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Rudy Thompson reportedly dead (paywalled): https://www.theunion.com/news/supercentenarian-rudy-thompson-dies-at-110-years-old/article_406a5da4-0ca7-11ee-887b-6ffa9feecd4a.html

On this day 1 year ago, American football player Hugh McElhenney passed away at the age of 93.

Joey Grey was on my possibility list for this month and this year. The reason is because Loretta Lynn sadly passed away in October of 2022 and I feel like Loretta needs a celebrity with a similar birth date to be reunited with.

Interesting question. Could be Lucius Banda, reggae & Afropop singer-songwriter with 9 studio albums to date? Or it might be Malia, whose albums garnered fair recognition across Europe. Or the late Tony Bird if we’re including dead people, who was an anti-colonialist icon with a musical style comparable to Bob Dylan. Oh shit none of them reached Michigan so they’re all nobodies dw.

Former college football player Ray Lewis III -- the son of Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis -- has tragically passed away. He was 28 years old. Details surrounding Lewis III's death have not been released. SC

Left-handed pitcher Don Hood, who spent time as both a starter and reliever, died at 73 years: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/06/don-hood-passes-away.html He made his MLB debut in 1973 with the Baltimore Orioles and compiled a 3.79 lifetime MLB ERA.

Did Neighbours fake its own death?

Daniel Ellsberg is #1

Daniel Ellsberg QO: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/16/daniel-ellsberg-pentagon-papers-whistleblower-dies

Anita Cornwell died 27th May so is a hit for me. (obit)

Glenda Jackson QO: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65916692 Gordon McQueen QO: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63664992

I had him at unlucky 13th.

Can we get rid of the requirement that the show must have 5 living cast members? I feel that is limiting the choices to only more recent and newer shows hence younger picks hence fewer deaths.

Alright, let us see if I can squeeze in an update in my lunch break. Thankfully, the deaths in this update were not very obscure, and you notified me of the rest, so it should be easy. Obviously, Rolf Harris was picked by almost everyone, even sam081 - meaning everybody is now on the board! He was a joker for a few players, too. LadyFiona did get her obit for Kenneth McAlpine, nothing to worry about. Cpt. Hemlocks unique left-field hits continue with Richard Riordan and Gordon Lightfoot, quite impressive. Banana scores a unique hit with Robert Zimmer. While DDP QO was tricky, the NYT obit probably wasn't in doubt. Barry Humphries was a unique hit for Goooseberry Crumble, who is indeed doing very well with all the minor but plentiful hits. Tina Turner was a sad hit, but maybe a little reading between the lines should have made her a more popular hit. Eventually, the tank runs out of gas. Ed Ames was a unique hit for Torva Messor. He got Yahoo, too, but as with Robert Zimmer, the New York Times stepped up. Here's a surprise: Superstar Billy Graham was a UNIQUE hit, for Death Impends. Everybody got kind of tired of him, but who can blame us... Jim Brown was another unique hit, for tracy. Tim Keller was a well-timed not-quite-gamble for a couple of players. And finally SR Hinduja, member of the "UKs richest family" (even before the Windsors? If you factor in all the secret accounts and holdings, I guess not!) another unique hit, like, really unique, for msc. Wait... that's not it. Denny Crum, of course. Already a while back. And Menahem Pressler, unique hit for Radguy, the only one to pick both Presslers. Larry is still taking his time though. Oh, and Carolyn Bryant Donham, the Emmett Till accuser. You know, updating this pool always feels a bit like a mop-up situation, everybody picked in any pool anywhere already, is also picked here. Okay, I am hoping that this is everything, but before I leave you with the scoreboard, one notice for the replacement period: THE REPLACEMENT PERIOD ENDS on "the beginning of July 1st", meaning you have until the end of the 30th of June to give me 5 new names you want to use instead of five other names you want to switch out. As soon as you give me the names for the switch, the old ones will no longer score, even if they die immediately afterwards. And the new names will only score with the beginning of July. That means, yes, there is a "dead zone" between submitting the replacements and July 1st, in which you'd score for neither name. Names that fail the fame requirement will not count. Once you submit your names to me, there can be no second list, i.e. this is it. So please, be sure of the names you submit. Rank Team Score 1 Banana 652 2 Salmon Mousse 524 3 Funeralopolis 515 3 Perhaps 515 5 JoeyRuss 487 6 Death Impends 419 7 RadGuy 403 8 Cpt. Chorizo 401 9 Grim Up North 390 10 gcreptile 361 11 Toast 356 11 Book 356 13 msc 353 14 Summer in Transylvania 350 15 Gooseberry Crumble 344 16 DeathBecomesThem 337 17 An Fear Beag 328 18 wannamaker 320 19 The Spinosaurus 310 20 ThereWillBeDeaths7 308 21 Joltin Joe 306 22 Drol 303 23 Sean 292 24 The Daredevil 290 25 Wormfarmer 285 26 DevonDeathTrip 283 27 YoungWillz 279 28 Diego 276 29 Buffalo Phil 272 30 The Old Crem 266 31 Hell 263 32 Mr. Wonderful 254 33 GuyFromFuture 251 34 Predictor 245 35 tracy 241 36 Thatcher 240 37 TheOldLady 239 38 Torva Messor 234 38 Etushipushingupdaisies 234 40 TheUnknownMan 228 41 Nick 212 42 MortalCaso 193 43 TheQuimReaper 192 44 Charles De Gaulle 186 45 chilean way 184 46 JoeMoneypenny 177 47 John Key 156 48 Famous6Eva 147 49 Annami 145 50 Cpt. Hemlock 143 51 Bibliogryphon 136 52 MariNisia 128 53 Liz Lemon 123 54 Mr. Custard 122 55 CalebH 116 56 Lady Fiona 104 57 etib80 92 58 Ghostofchristmaspast 68 59 Pedro67 64 60 Great Uncle Bulgaria 62 61 sam081 30

No one guessed correctly. Poll closed. (Sorry Madmac, you only voted half an hour ago. Your vote doesn’t count)

And just like that, Tina Turner is my 7th hit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/65669653

I can photoshop one of these in 2 mins on my laptop. It’s really not hard. Bless you for being so gullible. How old are you?

Daniel Webb, a former relief pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, has died in an ATV accident. He was 28. Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis says Webb died Saturday night. Davis says Webb's wife and two other people sustained "significant injuries" in the accident, about 70 miles west of Nashville. SC

Jim Bunning, baseball star turned politician, has died aged 85. He suffered a stroke last year, so he's somewhat of a miss from the pools - nobody picked him anywhere,

Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish artist, showed no one else his etchings after this day 215 years ago, aged 74.

No longer traversing the Parisienne Walkways, Gary Moore died this day 5 years ago aged 58. Personally, I've still got the blues..

Today in 1831 Dutch naval lieutenant Jan van Speijk, aged 29, blew up his gunboat rather than surrender it to Belgian rebels, when it was blown into Antwerp by a gale. Dan liever de lucht in!

She's long gone now and she didn't quite make it to supercentenarian status but here is an interview with a very sharp 105 year-old who was born back in the 1880s that I found fascinating: Pity Carson jokes around with her so much he doesn't really probe into her early memories or what life was like for her as a kid that much or her views on the world today. Still a fun view though.

So, he was 20 when they got married and she was 12? That may well have been legal when they married. The legal minimum age for marriage in England was 14 for boys and 12 for girls until well into the 20th century. It was raised to 16 for both some time in the 1920s, I believe. Yes, 1929! here you are - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Marriage_Act_1929 They were born and married in India. Then I guess it was legal there, too. Point is, most people don't realise how recently such marriages were perfectly legal in England. Even more recent in Ireland, I think.

IF SHE'S ANONYMOUS HOW DO THEY KNOW SHE'S DIED? It's like the Unknown Soldier. They know he's dead.