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Some updating and checking... Jakob Kuchar apparently died on 1st of January 2020: https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/85050/Kuchar-Jakob.htm, means that there are likely only six or less of them left. More: Richard M. Barancik (1924-) Last Monuments Man Emil Boček (1923-) Last Czech RAF pilot Dean Caswell (1922-) (article) Last surviving US Marine flying ace Léon Gautier (1922-) Last surviving member of Commando Kieffer Lee Hak-rae (1924/1925-2021) Last surviving convicted Korean war criminal (article) Ivan Martynushkin (1923-) Last Auschwitz liberator Paul Priest (1925-) Last veteran of the Battle of Remagen (article, not available in the EU) Jack Shearer (1921-) Last surviving member of the SACO. 16th of November 2021 additions: Carlos Garduño Nuñez (1919-2022) Last surviving Aztec Eagles pilot. Max Gilbert (1921-) Last Ambon Island POW camp survivor. Ebou Janha (ca. 1919-2022) Last surviving veteran of the 1 Gambia Regiment. -----

Freddie Combs, a very fat participant on X Factor, dies of kidney failure at 49: https://theblast.com/95345/x-factor-star-freddie-combs-dies-at-age-49-of-kidney-failure/

Picked by Coffin Fit and Trojan Hearse (2 teams). Sad news. I genuinely thought he'd age gracefully into becoming a DL mainstay one day.

Earl P. Yates (wiki), also known as Buddy Yates, a WWII veteran who later went on to become a prominent rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, commanding the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, dead at 97.

Pray. Keep the faith. Don't lose heart.

The danger of a good year it uses up some of the hits that might have just lasted into this year. A slow Autumn might bode well for 2022

A name I remember from my motorcycle sticker collection and because I had noone to swap with I stuck my spares on alsorts of boxes. Some of which I have only recently got rid of

James Brokenshire revealed recently his lung cancer has progressed and treatment is taking longer than expected as a result. Sounds like a potential candidate for next year's list if he makes it to 2022:

That is stone cold from His Holiness

First page says DDP qo sources count so ITV is a qualifying obit here. As does the express.

A YouTube personality with nearly 1.6 million subscribers has died from Covid-19. Brandon Ashur, 36, known online as Bashurverse or Toasty Time, died after contracting covid in August. It is believed that Ashur had not been vaccinated against the virus. ‘Please get your vaccine’: YouTuber hits out at anti-vaxx movement as he dies of Covid (msn.com)

I never previously found a QO, but there's one now anyway for Carolyn Shoemaker: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/carolyn-shoemaker-obituary-8dqh3kctj I'm sure Death Impends will be pleased.

His younger brother Olivier Giscard d'Estaing (wiki), a member of the French Parliament from 1968 to 1973, has died aged 93. His older sister Sylvie predeceased him in 2008. His younger sisters, Isabelle (b. 1935) and Marie-Laure (b. 1939) are still alive.

They're all interchangeable clones of one another, liars, dissemblers & incompetents, each one as bad as the one they replace, apart from the ones who are worse. The sooner we get PR the better.

He couldn't bear the thought of being barred from playing the majority of board games:

Today he has lived the exact same age as his brother Fidel. Meaning tomorrow he has surpassed his lifespan. Still think he have some more years left to live imo.

Precaution I think. Giving his importance, his government and surroundings probably doesn’t want him to be exposed in any way, despite being vaccinated and « healthy » as they said

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/reuben-klamer-game-of-life-creator-dies-age-99/ Reuben Klamer, creator of The Game of Life has completed his game of life at the age of 99.

Pelé is about to move out of intensive care, instagram post included in the link: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/58555362

Oldest surviving Lotta Svärd auxiliary paramilitary member and Finland's third-oldest person Salme Haltia dead aged 109: https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/710c5b7c-0fc0-4721-af00-48263ffccb1e Here meeting the Finnish President in December 2018.

Ida Keeling over

I'm keeping the faith but naturally respect your opinion. I definitely think the Derby Dead Pool ithough s going to end up with a phenomenally impressive total.

Sir Peregrine Worsthorne died age 96: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/04/sir-peregrine-worsthorne-fearless-former-editor-sunday-telegraph/

One of the greatest german journalists and publisher Ulrich Kienzle died at 83 years: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/zum-tod-des-fernsehjournalisten-ulrich-kienzle-16729316.html He was one of the most notable experts on politics and coulture of the near and middle east. I really enjoyed listening to his statements about political situations in the world. sad loss