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We currently have 22 submissions and no duplicate picks. I am going through the process of verifying them now...

I have withdrawn my original entry (it falling within the News genre) and submitted a new one, which is a drama, so no more dramas.

Yu Zhenwu (wiki), commander of PLA Air Force from 1994 to 1996, dead at 92. Oldest living Commander of PLAAF is now Qiao Qingchen (wiki), aged 84.

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Steve Burns (of Blue's Clues fame) is 50. (He also made the Young Sheldon theme song years before its premiere:)

88 today ! Doubt he has many more birthday to come

On a similar theme about flying

Brian Blessed is 87 today (NSFW)

@ladyfiona hits the back of the net with John Eustace at Birmingham City with Wayne Rooney tipped to take over

09/10/23 2:34am 48 James — Sit Down 45 Seal — Crazy 44 Deee-Lite — Groove is in the Heart +4 38 B-52's — Love Shack 35 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet 32 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 32 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner -6 17 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 16 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 13 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know STOP THIS GAME NOW! We have the correct five at top. As much as 2 Unlimited is memorable, I don’t perform pompon dance routines so it can go.

9/10/23 52 James — Sit Down 46 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart 45 Seal — Crazy 38 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet +4 36 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner 35 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 30 B-52's — Love Shack 17 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 16 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 13 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 00 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman -6 Thank you @MariNisia

Jim Starlin, the accomplished and respected American comics artist and writer, one of the most important names of his generation and one of the most in-demand artists in the comic industry, well famous for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and as the creator or co-creator of Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, Shang-Chi and Thanos, the powerful and unsympathetic villain, whose finest works include "Amazing Spider-Man", "Batman", "Cosmic Odyssey", "Silver Surfer", "Dreadstar" and "The Infinity Gauntlet", is 74 today.

9/Oct/2023 52 James — Sit Down 45 Seal — Crazy 42 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart 40 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet +4 36 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner 31 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This -3 30 B-52's — Love Shack 19 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 17 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 16 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 06 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman -3

Ted Schwinden reportedly dead at 98

9/10/23 06:36 hrs 48 James — Sit Down +2 45 Seal — Crazy 40 Deee-Lite — Groove is in the Heart -6 38 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner 38 B-52's — Love Shack +2 35 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet 32 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 17 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 16 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 13 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know

Soz, busy all day. Thanks @lilham for making things simple!

Cecilia Jimenez, the cleaning lady who "restored" a damaged painting to hilarious results, is now "almost" 93 years old, and they made a musical about her: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/29/monkey-christ-opera-hero-woman-spanish-fresco-cecilia-gimenez She survived Covid, but has dementia. But at that age, who hasnt.

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42) 1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40) 1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37) 1993: Henry Kissinger, George Lineker (2/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50) 1995: Holly Johnson (1/50) 1996: Mr T (1/50) 1997: (0/50) 1998: (0/50) 1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50) 2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50) 2002: (0/50) 2003: (0/50) 2004: (0/50) 2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50) 2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50) 2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50) 2009: (0/50) 2010: (0/50) 2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50) 2012: Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (3/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50) 2014: Dick Van Dyke (1/50) 2015: Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (2/50) 2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (6/50) 2017: Jimmy Carter, Sandy Gall, Emperor Akihito (3/50) 2018: Linda Nolan, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (11/50) 2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales, Shane MacGowan (9/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, Jean-Marie Le Pen, David Attenborough (14/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, Prunella Scales, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Bob Newhart, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (23/50) 2022: Dick Van Dyke, Henry Kissinger, Alan Greenspan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Jimmy Carter, Dick Cheney, Mel Brooks, Bobby Charlton, David Attenborough, Emperor Akihito, Rosalynn Carter, Sandy Gall, Desmond Morris, Jean-Marie Le Pen, James Whale, Cleo Laine, Jacques Delors, Denis Law, Prunella Scales, Stanley Baxter, Noam Chomsky, Norman Tebbit, Michael Gambon, Douglas Hurd, Marianne Faithfull, Linda Ronstadt, Joss Ackland, Shane MacGowan (27/50) Updated for Michael Gambon.

Miles Jupp will only be Archie from Balamory in my eyes, having watched endless repeats as the three kids grew up. I can't quite adjust to him having a career thereafter!

Maybe she was using the singular 'you'.

Great interview on Radio 4 this morning with pioneering climber and author Gwen Moffat, 96, who is still healthy enough to go hill walking - "but nothing more than 1500 feet".

Fidel Castro quit smoking his cigars in order to prove that it’s better to be dead than red one year ago today aged 90...

Comments in this Facebook thread seem to imply Errol Christie is currently hospitalised and has been for some time.