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J.R.R. Tolkien wrote his last story on this day 44 years ago, aged 81.

Connie Sawyer is turning 105 in November and still acting. Her most recent role, however, was as Mrs. Sullivan in Ray Donovan in 2014.

http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1782614 Chinese general Xiang Shouzhi dies less than 3 months from his 100th birthday.

January: Mary Tyler Moore (Honorable: John Hurt, Jimmy Snuka, Miguel Ferrer) February: Bill Paxton (Honorable: Richard Hatch, Jane Roe, Kim Jong-nam) March: Chuck Berry (Honorable: David Rockefeller, Chuck Barris) April: Don Rickles (Honorable: Emma Morano, Jonathan Demme) May: Roger Moore (Honorable: Chris Cornell, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gregg Allman) June: Adam West (Honorable: Peter Sallis, Helmut Kohl) July: June Foray (Honorable: Chester Bennington, Martin Landau, Maryam Mirzakhani) August: Glen Campbell (Honorable: Jerry Lewis, Bruce Forsyth) September: Hugh Hefner (Honorable: Harry Dean Stanton, Jake LaMotta, Violet Brown, Liliane Bettencourt, Tony Booth) October: TBA November: TBA December: TBA

France went into darkness with the death of the Sun King Louis XIV on this day 302 years ago. Louis was 76 years old.

First death of September on Wikipedia: Comedian Shelley Berman dies at 92. http://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/comedian-shelley-berman-who-trained-in-chicago-dies-at-92/

My Top 10 thoughts on who's most likely to die next: 1. King Michael 2. Leah Bracknell 3. Billy Graham 4. Tony Booth 5. George H. W. Bush 6. Kirk Douglas 7. Herman Wouk 8. Olivia de Havilland 9. Hugh Hefner 10. Stan Lee Honorable Mentions: Prince Philip, Vera Lynn, Gord Downie, Nobby Stiles

Futurama referenced the show in one episode.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-anderson-dead-six-million-855240 Hollywood Reporter reporting his death.

For age alone, I'd recommend this site listing notable people 90 and older (if you want them on your list). http://www.genarians.com/

DeathList 2010 got its 4th out of 9th hit of the year today 7 years ago with the passing of 50-year old Laurent Fignon.

Henry V of England died on this day 595 years ago, aged 36.

Janne Carlsson, drummer for the band Hansson and Karlsson, dies at 80. http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/82RBw/janne-loffe-carlsson-ar-dod

I'll try for the last CENTURY. 2017: Chuck Berry 2016: Tie Between David Bowie, Prince, Fidel Castro and Carrie Fisher 2015: Leonard Nimoy 2014: Robin Williams 2013: Nelson Mandela 2012: Neil Armstrong 2011: Tie between Steve Jobs and Osama bin Laden 2010: Blake Edwards 2009: Michael Jackson 2008: George Carlin 2007: Benazir Bhutto 2006: Saddam Hussein 2005: Tie between Rosa Parks and John Paul II 2004: Tie between Ronald Reagan and Marlon Brando 2003: Johnny Cash 2002: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother 2001: George Harrison 2000: Charles Schulz 1999: Joe DiMaggio 1998: Frank Sinatra 1997: Princess Diana 1996: Carl Sagan 1995: Dean Martin 1994: Richard Nixon 1993: Audrey Hepburn 1992: Menachem Begin 1991: Tie between Freddie Mercury and Dr. Seuss 1990: Tie between Jim Henson and Roald Dahl 1989:Tie between Hirohito and Lucille Ball 1988: Enzo Ferrari 1987: Andy Warhol 1986: Wallis Simpson 1985: Orson Welles 1984: Indira Gandhi 1983: Tennessee Williams 1982: Tie between Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kelly 1981: Bob Marley 1980: Tie between Jesse Owens, Alfred Hitchcock and John Lennon 1979: John Wayne 1978: Pope Paul VI 1977: Tie between Elvis Presley, Groucho Marx, Bing Crosby and Charlie Chaplin 1976: Tie between Agatha Christie and Mao Zedong 1975: Francisco Franco 1974: Charles Lindbergh 1973: Lyndon B. Johnson 1972: Harry S. Truman 1971: Jim Morrison 1970: Jimi Hendrix 1969: Tie between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Judy Garland 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. 1967: Che Guevara 1966: Walt Disney 1965: Winston Churchill 1964: Tie between Douglas MacArthur and Herbert Hoover 1963: John F. Kennedy 1962: Tie between Marilyn Monroe and Eleanor Roosevelt 1961: Ernest Hemingway 1960: Clark Gable 1959: Frank Lloyd Wright 1958: Ernest Lawrence 1957: Humphrey Bogart 1956: Alben W. Barkley 1955: Tie between Albert Einstein and James Dean 1954: Alan Turing 1953: Joseph Stalin 1952: Tie between George VI and Eva Peron 1951: Shoeless Joe Jackson 1950: George Orwell 1949: Louis II of Monaco 1948: Gandhi 1947: Tie between Al Capone and Henry Ford 1946: H.G. Wells 1945: Tie between FDR and Hitler 1944: Erwin Rommel 1943: Nikola Tesla 1942: Carole Lombard 1941: Kaiser Wilhelm II 1940: F. Scott Fitzgerald 1939: Sigmund Freud 1938: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 1937: John D. Rockefeller 1936: Rudyard Kipling 1935: Will Rogers 1934: Marie Curie 1933: Calvin Coolidge 1932: Kate M. Gordon 1931: Thomas Edison 1930: William Howard Taft 1929: Wyatt Earp 1928: Roald Amundsen 1927: Lizzie Borden 1926: Harry Houdini 1925: Pancho Villa 1924: Tie between Vladimir Lenin and Woodrow Wilson 1923: Warren G. Harding 1922: Alexander Graham Bell 1921: Nicholas I of Montenegro 1920: Robert Peary 1919: Theodore Roosevelt 1918: Tsar Nicholas II 1917: Buffalo Bill Cody

Skip Prokop is the 7th today.

http://www.hayhouse.com/louise-hay-legacy Self-help author Louise Hay dead at 90.

News just came in that Swiss actress Helli Stehle died at 109. https://www.srf.ch/news/regional/basel-baselland/radiopionierin-helli-stehle-mit-109-jahren-gestorben

I believe it was.

Today at my local supermarket I saw a magazine that said Harper was in her "final days". Valerie could be a possible 11th hit (along with Graham, Michael, Booth and Bracknell).

Augustine of Hippo died 1587 years ago on this day, aged 75.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170828/p2g/00m/0dm/065000c Former Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomo Hata dies at 82

I got sunshine in a bag... (Eastwood)

How about actor Norman Lloyd? He's turning 103 in November, and he's still acting to this day.

Tex Avery was no longer animated 37 years ago, aged 72.

Current Deaths per Month: January: 1 February: 1 March: 1 April: 0 May: 2 June: 2 July: 0 August: 3