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I tend to keep track of birthdays of old/ill celebs/pool possibilities and world's oldest people, always great formspotting opportunities...Here's a longer list, 26 July - 26 August. Lots of names regularly mentioned here. 26 July: James Lovelock, 103 (turns out he died on his birthday, the day this was posted) and Wang Xiji, 101 27 July: Norman Lear, 100 28 July: Alberto Fujimori and Chuan Leekpai, 84 31 July: Stefan Arczyński, 106 2 August: Leo Beenhakker, 80 3 August: Tony Bennett, 96 4 August: Ali al-Sistani, 92 8 August: Dustin Hoffman, 85 9 August: Akintola Williams, 103 and Leonid Kuchma, 84 11 August: Pervez Musharraf, 79 12 August, Queen Sirikit, 90 and George Soros, 92 13 August: Sofia Rojas, 115 (Didn't make it) 14 August: David Crosby, 81 16 August: Frank Mawer, 110 17 August: Jiang Zemin, 96 and Theodoros Pangalos, 84 18 August: Just Fontaine and Roman Polanski, 89, Hifikepunye Pohamba, 87, Robert Redford, 86 19 August: Hsing Yun, 95 20 August: Tripolino Giannini, 110, Don King, 91, Ron Paul, 87 21 August: Ethel Caterham, 113 and Sister Jean, 103, X. J. Kennedy, 93, Festus Mogae, 83 23 August: Rose Eaton, 113, Barbara Eden, 91 24 August: Vince McMahon, 77 25 August: Frederick Forsyth, 84 26 August: John Tinniswood, 110 and Jet Black, 84

Helen Mirren, one of the best-loved, intelligent, respected and versatile actresses in the world with an impressive and spectacular career, is 77 today. Edmund S. Phelps, American Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University, economist and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, is 89 today.

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German-born American scientist and Nobel Prize Winner John B. Goodenough (Wiki) turns 100 today

Kevin Rooney, an Emmy-winning comedian and writer, has died at age 71. Some notable names he's worked with in his life include Jay Leno and Dennis Miller.

reminds me of Johnny Cash’s last live performance

Liz Truss remembers the 1980s like Tom Tugendhat was in the army. Shame she remembers the greedy, money grubbing show me the money no such thing as community shut the heavy industry down and rely on a service industry. And she wonders why there was lack of opportunity especially in t' North. Ah the glory days when hospitals and schools were being closed or beds reduced, people travelling hundreds of miles for treatment, when £2 jewellery was being sold for £300 a pop. Sunak talks a good game about levelling up - look at the shops and houses we'll build. But fuck your transport, your community centre, your transport links, your childcare facilities, your new hospitals and schools you'll also need. You can work out how to pay for that. They have no (I'll say it again) fucking idea.

First head to head debate is already shite. Thatcherism only worked because she had national assets to sell off to cover up the shortfalls caused by her "tax cuts". Additionally, she knew at least that leaving the EU (or what it was then) would hammer the economy. These two cunts have no idea (i) what to do with the nothing this country has left; and (ii) how to run a country independent of Europe (I barely remember, but at least there were political thinkers and statespeople back then, not fuckwits who have fucked up every job they've had).

Northern Irish politician and 1998 Peace Prize laureate David Trimble has died aged 77. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/david-trimble-architect-of-n-ireland-peace-deal-dies-at-77/2022/07/25/daa913ac-0c52-11ed-88e8-c58dc3dbaee2_story.html He was worth 5.640 points, but not selected.

Paulie may have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody.

Penny Mordaunt - death threats to her and her family, etc. etc. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-62292971

Also in Lady in Lavender and Mary Poppins Return as Admiral Boom, even though he had a negative role in Titanic, i loved him. May he rest in peace such a great actor and great loss.

He was in my theme team "Nearer My God To Thee" a few years ago. People who have been in films about the Titanic. Besides the blockbuster Titanic, he was also in SOS Titanic (1979).

Had her first live performance since 2002 at the Newport folk festival: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/25/joni-mitchell-gives-first-full-live-performance-since-2002

From David Warner's appearance on the 2017 DDP? http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2017/celebs_W.html#warned Astonishingly not picked since then despite my reminders in 2020.... List of the Missed amazingly.

On this day two years ago in 2020, american actor John Saxon died aged 83. He was skilled in martial arts so a great many of his acting roles in both film and television reflected his strong physiciality and skill. Among his many films in his fifty year acting career include Enter the Dragon (1973) with Bruce Lee, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) , The Unforgiven (1960) with Burt Lancaster, Lillian Gosh and Audrey Hepburn, A Nightmare on Elm Str 3 (1987), Planet Earth (1974) and Queen of Blood (1966) with Dennis Hopper and Basil Rathbone. Numerous roles in many of the big television shows during his careers, mainly guest or short roles include , Burkes Law, Gunsmoke (small one episode stints between 1965-1975), Bonanza, The Virginian, Dr Kildare, Fantasy Island and The Six Million Dollar Man. His biggest and longest television role was as Tony Cumson in Primetime Soap Falcon Crest- his character being the son in law of the shows devious matriarch Angela Channing played by Jane Wyman. He married three times and had one son with Hollywood screenwriter Mary Ann Saxon.

On this day in 1965 American actress Constance Bennett died aged 60. Bennett was a major Hollywood star throughout the 1920s and 1930s and at one brief point during the early 1930s was the highest paid actress in Hollywood. She was the daughter of silent movie star Richard Bennett and the older sister of actress Joan Bennett. She was married five times , with one of her marriages to French nobleman Henri de la Falaise , a Marquis who was the ex husband of Hollywood legend Gloria Swanson. Her first marriage , opposed by her parents, was annulled on account of her immaturity and youth at the time she wed. Constance starred in numerous silent movies in the 1920s including Code of the west (1925)- a silent western and The Goose Woman (1925). In the 1930s her credits beyond silent movies include Two against the world (1932), Outcast lady (1934) with Herbert Marshall and Tail Spin (1939). She died of a stroke aged 60 in 1965.

On this day 48 years ago in 1974, English physicist James Chadwick died aged 82. In 1935 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for discovering the neutron in 1932. Significantly he also wrote the final draft of the MAUD report in 1941 into the feasibility of creating an atomic bomb. The report was very important in helping the US government decide to proceed with research into creating atomic bombs.

Thai prince Bhisadej Rajani dead at 100 years: https://www.prachachat.net/general/news-988875

Not really. Yeah she was Trump’s first wife but she was rarely ever brought up in the news during the Trump administration let alone the past few years.

Also worth mentioning James Tolkan (b. 1931), who played Principal/Sheriff Strickland in the trilogy and was a prolific supporting actor in films and TV. He’d likely admonish us all as slackers

@Toast... Good heavens! Everything seems to happen to you! Ebay... IKEA... Meghan Markle... I'm starting to worry a little bit about you, @Toast. Be careful when you cross the street...

German swimmer and four-time Olympic gold medalist Roland Matthes, who won his golds in the 100 m and 200 m backstroke events, dead at 69 years: https://www.focus.de/sport/vierfacher-olympia-sieger-ddr-schwimm-legende-roland-matthes-ist-tot_id_11485794.html

English actress Sheila Mercier, who landed the role of Annie Sugden on British soap opera "Emmerdale" in 1972 dead at 100 years: https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/13/emmerdale-legend-sheila-mercier-aka-annie-sugden-dies-aged-100-11903846/