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British actress Millicent Martin celebrates her 88th birthday today. The accomplished actress of stage and screen was tony nominated for her role in theatre show Side by side by Sondheim and starred in numerous other successful stage productions such as 42nd Street and King of hearts. In film Millicents credits include Alfie where Michael Caine was her costar and film adaptation of a stage musical Stop the world-I want to get off . A recurring role on US sitcom Frazier playing Gertrude Moon and four years in US Daytime soap Days of our lives are some of her more recent work. Former England International cricketer Derek Underwood celebrates his 77th birthday today. He played for the national team from 1966-1982.

Not on this list, but HK prominent businessman Hu Fa-kuang has died at 98. The old ones resist. Also pro-Bejing politician Hau Shui-pui (wiki) is due to turn 98 in a few days.

Muhammad, the prophet of the Muslim faith, died on this day 1390 years ago, aged 62. This is probably the best image I'm allowed to show. The reason why Muslims get angry at visual depictions of Muhammad is that they believe that they should be worshipping Allah (God) more, and worship of the prophet is shunned. The Quran, however, does not explicitly forbid pictures, but considering the extremist reactions to 21st-century depictions, I'm not taking any chances. Anyways, here's the story of Islam: As an adult, Muhammad would isolate himself in a cave to pray for several days at a time. During one of these prayer sessions in 610, Muhammad was visited by the archangel Gabriel, who gave him a revelation. Muhammad then began to preach to his polytheistic peers that there is only one god, and complete devotion to Him was the right way of life. Muhammad began to attract followers/companions, but they were persecuted by the polytheists, and they fled from Mecca to Medina in 622, which is considered the beginning of the Islamic calendar. Muhammad gained more followers there, and amassed a holy army. In 629, they returned to Mecca with little resistance, and destroyed sculptures of the polytheistic deities in the Kaaba- the place of worship. During the annual Hajj, millions of devout Muslims circle this place as an act of devotion to Allah. One specific "companion" of Muhammad I would like to bring light to was his pet cat. Her name was Muezza, and there is a story regarding her: one day, Muhammad was putting his prayer clothes on, only to find Muezza sleeping on his robe's sleeve. Rather than awakening her, Muhammad cut the sleeve off, leaving her undisturbed.

Been brought to my attention that Bob Lockyer, essentially head of dance programming at the BBC for forty or so years has died aged 80: https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/news/a-tribute-to-bob-lockyer Partner of the late Sir John Drummond until his death in 2006, Lockyer essentially championed dance on the BBC, particularly with an emphasis on contemporary dance and worked with some of the best choreographers and the Arts Council to keep dance in the public eye. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end of 2020. Now for some reason he's listed on IMDB as Bob Lockyear, but I cannot find any reference to him being named thus anywhere else. He is in fact fully named as Robert Lockyer-Nibbs here: https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/dance-honours-12763 He has a better resume on the BFI website: https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0d0197e. IMDB does not have a date of birth, but I've been doing some digging. He had a birthday bash for his 70th on 13 April 2012: https://dancetabs.com/2012/04/bob-lockyers-birthday-bash-london/ and he was definitely born in April 1942 by this Companies House entry: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/JYd5gwRBsKa0miz8BLlXXICREiQ/appointments which ties in with this: https://www.lostdogdance.co.uk/whoweare/boblockyer Think from everything he died on or around 5 June 2022, nothing certainly on Twitter before then. Just in case someone wanted to let IMDB know...

James Ruppert, who killed 11 family members in 1975, has died at a corrections medical facility. He was 88. https://dayton247now.com/news/local/cincinnati-james-ruppert-hamilton-man-who-killed-11-family-members-in-1975-has-died-easter-shot-insanity-trial-columbus-brother-children-sister-in-law

Today is the Los Angeles mayoral primary election. I decided to check on my Death By Numbers pick former mayor Richard Riordan. He still seems like a good possibility.

Reet gang, I'm seeing no challenger to Drol's achievement, feel free to pile in with congratulations and - assuming - no cooling corpse is discovered to spoil the fun by lunchtime tomorrow I'll negotiate a prize with Drol and we can mark off the un-prized podium places then allow the thread to die a natural death, or summat.

Death notice for Maceo Martin Jr., aged 98, a flight officer with the Tuskegee Airmen during WWII. Mention of him here on his father's Wiki (his father was a famous banker/civil rights activist).

On this day in 1969 american actor Robert Taylor died aged 57 from lung cancer. A very busy actor especially during the 1930s pre war period Taylor starred in films such as A Wicked woman (1934) , The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) - alongside Joan Crawford, Magnificent Obession (1935) with Irene Dunne and The Crowd Roars (1938) with costars Mickey Rooney and Maureen O'Sullivan. His first wife was legendary Hollywood actress Barbara Stanwyck.

Congrats Drol. Well played

Yes sir. Done sir.

Gina Moscone, the former First Lady of San Francisco and the widow of slain politician George Moscone, has died. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Gina-Moscone-wife-of-assassinated-S-F-Mayor-17226317.php (Behind a paywall.)

Let's have an update... Not the biggest four weeks in deadpooling, but a surprising amount of surprising unique hits. Jack Higgins, the crime writer, was a unique hit for the Daredevil. Already a bit ago, only now in the score. Teresa Berganza, the opera singer, was a unique hit for Great Uncle Bulgaria, well done. As mentioned by Willz, Walter Abish is a unique hit for Doulton. Destined for the DDP list of the lost, he gets the New York Times obit here. Boris Pahor was a unique hit for Kenny. 13 points are better than zero. Roger Angell, the eminent baseball writer is a unique hit for Torva Messor, well done as well! Even Lester Piggott was a unique hit, this time for theoldlady, who sadly, I haven't seen in quite a while... keltos31 gets another unique hit with former Ukranian president Leonid Krawchuk. A couple of names who are probably not going to get an obit: Dominique Marcas, Josef Abrham, Ciriaco De Mita. keltos31 suffers two non-obits in one update. Our QO sources don't really like those continental names. One score removal: Unfortunately, I think the last update gave JoeyRuss points for Natty Wailer? I have unchecked that box, so, sorry... The resulting scoreboard is this, and I hope this is everything. Next time, I'll have a more exhaustive check. And I kind of feel that the next update will have some bigger names. Rank Team Score 1 Salmon Mousse 858 2 Banana 853 3 Joey Russ 755 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 414 16 Theoldlady 387 17 Toast 383 18 YorkshireBanker 365 19 Great Uncle Bulgaria 344 20 JoeMoneypenny 318 21 Baby Blue 296 22 JohnKey 280 23 Torva Messor 275 24 The old crem 274 25 Annami 256 26 Buffalo Phil 249 26 The Daredevil 249 28 CalebH 248 29 The Unknown Man 244 30 Sean 221 31 Bibliogryphon 206 32 Famous6Eva 181 33 Liz Lemon 169 34 Pedro67 146 35 Wormfarmer 137 36 YoungWillz 130 37 Doulton 88 37 keltos31 88 39 markb4 84 40 Gooseberry Crumble 61 41 Hell 57 42 chilean way 49 43 The Spinosaurus 34 44 Captain Hemlock 0

Marco Luzzago, Lieutenant of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta since November 2020 dead at 72: Grand Commander Ruy Gonçalo do Valle Peixoto de Villas Boas, 82, now apparently the interim Lieutenant (again). Former lieutenant/grand commander Ludwig Hoffmann-Rumerstein is still alive at 85 and apparently I mentioned him the last time I reported the death of a Order of Malta "head of state"/"monarch"

P. Sabanayagam, Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary when Karunanidhi was CM, 100 today. Article doesn't include a recent picture of him, but here's one from December:

They are computer-generated. You can often recognize them by their identical layout. These sites have the same structure and usually no individual author. Then at the end the original source is linked to.

Shaun Greatbatch QO @gcreptile: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/darts/shaun-greatbatch-nine-darter-dies-27161329

Russian chess master and trainer Alexander Nikitin reported dead: https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/alexander_nikitin_1935_2022_passed_away/ Trained notable names such as Garry Kasparov and was second to Boris Spassky in the revenge match against Bobby Fischer.

Can’t dance either, apparently.

The slow hit rate of May was compensated for by losing one of the year's most popular picks. Superhero inksmith George Perez was tied with Gary Burgess and Jimmy Carter as the third most popular HPDP pick, with 16 selections. The hits are as follows: Funeralopolis, gcreptile, Thatcher, and Torva Messor draw up 40 points. BabyBlue, CaptainChorizo, drol, and Salmon Mousse 35. Banana and Perhaps 30. JoeMoneypenny and msc 25. MariNisia 20. Valhalla One 10. and Book and chilean way 25 sub points. Also dead this past month was Holocaust survivor and Slovene-language author Boris Pahor. Only six feet blunder placed him on the main team, and consequentially gains 70 points (50 base + 20 bonus). Annami lands her first sub for 25 points, while Perhaps lands his second for 50. The popular Perez hit means a lot of gains on the latest scoreboard, if not much change to the actual dynamic. Perhaps emerges the biggest winner thanks to also having Pahor. 1. Book 315 2. gcreptile 268.81 3. Banana 245.81 4. Salmon Mousse 211 5. msc 210 6. Perhaps 193 7. CaptainChorizo 187 8. drol 165 9. DevonDeathTrip 158 10. maryportfuncity 140 11. Annami 119 12. theoldlady 113.82 13. Pedro67 113 14. markb4 108.99 15. Torva Messor 104 16. Kenny 99 17. six feet blunder 95 18. Toast 91 19. Thatcher 85 20. Funeralopolis 80 21. MariNisia 78 22. Great Uncle Bulgaria 73 23. John Key 72.99 24. An Fear Beag 70.81 25. YorkshireBanker 56 26. The Unknown Man 42 27. JoeMoneypenny 39 28. BabyBlue 35 29. Exu 32 30. Famous6Eva 28 =31. chilean way 25 =31. Gooseberry Crumble 25 =31. GuyFromFuture 25 34. Valhalla One 10 =35. Hell 0.99 =35. The Old Crem 0.99 =37. Bibliogryphon 0 =37. CalebH 0 =37. Death Impends 0 =37. DeathByArsenic 0 =37. Doulton 0 =37. Dying Probably 0 =37. Joey Russ 0 =37. TheSpinosaurus 0 =37. time 0 =37. YoungWillz 0

Shouldn't you have put this in the conspiracy theory thread?

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

Former Prime Minister of New Zaeland, Mike Moore, dead at 71 years: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12305261

North Dakota first female senator Jocelyn Burdick dead at 97 years: https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/government-and-politics/4841039-Jocelyn-Burdick-North-Dakotas-first-female-US-Senator-dies-at-97