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Dead of bone cancer: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/usshowbiz/article-12006659/Len-Goodman-dies-aged-78-Strictly-star-passed-away-peacefully-hospice.html

Somehow he won't be the oldest person on Days of our Lives this year. Bill Hayes, who turns 98 in June, was in 3 episodes in February portraying Satan personified in the form of his character Doug Williams.

69 Fatboy Slim – Praise You 55 Britney Spears – Baby One More Time 51 Jamiroquai – Deeper Underground 48 B*witched – C’est La Vie 44 Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 33 Madonna — Frozen +4 31 All Saints – Never Ever 24 Cornershop — Brimful of Asha 13 Armand van Helden ft Duane Harden – You Don't Know Me 00 Backstreet Boys – The Door is That Way -6 I can't get no But its a reasonable consolation.

Shirley MacLaine is 89.

Herb Douglas, a participant of the 1948 London Olympics where he won Bronze in the long jump, dead at 101 according to Olympedia.

69 Fatboy Slim – Praise You 55 Britney Spears – Baby One More Time 51 Jamiroquai – Deeper Underground 48 B*witched – C’est La Vie 44 Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 31 All Saints – Never Ever 29 Madonna — Frozen +4 24 Cornershop — Brimful of Asha 13 Armand van Helden ft Duane Harden – You Don't Know Me -6 06 Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way Early vote today to perk Madonna up a bit. Could have delivered the killing blow to the Backstreet Boys but I don't mind the song and will leave someone else the satisfaction of finishing it off.

Put on a ventilator: https://m.timesofindia.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/health-update-veteran-actor-sarath-babu-battling-serious-health-issues-put-on-ventilator/articleshow/99722360.cms

She seems OK, but looks a bit weird. I wouldn't have recognised her.

Pool possibility, only mentioned here once before... Gyalo Thondup, Dalai Lama's brother, unofficial envoy and Prime Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration 1991-1993 this month: Either 94 or 96 this year, notable for other reasons than being the Lama's brother too (CIA asset in the 1950s, good friend of Chiang Kai-shek, had talks with Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s)

A list that is argued about passionately, tirelessly and endlessly..... Absolutely nowhere.

BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65373373

69 Fatboy Slim – Praise You 55 Britney Spears – Baby One More Time 51 Jamiroquai – Deeper Underground 48 B*witched – C’est La Vie 44 Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 31 All Saints – Never Ever 25 Madonna — Frozen +4 24 Cornershop — Brimful of Asha 19 Armand van Helden ft Duane Harden – You Don't Know Me 06 Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way -6

I was about to same the exact same thing, although he doesn't look terrible either.

I really wouldn't be surprised if she outlives Timothy. He looks about 20 years older than her every time I see the pair of them together.

And by referring to Mullen as their oldest surviving player, this rules out Graham Miller as being alive. They would have mentioned him if he were alive as he also played in their first season. John Scott - 10 days older than Mullen - and definitely still alive as per Cumbria Golf Union, played for Workington before they were in the football league.

Peter Day, visual effects supervisor for classic Doctor Who (Troughton to Baker, T), as well as other BBC fare (Quatermass, Adam Adamant, The Goodies) has died aged 95.

I should point out that Norman Reynolds was last picked for the DDP in 2022 for @Death Impends: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2022/celebs_R.html#reynon Having been consistently picked for the past few years, I'm surprised he was dropped this year.

Booker prize nominated Irish novelist Patrick McCabe, who wrote The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto, (both made into films) celebrates his 67th birthday today.

Summer olympic openers alive: 1956: Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921) 1976: Queen Elizabeth II (b. 1926) 1988: President of South Korea Roh Tae-woo (b. 1932) 1992: King of Spain Juan Carlos I (b. 1937) 1996: President Bill Clinton (b. 1946) 2000: Governor-general of Australia William Deane (b. 1931) 2008: President Hu Jintao (b. 1942) 2012: Queen Elizabeth II (b. 1926) 2016: Acting President Michel Temer (b. 1940)

David Gracie, British hurdler who competed at the 1952 Helsinki Games in the 400m Hurdles, has died age 93.

Brooks and Rooks dead within days,if this is a waves of three death I wouldn't feel to safe right now if I was Demetrius "Hook" Mitchell

Rex Hughes, who coached collegiately at Kent State, Southern California and UNLV in addition to the NBA, has died. He was 77. SC http://www.the-review.com/editors%20pick/2016/05/12/former-ksu-basketball-coach-dies

This should do: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3145235/Legendary-bluesman-Robert-Johnsons-son-dies-Mississippi.html

Doing some reseach on another topic, I just realised that today in 1945, so 69 years ago, Heinrich Himmler topped himself by swallowing cyanide, aged 44. Himmler is the bloke in the middle with glasses. regards, Hein

Jesus!!! If my calculations are correct, you must be one of the very few left on Planet Earth that will remember when Petra was a just a Pup!!!!! Respect to you Toastie!!!