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Ronny Cox, American film and television character actor, guitarist, singer and songwriter best known for being part of popular films such as "Deliverance", "Beverly Hills Cop", "RoboCop" and "Total Recall", is 84 today. Woody Harrelson, American film and television actor who first made his fame when he was cast as the ingenuous Woody Boyd on the television sitcom "Cheers" for eight seasons, is 61 today.

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, died on this day 137 years ago, aged 63. Here's a list of interesting facts about Grant: - Like Harry S. Truman, the "S" in his name stood for nothing. He added it because his original initials were H.U.G. (Hiram Ulysses Grant). - Grant loved horses since a young age, and it was during his childhood that he became a pro at horseback riding- one circus horse that was trained to buck everyone off it could not get an 11-year-old Grant off of it. During the Civil War, he ordered one of his soldiers tied to a tree for six hours for whipping their horse. - During his presidency, Grant was given a speeding ticket while driving a horse-drawn carriage. - Despite his reputation as a fearless general, Grant was known to have hemophobia (fear of blood), and ordered meat that he ate charred. - The photo above of Grant wearing a beanie was one of the last ones taken of him, three and a half weeks before his death of throat cancer (Grant was a lifelong smoker). He was largely in debt, though his widow Julia received compensation from his posthumous memoir sales (the memoirs were published by his friend, Mark Twain). - Despite Groucho Marx's famous You Bet Your Life question, Grant is technically not buried in Grant's tomb- his sarcophagus is above ground.

Ugh. How could anyone squirt some strange man's jizz into them without Revolting.

Now heres one to make me feel old!! Harry Potter turns 33 today! Sorry rather british actor Daniel Radcliffe whose most famous role is undoubtedly Harry Potter , celebrates his 33rd birthday today. British singer David Essex celebrates his 75th birthday today.

Now 82 years old, he has mild Covid: https://www.jambase.com/article/phil-lesh-covid-19-string-cheese-incident-red-rocks-canceled

On this day in 1950 the 10th Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon MacKenzie King died aged 75. He served as Prime Minister three times in non consecutive terms. He was thee dominant political figure of his era. He was the leader of the Liberal Party from 1919-1948 and was Canadas Prime minister from 1921-1926, he resigned briefly in 1926 after King Byng affair - essentially there was a big constitutional crisis when the governor general of Canada refused Prime Minister Kings request to dissolve Parliament so he could call a general election. Briefly replaced as PM for less than 3 months by Arthur Meighen , leader of the Conservative party when the crisis was resolved and an election held , King won and served a second term from 1926-1930. However as they went into the 1930 general election, just as the deep economic problems of that decade were starting to manifest, King was seen to badly mishandled the country's economic woes. He underplayed the situation and believed the economic depression was just a minor blip as part of the down part of the business cycle and not a major crisis. The voters punished him and the Liberal Party at the ballot box and they lost the election Five years later he won the next General election and became the Prime Minister who lead Canada through the latter part of the economic depression of the 1930s and World War two. He left office in 1948 and died from pneumonia in 1950. King remained single all of his life and reportedly found the lack of a wife problematic at the many social functions his political career and office required he attend as he was not a natural host or social butterfly. Often relied on close female friends to help in this regard. However an examination of his diaries years after he died has lead a number of historians to conclude that he was likely gay and secretly in love with Lord Tweedsmuir who in 1935 he appointed as the Governor General of Canada . A deep interest in spiritualism , séances etc was also revealed in his diaries - something that may have counted against him with the general public if it had of been widely known at the time. Friends however insist that he lost interest in spiritualism pretty much from the beginning of world war two and never regained that interest for the rest of his life.

Seriously thinking about merging this thread with the Rowan and Martins thread ( if I can ever find it)

Ximena Cristi has died at 101 on july 21 https://www.elmostrador.cl/dia/2022/07/22/a-los-101-anos-fallecio-la-destacada-artista-visual-ximena-cristi/

That's Scotland for you. Bunch of rabid nationalists, the lot of you.

Heikki Haavisto, Foreign Minister of Finland 1993-1995 dead at 86, 27 years after his near-fatal stroke.

Picture it.. ! On this day 14 years ago in 2008 american actress Estelle Getty, best known for playing wisecracking Sophia Petrillio in legendary US sitcom The Golden Girls and spin off series The Golden Palace when onscreen daughter played by Bea Arthur left, died aged 84.

British actor Terence Stamp celebrates his 84th birthday today.

On this day ten years ago in 2012 English cricketer Don Wilson died aged 74. He played on and off for Englands national cricket team between 1964-1971 and for Yorkshire County Cricket club between 1957-1974.

The deficit with Seelers death is down to 4. 7-3 of those who played 14-6 of the squad

On this day fifty years ago in 1972 american track and field athlete Ralph Craig died aged 83. He won two Olympic gold medals in sprinting at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.

Mind, it's nice when people tell GB News things, makes everyone at the station feel a little less lonely!

According to GB News, Prince Charles has told Cornwall “he’s coming to the end of his time”. Of course GB news have made it sound like his life time rather than his mother getting him a promotion soon. https://www.gbnews.uk/news/prince-charles-says-hes-coming-towards-end-as-william-in-line-to-take-over-royal-role/340695

Former peruvian general and dictator Francisco Morales Bermudez died at 100 years: https://elcomercio.pe/politica/francisco-morales-bermudez-fallecio-a-los-100-anos-noticia/ He became leader of Peru after his military coup in 1975 and served until 1980. The economic and political reforms that he attempted to enact were generally failures.

Great choice of logo for Tom Tugend.

Thanks @msc for your help. You're a great guy.

Thanks to you. A pleasure to play with you.

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Actress Armelia McQueen, who earned a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 1978 production of Ain't Misbehavin', died age 68: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/AINT-MISBEHAVIN-Star-Armelia-McQueen-Dies-at-68-20201004