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https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-just-fontaine-passes-away-29341676 Just Fontaine has died aged 89.

It only took around five months....we have another hit! (Wiki) Ricou Browning died Feb. 27th of natural causes to give @gcreptile our second (and their first) hit of this pool No fancy paragraph or puns this time, I just don't give a flip. (The show was flipper....you get it? Flip? Flipper?...Ah nevermind)

For me, the ultimate "wait he's still alive?" name ever since Eric Sykes died.

I also believe that Blondie did Atomic, not Madonna. But then maybe I’m just being blinded by my apparent senseless hatred of Madonna again.

German drummer Hans-Joachim Behrendt has died at age 68. Maybe his name isn't well known, but the band he played in is: IDEAL, very successful, very influencing, very iconic. They paved the way for German pop music in the 1980s, including the so-called "Neue Deutsche Welle", which made acts like Nena, Falco and Trio internationally successful. https://www.stern.de/lifestyle/leute/hans-joachim-behrendt--der-ideal-schlagzeuger-ist-gestorben-33241052.html

Catherine Bach, the voluptuous American actress of German and Mexican descent who was a sex symbol in the late 1970s and 1980s, whose first big screen appearance was in "The Midnight Man" (1974), and widely known for her role as the stunning Daisy Duke in the popular television series "The Dukes of Hazzard", is 69 today. Harry Belafonte, the respected activist, actor, singer and songwriter, known as the "King of Calypso", a man of unshakeable principles who was one of Martin Luther King's confidants, whose recording career started in 1949 when he was 22, whose first notable film was "Carmen Jones" who was directed by Otto Preminger in 1954, and was born in Harlem, New York City, is 96 today.

Congratulations and good luck next round @Gooseberry Crumble ! Hopefully you'll have some more hits than both of us had in the first round

Right, so I believe these are the players taking the field for Round 2: "Superstar" Billy Graham TQR, PER, MAR, WAN, AFB, BAN Abe Jacobs CHO Adriano Celentano BBL Alma Adamkiene JMP Andre Luis Santos AFB Andres Garcia BBL Andrew Bowden GOO* Andy Dick YOR Andy Taylor POP Anne Baker WAN Astrid of Norway GOO Barbara Barrie TKT Bob Barker POP Brenda Milner CAL Břetislav Staš TKT Bruno Segre DIE Carolyn Bryant Donham HEL, BAN Catherine Wreford GFF* Charlie Bird AOG Chavalit Yongchaiyudh ARG, MSC, TOC Christopher Fowler GCR Christy Dignam SRC, TQR, TKT, PER, HEL, SOX, GUN, WAN, GCR, ANN, DDT Colette Maze FIO D Srinivas GCR, TOC, PER Daniel Barenboim CAP Daniel N. Paul AOG Daniel Scardina DDT Denny Crum PER, AFB, BAN Dick Hyman YOR Duane Eddy GOO Eileen Derbyshire GOO Eleanor Collins GFF, BBL Emilio Fede BBL Esther Jenner TKT Esther Rantzen DDT Ethel Caterham YOR*, SOX Ezra Miller GFF Francesco Merloni SID Frank Field CAP, LIZ, JMP, SPA, TQR, DIE, AOG, FIO, ANN, SRC Frank Field (meteorologist) YOR Freddie Foreman GOO Freddy Quinn PER Fusa Tatsumi SID George Alagiah CAP, POP, TQR, ANN Gershon Edelstein YOR Giorgio Napolitano TKT Girish Bapat ARG, GUN Graham Caveney CAL, MSC, CHO, AFB Guido Gorgatti BBL Guy Saint-Vil PER Gwyneth Jones YOR Haris Ibrahim MAR Hazel Plummer CAL Ian McMillan BBL Igumen Leonty SID* Ion Iliescu CAL*, PER Irene Camber GFF Iris Apfel GOO James Earl Jones DIE James Whale CAP, LIZ, HEL, GUN, WAN, FIO, ANN Jamie Vardy TKT Jane Fonda POP Jane Morgan GOO Janette Oke GFF Jango Edwards HEL, CHO Jimmy Carter CAP*, ARG, GOO, POP, YOR, LIZ*, MSC, CAL, JMP*, GFF, SPA*, TQR, SID, TKT, TOC*, PER, HEL, CHO*, MAR, SOX*, BBL*, GUN, WAN, AOG, GCR, FIO, ANN, DDT, AFB, BAN, SRC Jiřina Bohdalová CAL Joan Kennedy GOO Joanne Woodward YOR, CAP, LIZ, MAR Joao Freire AFB John Fetterman DDT Johnny Ruffo MAR Jon Bruce DDT Jonnie Irwin SID, HEL, AOG, ANN Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo AOG Joseph Zen JMP Juan Vicente Perez Mora SOX Judy Hall BBL June Spencer FIO Karen Mayne CAP Kenneth McAlpine FIO Khaleda Zia DDT Kim Yong-nam ARG Lautaro Ronchi WAN, SRC Linda Nolan POP Lowell Weicker CAL Lynne Reid Banks YOR Ma Shitu ARG Malachy McCourt MSC, JMP, TQR Marga Minco TKT Maria Branyas LIZ, SOX Mario Zagallo CAL Mark Patton GCR Mark Pilgrim MSC, SPA, SID, MAR, SOX, GUN, AOG, GCR, BAN, SRC Marlene Mathews GFF Marty Ruley BAN Masum Babul GCR Michael Aspel GOO Michael Tilson Thomas GFF Miguel Angel Alba Diaz BAN Mikheil Saakashvili AOG Mirza Fakhrul SPA Mohamed Bensaid Ait Idder ARG Muhammad al-Fayadh ARG Nguyễn Thị Bình CHO Nigel Starmer-Smith TOC, POP, LIZ, SOX Omar al Bashir AFB Oommen Chandy DDT Oscar Wyatt CHO Otis Taylor SOX Paquita la del Barrio ARG* Pastor Anthony Brown SRC Paul Hogan POP Paul Vachon CHO Philippe Fanoko Kpodzro SPA, AOG Pierre Palmade TOC Princess Bajrakitiyabha WAN, ANN, DDT, AFB, SRC, FIO Princess Mikasa JMP Rachel Dror CAL Randy Jackson POP Rita Lee ARG, SPA, DIE* Robert Zimmer GUN Roberta Flack POP Roberto Chale WAN Rocket Norton GFF Rolf Harris CAP, POP*, LIZ, MSC*, TQR, SID, TOC, HEL, MAR, SOX, BBL, WAN, GCR, FIO*, ANN, DDT, AFB, BAN, SRC Roman Kostomarov LIZ, MSC, SPA, SID, TOC, PER, MAR, DIE, GUN, GCR, AFB, BAN, SRC Rosalynn Carter TOC, FIO Ruth Buzzi LIZ Ryuichi Sakamoto LIZ, SID, HEL, DIE Sadaharu Oh JMP Sebastian Brodrick ARG Sharon Mitchell SPA Sheila Hancock YOR Simon Cowell (not that one) HEL, MSC, SOX, GFF, TQR, TOC, ANN, CHO Steve "Mongo" McMichael TOC, JMP, CHO, MAR, CAP, LIZ, MSC, CAL, GFF, SPA, TQR, SID, HEL, SOX, BBL, AOG, ANN, SRC Sukri Bommagowda TKT Swami Smaranananda ARG Teresa Taylor MAR, MSC, GUN, GCR, BAN Thijs Slegers GUN Tom Sizemore CAP, MSC, JMP, SPA, TQR*, SID, TKT*, TOC, HEL*, CHO, MAR*, DIE, GUN*, WAN*, AOG*, GCR*, FIO, ANN*, DDT*, AFB*, BAN*, SRC*, PER* Tommy Steele GOO Tongo CAP, TQR, PER, CHO, GUN, WAN Virginia Halas McCaskey FIO Wan Haifeng JMP Wanda Półtawska BBL Wang Huo CAL Wei Wei DIE Willie Mays YOR Wolfgang Bosbach DIE Xavier Lopez Rodriguez DIE Yael Dayan DIE Zhong Yiren TKT Zhu Rongji JMP The second round is always the most difficult from a gamerunner's perspective, so do doublecheck your representatives in this list in case I've fucked up a C+P somewhere. Although thanks to Messrs Carter and Sizemore, the pool for this round is a little shallower than it could have been. Full lineups and the draw for Round 3 to come later today.

British theoretical physicist Tom McLeish has died and will be a unique 'hit' for my Blueberry Crumble team when a Qualifying obituary emerges.

Jean Faut (wiki), arguably the most prominent living player from the AAGPBL, dead at 97 according to this FB post.

And should we also count the kids there for Bring your son to work Day? It's fair to just have it for veterans.

Allan McGraw who was Greenock Morton through and through and absolute legend as player and manager has passed aged 83 Really gutted at this as Morton are my team and Quick Draw McGraw was my first hero scoring 57 goals in record breaking season 1963/64 when Morton ran away with the old Second Division and reached the League Cup final RIP Allan

Fuck all like and no are your answers 31 Blondie — Atomic -6 19 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 16 Soft Cell – Tainted Love +4 07 David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes

None of my team appear to have died overnight so I'm out in the first round as usual. Good luck in R2 and well done Lady Fiona.

Exactly.

I think there’s a few people doing that. I thought you were supposed to be voting for/against the song, not the group/person.

And there it is. An admission, two-fold, that you’re not playing the game properly.

Jack Holder, a Pearl Harbor survivor who went on become a decorated World War II flyer who flew over 100 missions in the Pacific and European theaters, has died in Arizona. He was 101. He died at Friday at a hospital in the Phoenix (AZ) suburb of Chandler. The Pearl Harbor National Memorial also announced the death. Born to a farming family in Gunter, Texas, Holder joined the Navy in 1940 when he was 18. He was on duty at Ford Island within Oahu’s Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft bombed the U.S. naval base on Dec. 7, 1941. “The first bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor was about 100 yards from me,” Holder said, adding that he “saw guys swimming through burning oil in the water.” SC

Prince Philip had a heart operation a few weeks before he died other than that yeah we dont know but he looked like death warmed up when he left so I think it is a fair assumption that he went home to die not because he was recovering.

It’s A Sin is easily the most iconic song in this game, and that was too much for some people to deal with. Hey ho. In the face of absurd adversity it survived for a long time. 28 Nena – 99 Red Balloons -1 24 Blondie – Atomic +4 19 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 14 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes 12 Kraftwerk – The Model/Computer Love 6 George Michael – Careless Whisper -5

29 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 20 Blondie – Atomic 19 Soft Cell – Tainted Love -5 14 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes 12 Kraftwerk – The Model/Computer Love 11 George Michael – Careless Whisper +4 00 Pet Shop Boys – It’s In The Bin -1

Zandra Rhodes donates decades of archive material to De Montfort University Leicester: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2023/february/legendary-designer-zandra-rhodes-to-donate-decades-of-archive-material-to-dmu.aspx She was also awarded an honourary degree from De Montfort University Leicester: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/zandra-rhodes-de-montfort-university-dame-london-princess-b1060684.html She looks good for someone diagnosed with bile duct cancer in mid-2020 (articles in July 2021 give the diagnosis as ' just over a year ago') during the first coronavirus lockdown. As I couldn't find any information on her in December, I dropped her in the DDP. The picture* makes me think it could be the right call, but she's coming up on three years since the diagnosis. She had chemotheraphy, but resection (resection = surgical removal) of the cancer gives the best outcomes - which I can't determine if she had. This matters, as the five year survival rate is zero for non-recected cases. Additionally, I can't determine what chemotheraphy agent was used, which would give some indication of the severity/progression. *Note the whites of her eyes - they are not jaundiced, which is a good sign

I got messages, so I need to clarify: Yes, you can give me your subs at any point until 1st of July now, but they will still not score before then. So if you want to sub in Jimmy Carter now, he will not score if he dies before the 1st of July. I just wanted to erase the one-day-period for the substitutions. Edit: Next update will come in a bit. But I'm not at home next weekend, so it's probably not happening too soon. I am working on the DbN database (now that DDP is sorted).

Román Mejías, Cuban baseballer. Dead at 97. Obit Sandy Valdespino, Cuban baseballer. Dead at 84. Obit

Oh Lord, Telegraph coverage: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/08/22/mark-hamill-lends-his-support-to-campaign-for-terminally-ill-sta/ Aaand reportedly dead: https://twitter.com/bbchw/status/768033590080860160 and http://herefordshirelive.co.uk/culture/film-tv/rogueonewish-dying-man-s-wish-to-see-star-wars-film-early