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Edna Child reportedly died in May:

9 June 2023 33 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire +4 28 Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World 26 Creedence Clearwater Revival — Bad Moon Rising 26 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine 24 Beatles & Billy Preston – Get Back 22 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 22 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Legend Of Xanadu 22 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T´aime... Moi Non Plus 21 The Beatles – Lady Madonna 21 Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) 20 The Love Affair – Everlasting Love 20 Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 20 Cliff Richard – Congratulations 20 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap – Young Girl 20 The Equals – Baby Come Back 20 Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony, Mony 20 The Beach Boys – Do It Again 20 Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days 20 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends 20 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 20 The Scaffold – Lily The Pink 20 The Marmalade – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 20 Fleetwood Mac – Albatross 20 The Move – Blackberry Way 20 Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 20 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites 20 Tommy Roe – Dizzy 20 The Beatles – The Ballad Of John & Yoko 20 Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air 20 Bobbie Gentry – I´ll Never Fall In Love Again 19 The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Woman 19 Georgie Fame – The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde 17 The Rolling Stones – Jumpin´ Jack Flash 15 Des O´Connor – I Pretend 15 Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525 14 The Bee Gees – I´ve Gotta Get A Message To You -6 08 Esther & Abi Ofarim – Cinderella Rockefella 02 The Beatles – Hey Jude I was going to get rid of Hey Jude but then I thought Nah Nah nah na na-na-na Naaaaaaaaaah

Alain Touraine, French sociologist mentioned many times on the Forum (Hartlepool pick this year) reportedly dead: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2023/06/09/alain-touraine-a-leading-french-sociologist-has-died_6030646_15.html Last picked in 2020 by looks @Death Impends (drol maybe?): http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_T.html#touraia020

Coincidentally, the same number of threads you haven't been a cunt on.

9/Jun/2023 24 Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World +4 22 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T´aime... Moi Non Plus 22 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire 22 Beatles & Billy Preston – Get Back 21 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Legend Of Xanadu 21 The Beatles – Lady Madonna 21 Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) 20 Georgie Fame – The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde 20 The Love Affair – Everlasting Love 20 Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 20 Cliff Richard – Congratulations 20 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap – Young Girl 20 The Rolling Stones – Jumpin´ Jack Flash 20 The Equals – Baby Come Back 20 Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony, Mony 20 The Beach Boys – Do It Again 20 The Bee Gees – I´ve Gotta Get A Message To You 20 Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days 20 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends 20 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 20 The Scaffold – Lily The Pink 20 The Marmalade – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 20 Fleetwood Mac – Albatross 20 The Move – Blackberry Way 20 Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 20 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine 20 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites 20 Tommy Roe – Dizzy 20 The Beatles – The Ballad Of John & Yoko 20 Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air 20 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising 20 Bobbie Gentry – I´ll Never Fall In Love Again 20 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 20 Rolf Harris – Two Little Boys 18 The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Woman 18 Des O´Connor – I Pretend 15 Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525 14 Esther & Abi Ofarim – Cinderella Rockefella 14 The Beatles – Hey Jude -6

Frequently mentioned Malaysian politician Lim Kean Chye (wiki) dead at 103.

Serajul Alam Khan dead at 82.

9/6 26 Creedence Clearwater Revival — Bad Moon Rising +1 26 Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World 25 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire 24 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine 24 Beatles & Billy Preston – Get Back 22 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Legend Of Xanadu +1 22 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T´aime... Moi Non Plus 21 The Beatles – Lady Madonna 21 Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) 20 Georgie Fame – The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde 20 The Love Affair – Everlasting Love 20 Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 20 Cliff Richard – Congratulations 20 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap – Young Girl 20 The Equals – Baby Come Back 20 Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony, Mony 20 The Beach Boys – Do It Again 20 The Bee Gees – I´ve Gotta Get A Message To You 20 Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days 20 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends 20 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 20 The Scaffold – Lily The Pink 20 The Marmalade – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 20 Fleetwood Mac – Albatross 20 The Move – Blackberry Way 20 Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 20 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites 20 Tommy Roe – Dizzy 20 The Beatles – The Ballad Of John & Yoko 20 Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air 20 Bobbie Gentry – I´ll Never Fall In Love Again 20 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 19 The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Woman +1 15 Des O´Connor – I Pretend -3 15 The Rolling Stones – Jumpin´ Jack Flash +1 15 Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525 14 Esther & Abi Ofarim – Cinderella Rockefella 08 The Beatles – Hey Jude 05 Rolf Harris — Two Little Boys -3 Once the obvious 4 or 5 have gone going to get difficult to find stuff to downvote quite quickly, most of this stuff is pretty good

9/Jun/2023 24 Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World 24 Creedence Clearwater Revival — Bad Moon Rising +4 22 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T´aime... Moi Non Plus 22 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire 22 Beatles & Billy Preston – Get Back 21 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Legend Of Xanadu 21 The Beatles – Lady Madonna 21 Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) 20 Georgie Fame – The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde 20 The Love Affair – Everlasting Love 20 Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 20 Cliff Richard – Congratulations 20 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap – Young Girl 20 The Rolling Stones – Jumpin´ Jack Flash 20 The Equals – Baby Come Back 20 Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony, Mony 20 The Beach Boys – Do It Again 20 The Bee Gees – I´ve Gotta Get A Message To You 20 Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days 20 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends 20 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 20 The Scaffold – Lily The Pink 20 The Marmalade – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 20 Fleetwood Mac – Albatross 20 The Move – Blackberry Way 20 Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 20 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine 20 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites 20 Tommy Roe – Dizzy 20 The Beatles – The Ballad Of John & Yoko 20 Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air 20 Bobbie Gentry – I´ll Never Fall In Love Again 20 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 18 The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Woman 18 Des O´Connor – I Pretend 15 Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525 14 Esther & Abi Ofarim – Cinderella Rockefella 14 The Beatles – Hey Jude 14 Rolf Harris — Two Little Boys -6

Prolific Basque cyclist Txomin Peruena, winner of the 1974 Tour De France King of the Mountains classification and latterly a team director, dead at the age of 79. (Just weeks before the Tour was going to pay tribute to him by riding through his home village)

Michael J. Fox is 62.

UPDATE: they just Fed Pat Robertson's soul to Jimmy Carter's Hospice throne.

Been indicted over documents according to man himself:

Dead at 71. Second breaking News from Le Monde today. Will there be a third ?

Fri 9 Jun 24 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine +4 24 Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World 24 Creedence Clearwater Revival — Bad Moon Rising 22 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T´aime... Moi Non Plus 22 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire 22 Beatles & Billy Preston – Get Back 21 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Legend Of Xanadu 21 The Beatles – Lady Madonna 21 Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) 20 Georgie Fame – The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde 20 The Love Affair – Everlasting Love 20 Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 20 Cliff Richard – Congratulations 20 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap – Young Girl 20 The Rolling Stones – Jumpin´ Jack Flash 20 The Equals – Baby Come Back 20 Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony, Mony 20 The Beach Boys – Do It Again 20 The Bee Gees – I´ve Gotta Get A Message To You 20 Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days 20 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends 20 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 20 The Scaffold – Lily The Pink 20 The Marmalade – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 20 Fleetwood Mac – Albatross 20 The Move – Blackberry Way 20 Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 20 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites 20 Tommy Roe – Dizzy 20 The Beatles – The Ballad Of John & Yoko 20 Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air 20 Bobbie Gentry – I´ll Never Fall In Love Again 20 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 18 The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Woman 18 Des O´Connor – I Pretend 15 Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525 14 Esther & Abi Ofarim – Cinderella Rockefella 14 Rolf Harris — Two Little Boys 08 The Beatles – Hey Jude -6

This leaves a total of 7 remaining historic DL threads that you haven’t needlessly rebooted.

James G Watt, Reagan's Secretary of the Interior 1981-1983, reportedly dead aged 85: https://wyofile.com/former-secretary-of-the-interior-james-jim-watt-dies-at-85/ Sorry @gcreptile he's yet another DDP pick.

Unfortunately @Hell has nicked Giorgio Napolitano

I did not pick him, though he was on the original list I wrote back in 2016.

Breaking News from Le Monde and another point for my french list after a long drough period.

12 years since the death of actor Roy Skelton, mainly known for his voice work including Cybermen and Daleks he was best known for being the voices of George and Zippy for 30 years.

The deaths/obits keep coming. Start scribing those obits!

NOT dead. This article from the Express from a few weeks ago has some insights into her health as she approaches 100. There are very fitting calls to give her a Damehood.

The Norfolk version does - it has six fingers. Boom-tish.

We are only in to the 2nd week of the year