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Yuri Averbakh is 100 today, first Chess Grandmaster to become a centenarian. https://www.chess.com/news/view/yuri-averbakh-100-years Apparently he was hospitalised with covid around June 2021 and was offered a month of treatment in a recovery center by the Russian Chess Federation. He's still involved in chess and says that he's "doing well" for his age. Article doesn't have any new pictures.

Bamber Gascoigne buzzed out at 87.

@Wormfarmer... I was doing a little bit of research yesterday and there's one more for you to add to your scoring table... Gary Burgess is a solo hit for @YorkshireBanker: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/17199880/itv-news-reporter-gary-burgess-dead-cancer/ 2 folks + 2 folks = 4 folks. In my village... 2 plus 2 is always 4. Why Jana Bennett is a duo? 5/4 or 4/3? Because if first name and last name are independent... then Sarah Harding was a solo hit for @Great Uncle Bulgaria at the S spot and Terry Lubbock was a solo hit for @Banana at the T spot. However, neither the one nor the other was what happened. And my apologies if I'm wrong about this.

I'm the other Dan Lacey DDP picker. I definitely inflated in my head how QO worthy he was, hopefully something comes through. Would benefit me in Hartlepool also!

UK's third oldest person, Marjorie Kinne, dead at 111. The country has just 6 supercentenarians now. I can't recall a time when there were so few. Just one person left born in 1910 now (2 from 1909, 3 from 1911, 9 from 1912).

Ron Hudd (aka Dick Jason aka Ivan Toos aka Jerry Reese aka Jim Mason aka Jim Messina aka Joe Morgan aka Neil Peters aka Paul Simone) porn actor from the mid-1970s - mid 1980s in over 100 porn movies (including one gay movie Games Men Play), probably best known as Little John in Debbie Does Dallas II, reportedly dead aged around 68: https://www.xbiz.com/news/264618/golden-age-performer-ron-hudd-reportedly-passed-away IAFD: https://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=rhudd/gender=m/ron-hudd.htm

The street next to me had one for the Diamond Jubilee. It was like a morgue with everyone standing outside their houses while avoiding one house who was meant to take sort but fell out with the organiser just before and then boycotted it and wouldn’t move their cars. Both of the people involved still live on that street but I can’t see them repeating it.

Two people have him. I'm one of them. I will be watching closely.

Dan Lacey died 7th February according to this: https://www.gofundme.com/f/danlaceysupport

Interesting one, at least I found it interesting. Harvy Blanks, an actor who appeared in several productions of August Wilson plays making it to Broadway in 2017 as Shealy in the play Jitney and also had some TV roles is being reported dead: IBDB: https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/harvy-blanks-406762 What was interesting to me is that in 1969, he was one of some players on the University of Washington Husky football team who were thrown off the team by the coach Jim Owens in what can probably be described as blatant racism. Owens had asked for a pledge of personal loyalty and when he didn't get it from the black players he essentially got rid of them. At some point a player's picture was removed from the wall and replaced with a picture of an African with a bone through his nose. Some players were reinstated, Blanks wasn't - possibly because he was sidelined anyway with a broken foot. All the players thrown out, including Blanks, were inducted into the Husky Hall of Fame only in 2021. No age on his IMDB/IBDB profiles, but Clustrmaps indicates there was a Harvy Blanks resident in Denver, aged 73.

To my surprise, George Little got a Times obit today.

Eleanor Owen (wiki), American journalist and mental health professional, supposedly dead at 101.

Yep one line at a time in this advert

BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat has just done a feature on her. I only really knew that she was a big name in a sphere almost completely unknown to me, but I had no idea until now just how much she was sampled. Bombay Bicycle Club, Britney Spears, producers whose work I listen to a lot. Very interesting.

One from our longlist: German opera and theatre director Hans Neuenfels has died yesterday at age 80. https://kurier.at/kultur/theater-und-opernregisseur-hans-neuenfels-gestorben/401897675

Pouring out an iced Lata:

Potential serial killer, there.....

Spanish is such a beautiful language.

German Composer Heinz Werner Zimmermann died at 91 years: https://trauer-rheinmain.de/traueranzeige/heinz-werner-zimmermann

Wolfgang Schwanitz, final head of the STASI, replacement and former deputy of Erich Mielke, dead at 91: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/wolfgang-schwanitz-ehemaliger-stasi-general-und-erich-mielkes-nachfolger-gestorben-a-a2fb3241-7cba-4f9d-bb00-3d03db8f28b2 Not on our radar.

I was torn on which one of these to use as her bio pic on the DDP... ... I ultimately went for the one on the left because I didn't want anyone accusing me of airbrushing pictures to improve/slim appearances.

Shebby Singh, Malaysian footballer of the 1980s, dead at 61. Normally wouldn't post someone as insignificant as that, but he had a second arc of fame when he became "global advisor" to Venky's during their slapstick takeover of Blackburn Rovers a decade ago. Too many highlights to post, but let's go with Shebby's disastrous appearance on "606".

Ralph Kohler (104) & his wife Dorothy (103) have been married 86 years 108 days & may beat all records (Wiki & Guinness World) in less than 4 years time. They probably have the 4th longest marriage of all time as records show only 3 definitely longer with 3 other marriages just quoted as "86 years" as there is no exact date known for the start of these 3 other marriages.

Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson in critical condition after getting shot in the head: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/blm-activist-sasha-johnson-in-critical-condition-after-gunshot-to-the-head

Sad, loved her a lot. Loved her in Arrested Development. Then she played the same role in Archer. Also a frequent guest actor. Sadly, when I saw her the last time (guesting on Big Bang Theory) she looked already pretty old. Yes, she was, but you knew, she wasn't aging well. She has a perfect DDP profile picture that I am going to miss.