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7/Feb/2024 40 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor 33 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 33 Daft Punk — One More Time 28 Gordon Haskell — How Wonderful You Are +4 27 The Supermen Lovers & Mani Hoffman — Starlight 26 S Club 7 — Reach 25 Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue — Kids 24 Sonique — Sky 24 Moloko — The Time Is Now 23 Blink-182 — All The Small Things 23 Zombie Nation — Kernkraft 400 23 iiO — Rapture 22 Samantha Mumba — Gotta Tell You 22 Sweet Female Attitude — Flowers 22 Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson — Movin’ Too Fast 21 Destiny’s Child — Bootylicious 20 Baha Men — Who Let The Dogs Out 20 Sash! — Adelante 20 Mis-Teeq — All I Want 20 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Take Me Home 19 Donell Jones — U Know What’s Up 18 Steps — Chain Reaction / One For Sorrow 18 Outkast — Ms. Jackson -6 17 U2 — Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of 16 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This

Times death notice for Ivo Mosley (wiki), aged 72. Potter, poet and writer, and the grandson of Sir Oswald Mosley.

Updated the list to reflect Luan Peters who died before the game started.

In 2015 I learnt the names and constituencies on all 650 MPs, which proved rather useful for my line of work. So short have the subsequent parliaments been and so great the turnover of old > new members that all that memorising became redundant quite quickly! I can't even begin to imagine learning the names of 780+ members of the House of Lords. Think I know about 300 or so, but not through trying!

A really controversial political figure and a totally unexpected death, personally I was expecting for former president Ricardo Lagos go first, because he retired from politics a week ago... one to see in the next years. https://chile.as.com/actualidad/que-paso-con-ricardo-lagos-esta-fue-la-drastica-decision-del-ex-presidente-de-chile-n/?outputType=amp

For me this is the biggest death of the year so far (the former president of your country dying in a helicopter crash will be something hard to top). He was like the Dubya of Chile, he was gaffe-prone and the word "piñericosa" was used every time he made a stupid comment or made something silly. He was a mediocre leader imo, his first term was decent but not that good, the rescue of the 33 miners was the highlight of those 4 years, and his second term started horribly with his terrible management of the protests in 2019, although I do think he was very good controlling covid in the country. I know a lot of people hate him, but I just couldn't. Here's a compilation of Piñericosas made in 2018. You probably won't find any of these to be funny unless you know spanish (except for 6:00-7:07 which are universally funny).

Got sent this by a friend an hour after the news broke.Terrible but I did chuckle.

If they choose North London it might finally give Spurs a chance

The most gravely ill on the list: 1)Josip Manolic: 104 in March, bedridden and received last rites in December, seemed an imminent death. However his family insists he is well, so ok. 2)Khamtai Siphandone: 100 in two days, unable to appear for his birthday, whose celebrations have been ongoing for six months. Likely bedridden or even on life support. 3)Jimmy Carter: 100 in October, almost a whole year in hospice care. 4)Ali Hassan Mwinyi: hospitalised and family asking for prayers. Still, it seems not too serious. 5)Violeta Chamorro: soon 95, airlifted to Costa Rica last year, recordwoman of dementia and brain tumors. One of those five is really really overdue.

Full Times obit reveals he died from cancer.

Wed 7 Feb 40 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor 33 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 33 Daft Punk — One More Time 27 The Supermen Lovers & Mani Hoffman — Starlight 26 S Club 7 — Reach 25 Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue — Kids 24 Outkast — Ms. Jackson 24 Sonique — Sky 24 Moloko — The Time Is Now 23 Destiny’s Child — Bootylicious 23 Zombie Nation — Kernkraft 400 23 iiO — Rapture 22 Gordon Haskell — How Wonderful You Are 22 Samantha Mumba — Gotta Tell You 22 Sweet Female Attitude — Flowers 22 Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson — Movin’ Too Fast 21 Blink-182 — All The Small Things 20 Baha Men — Who Let The Dogs Out +4 20 Sash! — Adelante 20 Mis-Teeq — All I Want 20 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Take Me Home 19 Donell Jones — U Know What’s Up 19 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 18 Steps — Chain Reaction / One For Sorrow 17 U2 — Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of 03 S Club 7 — Two In A Million / You’re My Number One -3 00 Usher — Pop Ya Collar -3

Bob Beckwith, the firefighter that stood besides Bush at Ground Zero, dead at 91.

Because helicopters are the most efficient way to get to yo mama's house.

Is it the election yet?

Rishi Sunak says the cancer was caught early.

I am not sure the illness was public knowledge.

The Daily Mail say it has been caught very early and the prognosis is very good.

He retires in a few weeks.

Ooh, too big to miss. He'll be on the DeathList for the next 20 years.

Rick Stein, 77, admits he 'isn't going to last that much longer' after having 'life-threatening' open heart surgery last year https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13043787/Rick-Stein-77-admits-isnt-going-longer-having-life-threatening-open-heart-surgery-year.html

Dropped him from the DDp because tbh I got bored and distracted by shiny new oldies, and 20 places isn't a lot. My trying to guess who would be picked has led to two of us bringing back Nadim Sawalha after a long absence and nobody picking Brian Glanville. Or Derry Irvine!

Indian politician and independence activist P. Narsa Reddy dead at 92. I think there might be only 7 Indian independence activists left with Wikipedia pages, correct me if I'm wrong - ages 96 to 100: 1 - VS Achuthanandan (1923) Severely ailing for the last 5 years. One of Drol's top immortals. 2 - LK Advani (1927) Co-founder of ruling party BJP and former deputy prime minister. Not a DDP pick, but I think there's a decent chance he'll obit. 3 - Krishnammal Jagannathan (1926) Social activist. Seems to suffer from Parkinson's or something similar. 4 - Ramjee Singh (1927) Gandhian activist and former Member of Parliament. 5 - Shobhana Ranade (1924) Social worker, Gandhian. 6 - Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay (1926-2016) Activist, "close associate of Gandhi" 7 - V. P. Appukutta Poduval (1923) "Gandhian since 1934". Interesting eyewitness/relic of Indian history. Satya Narayan Gourisaria possibly died in 2019 and Shanta Vasisht might be dead too. Edit: Sailesh Kumar Bandhopadhyay seems to be dead too, referred to on facebook as "late" and there are some Bangla posts from 2016 saying he's dead. Also marked to have died on the Bangla wiki. That makes 6.

French Jean Petit, who participated in the 1978 WC, has died aged 74. He played one game, against Hungary.

With Scotland at the Euros for the first time since 1996, Former Scottish manager Craig Brown's getting a lot of reappraisal in documentaries this week and looked quite old and a bit frail tbh. Apparently he had an aortic aneurysm last year and is lucky to still be with us. One to watch, now. Aberdeen and Scotland hero Craig Brown reveals he had 30-percent chance of survival after an aneurysm (thescottishsun.co.uk) (Btw, alcoholic George Burley in the mention above still lives.)