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4 pointsRichard Evans, actor who played Paul Hanley in Peyton Place in the 1960s, reported dead of cancer on 2 October: https://deadline.com/2021/10/richard-dick-evans-dies-obit-actor-1234862945/ A series of well known 1960s western series appearances in everything from The Virginian to The High Chaparral also. And additionally, he was in Star Trek: TOS - so he's a miss for the Scavvy Hunt. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263154/
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3 pointsMarcus Malone, founding member of Santana who had an uncredited role in their debut album, has passed away earlier this month.
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3 pointsHere is an obituary for Gerry Anderson's first wife, Betty Wrightman, who apparently died back on 13 September this year, aged 92: https://www.gerryanderson.com/obituary-betty-peacock/ Of course this will come as a surprise to most as Wiki has her dying in 2016!
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3 pointshttps://www.wnky.com/i/hiroshima-atomic-bombing-survivor-sunao-tsuboi-dies-at-96/ https://apnews.com/article/japan-barack-obama-bombings-nuclear-weapons-a05d38dd0e65f9a5ed1e7c85c477cc97 Hibakusha (Atomic bomb survivor, Hiroshima) and Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations Co-Chair, Kiyoshi Tanimoto peace prize winner Sunao Tsuboi has died at the age of 96. From Wikipedia: "In 1945 he was a student of the Hiroshima Vocational School in Senda-machi. On the morning of August 6 he had just eaten breakfast at a dining hall named "Shima no Kaori" and was invited to have a second breakfast with some other students. He declined as he was concerned that the young woman behind the counter would think him a glutton. When the bomb exploded soon afterwards he was walking to school and he was badly burned. Everyone in the dining room was killed. (Hiroshima: In Memoriam and Today. HIMAT Group. 2000. pp. 39–49.) The school was abandoned and catching fire, so he went to an aunt's house nearby. He was in shock and belatedly realized he was badly injured and didn't wish to be a burden to her, so he left. He went to the Miyuki bridge where he heard that there was an aid station. But the only assistance there was cooking oil being used to ease the pain from burns. Policemen were pouring it onto the skin of school children. He was later taken to Ujina (Hiroshima port) by a truck and then to Ninoshima by barge. Only young men were being evacuated, as they were considered valuable for the war effort. He asked a woman visiting to inform his family. He stayed on Ninoshima for several days cared for by a classmate who fed him. His classmate was then sent elsewhere. His mother and uncle searched among the dead and dying for three days with no success. When her uncle suggested leaving and holding a funeral for him, his mother began running around screaming his name. He heard her and put up his hand and said "Here I am." He was taken to his home in Ando but was not conscious of this. When his aunt first saw him, she said he looked like a ghost. He didn't know the war had ended and didn't believe it had when he was told." "Tsuboi was cared for by his family. He developed aplastic anaemia. He received many blood transfusions and was hospitalized eleven times. Three times his condition became so bad that he was told he was about to die. He suffered from several illnesses including two cancer diagnoses. He received intravenous transfusions for anemia every two weeks." Tsuboi met Obama in 2016. Notable living Hibakusha: Hiroshima: Hashizume Bun (1932-, Japanese wiki) Writer Isao Harimoto (1940-) Korean former Nippon Professional Baseball player and holder of the record for most hits in the Japanese professional leagues, only Hiroshima survivor to play professional basketball in Japan Issey Miyake (1938-2022) Fashion designer Koko Kondo (1944-) Activist, daughter of Kiyoshi Tanimoto (1909-1986) Setsuko Thurlow (1932-) Nuclear disarmament activist, leading figure and founding member of ICAN Shigeaki Mori (1937-) Historian known for his research on Allied prisoners who died during the air raids on Japan. Also met Obama in 2016 and hugged him. Hiroko Takenishi (1929-) Fiction writer and literary critic Nagasaki: Terumi Tanaka (1932-) Secretary-General of Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations Also might have been the last living notable Hibakusha who was an adult in 1945.
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3 pointsGinny Mancini, widow of Henry and a former singer herself, has died aged 97. She was also a noted philanthropist.
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2 pointsEmperor Akihito and Ali Khamenei I'd drop. They're octogenarians who had health problems in the past but currently feel like wasted picks. Wouldn't be suprised if both would be still alive in around five to seven years. And Willie Nelson, he's still touring and I feel like he'll reach 90. Bob Newhart, Bernard Cribbins, Burt Bacharach and Betty Boothroyd seem like wasted picks to me. Bob Dole, Bob Barker, June Brown, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Jacques Delors, Prunella Scales, Rosalynn Carter, Harry Belafonte, Angela Lansbury (Possibly?), Tony Bennett, Pope Ben, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Yoko Ono, J-M Le Pen, Barbara Walters and Raul Castro seem like the best, "they don't have long" ones on the current DL. Betty White, Henry Kissinger, Alan Greenspan, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks (and Dick Van Dyke) seem to be in great health but on the other hand all are 95+ and will probably drop dead from a sudden heart attack the day they're taken off the list. QEII would be good to keep until her death, would be one hell of a miss. Loretta Lynn is another "was sick, isn't that sick anymore" I don't know about Linda Nolan, Vanessa Redgrave or Shannen Doherty. Nolan and Doherty seem like two perennial cancer fighters, don't know much about Redgrave's health. The best as the last: David Crosby, Dick Cheney, Frank Williams and Shane MacGowan. Some of the youngest people on the list but also absolute miracles. David Crosby, a former drug user who got a liver transplant in 1994 paid by Phil Collins (now also very deathlisty), "going to die fairly soon" in June 2020. Still going, his heart may be eternal. Dick Cheney, longtime smoker who has had five heart attacks, lived without a pulse with a LAVD with congestive heart failure for nearly fifteen months. Recieved a heart transplant in 2012. Still going, his original heart isn't. Shane MacGowan? He could have died at any point during the last 18 years and I doubt anyone would have been very suprised. I would be suprised if he gets to 65, however he might be immortal. Frank Williams has been in a wheelchair since 1986, hospitalised last year. Has looked horrible for decades. He'll be 80 in April!
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2 pointsAnti-mask shithole pub has this sign outside. They probably thought they were being clever, but if it were me rubbishing the idea of protecting people from a deadly virus, I wouldn’t have gone for Freddie Mercury as the poster boy.
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1 pointKieron Dyer. Seems to be a spike of these in recent weeks and months. Rio Ferdinand is also in hospital. https://news.sky.com/story/kieron-dyer-former-england-star-in-hospital-weeks-after-withdrawing-from-celebrity-sas-who-dares-wins-12445918
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1 pointMaurice "Mo" Drake, the ad executive who came up with the Beanz Meanz Heinz slogan and co-created the Roses Grow On You campaign, Times Obituary: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mo-drake-obituary-thxj0tmzg (Paywall). His story is here for those who can't access the report: https://www.hallmarkcarehomes.co.uk/2018/11/my-story-maurice-drake/
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1 pointIndeed he is. A unique hit for you and all, to climb you up into 7th place and within striking distance of everyone except the runaway leader. Although with your Joker/Wildcard and a lot of very hittable picks still hanging on, you are not without hope! Markb4 (1247 points) 8 hits [Anne Buydens, Beverly Cleary, Mort Sahl, Norman Lloyd, Renee Simonot, Prince Philip, Rush Limbaugh, Ruthie Tompson]
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1 pointKris Kristofferson? Recently retired (becoming the first highwayman to retire due to other reasons than death) Willie still looks and sounds great: I don't know if Akihito is ill, but he looks great. Picture from November. Walks daily and still works (with the fish research thing he's doing) There are a lot of other great picks in East Asia. Jiang Zemin and Chun Doo-hwan aren't well
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1 pointMore of a question really - I'm by no means a dog expert, but surely, this dog (loved by Benedict Cumberbatch & George Clooney, and now dead) isn't a miniature dachshund?
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1 pointRight. MacGowan, Redgrave, Williams, Boothroyd, Khamenei, Cheney and Lynn seem easy drops tbh. Akihito seems in better nick now he's retired - I mean, he is ill, but doesn't seem deathbed ill. If they can drop Gorbachev (bring back Gorby) they can drop Aki for a bit. So that';s 8, 8 more to go. Alan Greenspan might die in 2022 but he feels like he'll be around for a while, and crucially, I don't particularly care if he is a DL miss. I don't particularly believe the Castro ailment rumours so I'd drop him tbh. So by this point I have Delors, Newhart, Walters, Marcos, Yoko Ono, Le Pen and Stanley Baxter, with only one of them staying. I'd be most inclined to keep Stanley Baxter of that lot, but this is the bunch which would get to stay if there were more DL hits in 2021... For my disagreements with you, Biblio: Doherty and Nolan both advancing Stage IV cancer now, and the former have COPD to boot. It would be unwise to drop them now, even if they proved a year too early this year. Burt Bacharach is meant to be highly frail, he could go at any time. Willie Nelson is touring but really old and frail and seems to be in borrowed time, ditto Crosby even if he was exaggerating that 2 years to live in 2019. Brooks is old enough and famous enough to take his permanent seat on the list (there are spaces for never goes), and as for Cribbins, the hell am I jinxing that man by taking him off the sodding list!
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1 pointTen former rugby players, including Bobbie Goulding who has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, to sue over brain damage. Bobbie Goulding in group of ex-rugby league internationals to sue over brain damage - BBC Sport
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1 pointJust flushed a morning turd that’s going to have a lovely day at the seaside while I’m holed up at work. Good ole Britain.
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1 pointI don't think anybody gives two fucks about Boris, I just hope that useless wanker has a different outcome than before when he's in the ICU next. I can't see as many well wishes next time around.
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1 pointDon't need me to tell you, I'm sure, QOs everywhere: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10131035/Ex-South-Korean-President-Roh-Tae-woo-dies-88.html
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1 pointAh St-John Stevas - eccentric, witty, often non-partisan (watch the 79 election where he is the first to console Shirley Williams about losing her seat), and a solid ally of the Arts and education. One of my favourite stories of his was how he got up to leave a Cabinet meeting early, pleading that he had an engagement to attend. "But I'm attending the same function!" said a bewildered Maggie Thatcher, to which Norman quickly replied "Yes, but it takes me twice as long to get ready, darling!" Another was when a Cabinet colleague complained to him that he was a compulsive name dropper, and Norman said "You know, the Queen said that to me just yesterday!"
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