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Cancer of the Ming - sounds nasty.

Peter Scott-Morgan, the "human cyborg", has died: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10919033/Worlds-cyborg-dies-aged-64-British-doctor-passes-away-peacefully.html

"The most widely published unknown poet in America" Simon Perchik (wiki) dead at 98 according to this tweet:

Also a Facebook post from Zemeckis about her death here. Seems she died c. March/April. A pick in the centenarians deadpool. Not picked in the DDP. Tbh, reading up on her career she's like an obituary writer's dream so the only reason she hasn't received coverage is because the media are unaware, not lack of interest. She had some bit part movie roles so technically she was the oldest living Hollywood actor. That accolade now belongs to Marsha Hunt.

Clive Leighton, technical co-ordinator and studio lighting on Doctor Who's The Web Of Fear, reported dead: Worked on The Two Ronnies, Grange Hill and Top Of The Pops. If he died in France, unlikely he will appear on the usual British probate sites.

John Connally died on this day 29 years ago, aged 76. Connally began his political career as an aide for then-senator Lyndon Johnson, and he rallied for Johnson's 1960 presidential campaign. After LBJ was selected as JFK's vice president, he convinced Kennedy to appoint Connally to be Secretary of the Navy, which he did. Connally left the position in December of 1961 to run for Governor of Texas, and he beat Republican Jack Cox 54-46%. On November 22, 1963, Connally, along with his wife Nellie, were passengers in President Kennedy's limousine- Kennedy had visited Dallas to ease Democratic infighting between Connally, senator Ralph Yarborough, and local politician Don Yarborough (no relation). As they were passing through Dealey Plaza, Connally recognized a noise as a rifle shot, and looked behind him- he was shot in the back, and Kennedy had been fatally shot in the head. Connally successfully underwent surgery. Connally did not believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin, though he denied this in public (this was revealed in a 1982 interview). Connally was suggested as a potential running mate for Hubert Humphrey in 1968, but Connally accused Humphrey of being too soft on Vietnam. Connally left office in 1969. In 1971, Richard Nixon appointed him as Secretary of the Treasury in a bipartisan move- Connally accepted on behalf that George H. W. Bush (who recently lost a Senate race to Lloyd Bentsen) find a position in his administration- Nixon made him the UN Ambassador. Connally changed his political affiliation to Republican in 1973. Connally announced his 1980 presidential campaign in January of 1979, and withdrew following the South Carolina primary, endorsing Ronald Reagan. He got 82,625 votes in total during the primaries (0.64% of the total vote). Following Connally's death from pulmonary fibrosis, the US Justice Department was petitioned to remove the remaining bullet fragments from his body to disprove the Warren Commission's conclusion- they declared they had no legal authority to do so, and that it was Connally's family's decision. They declined.

Yeah, but... B'Stard was a cruel comedy stereotype - she's the fucking foreign secretary.

I had A.B. Yehoshua on my shortlist for ages because of this post, but in the end it didn't seem that bad. Chalk up another error for me then: Yehoshua dead at 85. Already with a QO too.

I am coming to the conclusion now that the current Cabinet is the perfect example of The Peter Principle.

Ahah sorry, autocorrect, it was lung cancer !

Didn't last that long in the end, given the hope the treatment would slow ALS/MND. Recipient of what is still my favourite DDP description I ever wrote.

South korean player Cho Min-ho dead at 35 after Ming cancer

Xi Jinping is 69 today Alan Brazil is 63 today

Neil Patrick Harris is 49.

In May, Navalny said that he had learned about the preparation of the penal colony IK-6 in Melehovo in the Vladimir region to receive him. "My sentence has not yet entered into force, but the prisoners from the strict regime colony Melehovo write that they are equipping a "prison within a prison" for me," the politician said at the time. Pro-government RIA Novosti reported that Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was transferred from penal colony No. 2 in Pokrov (IK-2) to colony IK-6 in Melehovo, Vladimir Region. https://www.dw.com/ru/navalnogo-etapirovali-iz-kolonii-v-neizvestnom-napravlenii/a-62128595

Gabino Díaz Merchán, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Oviedo 1968-2002 dead at 96. He was a participant of the Second Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, 1985. There's a list of (almost all) the participants on Wikipedia, here's who are still alive: Archbishop Anselme Titianma Sanon (1937) Archbishop Emeritus of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso Joachim N'Dayen (1934) Archbishop Emeritus of Bangui, Central African Republic Charles Louis Joseph Vandame (1928) Archbishop Emeritus of N’Djaména, Chad Robert Sarah (1945) Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Bosco in via Tuscolana Gabriel Zubeir Wako (1941) Cardinal; Archbishop Emeritus of Khartoum, Sudan Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez (1936) Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Primate Emeritus of the Indies Louis Chamniern Santisukniram (1942) Archbishop Emeritus of Thare and Nonseng, Thailand Thomas Williams (1930) Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Wellington, New Zealand Cardinals Pope Benedict XVI/Joseph Ratzinger, Jozef Tomko, Paul Poupard as Heads of the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia. Cardinal Friedrich Wetter as a Papal Invitee. Fraternal delegates: Andreas Aarflot (1928) Bishop of Oslo, Norway. Representative of the Lutheran World Federation. Anba Paula (?) Oriental Orthodox delegate

Leslie Zemeckis, author and wife of film director Robert Zemeckis was very close to her, always also on her 100th birthday. I was hoping she would have informed the media by now as Betty lived alone in an apartment or nursing home in Brentwood. I think she has no child.

On this day in 1998 british cartoonist Reg Smythe who created the famous Andy Capp comic strip in the Daily and Sunday Mirror newspapers died in Hartlepool aged 80 .

Jagger has the COVID: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-rolling-stones-forced-cancel-27222905

Hmm, in April I posted an update that Fritzl was being moved from a special psychiatric prison into a normal prison. But I did it in the "Life in Prison" thread, sorry.... Anyway, new update in German: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/josef-fritzl-fritzl-muss-in-psychiatrie-ausharren-a-e918b3f7-18ac-4d6e-8f1a-db77478f18d1 The move has been blocked to prevent his release after 15 years of a life sentence. It has been argued that he has an incurable disease, so that he cannot be moved into a normal prison.... But is he really terminally ill or is there only a "normal" age related ailment being used to keep him in a psychiatric facility until he dies?

I don’t think Nads should start a hip hop group, She’s much more adept at tonguing Johnson’s hoop.

Horace Clark, former Major Leaguer, most remembered as a solid second baseman for the New York Yankees, died at 80 years: https://conlasbasesllenas.com/horace-clarke-el-estelar-pelotero-de-los-yankees-murio/

Serbian Author and playwright Isidora Bjelica, who has published over 55 books throughout her career, died at 52 years: https://expresstabloid.ba/naslovnica/299665/preminula-isidora-bjelica-borila-se-do-zadnjeg-dana-kao-lavica/ She was the co-founder of Dual Therapy, a self-help method built on recognizing both the positive and the negative aspects of life.

Oscar nominated american novelist, screenwriter, and actor Bruce Jay Friedman, best known for his novel, "Stern," from 1962, died at 90 years: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/bruce-jay-freidman-dead-90-splash-woody-allen-1234624764/