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What was your favourite Mildred Kornman movie from the 1920s and how many times have you seen it?

Michael O'Connor reportedly Ireland's oldest man Dead at 108 Survived the Spanish Flu as a young boy. Was in the merchant navy during WWII during which the ship he was on was sunk by a German U-Boat

Horn this in here. Leon Vitali, British actor who appeared as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon, thus beginning a long professional relationship with Stanley Kubrick, reportedly dead aged 74: IMdB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899920/ Edit: Just realised he was Peter in The Fenn Street Gang, a spin off from Please Sir!

Happy birthday to me. and @Magere Hein (wherever he is).

Figured I'd drop by after hearing the news about Ms. Tekla. As a Pole and as a long-time supercentenarian nerd, it was exciting to have a Polish woman finally climb so far up the ranks of the world's oldest people list. To clarify just how rare her feat was - no other verified Pole before her had reached the age of 112 (Stanisław Kowalski falling just nine days short of it earlier this year; although, if I'm not mistaken, he technically wasn't verified). Making it to 116 years and 2 months after surviving two world wars in a country heavily impacted by both, various regimes, and multiple pandemics is truly a remarkable feat. I'll admit I was rooting for her to outlive Lucile and get the #1 spot (something I didn't feel bad about it - Lucile herself has expressed that she would 'be better off in heaven'). However, I can't say I'm disappointed. When Tekla first became doyenne of Poland in 2017, I never would have expected her to live for five more years. May she rest in peace.

Report of the report, seemingly from Tom Watson on Tom Weiskopf: https://www.golfmonthly.com/news/report-1973-open-champion-tom-weiskopf-dies-aged-79 I'll admit an Open Champ from my childhood - rocked me on my slingbacks. RIP.

Welcome back, CoffinLodger!

Mildred Kornman has died:

Singer and actress Helen Grayco (wiki) dead at 97. A unique DDP pick.

Scottish murderer Sandra Weir, known as the 'Candy Crush Killer' for killing a pensioner and then hastily playing Candy Crush, released from prison on compassionate grounds due to a terminal cancer diagnosis. https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-prisoner-dubbed-candy-crush-24812350

Twitter reporting the death of Oliver Frey, instantly recognisable to a generation of C64/Spectrum gamers as the cover art guy for Zzap and Crash magazines. Unsurprisingly, when you look at his work, also had a second career as a kind of British Tom of Finland-type illustrator.

Robert Williams from the above group reportedly dead aged 72. He's the one on the extreme right as you look at them. https://www-news-gr.translate.goog/ellada/article/3004584/pethane-o-tragoudistis-rompert-ouiliams-se-ilikia-71-eton.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Megan Montaner, Spanish film/television actress and former model who first made her name for her role as Pepa Aguirre in the popular Spanish soap opera "El Secreto de Puente Viejo" for 382 episodes, is 35 today. Peter Weir, the versatile Australian film director and screenwriter, one of the most talented filmmakers of his generation, with critically acclaimed and box office hit films, including "Gallipoli", "The Year of Living Dangerously", "Witness", "Dead Poets Society", "Green Card", "The Truman Show", "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" and "The Way Back", is 78 today.

Three, possibly! The oldest man before O'Connor was an anonymous man who lived to 110 or 111. Article on Matthew Crowley: https://clarechampion.ie/matthew-107-congratulated-by-president-higgins/

Russian Actor Nikolai Lebedev dead at 100.

French-swiss sculptor Antoine Poncet died at 94 on the 13th of august. A miss for my french list as he was under my radar for a bit now

Tom Weiskopf being reported dead on Twitter - hoax or heartache?

The Jozef Tomko QO too.

4 hits in the past week while I was gone? It's done. And thanks, I updated Tewson's birthdate. I can do more updates today (Helen Grayco?), then I'm gone for another week.

Just been reading about the exploits of Sister Madonna Buder, known as the Iron Nun and still running in triathlons at the age of 92.

Somehow we all missed this. Caren Marsh Doll from The Wizard of Oz celebrating her 103rd birthday back in April. She looks great!

I may have made it into the top 10 of the Theme Team League.... Stanley Baxter's been bed blocking for years...sort it out Liz Truss!

Tony Teare was the last person on Isle of Man to be given the death sentence and that was in 1992. He would only be in his 50s now so possibly still alive. Other people given death sentence on IOM since it was abolished in UK are James Lunney in 1973 aged 21 Graham Frankland in 1980 aged 27/28 Michael Pate in 1981 aged 21 Stephen Moore in 1982 aged 18 I think that's it. All of them could potentially still be living.

We die when we die irrespective of records. The fact that all us deadpoolers on here thought he was going to die 7 years ago and he is still seemingly enjoying life at nearly 98 is nothing short of remarkable.Especially when we consider the otherwise lack of longevity in his family.

On this day in 1976 International New Zealand Cricketer Ken Wadsworth died months after being diagnosed with a highly aggressive skin cancer.