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Art LaFleur, the prolific American character actor known for his roles in "Cobra", "Field of Dreams", "Air America", "Forever Young" or "The Sandlot" (where he was Babe Ruth), passed away on Wednesday, November 17th at the age of 78 after battling Parkinson's disease for 10 years: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/celebrities/16793404/art-lafleur-dead-sandlot-passes-away-parkinsons-disease/

Sure fire sign that Beatrice's baby has pancratic cancer and could die any second now.

Subway co-founder Peter Buck follows suit aged 90 - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/subway-co-founder-peter-buck-dead-at-90/

There's a comment on an old Times of India article from when he claimed to be 100 saying that he's actually 83, person who wrote the comment also mentions that "everyone in Beas Pind (village he was born in) knows this" If that's true, he's around 93-94 currently.

The younger generations have decided that it's time for the Queen to go. Dying from exhaustion at multiple christenings.

On life support.

Can we only refer to him henceforth as Fraudster Singh?

As suspected, Earle Parsons is dead. There's an obit for him in this 2015 49ers magazine here. Died December 18, 2014, aged 93. Still can't find anything for Don Johnson. As Parsons is dead, I'm almost certain that Charley Trippi is the oldest former NFL player.

Revisiting this with a concrete answer. This 2002 book refers to him as "the late E. N. P. Sowah" and this blog post contains a 2010 article copied from the Ghana Mirror which refers to him as "the late Mr. Justice E. N. P. Sowah". Stood down in 1990 so died sometime between then and 2002. Anyway, another name off your Wiki watchlist because he's dead.

Well we almost made it to 10 hours without another pointless post on here. Almost.

Mie Hama who played Kissy Suzuki in You Only Live Twice. 78 today

New Fauja Singh video? Can still talk and walk with a stick but as said before, he's very thin (especially his face) and starting to look ancient.

Well, let's share it. And I love the Warszawa one as well, not that there's any Rock in it.

Well, here's Kassum's funeral. No Hassan Mwinyi, but Cleopa Msuya gave an eulogy, After Magufuli's inglorious end they have learnt to use the mask.

Pretty impressive when you realize his acting career only started at age 32. Recognized his face right away. RIP

I was quite partial to their particular brand of schlock metal. Unrest in peace, sir.

Aye, he was a very good interviewer - better than Paxman, in my book. Still an idiotic career move though, the Andrew Neil of ten years ago would have seen right through the folk he now dislikes.

Reminds me of how Aarne Arvonen was thought to be the living Finnish Civil War veteran for over two years. He died in January 2009 from pneumonia at 111. Until it was found out that there was actually still (atleast) one other "veteran" of the war still living: Lauri Nurminen, white guard member at the age of 11. He died the following month at 102. God knows how many more there would've been if they counted anyone who gave food to soldiers etc into that list. Last WWII combat veteran/someone who actually killed another person during the war? If we'd say that a man born in 1927 (18 in 1945) lives to around 113, Henry Allingham's age, that would be around 2040. Not a lot of countries have run out of their WWII vets yet. Fiji lost its last one last year when Jale Bainisika died at 105, Samoa when Sualua Tui Masaniai died in 2019 at 97 and Papua New Guinea when Ben Moide died in 2013 at 89. Gambia still has atleast one: Ebou Janha. I wouldn't count an auxiliary veteran who never touched a weapon a veteran, I wonder how many women who fought in the war are still alive. Atleast Galina Brok-Beltsova, last veteran of the 588th Bomber Regiment "Night Witches" and Phyllis Latour, but I could also find: Rasammah Bhupalan (1927-) Served in the female combat Rani Jhansi Regiment. Probably still hundreds or thousands of them out there, especially women who served in the Soviet army

Chilean human rights activist Fabiola Letelier dead at 92 (in spanish)

Famous enough for the DDP, not for DL.

A poem about old ladies knickers..... Roses are red Violets are blue Ednas are green......

Later than that. Florence Green died 94 years after the end of the First World War, in Feb 2012 (she was 17 when she signed up). If that was to be repeated for the Second World War, then we're looking at 2039. Though given that there were 68 million combatants in WWI, and over 100 million in the second, it may even be after that. 2040s more likely.

Willard Scott, longtime TODAY weatherman, and the original Ronald McDonald, is dead at 87.