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Producer and Director, Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Animal House), has passed away in his sleep at age 75. https://apnews.com/article/ivan-reitman-dead-d67947aa895371cd9f5840e6e9339440?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

She is a hit for @Yvonne, @drol, @Great Uncle Bulgaria, @ThereWillBeDeaths7, @Book, @Ulitzer95, @Lafaucheuse, @Annami, @Johnnas and @The Unknown Man CONGRATULATIONS!!!

I'd say that proves I was prescient but all it really proves is that I've been hanging hereabouts for a fuck of a long time!

US federal judge Roger Vinson, who almost killed Obamacare and whose legal statements allowed the unlimited data collection uncovered by Edward Snowden, has terminal prostate cancer. He was given 3 months to live last June, but is very unbothered by it and still drives himself to work: https://eu.pnj.com/story/news/local/pensacola/2022/02/14/u-s-district-court-judge-roger-vinson-fights-prostate-cancer/6708546001/

He played for the Seattle Mariners who are the only MLB team to have never been to a World Series.

Looks like "El Gato" has finally finished with his nueve vidas. Eduardo Romero was one of the greats of Argentine golf, who broke out of the Southern American tour to achieve success in Europe and two top-10 major placings. He moved into politics after retirement, and his recent announcement regarding stepping back from civic duties put him on Salmon Mousse's radar, and leaves MortalCaso swimming upstream. Elsewhere, purists may scoff at the picking of centenarians with no recent health updates, but try telling Pop_Zeus that. He breaks the deadlock against YoungWillz thanks to the passing of Cuban-American abstract artist Carmen Herrera aged 106, and I've just realised the last four hits have all been Spanish speakers. LizLemon 0 v. Masterffull 0 Sir Cunto 3 v. theoldlady 0 Salmon Mousse 13 v. MortalCaso 3 Wormfarmer 0 v. grobler 0 TQR 6 v. Gooseberry Crumble 0 HDS 6 v. Pedro67 3 wannamaker 0 v. Famous6Eva 0 JoeMoneypenny 0 v. Sideik 3 GuyFromFuture 0 v. Captain Hemlock 0 Annami 12 v. Hell 0  ThereWillBeDeaths7 6 v. MariNisia 3  Grim Up North 6 v. the_engineer 0 Predictor 0 v. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 YoungWillz 0 v. Pop_Zeus 4  BabyBlue 15 v. An Fear Beag 9

Following an episode of Pointless I watched the other week where the players in final failed to win the jackpot with an absolute sitter of a category for me (Hugo Best Novel Award Winning Authors) I decided to research the other categories that were offered First Up: Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize Winners 2000 Howard Jacobson (b.1942) 2001 Jonathan Coe (b.1961) 2002 Michael Frayn (b.1933) 2003 D.B.C. Pierre (b.1961) 2004 Jasper Fforde (b.1961) 2005 Marina Lewycka (b.1946) 2006 Christopher Brookmyre (b.1968) 2008 Will Self (b.1961) 2009 Geoff Dyer (b.1958) 2010 Ian McEwen (b.1948) 2011 Gary Shteyngart (b.1972) 2014 Edward St. Aubyn (b.1960) 2015 Alexander McCall Smith (b.1948) 2016 Paul Murray (b.1975) 2017 Helen Fielding (b.1958) 2018 Nina Stibbe (b.1962) 2020 Matthew Dooley (b.????) 2021 Guy Kennaway (b.????) Michael Frayn and Howard Jacobson are on my radar anyway but barring any severe ill health issues most of the others will not bother us in the near future. One of the more recent winners doesn't even have his own wiki page

1915 down to four names (plus two who have not a Wiki page at the moment): 1)Ma Shitu: immortal Chinese writer with a plethora of health issues, most notably lung and skin cancer. 2)Frances Hesselbein: cranky American CEO. 3)Isabel Crook: Canadian anthropologist living in China, who was reportedly ill in 2020, but has bounced back. 4)James Clayton Flowers: Tuskegee airman who has been ill for years.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/new-york-cuban-fame-manhattan-london-b2014396.html Independent QO

My third hit. I'm coming for you @gcreptile!!

Foreigner Wiki UK/American hard rock band from London and New York City, formed in 1976, one of the best-selling bands of all time with record sales exceeding 80 million worldwide, guitarist Mick Jones was previously a member of rock band Spooky Tooth and rhythm guitarist Ian McDonald was a member of progressive rock band King Crimson Ed Gagliardi 13 Feb 1952 – 11 May 2014 (62) Ultimate Classic Rock obit Lou Gramm 02 May 1950 – Living Al Greenwood 20 Oct 1951 – Living Dennis Elliott 18 Aug 1950 – Living Mick Jones 27 Dec 1944 – Living Ian McDonald 25 Jun 1946 – 09 Feb 2022 (75) Ultimate Classic Rock obit 06/05/1978 Feels Like the First Time #39 15/07/1978 Cold as Ice #24 28/10/1978 Hot Blooded #42 24/02/1979 Blue Morning, Blue Day #45 Los Bravos Wiki Spanish beat group from Madrid, formed in 1965 and disbanded in 1968, Fernandez committed suicide in May 1967, Martinez died in a motorcycle accident in June 1990 whilst en route to the recording studio Manuel Fernandez 29 Sep 1943 – 20 May 1967 (23) FindAGrave memorial Pablo Gomez 05 Nov 1943 – Living Mike Kogel 25 Apr 1944 – Living Antonio Martinez 03 Oct 1945 – 19 Jun 1990 (44) FindAGrave memorial Miguel Vicens 21 Jun 1943 – 12 Feb 2022 (78) Obit 30/06/1966 Black is Black #2 08/09/1966 I Don't Care #16 Updates for the two reports above.

Cuban-born American artist Carmen Herrera (wiki) finally dead at 106. NY Times obit. A DDP pick for 2 teams. Should get a QO.

I imagine his response would be somewhere along the line of...

The Welsh Language Commissioner, Aled Roberts, former member of the Welsh Assembly, has died aged 59.

Great Britain and Hull FC player Johnny Whiteley (Wiki) has died aged 91. BBC

Don't believe so. Had a short playing career that didn't sniff the playoffs, much less WS. Unless I'm unaware of something, not a miss.

That was my first thought too although rather more simply expressed in my head as "They recycle them as anoraks!"

Would Chaim Kanievsky be worthy of becoming an immortal? Old friend of Dovid, ultraorthodox rabbi, now 94 and with many health troubles in as Drol mentioned over a year ago: He hasn't left his house much during the last years, overweight, apparently senile and doesn't know who the prime minister of his country is, nearly deaf and survived covid in 2020 when he was reported to be in "worsening" and "deteriorating" condition by the Israeli press. But despite all of this he's now doing pretty well. He's also been one of the most ghoul-looking people alive for the last decade: I have no idea what's happening in the second picture. Looks like he's examining a pair of limes but shows how large he is. And the three other names I'll put here, they have some potential: Dagny Carlsson (1912-2022) Hospitalised multiple times, most recently in January 2022, has survived multiple bouts of pneumonia after 105. Satya Mohan Joshi Pneumonia, UTI, pulmonary edema and gastritis in 2014, pneumonia and heart issues in 2021, pneumonia and UTI in 2022. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee "Young", but he's looked like a corpse for yeara, suffering from COPD for ages and also has lung and heart diseases. Hospitalised in 2019 on BIPAP support with breathing problems and high bp, hospitalised in "very critical" condition and put on ventilator in December 2020 with serious breathing problems and lacunar infarcts, survived being in ICU with covid in May 2021.

Ringo enjoying the Superbowl with friends.

Though I did wonder whether you were recognising the recovered fibres from mattresses could be used to produce the fibre insulation that is used to give the thermal comfort in winter clothing.

As a golf fan, I mourn the loss of El Gato and, as a deathpooler, I mourn that I didn't find out about his health issues until January

Danton's death is mentioned in this Telegraph article. Levels us on days vs. hits (45x45).

Quite a few people have Carmen Herrera

Been enjoying Black Is Black on a loop, just realised I didn't include a report link: https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2022/02/12/97207/bravos-bassist-dies-mallorca-aged-78.html Is Pablo the most handsome drummer ever?

Saleh Ajeery, Kuwati astronomer, dead at 101: http://alwatan.kuwait.tt/articledetails.aspx?id=669517&yearquarter=20221 Jamie Serra, Portugese politician, dead at 101: https://then24.com/2022/02/09/jaime-serra-historical-leader-of-the-pcp-has-died-he-was-101-years-old/ Haven Barlow, American politician, dead at 100: https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/former-utah-lawmaker-haven-barlow-dies-at-100 Alice Moretti, Swiss politician, dead at 100: https://www.rsi.ch/news/ticino-e-grigioni-e-insubria/Addio-a-Alice-Moretti-15069377.html Eleanor Owen, American journalist, dead at 101: https://www.nami.org/About-NAMI/NAMI-News/2022/NAMI-Mourns-Passing-of-One-of-its-Founding-Members-Eleanor-Owen Should also note that there were 3 centenarian deaths yesterday (10th Feb). Have to wonder that, along with the supercentenarians being run through, if there isn't a similar thing happening with centenarians as well? All names mentioned above have died in the last 5 days (6th Feb-10th Feb), and that's without counting names already mentioned in this thread + people without English Wikipedia pages who nonetheless got local obits