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Francisca Celsa dos Santos is DEAD.

Guardian obit for Labour politician Reg Chrimes (wiki), aged 96. Councillor from 1949 to 2007(!) and a candidate in the 1951 and 1955 general elections, meaning he was one of the earliest surviving GE candidates.

3 and a half weeks before Eileen Ash is 110. If she makes it, she will beat the oldest male cricketer (John Manners) by 5 years. She is the only international cricketer (probably the only person alive to ever touch a cricket bat pre WW1) that has overlapped the life of W G Grace. (1848-1915). Grace of course overlapped the well-known (in his day) cricketer George Brown (1787-1853).

My god gooseberry you really do spout from the font of the barking. Not sure how you keep it up to be honest, fair play though, for a load of utter tosh. you do keep it going.

Death Notice for Sir Dennis Walters, former Tory MP for Westbury from 1964-1992, aged 92: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/252604/walters

George B. Roberts, a former U.S. ambassador to Guyana and a career foreign service officer, has died. He was 91. https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/george-roberts-obituary-philadelphia-ambassador-foreign-service-20211005.html

A marriage proposal ended in tragedy after a small plane towing a "will you marry me" banner crashed on an island near Montreal. The passenger in the small, Cessna 172 aircraft was killed while the pilot survived. He remained in hospital recovering from his injuries. new banner: will you bury me SC

I think I will make it to 5/6 quick...but unless someone hits Miguel van Damme with a car outside the hospital I have few chances of winning since the Belgian keeper is miracolously healed

Robert Altman, a noted 1960s counterculture photographer, died September 24th. He was 76. His death is being reported today, October 5th. (Also posted in the Counterculture thread.) https://www.coastreporter.net/the-mix/robert-altman-1960s-counterculture-photographer-dies-at-76-4489225

Luisa Mattioli, Italian actress and Roger Moore's third wife and mother of three of his children has died aged 85: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10062491/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Roger-Moores-feisty-wife-dies-18-years-left-Italian-actress.html

Bob Dole's had so many health issues that even Zsa Zsa Gabor's ghost thinks its overkill at this point.

His health history makes the fact that he is still alive pretty impressive, here are the publicly mentioned health problems and hospitalisations I could find: April 1945: Seriously wounded by a German shell, shattering his collarbone and a part of his spine. Given the largest dose of morphine they (fellow soldiers) dared, paralyzed neck down. Suffered blood clots, a life-threathening infection and a fever. Recovered but the injuries left him with limited mobility in his right arm and numbness in his left one. Postwar to 1996: According to this 10 "pertinent" conditions including removal of his kidney, kidney stone removal in 1981 and other minor conditions. 1991: Prostate cancer, gland removed in December. 1995: One benign polyp in his lungs. Dole stopped smoking in 1983, unclear when he started. 2001: Abdominal aortic aneurysm. 2004-2005: Hip-replacement operation that required him to recieve blood thinners, intracranial hemorrhage, hospitalised for 40 days. 2009: Hospitalised with elevated heart rate and sore legs, underwent skin-graft surgery. February-November 2010: Knee surgery and heart problems, ten months in Walter Reed Medical Center, survived three bouts of pneumonia. 2011: First time on DL. Hospitalised for infection for 6 days in January, discharged, hospitalised again a few days later, discharged. Mostly in wheelchair since this. 2012: Hospitalised in November. Discharged after a couple of days. 2017: Hospitalised in September, discharged after a couple of weeks. 2018: Looked skeletal, much worse compared to what he looked like in 2017. 2020: Biden apparently said that he is "very ill" in September. 2021: Stage IV lung cancer in February. "Some hurdles coming up" in March. Had to stop chemo before July, on immunotherapy. Average life expectancy is 6.3 to 11.4 months since diagnosis. He was diagnosed on 18th of February or a few days before: 7 months, nearly three weeks.

Oldest man in French Jules Theobald died at 112 years: https://www.martinique.franceantilles.fr/actualite/societe/jules-theobald-le-doyen-des-francais-s-est-eteint-a-l-age-de-112-ans-589605.php

Spanish playwright and Franco critic Alfonso Sastre, a DDP pick, died two weeks ago, but no english language obit yet. I wouldn't rule it out, though, maybe from that socialist one. https://www.publico.pt/2021/09/18/culturaipsilon/noticia/morreu-escritor-dramaturgo-argumentista-espanhol-alfonso-sastre-1977914

https://www.paginasiete.bo/sociedad/2021/7/29/fallece-benemerito-sinaniz-quedan-tres-heroes-del-chaco-302391.html Miguel Siñaniz Vigabriel died in July. The other three Bolivian chaco war veterans are still alive as far as I know.

Roger Stuart Bacon (wiki), 21st Premier of Nova Scotia (1990–1991), dead at 95. Surprisingly, this means there are now no living former Canadian Premiers aged 90+ from its 10 provinces and 3 territories.

Ah, that's a good thought.

Countess Ruth Beatrice Meyer-Bechtler, wife of Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, has died aged 96: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/252591/crawford The former MP and peer really should be on radar now. He is of course a current DDP pick.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/rising-star-36-dies-fiance-21761434 Andy Corkhill a 36 year old liberal democrat councillor from the Wirral has died aged just 36 from cancer.

Funny peculiar, rather than funny ha ha?

Basil Hoffman (wiki) dead at 83. Also had notable roles in a lot of Hollywood films, including The Artist (2011), Ordinary People (1980) and All the President's Men (1976).

Well, next time they pop up with the begging bowl they can fuck right off.

Ah, the golden age of Willz deadpooling! Anyway... Items from Emerick's estate being auctioned off...should make a pretty penny given his attachment to the Four: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-58228053

Report of the death of Scottish actor Ken Hutchison who has died aged 72: https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/tributes-for-fife-actor-ken-hutchinson-star-of-straw-dogs-and-the-sweeney-who-has-passed-away/ Starring role as Norman Scutt in Straw Dogs, he then went on to play Matt Harvey in The Onedin Line and Heathcliff in a TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights (round about the same time that Kate Bush released her choon). @msc may be able to expound more as he was an alumnus of Taggart and Hamish MacBeth as well as various other cop shows with an honourable mention for us sci-fi nerds for Space: 1999. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0404455/

RIP. I think he was as famous for working on the production/associate producer side of things as much as the acting. Produced a fair amount of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. i can remember watching one made in 1957 where he played a detective and I’d had never have guessed he had lived another 64 years! So the oldest actor of the golden age of Hollywood is gone.