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Eileen Ash is 110 today. The first sporting supercentenarian? Certainly the last cricketer to have overlapped the life of W G Grace who died in 1915.

Considering his father and father's father didn't get to 70 and his mother died at 74 or 75 and he's now 71, I'm betting that he'll die in his 70s. Still quite active and seems to be able to walk without assistance, however Bahrain's UN General Assembly speech was done by the foreign affairs minister this year.

Mexican actor Octavio Ocana died at only 22 years: https://www.excelsior.com.mx/funcion/muere-el-actor-octavio-ocana-mejor-conocido-como-benito-en-vecinos/1479882 After playing the role of Benito Rivers in the Mexican television series Vecinos, the teenage Ocaña was cast as Otto Von Ferdinand in a telenovela called Lola...

But why would we want to?

Remember three days ago, I suggested Brian Morris, minor golf player with stage iv cancer. Well now I suggest Michael Graydon, Irish Poker Player with lifetime earnings of over $600.000. He has stage iv brain cancer and "there's nothing the doctors can do": https://www.pokernews.com/news/2021/10/poker-terminal-cancer-wsop-main-event-40143.htm https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=94758 Just like Brian Morris got to the PGA finals because of cancer, Michael Graydon might just make it to the WSOP finals.

Three Stooges official website acknowledges the death of Joan Howard Maurer: https://www.threestooges.com/2021/10/20/joan-maurer-april-2-1927-september-21-2021/

A day later, Australian cricket legend Alan Davidson has passed away. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-30/australian-cricket-great-alan-davidson-dies/100582940

There's been no indication that she isn't well enough. Quite the reverse - they've said she's determined to be there.

Death Notice for the Scots born poet (and author, but mostly poetry) Wes Magee, aged 82: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/253066/wes-magee Mostly for children, his work has appeared on Poetry Pie for CBeebies.

Brian Morris misses the cut: https://www.golfdigest.com/story/pro-with-terminal-cancer-misses-cut-at-bermuda-championship-pga-tour-debut Edit: Hmm.. SkySports coverage: https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/12176/12454536/brian-morris-lives-out-his-dream-as-he-plays-in-bermuda-championship-despite-having-terminal-cancer

And another surgery for Jim Diggan, supposedly successful: https://www.tmz.com/2021/10/29/jim-duggan-hacksaw-hospital-cancer-diagnosis-surgery-wwe/

Btw, is there a celebrity engagement/marriage thread? This way, we could cover the whole coupling/baby/split (-death) cycle.

My guess is she doesn't feel up to being on her feet for as long as she is used to and they hope in a couple of weeks to see an improvement before deciding whether to further scale back her duties. This is not unexpected for someone at her age who has also had the added toll of recently becoming a widow. Despite scaling back her public appearances, at 97 her Mum attended Dianas funeral walking with a cane and made it to 101. We should probably expect as time goes on to see the Queen seated more often in public and when meeting dignitaries etc with Charles taking the lead on more of the larger Ceremonial duties.

Italian actor and model Rossano Rubicondi has died age 49. He is also the fourth husband of Ivana Trump. The tweet is apparently incorrect in saying ex husband because their divorce wasn't finalised according to other media reports.

Honestly, you leave a small announcement from Buckingham Palace for a few hours and... Ok, deep breath... As far as we know she's not suffering from an ailment and she's spent a single night in hospital. She's tired and they did some precautionary tests. Prince Philip had a number of *actual* ailments that he suffered with for a decade - if she's got a decade left I think she's going to be fine. Oh bore off. She's 95 years old. She's been doing video audiences this week, in great spirits. She's not at death's door. Missing the Festival of Remembrance is nothing, the BBC article specifically says she's determined to be at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, and if that's going to happen, she'll need to rest as long as possible - appearing at the Royal Albert Hall with hundreds of other people for a concert the night before isn't taking it easy. And you know all this, you're just posting for reactions at this point. As @Ulitzer95 said a few days ago, she's tired! She's had 18 months of very little engagements and then plenty of engagements, which at 95 is not normal. Take a look at the Queen's engagements on the Court Circular between October 1st and the middle of the month. Find me a 95-year-old who could do all that and not get tired. The big thing underneath is the Queen is 95. And if you like the Queen, that is concerning, but we can all read a calendar and we all know the end is coming sooner rather than later, but that doesn't mean anything is accelerating that process (based on everything we know at the moment at least). The reason there's so many things coming out at once is because it's the Queen! Her schedule is packed and when she takes a month off work, lots of things get disrupted. See above: when the Queen takes time off, it causes disruption. It doesn't mean she's ill, it means she's staying busy. Also, note that the current advice does not stop her from holding virtual audiences. She's just meant to keep it light. How is her resting on doctors' advice a negative headline? She's 95.Charles attends the State Opening of Parliament, Charles lays the wreath at the Cenotaph, Charles, Anne and William do most of the investitures and Charles and William take on a lot of the representation roles at big events around the country. She's already reduced her official duties considerably, she may reduce them further, I doubt she'll completely retire unless her health deteriorates a good deal further. What on earth do you think you're doing talking sense like that in here, Toast? Don't you realise we'll have a new monarch by the end of the month? Oh, and by the way, an announcement that the 95-year-old monarch has taken a further two weeks off physical duties to be sure she's up to attending the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday has taken up a full page of this thread. We're up to 100 pages already. 200 is the bare minimum this thread's going to reach based on the past fortnight.

Here's the QO you could have won: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16575938/jovita-moore-atlanta-cause-of-death/

Jovita Moore no moore:

Lucile Randon ties Nabi Tajima at the age of 117 years and 260 days. So 3rd and 4th oldest person ever are concurrently alive.

Last year, #50 was Peter Sutcliffe. It's really kind of a "joker" slot. Who knows, maybe there'll be a terminally ill killer coming out of the woodwork.

Statistically, this Octobre is not that bad. We could still get to about 20 hits. Rose Lee Maphis and Maire Mhac T'saoi (?) are still waiting for obits. Even the annual record is not totally out of reach.

Rajinikanth hospitalized again, now for the 78th time. "Routine check-up": https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/superstar-rajinikanth-hospitalised-in-chennai-1045140.html

Dune is absolutely fantastic. The normally picky Mrs Biblo said she could not fault it.

Fusa Tatsumi, 10th oldest living person, currently aged 114 years and 183 days, enters top 100 oldest verified people ever.

Something that's been getting on my nerves begrudgingly lately is announcing whether someone is or isn't vaccinated when they get COVID-19 and hospitalised. I could be entirely wrong here in my frustration, but if you're getting hospitalised your vaccination status really goes out the window if we're using that to determine their current health. Just comes off as some subtle "vaccines don't work" propaganda. I'm not necessarily getting mad at you, more so the general discourse.

I've long been fascinated by the huge stretch of time between Baby Peggy's peak of fame and the present day. Incredible that someone who was an irrelevant hasbeen by the time The Great Gatsby was published was still alive in 2020. It must be disorientating for a once-huge star to quite possibly outlive their entire contemporary fanbase. It should be almost impossible for a celebrity to live beyond all first-hand memories of their stardom, but then most people her age are probably too young to remember her. She lived to see her fans become 100% second-hand – people taking a historical interest, far removed from Peggymania. When's the last time she'd have heard from anyone who was authentically nostalgic for her? I don't know of any other figure who was a living relic in quite the same way.