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Rhod gets his first clear cancer scan. Rhod Gilbert: First clear cancer scan for Welsh comedian - BBC News

Keith Harding (wiki), former Tory MSP, died on 15 November 2021, aged 82. Just updated his Wiki, which still had him listed as living. A few notes on him – former leader of Stirling Council (1991–1995), very well liked across the political divide (e.g. he was the only Tory to be invited to former First Minister Jack McConnell's 40th birthday bash), defected to the neoliberal "New Party" in 2003 with MSP colleague Lyndsay McIntosh. Later retired to Brittany from 2004, where he was active before dying from a sudden illness. Received obits from The Scotsman and The Courier, but it was never spotted/reported on DL Forums for some reason.

Because he’s a troll.

Japanese singer and drummer Atsushi Sakurai, who joined the popular rock band Buck-Tick, died at 57 years: https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/obituaries/20231024-145388/ He was known for songs like "Long Distance Call," in 1983. His first solo album was released in Ai No Wakusei. He later released the full-length album I am Mortal in November 2015.

Louise Brunson dead at 91.

F. Murray Abraham is 84.

24/Oct/2023 37 Pulp — Common People 34 N-Trance — Set You Free 32 Ace of Base — The Sign 31 Kylie Minogue — Confide In Me 31 Crash Test Dummies — Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm 31 MC Sar & The Real McCoy — Another Night 31 Bruce Springsteen — Streets Of Philadelphia 26 Big Mountain — Baby I Love Your Way +4 26 Supergrass — Alright / Time 24 U2 — Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me 23 Pulp — Mis-Shapes / Sorted For E's And Wizz 23 The Stone Roses — Love Spreads 23 Alex Party — Don't Give Me Your Life 23 Bon Jovi — Always 22 Queen — Heaven For Everyone 21 Corona — The Rhythm Of The Night 21 The Mike Flowers Pops — Wonderwall 20 Toni Braxton — Breathe Again 20 Let Loose — Crazy For You 20 Diana King — Shy Guy 20 Def Leppard — When Love And Hate Collide 20 Meat Loaf — I’d Lie For You (And That's The Truth) 20 Annie Lennox — No More 'I Love You's' 19 The Original — I Luv U Baby 14 Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting — All For Love 14 Perez 'Prez' Prado And His Orchestra — Guaglione 06 MN8 — I’ve Got A Little Something For You 00 Oasis — Roll With It -6

I picked him, which seems to be a guarantee of a job for life!

I've been here a while. The DDP rule here has been in force all that time, and yet nobody has bitched about it until now. And that was before the "wide open" Yahoo QOs were accepted. A passing reference, a caption on a photo, all these things count provided they are from a qualifying source and they reference the death. True, they are not obits - but the rules that everyone signs up to are clear from the outset. Some may not like them, but they agree to the rules when they submit a team. If you still can't get an obit, either you are incredibly unlucky or you have picked an obscure celeb so bloody obscure to the great unwashed British public that even the numerous sources aren't interested in covering them.

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Massive Attack guitarist Angelo Bruschini has died, as confirmed by the band's social media pages. https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/massive-attack-guitarist-angelo-bruschini-8853181

This one made me lol. Can't imagine she got the respect she deserved from her pupils: TROLLOPE Betty Joan died peacefully in hospital on 17th October 2023, aged 97. Much loved. Formerly head of Rochester Girls’ Grammar School. Private cremation. Service of thanksgiving will be held at Rochester Cathedral this year.

Half points as the rule states.

Looks rougher in this photo that popped up, but the insights from the person in the photo with him sound more positive. (All the comments are from the same person).

The Rochdale Cowboy, Mike Harding, is 79 today

Sergio Staino dead at 83.

Was the co-creator of the short lived but fondly remembered 80s comic Oink! RIP

Folk take this far too seriously. The interminable search for an unique. Such in fact that to the extent that people like Jane Birkin and Jimmy Buffett get missed. I play along for a little distraction. I have no access to the resources some seem to have to pick up on those picks that might mean winning or doing well. I like my teams, I like my topics, and I also like learning about folk, even if I have never heard of them I have no interest however in actually picking folk that mean nothing to me except points on a board.. Winning/high scoring is the furthest thing from my mind. I roll with the punches, I live with not getting an unique obit (but I will still complain about it on here - see Philip Latham! who did finally obit) and move on. Some folk are just good at this. If I'm not, my life isn't ruined.

They had lots of family functions (not this wedding though) at Notre-Dame-du-Chardonnet around Paris' Quartier Latin. This church has been taken over by the Society of St. Pius X, a traditionalist fraternity of priests who opposed teh Second Vatican Council and eventually got excommunicated for ordinating bishops of their choosing. There's plenty of unsavoury stuff like Holocaust denialism in their ranks, abuse allegations go without saying, and generally they're close to parties like the Front National in France. The church has been occupied by them since the 80s and remains so till today; French authorities haven't intervened so far on grounds on best keeping the peace that way (?). I happen to know a family close to the Pius brothers, preferring to attend the old-style Tridentine mass. It seems though that over the last one or two years they've come to the conclusion that they're indeed a bit icky and now have sought out priests of the Fraternity of Saint Peter, essentially Pius defectors who eventually submitted to Rome in exchange for privileges such as the right to hold mass in Latin.

Lawro appears to have been somewhat aged by cancer.

Nick Meglin, editor and contributor to Mad magazine, has died aged 82.

Col. Sam Inukoba, a leader of the All Progressive Congress in Bayelsa State (Sudan) and former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party has died a month shy of 66, of 'food poisoning'. After his recent party switch he probably had a few enemies. SC http://bolateethole.blogspot.com/2015/09/former-pdp-chairman-dies-of-food.html?m=1