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So, anyway, we'll keep up the entertainment until somebody actually dies and gifts us some Deathrace points:

As usual, I'm posting this on behalf of a valued Inverse Dead Pool regular – it's the 2024 machotrouts' mum team: Dennis Skinner Michael J. Fox Janey Godley Joe Biden Yoko Ono Phil Collins Robert Wagner Dave Myers Bob Newhart Jonnie Irwin Buzz Aldrin Frank Field Bruce Willis Dick van Dyke Esther Rantzen William Shatner Joanne Woodward Mel Brooks Andy Taylor Prunella Scales Linda Nolan Roberta Flack Eva Marie Saint Shannen Doherty Rob Burrow SUB: June Spencer As scientific as all of her previous teams. Dennis Skinner is #1 because "aww, he was my nan & granddad's MP, I'm not having him dying".

Arno A. Penzias, Nobel prize in physics winner, dead at 90.

23/Jan/2024 61 Barry Ryan — Eloise 41 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 40 Nina Simone — Ain’t Got No / Do What You Gotta Do 34 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well +4 34 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday -2 00 The Foundations — Build Me Up Buttercup -4

Totally random but thought I'd share. Was copied into this photo earlier today. Charisma Records five-a-side team from just over 50 years ago. Phil Collins in fine shape, the two standing next to him are members of the band Capability Brown, the guy front left is the label's booking agent and the one bottom right is Peter Hammill (still recording aged 75 and obitable). Hammill amazes me tbh, intense and angsty beyond all reason on his best known albums, never thought to see him chipper and cheerful in a team photo. This line-up, apparently, were very effective and won a few games with ease.

Juan Gabriel Hernandez Matamoros was the oldest known man in Costa Rica, born on 19 October 1913 in Naranjo de Alajuela, Alajuela Province and died on 20 January 2024 in Heredia, Heredia Province.Now the oldest known man in Costa Rica is Bernabe Cordoba Cordoba, born on 11 June 1915 in Guanacaste, where he still lives El Señor recibió el día de hoy a mi... - Gilda Hernández Rodríguez | Facebook

Star Trek actor Gary Graham has died at 73

Frankly this is a dire substitute for entertainment, over a week since a scoring death unless someone hereabouts is about to show me action from their local paper posting the death of a beloved school crossing guard who's also on the masterlist. I'm seeing similar lacklustre times on the other dead pools and even the DDP is shuffling along. In the meantime, here's a update from our sponsors, or summat.

Jack Jennings. [Last living British POW of the Thai/Burma Death Railway] (1919-) ( Jack Jennings has died at the age of 104: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-68049226

Terrible news. Joliet is a lovely town and it's a real shame that something like this happened there. Maybe it's a little ironic that the guy's name was Romeo.

January 23rd 27 The Kinks — All Day And All Of The Night +4 22 John Leyton — Wild Wind 22 The Animals — We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 22 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown 22 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 22 Petula Clark — Downtown 22 The Troggs — Wild Thing 21 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Lovin’ 21 The Who — My Generation 21 Jimmy Dean — Big Bad John 21 Barry Ryan — Eloise 21 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 21 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 20 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance 20 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas — Do You Want To Know A Secret? 20 The Yardbirds — Heart Full Of Soul 20 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday 20 The Drifters — Save The Last Dance For Me 20 Little Eva — The Loco-Motion 20 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 19 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 14 Chubby Checker — Let’s Twist Again 14 The Crystals — Then He Kissed Me 10 Bobby Darin — Lazy River  00 Nina Simone — Ain’t Got No / Do What You Gotta Do -6

Bad couple of months for very old people named Norman.

Congrats @MariNisia and @Bibliogryphon 1924 William H. Webster/Marianne Bernadotte 1925 Eugen Gomringer/Anita Lasker-Wallfisch 1926 Michael Blumenthal/Betsy Jolas 1927 Thomas Niguchi/Barbara Rush 1928 Desmond Morris/Peggy Dow 1929 Peter Dale Scott/Queen Ida 1930 - Adônis (poet sírio libanês)/Jennifer Johnston 1931 Alfred Brendel/Caterina Valente 1932 Clint Hill/Nonny Hogrogian 1933 Richard Riley/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

I'm saddened by this news, I'm sorry @drol

1 Donald Trump 2 Joe Biden 3 Ozzy Osbourne 4 Rupert Murdoch 5 William Shatner 6 Frank Caprio 7 Dave Myers 8 Michael J Fox 9 Toby Keith 10 Theo Burrel 11 Willie Nelson 12 Patrick Murray 13 Bruce Willis 14 Michael Tilson Thomas 15 Phil Collins 16 Clint Eastwood 17 Stanley Baxter 18 Janey Godley 19 Paul Spencer 20 Robert Wagner 21 Buzz Aldrin 22 Dick Van Dyke 23 Tim Bilton 24 Erik Jensen 25 Billy Connolly sub Linda Nolan

Buzz Aldrin is 94 today.

16/Jan/2024 36 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 34 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday 31 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 29 Fleetwood Mac — Man Of The World +4 29 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition — Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town 28 Tom Jones — Delilah 27 Stevie Wonder — Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday 27 The Foundations — Build Me Up Buttercup 24 The Edwin Hawkins Singers — Oh Happy Day 22 Barry Ryan — Eloise 21 Lou Christie — I’m Gonna Make You Mine 21 The Casuals — Jesamine 20 Mary Hopkin — Goodbye 20 The Bee Gees — Don’t Forget To Remember 16 Dean Martin — Gentle On My Mind 16 O.C. Smith — Son Of Hickory Holler’s Tramp 12 Herman’s Hermits — My Sentimental Friend 11 Nina Simone — Ain’t Got No / Do What You Gotta Do 08 Leapy Lee — Little Arrows 08 Robin Gibb — Saved By The Bell  00 The Tremeloes — (Call Me) Number One -6

I'm sad Hole In My Shoe didn't make it, but I was clearly its only fan so it was always a lost cause.

Composer Stephen Foster started de-composing160 years ago. (37). In his short 37 years he became known as the a father of American music. He wrote more than 200 songs, including "Oh! Susanna", "Hard Times Come Again No More", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River"), "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", and others.

Not dead Carlos Alberto Parreira (Brazilian coach in the 94 World Cup) has been undergoing chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma for 4 months, he has been reacting well He is 80 years old Carlos Alberto Parreira está em tratamento de quimioterapia há quatro meses, diz CBF | seleção brasileira | ge (globo.com) Here's a recent photo:

I think you reversed the scores, it would have to be -6 and +4

Enrique Chazarreta, Balbuena's team-mate in 1974 has also died https://www.tycsports.com/san-lorenzo/futbol-argentino-luto-fallecio-enrique-chazarreta-gloria-san-lorenzo-id329910.html

Lights out for Jerry Orbach on this day 16 years ago, aged 69. (Orbach voiced Lumiere in the 1991 Beauty and the Beast.)

Final set for Alice Marble on this day 30 years ago, aged 77.