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King Edward VI died on this day 470 years ago, aged 15. - Edward was the first and only surviving son of Henry VIII, via his third wife Jane Seymour- his mom died from complications from his birth 12 days later. He immediately became heir apparent due to being male, superseding his older half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth; Mary was 21 years old and became his godmother. - Edward began his education when he was 6, learning foreign language, Bible studies, philosophy, and science. He developed a particular interest in cartography. - When Edward was 5, he was betrothed to his first cousin once removed Mary, Queen of Scots- she was just seven months old. This was done in an attempt to seek peace with Scotland to get them to unite with England, but when the Scottish regency renewed their alliance with the French, Henry VIII ordered an invasion- this lasted into Edward's reign, and is known as the "Rough Wooing". - Edward became king at the age of 9, which initiated a regency period led by his uncle Thomas Seymour, and then by John Dudley (the Duke of Northumberland). - In 1550, Edward would again be betrothed in marriage, this time to Elisabeth, the daughter of king Henry II of France. When Pope Julius III found out about this, he threatened to excommunicate both of them (this could've gone forward despite the threat, considering the Church of England had been established). - In January of 1553, Edward contracted tuberculosis- his doctors believed he had a tumor in his lung. He died after six months with the illness, and it is believed that he had suffered from measles and smallpox the year before, weakening his natural immunity. - In his will, Edward named his first cousin once removed Jane Grey as his successor- Jane was proclaimed queen four days after Edward's death, but was deposed after a nine-day reign once the Privy Council declared Edward's sister Mary as queen instead. Whether Jane counts as an English monarch remains disputed to this day.

Jennifer Saunders is 65.

Was this suggestion prompted by the video of Sobers meeting the Indian team in Barbados?

Then fucking contextualise your posts rather than just copy and pasting articles. Lazy.

Margaret Nisbett, an Australian soprano who performed on BBC radio and TV, has died. She was 94. https://limelightmagazine.com.au/news/australian-soprano-margaret-nisbett-has-died/

6th July. 46 Elvis — Suspicious Minds 44 T. Rex — Jeepster 43 T. Rex — Ride A White Swan +4 39 Deep Purple — Black Night 39 The Moody Blues — Question 29 Peter, Paul & Mary — Leavin’ On A Jet Plane 27 Canned Heat — Let’s Work Together 25 R Dean Taylor — Indiana Wants Me 23 The Kinks— Lola -6 14 Redbone — The Witch Queen Of New Orleans 11 Paul McCartney — Another Day 

Now that we have an entry, I will post mine as well. This is an acceptable format: jacques delors/bobby shantz/dick van dyke/1925 (sub in mahathir mohamad) henry kissinger/harrison schmitt/hal linden/H jimmy carter/robert solow/eva marie saint/1924 politicians/ s /actors I didn't think this was likely, but only a few entries in and already there is a redundancy conflict. After posting my team, I went to my PM and found that another player had submitted the same trio I used for politicians! Eff me! So I am swapping out jacques delors for mahathir mohamad. I was lucky to find another name to fit both categories on short notice, and not have to restructure my whole grid. Carry on . . . . .

I have made it 8 categories because I fully intended for writers/authors/journalists to be there. Also, royalty and politicians fall under the world leaders category, which I have amended above to label "politicians" instead of political leaders. I am going to keep the categories at 8 because part of the design of this pool is to be creative within the restrictions of the categories. I don't want so much leeway that we include the very marginally famous (or totally nonfamous), because they have a cancer blog or are a relative of someone who . . . . . blah blah etc. Maybe we can expand things if there are future editions. Let's see how this goes for now.

06/07/2023 51 Manic Street Preachers- The Masses Against the Classes 43 All Saints- Pure Shores 37 Spiller- Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) 37 Kylie Minogue- Can’t Get You Out Of My Head 36 Fragma- Toca’s Miracle 33 So Solid Crew- 21 Seconds +4 31 Sonique- It Feels So Good 30 Eminem ft. Dido- Stan 30 Roger Sanchez- Another Chance 29 Melanie C — I turn to you 28 Madison Avenue- Don’t Call Me Baby 26 Daniel Bedingfield- Gotta Get Thru This  26 LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight the Moonlight 26 Rui da Silva ft. Cassandra- Touch Me 26 Melanie C ft. Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes- Never Be The Same Again 26 Shaggy/RikRok - It Wasn't Me 25 Eminem- The Real Slim Shady 24 S Club 7 - Have You Ever 24 Modjo- Lady (Hear Me Tonight)  24 Afroman- Because I Got High 23 Chicane ft. Bryan Adams- Don’t Give Up 23 S Club 7 - Don’t Stop Movin’ 23 Britney Spears- Oops!... I Did It Again 23 Shaggy ft. Rayvon- Angel 22 Oxide & Neutrino- Bound 4 da Reload (Casualty) 22 All Saints- Black Coffee 22 Craig David- Fill Me In 22 Craig David- 7 Days 21 Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya & Pink- Lady Marmalade 21 Billie Piper- Day & Night 20 Gabrielle- Rise 20 Kylie Minogue- Spinning Around 20 The Corrs- Breathless 20 A1- Take On Me  20 A1- Same Old Brand New You 20 Jennifer Lopez- Love Don’t Cost A Thing 20 Atomic Kitten- Whole Again 20 Hear’Say- Pure and Simple 20 Emma Bunton- What Took You So Long? 20 Destiny’s Child- Survivor 20 Atomic Kitten- Eternal Flame 20 Five - Let’s Dance 19 Geri Halliwell- Bag It Up  19 Steps – Stomp 19 Spice Girls - Holler/Let Love Lead The Way 18 Robbie Williams - Rock DJ 18 Blue- Too Close 16 DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies - Do You Really Like It? 14 Westlife - Fool Again 14 Destiny’s Child - Independent Women Part I 14 Mariah Carey ft. Westlife- Against All Odds 09 Robbie Williams- Eternity/The Road to Mandalay 09 Ronan Keating- Life Is A Rollercoaster 08 Five + Queen- We Will Rock You -4 00 S Club 7- Never Had A Dream Come True -2

TL;DR summary: if the monthly hit rate is greater than or equals 0.7 hits/day (21 hits/month), or the yearly rate stays above 0.8 we are in for a record year. Yearly rate = total hits on the day/day of year out of 365. For example, 30 June hits were 161 and 30 June is day 181 of 365. So 161/181 = 0.890. I'm blaming both @YoungWillz and @Gooseberry Crumble for giving me ideas. It is just over half the year and despite @Gooseberry Crumble lamenting missed picks, this year has had a great first half. And I'll make a prediction - it will be a record setting year with 290 hits. As I write on 5 July, there are 164 hits. As of 30 June at 161 hits, it is the best performing year so far compared to 2020, 2021 and 2022. I've used these years as the spread of total hits is low: 2020 (278), 2021 (275), 2022 (280). Kudos for precision deadpoolers. First off, why such a good tally end of June? Two reasons - no May or June slump in hits that happened every year 2020-2022. And this is despite having the worst 31 January tally in 2023 vs 2020-2022. I've hidden the maths below so as not to trigger the forum users. I'm confident in this prediction. And I'll try to update it as the results come in. Always happy to hear any comments, suggestions, why you hated your maths teacher, etc. Edit: If you really want a bumper year, find QOs for the LotL; I suspect that the low number of them is partly a reason for the success. Also, why call out @YoungWillz? The knack of finding QOs weeks and months later made me realize that my initial counts were inaccurate, b/c ofc @YoungWillz had turned it up and it was put in its correct date. Dedication to the cause.

Think this is the place for all the Kent clan? So I'll put it here rather than the Royal Family thread. Spent yesterday sat on Centre Court at Wimbledon and Prince Michael of Kent was in attendance along with, I believe, his daughter. Looked very frail. Walked with a stick, was very slow climbing and descending the steps and used the hand rail as well as his stick for support. Should've taken a photo, didn't. Tried to find a photo, haven't. Which maybe tells its own story...

Eccentric, controversial, loved, hated Finnish poet, writer Miki Liukkonen dead at 33. Death cause not mentioned but he had/had suffered from BPD, anorexia and depression. Possibly Finland's most famous living poet before his death, atleast according to himself - from a 2015 interview: "I am Finland's most famous poet as Tommy Tabermann (1947-2010) is dead. I don't know if I'm the greatest, but atleast I'm the most famous."

Peter Falk has Alzheimer’s.

Siqueira Campos dead at 94.

O homem mais velho da Macedônia do Norte (Ramiz Selmani) morreu em 2/Jul/2023.Nascido em Llojan em 10/Out/1914,morreu no mesmo lugar,ele foi considerado o homem mais velho da história do país,mas sua idade ainda não está validada. Aos 103 anos, quando foi entrevistado pela primeira vez, ainda conseguia trabalhar na roça e caminhar mais de 7 quilômetros em um dia. Agora o homem mais velho na Macedônia do Norte é Xhemail Rustemi nascido em 19/Fev/1916 em Skopje, ele vive em Polog O pai do ministro albanês morre aos 109 anos, o mais velho da região. JavaNews.al

Vu Khoan dead at 85.

Jose Sarney, former President of Brazil, has made a rare appearance with Lula: Frail but doesn't look bad for someone who's survived pleural effusion atleast twice and was very close to dying ten years ago.

Frank Field is still taking the piss. BBC, 22 October 2021 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59009053. "Ex-MP Frank Field reveals he is close to death." Over 20 months later and he's still here...

I could split the list into a few categories: Ultra-frails, mystery how they're still alive, coffinteases and those currently dying: Khamtai Siphandone (massive stroke in 2016, other health problems), Jimmy Carter, Guillermo Rodriguez Lara (looked decaying last year), Giorgio Napolitano, Arnaldo Forlani (bedbound some time ago), Kim Yong-nam, Zhu Rongji (parkinson's and other illnesses, looked like a corpse years ago), Orville Turnquest (looked very frail ages ago), Jamshid bin Abdullah ("spending his last days" in 2020 or something similar?), Violeta Chamorro (osteoporosis, brain tumors, endstage dementia, massive stroke a few years ago), Selim Hoss, Isabel Peron, Jean-Jacques Honorat, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh (massive health history), Queen Sirikit, Manmohan Singh, Bill Hayden, HD Deve Gowda, Than Shwe Frail, but not ultrafrail: Thanin Kraivichien (it's been a while since his last public appearance. Seems to pop up sometimes to attend an event), Péter Boross, Édouard Balladur, Alfred Moisiu, Milan Panic, Ahmed Osman, Jose Sarney (pleural effusion or something similar a few years ago, recovered somewhat), Ivy Dumont, Choe Yong-rim, Cesar Virata (stroke, covid and pneumonia a few years ago), Lamberto Dini, George Vassiliou (looked quite frail in February), Raul Castro, Javier Valle Riestra, Anand Panyarachun, Vytautas Landsbergis (hospitalised atleast 5 times in recent years with infections), Fouad Mebazaa, Suchinda Kraprayoon, Arnold Koller, Jean Chrétien, Édith Cresson, Monica Dacon (described as very tired in 2014), Albert II, Abdul Rauf al-Kasm Have been very ill in the past... Fully recovered: Tomiichi Murayama, Mahathir Mohamad, Nikolai Ryzhkov (massive heart attack ca. 1990), Cleopa Msuya (very ill in 2013), Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar (stroke in 2019, seems to have made a full recovery), A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, Mohamed Ennaceur ("in poor health" in 2019, bounced back), Pedro Pires (massive internal bleeding ca. 2014) Not sure how they're doing now: Abdoulaye Wade (goes to France for medical treatment once in a while), Raif Dizdarević (last time I heard, he was doing fine), Ion Iliescu, Dries Van Agt, Fernando Henrique Cardoso (broken hip or something similar a year or two ago?), Hüsamettin Cindoruk (kidney failure a few months ago), Akihito (ill now and then, but overall seems to be doing fine), Eddie Fenech Adami Doing fine: Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Valdas Adamkus, Arnold Rüütel, Arthur Foulkes, Gombojavyn Ochirbat, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Marguerite Pindling, Mark Eyskens (described as "mastering the art of aging well" in April), Basdeo Panday, Dumaagiin Sodnom, Rubén Darío Paredes (obese but seems to be doing fine), Mátyás Szűrös, Rudolf Schuster, J. Y. Pillay, Henri Konan Bédié, Heng Samrin Arguable (rumored ill but seems to be doing fine OR simply makes public appearances very rarely): Sam Nujoma, Kesang Choden, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Mabandla Dlamini, William Deane, Philip Greaves, Elliott Belgrave, Khieu Samphan (wants to get out of jail), Michael Hardie Boys (not seen in ages), Edmund Lawrence, Gavril Dejeu, Colville Young, Rachid Sfar, Michel Aoun (allegedly suffers from dementia, other ailments), Abel Pacheco, Édouard Frank, John Malecela, Nicola Mancino, Ali Haroun Boring, no images in the last 5 years: Lee Hyun-jae, Efraín Goldenberg, Pié Masumbuko, Tang Fei, Kim Suk-soo, Lee Hong-koo, Could even be dead: Mohammad Hasan Sharq, Cesar Yanes Urias, Severino Tura and the two other red names

With Astrud Gilberto's death, up to you to consider updating this entry.

Crossposting

This one just gets more and more bizarre as well. I've used all the alternative spellings on her discogs page and nothing comes up between 1931 and 1945 in the birth index... She clearly wasn't born under this name. I'll add "1936 or 1940" to page 1 in the meantime.

Twenty years ago, Jon Pertwee left us for the Ten Acre field in the sky

Don't worry Tempus. You're never alone with Godot, have had few also. Or did I mean Oslo?