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Everything posted by Ulitzer95
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Death announcement for American film editor Robert C. Jones (wiki), aged 84. Academy Award winner for Coming Home (1978), starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight. 3x nominee for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and Bound For Glory (1976). Other credits include the terrible Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor flick See No Evil Hear No Evil, Heaven Can Wait, Love Story, Days of Thunder and Paint Your Wagon.
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"Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga, in a May 2002 interview with the Italian Catholic publication 30 Giorni, claimed that to divert attention from the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, Jews influenced the media to exploit the current controversy regarding sexual abuse by Catholic priests." Seems like a nice chap.
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Not really sure where to put this, but thought it was worth dumping on DL somewhere as there are a few "oh yeah, him/her" or "never heard of them before but they'd get a QO for sure" types on this... Here are the oldest living people with profile entries on the prestigious website Who's Who. In other words, anybody who is anybody in British "high society", plus a few global figures who have had some kind of official link with the UK at the same level. I've linked Wiki pages for those who have them: Alexander Henry Hermann b. 1917 / Diplomat Francis Jackson CBE b. 1917 / Organist and Master of the Music, York Minster, 1946–1982 Karl-Günther von Hase b. 1917 / German Ambassador to the UK, 1970–1977 Dame Frances Campbell-Preston b. 1918 / Lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother, 1965–2002 Sir Lloyd Geering CBE b. 1918 / New Zealand theologian His Honour John David Hayman BEM b. 1918 / Circuit judge Prof. Brenda Milner b. 1918 / Neuropsychologist / 2021 DDP unique pick Joyce Reynolds b. 1918 / Classicist / 2021 DDP unique pick Stanley James Clayton b. 1919 / Town Clerk of the City of London, 1974–1982 Emmanuel Evans-Anfom b. 1919 / Commissioner for Education and Culture in Ghana, 1978–1988 9th Viscount Falmouth b. 1919 / Hereditary peer and landowner, Member of the House of Lords, 1962–1999 Captain Alwyne Farquharson MC b. 1919 / Chief of Clan Farquharson and Scotland's oldest clan chief Prof. James Lovelock CBE b. 1919 / Independent scientist known for coining the Gaia hypothesis / 2021 DDP pick Sir Humphrey Moon, 7th Baronet b. 1919 / Aristocrat Leslie Reid b. 1919 / Diplomat William Good Robinson b. 1919 / Deputy Secretary, Department of the Civil Service, Northern Ireland, 1978–1980 Victor Ross b. 1919 / Chairman of Reader's Digest, 1978–1984 George Girdwood Stewart MC b. 1919 / Decorated veteran and Cairngorms conservationist Diana Armfield b. 1920 / Artist / 2021 DDP unique pick Colin Hinton Curtis b. 1920 / Chairman of the Metropolitan Public Abattoir Board, 1971–1981 John Cruickshank VC b. 1920 / Last living VC recipient from World War II / 2021 DDP pick Prof. James Dannatt b. 1920 / Architect Sir Patrick Duffy b. 1920 / MP, 1963–1966, 1970–1992 Edmond H. Fischer b. 1920 / American biochemist, Nobel laureate (1992) Martin Philip Lam b. 1920 / Government official Prof. Ian MacGillivray b. 1920 / Doctor, Dean of Medical Faculty, University of Aberdeen, 1976–1979 Sir Gerrard Charles Peat b. 1920 / Chartered accountant, Partner, Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. Prof. C. R. Rao b. 1920 / Indian-American mathematician and statistician / 2021 DDP unique pick 21st Lord Saye and Sele b. 1920 / Hereditary peer and British Army officer, Member of the House of Lords, 1968–1999 George Shultz b. 1920 / U.S. Secretary of State, 1982–1989, of the Treasury, 1972–1974 and of Labor, 1969–1970 / 2021 DDP pick Dr. Louis Siminovitch b. 1920 / Canadian molecular biologist Robert Steel b. 1920 / Secretary General, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 1968–1985 Edward Toms b. 1920 / SAS veteran turned arts proprietor Jens Christensen b. 1921 / Danish diplomat Sir Michael A. Epstein CBE b. 1921 / Pathologist, co-discoverer of the Epstein–Barr virus / 2021 DDP unique pick Prof. Herbert Gutfreund b. 1921 / Biochemist Rev. Bernard Hall b. 1921 / Director, Society of Jesus, 2001–2004 Sir Archie Lamb b. 1921 / British Ambassador to Norway, 1978–1980 and Kuwait, 1974–1977 Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow b. 1921 / Senegalese educator, Director-General of UNESCO, 1974–1987 Wallace John Mackenzie OBE b. 1921 / Director, Slough Estates, 1972–1991 Dennis Moorcraft b. 1921 / Under-Secretary, Inland Revenue, 1975–1981 Prof. Walter Murgatroyd b. 1921 / Professor of Thermal Power Norman Thomas b. 1921 / HM Chief Inspector of Schools, 1973–1981 Geoffrey Graydon Tibbs OBE b. 1921 / Secretary of the Royal College of Physicians, 1968–1986 Sir Simon Towneley b. 1921 / Author and Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, 1976–1997 Albert Frederick Wallace CBE b. 1921 / Controller of Manpower, Greater London Council, 1978–1982 Not the most interesting list of people, granted, but worth posting. 90% of the people on Who's Who seem to get QOs between the Telegraph, the Guardian and the Times, even when there's next to zero info available online about them before their death.
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Never mentioned on DL before despite being an occasional staple in the British press... Celebrated WWII veteran Lt.-Colonel Aidan Sprot has died at his home in the Borders aged 101. Also Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale from 1980–1984.
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RIP. Has anyone checked on CoffinLodger? He'll be weeping uncontrollably whilst watching the Sound of Music and tucking into a big tub of Ben and Jerry's no doubt.
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Probably worth noting that he hasn’t tweeted since January 29th now, two days after he posted the news of a positive test. Not sure if that means Hump himself is in bad health but not looking good for his wife.
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Just checked, only four 1917 picks in the DDP this year: Sinclair Hood (already dead, still think he'll obit later) Marsha Hunt (dead cert obit) Francis Jackson (almost dead cert obit) Art Rupe (probably obit) Kenneth Mayhew and Song Ping are unfortunate omissions. Both strong chances of an obit. Possibly Whang-od too (she has received BBC and Yahoo UK coverage before).
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Ruth Dayan (wiki), Israeli businesswoman who founded the fashion house Maskit (wiki), dead one month shy of her 104th birthday. Also the first wife of Israeli general and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan (1915–1981). Obit chances? Probably 75%. Unpicked in the DDP surprisingly, and yet the centenarian teams have picked loads of obscure names who will never obit.
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Gil Saunders (wiki), one-time lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blues Notes, has died. Age not provided but cause given as long-term effects of MS as well as a recent battle with lung cancer. Fronted the group briefly in the 1980s when they had a minor UK hit, "Don't Give Me Up" (1984).
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Trisha Noble (wiki) has died shortly before her 77th birthday after a battle with mesothelioma. Aussie actress who played Padmé's mother, Jobal, in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.
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Never understood why NASA gets its astronauts to sit down and pose with a wee toy version of the spacecraft whilst looking a bit dazed and confused.
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Guardian obituary for actor and director Jeremy Newson. Age given as 73 and the cause as motor neurone disease. Also appeared in Shock Treatment, the only actor to play the same character in both films.
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So you’ve said before but off the top of my head I can’t think of one household name male tennis player who lived beyond 90?
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Former World No. 1 turned commentator Tony Trabert (wiki) has died aged 90.
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People Who Are Dead According To Wikipedia...
Ulitzer95 replied to Vaagheid's topic in DeathList Forum
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Anne Feeney dead at 69 from COVID. A deadpooling favourite from the past. Edit: DDP pick 2011, 2012 and 2013.
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Yup, like Jodie Foster.
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Facebook post reporting the death of novelist and short-story writer Harry Mark Petrakis (wiki) aged 97. EDIT: Chicago Sun Times obituary.
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I hear Leslie Phillips isn't doing much nowadays...
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People Who Are Dead According To Wikipedia...
Ulitzer95 replied to Vaagheid's topic in DeathList Forum
And now Edward Babiuch (wiki) is actually dead aged 93. Babiuch was notably the last living Prime Minister of the Polish People's Republic, which existed between 1944 and 1989. -
Interesting. How do they do that? (And presumably "they" being groups like WWF?) Do they still just use the panda as the public face (even though it's no longer critically in threat) but divert funds to where they think it is better needed because that's what it will say in the small print after people pledge money?
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I do see your point. I've often thought about this myself. Fundraising is a difficult subject. I always see people on my Facebook doing "Stoptober" or running the London marathon etc. for causes. The question is, would people give generously to these charities if their outreach was limited to volunteers standing with a donations tin in the high street or running ads on television alone? Probably not. Likewise, it can often take something or somebody out of the ordinary e.g. a 99 year old Army captain on a zimmer frame, for others to take any notice. I wouldn't say it's a bad thing. Would it be a BBC news story if a 30 year old man was doing laps round his garden for charity? No. That's just the reality of the situation and I don't think there's anything morally wrong about it either. Captain Tom wanted to do it, he wasn't forced, nor was he harming himself by doing those laps. In fact exercise is very important in your twilight years for extra months and years on the clock. Anyway, I understand that your point is "well it shouldn't take an old man on a zimmer frame exercising in order to pull in money" but trying to get people to give to charity on an ordinary basis is challenging. Maybe we should force the whole country to convert to Sikhism. They have to give 10% of their annual salary to charitable causes.
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Not at all. You can always renovate rooms, create more green areas, add things etc. I don't think that can ever be finite, and indeed no amount of money could ever ensure that you could find yourself in a situation where you couldn't do any more to make improvements.
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Think this point has been made by someone else on here before – NHS Charities Together doesn't raise money for ventilators or to pay NHS salaries etc., it's just used for things like tarting up waiting rooms, play areas for kids, recovery gardens etc.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, who’s 79, hospitalised for emergency surgery after abdominal problems.