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Bunch of amateurs without stamina... that account is a mere 5 months old, while this thread was started in 2005 and he was first included on the Deathlist in 1993.

Telegraph death notice for Baroness Pamela Sharples (wiki) who has died aged 99. Means that there are now no former female MPs or peers who are older than the Queen. It also leaves the Queen as the last female establishment figure who served in WWII. Sharples was a tough old cookie and I thought she may have seen 100. Drove lorries during WWII, still drinking champers and playing golf at 91. In her late 80s she took a swing at a cyclist who nearly ran her over. Aged 90 she survived pneumonia after being hospitalised for 6 weeks (including 3 days in intensive care). Quite the character. They don't make them like that anymore! Just 10 WWII vets remaining from Parliament and the monarchy.

Stanley Baxter, #35 on the list, is 96.

@Bibliogryphon... my candidate Pamela Sharples is dead. The announcement of her death was today but she died on 19th May, two days before the death of @arghton's pick. I don't like to win a point this way... it just doesn't seem right. I have replaced Pamela Sharples. The round continues. Thank you for your understanding.

Richard Sung Hong "Dickie" Wong...quite a mouthful, former state senate president of Hawaii and a "powerbroker" dead at 88: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/05/24/hawaii-news/richard-sung-hong-dickie-wong-1933-2022-longtime-power-broker-in-legislature-was-a-target-of-broken-trust/

Ukranian champion boxer Oleg Prudky, a semi-pro boxer, dies on the frontline: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/ukrainian-champion-boxer-dies-fighting-27049760

Veteran television actor Horst Sachtleben has died aged 91: https://www.welt.de/regionales/berlin/article238952843/Schauspieler-Horst-Sachtleben-mit-91-Jahren-gestorben.html He became famous in several roles in television series from the 1960s to the 2010s, at the latest as bishop turnind cardinal in the long running series "Um Himmels Willen" ("For heaven's sake").

Indeed Joe Pignatano is the sixth overall hit for both @Toast and @Perhaps For Toast this is just another addition to their tally and does not bring any new ways to win but might be important in deciding later ties For Perhaps this is a first hit in the Baseball category and therefore they are down to needing a British Cabinet Minister to win. Unfortunately these are heavily in demand and a lack of unique leaves Perhaps at a disadvantage as three of his 'outs' are taken by players whose claim trumps them but there are two new outs to add to the list. We are now up to 19 1. John Aniston (ro) 2. Vasily Borisov (to) 3. Peter Brooke (ph) 4. Irene Camber (to) 5. Kenneth Clarke (ro) 6. Norman Fowler (ro) 7. Tom Gayford (ro) 8. Gordy Giovenelli (to) 9. Roy Hattersley (ro) 10. Douglas Hurd (ro) 11. Nigel Lawson (mc) 12. James Mackay (bp) 13. John Morris (bp) 14. Koji Murofushi (to) 15. John Nott (ph) 16. Bob Richards (to) 17. Bill Rodgers (bp) 18. Norman Tebbit (ro) 19. Anthony Zerbe (ro)

Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison died on this day 143 years ago, aged 73. Garrison began working for antislavery papers as a teen. In 1831, he founded his own newspaper, The Liberator. Garrison also championed for women's rights, and The Liberator became the leading publication for said movement in the 1840s. In 1854, Garrison infamously burned a copy of the US Constitution. The next year, his fellow abolitionist Frederick Douglass disassociated himself with him, as he viewed some points of the Constitution could be used to argue against slavery- they reconciled in 1873. The state of Georgia put a bounty on his head for this. After the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, Garrison ceased publishing The Liberator, and left his positions in antislavery organizations- the issue was over. He would continue supporting African-American and female rights until his death from renal failure. While Garrison was indeed noble in the fight against slavery and the suffrage movement, he was also a rabid anti-Semite. He believed that the scattering of Jews out of Israel was a justified punishment for the crucifixion of Jesus, and called the pro-slavery sheriff Mordecai Noah a "Shylock" (after the main character of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, who was a Jewish stereotype) and claimed he was a direct descendent of the people who nailed Jesus to the cross.

American singer Patti Labelle, whose most famous song is the very cheesy pop song Lady Marmalade turns 78 today.

Posted elsewhere on the DL but, q/o for Dervla Murphy - unique pick for The Sick-Bed of Cuchulainn in Theme Team League Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61555159

Would obit no problem. 30 years ago ITV had a 4 part miniseries "Frankie's House" based on his book Page After Page where it covers his time in Vietnam with Sean Flynn (son of Errol). It was on youtube worth a watch if you have a few hours to kill.

Bob Dylan is 81 today

Thom Bresh, country singer and composer, reportedly dead aged 74: https://steveandjohnnie.wordpress.com/2022/05/24/r-i-p-thom-bresh/ Illegitimate child of Merle Travis, who swore Bresh to secrecy about his true parentage until Bresh's stepfather died. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2133980/ Various country hits in the 1970s, including:

Oh I wouldn't be taunting the grim reaper if I was in his position

American business magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller died on this day 85 years ago, aged 97. American author, designer and illustrator of children’s books Eric Carle died on this day a year ago, aged 91. English actor Roger Moore died on this day 5 years ago, aged 89. American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial different equations John Forbes Nash Jr. died on this day 7 years ago, aged 86.

Re that 2nd Telefis album, I've seen stuff about that. I got the impression there was an album's worth recorded and it just needed finishing - hopefully it'll still get a release if that's the case.

Now I have images of her using the buggy to run over Tory ministers. "Oops, excuse one, one is old and frail. Hehehe!"

Singer Lena Meyer Landrut who won the Eurovision song contest in 2010 for Germany with song Satellite turns 31 today.

Joe Pignatano (wiki) dead at 92. 9 Brooklyn Dodgers remain.

Andrei Shevchik, Russian-appointed mayor of Enerhodar in intensive care after getting wounded in an explosion: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-backed-mayor-ukraine-nuclear-plant-town-wounded-by-explosion-reports-2022-05-22/

Remarried in 1986 to Peter J Gould. She kept the "Ford" part and became "Cynthia F. Gould" it would seem. Died in Milwaukee around July 2014. Her obituary isn't online but there's a record of it existing here.

I agree with a lot on Phantom's list. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I have to say 'everything by the Beatles' would be on my list. I loved them as a kid, but all those songs are worn out and tired for me now. And after too many years of working retail and having to listen to the same dozen songs over and over again hours a day for a month and a half at a go, 'all Christmas music' would also be on that list. Ditto loving the carols/songs as a kid, ditto on the worn-out-tired factor. I'd also add 'everything by Michael Jackson' with the exception of "Man in the Mirror."