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Sir Rudolph Agnew, former Chief Executive and Chairman of Consolidated Gold Fields, death notice: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/agnew-notices_53586 The company played a key role in ending apartheid in South Africa.

23.09.2023 42 Eurythmics — Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) +4 38 A-Ha — Take On Me 31 Tears For Fears — Everybody Wants To Rule The World -6 29 Queen — Radio Ga Ga 25 Bangles — Manic Monday 24 INXS — Need You Tonight 20 Alice Cooper — Poison 19 Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield — What Have I Done To Deserve This 18 Ultravox — Vienna 18 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 18 Duran Duran — A View To A Kill 18 Duran Duran — Save A Prayer 15 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 15 Erasure — Sometimes 12 Prince — 1999 / Little Red Corvette 08 The Stranglers — Golden Brown

Catching up is a lot easier for me once Bennett and Alagiah are out of the way. Main Deathlist to be added after I'm done. Tony Bennett Doorslammer 9+1 thadee 4+1 jonnythegamemaster 5+1 polar duck 2+1 gcreptile 17+1 philip 8+1 Grimgrass 10+1 _floydylan_ 7+1 Nick 10+1 Johnnas 3+1 Zsa Zsa's leg 8+1 Death Duke 3+1 Murdoc 5+1 Brad252 4+1 Hell 9+1 The Daredevil 8+1 The Old Crem 7+1 Thatcher 7+1 BuffaloPhil 8+1 tracy 11+1 Redrumours 3+1 wannamaker 9+1 TQR 5+1 MortalCaso 9+1 Etushipushingupdaisies 6+1 markb4 10+1 LWCZ 6+1 WEP 6+1 Torva Messor 5+1 earl 5+1 ladyfiona 2+1 dimreaper 9+1 Dying Probably 6+1 Khthonia 3+1 Charles De Gaulle 6+1 Clarence 7+1 LizLemon 6+1 six feet blunder 7+1 Bibliogryphon 5+1 TheSpinosaurus 6+1 ThereWillBeDeaths7 7+1 Summer in Transylvania 8+1 George Alagiah markb4 11+1 DeathBecomesThem 11+1 WEP 7+1 Torva Messor 6+1 ladyfiona 3+1 Steve 4+1 dimreaper 10+1 Khthonia 4+1 Charles De Gaulle 7+1 ThereWillBeDeaths7 8+1 When The 9+1 Doorslammer 10+1 Book 9+1 Salmon Mousse 13+1 jonnythegamemaster 6+1 Diego 10+1 gcreptile 18+1 philip 9+1 Nick 11+1 Death Duke 4+1 Murdoc 6+1 Brad252 5+1 Hell 10+1 MariNisia 6+1 MrShadrak 6+1 The Daredevil 9+1 The Old Crem 8+1 CaptainChorizo 11+1 John Key 5+1 BuffaloPhil 9+1 RedRumours 4+1 wannamaker 10+1 TQR 6+1 theoldlady 7+1 Windsor 7+1 Sinéad O'Connor Johnnas 4+1 Martin Walser Book 10+1 Federico Bahamontes earl 6+1 Doreen Mantle Death Duke 5+1 Pop_Zeus 3+1 Clarence Avant When The 10+1 Michael Parkinson Death Duke 6+1 Brad252 6+1 Pop_Zeus 4+1 Redrumours 5+1 TQR 7+1 markb4 12+1 dimreaper 11+1 six feet blunder 8+1 James L. Buckley BuffaloPhil 10+1 markb4 13+1 DeathBecomesThem 12+1 Al Quie MortalCaso 10+1 René Weller Book 11+1 Scoreboard: gcreptile 19/50 CaptainChorizo 12/50 diego 11/50 Salmon Mousse 14/50 Famous6Eva 8/50 Nick 12/50 Grimgrass 11/50 markb4 14/50 When The 11/50 dimreaper 12/50 Doorslammer 11/50 tracy 12/50 wannamaker 11/50 BuffaloPhil 11/50 DeathBecomesThem 13/50 Hell 11/50 Main Deathlist 7/50 theoldlady 8/50 philip 10/50 Book 12/50 Summer in Transylvania 9/50 MrShadrak 7/50 The Daredevil 10/50 WEP 8/50 MortalCaso 11/50 Dying Probably 7/50 Joltin Joe 8/50 The Old Crem 9/50 Windsor 8/50 MariNisia 7/50 WinterCake 6/50 Charles De Gaulle 8/50 TheSpinosaurus 7/50 Murdoc 7/50 Thatcher 8/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 7/50 Zsa Zsa's leg 9/50 LizLemon 7/50 six feet blunder 9/50 _floydylan_ 8/50 Clarence 8/50 Steve 5/50 Torva Messor 7/50 ThereWillBeDeaths7 9/50 earl 7/50 Brad252 7/50 LWCZ 7/50 Bibliogryphon 6/50 TQR 8/50 Gooseberry Crumble 3/50 Johnnas 5/50 Pop_Zeus 5/50 jonnythegamemaster 7/50 Redrumours 6/50 thadee 5/50 John Key 6/50 polar duck 3/50 Death Duke 7/50 ladyfiona 4/50 Khthonia 5/50 TheKestrelofDoom 2/50

That flavour of ice cream should now be retired out of respect.

Urbain Le Verrier died on this day 146 years ago, aged 66. - Le Verrier was initially interested in chemistry before becoming an astronomer, and would be the director of the Paris Observatory from 1854 to 1870, and from 1873 to his death in 1877. - Le Verrier would study the orbits of comets, and was able to prove that some of their orbits were slightly altered after getting too close to Jupiter's gravitational field. - Le Verrier's most famous discovery was being one of the co-discoverers of Neptune, and he was able to pinpoint its location by using mathematics to explain perturbations in Uranus' orbit. Neptune was found within one astronomical degree of Le Verrier's predicted location. - Le Verrier would attempt to use the same mathematic formula to find a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury- it is now known that there are no planets closer, and Mercury's orbital aberrations were proven through the theory of general relativity. - Le Verrier's tombstone features a large sphere featuring the Zodiac atop it:

Jason Alexander is 64.

Sir Richard Houldsworth, 5th Baronet of the Houldsworth baronets death notice: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/houldsworth-notices_53610 Heir apparent is Simon Houldsworth (b. 1971).

Longtime Italian politician Giorgio Napolitano is the next hit here. He practically did everything in Italian politics: Deputy, President of the Chamber of Deputies, MEP, Minister of the Interior, Senator for Life, and President. His death completes the trifecta of Italian electoral deadpool picks, following the deaths of Berlusconi & Forlani. He is by far the most popular hit in the pool, giving points to 12 users. @theoldlady, @chilean way, @tracy, @P94, @Thatcher, and @Hell all get their first points of the game, leaving 2 users still at 0 points. @diego is now in second place, while @MariNisia and @The Old Crem share the number 3 spot. @DeathBecomesThem is still at the top, but only 1 point separates first from second place.

I am shocked that a list of people with old age and/or health issues had a death. You must be a psychic friend!

https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/2023/jimmy-carter-99.html If they're announcing events for his birthday on Oct. 1, his situation probably isn't as dire as his grandson has made it out to be. I say he'll go between mid October and the end of December.

I am sure he is not in a building other then his home. Hospice care is not just hospitalizatioin. Hospice care are nurses coming to your home to keep tabs on you and make sure your meds are right and to make sure you are comfortable. A lot of time, Hospice Care is for the Family. As in my case with my sister, I was awaiting the Hospice crew every day so I knew that I was doing the job correctly. I am sure no one is waiting for a bed.

He'd be a better running mate than Harris even in his current state.

there's still time for that...

Congrats Mari  1923   Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat / Jack Burke jr 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 

Congrats @MariNisia 1923 Vic Seixas/Virginia Halas McCaskey 1924 William Russell/Eve Marie Saint 1925 Pete Murray/Ysanne Churchman 1926 Timothy Dudley-Smith/Kitty Hart-Moxon 1927 Sandy Gall/Leontyne Price 1928 Tom Lehrer/Queen Ratna of Nepal 1929 John Woodvine/K.M.Peyton 1930 Douglas Hurd/Edna O'Brien  1931 Ken Bates/Leslie Caron 1932 Roy Hattersley/Prunella Scales

Surprised this recent article didn't get mentioned https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12497839/amp/We-exactly-conversation-day-week-never-tire-TIMOTHY-WEST-reveals-anguish-watching-wife-Prunella-Scales-gradually-succumbing-dementia-joy-lifes-simplest-pleasures.html Note that Timothy West mentions that Prunella is "very well physically". Also there's a similar article in yesterday's Times behind a paywall.

Can't remember if this was previously reported, but the article also says that there was no specific incident/illness that led to him starting hospice care:

I couldn't resist trying Black Forest Gateau Vanilla vodka, Chambord raspberry liqueur, crème de cacao, kirsch, crème de cassis, cream Some substitutions were made. I don't have vanilla vodka, so I used plain vodka and some Monin vanilla syrup. No Kirsch, so subbed in cherry brandy. No cassis, so subbed in crème de mure which I prefer. I do have Chambord, but I completely forgot to put it in. It was still bloody delicious.

Does a hospice stop being a hospice if people are surviving too long, and just become a nursing home? I wonder if they have targets for length of stay. Is there some guy sleeping on the sofa because Carter is still in his bed?

9-2=7.

Which is incredible is that the both are born in 1933. But Bernadette seems to be 100 and Anne-Aymone 40.

In Greek mythology there is a creature called a Hydra which, if you chop one of its heads off, two new ones will grow back in its place. It seems this happened with Kikuyo Honma as two new Japanese SCs born in 1910 have taken her place right after she died USA and Italy 1910: 3 people each Japan 1910: 7 Everyone else: 1 or 0 Japan is dominating 1910 Edit: Fujiko Mihara validated by LQ. Number increases to eight

Mohamed Al-Fayed is a hit for me

Bob Barker is a hit for me, and I imagine a few others

Stories ended for Edith Wharton on this day 80 years ago, aged 75.