YoungWillz

Former civil servant best known for leaking the documents relating to the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands Conflict, Clive Ponting has died and goes straight to Times Obit: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/clive-ponting-obituary-6d6lq5nzv (Paywall)

Well done @An Fear Beag, my congratulations from the guy that gave you your hardest game. That's probably not true, but hell, it's always good to go out to the victor.

I'll give him the freedom of Kayleigh, my young 20 yo nubile neighbour, if it finishes him off and we never have to hear of this again!

Alan Parker - everybody loves that man, he's not going to live forever, wonder if he learned how to fly? Utterly shocking - thought we had 10 more years with him at least. Thank you for Bugsy Malone and Fame.

Slightly disappointed that for some reason I don't know The Thompson Twins when I was clearly knocking it out on the karaoke only 10 days ago! Yeah, there's some crap on there I'm clearly proud of never having heard.

Captain of Cameroon at the 1990 and 1994 WC finals, Stephen Tataw reportedly dead:

No, the monthly draw is just a points award, like you would have if you had a sub hit. I didn't want anyone playing their card as they might end up with two cards the same. And that would never do. Also, I'll add a welcome to the leaderboard to CalebH, Great Uncle Bulgaria and Guy From Future - everybody's on the board!

I should probably remind folk that the draw is the same as for subs. 14 for an A, 13 for a K; 12 for a Q, 11 for a J, then 10-2 value of card.

MD - Monthly Draw J - July [x] - Card allocated. So you have chanced upon a 2, 2 Points added. You're 25th out of 26 teams, so your card will always be the penultimate one if that helps for future draws! Unlucky this time, but there's still 5 to go!

Dead So Far: Georg Ratzinger - 1 July Everton Weekes - 1 July Earl Cameron - 3 July Nick Cordero - 5 July Ennio Morricone - 6 July Mark Naley - 6 July - No Obit Johnny Beattie - 9 July Paik Sun-yup - 10 July Judy Dyble - 12 July Zizi Jeanmaire - 17 July John Lewis - 17 July Lone Dybkjaer - 20 July - No Obit Stuart Wheeler - 23 July David Hagen - 24 July John Saxon - 25 July Olivia de Havilland - 25 July Lee Teng-hui - 30 July Sydney Lotterby - 30 July Wilford Brimley - 1 August Bob Ryland - 2 August - No Obit John Hume - 3 August Sumner Redstone - 11 August Hal Singer - 18 August - No Obit Frankie Banali - 20 August "Bullet" Bob Armstrong - 27 August Joey Russ: 947 Points (Ratzinger; Cordero; Dyble; Jn Lewis; Wheeler; Hagen; Teng-hui; Banali; Armstrong) (MD: J [2]) Cards Played: Death Impends: 820 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Wheeler; Hagen; Teng-hui; Redstone; Banali; Armstrong) (Sub: de Havilland [2 Hearts]) (MD: J [8]) Cards Played: Sean: 766 Points (Cordero; Jn Lewis; Wheeler; Teng-hui; Brimley; Hume; Banali) (Sub: Weekes [Q Spades]) (MD: J [4]) Cards Played: Captain Chorizo: 656 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Hagen; Teng-hui; Banali; Armstrong)(MD: J [6]) Cards Played: msc: 635 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Wheeler; Hagen; Banali; Armstrong) (Sub: Cordero [Q Spades]) (MD: J [K]) Cards Played: The Quim Reaper: 554 Points (de Havilland; Teng-hui; Hume; Redstone; Banali) (MD: J [4]) Cards Played: Banana: 531 Points (Jn Lewis; Hagen; de Havilland; Teng-hui; Banali) (Sub: Cordero [J Clubs]) (MD: J [10]) Cards Played: Clorox Bleachman: 524 Points (Ratzinger; Cordero; Jn Lewis; Banali; Armstrong) (MD: J [A]) Cards Played: The Old Crem: 522 Points (Cordero; Lewis; de Havilland; Hume; Redstone) MD: J [Q]) Cards Played: An Fear Beag: 516 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Teng-hui; Redstone; Banali) (Sub: Cordero [5 Diamonds]) (MD: J [J]) Cards Played: Grim Up North: 516 Points (Cordero; Jn Lewis; Hagen; Banali; Armstrong) (Sub: de Havilland [9 Clubs]) (MD: J [2]) Cards Played: Perhaps: 502 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Teng-hui; Redstone; Banali) (MD: J [2]) Cards Played: Yorkshire Banker: 476 Points (Weekes; Beattie; Teng-hui; Banali) (Sub: Cameron [Q Diamonds]) (MD: J (9)] Cards Played: gcreptile: 435 Points (Ratzinger; Hagen; Banali; Armstrong) (Sub: Cordero [A Diamonds]) (MD: J[J]) Cards Played: theoldlady: 360 Points (Cameron; Jn Lewis; Banali) (MD: J [5]) Cards Played: YoungWillz: 313 Points (Morricone; Jn Lewis; Redstone) (MD: J [K]) Cards Played: Bibliogryphon: 269 Points (Weekes; Jeanmaire) (MD: J (A)] Cards Played: JoeMoneypenny: 204 Points (Weekes; Sun-yup) (MD: J [4]) Cards Played: markb4: 119 Points (Jn Lewis) (Sub: de Havilland [6 Diamonds]) (MD: J [8]) Cards Played: Toast: 113 Points (Lotterby) (MD: J [K]) Cards Played: DeathByArsenic: 110 Points (Jeanmaire) (MD: J [10]) Cards Played: Miracle Aligner: 107 Points (de Havilland) (MD: J [7]) Cards Played: CalebH: 12 Points (MD: J [Q]) Great Uncle Bulgaria: 8 Points (MD: J [8]) Gooseberry Crumble: 7 Points (Sub: Saxon [4 Clubs]) (MD: J [3]) Guy From Future: 4 Points (MD: J [4])

Card Roulette Monthly Draw. The cards have been drawn - 26 Teams so 26 cards from Random.org. An updated leaderboard will follow shortly.

Another Republican turns from red to blue....

Karl Butler dead with a QO: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-53593023

At Last The Toast Show! Yes, Toast only needed one Sydney Lotterby to die and she joins the well populated leaderboard with a unique hit. Leaderboard updated. Tomorrow I shall be making the first monthly Card Roulette draw, when we shall have everyone playing. Do not despair, there's ages to go yet!

Sydney Lotterby QO: https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/30/porridge-open-hours-producer-sydney-lotterby-dies-aged-93-13060299/

While we wait for Sydney Lotterby's QO, some old Taiwanese politician was a hit for...several. Bonuses: Banana makes a pair of 5s - 10 Additional Points. Death Impends makes a pair of 10s - 10 Additional Points. Yet another hit for Joey Russ, who maintains an astonishing lead, but the big beasts of the Poker Tourney Death Impends and Captain Chorizo are nestled in the bushes in the podium places, ready to spring. Leaderboard updated.

Lee Teng-hui QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-8576383/Taiwans-Mr-Democracy-Lee-Teng-hui-dies-aged-97-Taipei.html

Sydney Lotterby Memorial Round Up #14 Sydney Lotterby: https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/30/porridge-open-hours-producer-sydney-lotterby-dies-aged-93-13060299/ Lee Teng-hui: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-8576383/Taiwans-Mr-Democracy-Lee-Teng-hui-dies-aged-97-Taipei.html Karl Butler: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-53593023 Wilford Brimley: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/breaking-wilford-brimley-dead-cocoon-22456510 John Hume: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-44753271 Brett Sinclair: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8583519/Corrie-star-Sherrie-Hewson-believes-brother-Brett-coronavirus-died-brain-tumour.html Hamza Laden [sic]: Died between 2017-2019. Bobby Lewis: Died April 2020 with no QO. [Bio not updated] Albert Memmi: Died May 2020 with no QO. [Bio not updated] Phil Philips: Died March 2020 with no QO. [Bio not updated] Mark Rocco: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/12277900/mark-rollerball-rocco-dead-wwe-tribute-black-tiger-njpw/ Freddie Sowrey: Died 2019. Tun Tin: Died May 2020 with no QO. [Bio not updated] Oliver E Williamson: Died May 2020 with no QO. [Bio not updated] Alf Wood: Died April 2020 with no QO. [Bio not updated] Tom Belso: Died January 2020 with no QO. [Bio not updated] Anthony Epstein & Michael A Epstein: Same Person? Tom Christie: Died 2017. Brent Scowcroft: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-8604715/Former-U-S-national-security-adviser-Scowcroft-dead-95.html Tran Ngoc Chau: Died June 2020 with no QO. James Harris (Kamala): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53720494 Terence Matthews: Died in 2019. Mike Tindall: Awaiting Obit. Sumner Redstone: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53754254 Helen Yate: Awaiting Obit.

Lee Teng-hui Death Part 17: https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202007300016 Real or no this time?

Bent Fabric Daily Mail QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-8575855/Bent-Fabric-Danish-Grammy-winning-composer-dies-95.html

Sydney Lotterby is definitely dead - Lizo Mzimba is all over this on Twitter.

Well, there comes 80 Brigit Forsyth. Probably the three remaining are fringing the radar now...

Lee Teng -hui update: Wiki already has him dead at the moment.

Gonzalez. Gordon Hunte seems to have been born in Guyana and is now resident in New South Wales, Australia with his band Mid Nyt Sun. Think that's me, I've shopping to do.

Glitter Band. Any of the entries for Tony Leonard give a clue, like maybe he was Tony Leonard Woolnough? I can find pictures and interviews a-plenty but seemed a quiet sort of chap and nothing coming up. Goldie. Bit more promising. Tom Knowles seems to have been kicked out of the band right after their TOTP performance - because they needed him to play on TV! Naughty. Can't find anything on him really. Pete McDonald gives an interview here: https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/70s/78/1978-06-03.pdf Was briefly in the Spiders From Mars. The interview from June 1978 says McDonald "claims to be 27" which might indicate some doubt on the part of the interviewer, but if that is so, puts his dob c. 1950/51.