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An 8th has gone. Jiang Hualiang, and he was only 57, so the care home theory is likely not true. None of these guys have immunity. They've been shielded from COVID for 3 years by their government, then were given two doses of the Chinese vaccine (which doesn't work). They're going to drop like flies.

Cotton Davidson (wiki) dead at 91 according to several tweets. Quarterback/punter with the Baltimore Colts, Dallas Texans and the Oakland Raiders.

Or not. Jean-Robert de Cavel (wiki) dead at 61. Report confirms it was the same cancer.

Christopher Needler (wiki), 78, becomes the second chairman of Hull City F.C. to die this month.

George Maher, former member of The Farm (from 1984 to 1986) has died according to fellow former member Tony Evans:

23 December Li Wenhua, 90, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Lu Qiang, 86, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Zhang Youshang, 97, Chinese biochemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering 22 December Gu Zhen'an, 86, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Long Yuqiu, 96, Chinese engineer and academic, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 21 December Zhang Guocheng, 91, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Zhao Yijun, 92, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering A second name (Long Yuqiu, 96) now added to 22 December, so make that 7 in 3 days. Yup, mass spreader event more than likely the cause. Sweepstakes on how many to go before the end of the year? I'm going to say 14 (including the 7 above).

Odette Roy Fombrun (wiki) dead at 105.

Sunny Gale was living in a nursing home in Florida in 2013, to the surprise of many as she was long presumed dead. In 2015 and 2016, she was still being referred to in the present tense, but I can't find anything more recent. Wiki says her real name was Selma Segal and that she was born in Clayton, New Jersey. Newspaper cuttings from the 1950s confirm this is true, but I still can't find her birth record. The same newspaper clippings state that she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when she was four and she considered that to be her "home". Census records from Pennsylvania reveal that her father was born in Lithuania/Russia. Her father was Meyer Siegal/Segal/Siegel/Sigal (born c.1896) and Blanche Siegal/Segal/Siegel/Sigal (née Geizler born c. 1898). He died in New York in 1958. She died in New York in 1977. She had one sibling – a sister Florence Siegal (later Florence Resnikoff, who was born in 1920 and died in 1987). As per this, Sunny Gale was married to theatre exec Noel Kramer in 1958, and they had a daughter that year. They were married in Manhattan in 1956 – here's the marriage record. By 1966, she had a new boyfriend. He was also her agent AND her dentist as per this. Can't find his name anywhere. That would be key to finding out what her name is nowadays. Of course, she may have married somebody else since then.

Betty Madigan... Interview from 2020 here when she was 92. Lives in Florida as Betty Madigan Brandt. Still alive aged 94 according to MyLife.

James Kinnier Wilson (wiki), British Assyriologist, reportedly dead at 101. His father was the neurologist Samuel Kinnier Wilson, for whom "Wilson's disease" was named after. Photo from his 100th birthday last year. Guardian obit at some point I imagine.

I think an editor on there has put 2 + 2 together and come up with 5. I've removed the "Deaths from pancreatic cancer" category.

Round-up: 1: Gordon Banks OBE 1937–2019 2: George Cohen MBE 1939–2022 3: Ray Wilson MBE 1934–2018 4: Nobby Stiles MBE 1942–2020 5: Jack Charlton OBE 1935–2020 6: Bobby Moore OBE 1941–1993 7: Alan Barr Jr. MBE 1945–2007 8: Jimmy Greaves MBE 1940–2021 9: Sir Bobby Charlton CBE 1937–2023 10: Sir Geoff Hurst MBE b. 1941 11: John Connelly 1938–2012 12: Ron Springett 1935–2015 13: Peter Bonetti 1941–2020 14: Jimmy Armfield CBE 1935–2018 15: Gerry Byrne 1938–2015 16: Martin Peters MBE 1943–2019 17: Ron Flowers MBE 1934–2021 18: Norman Hunter 1943–2020 19: Terry Paine MBE b. 1939 20: Ian Callaghan MBE b. 1942 21: Roger Hunt MBE 1938–2021 22: George Eastham OBE 1936–2024 Coach: Sir Alf Ramsey 1920–1999

Twitter full of rumours that Big Scarr (wiki) has died aged 22. No media confirmation yet.

Beulah Garrick granted an interview last week. Sounds very alert for someone turning 102 in 6 months.

This has been delayed by a day and a bit but is due to air on BBC News in 45 mins from now if anyone wants to tune in for it. If not it will be on iPlayer later tonight.

Go and look up what “celebrity” means. It does simply mean that they’re famous.

We all read the Deaths in 2022 page on Wikipedia you know. Useless posting all these when they’ve been listed on there for days.

Journalist who filmed this incident has died.

Charlbi Dean's autopsy results released. Died from bacterial sepsis, caused by an infection. The removal of her spleen after a 2008 car crash, which she narrowly survived, put her at greater risk of bacterial infections.

Rizong Rinpoche (wiki) dead at 94.

Report of the death of Christopher Tucker (wiki), aged 76. British makeup artist who created the prosthetics on "The Elephant Man", "The Company of Wolves", "Julius Caesar" and the 1986 stage production of "The Phantom of the Opera". Won a BAFTA in 1982 for his work on "Quest For Fire".

Gabriel Kinney dead at 101. Russell Hamler, 98, is now the last of the Merrill's Marauders.

Subroto dead at 99.

How many are we short of the record now?

Lots of tweets and Facebook posts from friends and fans reporting the death of Diane McBain (wiki), aged 81, after a battle with liver cancer. Actress, and specifically a Warner Brothers contract player, who was one of Elvis Presley's leading ladies during the 1960s. She was also the last main cast member of the ABC TV series Surfside 6 (wiki). EDIT: Hollywood Reporter obit.