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Hinduja Telegraph Obit: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/05/17/sp-hinduja-billionaire-obituary-hinduism-millennium-dome/

Andy Smart (IMDB), formerly one half of the 1980s duo The Vicious Boys and long member of the Comedy Store Players, reportedly dead:

Japanese volleyball player Tadayoshi Yokota, part of the team that won silver at the 1968 Games and gold at the 1972 Games, reportedly dead aged 75: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2023/05/17/more-sports/volleyball/tadayoshi-yokota-obituary/

Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, to give him his full moniker. Article up. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34106225 A DDP team gets the motor running, head out on the highway.... His second wife and widow, Fiona, Lady Montagu (nee Herbert) has died: https://www.beaulieu.co.uk/news/fiona-lady-montagu/ His first wife died in December last year.

Lester Sterling of the Skatalites now reported dead so all gone:

If true, Stanley Appel for the List of the Missed as I picked him in 2020 @Death Impends: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_A.html#appel9s020

William Futral aka Bill Futral, owner of TheGuySite.com (big beefy blokes doing it baby) was reportedly murdered in Florida on May 1st: https://str8upgayporn.com/exclusive-william-futral-owner-of-gay-porn-studio-theguysite-com-murdered-in-florida/ An arrest warrant has been issued for Richard Lam (on the lam I guess) aka Ludvig a star of the site: https://str8upgayporn.com/the-guys-site-murder-gay-porn-ludvig-richard-lam/ Edit: Apparently they arrested Lam: https://www.fox13news.com/news/new-tampa-murder-suspect-stole-victims-car-fled-to-dade-county-where-he-was-arrested-police-say and charged him with Futral's murder.

That's a quacker!

John Dobson, long serving tenor at the Royal Opera, reportedly dead aged 92: I see we have shared the role of Dr Blind in Die Fledermaus. A thin connection I grant you, but for that he gets a RIP from me.

Cross posted. John Flood death report.

Former Southampton and Bournemouth winger John Flood reported dead aged 90: https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23522555.former-southampton-fc-winger-john-flood-died-aged-90/ Apparently up to then the oldest living Southampton player according to the report, but I couldn't find him mentioned on the Oldest Players thread, @Octopus of Odstock. Edit: Wait, I found it. The gap in the list is causing the search to miss the names.

John Giblin for the List of the Missed @Death Impends, picked last year. https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2022/celebs_G.html#giblinj021 https://www.katebushnews.com/2023/05/16/remembering-bassist-john-giblin/

Bassist John Giblin reportedly dead aged 71: https://www.katebushnews.com/2023/05/16/remembering-bassist-john-giblin/ It's some session line up of work as well, Babooshka by Kate Bush, Grow Old With Me By John Lennon etc etc - amazing list. RIP.

Robert Lucas, 1995 Economics Prize winner, reportedly dead aged 85: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-15/robert-lucas-economist-who-won-1995-nobel-prize-dies-at-85 A new approach to macroeconomics apparently.

Except the Reaper. Sends him a card for the holidays every year as well...

Me - charitable to Maggie? How very dare you! She wasn't anti-Irish anyway. It's much worse than that. She was anti-compassion, anti-humanity, anti-community but very much line your own pockets and those of your millionaire friends to the expense of the people - wait, am I describing Thatcher or the current bunch of bastards? (Answer is both, Thatcher was at least competent). I think what I was trying to say is that she would take a vote from an ally in a leadership contest and do anything to get it rather than lose that ally and vote by rejecting their suggestion. Didn't she get her arse kicked over the silencing of Gerry Adams? Anyhow, Brooke would, over her tenure, be a guaranteed vote for her policies - so hey, I'm not sorry he's dead.

Francis Monkman reportedly dead: https://www.loudersound.com/news/curved-air-and-sky-founder-francis-monkman-has-died-aged-73 Also the soundtrack for The Long Good Friday as I recall.

By that point, Thatcher would have agreed to anything, given her position was already slipping away. Honestly, I remember nothing of his tenure as NI Secretary, whereas I do remember Tom King and Patrick Mayhew. Suggests to me a nothing politician in a safe Tory seat. Apart from losing to Boothroyd, he's a totally meaningless politician to me.

Beaten by Betty Boothroyd for Speaker of the Commons. Now both beaten by the Reaper's scythe this very year.

Giuseppe Fallarini aka Pippo Fallarini, Italian cyclist and participant reportedly in 8 Giro d'Italia and 2 Tours de France, reportedly dead aged 89: https://www-lastampa-it.translate.goog/novara/2023/05/15/news/addio_a_pippo_fallarini_il_ciclismo_novarese_piange_il_gregario_di_coppi-12806634/?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Scottish film producer, writer and director Douglas Eadie, reportedly dead back in March: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/perth-kinross/4392499/douglas-eadie-film-pioneer/ and https://dct.myfamilyannouncements.co.uk/dundee/view/4904003/eadie Produced Aly Bain's America and was an associate producer on Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes. Birth and death dates available from the above sources in case someone wants to contact IMDB. Also responsible for this public information film, on which I'm sure Bill Paterson looks back fondly:

Report that Victor Gallucci, who played DC Tom Baker in 50+ episodes of The Bill, has died: Part actor in The Dirty Dozen, Carry On Henry and Return Of The Pink Panther. Edit: https://www.iwradio.co.uk/news/isle-of-wight-news/beloved-isle-of-wight-event-organiser-and-record-breaking-actor-vic-gallucci-dies-aged-81/ Died May 14.

News emerges that Brendan O'Brien, the original voice of Crash Bandicoot with other characters, died back in March: https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/15/original-crash-bandicoot-voice-actor-dies-aged-60-18783699/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639454/ Woah!

British born child actor turned screenwriter Paul Playdon has reportedly died aged 80: https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2023/05/13/paul-playdon-spyfi-writer-dies/ After appearing in such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents with Jessica Tandy, he went on to write for TV on such as Mission Impossible, Cannon and Hawaii Five-O. To my generation though, he will be known as the guy who developed the motorcycle cop show CHiPs for TV.

Report that John Brown aka John F Brown puppet sculptor on Thunderbirds and special effects for films such as Jabberwocky, Willow and Indiana Jones and his wife Wanda Webb, puppet operator on Thunderbirds, Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet, have both died earlier this year: