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Has Kate Granger's death been announced on here? https://uk.news.yahoo.com/kate-granger-cancer-dies-172838248.html Can't see it if it has.

Yes. He's dead.

John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, reported dead by the company: https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/news/latest-news/2022/14-01-2022-lord-sainsbury-of-preston-candover

Surprised Boris managed to fit in so many holidays in between parties.

Report of the death of drummer with The Ohio Players Gregory "Greg" Webster: His period with the band did not cover their sole UK hit, Who'd She Coo? as the drummer by then was James "Diamond" Williams.

Folk seem to have forgotten that he put the Queen in a horrible position over the dissolution of Parliament back in late 2019. So the parties that he denied ever having happened at Number 10 on the eve of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral is another slap in the face for the Palace. Never mind the repeated kicking he gave the British public. If he's not gone soon, poll numbers for his party will plummet.

Vague reports that Marc Wilkinson is dead. Former composer and musical director with the RSC and the National Theatre, he moved into film and TV, scoring The Blood On Satan's Claw, If... and The Royal Hunt Of The Sun. https://www.britmovie.co.uk/forum/cinema/obituaries/104572-marc-wilkinson-1929-2022-rip IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0929443/

Toshiki Kaifu reportedly died on the 9th January:

Roberta Flack recovering from COVID: https://www.soultracks.com/story-roberta-flack-covid But maybe it is just killing her softly...

Returns military affiliations and Royal patronages to the Queen. (BBC News Channel Live).

Roy Slater, co-founder of estate agents Slater Hogg and Howison, dead aged 76: https://news.stv.tv/west-central/tributes-to-estate-agent-who-became-scotlands-youngest-councillor

If this doesn't start soon, half of them will be dead! Only joking....bit of a massacre going on though...

Hope you are already writing DDP obits. Probably 1-2 a day so far in January.

Jana Bennett reportedly:

Look I'm in the middle of tidying and I changed that within 2-3 minutes. I say always try and give someone 5 mins reading checking and amending time.

Rosa Lee Hawkins of the Dixie Cups, reportedly dead: https://www.offbeat.com/news/original-dixie-cups-singer-rosa-hawkins-dies-at-age-76/ Says she was 76, however they later give her date of birth as 1944, which ties in with the Singles Thread, so she was probably 77. @Ulitzer95

Phil Samis being reported dead:

Scottish actress Janet Michael, better known in Perth and Pitlochry as a stage actress, but a few TV roles, died back in October 2021. She had previously essentially been pronounced dead a couple of times before as detailed in the Obituary, but lived to see 84: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19841958.obituary-janet-michael-actress-everything-shakespeare-musicals-panto-pinter/ Full birth and death dates for IMDB @Ulitzer95 I see Patricia Driscoll's entry there has been updated for her death.

Francis Jackson QO if needed: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/01/12/francis-jackson-organist-composer-doyen-cathedral-music-spent/ If not, List of the Missed. (Usual January caveat!)

Francis Jackson reportedly dead: Picked hither and thither.

If you still haven't found what you're looking for for Bob Falkenburg: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10388613/Bob-Falkenburg-tennis-star-gave-Brazil-fast-food-dies.html

Well, his successor Sir Nigel Forbes Adam, 5th Baronet gets just under three years service in the Baronetcy: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/254633/forbes-adam Son Charles (b. 1957) succeeds.

Strike out Eddie Basinski: https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2022/01/eddie-basinski-former-portland-beavers-second-baseman-dies-at-99.html Never made it to 100.

R Dead Taylor: https://www.soultracks.com/story-r-dean-taylor-dies

Incredible, isn't it? Disused for nearly 9 years - believe me, I know how that feels!