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    James Bond 007 (Connery/Moore/Villains etc)

    Pierce Brosnan, the hunting knife and airport security: http://www.pep.ph/news/55581/pierce-brosnan-stopped-at-airport-with-knife
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    Foreign Personalities, From Stage, Screen, Politics And Life

    Just bringing the master list of famous foriegn actors and actresses forward because I hadn't updated it for a while. I have also (finally!) integrated a lot (but not yet all) of the surviving members of Predictor's October 2013 list into the master one. UPDATE: I have now also integrated CaptainChorizo's list of directors. Nice work. But Vera Gebuhr died in December 2014. Also, Guje Lagerwall was born in 1918, not 1920. She's not likely to get even a local obit, though. She wasn't that much of a star to begin with, and is never mentioned in the media. Her death will probably be noticed solely through her absence in the population database for living Swedes. (I checked a few minutes ago, she's very much alive as of today). Ellen Vogel dead at 93. http://www.volkskrant.nl/media/actrice-ellen-vogel-93-overleden~a4114162/ (Dutch link, google translate has issues with cookie pop ups).
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    The Fringes Of Fame/family Of The Famous

    Aldo Nardini, father of actress Daniela Nardini, 85. http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/aldo-nardini-scots-ice-cream-king-dies-at-85-1-3849844 Family are famous in Scotland for their ice-cream dynasty.
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    Gangster, Gangster

    (Giovanni) John M Riggi, New Jersey mobster supposedly the inspiration for The Sopranos, dead at 90. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/john_riggi_the_jersey_mob_boss_who_inspired_the_so.html
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    The Fringes Of Fame/family Of The Famous

    Gene Reeves, the lawyer representing Larry Flynt on pornography charges and who was shot in the same incident that left Flynt paralysed, has died at 85. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3185469/Georgia-lawyer-shot-Hustler-publisher-1978-dies.html
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    The Fringes Of Fame/family Of The Famous

    Bobby Vee's wife Karen Velline has died at 71 from kidney failure. http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2015/08/04/karen-velline-bobby-vees-wife-dies/31132769/ Bobby Vee as we know is suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.
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    Derby Dead Pool 2015

    New Roundup: Ivan Moravec: http://www.deathlist...c=7118&p=232563 (Carried Over) Telegraph Obit: http://www.telegraph..._medium=twitter Ruth Newman: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=145&p=233200 Awaiting Obit. George Cole: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1336&p=233400 (Obit in link) Louise Suggs: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5754&p=233658 BBC Obit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/33831286 James Varda: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8431&p=233668 Awaiting Obit. Nour El-Sherif: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7873&p=233955 Daily Mail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3194018/Famed-Egyptian-actor-Nour-el-Sherif-dies-illness-69.html
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    Derby Dead Pool 2015

    Ivan Moravec missed off the latest update. I'll include him again in the next roundup.
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    Academic Footnotes

    Robert Conquest, Anglo-American historian, 98. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11782719/Robert-Conquest-historian-obituary.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter 2 DDP conquests.
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    Rag Traders

    Arnold Scaasi, dress designer to at least five US First Ladies and a multitude of stars including Barbra Streisand, 85, cardiac arrest. http://wwd.com/fashion-news/designer-luxury/arnold-scaasi-dies-at-10196546/
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    Horse Racing

    Former trainer Lord John Fitzgerald, 63, cancer. http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/former-trainer-lord-john-fitzgerald-dies-aged-63/1928670/#newsArchiveTabs=last7DaysNews Trainer of Sizzling Melody and responsible for setting up the Emirates Racing Association in Dubai.
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    Dambusters

    Les Munro has died. He was 96. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/70818274/les-munro-last-surviving-dam-buster-dies.html All pilots gone. Dam!
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    Hollywood Possibilities

    Former DDP entrant Coleen Gray has died at 92, according to author Tom Weaver. http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/60156/Coleen-Gray?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#.VcAT6UPbLre Couldn't find a film noir thread, so put it here. Was in Kubrick's The Killing, though Listers will probably know more about her. Edit: If you scroll down, David Schecter's post makes reference to 97 year old Marsha Hunt visiting Coleen. Marsha's still going and is on the DDP this year!
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    Dance

    Roland Dupree, former child actor and dancer, founder of the Roland Dupree Dance Academy, 89. http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/roland-dupree-dies-age-89 Probably most famous for being the live action model for Disney's Peter Pan.
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    Political Frailty

    US politician Richard Schweiker, 89. http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20150804_For_senator__cabinet_secretary__Richard_Schweiker_dies.html A unique on the DDP, he was a former running mate of Ronnie Reagan and subsequently Health Secretary. Edit: His wife died back in April. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/claire-j-schweiker-romper-room-hostess-wife-of-us-politician/2013/05/21/8c661670-c18b-11e2-bfdb-3886a561c1ff_story.html Edit 2: Qualifying Obit: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/former-pennsylvania-sen-richard-schweiker-dies-89-203308701.html#T5gkcyU
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    Cartoonists And Animators

    Former associate of Cabu, French cartoonist and comic book artist Jean-Jacques Loup, 79. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.lefigaro.fr/bd/2015/08/02/03014-20150802ARTFIG00116-le-dessinateur-jean-jacques-loup-est-mort.php&prev=search
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    Deathlist Dreaming

    Had a dream that I was running a radio station and we had a guest presenter. In wandered Cliff Michelmore who apparently I had booked to do a show. Don't know where that came from. I have the odd premonition, but I don't see me getting a radio station soon.
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    The Ones That Got Away...

    Walter Kastner, the last surviving member of the crew of the U.S.S. Lexington battleship which conducted the unsuccessful search for Amelia Earhart, 99. http://www.whittierdailynews.com/obituaries/20150801/last-member-of-amelia-earhart-search-crew-dies-in-whittier-at-age-99
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    Jamaican Jamming

    Leroy May, aka Redman aka Red Dragon, 55. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/entertainment/20150801/hol-fresh-singer-red-dragon-dies Probably best known in the UK for this number 2 hit, Compliments On Your Kiss (with Brian and Tony Gold): https://youtu.be/r2MqA03TgyM
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    Presenters

    Here's the Standard article from 2010 about Cilla bowing out at 75: http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/i-want-to-die-at-75-says-cilla-black-6547204.html
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    Presenters

    I will have to refer to the Dail Mail. Apologies. Here from December. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2863026/I-m-totally-deaf-awful-arthritis-says-Cilla-Star-71-says-falling-apart.html She seems to indicate there she's not going anywhere. Not a psychic then.
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    Presenters

    Cilla Black dead? OMG. http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/cilla-black-dead-legendary-tv-6180303
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    Betty Driver Memorial Soapstar Superstar Thread

    Former Brookside actor Sean McKee, 54, epileptic fit. http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/tributes-paid-former-brookside-actor-6168547
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    The 10Th Death Of 2015

    Someone will slip in and steal Valerie's thunder, do we know if the coma was medically induced? ET didn't say.
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