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Che Guevara's sister Celia Guevara dead at 93.

Update on Cale Yarborough from his daughter. Diagnosed with a very rare terminal condition apparently. It does seem to be of the slower progressive multiple sclerosis/dementia type of condition, rather than the fast progressing terminal cancer/ALS kind but regardless definitely a solid choice for DPs this point on.

The 97-year old Ahmad Jannati has been reelected as leader of the Iranian Guardian Council for another year, in spite of his ill health and his "difficulties communicating": https://iranwire.com/en/politics/118680-97-year-old-cleric-jannati-re-elected-as-guardian-council-chief/

Sue Marx, who won the 1988 Oscar for 'Best Documentary Short' for her film 'Young at Heart', which chronicled the relationship between her father and his second wife, both artists and each a widower/widow, has died. She was 92. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/07/17/sue-marx-oscar-winning-filmmaker-dies-at-92/70422900007/

I'll say it again. My point was that "African-American" is starting to be wrongly used as a synonym for black non-Americans by people who don't think about what they're saying. I should probably have made the comment in the English Language thread. It would have been better understood there.

July 20 100 Queen — Killer Queen 78 Sparks — This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us +4 46 Roxy Music — Love Is The Drug 43 Sweet — Fox On The Run 31 Bachman -Turner Overdrive — You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet 22 Greg Lake — I Believe In Father Christmas +4 21 Gloria Gaynor — Never Can Say Goodbye -6 13 Hot Chocolate — You Sexy Thing Though I do think a correction needs to be made for Sir Creep who subtracted 8 instead of the allotted 6 a couple posts ago.

I was the one who scrubbed the death from his Wiki page for it being unsourced. I thought it was total bollocks tbh. Now that I've seen that website claim however, I've contacted the media.

Nguyen Khanh dead at 95.

Robert II of France died on this day 992 years ago, aged 59. - Robert was the second king of the Capetian dynasty; he was the son of its founder, Hugh Capet. - In his youth, Robert received his education from Gerbert of Aurillac- the future Pope Sylvester II. - Robert became the junior king mere months after his father took the throne in 987, likely Hugh's attempt at controlling the aristocracy. Robert would become the sole ruler after his father's death in 996. - Robert was married three times. His first wife was Rozala of Italy; their marriage was annulled to due a major age difference between the two (Rozala was 22 years older), He secondly married Bertha of Burgundy in 996, for which he was excommunicated for seven years by Pope Gregory V (when his tutor became pope in 999, he upheld it). He finally married Constance of Arles in 1002. - Robert expanded French territory to include the Duchy of Burgundy in a conquest that lasted from 1003 to 1016. - Robert would make his son Hugh Mungus Magnus junior king in 1017, but died in 1025. He would then co-reign with his son Henry I beginning in 1027, much to the disagreement of his wife (who considered her son to be effeminate). - Robert died from a fever caused by an unknown affliction. One person chronicled that a solar eclipse that had occurred three weeks earlier was a warning sign.

Rex Williams, no. 24 on DeathList 1990, is 90.

Steve Pieters, an openly gay cleric and AIDS activist whose interview on the PTL Club gave its conservative Christian audience a differing viewpoint on homosexuality and prompted Tammy Faye Bakker to ask he be treated with compassion, has died. He was 70. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/us/steve-pieters-dead.html

Thelma Barlow looks very well for 94.

It's yer Barbara Knox and Thelma Barlow hanging out at the Flower Show earlier. (FAO @Gooseberry Crumble as he's a proponent of Barlow for a future DL!)

Pat Boone turned up on Fox News in the past few hours: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6331503855112 Waving his gun around. By the time he dies he'll be so right wing even Satan will think twice about admitting him.

20/07/2023 79 Kylie Minogue — Can’t Get You Out Of My Head 69 All Saints — Pure Shores 58 Eminem ft. Dido — Stan 47 Spiller — Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) 43 LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight the Moonlight -3 42 Britney Spears — Oops!…I Did it Again 42 Shaggy/RikRok - It Wasn't Me 40 Modjo — Lady (Hear Me Tonight) +4 36 Manic Street Preachers — The Masses Against the Classes 35 Melanie C ft. Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes — Never Be The Same Again 30 Madison Avenue — Don’t Call Me Baby 24 Roger Sanchez — Another Chance 21 Daniel Bedingfield — Gotta Get Thru This  15 Destiny’s Child — Survivor -3 Scoreboard should be fine now. Added my votes and re-added the ones by ladyfiona.

For those sick of Daniel Bedingfield. His sister got a number one in 2004.

I don't like being prescriptive on any issues of democracy

I can never understand the point of these threads.

Purgatori. Well, he may very well be living up to his namesake now.

Update coming Friday or Saturday.

So wonderfully weird. Well done on all counts. Things to keep an eye out for on a rainy afternoon and there are no more books to read. Marvellous.

It’s the novelty factor at the moment. Give it a year and it’ll be the King. Even Edward Vee one one one was referred to as ‘the King’ by the end of his short reign. Elvia achieved it almost overnight. The ‘Queen Consort’ thing keeps rumbling on too.

Neil Coyle has the Labour whip removed over racist comments to journalist of Chinese heritage

Go go go Nabi Tajima.

Cute stage actor/dancer Danny Lockin was brutally murdered 39 years ago today. I'm posting this year rather than waiting a year as I don't want it to get swamped among all the other 40 year anniversaries which will take place around this time next year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Lockin