" in 2020. Edit: Seems he's 31 years old now.

Still three Bahamian Governor-Generals living who are over 90: Sir Orville Turnquest (b. 1929) Gov-Gen 1995-2001. Did not take part in a naming ceremony of a building named after him this February. Dame Ivy Dumont (b. 1930) Gov-Gen 2001-2005. Took part in a naming ceremony of a building named after him this June or July, looks old but not exactly frail. Sir Arthur Foulkes (b. 1928) Gov-Gen 2010-2014. Looks younger than what he is. Additionally there's Dame Marguerite Pindling (b. 1932) Gov-Gen 2014-2019 who will, if she's still alive, be 90 next June. Turnquest, Pindling and Arthur Dion Hanna in 2018.

Serbia's ambassador to russia has passed away. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Lazanski

Myoma Myint Kywe (wiki), Burmese historian, reportedly dead at 61.

Horror of Fang Rock is awesome

McRae has died https://www.velocitynews.co.nz/graham-mcrae-passes-away/ Can also be posted in the chequered flag thread but once is enough.

Hope you received my entry. It was sent on Monday this week. Thanks for doing this again!

The most interestings things about him, atleast to me, are his longevity and length of his "retirement" (97 soon, 40 years since he stopped being the U.S. Pres) and that he's the last cold war US President. And of course the work that he has done after his presidency. Not a lot of interesting things about his life prior to his presidency, from during it or from the next ~15 years after it Carter also wasn't a WWII combat veteran, unlike the two notable U.S. politicians in the list, Kissinger and Bob Dole: Kissinger was put in charge of the administration of the city of Krefeld at the end of WWII and tracked down Gestapo officers, Dole was seriously wounded in 1945: "Dole was paralyzed from the neck down and transported to a military hospital near Kansas, expected to die. Suffering blood clots, a life-threatening infection and a fever of almost 109 degrees; after large doses of penicillin were not successful, he overcame the infection with the administration of streptomycin, which at the time was still an experimental drug."

I find this man so incredibly boring. I sigh whenever I see pointless activity in this thread every fucking week. Don’t understand what’s remotely interesting about him, and you can’t say that about 90% of U.S. Presidents. They tend to pack in a lot of personality, controversy and have interesting legacies. Not Jimmy though… time for the Reaper to taketh him.

I don't think so. Joe Biden looks much stronger.

Also the father of the referee Nick Patrick.

The Monster Of Peladon was one of the first Target books I bought (yep, I have a first edition, ha!) and I can't tell you how much I love Horror At Fang Rock (unpopular opinion I'm guessing, but hey, lighthouses are creepy!). RIP.

The mother of Reagan shooter John Hinckley, Jo Ann Hinckley, has died at 95: https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/williamsburg/mother-of-would-be-reagan-assassin-john-hinckley-dies-at-95/ John has lived with her since he was allowed to occasionally leave the mental institution in recent years.

95 today!!! (Imagine emojis here) He's going to have a concert tonight with Lady Gaga. No signs of Alzheimer's yet.

Bad luck,her mum and father both lived to their 90s

Paul Cotton, famous as a frontman, guitarist, and songwriter for the California-based country rock group Poco, died at 78 years: https://1430wcmy.com/2021/08/02/longtime-poco-singer-guitarist-paul-cotton-dead-at-age-78/ He penned the band's 1979 hit single "Heart of the Night."

Hong Kong soy sauce king Lee Man Tat dead at 91. On eof the richest people in Hong Kong. Among them you find Li Ka-shing (1928), Lee Shau-kee (1928), Lui Che-woo (1929), Kwong Siu-hing (1929). None of them in failing or ill health.

32 is a pretty good age for a horse. Not many famous racehorses live longer. I can only think of Hallo Dandy (33) and Spanish Steps (34) off the top of my head though there must be others.

American Businessman and philantropist Herbert Nootbaar died, 108 years old http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=herbert-victor-nootbaar&pid=183206015