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Keep telling you – get Facebook. All the other boomers are on there. FB tribute from Motorsport.ie for Barry, whoever he was.

Nancy Buckingham appears on the electoral register up until 2016. She's not in the GRO Index since then so I assume she just didn't re-register or put address as private. Rosie Harris last updated her website in 2018. I believe she's still alive also.

Interesting that he left the Ellen DeGeneres Show just a few months ago, shortly before the show itself ended. There's been some awful allegations of severe bullying on that show, much of which supposedly originates from the Ellen herself. Will be interesting to see if anything comes out subsequently now.

Done a little more research on a few of these: As per 192 People, Sylvia Thorpe was still alive in 2022. Storey is elusive, can't find much. Bernard Long was last confirmed alive in 1992(!), virtually nothing is known about him and a lot of ppl have blogged requesting information. Kate Sedley was still alive in 2021 as per Facebook. Margaret Crosland is dead. Unearthed here in a 2022 article. Their source was a (not so reliable) Ancestry family tree. However, if you user her full name you can see Margaret McQueen Crosland married Max Denis in 1950. She appears in the GRO Index as a Q/3 2017 death as "Margaret McQueen Denis b. 1920". If you then search the Probate register, you find her full date of death: 3 July 2017, registered in Brighton. So she never became a centenarian but did live to 97!

Excellent spot Goose. Similarly I'd like to know if the following are alive if anyone has a sharper eye than me. A few we've covered on here before now. A few are new names: Sylvia Thorpe (wiki), 96, British romance novelist Margaret Storey (wiki), 96, British children's writer Kate Sedley (wiki), 96, British historical novelist Bernard Long (wiki), 96, British book illustrator and comic artist Rosie Harris (wiki), 97, British romance novelist (alive in 2015) Nancy Buckingham (wiki), 98, British gothic and romance novelist Eric von Gotha (wiki), 98, British illustrator and comic artist Margaret Crosland (wiki), 102, British biographer and translator British historical romance novelist Bill Spence (wiki, aka Jessica Blair), 98, I imagine is most certainly still with us as he was covered in the media as recently as 2020. British romance novelist Katharine Gordon (wiki) would be 107 now so I imagine long dead, but she travelled and lived across the world throughout her life so uncovering a record of death would prove difficult.

Neither do I, but it sure was nice of her to tell us before the DDP 2023 starting line

To my astonishment, her death just got a BBC "breaking news" notification.

Going to disagree with you there. Anyone can be a “researcher”, but the source from that group is someone who works in that industry. As far as Wiki is concerned ”There’s no dearth notice anywhere. The Germans are normally pretty good with that” isn’t good enough to remove a DOD when a reliable source exists saying otherwise. I’ve been editing on there for 16 years. I can’t count how many times German subjects have died without an obituary notice. Just like in the UK… military officers and MPs tend to get a death notice 75-90% of the time BUT not always, especially when they’re at the more obscure end of the spectrum. EDIT: I will also add that no death info was added to his Wiki page BEFORE that FB post in January, meaning that the person on FB clearly didn't just copy it from an unsourced edit to Wiki. He claims it's first hand knowledge, and unless he's lying it appears to be the case.

Appears to be true. A Formula 1 researcher unearthed it whilst trying to make contact with him this year. See this Facebook post.

I knew that Philippa had been ill with cancer for a long time, but I didn't realise it was terminal. Sad news.

It's here, and was posted by his step-son, who is also an actor. So it's true.

Hollywood Reporter obit.

William Russell dead.

Production designer and art director Albert Brenner (wiki) dead at 96.

Hawaiian royal heiress Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (wiki) dead at 96.

Hesselbein needs to be removed here. I'm amazed we're down to just 10 living recipients from the Clinton years.

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Well this is awkward…

Just look up “Beryl Grey” then filter by author

@YoungWillz, fancy updating my Desert Island Disks list too? I’m without laptop for several days.

Yes. Check Facebook! Lives in the USA with his family. His son is a famous businessman too.

Georgia Holt dead at 96. Cher just tweeted it. Edit: A unique DDP pick.

Obit.

It wasn’t me! I’m not a moderator… and if I was half of you would be banned

This thread needs a dead tag.