The Happy Reaper

This company seems to have a few plates surplus to requirement.

You'd have thought she would have predicted this.

As a fellow native of Edinburgh this is very sad news.

I initially read that as "...gone to meet his maker"!

Not that light...

"Banks crosses the line (unlike Hurst's shot)"

Are George and Barbara Bush the first married couple to be Deathlist hits in the same year?

But at least McCain was able to drive across a bridge

Barry Chuckle has died https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45074955

Mary Ellis, who delivered planes from the factory to their airfields during WWII, has died aged 101. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44962253 The story originally described her as the last of the female pilots but they've changed it to point out that another three are still alive

Though they were sneaky and released it under the name 'The Boomtown Rats' Here's the coverage in the local paper https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/alan-longmuir-of-the-bay-city-rollers-dies-aged-70-1-4762457?ff=

Dead drivers seem to feature a lot in Leslie Grantham's life

The answer to a question like that is invariably Noel Edmonds.

They only went as far as Earth orbit.

I voted for Jack Schmitt, but ideally the world will get its act together and send more men to the Moon before the last of the original twelve leaves us.

Vladimir Lyakhov, who flew to Salyut 6, Salyut 7 and Mir and spent more than 333 days in space, has died. http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-042018a-obituary-vladimir-lyakhov-cosmonaut.html

Jim Lovell, first man to make four spaceflights, is 90 today! Not the oldest surviving US astronaut - he's in second place, eleven days behind Frank Borman.

Frank Borman of Gemini VII and Apollo 8 is 90 today...

St Peter pointing through the Pearly Gates - "Let's see what you could have won..."

Only if you use the baffling American system of Month/Day/Year. The proper Pi Day is 22nd July. My favourite Hawking story is when he appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation, the only man ever to play himself (well, a holographic simulation). They gave him a tour of the set and as he went through the engine room he said, "I'm working on that..."

Saw this elsewhere, thought it was fitting.

I know the main thread will be elsewhere but Bella Emberg did a cameo in a Doctor Who episode (the one with Peter Kay).

Seven, if you count his lift-off from the lunar surface!

Rance Howard, father of Ron, has died. http://variety.com/2017/film/news/rance-howard-dead-ron-howard-father-bryce-dallas-howard-actor-1202622990/

Does David Nixon count?