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Merckx reacts on the death of Van Looy on cam - looks worse than earlier this year but not awful either: https://sporza.be/nl/2024/12/18/eddy-merckx-neemt-met-pijn-afscheid-van-boezemvriend-gemaakt-om-100-te-worden-maar-laatste-weken-ging-het-slecht~1734518177996/ . Van Looy called Merckx last week after his fall, so his health declined quickly.

-edit- didn't use the search good enough..

Mr Singularity Ray Kurzweil, 76 and 80 supplements a day, is worth a mention as well i think.

I see a cover coming up!

Heath died earlier this year, Haynes died this week: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/13/roy-haynes-obituary

Carol Burnett has quite some history with the National Enquirer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnett_v._National_Enquirer,_Inc. .

Only Joanne remaining now (86), who has made a few gospel albums.

Just looked up how he was doing, but he has concerts planned until june next year. Here you can see him enjoying an aubade for his 97th birthday.

Sounds like a nice guy:

Legit question, they almost started to doubt themselves, but Nicklaus is of German descent and this took place at a golf club in Sligo (where Nickolson's mom came from). My mom even sent me pics of the helicopter as evidence (but that doesn't prove anything)

My parents did drove along the Irish west coast last month, and at a certain moment they saw a motherfuckin huge helicopter at a golf course. When asking around they heard it was Jack Nickolson's, and that he came by regularly. I'll ask them if they still know which course it was.

Great find! Though I would need to be extremely lonely before willing to talk to Jack van Gelder (even though I once was very fond of him, but i was still a child and loved Ter Land, Ter Zee en In De Lucht).

De Volkskrant calls her 'the last known living Engelandvaarder'. I think they're right, so we can move on the last living Dutch WO II veterans and last living members of the Dutch resistance (if any..) Edit: according to this site, there were 60 veterans still living earlier this year, against 90 in 2023 and 166 in 2022.

Ellis Brandon (101) dead. The article says 'oldest living Engelandvaarder' which suggests there must be others still alive. But not clear who they might be.

Mick, Michael Schumacher's son, was in the F1 in 2021-2022 and might return next season. Ralf was in the F1 from 1997 to 2007 and competed against Michael.