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Italy's oldest person Angel Tiraboschi dead at 112.

Alright, where were we? There was a bit of a slump in the DDP, though not really all that much. Still, I was also sick for two weeks and so the hits kept slowly accumulating.... this is going to get busy... First and most of all, we've just had the almost universal pick George Perez as a big name in this competition. YoungWillz gets an interesting unique hit with James Anderton, as written above. Three people score with longtime frail Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki. The Daredevil gets a hit with french actor Michel Bouquet, that was a fine selection. An Fear Beag scores big twice with Mosharaf Hossain Rubel and Mike Bossy, very, very big, congratulations. Bossy was picked by other players, too. And Mosharraf Hossain was also picked by a player who I'm not sure is still in the game (also picked by that person was Michel Bouquet). Some players get points for Kane Tanaka, not many points, but they do - hey, three points is better than zero! Two players score with centenarian US music executive Art Rupe. And last but not least, three players score with ice hockey legend Guy LaFleur. Well, that careful checking of the past month also showed me that Kenny still needs points for centenarian British dancer Henry Danton, sorry! ALSO, TorvaMessor gets unique points for Conrad Janis who received a New York Times obit back in March (also Yahoo IIRC). Tracy Kashi is a non-obit for me, I think I have to rely now mostly on these "Other Lives" Guardian obits that drop in 3-4 months late, but I might have to accept that this is a world in which Belinda Sykes and Tracy Kashi do not obit. Yorkshire Bank is also sitting on a non-obit with Sonny Caldinez, and I'm not sure if there is hope. SalmonMousse is still waiting for an obit for Belgian singer Arno that counts. Let's see, but maybe a year-end roundup is the best remaining chance. Kenny also placed a bet on ancient polish runner Stanislaw Kowalski, but he sadly isn't getting anything. Alright, you picked people all across the globe and from all kinds of fields. I hope this update covers at least most of it, if not, tell me. The resulting scoreboard shows a small switch at the top, it's the change of Guy LaFleur vs. Mike Bossy - funnily enough, two North American Ice Hockey legends. Rank Team Score 1 Salmon Mousse 858 2 Banana 853 3 Joey Russ 809 4 msc 752 5 An Fear Beag 714 6 Cpt. Chorizo 664 7 Book 655 8 Predictor 635 9 Death Impends 630 10 gcreptile 600 11 drol 577 12 DevonDeathTrip 553 13 Guy From Future 429 14 MariNisia 422 15 Kenny 401 16 Toast 383 17 YorkshireBanker 365 18 Theoldlady 352 19 JoeMoneypenny 318 20 Great Uncle Bulgaria 309 21 Baby Blue 296 22 JohnKey 280 23 The old crem 274 24 Annami 256 25 Torva Messor 255 26 Buffalo Phil 249 27 CalebH 248 28 The Unknown Man 244 29 Sean 221 30 The Daredevil 220 31 Bibliogryphon 206 32 Famous6Eva 181 33 Liz Lemon 169 34 Pedro67 146 35 Wormfarmer 137 36 YoungWillz 130 37 Doulton 88 38 markb4 84 39 Gooseberry Crumble 61 40 Hell 57 41 keltos31 54 42 chilean way 49 43 The Spinosaurus 34 44 Captain Hemlock 0 Edit: For the next update - Jack Higgins for the Daredevil. Dominique Marcas LOTL.

As an aside, wondering if we need to have a post here every time someone turns 100? I'd understand if it's for someone notable worldwide, but even announcing everyone who turns 100 and has an English Wikipedia page seems to be untenable. At the moment, this thread seems to be more "people turning 100" than "centenarian death announcements," tbh.

Time for a new list of hospitalised folks: 1)Sukh Ram (1927): Indian Telecom minister and crook, with a history of hospitalizations and whose condition were "irreversible" ten tears ago. Suffered a brain stroke, airtlifted to Delhi to receive treatment. Stable and improving according to the doctors. 2)Cacho Fontana (1932): heart surgery in 2009, hospitalised with COVID in critical condition in 2021, rumoured to be dead, hospitalised again with pneumonia last fall. Now in ICU with pneumonia. 3)Stefano Tacconi (1957): suffered ruptured brain aneurysm, in a coma. Son goes the Indian way as every day he is better, and the next day he is better because the day before he wasn't really better. 4)Talukder Abdul Khaleque (1952): mayor and indiscussed of Khulna, hospitalised with high fever and has suffered from sever diabetes for the last year. 5)Nuruzzaman Ahmed (1950): Bangladeshi minister of welfare, currently in CCU with severe chest pain. Stable. 6)King Salman (1935): Saudi king with a long and complex history of illness. Admitted to hospital for "tests". 7)Sukri Bommagowda (1936): Indian singer, in ICU with respiratory failure. 8)Kong Nay (1944): Cambodian singer, hospitalised with diabetes and other complications. 9)Javed Hashmi (1948): Pakistani politician, undergoing heart surgery. Suffered debilitating stroke in 2010.

Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess grandmaster, dead at 100: https://sportrbc.ru/news/627655fe9a7947d7bc330b26 José Manuel Liaño Flores, Spanish lawyer and politician, dead at 100: https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/coruna/coruna/2022/05/05/fallece-jose-manuel-liano-flores-centenario-exalcalde-coruna/00031651752901605138254.htm

British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is 96 today

Australian singer and songwriter Darren Hayes , who was part of the duo that made up the popular band Savage Garden, celebrates his 50th birthday today. Former ÙK Chancellor of the exchequer Norman Lamont, who dramatically resigned from Prime Minister John Majors government in the 1990s, celebrates his 80th birthday today.

6ix9ine is 26 today

Is the Casino returning the second half of 2022? Asking for a friend… @YoungWillz

Hospitalised.

Enrique Iglesias is 47.

Ali Hassan Mwinyi, former President of Tanzania (1985-1995) is 97 today. With Michael Jackson, February 1992

Mickey Gilley being reported dead on the TweetMusk. Edit: And here: https://abc7chicago.com/mickey-gilley-death-86-celebrity/11826584/

George Perez - Yahoo will do: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/george-p-rez-dies-acclaimed-174545653.html

On this day in 1940 , former leader of the Labour Party George Lansbury , died aged 81. He lead the Party for three years between 1932 and 1935. He started of as a radical liberal but evolved into a socialist over the years. In 1912 he helped to set up the now defunct Daily Herald newspaper. Hollywood legend Angela Lansbury is his granddaughter.

So Yuri Averbakh turns dead:

Lucile Randon yesterday, with a python:

Very old, but obviously still quite well according to a new interview: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/06/name-names-never-never-never-lee-grant-on-her-decades-of-defiance Although a sudden death can always happen at 95.

Queen Victoria did fuck all for much of the last 40 years of her reign because she was too sad. She also didn't have to worry about wankers on internet forms looking at the pictures and concluding that she needs the wheelchair because she has pancreatic cancer...

How many months has she survived your terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis for now?

DDP pick Irish mobster Cornelius Price is making minimal progress from his coma. He can basically only open and close his eyes, so he is out of the coma but apparently extremely mentally challenged: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/gravely-ill-gang-boss-cornelius-price-may-never-face-justice-over-kidnap-plot-41616999.html

FTFY

1969 World Cycling Champion Harm Ottenbros dead at 78.

German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler Eva Braun died on this day 77 years ago, aged 33. American soul and R&B singer and record producer Ben E. King died on this day 7 years ago, aged 76. British-American actor who was best known for portraying Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series Peter Mayhew died on this day 3 years ago, aged 74. English actor Bob Hoskins died on this day 8 years ago, aged 71. American actress Agnes Moorehead died on this day 48 years ago, aged 73. Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945 Adolf Hitler died on this day 77 years ago, aged 56.

Richard Nixon died on this day 28 years ago, aged 81. Today's interesting subject fact: Nixon considered having a domestic political opponent killed while he was in office. In 1972, investigative journalist Jack Anderson was targeted for assassination by senior White House officials (these were Watergate's E. Howard Hunt and the late G. Gordon Liddy). Anderson consistently wrote negative articles focusing on White House-related scandals, and Nixon stated "we've got to do something with this son of a bitch". A mole was sent to Anderson's office, but Anderson's secretary removed them from the premises due to suspicious activity. The CIA also surveilled Anderson, but were chased away by his children, and mocked the agency's incompetence. As these didn't work, the officials decided assassination was their last option. They decided to either smear a lethal dose of LSD on the steering wheel of Anderson's car, place poisoned drugs in his medicine cabinet, kill him in a car crash, or stage a mugging... then spying on the Democratic Party's HQ became the top priority, and the idea was aborted. Anderson died in December 2005 at the age of 83, 11 years after Nixon.