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Saddos, the lot of them.

John Jacob Astor IV died on this day 111 years ago, aged 47. - Astor was (of course) a member of the wealthy Astor family, who got their money from the fur trade. His sister Helen married a James Roosevelt- making him the half-brother-in-law of president Franklin D. Roosevelt. - Astor published a science fiction novel titled A Journey in Other Worlds in 1894, making predictions on what the year 2000 would be like. Among the things it got right was a global phone network (kind of like the Internet) and solar power. - In 1897, he built the Astoria Hotel- this soon became the original Waldorf-Astoria, which was demolished to construct the Empire State Building. - Astor served in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War (rather than using his fame and money to buy himself out), and became a colonel. - Astor married his second wife Madeleine when he was 47 and she was 18. While in France, he got her pregnant, and he wanted their baby to be born in America. They boarded the RMS Titanic in Cherbourg along with their dog named Kitty. - After the ship fatefully scraped the iceberg on the night of April 14, Astor remained unconvinced the ship would sink- he and his wife went to the ship's gym, and he even cut open the lining of a lifejacket thinking it wouldn't work. - Astor eventually helped his wife into Lifeboat #4, and then ordered two female passengers to fill up the remaining seats. He was last seen alive at 1:55 AM on the starboard bridge, smoking a cigarette. - Astor's cause of death remains uncertain- reports stated that he either drowned, froze, or was crushed when the first funnel collapsed about 20 minutes after he was last seen. - At the time of his death, Astor was one of the world's richest people, with a net worth of $87 million (equivalent to $2.5 billion today).

Radha Devi Joshi dead.

Angie at the TCM Classic Film Festival yesterday. Wow! Doesn't she look and sound the healthiest 91 year old ever? Drop Angie and Imelda for 2024, DL Committee!!! https://variety.com/2023/film/news/tcm-festival-angie-dickinson-steven-spielberg-classic-film-1235583643/

A couple of weeks ago I was told I passed my final research paper, which means I have obtained my bachelor at university! It's something I'm quite happy with. And all of that while taking part in deathpools, talking about having priorities And this evening I got the news we'll get a kitten, she'll be welcomed in our home in May if everything goes to plan. It'll be the first time we have a cat since our last one passed away aged 17 at the end of 2021. It will be quite a change to suddenly have such a young animal at home but I'm looking forward to it.

Trying to round up some names of Toho old timers who haven't yet left us for a death watch list. Godzilla's, Rodan's & King Ghidorah's all welcome. Katsumi Tezuka - Played monsters in several films including Godzilla (born August 31st 1912) Shoichi Hirose- Played King Ghidorah (born June 23rd 1918) - Possibly Living Riichiro Manabe - Music Composer for Toho (born November 9th 1924) Hiroshi Koizumi - Actor in a spate of Monster films - (born August 12th 1926) Kazuo Kumakura - Toho voice actor - (born January 30th 1927) Yoshio Tsuchiya - Actor known for several Toho Monster flicks - (born May 18th 1927) Haruo Nakajima - First man to play Godzilla (born 1st January 1929) Rhodes Reason - King Kong Escapes leading man (born April 19th 1930) Kyoko Kagawa - Mothra Heroine (born 5 December 1931) Koji Furuhate - Played Frankenstein's Monster (born in 1933) Akira Takarda - Godzilla leading man (born April 29th 1934) Goro Mutsumi - Mechazilla star (born September 11th 1934) Teruyoshi - Special Effects Artist (born October 1st 1935) Akira Kubo - Destroy All Monsters lead (born December 1st 1936)

Wilf Mannion died on this day 23 years ago, aged 81. - Mannion's professional soccer- I mean "football" career started in 1936 when he joined Middlesbrough FC, spending the next 18 years with them. - After leaving Middlesbrough, Mannion joined Hull City, Poole Town, Cambridge United, and Earlestown, before retiring in 1958. - Mannion was a member of the English team in the 1950 World Cup, scoring a goal against Chile. - Mannion's nickname "The Golden Boy" did not come from his skill at the sport- rather, it was his blonde hair. - Mannion was also a World War II veteran who served in France and Italy. His commanding officer was Hedley Verity, another sportsman- albeit a cricketer. - Mannion's only appearance on the DeathList was in 1996, at number 43.

Although this isn't surprising, it truly is the end of a particular era. I was reading a book about Stirling Moss recently, with one of his main rivals in a hill climb being McAlpine. This was from 1948, and I thought it incredible anyone racing from 75 years ago was still alive. RIP

A search has been done but nothing turned up. Report here of the death of one of the keyboardists and producers of KWS, Chris King, who died back on 22 March 2023: https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/ilkeston-former-brit-award-winning-8305187 Who? Well, they only had a huge #1 in the UK in May 1992 with Please Don't Go: How the major press haven't picked this up is a mystery.

Current Lawrenceburg sprint car track champion Justin Owens has died from injuries sustained in Qualifying for Saturday nights USAC event

I believe it was Radar who first shared the news of her Alzheimer`s to the public so assuming their sources are the same it is probably true. She has had end-stage dementia for years now so her being in hospice care would be no great surprise whatsoever.

Saw Farlowe last year at A New Day and reported on the form studying, tbh he didn't look or sound great and actually sat down in a chair onstage when the instumental passages kicked in. Only David Hepworth appears to be reporting it atm, but he's not exactly a senationalist or known for getting things badly wrong. Presumably he has some inside track on this.

I know he's not a popular topic on here, but this Twitter thread ishilarious.

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Sadao Lizuka, special effects guy who gave Godzilla his atomic breath and King Ghidhorah his gravity beams, reportedly dead from pneumonia aged 88: https://otakuusamagazine.com/tokusatsu-effects-giant-sadao-iizuka-dies-at-88/

German entrepreneur and philanthropist Myriam Ullens died at 70 years: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/myriam-ullens-dead-collector-chinese-art-1234662751/ She started her first business when she was 24 - La Petite Salade, a salad delivery service. She sold it after four years, and immediately afterwards started Sweetly, a pastry shop in Brussels. She has built multiple schools and orphanages in Nepal, a breast cancer foundation with several centers, and the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.

There is a group for oldest olympians ? What do they do apart from reporting every death ? A very restrictive topic indeed

Report that Goro Mutsumi died June 2021: IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616163/

DDP Drop 40 selection Tom Parker is 33 today…

Re 2021 deaths - on their current disappointing form I think we should consider ALL the low hanging barrel scraper picks languishing on the under-performing Deathrace. I can only apologise to sponsors and avid television viewers for this appalling failure to deliver fucking good fun! We're on it, or summat

Happy Birthday Radio 1.

Guns are safe, well sort of...

peter kay is dead not the comedian though. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/peter-kay-cofounder-of-the-sporting-chance-clinic-which-has-helped-names-such-as-paul-gascoigne-and-paul-merson-has-died-8821617.html i'm sure there was a thread on here about people who shared similar names to famous people dying.

21 years earlier, Mr Dracula himself, Bela Lugosi, died of a heart attack aged 73.

So doubtless he's wandering around the care home giving it endless yakkety yakking! No more yakking from Carl.