Neol Edmunds

Green Party MP, Stephanie Aeffner, dead suddenly aged 48. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/stephanie-aeffner-gruene-trauern-um-bundestagsabgeordnete-fuer-pforzheim-a-56be8106-1d5d-480d-8520-7dc4e831d6eb

Douglas Hurd.

Hans Reichelt, former DDR politician, dead a couple of months short of his 100th birthday. https://www.t-online.de/region/berlin/id_100574080/berlin-frueherer-ddr-minister-hans-reichelt-ist-tot.html

Hans Dieter Beck, of the eponymous publishing house, died on 3rd January aged 92. https://presse.beck.de/pressemitteilungen/der-verlag-chbeck-trauert-um-seinen-verleger-dr-hans-dieter-beck/

Feels like an interregnum list. Potential for a lot of old-age deaths of nonagenerians, but can't help think restricting 90+ to 10/20 might spice up the list up.

Hopefully it'll target Heil readers, Reform voters and Tesla owners.

French Author Pascal Lainé, potentially best known as Prix Goncourt winner for La Dentellière in 1974, dead aged 82. https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/12/31/pascal-laine-prix-goncourt-1974-pour-la-dentelliere-est-mort-a-l-age-de-82-ans_6475854_3382.html

Sorry for any excitement I may have caused by having the temerity to believe Wikipedia's 1 January date.

Jocelyn Wildenstein, Swiss Socialite - known as "The Bride of Wildenstein" due to excessive plastic surgery dead at 84.

@gcreptile I amended my line-up to replace Jimmy Carter with Jack Nicklaus from my Subs list.

Fritzl, although I reckon he'll be long buried before they announce it.

Former President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Helmut Schlesinger, dead at 100 https://www.bundesbank.de/en/press/press-releases/bundesbank-bids-farewell-to-helmut-schlesinger--948628

I saw him out and about in the 6th district of Vienna in his prime (around 20 years ago!), and wouldn't have bet my last Sparbuch on him making it to the end of 2024.

Hermes Phettberg has died https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000249981/hermes-phettberg-verstorben-im-himmel-erwarten-ihn-die-jeansboys

Hitler's Godson, Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont - dead QO? https://www.wlz-online.de/waldeck/bad-arolsen/das-waldecker-land-trauert-um-wittekind-fuerst-zu-waldeck-und-pyrmont-93471001.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittekind,_Prince_of_Waldeck_and_Pyrmont

Former Austrian Finance Minister, Hannes Androsch, dead aged 88 https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000248930/ehemaliger-finanzminister-hannes-androsch-gestorben

Sadly he's already died. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_Gormley

He'll probably get an obituary as there was a lot of coverage about his liver cancer diagnosis - on UK sites, that wouldn't provide much coverage about GAA normally.

My team will go here if you'll take a newbie. Thanks for running it. King Harald V Noam Chomsky Warren Buffett Prunella Scales Anne Diamond Jimmy Carter - died 29.12.2024 sub: Jack Nicklaus Jeremy Paxman Petula Clark Esther Rantzen Davina McCall Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier George Lazenby Elon Musk Geoffrey Boycott Huw Edwards Alan Greenspan Trisha Goddard Brian Wilson Milos Zeman Frankie Valli Brian Murphy Ian Smith (Harold Bishop) Elton John Josef Fritzl Celine Dion Nanette Newman Matthew Corbett (joker) Michael Caine Roger Waters William Shatner Dolph Lundgren Michael Bolton Jim Carrey John Virgo Douglas Hurd Judi Dench Jackie Stewart Bernie Ecclestone Alex Ferguson Richard Hadlee Neil Harvey Norman Tebbit Mickey Stewart Arthur Scargill Patricia Routledge Des Lynam Dino Zoff John Craven Paul Elliott (Chuckle Brother) Valerie Singleton Subs: Christopher Biggins Stephanie Beacham Giles Chichester John Gummer Norman Lamont Norman Gifford Pete Doherty David Starkey Jack Nicklaus Bob Charles

Known to have been behind Michael Sundin and Janet Ellis exiting the 'Peter pdq.

Howards' Way hit the screens in 1985, so we are approaching the 40th anniversary of its first airing in 2025. Granted the main cast was split between those born in the 1960s and those from the 1940s and before, but over half the main cast have already qualified for a wake in the Jolly Sailor. Based on the list from Wikipedia of main cast: Dead: Maurice Colbourne Glyn Owen Dulcie Gray Tony Anholt Ivor Danvers Nigel Davenport Lana Morris Kate O'Mara Alive: Jan Harvey Stephen Yardley Susan Gilmore Tracey Childs Edward Highmore Cindy Shelley Patricia Shakesby Sarah-Jane Varley Sian Webber Jeff Harding

"We are ailing" on the playlist?

That was the kiss of death for Tinners... That and the report into the Captain Tom grift being released. No age to go.

John Tinniswood dead at 112. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/world-s-oldest-man-dies-in-southport-care-home/ar-AA1uM60N?PC=EMMX01

So who is next in line for the title of Token Honorary South African?