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Paul Berg (wiki), American biochemist known as "the father of genetic engineering", dead at 96 according to various tweets. 1980 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Unpicked in the DDP. Whoops.

No way man. More prominent names will definitely kick the bucket.

Still alive. Faked his own death in order to turn down requests to make a comeback. As you do...

His racehorse Afternoon Deelites (wiki) has been euthanised, aged 31.

Times obit for Nigel Burlinson, music industry exec who secured the royalties for The Beatles. Died 18 January, aged 86.

Norman Spencer b. 13 Aug 1914, British Died 16/08/24 Eileen Kramer b. 8 Nov 1914, Australian Elisabeth Waldo b. 15 Jun 1918, American María Cristina Camilo b. 25 Dec 1918, Dominican Maj-Britt Håkansson b. 29 Mar 1919, Swedish Caren Marsh Doll b. 6 Apr 1919, American June Spencer b. 14 Jun 1919, British Died 08/11/24 Eileen Bennett b. 8 Jul 1919, British-American Eleanor Collins b. 21 Nov 1919, Canadian Died 03/03/24 Guido Gorgatti b. 5 Dec 1919, Italian-Argentine Died 11/5/23 Betty Brodel b. 5 Feb 1920, American Died 03/03/24 Arnold Yarrow b. 17 Apr 1920, British Robert Marcy b. 4 Jul 1920, French Died 08/09/24 Norma Barzman b. 15 Sep 1920, American Died 17/12/23 Helen Backlin b. 21 Jan 1921, American Died 12/02/24 Elisabeth Kirkby b. 26 Jan 1921, British-Australian Lois Kimbrell b. 31 Jan 1921, American Died 30/05/17(!) Elizabeth Kelly b. 29 Mar 1921, British Ray Lawler b. 23 May 1921, Australian Beulah Garrick b. 12 Jun 1921, British-American Patricia Wright b. 5 Jul 1921, American Barbra Fuller b. 31 Jul 1921, American Died 15/05/24 Evelyne Kraft b. 30 Aug 1921, American Nikolay Dupak b. 5 Oct 1921, Russian Died 26/12/23 Norma Amigo b. 7 Oct 1921, American Irene Söderblom b. 19 Nov 1921, Swedish Died 27/07/23 Georg Stefan Troller b. 10 Dec 1921, Austrian-French Hope Foye b. 1921, American Agathe Poschmann b. 18 Jan 1922, German Ray Anthony b. 20 Jan 1922, American Alexandra Myskova b. 4 Apr 1922, Czech Margia Dean b. 7 Apr 1922, American Died 23/06/23 Norman Lear b. 27 Jul 1922, American Died 05/12/23 Wei Wei b. 17 May 1922, Chinese Died 02/11/23 Edith Roger b. 29 May 1922, Norwegian Died 24/02/23 Jean Cussac b. 31 May 1922, French Annette Warren b. 11 Jul 1922, American Bess Meisler b. 19 Jul 1922, American Saul Brandt b. 23 Jul 1922, American Died ?/?/98(!) Sara Luzita b. 11 Aug 1922, British Ann Donaldson b. 17 Aug 1922, American Micheline Presle b. 22 Aug 1922, French Died 21/02/24 Gloria Dea b. 25 Aug 1922, American Died 18/03/23 Paul Nichols b. 5 Sep 1922, American Died 15/03/23 Annabel Maule b. 8 Sep 1922, British-Kenyan Janis Paige b. 16 Sep 1922, American Died 02/06/2024 Jack Hausman b. 30 Sep 1922, American Pauline Clayden b. 12 Oct 1922, British Ebrahim Golestan b. 19 Oct 1922, Iranian-British Died 22/08/23 Juli Lynne Charlot b. 26 Oct 1922, American Died 03/03/24 Jacqueline White b. 23 Nov 1922, American Gabrielle Upton b. 1922, Canadian-American Died 13/09/22 Vija Vētra b. 6 Feb 1923, Latvian Madeleine Arbour b. 3 Mar 1923, Canadian Anne Russell b. 22 Mar 1923, American Electra Gailas b. 13 Apr 1923, American Philip Roye b. 20 Apr 1923, American Henry Kissinger b. 27 May 1923, German-American Died 29/11/23 Silvia Infantas b. 14 Jun 1923, Chilean Died 19/06/24 Ramesh Mehta b. 7 Aug 1923, Indian Died 29/05/12(!) Jimmy Weldon b. 23 Sep 1923, American Died 06/07/23 Kim Yaroshevskaya b. 1 Oct 1923, Russian-Canadian Glynis Johns b. 5 Oct 1923, British-American Died 04/01/24 Bettina Moissi b. 15 Oct 1923, German Died 21/11/23 Ruth Geller b. 16 Oct 1923, German Joan Mortimer b. 1 Dec 1923, American Died 26/02/24 Vincent Ball b. 4 Dec 1923, Australian Tommy Dix b. 6 Dec 1923, American Bob Barker b. 12 Dec 1923, American Died 26/08/23 Mike Nussbaum b. 29 Dec 1923, American Died 23/12/23 Walter Bingham b. 5 Jan 1924, German-British-Israeli Anne Vernon b. 9 Jan 1924, French Woody Woodbury b. 9 Feb 1924, American Pia Velsi b. 31 Mar 1924, Italian Bo Bjelfvenstam b. 24 Apr 1924, Swedish Christy Palmer b. 2 May 1924, American Cécilia Paroldi b. 2 May 1924, French Jane Morgan b. 3 May 1924, American Laurie Webb b. 6 May 1924, British Erich Conrad b. 12 May 1924, Swedish Kaiti Grey b. 14 May 1924, Greek Priscilla Pointer b. 18 May 1924, American Walter Schultheiss b. 25 May 1924, German Gloria Stroock b. 15 Jun 1924, American Died 05/05/24 Yatsuko Tan'ami b. 25 Jun 1924, Japanese Georges Rivière b. 1 Jul 1924, French Eva Marie Saint b. 4 Jul 1924, American Donald Palmear b. 6 Jul 1924, British Ip Chun b. 10 Jul 1924, Chinese Marianne Bernadotte b. 15 Jul 1924, Swedish Alice Toen b. 25 Jul 1924, Belgian Rita Bibeau b. 30 Jul 1924, Canadian Meta Velander b. 13 Aug 1924, Swedish Ella Jenkins b. 6 Aug 1924, American Died 09/11/24 Fada Santoro b. 29 Aug 1924, Brazilian Alfred Hoffman b. 5 Oct 1924, British Died 18/05/23(!) Teresa Cunillé b. 22 Oct 1924, Spanish Nadia Cattouse b. 2 Nov 1924, Belizean-British Died 29/10/24 Ted Hartley b. 6 Nov 1924, American Rolf Schimpf b. 14 Nov 1924, German William Russell b. 19 Nov 1924, British Died 03/06/24 Nora Houfová b. 13 Dec 1924, Austrian Died 29/05/24 Maria Riva b. 13 Dec 1924 German-American Krishnaveni b. 24 Dec 1924, Indian Updated with all the suggestions given to me. That's a pretty long list. I didn't think there were nearly as many living centenarians with acting credits.

A quick search in the British Newspaper Archive reveals he had a stage role in a production of South Pacific in April 1956. He played the character Louis Billis. The casting age for that character is normally 30s/40s so likeliness is he's long dead.

Well they ought to. Bloody irresponsible journalism otherwise.

They're now saying 24 cases. There were Marburg outbreaks in 2021 (1 case/1 death, Guinea) and 2022 (4 cases, 3 deaths, Ghana) but they were cut dead at the source pretty quickly. Yet another virus of zoological origin. Guess what animal? That's right... fruit bats. Disgusting creatures.

Given that it has become clear that he's still in there, it's ridiculous that the BBC haven't pulled their article about him being rescued from last week.

In my post I said to post evidence that they’re alive. Trying to exclude as many “possibly living” people as we can.

British-Pakistani actor Zia Mohyeddin (wiki) dead at 91. Michel Ray (wiki, b. 1944) and John Dimech (IMDb, b. 1943) are now the only surviving actors to have appeared in "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962). Ray refuses to talk about his time in the film, and Dimech lives in Malta but is very elusive according to this.

British journo and author Peter Millar (wiki) dead from a stroke at 67. Times obit. Known for his reporting of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin War.

Some prick at IMDb keeps changing his birth year back to 1921, after I sent a supporting newspaper article that basically confirmed he was a teenager in the 1950s. Truly given up on that site.

Sad, but I have to confess to looking them up recently and being surprised that all three were still alive. 80s groups of fat rappers/R&B singers tend to have at least one member missing e.g. Sugarhill Gang and LeVert. Posdnuos is the only member of De La Soul who looks like he took care of himself. I'd expect him to live to a decent age. Maseo is still on the heavy side.

I was more so referring to the fact that after his first wife died he started shagging her niece!!!

Thanks @LWCZ / @tracy. It's good that I have one marriage record now, even if it doesn't appear to be the right one (I'm guessing she was married multiple times). I've seen the 2010 death record in the past. Annoying that we can't prove that it's her.

"Rena, with whom he had three sons, Damon, Kim and Gareth, died in 1997. He is survived by his second wife, Bronwen, who was Rena’s niece." What a randy old bastard!!

The death toll hit 35,000 people today. Still growing. 5th deadliest earthquake of the 21st century so far.

An appeal for information on American pop singer Jodie Sands I've covered her in the UK Singles Chart thread before. Had a UK No. 14 hit, as well as reaching No. 15 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1957. Toured with the likes of Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Paul Anka. So what happened to her? Sands was born as Eleanor DiSipio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania according to several books online. That much is backed up by newspaper articles on Newspapers.com as well as census records. Her parents were Rocco (born 1886) and Angelina (née Cattefesta) DiSipio (born 1891). Her mother Angelina died in 1966 as per published death notices here and here. The 1930 census here gives her birth place and an estimated year of birth of 1927/1928. Using the census and several residency records, we can see the names of her siblings. Obituaries of two of her siblings, here (1996) and here (2000) refer to her as Eleanor Ferro. So what happened to her? I doubt that she's still with us, but Ferro is a typical Italian-American surname so finding her records is proving difficult. I can't even find her marriage certificate, which I think would be the key here. I've updated her wiki page with the above information but I'd obviously like to add full birth/death dates and details of her marriage. Any help please?

The earliest British PM to have a living grandchild is Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister from 1894 to 1895. His grandson, Scottish peer Neil Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery (wiki), turns 94 today. He sat as a non-affiliated member of the House of Lords until 1999 and lives near Edinburgh.

Born on April 15, 1940 in Dodge County, Nebraska. The confused 1941 birth year probably arises from the fact that her baptism record is the first result that comes up when you search for her on Ancestry (she was baptised March 23, 1941).

Princess Felicitas of Salm-Horstmar (born 1920), who turns 103 in March, has now become the oldest living European royal in history. She has overtaken the record held by Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (wiki, 1901–2004), who was the aunt of Elizabeth II.

Correct. Also most of the biggest female stars of the Golden era are dead. Loren (and perhaps Moreno) are the only really big names of that era left. All the men are dead. The fame level of the other remaining women is perhaps a little distorted for us because we talk about them proportionally more for deadpooling purposes but the likes of Hedren, Marie Saint, Glynis Johns were never “stars” like Vivien Leigh, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Joan Crawford etc. Different levels.