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Dead at 81. Telegraph obit, and just got a BBC Breaking News notification.

Esther Ranzen has been forced to pull out of a Westminster debate on assisted dying because she is too ill. She was planning to attend the debate on Monday. Dame Esther Rantzen sends message to MPs after pulling out of assisted dying debate No new information, second time in a month that she's not appeared at an event (see post above by @RadGuy). From the article: In a statement Dame Esther said: "While, sadly, my health issues (I have stage four lung cancer) prevent me from attending it myself, I will be watching the debate closely as it affects my own decision to go to Dignitas in Zurich if necessary, to protect my family from witnessing a painful death."

Not a death anniversary as such, but I missed my own anniversary on death list. Twenty years ago on the 20th April 2004, I joined the death list. (Actually it was a bit earlier as I lurked for a couple of months before joining).

George Baker, unused sub at the 58 competition, reportedly dead:

And it seems like Frank Field is the one and only hit in March and April for the Prediction Game... what a drought at the moment...

45 years ago today Blair Peach died at the hands of the police. Either you know or you don't. Look him up.

Rob Dray out at relegated Taunton in National League South (Southern Premier next year). Bit harsh, they've had financial problems compounded by the fact that their pitch regularly floods in bad weather and they got massively behind with their fixtures and had a run at the end catching up. At one stage of the season they also had a ground sharing arrangement with Truro (also in NLS) so their pitch got a double pummelling at times.

Ro Jai-bong has died aged 88.

Frank Field a miss for me but a hit for some: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68887629 Probably need a scoreboard soon as the bodies pile high.

24/Apr/2024 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 43 Adele — Chasing Pavements 25 Taylor Swift — Love Story 15 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 10 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody +4 07 Rihanna — Russian Roulette -6

Shirley MacLaine is 90.

This video is from Lars Von Trier a few months ago. In 2022, he was diagnosed with parkinsons disease. You can clearly see the toll it's taking on his body. Overall, the way he talks about his situation is pretty grim as well.

For completeness I'm going to note that the IMDb page for Miss Jason has 2 different people confused. The drag queen Miss Jason (aka Jason Sutton) did appear in Maisie. The other Miss Jason is this British YouTube star, who appears in the Celeste music video. I watched that music video twice earlier and thought I was going mad when I couldn't find him and that's why. Mel C makes an appearance in that music vid strangely enough. So I'm guessing the YouTube star just pops up in random stuff but isn't a "performer" as such given the sensible Equity rule of not allowing the same name to be used by two individuals.

"Working assumption" - code for "unless the bastards try and knife me after the local elections."

24/04/24 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 41 Adele — Chasing Pavements 25 Rihanna — Russian Roulette 17 Taylor Swift — Love Story 14 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 13 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody +4 04 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind -6

1924: Ip Chun / Priscilla Pointer 1925: David Graham / June Lockhart 1926: Abdoulaye Wade / Noreen Riols 1927: Alvin Rakoff / Cleo Laine 1928: Noam Chomsky / Hazel Ascot 1929: Bob Newhart / Violeta Chamorro 1930: Peter Procter / Gladys West 1931: James Earl Jones / Isabel Martinez de Peron 1932: Indarjit Singh / Antonia Fraser 1933: Alexander Mitta / Yoko Ono Congratulations, Azrael.

Battlestar Gallactica’s Terry Carter dead at 95.

23rd April 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 41 Adele — Chasing Pavements 25 Rihanna — Russian Roulette 17 Taylor Swift — Love Story -6 14 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 12 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind +2 11 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody +2 It's very hard to accept that I fully agree with diego right now

Salvador Farrés Oliveras dead

Manchester City and England footballer Phil Foden is to become a father for the third time. https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/man-city-star-phil-foden-29041480

23/Apr/2024 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 44 Adele — Chasing Pavements +2 27 Taylor Swift — Love Story -2 26 Rihanna — Russian Roulette -2 20 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 09 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody +2 06 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind -2

Beverly LaHaye is dead as mentioned in the Dying Bigots thread. Hit number 8 for me, I think. Can't they keep these people alive for a bit longer?

Miguel de Miguel Montañés dead at 102.

Thirty-fourth round: 1)Josip Manolic (1920), Prime Minister of Croatia 2)Kim Yong-ju (1920), vacancy Head of State of North Korea 3)Mustafa ben Halim (1921), Prime Minister of Lybia 4)Francisco Morales Bermudez (1921), President of Perù 5)Luis Echeverria (1922), President of Mexico 6)Branislav Soskic (1922) President of Communist Montenegro 7)Khamtai Siphandon (1924) Prime Minister and President of Laos 8)Tomiichi Murayama (1924) Prime Minister of Japan 9)Jimmy Carter (1924), President of United States of America 10)Lubomir Strougal (1924), Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 11)Guillermo Rodriguez Lara (1924), President of Ecuador 12)Abdelsalam Majali (1925), Prime Minister of Jordan 13)Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), President of Tanzania 14)Giorgio Napolitano (1925), President of Italy 15)Mahathir Mohamad (1925), Prime Minister of Malaysia 16)Mohammad Hasan Sharq (1925), Chairman of Council of Ministers of Afghanistan 17)Yang Hyong-sop (1925), Chairman of the Presidium of North Korea 18)Arnaldo Forlani (1925), Prime Minister of Italy 19)Elizabeth II (1926), Queen of the United Kingdom 20)Abdoulaye Wade (1926), President of Senegal 21)Jiang Zemin (1926), President of China 22)Valdas Adamkus (1926), President of Lithuania 23)Raif Dizdarevic (1926), President of Yugoslavia 24)Eduardo Martinez Somalo (1927), Acting sovereign of Vatican City 25)Thanin Kraivichien (1927), Prime Minister of Thailand 26)Benedict XVI (1927), Pope 27)Angelo Sodano (1927), Acting sovereign of Vatican City 28)Hans Modrow (1928), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany 29)Ciriaco De Mita (1928), Prime Minister of Italy 30)Kim Yong-nam (1928), Chairman of the Presidium of North Korea After colonel Molina dies sad and unpicked, North Korea tops Italy as the country with most leaders on the list with former HoS Kim Yong-nam. Sprightly looking at 93, Kim has often been seen as the human face of the regime, until his removal in 2019. Choose your picks!

Benedict XVI (Pope)