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Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell dead from Covid-19

Oh wow.... big one. At one time, he could have been president, until the Iraq debacle destroyed his reputation. I wonder if he actually wasn't vaccinated - or already had secret health issues. So among the Republicans, we've had Shultz, Rumsfeld and Powell this year, so far... while Kissinger and Baker survive.

Obituary: Terrahawks & Four Feather Falls star Denise Bryer (gerryanderson.com)

According to some sources once mentioned that his closest friends are Roger Moore, Sean Connery, Terry O'Neill, Johnny Gold and Leslie Bricusse. Bricusse is the only living one out of the five.

So Michael Caine has retired, un-retired and re-retired now? I'm confused. tbh my first thought was "how's Tom Courtenay's health these days?"

Anita Pointer was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2011. She treated it and came out free of cancer in the following year. Maybe... her cancer's back. Once you've had cancer, recurrence is your biggest fear. And... Jada, Pointer's only daughter, died of pancreatic cancer in 2003. I can only give her my best wishes.

Just six days ago I was wondering why Powell was missing from Blinken's twitter pictures posted in the Kissinger thread. James Baker, 91 and Madeleine Albright, 84 in one of the photos.

Cross posting from Political Frailty as he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs during the Gulf War

Posting the death of Denise Bryer here, as voice acting was what she was chiefly famous for.

https://www.mendozapost.com/sociedad/padre-ceschi-murio-en-rosario/ José Ramón Ceschi, Argentine priest, philosopher, writer and tv presenter (Telefe Santa Fe's "Family Break") dead aged 80. He had suffered a stroke in 2017.

I’ve read in Caine’s autobiographies that he has long been great friends with Sidney Poitier!!!!! I have a feeling this could be Poitier but I really hope I’m wrong.

Sri Lanka's first test captain Bandura Warnapura has died aged 68, of a heart attack following a leg amputation necessitated by complications of diabetes. He was later banned from cricket for 25 years for leading a 'rebel' tour to South Africa, in defiance of anti-apartheid sanctions.

https://www.joyk.com/dig/detail/1634518612863856 Roger Hui, Canadian computer scientist and co-developer of programming language J (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)) dead aged 67 or 68. He created it with Kenneth E. Iverson (1920-2004) in the 90s

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/18/michael-caine-on-brexit-boris-johnson-and-big-breaks-ive-done-150-movies-i-think-thats-enough?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other In this interview with the Guardian Michael talks about getting older but also mentions one of his friends who is newsworthy is due to pass away any day now. And I have another very close friend who is very, very ill. If he survives until next weekend I’ll be surprised. And I won’t mention his name, but you’ll read about him in the papers.”

Obit for Billy Robinson, aged 90, steel guitarist who played with Hank Williams at his Grand Ole Opry debut in... 1949!

Updated the list of names on IMDb who were born 1916–1926 and listed as living (see spoiler below). Lots of deaths since I posted this on 15th March: Beverly Cleary, Anne Douglas, Alfie Scopp, Orlando Drummond, Prince Philip, Dilip Kumar, Chandrashekhar, Gloria Henry, Bob Herron, Robert Fyfe, Morris Perry, Lenka Peterson, Mikis Theodorakis, Rosita Quintana, Betty Lynn, Jane Withers, André Maranne, Dorothy Steel, Desmond Davis, Kay Hawtrey, Ann Beaulieu and Gloria Warren. Marcy McGuire may have died. We still have no proof.

Here's a later interview from September. It's over one hour long. At around 54:35: "After my wife died I thought there was nothing to live for. 69 years we were together. And I met this lady that just...knocked me out. She's a much younger woman and I'm 102. How much more time do I have? Six months? A year? A year and a half? A year and three days? Who knows, you don't know. And I suddenly became to feel...Oh shucks I wanna live, I wanna live." "I could go today, fine. But I don't want to. (Laughs)"

https://www.goldderby.com/article/2021/ruth-pointer-the-masked-singer-cupcake-unmasked-interview/ Singer Anita Pointer was scheduled to appear on the TV show The Masked Singer with her sister Ruth but dropped out to deal with health issues.

Updated entry for the death of co-founder and guitarist Regi Hargis, aged 70.

I am going to be that guy on this occasion and cross post Betty Lynn's death here:

So here goes... After private talks in the PM about the Wiki lists being deleted I decided to set up a standalone Wiki "Oldests and Lasts" to host the data. In the long term this will be far more feasible than creating threads on the forum. I copy and pasted the mirrors of the lists that were deleted from Wiki. Think I got them all... but if I missed any, WikiWand still has the mirrors up for now so that'd be a quick fix. The actual links, calculations of ages, etc, will have to be readded manually, which obviously would take some time and effort, but that can wait as just having the articles up again in some form was highest priority. I also might need to reinstate some more templates from Wiki albeit the age and date related ones are largely up. Additionally, this Wiki can directly link to pages on the original Wikipedia, which involves the template {{wp|(name of article)|(display text, if different from article title)}}. For instance {{wp|Nehemiah Persoff}}, or {{wp|Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917)|Marsha Hunt}} Currently only open to registered users though depending on how things progress may start allowing guest edits. https://oldestsandlasts.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

I thought Father Christmas was there for a moment .....

One of John Savident’s former co - stars was talking about him in quite a sad tone recently. I am wondering if he is quite I’ll. He hasn’t worked for years and is 83.

Gabriel Woolf, Doctor Who/The Brothers/Wizards vs Aliens. Like the late Stephen Moore, primarily a voice actor but has appeared on screen. Vilma Hollingbery, The Sweeney/Not Going Out/Inside no 9/Psychoville Avril Elgar, George and Mildred/Tales of the Unexpected/Carrie's War Murray Melvin, Torchwood/Tyrant King/Jonathan Creek Antony Carrick, Yes Minister/Hammer House of Horror/Tales of the Unexpected (he's the dad in Taste, one of the most famous episodes) Roland Curram, Terry and June/Eldorado Sure there's more...

Great choice of person for a thread by the way If you Google it I think Michael Caine has said in the past six months or so that he's starting to feel more awareness of his mortality. I think he said something like he's got five good years maximum left in him by his reckoning.