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Timur Selcuk, who composed and wrote Bana Bana for Turkish group Pan at Eurovision 1989, dead at 74.

The only problem with premarital sex is when you can't have it.

I know his thermodynamics books. Probably not had long left anyway, but it is sad that COVID finally took him nonetheless.

Reynaert, who represented Belgium in 1988, dead at 65 from COVID-19.

Irinej gets the 'rona too. Hospitalised, but asymptomatic

We discover new things every day, for example that Maradona has a brain.

270 vs 267, small victory, but still a victory. Trump handled the pandemic like the complete dumbass he is and paid for that.

Seems you have a new president. Congrats, mr. Biden.

Want some better names? Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Italian cardinal and president of CEI Gualtiero Bassetti, who are both critically ill with COVID.

Latest photo: He is a lot fatter than usual and couln't walk much. Also his intervention was very short and limited to "it's fine" or few other platitudes. Next year or 2022 will see a big wipeout of that political class, probably giving even more power to Xi JInping.

Death rumours (completely false!) are circulating again after he failed to attend the PCC plenum. Mind you, both Zhu Rongji and Song Ping, who are severly ailing managed to appear, though not in person. Song looked frail and all he said was like "it's fine" after a 50 minute speech of someone else. Jiang should probably be included on next year DL.

Tarun Gogoi taken off life support and out of danger.

Don't worry, he is improving.

Yeah, but someone might explain how it's possible that in a 30000 people town there are 300 murders per year.

Political tip anyone? Former Assam CM Tarun Gogoi on life support for pneumonia. He has been in ICU for months due to COVID, but was recently discharged.

Saeb Erekat 100% obit. Soumitra Chatterjee was awarded the French Legion d'honeur and could sneak one.

He was great, one of those few actors who always manage to make people laugh, even with poor material.

Actually I don't think John Edrich is that bad pick. No one would be surprise if a relatively old man who survived advanced cancer seemingly by miracle would die. That said, Sean Connery deserved inclusion, with rumours (which were true) about his deteriorating health going on for at least ten years and him being 90, and an absolute cultural icon. For comparison Clint Eastwood is 90 too, but he is so fit and active I'd be really surprised if he died this year. So did I just curse him?

Besides that, Tim Curry has his own thread.

He died after a "long illness". I guess it was a degenerative illness, maybe ALS, as he looks pretty still in some 2019 photos. In 2018 he was alright at his wedding, so I suppose it was relatively quick and tragic.

Kim Il-sung's informer during the Korean War, Ra Myong-su, dies in her 80s and gets Hero treatment. Mind you, her job was to denounce counter-revolutionaries in the Army and presumably send them to the gallows, often based on thin evidence.

Cause of death was "complications from consciousness of having been in Highlander 2" according to the BBC.

EDIT: Points given, good sense shown.

Look into his thread.

He seemed ethernal. Greaves is sadly overdue.