YoungWillz

And they did: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3530502/If-s-time-say-great-life-Reality-star-turned-Essence-editor-Daisy-Lewellyn-dies-age-36-battling-rare-bowel-cancer.html

Cool beans, I understand now. *hurries off to amend my personal records*

Good work Dead Cow. Now do we count the extra day in February? Because as I understand it I have 19 points for Yasutaro Koide (19 Jan) and 98 points for Blackjack Mulligan (7 April - 31+29+31+7=98) which gives 117. I could be wrong...I dunno.

Bless you!

Reportedly dead: https://www.instagram.com/p/BD8Zy-3S4zi/ Usual riders, but if you can't believe Rihanna's stylist, who can you believe?

DDP pick Mohamed Abrini arrested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36000407

Devon Murray loses court case against his agent to the tune of £210,000. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35997270/harry-potter-star-devon-murray-loses-court-case It might be due, but I feel for the cheeky Irish scamp, possibly one of my favourite (if underwritten, damn you Rowling!) characters. Hoping the publicity will get his career going. I mean, look at those ears!

Chap here tweets that his uncle in law, Terence Conoley has died aged 96. https://twitter.com/MartinSLewis/status/718419627123032065 Probably best known as Peter Cartwright (Reggie's neighbour and train companion) in The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin and a couple of iconic episodes of Fawlty Towers, but loads of other bit parts too.

Belgian Davis Cup coach who also coached GB players Julien Hoferlin dies at 49. http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-sport-tennis-hoferlin-idUKKCN0X50VT Unique DDP hit. Yet another of DDT's Shaun's Death By Numbers squad, when there's a QO for that pool.

My view on this (from a part of the UK that HS2 will never reach in my lifetime) is quite clear. The Government says this will be part of an infrastructure which will create a "Northern Powerhouse", the other part being a devolution of powers to the cities of the North (in this case the North of the UK stops at the border with England). This is quite the most unbelievable shite (I don't use that term often) I have ever heard. 1. Devolving powers just means a smaller state and those lovely politicians at Westminster, who have just given themselves a handsome payrise, will be doing much less for their money. Meanwhile, the local authorities who have been struggling by will find themselves constricted by yet more responsibility and ever tighter budgets. 2. Having a speedy rail link isn't about getting products and people from the North to the South, it's about getting surpluses and surfeits from the already wealthy South out to what they view as the desolate North in addition to the trade and services they already have within the South and out to Europe. As I understand it, the opposition however isn't actually based on either of the above - it's about something cutting through the green and pleasant land of Tory heartlands - so the opposition politically is about wealthy politicians saving their own jobs. It's the same sorry attitude that Donald Trump has to windfarms near his golf course that the populations of these areas have - my view and my way of life will be destroyed in the name of progress and contributing to saving the planet, and that just won't do. It's elitism and wealth and small mindedness that many decry Trump for that they place at the heart of their local politics, imo. Sorry, just come back from watching Question Time - Anna Soubry just makes me irate, so thanks for giving a topic for me to let off steam.

More Hastert revelations - due to be sentenced at the end of the month (assuming the Earth hasn't been charred into space coal by then): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3528306/Disgraced-ex-House-Speaker-Dennis-Hastert-accused-sexual-abuse-FOUR-boys-including-one-paid-1-7million-hush-money.html

The Pete Best of The Chordettes, Dorothy Schwartz, original member who left just prior to The Chordettes having their big time success, has died. http://www.sheboyganpress.com/story/news/2016/04/06/dorothy-schwartz-member-chordettes-passes-away/82708144/

Robert J Windham, aka Blackjack Mulligan, has died. http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=677&p=261006 One of mine. Second hit here. Edit: Other teams may have him too, I should add.

Blackjack Mulligan dies: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2016/0407/609534/wwe-hall-of-famer-blackjack-mulligan-passes-away/ Sad news balanced with second hit on Hare's Dead Pool. RIP to one of the greats.

*runs round in circles, flapping hands*

Ernst Tremmel dies before the start of his trial: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/auschwitz-guard-dies-days-opening-trial-38219858 Edit: gcreptile has mentioned Helma M before and she is mentioned in this Daily Mail article, so I'll add her in. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3528457/Former-Auschwitz-guard-dies-just-days-going-trial-Germany.html. Actually named here as Helma Kisser: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_allemagne-deux-ex-gardiens-d-auschwitz-juges-71-ans-apres-la-guerre%3Fid%3D9208707&prev=search List above updated.

Toby often seems to be first with these things. Do you think he secretly lurks here? Not really imo. He's so well connected to the Who crowd by virtue of his interviews and press connections I think, he's likely to be notified fairly swiftly (although I think we reported Reg Whitehead's death before him - he was probably off on his travels/gigging).

Toby Hadoke reports the death of Alan Tucker at 79 who played Latep in the Doctor Who story Planet Of The Daleks: https://twitter.com/TobyHadoke/status/718032660698779648 Also had roles in UFO and Softly Softly and the mid-1960s mini series The Wars Of The Roses as Prince Edward.

Phil Sly has died: https://www.racing.com/news/2016-04-07/phil-sly-loses-battle-with-cancer 34th on Captain Chorizo's Shaun's Death By Numbers squad, so awaiting a qo.

Death Notice for Leonard Ratcliff, last wing commander of RAF 161 Squadron: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/201458/ratcliff The Daily Mirror ran this story on him in 2010: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/last-surviving-member-of-raf-161-261388 He might get a qo...but alas he's not picked.

Report of the death of Leon Haywood at 74: http://www.soultracks.com/story-leon-haywood-dies His biggest and possibly only UK hit came in 1980 (yes, it's another miss for my DDP team) Don't Push It, Don't Force It:

Huzzah, Telegraph Obit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/04/06/lord-brooks-of-tremorfa---obituary/

Haggard's BBC Obit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35981077

Teenager in Love showcased Dion more than the other musicians. Dion is the last of the headliners from the ill-fated Winter Dance Party of 1959 left alive. Although he seems to be in good health at the moment and will be performing on the same bill as Ronnie Spector this coming weekend. For the uninitiated: The Winter dance party of 1959 was a gruelling 24-day tour around the Midwest by a bunch of artists. The crash of Holly, Valence and the Big Bopper happened after the 11th day of the tour, know today as the day the music died. All those who played there are dead, including the music apparently, apart from Dion. The dead; - Buddy Holly - Richie Valence - the Big Bopper - The Music Musicians who played and are no longer there; - Waylon Jennings (crickets) - Carl Bunch (Crickets) - Frankie Sardo EDIT: Jennings and Bunch were not in the Crickets, they were recruited to be Holly 's backing. Furthermore backing musician Tommy Allsup is still alive, the one who cheated death by losing a coin toss with Valence. As far as I know Angelo D'Aleo of The Belmonts is still alive. Although he was in the navy, I understand he did do the Winter Dance Tour. In fact I heard an interview he did back in February 2016 recalling it, specifically the day Holly asked Dion about the plane journey.

Dion DiMucci has announced the death of Carlo Mastrangelo, bass singer of The Belmonts at the age of 77. https://www.facebook.com/OfficialDion/photos/a.281029604934.176015.34360494934/10154059089374935/?type=3&theater Although their biggest UK hit appears to be Teenager In Love, I'm linking I Wonder Why which shows him off better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPEfdjvTqE Another one from OoO's Farewell List: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8379&p=202909