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So CRUEL!

I’ve been in tears all morning tbh.

Surely that's cheating?

Death notice for Sir Richard Vickers aged 95: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/vickers-notices_55709

One of my early front page regrets was spending more than five minutes on Russell Bishop's obit. All deep-diving into that oxygen waster's life did was infuriate me. Then I just used Garavito to write about the Isley Brothers instead. I learn from my mistakes!

I think we can say Murder is pretty safe for now. Move on innit. *steps back while her points inevitably climb to 150*

Oliver (the singer) died on this day 24 years ago, aged 54. - Oliver's birth name was William Swofford, but he went by his middle name as a mononym during his professional career. He was also known as "Bill Swofford" while as a member of bands such as The Virginians and The Good Earth. - Oliver's breakout song was 1969's "Good Morning Starshine", included in the musical Hair: It reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it is primarily remembered for its nonsensical chorus- and as a Johnny Depp Willy Wonka quote: - The same year, Oliver had another hit song with "Jean", the theme to the movie The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, reaching #2 on the chart (kept off the top by The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar"): - Oliver's stardom would soon wane, with his last charting single being a cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain" in 1971, peaking at #124 on the Bubbling Under chart. He would retire from making music in 1984. - Oliver was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the mid-1990s, and died after it metastasized- unfortunately his death was overshadowed by that of Tom Landry the same day. In 2010, he was posthumously inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame (he was born and raised in the state).

Judy Blume, author of Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret and Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing is 86.

Shocking and tragic news. He was on track to go sub 2h.

Sunday Times cartoon calls it accurately:

Following on from the Ideas and Possibilities thread, Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel fame has a 'nasty' cancer. https://m.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=100058063000040 All tour dates cancelled. Famous enough in my opinion without being lumped into a generic music thread.

Happy 50th to Bagpuss. BBC TV children's favourite Bagpuss is 50 - BBC News

Official duties transferred to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks

Charles Stendig (wiki), American furniture businessman, supposedly dead at 99. Also a WWII veteran.

Was set to become an Olympian, but wasn't quite there yet. That's why I posted it in the 'Dead of 2024' thread earlier.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.nine.com.au/article/cc5fa662-410e-4039-8e4c-708eddee11cd Kelvin Keptum dead. Shocking

In B7 he was one of the titular 7 and the only cast member to appear in all 52 episodes. If his only claim.to fame was playing a vicar in Eastenders I do not think he would bother obituary writers too much but B7 is an iconic series of British dystopian SF and well regarded (as well as much ridiculed)

Mon 12 Feb 06:43 AEDT 64 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor 45 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 41 Daft Punk — One More Time +4 36 The Supermen Lovers & Mani Hoffman — Starlight 29 U2 — Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of -2 28 Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue — Kids -4 25 Moloko — The Time Is Now 24 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 22 Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson — Movin’ Too Fast 22 Sonique — Sky 21 Zombie Nation — Kernkraft 400 21 S Club 7 — Reach 13 Outkast — Ms. Jackson 13 Mis-Teeq — All I Want

American linguist of the Ichishkíin language Virginia Beavert (Wiki) dead at 102

Toby Keith six feet blunder 2+1 Zsa Zsa's leg 0+1 Prophet 4+1 ThereWillBeDeaths7 2+1 ladyfiona 3+1 John Key 2+1 The Immortal 6+1 theoldlady 2+1 Charles De Gaulle 0+1 MariNisia 3+1 Death Duke 3+1 Philip 3+1 Book 5+1 @max_bossetti 3rd sub Nick 3+1 Wannamaker 3+1 Sean 3+1 LizLemon 2+1 Joltin Joe 2+1 Salmon Mousse 2+1 The Old Crem 3+1 Perhaps 2+1 Dries Van Agt @Prophet 2nd sub The Immortal 7+1 Wannamaker 4+1 Seiji Ozawa max_bossetti 5+1 Captain Chorizo 5+1 Scoreboard The Immortal 8/50 gcreptile 6/50 CaptainChorizo 6/50 Max_bossetti 6/50 Book 6/50 Prophet 5/50 Wannamaker 5/50 jonnythegamemaster 4/50 Torva Messor 4/50 Thatcher 4/50 Imelda 4/50 BuffaloPhil 4/50 Nick 4/50 ladyfiona 4/50 Death Duke 4/50 MariNisia 4/50 Philip 4/50 The Old Crem 4/50 Sean 4/50 Main Deathlist 3/50 Steve 3/50 markb4 3/50 The Daredevil 3/50 dimreaper 3/50 St3ve 3/50 DeathBecomesThem 3/50 MrShadrak 3/50 six feet blunder 3/50 ThereWillBeDeaths7 3/50 Perhaps 3/50 LizLemon 3/50 Joltin Joe 3/50 John Key 3/50 theoldlady 3/50 Salmon Mousse 3/50 livingbygrace 2/50 polar duck 2/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 2/50 LWCZ 2/50 Grimgrass 2/50 Bibliogryphon 2/50 TQR 2/50 Diego 2/50 Khthonia 2/50 Windsor 2/50 Chalres De Gaulle 2/50 Superstar 2/50 Brad252 1/50 Earl 1/50 Hell 1/50 Morrisey 1/50 Heiheiheihei 1/50 Redrumours 1/50 Zsa Zsa's leg 1/50 Charles De Gaulle 1/50 Pop_Zeus 0/50 Trome 0/50 Gooseberry Crumble 0/50 Arghton 0/50 Kissofdeath 0/50 Johnnas 0/50 Tomtomtelekom 0/50 Nasquacker 0/50

Following the death of Michael Jayston the list of classic Doctor Who serials with no surviving guest actors is up to 6. With those being An Unearthly Child, Planet of the Giants, The Rescue, The Power of the Daleks, The Deadly Assassin and The Ultimate Foe. (You could technically include the Edge of Destruction but it had no guest cast to begin with so I don't think it counts). An Unearthly Child & Planet of Giants have 2 regulars - Russell and Ford The Rescue is just Russell and O'Brien Power and Assassin both just have 1 surviving cast member being Anneke Wills and Tom Baker respectivly and now The Ultimate Foe has Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford.

If the Titanic had sunk today.