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Santos looks to be reported dead.

New Zealand-born prima ballerina Rowena Jackson died at 98 years: https://www.rbo.org.uk/latest-news/remembering-rowena-jackson After dancing with London's Sadler's Wells Ballet, she performed for many years with the Royal Ballet.

Williamson was knighted for his services to blackmail.

Saw in the comedian's topic that Victoria Jackson's cancer has come back and been given less than three years to live. She previously had breast cancer in 2015 and it went into remission. (her Wiki) This time she has cancer that is inoperable and in her windpipe. Apparently she's been given a magic pill that shrinks it, but in the end the cancer will suffocate her (that's if it doesn't spread elsewhere). Daily Mail Away from cancer. She seems to have some conspiracy theory views related to Obama and a bit of a crazy Republican (who isn't these days). I'm sure she'll be cashing in on that.

17/8/2024 37 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 18 OneRepublic — Counting Stars +4 17 Harry Styles — Sign Of The Times -6

From his Wikipedia page: Yeah, the lyrics would be the only reason it's not on constant radio rotation today.

Not on the Crowdsourced List Not a major pick in the DDP Not a household name on this side of the Atlantic Not a big miss

Victor Banerjee (wiki) was in ICU for two days after suffering a stroke, but now improving.

The committee wisely avoided him so far, but he seems like a natural successor to either Eastwood or Hackman.

Gary E. Luck (Wiki), four-star general of the United States Army who was a combat veteran of both the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, dead at 87

17.08.2024 37 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know +4 29 Harry Styles — Sign Of The Times -6 10 OneRepublic — Counting Stars Is this my last vote in this game?

17/Aug/2024 37 Harry Styles — Sign Of The Times +4 35 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know -6 10 OneRepublic — Counting Stars

17/Aug/2024 41 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know -6 33 Harry Styles — Sign Of The Times +4 10 OneRepublic — Counting Stars

Or perhaps they misheard and it was Jack Nicklaus (golfer)?

@Death Impends... Edna O'Brien and Ray Reardon are two notable names for your new scoreboard, too.

Lt. Galina Brok-Beltsova, last member of the Soviet women's aviation regiments dead at 99.

15/Aug/2024 36 Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne — Rather Be +4 35 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know -3 31 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 24 Harry Styles — Sign Of The Times 04 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky -3

Gena Rowlands is a hit for @ladyfiona. Congratulations. https://www.tmz.com/2024/08/14/gena-rowlands-dead-dies-notebook/ next round: 1924 Khamtai Siphandone / Ella Jenkins 1925 Calvin Tomkins / Ruth Slenczynska 1926 Philip Springer / Barbara Clegg 1927 Vernon L. Smith / Estelle Parsons 1928 Harold Becker / Marion Ross 1929 Len Deighton / Joan Plowright 1930 Clive Revill / Joanne Woodward 1931 Larry Merchant / Barbara Bain 1932 Rosey Grier / Nancy Kassebaum 1933 John Boorman / Bernadette Chirac

When rather If scientist Leonard Hayflick gets a qualifying obituary he will be a 'hit' for me in this pool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Hayflick

He genuinely looks like he has already died.

Of some additional note, DL alumnus Mike Ditka didn't attend the ceremony because of "health issues".

His Hall of Fame induction is tomorrow and this article makes it sound like Misty is finally ready to let go. "I’ve told him to please hang on ’til the 3rd and then, you know, I don’t want to see him suffer anymore. He’s been suffering."

My thoughts and opinions on a 2025 list: Keep (25) 1. Jimmy Carter (hospice) 2. Pete Murray (very frail) 3. Ethel Kennedy (very frail) 4. Cleo Laine (very frail) 5. Sonny Rollins (very old, terminally ill) 6. Imelda Marcos (diabetes, serious heart problems, ministrokes) 7. Ted Turner ("late stages" of lewy body dementia for a while now) 8. Roberta Flack (ALS, other ailments) 9. Esther Rantzen (terminal lung cancer) 10. Norman Tebbit (said to be very ailing) 11. Tom Brokaw (multiple myeloma) 12. Gene Hackman (frail, heart problems in the past) 13. Joanne Woodward (perennial dementia sufferer) 14. Stanley Baxter (no public appearances in years, care home, memory loss) 15. Nigel Starmer-Smith (dementia, bedbound for years) 16. Noam Chomsky (massive stroke) 17. Dennis Skinner (very ill for very long) 18. Hans Blix (TBE, housebound) 19. Jean-Marie Le Pen (heart failure, pulmonary oedema, stroke) 20. Willie Nelson (emphysema, other chronic health conditions) 21. Denis Law (mixed dementia for years) 22. Sly Stone (advanced COPD) 23. Clint Eastwood (increasingly frail, some health issues in the past, lost girlfriend recently) 24. Buzz Aldrin (former heavy drinker, a couple of health scares in the past) 25. Dick Cheney (enormous heart problems, see this - seems to have outlived all odds and the transplant won't last forever) Drop (21) going down from the worst drop 1. Tom Baker (weight loss, health issues) 2. Vanessa Redgrave (emphysema for a long time) 3. Brigitte Bardot (serious respiratory problems) 4. Daniel Barenboim (how ill is he?) 5. Prunella Scales (very, very slow dementia with this one) 6. Alan Greenspan (boring, but very old) 7. Dick Van Dyke (as above, but healthy too) 8. Robert Wagner (old, COPD, but doesn't seem ill enough yet) 9. Mel Brooks (very old but seems healthy and active) 10. Josef Fritzl (too stable for my liking) 11. James Whale (as above) 12. Pope Francis (recurring health problems, but has seemed better this year) 13. Louis Farrakhan (too stable for my liking) 14. Joe Bugner (severe dementia, but young and no reports of great decline) 15 / 16. Sandy Gall / Desmond Morris (seemingly healthy nonagenarians) 17. Linda Nolan (boring perennial drama queen) 18. Patricia Routledge (seemingly healthy nonagenarian and younger than most of the other healthy nonagenarians on the list) 19. Robert Duvall (yet another boringly healthy nonagenarian) 20. Raul Castro (looks, sounds amazing despite previous cancer rumors) 21. Julie Walters (past cancer) Return (4): 1. Yoko Ono (lewy body dementia for ages, other ailments) 2. Liza Minnelli (ailing for a very long time now) 3. David Attenborough (very old and should stay on the list until his death) 4. Douglas Hurd (very quiet for a long time) Add (21): 1. Michael Tilson Thomas (glioblastoma) 2. Mahathir Mohamad (enormous heart problems, very old) 3. Alain Delon (cancer) 4. Ruth Buzzi (dementia for ages, strokes) 5. Tippi Hedren (advanced dementia) 6. Sam Nujoma (tons of hospitalisations) 7. Kenneth Cope (perennial COPD sufferer) 8. Eva Marie Saint (very old) 9. June Spencer (as above) 10. Harald V of Norway (complicated health history, cancer and heart problems) 11. Sven-Göran Eriksson (pancan) 12. Sidney Cooke (how is he still alive?) 13. Tom Lehrer (frail forum favourite) 14. Geoffrey Boycott (cancer) 15. Gena Rowlands (advanced dementia) 16. Rupert Murdoch (tons of health problems) 17. King Salman of Saudi Arabia (dementia, tons of health problems) 18. David Irving (serious health problems) 19. David Graham (massive stroke, very old, very frail) 20. Jose Mujica (cancer and other health issues) 21. Alan Oppenheimer (seems very frail and pale)

Is that why they let Donald Von Shitzenpants get a bit of glass in his ear the other day? They were too busy reading through the Political Discussions thread thinking "fuck sake, that Crem talks a load of hysterical shite doesn't he?" to notice a cunt with a gun.

I agree with En Passant, I hate threads like these, in my opinion they should either be in extra curricular or be merged into the political rantings one because there are never updates about health or death in any of them. Older figures like Trump and Biden are fine but even those I think should be moved to extra-curricular and a second thread just to discuss their health should be created. The Liz Truss thread, for example, is one I haven't clicked on in ages because I don't care about what she's saying or done that is not related to her dying.