CastAway

Should be noted that latest winner of Physics (well, 1 of 3 to share the prize this year) Arthur Ashkin is currently 96 - and the oldest winner of the Nobel Prize.

@drol I present to you the news of Do Muoi's death, in case you hadn't yet seen it: https://www.bbc.com/vietnamese/vietnam-45705649

Can I make it 2 years picking Wouk every time?

Yasuhiro Nakasone please!

I mean at this point is there some way to auto-vote for Wouk everytime a new poll goes up, until such time I'm actually right? It's been nearly 2 years...

Been going for Wouk since Jan 17, and I ain't stopping now!

Seems to have been missed in the McCain mayhem - at least, couldn't find anything through the search bar - but former Republican member of the US House of Reps for Connecticut, Lawrence DeNardis, died on Aug 24th, at age 80.

Honestly I think you just need to see how many people had her high up on their Inverse DP lists (me included) to see how few people thought that she would actually breathe her last this year.

Yelena Shushunova, who won 2 golds, a silver and a broze for gymnastics during the 1988 Seoul Olympics for the Soviet Union, has died aged 49. Preliminary cause of death is pneumonia. Russian language obit: http://tass.ru/sport/5462199

Honestly I'd forgotten who I'd picked and where I'd placed them - given that apart from a few names, the list was basically pure guesswork with no research whatsoever, it was a good run, I guess!

Former Speaker of the Indian Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) Somnath Chatterjee dead at 89. Was admitted to the hospital last Tuesday and put on the ventilatator yesterday, so that was relatively quick.

Honestly, given the rumours that were floating around in the country when Jayalalitha dies, I wouldn't be surprised if he had died during the last scare and this was just an effort to control public chaos (of cours, with Jayalalitha, it woas both the public chaos thing and the allowing her aide to take over her political party thing...)

Joel Robuchon dead: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/chef-joel-robuchon-dead-michelin-13039226

Any DDP bonuses for 3 members of a family at the same time?

NYT link updated to pancreatic.

Honestly, if we manage to get some of the bed warmers out this year (I'm looking at you Douglas and JPdC), I think we can count it as a success regardless of number of hits IMO.

Wouk's day will come at some point. Well, given I've been voting for him since Jan 2017, probably it'll happen at least.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/actress-sonali-bendre-behl-diagnosed-with-high-grade-cancer/articleshow/64852796.cms Sonali Bendre - major actress in the 1990s - has been diagnosed 'high-grade cancer that has metastasised'

Press conference happened a couple hours back - something to do w/ returning to Pakistan next year and running for the elections regardless of whether or not her party is allowed to by their courts after a decision on a corruption trial that is to come in about a week. She said her mother should regain consciousness soon, which sounds false, but what do we know I guess?

Likelihood of him just trying to have an affair in peace, y/n?

Kathleen Blanco, please!

Over/under on how long it will be before she surfaces? And whether or not it will be with divorce papers?

Dan Alon, Israeli fencer who survived the 1972 Munich Massacre and helped save 4 teammates during the same, has died of cancer aged 72.

Re: Morrison - dare I ask? First I'm hearing of anything... That said, my money's on Rivera, though there's a couple of younger cast that seem like they would be interesting shots in the dark.

Ion Ciubic, former Prime Minister of Moldova (1997-1999) has died aged 74.