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Hughes Van Ellis, younger brother of Viola Fletcher and himself a Tulsa race massacre survivor, dead at 102. Cause of death: shock from logging into his favorite forum, DeathList.net, and seeing his sister compared to Fraudster Singh.

10/Oct/2023 50 James — Sit Down 46 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart 45 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner 39 Seal — Crazy 37 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet +4 32 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This -6 18 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 15 B-52's — Love Shack

Aldo Cosentino was born in Tunis, Tunisia and on October 8 at the age of 75, he was a boxer and competed for France in the 68, 72 and 76 Olympics. In 73 he was European amateur boxing champion in men's bantamweight https://www.boxeringweb.net/index.php/notizie/ultime-notizie/46727-e-scomparso-aldo-cosentino-campione-europeo-dilettanti-e-allenatore-della-nazionale-francese.html

Sarah Lancashire, the talented film, stage, and television actress, who started her splendid career in local theatre, who joined "Coronation Street" in 1991 as Raquel Wolstenhulme (later surname Watts), who she played until November 1996, who won the Best Supporting Actress BAFTA for "Last Tango in Halifax" and the Best Leading Actress BAFTA for "Happy Valley", and was born in Oldham, Lancashire, is 59 today.

Sir James Jonathan Benn, 4th Baronet of the Benn baronetcy of Old Knoll, death notice (aged 90): https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/benn-notices_53845 Died playing golf. Heir is his son Robert Ernest Benn (b. 1963).

Sean Ono Lennon is 48 today. His dad John would have been 83..

Pascoal da Conceição was born 70 years ago in São Paulo. His best-known roles are Dr. Abobrinha in the children's series "Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum" and Mário de Andrade in the miniseries "Um Só Coração" On March 11, 2014, the actor escaped a robbery because the assailant recognized him as Dr. Zucchini Tony Shalhoub was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin 70 years ago, and has participated in both films and series, highlighting his work in the series Monk Awards and nominations: 1997: Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Leading Role in Big Night 2003: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor (comic or musical series) on television in Monk 2003 & 2005 & 2006: Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in Monk 2003 & 2007 & 2008: Nominated for the American Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Series in Monk 2004 & 2007: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in Monk 2004 & 2005: American Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Series in Monk 2004 & 2005 & 2007: Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor (comic or musical series) on television in Monk 2018: [Tony] Award for best actor in a musical. José Roberto Torero was born in Santos 60 years ago, author of 49 books, such as "O Chalaça", winner of the Jabuti Prize in 1995, and was a Sports columnist for Folha de S. Paulo from 1998 to 2012 Fabio Lione, born in Pisa 50 years ago, is an Italian vocalist who has participated in bands such as Labyrinth, Athena, Vision Divine and Rhapsody of Fire[1] and is the current vocalist of Angra and Eternal Idol. Fábio Lione also sang in the North American band Kamelot temporarily (2010 to 2012) after the departure of vocalist Roy Khan. He performed a duet with Cristopher Lee Andreas Zuber was born 40 years ago in Judenburg, the Austrian racing driver joined the GP2 Series with the Trident Racing team in 2006, achieving a victory for the team in Istanbul

I think for your personal shadow list go with the names that will mean the most for yourself because these are unscored and only for personal satisfaction Obviously by entering a list in the crowdsourced group you will be influencing the future direction of names discussed on this site so it is a chance to champion your own picks but when it comes to Predict the List games you will need to put yourself into the mind of the committee so your national perspective will be less helpful here

Pretty sure some of the most extreme ones would not be at all welcome in the LFI.

Agreed, and I would add two more to that.

History first happens as a tragedy, then as a farce. Albeit both of these things are farces.

Without wishing to trivialise your valid and well-made point, I'd just like to say that Spotlight is a great film about the Catholic Church scandal. And to try to highlight how Toast's OP differs from your example, the Boston Globe is a privately owned company and what their owners choose to spend their money on is up to them. But the BBC is funded by the licence fee, paid by British citizens. I guess her argument is whether this is a worthwhile use of that money. I'd argue yes, but understand why others might think not.

Cancer ridden poet Richard Fox, former Cup pick, reportedly dead: https://eu.worcestermag.com/videos/entertainment/books/2023/06/27/worcester-poet-richard-fox-reads-his-poem-revival/12174477002/

Highlights from Conference so far: Grant Shapps - it makes me entirely happy to send British troops into a war zone. The Falklands won us the 1983 election, and that is what we shall do. James Misnomer Cleverly: A global pandemic and a terrible war in Ukraine are to blame for everything! Labour are shite. we are less shite, vote for meeeee!

That’s literally what this entire site is about…

Also, was it only me who, when Matt Hancock expressed outrage at being lied to by Dominic Cummings, claiming politicians rarely lie directly to each other, wondered how many people Matt Hancock lied to that he wasn't having fumbles in the broom closet with his aide?

Ah see, he coulda been a contender...

Probably Autumn if Rishi gets his way. Tory MPs would prefer May to tie them into the Council elections but unless things pick up, Rishi will hang on as long as he can (without giving us another Christmas election). 5 Tory Prime Ministers in 13.5 years, 3 in a year. 10 Education Secretaries in the same amount of time. I'm a teacher and I'd have missed at least half of them. Michael Gove (2010-14) Nicky Morgan (2014-16) Justine Greening (2016-18) - so that's 3 in the first 8 years... Damian Hinds (2018-19) Gavin Williamson (2019-21) - 5 in 11 years... Nadhim Zahawi (2021-22) Michelle Donelan (3 days in 2022) James Cleverley (2 months in 2022) Kit Malthouse (1 month in 2022) Gillian Keegan (Oct 2022 - present) - and 10 in 13.5 years (6 in 2 years) After today's outburst, I'm not sure she's done herself any favours in staying in post after the eventual Rishi reshuffle, so we may get to 11 before the next election.

In today's episode of the omnishambles that is the current government of the United Kingdom: 1. A well respected Defence Secretary was replaced by the smoothest snake in politics. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66668941 2. Mad Nad's poison pen novel has been put back 6 weeks due to "the required legal process needed to share her story." (Good luck making it libel-proof!) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66670939 3. 104 schools have been ordered to close buildings containing a certain type of concrete prone to collapse but the government aren't going to tell parents which schools, they have to wait for schools to inform them (because it's not like they've got anything better to be doing 2 days before schools go back). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-66673971 Join us again for tomorrow's instalment!

Hernan Cortes was conquered by death on this day 470 years ago, aged 62.

Five years to the day, Grant's His Girl Friday co-star Ralph Bellamy died at the age of 89. Surely one of the all-time great faces in acting: