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Italian footballer Bruno Bolchi dead at 82. Had a decent career most notably with Inter Milan and Torino, capped 4 times then went on to manage over 20 teams around Italy mostly in the lower leagues.

@Toast Confirm/Deny?

Has a very important place in football history as well: he was the first person to get a Panini sticker

A huge 11 picks have now ceased to exist (and yes, it’s definitely 11, I checked through them all). FEEL THE RUSH! Try To Contain Yourself For One Moment…Here’s The Scoreboard: Engineer - 2 En Passant - 2 Banana - 2 gcreptile - 1 Death Impends - 1 RoverAndOut - 1 Charles d’Irlande - 1 Newjack - 1 Joemoneypenny - 1 Dying Probably - 1 Grim Up North - 1 Toast - 1 BuffaloPhil - 1 Spade Cooley - 1 Every other fucker - 0

Michio Ariyoshi, Japanese professional Shogi player (Japanese chess) dead at 87 from aspiration pneumonia. As far as I know at the time of his death he was the oldest professional Shogi player with an English wiki page. Compared to Chess players, Shogi players don't seem to have much longevity. The oldest one now is probably Kunio Naitō, 83. Seems a bit frail but still active. There's only one other octogenarian: 82-year-old Hifumi Katō (Major name in Japan, had a 62-year career, obese but incredibly sharp and people are amazed how he's still so healthy and has outlived a lot of younger Shogi players. He's also the oldest top level player living.) Naitō in 2019: Katō around 2022: Katō is a very interesting figure. Obese because he can't stop eating foods he likes. He seems to like anime, has appeared on atleast two Nintendo games and has caused controversy by feeding stray cats. Not a lot compared to living professionals of other board games either. Tons of notable professional octogenarian Go players out there, oldest ones being Nobuo Amayake (88), Richard Bozulich (85/86), Takeo Ando (84) and Hiroaki Tōno (83). Backgammon also has less living notable professionals, oldest one being US backgammon (and bridge) professional Billy Eisenberg, 85. Draughts has Charles Walker, 87/88, also a convicted money launderer, the Soviet (now Lithuanian) international draughts player Boris Družinin, 83, another international draughts player of the former Soviet Union Vyacheslav Shchyogolev, 81 and John Ray Webster, also a musician, 80. Searched the professional Shogi players born 1940 and before on the Japanese wiki, found a few more: Kazuhisa Ōmura (1928-2023, ja wiki) The oldest professional Shogi player. Was already very frail in 2018. Yukio Miyasaka (1929-, ja wiki) Most recent public appearance was in 2016 as far as I know. Also played normal chess. Masao Kitamura (1934-2023, ja wiki) Was already a professional in 1953 and has the earliest "Shogi number" from all living players: 60, earlier than Katō (64), Miyasaka (65), Ōmura (71), Naitō (77) and Saeki (79). Yoshimasa Saeki (1936-, ja wiki) Ichirō Tanabe (1938-, ja wiki) Masakazu Wakamatsu (1939-, ja wiki)

(Wiki) Sue Mingus, the widow of Charles Mingus, died Sept. 24th at the age of 92. She outlived her husband by 43 years.

Ho Lye Toh. Three times Miss Singapore and weightlifter. Not sure if mentioned on these forums before, but she's now around 99. BBC article from 2015: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33750637

Mira Sorvino, American film and television actress, the daughter of the famed character actor Paul Sorvino; who won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for her supporting performance in "Mighty Aphrodite", is 55 today. Initially, her father attempted to steer Mira and her two siblings away from the acting profession. Miloš Zeman, Czech politician who was the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002, and was the first directly elected President in Czech history in 2013; Václav Havel and Václav Klaus were elected by the Czech Parliament; is 78 today. In 2018, Miloš Zeman was re-elected for a second term.

Mountaineer Hilaree Nelson, 49, dies in the descent of Mount Manaslu in the Himalayas.

Sunak must be pissing himself laughing right now.

British-born Canadian actress Doreen Brownstone (IMDb) turns 100 today Photo was from her 99th birthday last year

How long before these fucking idiots start calling the IMF a bunch of wokeremoanerlefties? EDIT: Haaaahhahahahahah!! I was joking but here’s Andrew Lilico saying just that. Desperation pour homme. Oh, and Daniel Hannan has blamed the £ crashing on Keir Starmer

Also daughter of film director, Robert Stevenson, famous for directing many Disney films including Mary Poppins.

"It's all his fault we are spending $6 billion in tax payer dollars on HIV and AIDS this month". The cognitive decline of this man is absolutely apparent. I can’t believe there are some on this forum who are still flat out denying it. We ought to keep a close watch on him, and if it gets worse then he should be considered for DL in a few years.

Anne had been there with her mother for the previous 24 yours, so presumably she was there at death too. People often make up the details in Royal stories as they know the Palace won't bother to refute anything.

American science fiction and horror B-Movies filmmaker Bert I. Gordon (Wiki) turns 100 today

R.I.P. to one of the most greatest villain actresses ever

As do yours

Chinese physicist Yang Chen-Ning (Wiki) turns 100 today

Sometimes it's better to offer before you're asked, especially if you're going to subsequently complain. I have no problem with the front page not being completely up to date for a week or two. It's hard work. The ppl running DL have lives elsewhere too, and presumably better things to do than eulogising a dead foreign film director. And as @msc just correctly pointed out, yes it did used to be much much slower...

American physicist John S. Foster Jr. (Wiki) turns 100 today!

Tommy Wiseau. No debate.

What's all the buzz with Angela Lansbury? I haven't heard anything public about her present condition.

RIP. On balance a good man who served the people of Russia and the world well by playing his part in ending the Cold War. I feel we’ve lost somebody who could be seen as a voice of reason in Russia. In the West we may not have agreed with everything he said, but he could be relied on to put forward a reasonable Russian perspective, rather than the lunacy of the current cabal. On a different note, I think that really leaves only Brian Mulroney of Canada as the last living leader of a major power from the 80s.