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Updated the list to reflect Luan Peters who died before the game started.

In 2015 I learnt the names and constituencies on all 650 MPs, which proved rather useful for my line of work. So short have the subsequent parliaments been and so great the turnover of old > new members that all that memorising became redundant quite quickly! I can't even begin to imagine learning the names of 780+ members of the House of Lords. Think I know about 300 or so, but not through trying!

A really controversial political figure and a totally unexpected death, personally I was expecting for former president Ricardo Lagos go first, because he retired from politics a week ago... one to see in the next years. https://chile.as.com/actualidad/que-paso-con-ricardo-lagos-esta-fue-la-drastica-decision-del-ex-presidente-de-chile-n/?outputType=amp

For me this is the biggest death of the year so far (the former president of your country dying in a helicopter crash will be something hard to top). He was like the Dubya of Chile, he was gaffe-prone and the word "piñericosa" was used every time he made a stupid comment or made something silly. He was a mediocre leader imo, his first term was decent but not that good, the rescue of the 33 miners was the highlight of those 4 years, and his second term started horribly with his terrible management of the protests in 2019, although I do think he was very good controlling covid in the country. I know a lot of people hate him, but I just couldn't. Here's a compilation of Piñericosas made in 2018. You probably won't find any of these to be funny unless you know spanish (except for 6:00-7:07 which are universally funny).

Got sent this by a friend an hour after the news broke.Terrible but I did chuckle.

If they choose North London it might finally give Spurs a chance

The most gravely ill on the list: 1)Josip Manolic: 104 in March, bedridden and received last rites in December, seemed an imminent death. However his family insists he is well, so ok. 2)Khamtai Siphandone: 100 in two days, unable to appear for his birthday, whose celebrations have been ongoing for six months. Likely bedridden or even on life support. 3)Jimmy Carter: 100 in October, almost a whole year in hospice care. 4)Ali Hassan Mwinyi: hospitalised and family asking for prayers. Still, it seems not too serious. 5)Violeta Chamorro: soon 95, airlifted to Costa Rica last year, recordwoman of dementia and brain tumors. One of those five is really really overdue.

Galina Alekseyeva, born in Moscow and died aged 76, was a Soviet diver who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics (where she won bronze in the 10 m Platform and at the 1968 Summer Olympics) https://sport24.ru/other/news-618058-umerla-bronzovyy-prizer-olimpiady-1964-v-pryzhkakh-v-vodu-galina-alekseyeva?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=mobile&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fdzen.ru%2Fnews%2Fsearch%3Ftext%3D

I genuinely did go to this last year. I'm heading back to Reykjavik this year, I'll see if there happens to be a new donated piece.

I think I get it, as and when Charles goes we bury him under a car park! The RingGo! king, a very 21st century monarch

Rip to the man who got legendarily bodied by actual country legend Kris Kristofferson:

It's a QO for the Derry Deadpool.

Biden must be at least 100, as he confused Macron with « Mitterrand from Germany »

Former Taoiseach John Bruton reportedly dead: https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0206/1430700-john-bruton/ Never seemingly mentioned here, despite the long illness. Dead and never called me Mother.

There is no cure for baseless conspiracy theories combined with stupid. Apparently the announcement of Charles Cancer is part of a plot to push experimental cancer treatments on the world as part of the new world order!! Lots of stuff like this online.

Millions spent on that bloody coronation for this

Alonzo Johnson was born in Panama City, Florida and died at age 60. He was drafted in the second round of the 1986 NFL Draft and played professionally for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles and also played college football for the University of Florida. https://www.wjhg.com/2024/02/03/rutherford-uf-football-legend-alonzo-johnson-has-passed-away/

Earl Cureton, who played with the Philadelphia 76ers (1980-1983), Chicago Bulls (1986-1987), and the Houston Rockets (1994) amongst others, has died aged 66. NBA Champion in ‘83 with the 76ers and ‘94 with the Rockets.

Giacomo Losi dead at 88. https://www.corrieredellosport.it/news/calcio/serie-a/roma/2024/02/04-121745669/morto_giacomo_losi_addio_al_capitano_core_de_roma_

I believe it is Rose Girone, born on 13 Jan 1912 in Janów, Czestochowa, Silesian Voivodeship, Russian Empire (now Poland),currently lives in Whitestone, Queens, New York Sobrevivente mais velho do Holocausto completa 112 anos em meio ao aumento do antissemitismo (msn.com)

Probably a good shout tbh. 84 this year and has taken a leave of absence yet again from the Lords. Would tend to suggest he's not in good health.

It's absolutely dire over on the Deaths in 2024 page atm. Editors clearly bored AF so they're creating new pages for total nobodies. Just a random example from the last week: Grace Boadu, Ghanian herbal medical practitioner. Wiki really needs to tighten up their grasp on article creation. They're in excess of 2 million biographies now. In the last 6 months I've been going through the 1920–1934 births and I've found 1000s of ppl who have died off radar but haven't had their pages updated in years, sometimes over a decade. The whole Wiki project is becoming unmanageable now due to it being so bloated with biographies of nobodies.

Rt Rev David Smith, Bishop of Bradford (1992-2002), has died aged 88.

Shen Zhiyong dead at 103.

Note: Helen Slayton-Hughes a current DDP pick @gcreptile and @Death Impends.