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Well, here is the news Telegraph death notice confirms: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/264193/edmunds Wiki is incomplete so this helps a bit. IMDB has the wrong death date. In full: EDMUNDS Dr John David passed away peacefully on 3rd May 2023, aged 94. Academic, actor, translator, teacher and broadcaster. Much loved and greatly missed uncle, great uncle and brother-in-law. His Funeral will be held on 31st May 2023 at 12.30 p.m. at St Margaret of Antioch, Rottingdean. Flowers welcome c/o Christopher Stringer, 67 High Street, Rottingdean, BN2 7HE.

Is this a new game of "Spot the Grave"? I'll give it a go. My guess is a bit obvious though - where the ground looks to have been disturbed:

Perhaps not as a Senator, but probably as a living human being. For reference, that friend was Representative Ellen Tauscher of California, who has been dead since 2019.

The New York Times is reporting that, to no surprise, her recent illness was much worse than her office reported: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/politics/feinstein-illness-shingles-senate.html Key points: Her shingles infection spread widely to her face and neck, causing the partial paralysis of her face with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. The infection also caused swelling in her brain (encephalitis), making her memory loss even worse. Basically everyone around her has totally given up any hope she will choose to resign. The article suggests that were only two people who could have possibly convinced her otherwise (her husband and a former colleague), but they're both dead. There are still 18 months left in her term.

Pro-life crusader dies anyway. In stead of spending a fortune on the upkeep of his aircraft, he chose to spend $120.000 on a recount on abortion. Guess how he died....

11th prime minister of India H. D. Deve Gowda is 90 today.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22408388/car-crashes-vatican-gate-cops-shoot-vehicle/ Car crashes through Vatican gate. Police shoot at vehicle and arrest suspect.

Made the Independent, illustrated with the worst set of photos for someone who was so attractive in their prime: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ap-luchino-visconti-berlin-italian-la-dolce-vita-b2341493.html

MMMDP Form Guide #11 Hal Lindsey A forgotten gem among the United States' religious cult leaders/fearmongers and one of Ronald Reagan's favourites, at 93 he's older than Pat Robertson, Farrakhan, the Copeland demon and others. With Carole C. Carlson (1925-1999) as ghostwriter he wrote best-selling The Late Great Planet Earth in 1970, telling about how the world is doomed. It sold over 15 million copies and was later adapted into a film narrated by Orson Welles. He went on to write more books such as Satan Is Alive and Well on Planet Earth, When is Jesus Coming Again, The 1980's: Countdown to Armageddon, Planet Earth 2000 A.D.: Will Mankind Survive?, Planet Earth: The Final Chapter and Faith for Earth's Final Hour and preaching to his followers until he retired in 2019, apparently due to health problems after years of having looked like Tom Selleck at 150. He hasn't been seen much since then. The world didn't end in the 1980s and the Soviet Union never ended up invading Israel, but I predict Hal might be a good pick in the 2023 MMMDP.

Russell.M.Nelson https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders/2023/5/16/23726116/president-nelson-health-statement-balance-challenges-least-of-our-worries

Futoshi Nakanishi, Nishinetsu player and manager, Japanese Hall-of-famer who once appeared with Willie Mays*, dead at 90. * On a postage stamp.

Combine this with other reports, and it is clear that she does not have the soundness of mind required to finish out her term... Although she may be physically able to do it. Questionable.

Lord Peter Brooke (wiki) dead at 89. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland under both Thatcher and Major, as well as Paymaster General under the former. MP for the Cities of London and Westminster (1977–2001). Telegraph obit.

Visited by Italian prime minister Quote from a source that doesn't have a paywall: "Berlusconi is in an excellent mood, is rapidly recovering, and despite the hospitalization he works tirelessly on the main dossiers"

Who said the word "Immortal"?

About those fingers of his, just look this photo from 2005 and you clearly see whom he inherited them from. And since Prince Philip almost reached 100 years, I wouldn't be so overly worried about them...

Ed Sheeran so tired and emotional tonight at his gig in Cardiff he had to take a piss break in the middle of a song. He's got no respect for his fans has he. Also old enough for Club 27. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-44592094

Dame Rosemary Cramp (Wiki), British archaeologist and academician dead at 93 She was the first female professor appointed at Durham University and was Professor of Archaeology from 1971 to 1990. She served as president of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2001 to 2004.

Good luck to you in your quest.

DHL delivery at 7 something in the morning on a Saturday. Driver pummels the front door as if it’s just said something disgusting about his mum, waits exactly how long it takes for me to roll out of bed, protect my modesty and sprint half way down the stairs before he smartly reverses up and cunts off, still with my parcel.

Ringo Starr is 82.

Ann Reinking, the Tony Award winning broadway actress, dancer, and choreographer who played Roxie Hart in 1977’s Chicago and starred in other musicals is dead at 71....https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2020/legit/news/ann-reinking-dead-chicago-1234853416/amp/

She’ll get a regular fix then

Mark Gastineau, 60, diagnosed with dementia and Parkinson's.

I often say I have problems with God, it some of his fan club that scares me. My neighbours are devout Lutherans. Just a couple of years ago when we had the vote to allow same-sex marriage, they were outspoken in their opposition to it. Even to the point of putting up a sign stating "1 man + 1 woman = 1 marriage". Even though I get on well with them, I can't help secretly hoping one of their kids comes out declaring they're gay. Yeah, people who openly oppose gay marriage annoy me. It doesn't affect your life at all, why do you care what other people do?