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5 pointsIronic that Robin Day's famous line was about Nott being a "here today and, if I may say so, gone tomorrow politician", and yet Day and most of Nott's contemporaries are long gone, while Nott has nott gone, in fact he is still here.
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3 pointsThe scoreboard has been updated @gcreptile gets a fourth hit overall a second in this category @An Fear Beag gets a fifth hit overall a third in this category @Banana gets a sixth hit overall and a third in this category So none of the players move into a winning position but two are now two hits from victory in the single category method
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3 pointsI see Robert Cogoi who represented Belgium at the 1964 Contest finishing tenth equal with Pres De Ma Riviere has died aged 82: https://www-telesambre-be.translate.goog/deces-de-robert-cogoi-retour-sur-sa-carriere?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Unfortunately the 1964 contest is known for little remaining of tape of the event, so here's the man himself elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJF62xBu-PM
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2 pointsKay Mellor, guilty of crimes against humanity by launching the career of James Corden in her penned Fat Friends, dead at 71: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61478428 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578117/
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2 pointsKong Nay was discharged already five days ago but the "returning to his hometown to spend the last days of his life there" part makes it, well, sound like he doesn't have much left. He also looks like a corpse in that picture. There hasn't as far as I know been any news on Cacho Fontana and Valentin Uritescu recently. Fontana was "improving and going to be discharged in the coming days" four days ago so either he'll be discharged very soon or something has happened.
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2 pointsSouth Korea's "National Singing Contest" has a 95-year old host, MC Song Hae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Hae He's now been hospitalised but is not yet critical and the whole nation wonders if he has to resign: https://www.allkpop.com/article/2022/05/95-years-old-veteran-mc-song-hae-hospitalized-due-to-health-issues
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2 pointsRainer Basedow, German TV, film and stage actor, has died at the age of 83 after a serious illness, which was not specified. He also did cabaret and voice acting, e.g. John Belushi in "Blues Brothers" or Pumbaa in "The Lion King". https://www.stern.de/kultur/film/rainer-basedow--die-deutsche-stimme-von-pumbaa-ist-gestorben-31866978.html
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2 pointsIs he not(t) the one who stormed out of an interview with Robin Day was it? "I've had enough of this now" and then ripping his lapel mike off? Maybe he's politically sharper now than he appeared then?
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2 pointsQueen Maxima of the Netherlands turns 51 today. She has been Queen of the Netherlands since 2013 when her mother in law Queen Beatrix abdicated the throne to make way for her eldest son.
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1 pointAmerican statesman, patriot, diplomat, Founding Father, abolitionist, negotiator, and signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 John Jay died on this day 193 years ago, aged 83.
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1 pointYes, indeed. Congrats from the host. Mottelson was a 95-year-old Danish nuklear physicist, who shared his 1975 Nobel Prize in physics with Leo Rainwater and Aage Bohr, the son of the better known Nils. He scores 1.420 points for @chilean way, who I ask to choose a new candidate in physics. Mottelson is currently the oldest hit in the contest, so there is one possible bonus point. But there is time left for one older to die. Whoever will choose David Baltimore as a hit, will score bonus points too, since he is now the last surviving laureate from 1975.
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1 pointAmerican novelist Herman Wouk died on this day 3 years ago, aged 103. After publishing two novels in the late 1940s to little fanfare, Wouk's first successful book was 1951's The Caine Mutiny. Relying heavily on elements from his service during World War II (which includes serving on a minesweeper boat and enduring Typhoon Ida in the Western Pacific), it was a historical fiction novel about the moral dilemmas naval officers faced during the time. It won the Pulitzer Prize the following year, and was adapted into a film in 1954 starring Humphrey Bogart (it was the second highest-grossing film of the year, behind White Christmas). More of Wouk's movies were adapted into movies, including 1955's Marjorie Morningstar (which drew from his Jewish heritage), starring Natalie Wood. He wrote the screenplay for the 1956 film Slattery's Hurricane. Wouk's career had a revival in the '70s and '80s when he wrote two more historical fiction novels: The Winds of War (1971) and its sequel War and Remembrance (1978)- this time, they focused on a family during the entirety of World War II. These were adapted into TV miniseries in 1983 and 1988, the former of which was viewed by 140 million people- the most viewers of any miniseries at that time. Wouk first appeared on DeathList in 2001, when he was a mere 85 years old. After a nine-year absence, he returned in 2010, then in 2012, and was consecutively on the list from 2015 until his death for a total of eight appearances (three in the top 5). He died ten days before his 104th birthday, and was the third DeathList hit within a week (Doris Day and Bob Hawke were the other two). (this was him at 102- for comparison, the first picture was probably from the 1950s)
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1 pointRuth Knelman, the 2nd oldest verified living person in Minnesota and 15th oldest verified person living in the U.S., has died. She was just shy of her 112th birthday. https://www.fox9.com/news/111-year-old-minnesotan-dies-just-before-turning-112?taid=6283052a89369800010b2f01&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_people_in_the_United_States
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1 pointThere's more about the ROCOR for example here: https://text.npr.org/1096741988 During the last years, the last months it has attracted a lot of those conspiracy nutjobs especially in the United States. In ROCOR, they (converts in West Virginia) felt they had found a church that has remained the same, regardless of place, time and politics. But Riccardi-Swartz also found strong strains of nativism, white nationalism and pro-authoritarianism, evidenced by strong admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin. An Orthodox Church in America priest from Ohio was briefly suspended after he was seen in a video wearing his cassock on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, after he attended the Stop the Steal rally in Washington, D.C.
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1 pointAs mentioned elsewhere, a hit for @chilean way with Ben Roy Mottelson dead.
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1 pointJust caught up with this doc tonight and can confirm John Nott is in incredible shape. Assumed he must be either a) younger than I assumed or b) it was old footage but neither is true. He's 90 years old and all the interviews seem to be new for the documentary. Passes for a man at least 15 years younger and still incredibly sharp. Had some revealing and surprisingly honest comments about the Falklands, such as that he could barely pick them off a map in the early 1980s and that we weren't interested in what was going on in Buenos Aires, just the Soviets in Europe.
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1 pointBen Roy Mottelson (wiki), American/Danish nuclear physicist (+ the 1975 laureate in the Physics category), dead at 95. Not picked in the DDP this year. Note: Mottelson was Denmark's only living Nobel laureate.
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1 pointSeyyed Fateminia, picked last month, now dead, too: https://en.mehrnews.com/news/186826/Ayatollah-Fateminia-passes-away-at-76 He was my first substitution, if I recall correctly. Close, but still a miss.
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1 pointI love it how Finland always seem like they just want to rock Hopefully their army is more up to date with things.
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1 pointBritish actress and singer Martine McCutcheon turns 46 today. Her big breakthrough came when she was cast as Tiffany Raymond in EastEnders in the 1990s .She subsequently left to pursue a singing career and other acting roles including starring in the hit romantic comedy film Love Actually in 2002 as the Downing Street tea lady who falls in love with the British Prime Minister played by Hugh Grant.
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1 pointLots of crypto currencies have collapsed in the past few days, and even the bigger ones like Bitcoin or Ethereum are down quite a bit: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61425209.amp I think it's the perfect time to buy a dogecoin.
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1 pointInge Viett, member of the Red Army Faction who then became (or already was) a leftist author, has died at 78: https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/426215.bewaffneter-kampf-inge-viett-gestorben.html
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