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Reuben Sinclair in such good health he's already dead and buried: https://globalnews.ca/news/9926725/canada-oldest-veteran-funeral-reuben-sinclair/

Thread for former US Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, now 81 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell Lately, he's been freezing in front of cameras and just today, it happened again: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/30/mitch-mcconnell-freezes-struggles-to-speak-in-second-incident-this-summer.html He also suffered a fall last year, and had a suspiciously swollen and reddish hand. There might be all kinds of blood circulation issues, maybe a series of mini-strokes. Seems like he might beat Dianne Feinstein to the punch. He's also a little more notable than her, having presided over the Senate for six years, and being responsible for changing the Supreme Court, by blocking Obama's judges, and basically inventing the 60-seat filibuster, meaning, if you want to get something done in the Senate, you need 60 votes now.

Dee Bradley Baker is 61. You may know him as the voice of Klaus from American Dad, Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb, Bubble Bass and Squilliam from SpongeBob, Numbah 2 and Numbah 4 from Codename: Kids Next Door, or Daffy Duck in Space Jam- though he has literally hundreds of voice roles:

Bullshit he should be on here... Turtles can live up to 250 years old, Mitch has at least 100 years more to go

Jamie Christopher, well respected British Assistant Director who worked on all of the Potter movies, reportedly dead aged 52: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jamie-christopher-dead-marvel-harry-potter-assistant-director-1235578498/ Also worked on various MCU productions, Goldeneye, The Da Vinci Code, etc etc and made an appearance as an X-Wing Pilot in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Dodi Fayed died on this day 26 years ago, aged 42. - Dodi was the son of a billionaire (who is currently occupying the #45 spot on the list), and the nephew of another (Adnan Khashoggi, subject of the Queen song Khashoggi's Ship). He was also the first cousin of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. - He was also the CEO of film production company Allied Stars (founded by his father), and he was listed as an executive producer on movies such as Chariots of Fire, Hook, and F/X. - Early in 1997, Fayed was engaged to a woman named Kelly Fisher, but dumped her for the then-prince Charles' ex-wife Princess Diana- Fisher planned to sue him for breach of contract, but dropped it following his untimely death. - Dodi and Diana were killed in a now-infamous car crash trying to get away from the paparazzi, partly due to the fact that neither of them were wearing seatbelts. Since then, Dodi's father Mohamed has suggested (and continues to claim to this day) that this was all intentional- particularly alleging Prince Philip as the mastermind behind the conspiracy.

Fuck sake - there's something seriously wrong there, looked like a petit mal seizure, or summat - for a few seconds there he literally didn't seem to know where he was

It's easier to get the British monarchy to abdicate than to get a US Senator to retire seemingly.

His father in law, James S C Chao, is notable in his own right & 96 in December

For the DL, some French names that could be good points in 2024 : Bernadette Chirac, Brigitte Bardot, Françoise Hardy, and keep Jean-Marie Le Pen and Jacques Delors, if they not die before.

21/08/2023 46 A-Ha — Take On Me 44 Prince — 1999 / Little Green Courgette 41 Queen — Radio Ga Ga 40 Tears For Fears — Everybody Wants To Rule The World 36 Bonnie Tyler — Holding Out For A Hero 33 Duran Duran — A View To A Kill 32 Howard Jones — What Is Love? 29 The Weather Girls — It’s Raining Men 28 Cyndi Lauper — Girls Just Want To Have Fun 23 The Pointer Sisters— Automatic 19 Marillion — Kayleigh +4 17 Nik Kershaw — I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me 14 Duran Duran — Wild Boys 10 Madonna — Holiday -6 06 King — Love & Pride

Thu 31 Aug 46 A-Ha — Take On Me +1 44 Prince — 1999 / Little Green Courgette 41 Queen — Radio Ga Ga +1 40 Tears For Fears — Everybody Wants To Rule The World +2 36 Bonnie Tyler — Holding Out For A Hero 33 Duran Duran — A View To A Kill 32 Howard Jones — What Is Love? 29 The Weather Girls — It’s Raining Men 28 Cyndi Lauper — Girls Just Want To Have Fun 23 The Pointer Sisters— Automatic 17 Nik Kershaw — I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me 16 Madonna — Holiday 15 Marillion — Kayleigh -2 14 Duran Duran — Wild Boys 06 King — Love & Pride -4

American tennis player Vic Seixas is 100 today.

American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and editor Wes Craven died on this day 8 years ago, aged 76. Craven created the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise (1984–2010), specifically writing and directing the first film, co-writing and producing the third, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), and writing and directing the seventh, Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). He additionally directed the first four films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011). He also directed cult classics The Last House on the Left (1972) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), the horror comedy The People Under the Stairs (1991), and psychological thriller Red Eye (2005). His other notable films include Swamp Thing (1982), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Shocker (1989), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), and Music of the Heart (1999).

Craig Kingsbury died 21 years ago aged 89, nicknamed "The most famous head in movie history", why you may ask? This....

At least they don't have a second chamber that's appointments are partially made on who's uterus you happened to be expelled from.

Former Wimbledon champion Vic Seixas is 100 today. This video includes the likes of Martina Navratilova, Billie-Jean King, Stan Smith, Tracey Austin and Virginia Wade wishing him happy birthday. No sign of Rod Laver or Ken Rosewall.

Reports that Marilyn Lovell has died: Might hasten a certain astronaut's demise, if true.

Mad how he has time to run across Africa and sing that "Rich Men North of Richmond" song.

Oh Robert can you not find the “sad” emoji?

Ok are only notable SC deaths allowed on this chat didn’t realize that. I’ll serve out my sentence in the deathlist gulag For your information she was the oldest person ever to have her name “Augusta Pellet”. Choose any random British lady celebrating her 112th birthday today and you’ll find she is not the oldest person to have her name Also I think she is the latest-born person as of now to die at 110 (only had birthday last month) which I guess is something but obviously another person born later will die soon

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna42292 “Comfort-food charm”. I’ve never heard that term before, but I love it and plan to steal it.

I was going to cross-post in Stairway to Hell/Highway to Heaven, but as he only played on the wimpy 1982 original of Here I Go Again and not the '87 hair-metal monster remake, I decided against it. He did, of course, co-write it though. Oh, and he was also in (deep breath)... UFO, Cozy Powell's Hammer, Wild Turkey, Babe Ruth, Paice Ashton Lord, Alaska, The Moody Marsden Band, The Snakes, M3. And 2 Unlimited.

Oh I really hope you manage to pull it off! We are living through very difficult times but I'm pretty confident we will be close enough to normality by July for concerts/ big events to take place. Enjoy!

Queen Mother Elizabeth died on this day 15 years ago, aged 101.