YoungWillz

Pele takes me to 14 hits here I believe.

Pele is a hit for me here please.

Pele is another faller here @machotrouts.

For an alleged AP report, no news reports?

Edgar Savisaar is a DDP pick for this year.

Tony Vaccaro being reported dead:

Will now be free to attend a funeral...

I've prepared my entry @Book, but I'll wait until sometime tomorrow to submit via PM. Just in case the night brings some surprises... I've thrown in some curve ball names not mentioned very much.

Deborah Inglefield (nee Hurlbatt), mother of Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, reportedly dead aged 84: https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2022/12/deborah-inglefield-nee-hurlbatt-1938.html

Entry submitted by PM, @gcreptile so hopefully now entered for 2023.

Death Notice for Tom Stacey, a contemporary of Douglas Hurd at Eton and journalist mainly with The Daily Express, The Sunday Times and The Evening Standard, aged 92: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/261449/stacey Stood twice for the Conservatives for Parliament, defeated both times.

Report that Dick Flavin, poet laureate of the Boston Red Sox, the bard of Fenway, has died:

Responsible for murdering 1000s of tunes?

Nope. Her Maj at least had the decency to change her hat once in a while....

Death Notice for Vice Admiral Sir Robert Gerken, aged 90: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/261394/gerken

Here be my team. They were all celebrities on the original run of Celebrity Squares (UK) in a bold attempt to bonus up, so my team will be called The OXO Family 1. Rolf Harris 2. Pete Murray 3. Michael Craig (Actor) 4. Cleo Laine 5. Bill Tidy 6. Frank Ifield 7. Graeme Garden 8. Denis Law 9. Brian Murphy 10. Nanette Newman Subs: A. Libby Morris B. Jim Dale

Dave Bolen, US athlete who competed in 1948 in the 400m, reportedly dead aged 98: https://www.cpr.org/2022/12/26/dave-bolen-first-olympian-from-the-university-of-colorado-and-decorated-ambassador-dies/

Another Peter Bowles' connected death - he was in an episode of Only When I Laugh. Fenning from Citizen Smith is where I best know him from. RIP.

@Salmon Mousse pick for the DDP, most successful female Kathy Whitworth reportedly dead: https://www.golfchannel.com/news/kathy-whitworth-winningest-player-lpga-and-pga-tours-dies-83 Edit: Sky Sports QO: https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/12176/12774408/kathy-whitworth-lpga-record-breaker-dies-aged-83

Archer Maclean, game programmer who authored Dropzone for the Atari 8 bit and the various Jimmy White labelled snooker games of the 1990s, reportedly dead:

Maxi Jazz, sometime lead vocalist with Faithless, being reported dead:

Off to the local tonight for karaoke. Wombling Merry Christmas it is.

Death Notice for Felicity Langley (nee Oliphant), widow of Major General Sir Desmond Langley who died in 2008: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/261369/langley

Death Notice for Graham Oakley, children's author and illustrator best known for the Church Mice series of books, aged 93: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/261372/oakley