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On this day in 2007 Anita Roddick, British businesswoman, founder of The Body Shop and environmental campaigner died from a brain haemorrhage aged 65.

I might look that up on the BBC Radio Iplayer online for a listen . Can you remember what programme it was please?

Arrgh how embarrassing!Sorry!

Canadian actress, author and former television host Margaret Trudeau celebrates her 74th birthday today. She is also the mother of current Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and ex wife of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

On this day in 2007 Oscar winning american actress and first wife of future US President Ronald Reagan Jane Wyman died aged 90. Jane starred in more than a dozen films in the 1930s in uncredited roles . In 1937 she received her first credited role playing the hat check girl in Smart Blonde. This quickly lead to other film roles including Slim (1937) starring Pat O'Brien and Henry Fonda, The Spy ring(1938) with William Hall, Esther Ralston and Robert Warwick, 1939 aviation film Tail Spin with Alice Faye, Constance Bennett and Joan Davis and Magictown - a 1947 comedy with James Stewart. Her most successful films critically arguably were Magnificent Obsession (1954) for which Jane was nominated for a best actress Oscar but lost out to Grace Kelly who won for The Country girl, the much praised film adaptation of Tennesse Williams play The Glass menagerie and undoubtedly best of all Johnny Belinda (1948) for which she won the best actress Oscar. The film was considered controversial at the time because it was about the horror of rape, something that the motion picture production code had previously banned and it is widely accepted that Johnny Belinda was the first film for which this rule was relaxed. Jane also had success on television many small or one off roles but she did host her own show for three years (1955-1958) Jane Wyman presents but her best known work on tv is playing tough , ruthless wealthy matriarch Angela Channing in US Primetime soap Falcon Crest gor 8 years. It was set amongst the wealthy vineyard owning families of California as opposed to the more popular Dallas and Dynasty set among super wealthy Oil owning families. I personally feel that hee character Angela Channing was the most nuanced least pantomine like of the villainous 'baddies' out of the 4 big US primetime soaps of the 1980s- Dallas, Dynasty, Knots Landing and Falcon Crest .JR Ewing, Alexis Colby and Abbey Ewing were all brilliant characters and I ain't shading 'panto villians' or pantomime and their entertainment value but Angela Channing felt the most real and layered of them all. No doubt Janes great acting abilities are part of the explanation for that. In her personal life she was Ronald Reagans first wife but he was her third husband. She previously married Ernest Wyman whose surname she kept professionally for the rest of her life, then after divorcing she married Myron Futterman. The marriage faltered after three months because she wanted children and he didn't. Third her marriage to Ronald Reagan which resulted in three children. Maureen who predeceased both her parents dying of cancer in 2001, Michael Reagan who they adopted (he now wirks in talk radio in the US as a sort of right wing political shock jock)and Christine Reagan who sadly died one day old in 1947 after being born prematurely. Finally she married Hollywood music director Frederick Karger in 1952 ,divorced after 2 years and remarried him in 1961 but called time on the marriage in 1965. Of her numerous failed marriages Jane said " I guess I just don't have a talent for it,some women just aren't the marrying kind- or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and Im one of them". By the time she died she had converted to catholicism and was a member of the Dominican order as a lay member and thus was buried in a nuns habit.

American actor Ryan Phillippe, star of movies such as Cruel Intentions(1999), Crimson Tide (1995) Gosforth Park (2001), Oscar winning film Crash (2004), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) and MacGruber (2010) to latter success in television with parts in shows like Big Sky and Damages- celebrates his 48th birthday today. British film director Guy Ritchie celebrates turning 54 today. He has directed films such as Lock, stock and two smoking barrels, Snatch and The man from U.N.C.L.E with Henry Cavill in the lead role.

British television presenter, journalist and newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky, who has over her career presented BBC Breakfast, BBC NEWS at 6, BBC Ten o'clock news, Five news on Channel 5 and Sky News, celebrates her 50th birthday today.

On this day in the year 2000 British actor Bill Waddington, best known for playing pompous and difficult pensioner Percy Sugden in legendary ITV soap Coronation Street, died aged 84.

Hee ex hubby's name??!!

I dare say this threads title will be changing soon.

Harry Belafonte.

In this instance I actually wish I had of been wrong. The Queen was nowhere near who I was thinking of for the next 'hit'. At least 15 other names other than the Queen before I would have even considered choosing her. Rest in peace and thank you.

Despite the news being ubiquitous somehow this doesn't feel real.

God save the Queen! I really hope this isn't the end

American actor Brad Davis died on this day in 1991 aged just 41. His first big break in acting was in an NBC television network soap opera called How to survive a marriage (1974) but he Spon progressed to film within less than two years. Undoubtedly his biggest hit was Midnight Express (1978) . A prison drama directed by Alan Parker in which he played the lead role of Billy Hayes.Bo Hopkins, Randy Quaid and John Hurt were part of the cast too. Davis won a Golden Globe award for new star of the year for his performance and received two BAFTA nominations for most promising newcomer and Beat actor in a leading role. Roles in Chariots of fire(1981), A small circle of friends (1980), Cold Steel (1987) alongside a then largely unknown Sharon Stone and the lead role in Larry Kramers pretty much autobiographical play The Normal heart. He married casting director Susan Bluestein in 1976 and they had one child together. Brad who was bisexual , was diagnosed with HIV in 1985 but largely due to the hysteria especially in the showbiz industry in Hollywood kept his diagnosis private until shortly before his death. His wife Susan revealed six years after his death that he committed suicide by drugs overdose.

American actor David Arquette celebrates his 51st birthday today.

I think we need to consider that Lizzie is having us all on and teasing us on the DeathList forum and is actually aiming for 105....

British journalist and broadcaster Anne Diamond celebrates her 68th birthday today. Her big leap to national fame and prominence happened in the 1980s when she presented on ITVs Breakfast show TV am.

https://people.com/parents/adam-levine-behati-prinsloo-expecting-third-baby/ Singer Adam Levine and his wife, model Behati Prinsloo are expecting their third child together.

Doesn't sound like I'm missing much then and I made the right decision to stop watching in 2019!

OhI stopped watching PMQs regularly at the peak of the brexit battles. It was just mentally draining and tedium on steroids. Gosh was she that bad today?

On this day in 2015, Dickie Moore , one of the last surviving actors to appear in silent film died aged 89. A very busy child star who appeared in the Our Gang film series of comedy shorts as well as numerous other films, many from the pre code era including Oliver Twist (1933), Sergeant York (1941) A Howard Hawks directed film with the title role played by Gary Cooper , The Star Witness(1931) along with Frances Starr and Walter Huston -patriarch of the famous Huston Hollywood Dynasty and grandfather of Angelica Huston , The Wolf Dog (1933) and The Great Mr Nobody (1941) top cast Eddie Albert and Joan Leslie. Dickie was married three times , his final wife being actress ,singer and former star of MGM musicals Jane Powell. They married in 1988 and stayed married until Dickie died in 2015. The longest marriage for both of them.

She still survives!! Disco Queen and American singer Gloria Gaynor celebrates her 75th birthday today.

On this day in 2015 Scottish footballer Ralph Milne died aged 54 from liver disease. He played for Dundee United, Manchester United and Charlton Athletic among other teams. Also played briefly for Scotlands national U21 team.

And Prince Harry! Not keen on either Meghan or Harry but his behaviour is pretty shocking and stupid too and probably as her grandson causes her more distress than Meghan. Let's not let Harry hide behind the wife taking all the blame for his crappy behaviour .