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  1. 12 points
    December 1st again? Seems each year goes by faster and faster, doesn't it? Now time is flying so fast that a DDP co-host was born late enough to make SpongeBob references, but I digress... But yes, fear not, the North Star of the deadpooling world that we call the Derby Dead Pool continues to light up this morbid little pocket of our lives and has opened its doors for its 27th edition. As we enjoy @msc 's final month of DDP obits, I will be taking over the front page role starting next year, joining @Grim Up North and @gcreptile on the committee. THE RULES are unchanged from this year's ie the FFBI disqualifications, wider net of QOs, etc all remain instituted. IMPORTANT REMINDER: The spreadsheet method of entry that began last year remains in service. The 2022 spreadsheet, identical to the last one in all but filename, can be found here. It is heavily recommended to use the spreadsheet as means of entry to reduce Grim Up North's workload as much as possible. If you are absolutely unable to work with the Excel spreadsheet, still make sure to recheck GUN's DDP entry guide thread from last year to make the formatting of your email as smooth as possible.
  2. 5 points
    Eva Marie Saint was bestowed a special award last night along with Pat Boone.
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    As last year, the scoring will appear on a four digit base. The first digit will represent the category, sorted from least living laureates to most: Literature (19): 6.000 points Peace (32): 5.000 points Economic Scienes (44): 4.000 points Chemistry (63): 3.000 points Medicine/Physiology (70): 2.000 points Physics (72): 1.000 points The second digit will honor the decade, the laureate was awarded: 2020s – 900 points 2010s – 800 points 2000s – 700 points 1990s – 600 points 1980s – 500 points 1970s – 400 points 1960s – 300 points 1950s – 200 points There were no laureates left from the decades before, so a sore of 100 points is not possible! The third digit will show the age of your laureate: < 30 – 90 points. 30-39 – 80 points 40-49 – 70 points 50-59 – 60 points 60-69 – 50 points 70-79 – 40 points 80-89 – 30 points 90-99 – 20 points 100-??? – 10 points The last digit gives a bonus score: Last survivor of his awarding year: 9 points bonus. Youngest death of the contest: 8 points (awarded in February 2023!) Represents an African country: 7 points Represents an Asian country: 6 points A female laureate: 5 points. Awarded alone (organizations excluded): 4 points Represents a South or Middle American country: 3 points Comes from Germany (born there or naturalized): 2 points Oldest death of the contest: 1 point (awarded in February 2023!) So for example: F. W. de Klerk, one of the last laureates to die, was worth 5.637 points. 5.000 as a Peace laureate, 600 for the decade (he was awarded in 1993), 30 for his age (85), and seven bonus points for a person of African origin.
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    Telegraph death notice for David Wadey, aged 103, a highly decorated Dunkirk and El Alamein veteran. 103rd birthday article from Aug. Local coverage of him in 2010.
  5. 3 points
    Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas, so it has fucking started, you ignoramus.
  6. 2 points
    Well @YoungWillz breaks his duck with the fifth unique hit of the game with Don Demeter Three of the five players who have unique hits only have their unique hit - myself included There are currently four players who have yet to hit a home run in this game @arghton @MariNisia @DeathByArsenic @YorkshireBanker Hoping this game manages to last into the New Year because I think things will be busy until The New Year
  7. 2 points
    Over the course of today I'll be sending out the emails to invite entry for 2022 - the people with email addresses beginning with As should already have theirs. Please look out for it in your spam folder too as there is nothing I can do on this side to avoid work filters thinking that my mail might be spam - I suppose it is about soon to be dead meat. If anybody doesn't receive the email all the information in it is actually contained in Death Impends post above. Enjoy your selection process. Cheers, GUN PS My entry will be finalised today and submitted before I receive all your wonderful picks (at which point normally at least one walking corpse will make themselves known to the world).
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    Latvian women's football team died tonight. We beat them 20-0.
  10. 2 points
    Indeedy. Still in remission so thankfully better than my team picks
  11. 1 point
    Wait a second, it's that time of year already? Man, time does fly by fast. So here we are, another year of the annual Advent Avalanche, with the following objective and rules: 25 entrants (24 quickest off the mark plus your host Joey Russ). Competition opens on 1 December with the aim of getting a winner by Christmas Day. And those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the AVALDP is to WIN. 2 - To enter the AVALDP a contestant must have: A candidate not selected by another other entrant. A candidate in this context means a living person aged 18 or over not being executed within that month who remains alive at midnight on November 30th and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit see rule 9 below upon death. 3 - Entries open at 7:00am EST (that's 12:00 PM GMT for the brits) on 30th November and close at midnight (GMT) on 30 November. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the AVALDP thread on the Deathlist. 4 The competition is deemed to be open at 00-01 GMT hrs on 1 December 2021. 5 Competition ceases on the death of the first nominated pick on the list of candidates and the winner is the dead pooler who has selected said candidate. 6 Entry is limited to 25 players (24 who are obliged to post entries on the AvalancheDP thread and Joey Russ, who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavor). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 25 players to compete for a death within 25 days thereby giving us a victory by Christmas Day at the latest. If you're snoozin you're losing. 6a Because he has forced his own entry Joey Russ guarantees to respect the first 24 qualifying picks and only enter a candidate unselected by the others. Thereby ensuring the really hot selections go to others. 7 - In the event that two players select the same candidate the allocation of the pick will go to the player who first posted an entry for that candidate even if the entry times are within the same minute. 8 In the event that two players tie for victory on the basis of picks expiring on the same day all efforts will be made to ascertain a winner on the basis of the actual time of death. For these purposes local time of death will be translated to GMT if required. 9 - An "obit" in the context of the AVALDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organizations, foreign press and broadcast organizations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organizations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes Joey Russ's decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties. 10 The Raymond Hewlett Memorial Award applies to the AVALDP. In honor of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive when the winner is declared and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded victory in the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the AVALDP all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competition and in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifying RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME victory and this victory once declared is proven to be spurious by late discovery of a qualifying obit; the lucky winner will be allowed to keep his/her lucky win. 10a To ensure smooth operation of rule 10 the period for discovery of result altering obits is deemed to be 48 hours plus the remainder of the calendar day in which victory is first claimed. In other words two days and a part of another day. 11 - If an obited death occurs during play of the AVALDP and is missed despite Joey Russ's best efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of AVALDP participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11 will be resolved by the astute judgement of Joey Russ and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the AVALDP thread by venting their fury). 12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the AVALDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into AVALDPs. 13 In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 30 November fails to mark the start line the entrant selecting said pick will still be deemed to have entered the competition and will have until midnight 1 December to select a new pick (unselected by other entrants). Should the entrant fail to do so no other entrant will be allowed in as a replacement. AND FINALLY... On completion of AVALDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectators offer well-deserved congratulations to the skillful and highly talented new champion, after which time it is expected that the cooling corpse of the thread will be allowed to gently sink into oblivion. Now you know the rules, here is the list of competitors and their choice of candidates: theoldlady - Jerry Lee Lewis Sean - Frank Field Death Impends - Gary Burgess Bibliogryphon - Anthony Sher YoungWilz - Liza Minelli Gcreptile - Kaikala Satyanarayana Captain Chorizo - Susie Steiner The Daredevil - Bob Dole msc - Khaleda Zia Toast - Jean Marsh Book - Vinod Dua Lafauchuse - Nanda Prusty Ulitzer95 - Sidney Cooke John Key - Henry Kissinger Marinisia - Kat Bjelland Rover and Out - Jimmy Carter YorkshireBanker - Phyllis Dalton The Old Crem - George Alagiah Drol - Rowshan Ershad Thatcher - Bernadette Chirac ThereWillBeDeaths7 - Leslie Phillips Grim Up North - Francoise Hardy Chilean Way - Lucia Hiriart arghton - Luis Echeverría Joey Russ - Gavin Robertson Let's look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now 2016 - Death Impends 2017 - Sean 2018 - Banana 2019 - gcreptile 2020 - Spade_Cooley  Good luck everyone. 
  12. 1 point
    John Goodenough - Chemistry Lech Walesa - Peace Alice Munro - Literature James Watson - Medicine Peter Higgs - Physics William Sharpe - Economics
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    Chemistry: 2019 John Bannister Goodenough b. 1922 1992 Rudolph Arthur Marcus b. 1923 1980 Paul Berg b. 1926 1990 Elias James Corey b. 1928 1986 John Charles Polanyi b. 1929 2010 Akira Suzuki b. 1930 2013 Martin Karplus b. 1930 1980 Walter Gilbert b. 1932 1986 Dudely Robert Hershbach b. 1932 1996 Robert Floyd Curl jr. b. 1933 1986 Yuan Tseh Lee b. 1936 2000 Alan Jay Heeger b. 1936 2000 Hideki Shirakawa b. 1936 2007 Gerhard Ertl b. 1936 1981 Roald Hoffman b. 1937 1988 Robert Huber b. 1937 2004 Avram Hershko b. 1937 2001 Ryoji Noyori b. 1938 2002 Kurt Wüthrich b. 1938 2015 Tomas Robert Lindahl b. 1938 1987 Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn b. 1939 1989 Sidney Altman b. 1939 2009 Ada E. Yonath b. 1939 2013 Arieh Warshel b. 1940 2017 Joachim Frank b. 1940 1997 John Ernest Walker b. 1941 2001 Karl Berry Sharpless b. 1941 2011 Daniel Shechtman b. 1941 2018 George Pearson Smith b. 1941 2019 Michael Stanley Whittingham b. 1941 2016 James Fraser Stoddart b. 1942 2017 Jacques Dubochet b. 1942 1988 Johann Deisenhofer b. 1943 2012 Robert Joseph Lefkowitz b. 1943 2016 Jean-Pierre Sauvage b. 1944 2005 Richard Royce Schrock b. 1945 2017 Richard Henderson b. 1945 2015 Aziz Sancar b. 1946 2015 Paul Lawrence Modrich b. 1946 1989 Thomas Robert Cech b. 1947 2004 Aaron Ciechanover b. 1947 2006 Roger David Kornberg b. 1947 2008 Martin Chalfie b. 1947 2013 Michael Levitt b. 1947 1988 Hartmut Michel b. 1948 2019 Akira Yoshino b. 1948 2003 Peter Courtland Agre b. 1949 2016 Bernard Lucas "Ben" Feringa b. 1951 2018 Gregory Paul Winter b. 1951 2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan b. 1952 2014 William Esco Moerner b. 1953 2012 Brian Kent Kobilka b. 1955 2003 Roderick MacKinnon b. 1956 2018 Frances Hamilton Arnold b. 1956 2002 Koichi Tanaka b. 1959 2014 Robert Eric Betzig b. 1960 2014 Stefan Walter Hell b. 1962 2020 Jennifer Anne Doudna Cate b. 1964 2020 Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier b. 1968 2021 Benjamin List b. 1968 2021 David William Cross MacMillan b. 1968 Peace: 1973 Henry Alfred Kissinger b. 1923 2002 James Earl Carter jr. b. 1924 1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel b. 1931 1990 Michail S. Gorbatschow b. 1931 1989 HRH, 14. Dalai Lama b. 1935 2008 Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari b. 1937 2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf b. 1938 2006 Muhammad Yunus b. 1940 1987 Oscar Arias Sánchez b. 1941 2005 Mohammed ElBaradei b. 1942 1983 Lech Wałęsa b. 1943 Last living laureate 1976 Mairead Corrigan b. 1944 1998 David Trimble b. 1944 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi b. 1945 2003 Schirin Ebadi b. 1947 1996 Carlos Felipe Belo b. 1948 2007 Albert Arnold Gore jr. b. 1948 1996 José Ramos-Horta b. 1949 1997 Jody Williams b. 1950 2016 Juan Manuel Santos Calderón b. 1951 2014 Kailash Satyarthi b. 1954 2018 Denis Mukengere Mukwege b. 1955 1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum b. 1959 2021 Dmitri Andrejewitsch Muratow b. 1961 2009 Barack Hussein Obama jr. b. 1961 2021 Maria Angelita Ressa b. 1963 2011 Leymah Roberta Gbowee b. 1972 2019 Abiy Ahmed Ali b. 1976 2011 Tawakkul Karman b. 1979 2018 Nadia Murad Basee Taha b. 1993 2014 Malala Yousafzai b. 1997 Literature: 2013 Alice Ann Munro b. 1931 1986 Wole Soyinka b. 1934 1994 Kenzaburō Ōe b. 1935 Last living laureate 2010 Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa b. 1936 2000 Gao Xingjian b. 1940 2003 John Maxwell Coetzee b. 1940 2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio b. 1940 2016 Bob Dylan b. 1941 2019 Peter Handke b. 1943 2020 Louise Elisabeth Glück b. 1943 2014 Jean Patrick Modiano b. 1945 2004 Elfriede Jelinek b. 1946 2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah b. 1948 2015 Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch b. 1948 2006 Orhan Pamuk b. 1952 2009 Herta Müller b. 1953 2017 Kazuo Ishiguro b. 1954 2012 Mò Yán b. 1955 2018 Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk b. 1962 Medicine/Pysiology: 1977 Roger Charles Guillemin b. 1924 1981 Torsten Nils Wiesel b. 1924 1977 Andew Victor Schally b. 1926 1962 James Dewey Watson b. 1928 Last living laureate 1978 Werner Arber b. 1929 2000 Eric Richard Kandel b. 1929 2015 Tu Youyou b. 1930 2015 William Cecil Campbell b. 1930 1978 Hamilton Othanel Smith b. 1931 2008 Luc Montagnier b. 1932 2012 John Bertrand Gurdon b. 1933 1982 Bengt I. Samuelsson b. 1934 Last living laureate 2015 Satoshi Ōmura b. 1935 2020 Harvey James Alter b. 1935 1989 Michael John Bishop b. 1936 1998 Ferid Murad b. 1936 2008 Harald zur Hausen b. 1936 2005 John Robin Warren b. 1937 2007 Mario Renato Capecchi b. 1937 1975 David Baltimore b. 1938 Last living laureate 1987 Susumu Tonegawa b. 1939 1989 Harold Eliot Varmus b. 1939 2001 Leland Harrison Hartwell b. 1939 2014 John Michael O'Keefe b. 1939 1985 Joseph Leonard Goldstein b. 1940 1996 Peter Charles Doherty b. 1940 1985 Michael Stuart Brown b. 1941 1998 Louis Joseph Ignarro b. 1941 2007 Martin John Evans b. 1941 2011 Jules Alphonse Hoffmann b. 1941 1991 Bert Sakmann b. 1942 1995 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard b. 1942 1997 Stanley Ben Prusiner b. 1942 2018 Tasuku Honjo b. 1942 1993 Richard John Roberts b. 1943 2001 Richard Timothy Hunt b. 1943 1991 Erwin Neher b. 1944 1993 Phillip Allen Sharp b. 1944 1996 Rolf Martin Zinkernagel b. 1944 2017 Michael Morris Rosbash b. 1944 2016 Yoshinori Ōsumi b. 1945 2017 Jeffrey Connor Hall b. 1945 2004 Richard Axel b. 1946 1995 Eric Frank Wieschaus b. 1947 2002 Howard Robert Horvitz b. 1947 2004 Linda B. Buck b. 1947 2008 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi b. 1947 2009 Elizabeth Helen Blackburn b. 1948 2013 Randy Wayne Schekman b. 1948 2018 James "Jim" Patrick Allison b. 1948 2001 Paul Maxime Nurse b. 1949 2017 Michael Warren Young b. 1949 2020 Michael A. Houghton b. 1949 2013 James Edward Rothman b. 1950 2005 Barry James Marshall b. 1951 2009 Jack William Szostak b. 1952 2020 Charles Moen Rice III. b. 1952 2019 Peter John Ratcliffe b. 1954 2013 Thomas Christian Südhof b. 1955 2021 David Jay Julius b. 1955 2019 Gregg Leonard Semenza b. 1956 2011 Bruce Alan Beutler b. 1957 2019 William George Kaelin jr. b. 1957 2006 Andrew Zachary Fire b. 1959 2006 Craig Cameron Mello b. 1960 2009 Carol Widney Greider b. 1961 2012 Shin'ya Yamanaka b. 1962 2014 Edvard Ingjald Moser b. 1962 2014 May-Britt Moser b. 1963 2021 Ardem Patapoutian b. 1967 Physics: 1957 Chen Ning Yang b. 1922 1973 Leo Esaki b. 1925 1957 Tsung Dao Lee b. 1926 1975 Benjamin Roy Mottelson b. 1926 1987 Karl Alexander Müller b. 1927 2000 Herbert Kroemer b. 1928 1973 Ivar Giaever b. 1929 2013 Peter Ware Higgs b. 1929 1972 Leon N Cooper b. 1930 Last living laureate 1990 Jerome Isaac Friedman b. 1930 2009 George Elwood Smith b. 1930 1996 David Morries Lee b. 1931 2020 Roger Penrose b. 1931 2021 Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann b. 1931 2021 Syukurō Manabe b. 1931 1979 Sheldon Lee Glashow b. 1932 Last living laureate 2013 François Englert, Baron Englert b. 1932 2017 Rainer Weiss b. 1932 1978 Arno Allen Penzias b. 1933 1997 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji b. 1933 1984 Carlo Rubbia b. 1934 Last living laureate 2005 John Lewis Hall b. 1934 2019 Philip James "Jim" Edwin Peebles b. 1935 1976 Samuel Chao Chung Ting b. 1936 1978 Robert Woodrow Wilson b. 1936 2017 Barry Clark Barish b. 1936 2003 Anthony James Leggett b. 1938 2007 Albert Louis François Fert b. 1938 1998 Daniel Chee Tsui b. 1939 1973 Brian David Josephson b. 1940 2017 Kip Stephen Thorne b. 1940 1993 Joseph Hooton Taylor b. 1941 2004 David Jonathan Gross b. 1941 2005 Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch b. 1941 2016 John Michael Kosterlitz b. 1942 2019 Michel Gustave Mayor b. 1942 1985 Klaus von Klitzing b. 1943 2015 Arthur Bruce McDonald b. 1943 2008 Makoto Kobayashi b. 1944 2012 David Jeffrey Wineland b. 1944 2012 Serge Haroche b. 1944 2018 Gérard Albert Mourou b. 1944 1996 Douglas Dean Osheroff b. 1945 2006 George Fitzgerald Smoot III b. 1945 1999 Gerardus 't Hooft b. 1946 Last living laureate 2006 John Cromwell Mather b. 1946 1986 Gerd Karl Binnig b. 1947 1997 Steven Chu b. 1948 1997 William Daniel Philips b. 1948 2021 Giorgio Parisi b. 1948 1998 Horst Ludwig Störmer b. 1949 2004 Hugh David Politzer b. 1949 1987 Johannes Georg Bednorz b. 1950 1993 Russel Alan Hulse b. 1950 1998 Robert Betts Laughlin b. 1950 2001 Carl Edwin Wieman b. 1951 2004 Frank Anthony Wilczek b. 1951 2016 Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane b. 1951 2020 Reinhard Genzel b. 1952 2014 Shūji Nakamura b. 1954 2001 Wolfgang Ketterle b. 1957 2010 Andre Konstantinowitsch Geim b. 1958 2011 Saul Perlmutter b. 1959 2015 Takaaki Kajita b. 1959 2018 Donna Theo Strickland b. 1959 2014 Hiroshi Amano b. 1960 2001 Eric Allin Cornell b. 1961 2020 Andrea Mia Ghez b. 1965 2019 Didier Patrick Queloz b. 1966 2011 Brian P. Schmidt b. 1967 2011 Adam Guy Riess b. 1969 2010 Konstantin Sergejewitsch Nowoselow b. 1974 Economic Sciences: 1987 Robert Merton Solow b. 1924 1990 Harry Max Markowitz b. 1927 2002 Vernon Lomax Smith b. 1927 2005 Israel Robert John Aumann b. 1930 1998 Amartya Kumar Sen b. 1933 2006 Edmund Strother Phelps b. 1933 1990 William Forsyth Sharpe b. 1934 2002 Daniel Kahneman b. 1936 1995 Robert Emerson Lucas b. 1937 2000 Daniel Leigh McFadden b. 1937 2020 Robert Butler Wilson b. 1937 2013 Eugene Francis Fama b. 1939 2001 George Arthur Akerlof b. 1940 2004 Edward Christian Prescott b. 1940 2010 Peter Arthur Diamond b. 1940 1997 Myron Samuel Scholes b. 1941 2018 William Dawbney Nordhaus b. 1941 2003 Robert Fry Engle III. b. 1942 2011 Christopher Albert Sims b. 1942 2001 Joseph Eugene Stiglitz b. 1943 2001 Michael Andrew Spence b. 1943 2004 Finn Erling Kydland b. 1943 2011 Thomas John Sargent b. 1943 1997 Robert Cox Merton b. 1944 2000 James Joseph Hackman b. 1944 2015 Angus Stewart Deaton b. 1945 2017 Richard H. Thaler b. 1945 2013 Robert James Shiller b. 1946 2010 Christopher Antoniou Pissarides b. 1948 2016 Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart b. 1948 2020 Paul Robert Milgrom b. 1948 2016 Bengt Robert Holmström b. 1949 2007 Eric Stark Maskin b. 1950 2007 Roger Bruce Myerson b. 1951 2012 Alwin Eliot Roth b. 1951 2013 Lars Peter Hansen b. 1952 2008 Paul Robin Krugman b. 1953 2014 Jean Marcel Tirole b. 1953 2018 Paul Michael Romer b. 1955 2021 David Edward Card b. 1956 2021 Joshua David Angrist b. 1960 2019 Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee b. 1961 2021 Guido Wilhelmus Imbens b. 1963 2019 Michael Robert Kremer b. 1964 2019 Esther Caroline Duflo b. 1972
  14. 1 point
    Yep, Zoe Ball can go straight in. Luckily nothing from Greg James yet on Radio 1 but I know one of the pubs he frequents so if he plays it I shall get a train to London and kick him in the cunt.
  15. 1 point
    Fuck it. That's me out already. Zoe Ball had the decency to sound a klaxon before she played it, so I changed channels only to be confronted after the commercial break by that fucking song. Can't we put in room 101?
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    Copy and pasted from Baseball Reference. 10 remain: Bob Aspromonte, born June 19, 1938 Eddie Basinski, born November 4, 1922 Tommy Brown, born December 6, 1927 Roger Craig, born February 17, 1930 Don Demeter, born June 25, 1935 Carl Erskine, born December 13, 1926 Jim Gentile, born June 3, 1934 Chris Haughey, born October 3, 1925 Fred Kipp, born October 1, 1931 Sandy Koufax, born December 30, 1935 Bobby Morgan, born June 29, 1926 Joe Pignatano, born August 4, 1929
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    Yeah one of the few people picked on the DL before I was born. Think it is only Ozzy David Jenkins,Tony Bennett ,The Queen,Brian Wilson,Shaun Ryder ,Jerry Lee Lewis George Linker and Frank Bruno left in that category.
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    "Mr Cardiff City" and Welsh International Phil Dwyer being reported dead aged 68: Bit of drinker, seems to have blighted his later careers.
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    Philip Heymann (wiki), U.S. Deputy Attorney General under Clinton (1993–1994) and one of the Watergate prosecutors, dead at 89.
  20. 1 point
    CJ Hunter, Oylmpian and World champ shot-putter in '99, dead at 52. Probably better remembered as the supplier of PEDs to his then wife Marion Jones.
  21. 1 point
    Tommy Lane (IMDb), played Adam in Live and Let Die, has died aged 83. Obituaries: Independent, The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express
  22. 1 point
    What is the function of a rubber duck?
  23. 1 point
    25 years ago today, Tiny Tim gave his final performance. He suffered a fatal heart attack on stage while performing his hit "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" at the Women's Club of Minneapolis.
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    Joan Holloway was 107 last month! She is the daughter of Stanley Holloway whose famous monologues included 'The Lion and Albert'. Her brother Julian (a fairly well-known actor) is 77 - he is the father of Sophie Dahl - the well-known former model & current author & wife of the famous Jamie Cullum.)
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    Heikki Mälkki, WWII veteran, sub-lieutenant, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Finland and former President of the Helsinki Court of Appeal mentioned in the spoiler dead at 97: https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000008424209.html
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