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So CRUEL!

I’ve been in tears all morning tbh.

Surely that's cheating?

Death notice for Sir Richard Vickers aged 95: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/vickers-notices_55709

One of my early front page regrets was spending more than five minutes on Russell Bishop's obit. All deep-diving into that oxygen waster's life did was infuriate me. Then I just used Garavito to write about the Isley Brothers instead. I learn from my mistakes!

I think we can say Murder is pretty safe for now. Move on innit. *steps back while her points inevitably climb to 150*

Oliver (the singer) died on this day 24 years ago, aged 54. - Oliver's birth name was William Swofford, but he went by his middle name as a mononym during his professional career. He was also known as "Bill Swofford" while as a member of bands such as The Virginians and The Good Earth. - Oliver's breakout song was 1969's "Good Morning Starshine", included in the musical Hair: It reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it is primarily remembered for its nonsensical chorus- and as a Johnny Depp Willy Wonka quote: - The same year, Oliver had another hit song with "Jean", the theme to the movie The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, reaching #2 on the chart (kept off the top by The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar"): - Oliver's stardom would soon wane, with his last charting single being a cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain" in 1971, peaking at #124 on the Bubbling Under chart. He would retire from making music in 1984. - Oliver was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the mid-1990s, and died after it metastasized- unfortunately his death was overshadowed by that of Tom Landry the same day. In 2010, he was posthumously inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame (he was born and raised in the state).

Judy Blume, author of Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret and Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing is 86.

Shocking and tragic news. He was on track to go sub 2h.

Sunday Times cartoon calls it accurately:

Following on from the Ideas and Possibilities thread, Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel fame has a 'nasty' cancer. https://m.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=100058063000040 All tour dates cancelled. Famous enough in my opinion without being lumped into a generic music thread.

In critical condition. His wife does not expect him to live much longer.

Happy 50th to Bagpuss. BBC TV children's favourite Bagpuss is 50 - BBC News

Congratulations @DoorSlammer 1924 - Roger Guillemin / Lili Lentz 1925 - Lou Carnesca / Micheline Lannoy 1926 - Roger Corman / Rowena Jackson 1927 - William Daniels / Estelle Parsons 1928 - James Ivory / Nancy Olson 1929 - Mark Rydell / Patricia Routledge 1930 - Gene Hackman / Tippi Hedren 1931 - Don King / Claire Bloom 1932 - John Williams / Anouk Aimee 1933 - Quincy Jones / Sian Phillips

12/Feb/2024 68 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor 45 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 40 Daft Punk — One More Time +4 36 The Supermen Lovers & Mani Hoffman — Starlight 29 U2 — Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of 28 Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue — Kids 25 Moloko — The Time Is Now 25 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 25 Sonique — Sky 24 S Club 7 — Reach 22 Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson — Movin’ Too Fast 13 Mis-Teeq — All I Want 09 Zombie Nation — Kernkraft 400 07 Outkast — Ms. Jackson -6

Charles Stendig (wiki), American furniture businessman, supposedly dead at 99. Also a WWII veteran.

Was set to become an Olympian, but wasn't quite there yet. That's why I posted it in the 'Dead of 2024' thread earlier.

In B7 he was one of the titular 7 and the only cast member to appear in all 52 episodes. If his only claim.to fame was playing a vicar in Eastenders I do not think he would bother obituary writers too much but B7 is an iconic series of British dystopian SF and well regarded (as well as much ridiculed)

Mystery solved on this one. Jack Billings died in his native Ontario on 13 Aug 1992, aged 74. Newspaper obit here. Not spotted before due to a typo in his name in the newspaper obit.

Who is it, Prince Edward?

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If the Titanic had sunk today.