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Not sure if this is good enough for Wiki, but this site claims Drayton died in 2017 in Spain: http://www.artsetcbarbados.com/feature/lifting-lid-geoffrey-drayton-and-his-outsider-role-barbadian-literature This probably doesn't help much, but there's a BillionGraves entry (without a grave pic) for Besselink as well.

There's a BillionGraves entry for a Kenneth Draper, buried to Manitoba, where he has lived according to Wiki. Birth and death year match to your info as well.

This is a very obscure one, but maybe someone can help me with this: English actress Kathleen Helme (IMDB). She looks quite old on her appearances in Corrie and Emmerdale during 1960s and 1970s, which is why I assumed she died decades ago. However, there is this tweet from 2020, posted by an antique seller who is claiming to sell stuff from her estate, which suggest she might've died only a few years back. Find a Will has a Kathleen Mary Helme who died on 30 December 2019. Could this be the same person? There is no birth date on IMDB, which makes research quite difficult. Searching FreeBMD, the closest match seems to be a Kathleen M Helme born in Q2/1921. Only other info I have is that she graduated from RADA in 1948 and that she appeared in a radio play called The Linden Tree in 1997.

Delon is the last one standing, so congrats to the 27 people who voted for him.

Jean-Louis Trintignant is a hit for Hell: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/17/jean-louis-trintignant-star-of-a-man-and-a-woman-and-amour-dies-aged-91 Congrats!

Alenius turned 97 earlier this month. The annual Ele Alenius seminar was held the day after his birthday, but Alenius was too poorly to attend.

Drop 40 survivors by year: 2011 – Michael Douglas, Paul Gascoigne, Dick Cheney, Lindsay Lohan, Danny Baker (5/41) 2012 – Michael Douglas, Lindsay Lohan, Paul Gascoigne, Pete Doherty (4/42) 2013 – Lindsay Lohan, Bashar al-Assad (2/40) 2014 – Michael Schumacher, Paul Gascoigne, Ian Watkins, Stuart Hall (4/40) 2015 – Paul Gascoigne (1/40) 2016 – Jimmy Carter, Paul Gascoigne, Dick Van Dyke (3/40) 2017 – Paul Gascoigne, Jimmy Carter, Donald Trump, Prunella Scales, Dick Van Dyke, Val Kilmer (6/40) 2018 – Jimmy Carter, Linda Nolan, Paul Gascoigne, Prunella Scales, Dick Van Dyke, Donald Trump (6/41) 2019 – Jimmy Carter, Linda Nolan, Prunella Scales, Dick Van Dyke, Paul Gascoigne (5/40) 2020 – Jimmy Carter, Prunella Scales, Linda Nolan, Dick Van Dyke, Billy Connolly, Paul Gascoigne (6/40) 2021 – Jimmy Carter, Linda Nolan, James Whale, Prunella Scales, Dick Van Dyke, Billy Connolly, Yoko Ono, Tim Bilton (8/40) 2022 – Jimmy Carter, Linda Nolan, James Whale, Dick Van Dyke, Prunella Scales, Billy Connolly, Yoko Ono, Tim Bilton, Ghislaine Maxwell, Milos Zeman (10/40) 2023 – James Whale, Jimmy Carter, Linda Nolan, Dick Van Dyke, Andy Taylor, Prunella Scales, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Rhod Gilbert, Kate Keltie, Billy Connolly, Vladimir Putin, Roberta Flack, Steve McMichael, Yoko Ono, Tim Bilton, Mel Brooks, David Attenborough, Randy Jackson, Buzz Aldrin, Willie Nelson, Eva Marie Saint, Joanne Woodward, Stanley Baxter (23/43)

Halliwell is definitely a good shout. He has been looking and sounding quite frail after the heart surgery he had couple of years back and he doesn't really appear that much in the soap anymore.

Glad to hear they paid tribute at least. Apparently he was omitted from the In Memoriam montage.

Pervez Musharraf: 17 June

Andy Devine died after a fall: https://news.sky.com/story/andy-devine-emmerdale-actor-died-after-accidental-fall-coroner-concludes-12624791

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32)  1990: Queen Elizabeth II, Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (5/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (4/56)  1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50)  2002: (0/50) 2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: Angela Lansbury (1/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (3/50)  2015: Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (3/50)  2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Lester Piggott, Paul Gascoigne (7/50)  2017: Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Queen Elizabeth ll, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Emperor Akihito (7/50)  2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (15/50)  2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (15/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Lester Piggott, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (21/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Loretta Lynn, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, David Crosby, Prunella Scales, Tony Bennett, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Queen Elizabeth II, Harry Belafonte, Bob Newhart, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Betty Boothroyd, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Bernard Cribbins, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (36/50) Updated for Lester Piggott.

As mentioned in "People Who Are Dead According to Wikipedia" thread, Andy Devine (Wiki), best known for playing Shadrach Dingle in Emmerdale, died off the radar back on 27 January 2022: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4075180

Andy Devine's death confirmed: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4075180 Really surprised he never got a proper obit.

Napolitano

Congrats chilean way

Sodano again

Ilkka Suominen (Wiki), Finland's minister of trade and industry 1987–1991 and chairman of the National Coalition Party 1979–1991, dead at 83.

Congrats Arghton

Jaakko Syrjä dead from COVID-19 at 96.

Angelo Sodano

Cause of death was lung cancer: https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/11/dennis-waterman-died-after-two-year-battle-with-lung-cancer-16621921/

Joanna Barnes' death last month means the entire credited cast of the 1960 film Spartacus (starring DL favourite Kirk Douglas) is dead. However, according to IMDB the film had a lot of uncredited cast members, several of whom have no confirmed death dates. Taneli Rinne died off the radar last September. No online sources, but his death notice was published in Helsingin Sanomat in December.

New picture of Young posted in her daughter's Twitter earlier this month: It also appears she was born in 1931 rather than 1936.

Cheers, replacing him with Hell's past 1922 pick Bernard Kalb.