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We have now overtaken last year The most common number of hits beyond this stage is 3 I am going to say 3 more hits which will take us to 13 which only once before was the final result

Charles Sherrod (wiki) dead at 85.

Major League Baseball pitcher Dick Ellsworth, best known for his 9-year stint with the Chicago Cubs, died at 82 years: https://www.chapelofthelight.com/obituaries/Richard-Ellsworth-3/#!/TributeWall

Actress Ann Flood, most famous for her role as journalist Nancy Pollock Karr on the soap opera The Edge of Night, died at 87 years: https://www.soapsindepth.com/posts/abc/soap-star-ann-flood-dead-at-87

Claude Jarman, Jr. (b. 1934) now the last survivor from the iconic 1949 MGM 25th anniversary photo.

Australian actor Hugh Jackman celebrates his 54th birthday today.

As a consolation for his wipeout of picks in the Scavenger Hunt game @msc take poll position here with the death of Angela Lansbury He only needs Leslie Parrish (b.1935) to win. Technically she would also be a legitimate pick in the Star Trek category in SH but was not selected which saves me from the position of ending both games with one hit

Susan Anton, the attractive American actress, model and singer who rose to fame for winning the Miss California beauty contest in 1969, and well known for her recurring role as Jackie Quinn on the television series "Baywatch", is 72 today. Robert Coles, American child psychiatrist, critic, essayist, humanist, magazine editor and professor emeritus at Harvard University Medical School who won the Pulitzer Prize for his five volumes of "Children of Crisis", is 93 today.

3rd hit of the pool with the passing of Angela Lansbury. A point for Charles de Gaulle, Khtonia, Yorkshire Banker, theoldlady, Wannamaker, handrejka, Toast, Torva Messor, Book, Insane and myself. Popular pick, congrats to all ! @Charles De Gaulle : Eva Marie Saint in at n°5 and Sonny Rollins in at n°3 sub @Khthonia : Rosalynn Carter in at n°1 @YorkshireBanker : Willie Mays in at n°1 @theoldlady : Kat Bjelland in at n°11 and Rob Burrow in at n°3 sub @wannamaker : Sir Bobby Charlton in at n°13 and Joanne Woodward in at n°3 sub @Handrejka : Nina van Pallandt in at n°12 and Rolf Harris in at n°3 sub @Toast : George Alagiah in at n°9 and Francoise Hardy in at n°3 sub @Torva Messor : Leslie Phillips in at n°13 @Book : Norman Spencer in at n°1 and Francoise Hardy in at n°3 sub @Insane : Paul Levesque in at n°3 For those of you who haven't yet, please choose another sub to go at n°3 spot. Also @DeathByArsenic, unless I'm mistaking, you haven't chosen any sub to replace Peter Tobin the other day. Please do so Track and lists updated on the front page, next round opened !

Angela Lansbury a hit for @Yvonne. Congratulations. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/obituaries/angela-lansbury-dead.html next round: 1922 Mildred T. Stahlman / Ronald Blythe 1923 Judith Hemmendinger / Bob Barker 1924 Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg / Leslie Phillips 1925 Ruth Slenczynska / Johnny Lujack 1926 Gudrun Ure / David Frankham 1927 Barbara Rush / Harry Belafonte 1928 Ruth Westheimer / Jayanta Mahapatra 1929 Joan Plowright / Don January 1930 Sandra Day O'Connor / Thomas Patten Stafford 1931 Barbara Barrie / Hal Linden

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32)  1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (4/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50)  2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: Angela Lansbury (0/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (3/50)  2015: Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (3/50)  2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (7/50)  2017: Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Emperor Akihito (6/50)  2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (14/50)  2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (13/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (20/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, David Crosby, Prunella Scales, Tony Bennett, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Harry Belafonte, BobNewhart, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Betty Boothroyd, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (32/50)  Updated for Angela Lansbury. The 2010 list is now extinct.

and Laurence Harvey's mom mum mother in The Manchurian Candidate, despite being only three years older.

Elvis's mum in Blue Hawaii (even though she was only nine years older than he was).

Lynn’s untimely demise leaves her carry over spot vacant for Burt Bacharach on the 2023 DL. Replacing the late Tobin with Rolf Harris (bound to be a candidate and a hit if he makes the 2023 starting line). Angela’s sad demise leaves her position open for Noam Chomsky to return on the 2023 DL.

A real legend, may she rest in peace! Loved her also in Death on the Nile and Nanny McPhee. Except Mrs. Pots she also voiced Mommy Fortuna in The Last Unicorn (1982) and Great Dowager in Anastasia (1997)

Jay Ward died on this day 33 years ago, aged 69. In 1950, Ward and his friend Alex Anderson made their first show, Crusader Rabbit. Starring Lucille Bliss as the voice of the title character, it was the first cartoon developed exclusively for television, and ran until 1952. Ward and Anderson would end up losing the rights to the character after Jerry Fairbanks, Inc. went bankrupt and was bought out. In 1959, Ward made his most enduring creation- moose and squirrel show called Rocky and Bullwinkle. It was a segmented show that featured two other notable Ward cartoons- Dudley Do-Right, about an incompetent Canadian mountie trying to save a damsel in distress, and Peabody's Improbable History, about a dog and his adopted human son travelling back in time to meet historical figures. It ran until 1964, and all three segments had film adaptations made later on (in 2000, 1999, and 2014 respectively). In 1962, Ward leased an island in Minnesota, and dubbed it "Moosylvania", after Bullwinkle's home. He travelled around the country petitioning for Moosylvania's statehood, and went to Washington, DC to get president Kennedy's support- unfortunately, they went there the day the Cuban Missile Crisis began, and were forced away from the White House at gunpoint. Ward would continue to make shows in the 1960s, with Hoppity Hooper first airing in 1964, and the more-remembered George of the Jungle in 1967. In addition, Ward designed the mascot for Cap'n Crunch cereal. Ward died from kidney cancer.

Several tweets reporting the death of American abstract expressionist artist Harold Garde (wiki), aged 99. Was still working as recently as July.

Ah, so that's how she died.....

That's all the women in the Top 20 gone, except for Rosalynn Carter. Will she last until the end of the year?

Andy McCoy is 60 today

Near the end of August, sitting at 4 hits, I thought we'd struggle to hit double-digits. All it took was six weeks...