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  1. 5 points
    Here is two photos of my great grandmother from June 2021. She's still fine, she was recently diagnosed with a tumor on her cheek (doctor seems to believe it's benign but she'll have further examination and operation in a few weeks). She's now 101 and 5 months : still walking, still reading (she has an excellent eyesight) but she's nearly deaf and has recently lost memories… She has lost her husband from lung cancer in the late 80's when she was in her 60's and her only daughter (my grandmother) from breast cancer in 2007 when she was 87. She immediately took her place in my family, being a lovely grandmother for her great-grandchildrens and a caring mother for both my mother and my aunt. I'm still impressed by how though and sweet she is, I love her very much and hope she will still be with us for some times …
  2. 4 points
    Here is the first list of potential winning picks: 1. Roy Hattersley (mc) 2. Douglas Hurd (mc) 3. Nigel Lawson (mc) 4. John Morris (mc) 5. Bill Rodgers (mc) All of these would be acceptable candidates for the main Deathlist. I have long advocated Douglas Hurd as a potential pick and there has been recent speculation about how ill Roy Hattersley looked in the last round of photos, John Morris is very old. With the demise of Shirley Williams Bill Rodgers is clearly going to be the next of the Gang of Four to go and despite his weight loss Nigel Lawson still does not look the picture of health. How long has this game got left and does @msc have some good topics for Game V?
  3. 4 points
    Death Notice for Sir Peter Thompson aged 93: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/252751/thompson Known as the godfather of the management buyout, he led the National Freight Corporation as it became effectively privatised through an employee share buyout in 1982, one of the first privatisations of a state owned industry. As a result, Sir Peter made millions personally from the deal when the company was floated in the late 1980s on the Stock Exchange. (That's Thatcherite Conservatism folks!). He even wrote a book about it, thus squeezing every last penny from his story, called Sharing The Success: The Story Of NFC.
  4. 3 points
    Is that a hint for the DL Cmme? Don't worry, Biblio, if needed I can come up with 5 categories.
  5. 3 points
    German actor Ludwig Haas has died at the age of 88. He was best known for his leading role in the WDR series "Lindenstraße", where he played the role of Dr. Dressler from 1985 to 2019. https://www.focus.de/kultur/vermischtes/im-alter-von-88-jahren-lindenstrasse-star-ludwig-haas-ist-tot_id_24327656.html
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    Well, the saddest of news, especially for those of us who were going to pick him next year - Renton Laidlaw has died aged 82: https://www.golfaustralia.com.au/news/one-of-golfs-great-voices-renton-laidlaw-dies-aged-82-571183 Edit: The COVID, contributing to his poor health. RIP, good sir. Allis and Laidlaw were a great team back in the day and now they are both dead.
  7. 3 points
    Brian Goldner, Longtime Chairman and CEO of Hasbro, died at 58 years: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211012006149/en/
  8. 2 points
    Interesting, but one for the WWII veterans thread. This one is for Nazi war criminals/and those accused.
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    Just two days after he stepped down "to focus in his cancer treatment"...meh... Edit: Prostate cancer... usually not that deadly, but there've been a few bigger cases lately. I guess Mr. Goldner took it too easily.
  11. 2 points
    Deathlist was created after Cary Grant's death (1904-1986). Kane Tanaka is the last person alive, born before Cary Grant.
  12. 1 point
    Hubert Germain has died: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/12/hubert-germain-last-of-elite-group-of-french-resistance-fighters-dies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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    @Lafaucheuse... Thanks for sharing this with us. I wish you and your great grandmother the absolute very best in the future.
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    The award-winnng Disney Animator Ruthie Tompson is a hit for me and others here. R.I.P. Great lady.
  16. 1 point
    Don't worry its me with a pole position in a deadpool. I think we've all learnt by now this is when my team shit the bed and everyone else scores instead!
  17. 1 point
    Had Norman Lloyd died aged 80 we probably wouldn't have spoken much of him as he'd have died about a decade before this forum opened! (His role in Dead Poets Society would have gotten him remembered as much as Jessica Tandy who was roughly the same age, was in a big film of the late 80s, and isn't mentioned much round here, due to the being dead for a quarter of a century lark...)
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    During the last week Woman's Hour celebrated its 75th Birthday and they interviewed one of the original producers Diana Gayford now 104. She may not get a national QO but would be a contender for Last Word
  19. 1 point
    This competition is nicely poised for a potentially exciting (despite it geological timescale progress) finish
  20. 1 point
    Angela Lansbury, Betty White, Ruthie Thompson, Barbara Walters, dick van Dyke, Glynis Johns, Phil Collins...it looks like a better list than the official
  21. 1 point
    Not dead, just posting here about Bob Moran. A cartoonist for the Daily Telegraph being a covid denier and openly targeting an NHS doctor on Twitter. He has deleted original tweet but it has been screenshotted. It randomly came on my timeline in last 24 hours and now her legal team/police is involved.
  22. 1 point
    Bruce Welch was songwriter on Bachelor Boy and Summer Holiday alongside Cliff? I was thinking Elvis but his songwriters were all over the place.
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    The family of former RSC actor Clifford Rose launch an appeal to help with care home fees
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    One of Germanys well known journalists Fritz Pleitgen has pancreatic cancer: https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/ex-wdr-intendant-fritz-pleitgen-hat-bauchspeicheldruesenkrebs-71162128.bild.html
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    So back in 1963, JFK had a bad day in Dallas, you might have heard, and Lyndon Johnson wound up sworn in as President. Three journalists were onboard Air Force One to witness the oath, and 2 are long dead. But one of them is ex-NBC News journo Sid Davis (b 1927) who is still alive! But has no Wiki. I found this out in a doc on the new Freeview Smithsonian channel - and they say TV isn't good for DP research. Thing on him from last year Biography Btw he looked frail as fuck talking about Jackie Kennedy, and is notable enough for any American obit accepting pool imo. Or Cup.
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