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Rumours floating around, nothing official yet.

Pablo Escobar, Shakira, coffee exporters, crack dealers, coke smugglers and Sofia Vergara, your boys took a below average beating. Sweden up next, good luck to the boys.

Taking a rest from official duties after suffering from cerebral anaemia.

Maria Bueno has died aged 78. Edit: Daily Mirror, The Sun, Daily Telegraph obituaries.

The remaining cast members are uncredited, the majority being munchkins. The two exceptions are Ambrose Schindler (IMDb) who played a Winkie Guard and was a stunt double, and Caren Marsh Doll (IMDb) who was Garland's dance stand-in. Depending on how much effort Warner Bros. decides to put into the 80th Anniversary Celebrations in 2019, we might get a better gauge of who is actually alive. They did host celebrations for the 70th and 75th so if there are any living cast members, even if they were uncredited, they might track them down for interviews.

Nick Meglin, editor and contributor to Mad magazine, has died aged 82.

I'm sure she'll already be on people's radar, but Maureen Lipman collapsed this evening on stage in the West End and could not continue with the performance. She wasn't hospitalised, but no cause has been given.

Elizabeth Sung (IMDb), Chinese/Hong Kong actress who appeared in The Young and Restless from 1994-1996, as well as Hawaii Five-0, The Sopranos and Curb Your Enthusiam has died aged 63.

Tsehaytu Beraki, Eritrean pop singer and activist (mention in The Guardian), has reportedly died aged 80. Kassé Mady Diabaté, Malian singer (profile on the BBC, review in The Guardian), has died aged 69. Intrigued to see if The Guardian follows up their edgy, overly obscure, cultural pieces with the honour of obituaries.

From this to this Novichok Anti-Ageing Moisturising Spray in all good pharmacists now!

Richard Peck, American author of YA fiction and winner of the Newbery Medal (2001), has died aged 84. Edit: Daily Mail obituary.

Danny Alvarez might have won the election but he's lost the game of life.

John Ashdown-Hill, British Historian and author who played a prominent role in finding the remains of King Richard III, has died aged 69.

Yuriy Kutsenko, Soviet Silver Medallist at the 1980 Moscow Olympics in the Men's Decathlon (behind Great Britain's Daley Thompson), has died aged 66. Daniel Robin, French double Silver Medallist at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics in Wrestling, has died aged 74.

Antonio Lupatelli, Italian illustrator who worked under the pseudonym Tony Wolf, perhaps best known in the UK as the illustrator of Pingu books, has died aged 88. Edit: Daily Mail obituary.

Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban militant, former CIA agent, suspected bomber of Cubana Flight 455, has died aged 90. Mentioned in various newspapers over the years, including The Guardian, the Daily Mail (here, here and here) and The Telegraph. Edit: Daily Mail, BBC obituaries.

Tommy McGhee, English footballer who played for Portsmouth (1954-1959) and Reading (1959-1960), has died aged 89. He was Portsmouth's oldest surviving player.

Carol Mann, American golfer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, has died aged 77.

Richard N. Goodwin, advisor and speechwriter to President Kennedy and President Johnson, has died aged 86. Edit: Daily Mail obituary.

Bernard Lewis brings this list down to only 10 survivors.

Bernard Lewis, British-American academic specialising in Oriental Studies, has died aged 101. Edit: The Telegraph, The Times obituaries.

Sir John Major arrived at the Royal Wedding today and was walking with the aid of a walking stick. I believe this is the first time we've seen him, certainly in public, with a stick, and he was walking with a limp.

Dead. Edit: Daily Mirror, Daily Mail obituaries.

Miriam T. Griffin, an American academic of Ancient History at Somerville College, Oxford University, has died aged 82.

Will Alsop, award winning British architect, has died aged 70. He'll more than likely receive obituaries from The Guardian and The Independent, perhaps the BBC. Edit: The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, The Independent obituaries.