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Times Obit for Polish lieutenant colonel and historian Stanislaw Zurakowski aged 103: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stanislaw-zurakowski-obituary-58h9r2s6b Centenarian deadpool pick I understand.

Scottish poet Kenneth White (wiki) reportedly dead at 87.

Death notice for Julian Ogilvie Thompson, South African former chair of De Beers and other businesses, aged 89: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/ogilvie-thompson-notices_52930

Well it's only the 42 years since he left office..

Interesting thread (well I say 'interesting'...) on Lil Tay 'death' and how it was (not) reported by the BBC.

Simplest dead pool ever. Pick a person born in 2001. First death wins. "Famous for being ill" types are barred, there must be media coverage of the individual that precedes any reference to their health.

14/Aug/2023 63 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 61 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 51 Ultravox — Vienna -2 44 Lipps Inc — Funkytown 39 Diana Ross — Upside Down +4 35 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai 34 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') 29 Whispers — And The Beat Goes On 29 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It 15 Paul McCartney — Coming Up -2 00 Randy Crawford — One Day I’ll Fly Away -2

14/8/23 63 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 61 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight +4 53 Ultravox — Vienna 44 Lipps Inc — Funkytown 35 Diana Ross — Upside Down 35 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai 34 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') 29 Whispers — And The Beat Goes On 29 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It 17 Paul McCartney — Coming Up -1 02 Randy Crawford — This Monday* I’ll Fly Away -5

I knew I should have waited 2 minutes for Rover to post. I was patiently refreshing to see if they put something I could kill as I spotted them checking the thread, lol.

Lewis Moody says former teammates plural have early onset dementia.

That's fine. 1 bonus point for you. As only 3 players picked Bahamontes, that means the odd one out is receiving a 2 point penalty. Now who is that ...... oh.....shit!

Nintendo composer Koji Kondo is 62.

I'll never did this but... Happy 21st birthday to me!

Nitin Chandrakant Desai, the prominent Bollywood production designer of the Oscar-nominated music sports drama Lagaan, has died. He was 57. Desai reportedly was found dead at his studio in Karat, near Mumbai. The Indian Express and other local news agencies have reported police initially are suspecting suicide. SC.

George Alagiah winning the Easter Eye ACTA for "outstanding contribution to the arts". Acceptance speech as proof that he won it.

That will do nicely. Two bonus points winging their way to you.

Another view of the same ceremony and just to show effort, a report of Kundera's acceptance of the 1985 Jerusalem Prize https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/10/books/kundrea-accepts-jerusalem-prize.html

You and @welshman according to this report headline.

I think pipe smoking bowls player David Bryant is still with us and knocking on a bit now.

I didn't know he was your type SC

Separate topic about the Mexican actress Maria Antonieta de las Nieves, interpreter of Chilindrina in the series "El Chavo del Ocho"

Humprhrey Bogart would never asked Sam anything after this day 60 years ago, aged 57.

Lately saw the movie 'The Flying Scotsman' about Graham Obree, sometime world record holder and a bi-polar case who once hung himself with some well-rotted rope in a Scots forest only to come crashing down none too much worse. He's now - apparently - preparing a bid on the world veterans one hour record, aged 42. Excitable and non-too-stable boy, you never know....

Re the 17 nr 1 hits and the rest ALL of the Beatles - even the dead ones - could lay claim to much more than the above. Their no.1 hits run into hundreds when you take every national chart into account, ditto the chart entries. Brown's 170 albums include many sub-standard apologies unofficially released. There are loads of big name artists similarly afflicted with bootleg problems. Brown's a living legend, mind, just putting the record a bit straighter all round.