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As an American, I sincerely hope he doesn't receive any more votes.

Seems I'm one of the more frequent users of this thread, I do like sharing when I'm away for longer just in case, and perhaps it can inspire other forum users when visiting said places. Earlier this month I went to Lisbon for a couple of days, quite nice weather (mostly about 25 degrees celsius) but sadly quite touristic. Right now I'm departing from Amsterdam with my girlfriend to visit her family in Finland for a couple of weeks. Until then!

Sun 30 Jul 45 Squeeze — Cool For Cats 42 Boney M — Rasputin 38 The Police — Can’t Stand Losing You +1 37 M — Pop Muzik -2 34 Blondie — Dreaming 29 Olivia Newton-John — Hopelessly Devoted To You -2 24 Roxy Music — Dance Away 24 Squeeze — Up The Junction +2 15 Elvis Costello & The Attractions — Oliver’s Army 13 BA Robertson — Bang Bang -2 12 Abba — Chiquitita 11 Darts — The Boy From New York City +1

Mari Carmen Izquierdo, one of Spain's most respected journalists of her generation, the great pioneer of female sports journalism in Spain, and the first woman to report on sports on Spanish national television, died on this day 4 years ago, aged 69. The cause was pancreatic cancer (she died on the third month of her illness). Mari Carmen Izquierdo started her brilliant career as a reporter and she was the host of the legendary Sunday night football highlight show "Estudio Estadio" on TVE from 1977 to 1983. Over the course of her career, she covered major events such as the Olympics, and the World and European Football Cups, opening the door for other female sports journalists to come. Mari Carmen Izquierdo was President of the Spanish Sports Journalist Association, Director of Sports Production at TVE, and member of the Spanish Olympic Committee and the Jury of the Prince (now Princess) of Asturias Sports Award. She was a very good person, the most kind and generous colleague, a notable interviewer and a role model as a journalist. She will never be forgotten.

July 30th 2023 48 t.A.T.u. - All The Things She Said 46 Elvis vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation 41 Evanescence - Bring Me to Life 38 Eminem - Lose Yourself 38 Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love? 36 Aaliyah - More Than a Woman 36 Beyoncé ft. Jay-Z - Crazy in Love 33 Sugababes - Hole in the Head 32 Fatman Scoop - Be Faithful +4 32 Sugababes - Freak Like Me 31 Michael Andrews ft. Gary Jules - Mad World 30 Eminem - Without Me 30 Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground 26 Room 5 ft. Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv 26 Christina Aguilera - Beautiful 26 Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland - Dilemma 26 Liberty X - Just a Little 24 Christina Aguilera ft. Redman - Dirrty 23 Pink - Just Like a Pill 23 Sugababes - Round Round 23 DJ Sammy & Yanou ft. Do - Heaven 22 Will Young - Leave Right Now  22 Kylie Minogue - Slow -2 00 Daniel Bedingfield - Left Your Side -4 I've spent many sleepless hours staying up to save my savior Fatman Scoop from doom.

Pat Carroll died on this day a year ago, aged 95. - Carroll's debut on Broadway in 1955 for the play Catch A Star! earned her a Tony nomination, and in 1956, she won an Emmy for her role on Caesar's Hour. - For live-action roles, Carroll was often typecast as the mothers of major characters, such as Shirley's mother Lily on Laverne and Shirley. - Carroll got into voice acting in the 1960s, and was the voice of Jane Jetson for the pilot episode of The Jetsons. She sued Hanna-Barbera in 1963 claiming that she was guaranteed the role for 24 episodes, but was replaced by Penny Singleton after the first episode. The court ruled in favor of Hanna-Barbera, likely due to scheduling conflicts with her role in The Danny Thomas Show. - On '80s TV, Carroll was known for voicing the main antagonist Katrina Stoneheart on Pound Puppies, and the voice of Jon's grandmother in the Garfield TV specials: - Carroll received her most famous role in 1989, when she was cast as the voice of the villain Ursula in Disney's The Little Mermaid: She would continue to voice the character up until her death, and also voiced Ursula's sister Morgana in the film's direct-to-video sequel. - Outside of Ursula, other film roles Carroll was known for included portraying Miep Gies in Freedom Writers and voicing Granny in a 2005 dub of My Neighbor Totoro.

With @Commtech Sio Bibble's entry, we now have 6 already competing, which is one more than the last round and I'm hopeful we should get to double figures by kick-off. Midday, Friday, BST please folks!

Clive Rowlands, Former Wales scrum-half, captain, coach, manager and Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) president has died at the age of 85. BBC Wiki

Italian Vitorrio Prodi, former European MP (2004-2014) and brother of former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, has died aged 86.

30/Jul/2023 45 Squeeze — Cool For Cats 43 The Police — Can’t Stand Losing You +1 38 M — Pop Muzik 36 Boney M — Rasputin +1 36 Blondie — Dreaming 33 Olivia Newton-John — Hopelessly Devoted To You -3 24 Roxy Music — Dance Away +1 21 Elvis Costello & The Attractions — Oliver’s Army 21 Squeeze — Up The Junction 15 BA Robertson — Bang Bang 12 Darts — The Boy From New York City +1 12 Abba — Chiquitita -3

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art Vincent van Gogh died on this day 133 years ago, aged 37. In just over a decade he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold, symbolic colours, and dramatic, impulsive and highly expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He sold only one painting during his lifetime and became famous after his suicide which followed years of poverty and mental illness.

Congrats Mari 1923   Judith Hemmendinger / Olav Thon 1924 Jane Morgan /  David Ferry 1925 Lucine Amara / Leo Esaki  1926  Rowena Jackson / Stanley Baxter  1927 Genevieve Page  / Frank Sedgman  1928 Yvonne Furneaux / Joss Ackland    1929 Lady Pamela Hicks / Stuart Hall 1930 Sara Jane Moore  / Robert Wagner  1931 Claire Bloom / Robert Duvall  1932 Shirley Conran / Dennis Skinner

This time last year for DL 2022 there were only 4 hits so DL 2023 is advanced by 5 with still so much more potential to come for the remaining part of the year I genuinely feel.

Alright.... first update after the replacement period, and some of you made good use of it by picking British business founder Nick Hungerford, who was kind enough to announce his imminent demise on the BBC. Then we have the two giant hits George Alagiah and Tony Bennett. Points for everyone (almost)! Nick Hungerford wasn't the only replacement hit actually. MariNisia scores with the unique pick Victoria Amelina, a Ukrainian author who wrote about the terrors of war, and then fell victim to them herself. Sinead O'Connor was also picked, just once, by Pedro. No points pending on the kind of death in this pool... Milan Kundera was a DeathList hit, and so naturally, also a hit here. The OTHER Frank Field was a hit, lest we forget. Two players score, among them Cpt Hemlock who seems to have picked the guy in everything. Well, I hope that exactly those two players picked THIS Frank Field. Horst-Dieter Höttges was a unique hit for The Spinosaurus, well done. The dementia footballers seem to fall less frequently than we'd like to think. But Höttges did and got the QO with ease. Quite a few teams also score with Mutulu Shakur, the alternative healthcare/terrorism guy. Even looking now, he still only got the Yahoo QO. Neither Daily Mail nor Sun bothered to follow up their frequent coverage of him a couple of years ago. But it counts, lucky us. Oscar winner Alan Arkin was also a hit, some time ago. Two people score, Cpt. Hemlock is among the two, again. The Spinosaurus is the other. CalebH scores a unique hit with former governor of Connecticut, Lowell Weicker. One of the last "Rockefeller Republicans", he was on some issues more liberal than his democratic successor in the Senate, Joe Lieberman. Must have also been one of the last times this happened. TorvaMessor scores uniquely with Harry Markowitz. I had to be reminded that his Economist obit counted for the DDP, and thus, here. But since then, he also got the Financial Times, so it's alright anyway. Markowitz was important because he invented a certain formula, a bit out of thin air, to value financial products. When I learned about it, it didn't really make sense to me. But sometimes, you just use something because it works, and there is no alternative... And I think that's it. Oommen Chandy waits for a QO (well, drol does), I'm afraid it won't come... His second indian non-QO after Parkash Singh Badal... Unfortunately, this is not the Alt Obituaries Pool. Summer in Transilvania waits for an obit for Wilhelm Büsing, the "oldest living Olympian"..maybe something at the end of the year? Relatively unlikely though. The scoreboard shows that Banana might just have made the decisive step ahead of his closest followers by picking Nick Hungerford. That pick also makes Joey climb onto the podium. Rank Team Score 1 Banana 941 2 Funeralopolis 727 3 JoeyRuss 696 4 Salmon Mousse 683 5 Grim Up North 653 6 Perhaps 648 7 RadGuy 608 8 Book 595 9 An Fear Beag 575 10 gcreptile 570 11 Cpt. Chorizo 568 12 Death Impends 563 13 Buffalo Phil 535 14 Summer in Transylvania 527 15 msc 520 16 Toast 491 17 DeathBecomesThem 470 18 wannamaker 469 19 The Spinosaurus 468 20 ThereWillBeDeaths7 443 21 The Daredevil 442 22 Gooseberry Crumble 440 23 Joltin Joe 433 24 TheOldLady 416 25 GuyFromFuture 415 26 Wormfarmer 412 27 Mr. Wonderful 406 28 Sean 404 29 Drol 400 30 Thatcher 392 31 TheUnknownMan 380 32 tracy 374 33 YoungWillz 363 34 Hell 360 35 Torva Messor 358 36 Predictor 350 37 MortalCaso 326 38 Etushipushingupdaisies 325 39 The Old Crem 321 40 DevonDeathTrip 306 41 Charles De Gaulle 303 42 Annami 298 43 Cpt. Hemlock 284 44 John Key 279 45 Diego 276 46 TheQuimReaper 273 47 MariNisia 269 48 Nick 267 49 chilean way 265 50 JoeMoneypenny 254 51 Liz Lemon 214 52 Bibliogryphon 191 53 Lady Fiona 185 53 Pedro67 185 55 Mr. Custard 177 56 CalebH 176 57 Famous6Eva 147 58 Great Uncle Bulgaria 117 59 Ghostofchristmaspast 94 60 etib80 92 61 sam081 85

I'll be the only one to be so distrespectful of the dead. But she was always an attention seeker - topped herself for sure. Lots of people have problems, hers were worse because she could sing? Bleh. And Prince wrote the song anyway. Now that was a loss.

Aye, the previously ubiquitous Michael Barratt (died aged 94), Frank Bough (died aged 87) and Michael Aspel (still going at 90) all spent longer on screen in those absestos riddled buildings than our Esther. Just sayin'

I hope so because I didn't compete this year as was just getting into deadpooling and didn't want to overwhelm myself. Now i'm ready to do more.

Muriel Spurgeon Carder (Wiki), Canadian Baptist who was the first woman ordained as a Baptist minister in Ontario and Quebec dead at 100

Aye, that'll save a little on the dry cleaning of Putin's underwear!

You seriously think that anybody on here is moronic enough to want to track he.........oh, ok then.

Peter Scolari, best known for starring with Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies (that shows theme song was a cover version of Billy Joel’s My Life) dead at 66 https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/peter-scolari-obituary-bosom-buddies-1235095484/

Thanks for the info - I am new to all this, just wanted to mention her for a few years now.

The last man to fight Ali, Trevor Berbick couldn't beat the count this day 10 years ago, aged 52.

Merle Haggard cancels more concerts: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7317901/merle-haggard-cancels-april-concerts-sick