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Brilliant thread as ever, Ulitzer. Easily one of the best for easily sourcing information in the last few years.

Rest in what? Sodano embodied the absolute worse of Vatican hierarchy! He used his immense power to cover up abuses from the clergy for years and he himself was a closeted homosexual and suspected paedophile. He defined abuses by priests as "petty gossip". He was so much of a cunt he was even hated in a place full of cunts like the Vatican. Hell of a good riddance, he was probably the worst.

Well said. I for one find this thread very interesting.

As with most in the Vatican, rest in...something

Angelo Sodano dead. (link in Italian)

Bob Hall, former ITVCentral sports presenter, has died. A familiar presence on Midlands TV screens until unceremoniously dumped; he seemed to have migrated to Sky a few years back.

So, saw this posted online by one of the leading lights of ASSAP (Association for the Scientific Study of Anamalous Phenomena) - not pleasant reading but highly interesting and it puts the current criticism of the Texas police into context: I don't often talk about this (you can find it on my timeline if you search though) but some years ago I ploughed through a research project on school shootings. I read the reports, crunched the data and what I found was even sadder than I expected. Because it is not discussed much and there is never a good time to raise it, I'm going to mention it now despite the raw tragedy. The average school shooting seems to last 5 to 8 minutes. Your chance of survival is high if you are more than seven minutes from the entrance. Any kind of locked door or barricade seems to help. School shooters appear to grow despondent, sick of killing and realise what they have done very quickly. It is an anticlimax. From that point on they only kill if fired upon, and then tend to target the police, aiming at suicide by cop, or shoot themselves, perhaps after an hour. After 10 minutes they shoot others sporadically if at all; usually ignoring victims. This pattern is despite all the psychological variables consistent across cultures and four decades. It appears predictable. You can test the observation by reading the reports of timelines yourself: even Wikipedia will show you the data you need. I've never seen anyone else propose it but given it seems valid I defend cops who don't rush in I guess: after the first 10 minutes you probably want to contain the shooter and assuming no hostages evacuate safely the other kids. Problem is the wounded bleeding out. However what if you go straight in? It's not tried often. However at Sandy Hook officers arrived in 5 minutes, heard a shot and 4 minutes later charged in. It was over: the shot they had heard was the shooter killing himself. It might save lives but first responders are rarely SWAT or HRT trained. So I guess my conclusion was that these things happen too fast for police response to effect the outcome: which is no excuse for the stories we are hearing from Texas. If you won't ban guns then locked doors and schools that are as secure as prisons might be your answer. None of it though does the slightest thing to bring back more innocent lives lost, or make any of it less tragic

Angelo Sodano a hit for @chilean way. Congratulations. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/cardinal-angelo-sodano-dead-at-94?s=r next round: 1922 Mildred T. Stahlman / Ronald Blythe 1923 Judith Hemmendinger / Bob Barker 1924 Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg / Woody Woodbury 1925 Ruth Slenczynska / Johnny Lujack 1926 Gudrun Ure / David Frankham 1927 Pat Carroll / Harry Belafonte 1928 Ruth Westheimer / Jayanta Mahapatra 1929 Joan Plowright / Don January 1930 Sandra Day O'Connor / Thomas Patten Stafford 1931 Barbara Barrie / Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

So, the paedo is dead and @Grimgrass wins the round. Congrats! New round to be started.

Arrived today. Collection complete.

Game will end when Manolic, Bermudez and Echeverria are dead. Knowing old Luis, it will take 20-30 years.

Well here's an updated list: 1) 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, in ICU with serious pneumonia in 2022. As far as I know, he hasn't been discharged yet despite how he was "improving and going to be discharged soon" two weeks ago... 2) Stefano Tacconi (1957) Ruptured brain aneurysm last month, was in coma but now out of ICU. Discharged. 3) Talukder Abdul Khaleque (1952) Mayor of Khulna, Bangladesh. Diabetes, fever, heart problems As far as I know he still hasn't been discharged. 4) Javed Hashmi (1948) Pakistani politician, serious stroke in 2010, hospitalised multiple times later with heart problems. See above. 5) Valentin Uritescu (1941) Romanian actor who has been suffering from parkinson's for 47 years, hospitalised with high BP and other problems two weeks ago. DEAD! 6) Mike Peters (1959) Lead singer of The Alarm, chronic leukaemia sufferer hospitalised with severe pneumonia around two weeks ago but "on the road to recovery" Discharged 7) "General" Simphiwe Sibisi (?) Failed stomach operation last year, now fighting for his life in hospital, suffering from stomach cancer. 8) Juha Väätäinen (1941) 1971 European Athletics Championships gold medalist. Skin cancer, serious fall in 2014, near-fatal car crash in 2017, heart surgery in 2021. Now hospitalised after suffering a stroke, and apparently also suffers from cancer. 9) Giorgio Napolitano (1925) aortic dissection in 2018, hospitalised in 2021 and now hospitalised for "delicate" abdominal surgery. However he is now out of ICU and improving. Discharged 10) Alpha Condé (1938) Former President of Guinea 11) Sinisa Mihajlovic (1969) Former Bologna boss who suffers from a severe form of leukemia, hospitalised for over a month march-may and now back in hospital. 12) T. Rajendar (1955) Indian Tamil film industry filmmaker , apparently suffered a cardiac arrest this month and now hospitalised with a stomach clot and to undergo surgery abroad. 13) Thomas Markle (1944) Meghan's dad, has suffered a serious stroke, also obese with heart issues and a history of drug/alcohol use. Discharged 14) Zeta Emilianidou (1954) Cyprus labour minister, in induced coma after suffering a serious hemorrhagic stroke ten days ago DEAD!!! 15) Munawwar Rana (1952) Controversial Indian Urdu poet, was critical yesterday with a serious kidney illness, heart attack and problems with other organs yesterday. 16) Balwinder Safri (?) Punjabi/Birmingham Bhangra star now apparently pretty much braindead after a heart surgery. 17) Almazbek Atambayev (1956) Former President of Kyrgyzstan hospitalised with heart problems 18) Bonda Mani (1963) Indian Tamil actor hospitalised with "serious heart disease" 19) G.N. Saibaba (1967) Indian Delhi university professor and human rights activist, 90% disabled, put into jail last year due to connections to maoists and now severely ill after a four-day hunger strike 20) Alberto Fujimori (1938) Almost forgot him! Former Peruvian president/dictator hospitalised once again with heart problems, pulmonary fibrosis and everything else last week

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.

By putting you out of your misery with a ban? I do hope so, as all you post is shite – namely abuse of others or just spam level cut and pasted stories like “Local police officer Jarvis W. Smith died in San Antonio on Thursday his family announced” that nobody gives a flying fuck about. @Paul Bearer you should’ve banned this nuisance about 5 years ago.

Congrats, chilean way! 1922: Ray Anthony / Selma van de Perre 1923: Rudolph A. Marcus / Ida Vitale 1924: Lubomir Strougal / Mildred Miller 1925: Mahatmir Mohamad / Virginia Patton 1926: Ed Williams / Betye Saar 1927: William Daniels / Gina Lollobrigida 1928: Federico Bahamontes / Jutta Müller 1929: X.J. Kennedy / Vera Miles 1930: Bernie Ecclestone / Vigdís Finnbogadóttir 1931: Mario Zagallo / Kyoko Kagawa 

André Hissink (102), the last surving member of the No. 320 Netherlands Squadron RAF, has his heartwish fulfilled and has his dutch citizenship back after 69 years: https://nos.nl/artikel/2430484-hartewens-van-102-jarige-veteraan-vervuld-hij-is-weer-nederlander . (story in English: ctvnews.ca/canada/102-year-old-veteran-wins-campaign-for-dutch-citizenship-after-a-70-year-wait-1.5921867)

Congrats chilean way

Congrats Chilean Way  1922     Rhoda Wurtele / Jean Malaurie 1923 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat / Jack Burke 1924 Carole Cook / Jimmy Carter 1925 Angela Lansbury / Dick van Dyke  1926 Queen Elizabeth / Stanley Baxter  1927 Genevieve Page  / Vin Scully 1928 Yvonne Furneaux / Joss Ackland 1929 Lady Pamela Hicks / Stuart Hall 1930 Tippi Hedren / Rolf Harris  1931 Claire Bloom / Robert Duvall

Congrats chilean way 1922: Ravipudi Venkatadri / Gaositwe Chiepe 1923: Ezekiel Kuti / Qian Zhengying 1924: Khamtai Siphandone / Grace Onyango 1925: Ronnie de Mel/ Letitia Obeng 1926: Yoshimi Osawa / Irene Camber 1927: Ahmad Jannati / Aira Samulin 1928: Paul Dooley / Nguyễn Thị Bình 1929: James Hong / Violeta Chamorro 1930: Emmanuel Milingo / Faith Ringgold 1931: Michael Hardie Boys / Iride Semprini

congrats @chilean way 1922 Luis Echeverria/Janis Paige 1923 Henry Kissinger/Glynis Johns 1924 Leslie Phillips/Joyce Randolph 1925 Giorgio Napolitano/June Lockhart 1926 Jiang Zemin/Irene Papas 1927 Tin Oo/Estelle Parsons 1928 James Watson/Ethel Kennedy 1929 Bob Newhart/Barbara Walters 1930 Jean-Louis Trintignant/Joanne Woodward 1931 Raul Castro/Sylvia Pinal

Norm Dolph, who produced The Velvet Underground & Nico album, also wrote the lyrics to Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) by Reunion and other songs. Reportedly dead aged 83: https://news.yahoo.com/r-p-norman-dolph-early-165430090.html Life Is A Rock reached #8 in the US Hot 100, but also hit #33 in the UK in September 1974:

Kim Yong-nam is on Hyon's state funeral committee, a sign he retains some power and may not be in too bad conditions. O Kuk-ryol is nowhere to be seen, despite being a military type like Hyon. That might suggest he is close ti circling the drain too.

Sir Angus Grossart, Scottish lawyer turned merchant banker reportedly dead aged 85: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/scotland/3297122/scottish-businessman-passes-away/ How's that £5m dividend you got a couple of years working out for you?

From the Dead of 2007 thread above. The original link to Thompson's death (not quoted) is as dead as Thompson, as OP originally thought it was a drug overdose, but turns out Thompson died of poisoning from a faulty air-con unit. Anyhoo, there's a report here (how reliable I dunno, but the sources quoted seem genuine) of original member of Hi-Five Roderick Pooh Clark's death aged 49 here: https://icecreamconvos.com/roderick-pooh-clark-original-hi-five-member-passes-away-at-49/ A Billboard number one as reported above, but only 43 in the UK in June 1991: Clark had been paralysed in a car accident in 1992.

Guardian Obit for Kathleen Baker (nee Potter) who wrote for Crown Court, Emmerdale Farm and Brookside: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/09/kathleen-baker-obituary She was the widow of Howard Baker, director/producer on Crown Court and Coronation Street, and who died in 1993.