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Look, obviously this game is all a matter of one’s own opinions and indeed the subjectivity of music adds to its beauty, but for this scoring choice, I urge you to get in the sea.

I believe it was Radar who first shared the news of her Alzheimer`s to the public so assuming their sources are the same it is probably true. She has had end-stage dementia for years now so her being in hospice care would be no great surprise whatsoever.

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Vivian Trimble, keyboardist and vocalist from the ’90s rock band Luscious Jackson, died on Tuesday (April 4). Her bandmates confirmed the news in a statement, saying she died of a complication after years of treatment for cancer. She was 59. https://www.facebook.com/LusciousJackson/posts/pfbid0278LiXxwd361fZPDzyxrgMZBm7pMmG55hryQepSyUieibvN82DQsUa1gm2EcF8hsl

Bill Butler is a hit for @ladyfiona, @John "요한" Sulu and @diego CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Oscar-nominated cinematographer Bill Butler dead at 101.

Some top trolling from the Pope...

Who has been the most surprising candidate to have never featured on the DL? Here, I am meaning mega famous celebrities who had multiple chances to be on because of their advanced age and/or illness. Not just someone like Gianluca Vialli who we knew was in grave danger only just before the 2023 DL was up. For me, Joan Fontaine- she lived to be 96 and her sister is one of the DeathList’s all time favourite candidates (in fairness she lived to 104 though). However, Fontaine was not much if any bit less famous than de Havilland and really should have made a DL appearance at some point.

Apparently living a reclusive life all alone at her Beverly Hills home. https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/at-91-years-old-angie-dickinson-is-left-alone-in-her-beverly-hills-home-more-inside-her-life-right-now/ar-AA19rQJ2

Dick Turpin died on this day 284 years ago, aged 33. - Turpin was a butcher before he joined the Gregory Gang, a group of deer thieves led by Samuel Gregory. - By 1734, the gang had moved away from stealing deer and began committing home invasions; Turpin stole 300 pounds from a man named Ambrose Skinner in December of that year. Turpin continued his crimes as a house intruder throughout 1735; many of his colleagues were arrested and executed for their crimes while he evaded capture. - As a fugitive, Turpin turned to highway robbery (stealing from travelers) with fellow gang member Thomas Rowden. Rowden was eventually captured on charges of passing counterfeit money, and was transported to a penal colony in the (future) US. - Turpin was allegedly spotted in the Netherlands in 1736- however, he was most likely hiding within England during this time. - After fatally shooting a man named Matthew King in May of 1737, Turpin hid in Epping Forest. He killed one of the forest rangers (named Thomas Morris) when they tried to capture him, and soon took the alias John Palmer. - On October 2, 1738, Turpin's crime spree came to an end when he shot a man's rooster. After threatening to shoot its owner, three justices of the peace binded Turpin over after he refused to pay a fine. - "John Palmer" was identified as Turpin when a former classmate who worked at a post office recognized his handwriting in a letter he sent to his brother-in-law. This allowed his trial to proceed, where he was found guilty of horse theft. - After his hanging, his corpse was stolen by body snatchers (who planned to dissect it for medical research). They were quickly apprehended, and Turpin was reburied. - Turpin's exploits would later be exaggerated and romanticized in the nineteenth century.

Jackie Chan is 69.

Bigas Luna never won a Silver Lion Award for "La teta y la luna". "La teta y la luna", film released in 1994, won a Best Screenplay Award (Golden Osella is the name of the award). The Silver Lion is an award for best directing achievements in the competitive section. Bigas Luna won the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival for "Jamón, Jamón" (1992) (the first film in which Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, her first film, worked together).

I don’t think that this has been done before and I ain’t scrolling through 16 pages to find out but… Longest Absences for Deathlist hits. This basically means who has the longest gap between their most recent drop and their reappearance that would lead to death or continuous repicking until death. Kinda specific I know. Example 1: General Pervez Musharraf has a score of 2 as although he was picked in 2004 and dropped until 2020, he would not stay on the list until his death and would be dropped again until 2023 when he would subsequently die. Example 2: June Brown has a score of 1 as she was in lists 2018 & 2019 but absent from 2020, with a return to the list in 2021 and would remain on the list until her death the following year. Jerry Lee Lewis - 28 (1993-2022) d.2022 George Cole - 25 (1989-2015) d.2015 Anna Wigg - 22 (1987-2010) d.2013 Bruce Forsythe - 20 (1995-2016) d. 2017 Ian Paisley - 19 (1993-2013) d.2014 Bobby Robdon - 18 (1989-2008) d.2009 George Melly - 16 (1989-2006) d.2007 Abdelaziz Bouteflika - 13 (2006-2020) d.2021 Edmund Hillary - 12 (1995-2008) d.2008 Cliff Michelmore - 10 (2004-2015) d.2016 Nigel Lawson - 10 (2012-2023) d.2023 Richard Pryor - 9 (1995-2005) d.2005 Angela Landsbury - 9 (2010-2020) d.2022 Lord Grade - 8 (1989-1998) d.1998 Denis Thatcher - 8 (1994-2003) d.2003 Idi Amin - 8 (1994-2003) d.2003 PW Botha - 8 (1994-2003) d.2006 John Erdich - 8 (2011-2020) d.2020 Gretchen Franklin - 7 (1996-2004) d.2005 Chapman Pincher - 6 (2001-2008) d.2014 Andreas Papandreou - 5 (1990-1996) d.1996 Alf Ramsey - 5 (1993-1999) d.1999 Gregory Peck - 5 (1997-2003) d.2003 Sunny Jim Callaghan - 5 (1993-1999) d.2005 Milton Friedman - 5 (1999-2005) d.2006 Tony Martin - 5 (2005-2011) d.2012 Pierre Cardin - 5 (2011-2017) d.2020 Tony Bennett - 5 (2014-2020) d.2023 4 - Victor Mature, Peter Ustinov, Red Adair, Pope John Paul II, Vincent O’Brien, Mickey Rooney, Christopher Lee 3 - Dan Maskell, Joe DiMaggio, Quentin Crisp, Alister Cooke, General Pinochet, Kurt Waldheim, Arthur C Clarke, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Walter Cronkite, BB King, Muhammad Ali, João Havelange, Denis Norden, Charles Aznavour, Queen Elizabeth, Tina Turner 2 - Jim Joel, Les Dawson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Stewart, E W Swanton, Queen Mom, Johnny Cash, Queen Juliana, Ted Heath, Byron Nelson, Suharto, Karl Malden, Yitzhak Shamir, Oscar Niemeyer, Maggie Thatcher, Nelson Mandela, Eli Wallach, Al Molinaro, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Ian Brady, Jerry Lewis, Gordon Banks, Doris Day, Herman Wouk, Jacques Chirac, Olivia de Havilland, Murray Walker, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf 1 - Salvador Dali, Derek Jarman, Burt Lancaster, Dilys Powell, Harold Larwood, Dean Martin, Jacques Cousteau, Mother Teresa, Jeffrey Bernard, Frank Sinatra, Lord Denning, Joe DiMaggio, Gene Sarazen, Stanley Matthews, Barbara Cartland, John Geilgud, Don Bradman, Lord Hailsham, Mary Whitehouse, Spike Milligan, Billy Wilder, Sam Snead, Hardy Amies, Thora Hird, Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Princess Alice, Lord Scarman, Artie Shaw, John Mills, Charles Haughey, Gerald Ford, Ernest Gallo, Bill Deedes, Charlton Heston, Claude Levi-Strauss, JD Salinger, Michael Foot, Cyril Smith, Norman Wisdom, Elizabeth Taylor, Betty Ford, Harry Morgan, John Demjanjuk, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, Erik Sykes, Herbert Lom, Clive Dunn, Ronnie Biggs, Patrick Macnee, Peter O’Sullevan, Abe Vigoda, Nancy Reagan, Fidel Castro, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Richard Adams, Fats Domino, Billy Graham, Stephen Hawking, Lord Carrington, Stan Lee, Valerie Harper, Robert Mugabe, Clive James, Kirk Douglas, Hosni Mubarak, Vera Lynn, Nobby Stiles, Bob Dole, Jimmy Greaves, Loretta Lynn, June Brown, Sidney Poitier, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger Those in red re-debuted on their year of death.

Sudhir Naik, an opening batsman from the 1970s who made a handful of appearances for India at test level, was this round's reliable "get hospitalized at the end of the previous month" pick. Accordingly, a whole handful of teams score here, and deadsox/MariNisia is now our only bore draw. gcreptile 14 vs SpadeCooley 3 deadsox 0 vs MariNisia 0 Hell 3 vs alt obits guy 9 Grim Up North 9 vs CaptainChorizo 0 Banana 9 vs Sir Latte 0 msc 0 vs wannamaker 3  Annami 0 vs DevonDeathTrip 6  An Fear Baeg 3 vs Captain Hemlock 0

Robert F Kennedy Jr to run against Biden for the Democratic nomination for 2024: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11943819/RFK-Jr-running-PRESIDENT.html

No, it's just his new coat!

No. He’s not.

Robert Earnshaw the Welsh striker who was a prolific goalscorer, scoring hat -tricks in Premier League, Divisions 1, 2 & 3, FA Cup and International match (against Scotland) is 42 today

Little shop of horrors is a brilliant film.

Chadwick Boseman: But we knew something was up when we saw him here four months before his death:

Howell Williams, one of the teachers who survived the Aberfan disaster, died 29th March, aged 82. He helped several children escape by breaking a wiondow in his classroom. He's the third of four of the teachers who survived to die, following Hettie Williams in 2018 and Rennie Williams in 2020, leaving Mair Morgan as the last.

La chanteuse Emmanuelle, connue pour son tube « Premiers Baisers » (1986) qui devint par la suite le générique de la série du même nom, est décédée à l’âge de 59 ans Singer Emmanuelle, known for her hit song « Premiers Baisers » (first kisses) in 1986, which became the theme song for the TV show of the same name , has died aged 59

I'm always impressed by the number of obscure names that you know off ! How is that ? Also, who's that man on your profil pic ?

Well yes. At 99 he's the second oldest living state leader. There's a reason why I picked him for my theme team. Here's a picture of him, taken 15 may 2014: regards, Hein