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Eighteen in a row! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48666249

Gloria Vanderbilt gives me my eighteenth hit on this pool. BBC Obit should be a formality?

Gloria Vanderbilt gives me a fourth hit on this pool: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-gloria-vanderbilt-dead-aged-16531540

Will her hearse be a stretch limo?

And the Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7150271/BREAKING-NEW-Gloria-Vanderbilt-dies-age-95.html

Beaten to it! Apparently on CNN, Anderson Cooper paying tribute. Anyway, awaiting any kind of obit to update my lists.

Rolf outlives his youngest victim, Wendy Wild: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rolf-harris-youngest-victim-wendy-16530755

Damaris shares her birthday with another of my Hare's Pool picks, Michael Kilgarriff, who is 82, and of course the Doctor's granddaughter Susan, Carole Ann Ford, who is 79.

Revered Hungarian gymnast, Erzsebet Koteles, who won three team silver medals at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics, as well as team gold for portable apparatus in 1956 and a bronze for the same event in 1952, dead at 95: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=hu&u=https://www.origo.hu/sport/egyeni/20190616-torna-reviczkyne-koteles-erzsebet-meghalt-95-eves-olimpiai-bajnok.html&prev=search

I haven't seen it. My team's been ready since June 1st, and I ditched Zeffirelli purposefully as I thought either he'll die just before the start (correct) or he won't and last until after the start of ABC IV.

Couple of queries on your team @JiroemonKimura, once answered I can get to work!

Here's a list of UK MPs born 1943 still living: Andrew Hunter, 76 (8 Jan 1943), Conservative (Basingstoke 1983-2005) Margaret Beckett, 76 (15 Jan 1943) Labour (Lincoln 1974-79, Derby South since 1983) Anna McCurley 76 (18 Jan 1943), Conservative (Renfrew West and Inverclyde 1983-87) Peter Atkinson, 76 (19 Jan 1943), Conservative (Hexham 1992-2010) Richard Tracey, 76 (8 Feb 1943), Conservative (Surbiton 1983-97) Win Griffiths, 76 (11 Feb 1943), Labour (Bridgend 1987-2005) Tom McNally, 76 (20 Feb 1943), Labour then Social Democratic (Stockport South 1979-83) John Watson, 76 (21 Feb 1943), Conservative (Skipton 1979-83, Skipton and Ripon 1983-87) Malcolm Moss, 76 (6 Mar 1943), Conservative (North East Cambridgeshire 1987-2010) John Major, 76 (29 Mar 1943), Conservative (Huntingdonshire 1979-83, Huntingdon 1983-2001) Dafydd Wigley, 76 (1 Apr 1943), Plaid Cymru (Caernarfon 1974-2001) John Sever, 76 (1 Apr 1943), Labour (Birmingham Ladywood 1977-1983) Mike Woodcock, 76 (10 Apr 1943), Conservative (Ellesmere Port and Neston 1983-92) Alan Beith, 76 (20 Apr 1943), Liberal then Liberal Democrat (Berwick upon Tweed 1973-2015) Gwyn Prosser, 76 (27 Apr 1943), Labour (Dover 1997-2010) Mark Lennox-Boyd, 76 (4 May 1943), Conservative (Morecambe and Lonsdale 1979-83, Morecambe and Lunesdale 1983-97) Vince Cable, 76 (9 May 1943) Liberal Democrat (Twickenham 1997-2015; since 2017) Michael Clapham, 76 (15 May 1943) Labour (Barnsley West and Penistone 1992-2010) Geoff Edge, 76 (26 May 1943), Labour (Aldridge Brownhills 1974-79) David Clelland, 75 (27 June 1943), Labour (Tyne Bridge 195-2010) Alastair Goodlad, 75 (4 July 1943), Conservative (Northwich 1974-83, Eddisbury 1983-1999) Gavin Strang, 75 (10 July 1943) Labour (Edinburgh East 1970-2010) Tony Colman, 75 (23 July 1943), Labour (Putney 1997-2005) Keith Hill, 75 (28 July 1943) Labour (Streatham 1992-2010) Ronnie Campbell, 75 (14 Aug 1943), Labour, (Blyth Valley since 1987) Keith Hampson, 75 (14 Aug 1943), Conservative (Ripon 1974-83, Leeds North West 1983-97) Roger Gale, 75 (20 Aug 1943), Conservative (North Thanet since 1983) Alun Michael, 75 (22 Aug 1943), Labour (Cardiff South and Penarth 1987-2012) Peter Lilley, 75 (23 Aug 1943), Conservative (St Albans 1983-97, Hitchin and Harpenden 1997-2017) Dale Campbell-Savours, 75 (23 Aug 1943), Labour (Workington 1979-2001) Gordon Birtwistle, 75 (6 Sep 1943), Liberal Democrat (Burnley 2010-15) David Wilshire, 75 (16 Sep 1943), Conservative (Spelthorne 1987-2010) Richard Caborn, 75 (6 Oct 1943), Labour (Sheffield Central 1983-2010) Roger King, 75 (26 Oct 1943), Conservative (Birmingham Northfield 1983-92) Tommy McAvoy, 75 (14 Dec 1943), Labour (Glasgow Rutherglen 1987-2005, Rutherglen and Hamilton West 2005-10) Joan Ruddock, 75 (28 Dec 1943), Labour (Lewisham Deptford 1987-2015)

Here's a list of the still living UK MPs born 1931: Ronnie Fearn, 88 (6 Feb 1931), Liberal Democrat (Southport 1987-92, 1997-2001) Norman Tebbit, 88 (29 Mar 1931), Conservative (Epping 1970-74, Chingford 1974-92) John Sutcliffe, 88 (30 Apr 1931), Conservative (Middlesbrough West 1970-74) Michael Brotherton, 88 (26 May 1931), Conservative (Louth 1974-83) Martin Smith, 87 (15 June 1931), Ulster Unionist Party (1982-2005) John Wakeham, 87 (22 June 1931), Conservative (Maldon 1974-83, South Colchester and Maldon 1983-92) Tom Mitchell, 87 (29 July 1931), Sinn Fein (Mid Ulster 1955) Shirley Summerskill, 87 (9 Sep 1931) Labour (Halifax 1964-83) John Morris, 87 (5 Nov 1931), Labour (Aberavon 1959-2001)

Things are taking shape and there's a remarkable amount of consensus about certain picks. So far, myself, BiblioG, msc and theoldlady have had teams verified and submitted. @YorkshireBanker, check your inbox please and update your team so that can be done before the end of the month. I'm a bit busy with the house at the moment, so sometimes I'll be off for ages at a time, but checking every day.

I won't be making any changes as usual gcreptile. I'm just that kind of a guy.

Zeffirelli means the Committee choke on a miss and I draw level! YW - 4; DL - 4.

Zeffirelli's death brings me up to two!

I'm not alone, but Zeffirelli is a hit for me here, just like Joseph Jackson in the dying days of last year's competition! https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/jun/15/franco-zeffirelli-revered-italian-director-dies-aged-96 Wonder if this is running again starting July?

And the pool claiming begins... Adieu and RIP.

Book you are flying! Next Round: 1920 - Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead/Clarissa Eden 1921 - George "Jonny" Johnson/Nexhmije Hoxha 1922 - Norman Lear/Lucia Hiriart Pinochet 1923 - Bob Barker/Baroness Jill Knight 1924 - Robert Solow/Cicely Tyson 1925 - Sydney Samuelson/Angela Lansbury 1926 - Johnny Beattie/Doreen Mantle 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI/Margaret Stuart Barry 1928 - Richard M Sherman/Sally Oppenheim-Barnes 1929 - Bob Newhart/Thelma Barlow Hits: Harry Leslie Smith Stanley Donen

Looks like she's just seen the news that the Tories are polling fourth currently.

Kinda missed this story. About a month ago Waite and McCarthy were back on Lebanese soil: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/11/former-hostages-terry-waite-john-mccarthy-lebanese-soil-together/

Remember Pauline Cafferkey? Has twins and "a life after Ebola": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-48635678

Obituary of Rothwell Kentish, one of the Mangrove 9 along with amongst others Darcus Howe: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/14/roddy-kentish-obituary

See my post - sad last days.... I just pick up da news and pass it on.