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Wow, this was hard, and what I did find was somewhat limited sadly. Peter J. Hammond was born in 1934 as per BFI. Now, they have been wrong in the past but they're generally reliable on this front. I had a look through the birth index. There are loads of people called Peter Hammond born in 1934. The only one who stands out with a "J" as an initial is a Peter J F Hammond born in Hendon circa September 1934. He married a Shirley Eldridge circa June 1957 in Wood Green. Could be him but I wouldn't bet on it. Writers have a habit of adding/changing middle initials so in reality he could be any of the ones born that year... and that's not even taking into account the year being incorrect! "Cressida" didn't turn up any marriage records, nor could I find a Cressida Hammond on residency records. Henric Hirsch. Nada. There was a HENRICK HIRSCH who married a Sandra R. Geissler in Islington circa December 1977. The only close match. Neither of them appear in any UK records after this date so maybe this is him and the two of them moved to Australia. Now you can search Aussie death records (not on Ancestry but at each state's respective sites) but the family research pages only go up to 1990, so you may have to wait some years and then look again to get an answer. Paul Erickson is a pseudonym. Thankfully his death certificate on Ancestry for 27th October 1991 in Lambeth lists both his pseudonym and his real name, Frederick Redwood Watts. He was born in Cardiff 22 November 1920, so the info on the wider web is correct. Now, Wiki says him and Lesley Scott were married briefly. What does briefly mean? Presumably the two of them wrote The Ark in 1966 shortly before it was released. The reason why I question the language "briefly" is that this appears to be her, and it's from 15 years prior: c. June 1951, Kensington, FREDERICK R WATTS (it also says aka PAUL ERICKSON) + GEMMA SIGHE (it also says aka GEMMA VITALE). I believe Lesley Scott was Gemma Vitale/Sighe. Sadly, here is where the trail ends. I can't find any other trace of where she came from or where she went to!! Now, there is a marriage in Lambeth in 1986 for a Frederick R Watts and a Monica A Baker. He died in Lambeth. Could this have been a later spouse? Yes, the marriage certificate also lists his pseudonym of Paul Erickson. In other words, not much use. But I did try, and at least there's a supposed birth year for Hammond and the proper bio details for Erickson himself, with the likely true identity of "Lesley Scott". Maybe someone a little less amateur than myself can use them and pursue this further.

Very annoying that local news sites scrub articles after x amount of time. Creates a lot of problems. For what it's worth. Born Myra Green in Liverpool in Jan–Mar 1934 (not 1937 as claimed everywhere online). Married Harold Taylor (mentioned above in her obit) in 1954. And as you said, died of COPD 22nd March 2012 aged 78.

Tried my hardest with these. Very hard to do considering there's so little online about their tournament. If somebody were to retrieve some newspaper clippings from the period, with names of spouses, background info etc. it would be easy peasy! Here's what I got Harry Leadbetter b. Henry Leadbetter 15 May 1903 in St. Helens d. Jan–Mar 1971 in St. Helens 100% certain on this one. The article you quoted notes his daughter Joyce and son-in-law Harold Greenfall. Found their wedding certificate, which gave her mum's maiden name of Wareing. Then found her parents marriage certificate from 1937 and worked backwords. Easy. Tommy Small b. Thomas William Small 10 Jul 1917 in Hartlepool d. Apr–Jun 1972 in Hartlepool This is a hunch. There's no other individuals from that area/period that fit the profile for one reason or another. Still, I wouldn't use it without some further evidence. Stan Outten b. Stanley Outten 29 Jan 1909 in Romford Essex d. Jan–Mar 1985 in Redbridge, Essex Again, a hunch. Only one that really fits the profile. Further evidence needed. Jackie Boyce b. Jack Wallace Boyce 23 April 1908 in Barnet d. Jan–Mar 1987 in Barnet Pretty certain on this one. Barnet represented the "New Southgate SC" in the tournament. In a 1939 residence record for the above Boyce his occupation is given as a worker for a scaffolding company. New Southgate Scaffolding Company?

Good shout. We've done him before but worth revisiting. I'll try and be thorough to add complete certainty. So Wiki and many other sites claim André Maranne was born in 1926 in Toulouse, France as ANDRÉ GASTON MAILLOL. This is true, and here's the evidence. He appears in a listing from the London Gazette here in 1967. It says: "MAILLOL, ANDRE GASTON, known as Andre Maranne; France; Actor; 11 Clifton Terrace, Brighton, 29th March 1967". The GRO gives us this for the MAILLOLS: 1) Circa Sep 1955 he married "MORIA (misspelling – should be MOIRA) J. MACDONALD. Found her in Scotland's People, she was born in 1925 in Leith. 2) Circa Sep 1956, their son Paul Maillol dies as an infant aged 0. Ancestry: 2005 census lists BOTH Moira Maillol and Andre G Maillol still living at 11 Clifton Terrace in Brighton. Since then, nothing in the GRO up to 2019 suggests either Andre or Moira have died, nor in the England and Wales Wills up to this month. Now on Wikipedia, if you click on his talk page there are a few interesting comments from supposed relatives. March 2010: "Andre Maranne is alive as of this date and living in Brighton, England." Sep 2018: "As a relative of his, I can assure you that Andre is still alive (and still living in Brighton) as of this date (September 12, 2018)." The evidence is overwhelming and yet this 1992 death year persists everywhere. But in case more is needed, someone here claims they spoke with him in 1999! He also appeared in a Radio 4 drama during Christmas 1993... not listed on IMDb because, well, it's radio! The rumour of his death seems to have started in the early to mid 2000s. Someone put it out there, probably confusing him for another actor, and it just spread like wildfire. Anyways, he's alive and turning 95 next year.

I can understand why there may be some doubt as to whether she is living or not. As soon as you Google her, the first dozen or so results are from 2016 (when she launched an exhibition, pictured in her wheelchair) or the preceding years. But if you limit the search time frame to 2017–2020, there are still quite a few things which spring up, all of them talk about her in the present tense. This blog from March 2020 notes: "At the age of 110 she is not on any prescribed medication, only traditional Aboriginal medicine." I would be surprised if she died off radar given her profile and popular following amongst enthusiasts of that particular form of art. Clearly not 110 though. My hunch says she's "only" about 90... and a very ugly one at that.

A nice easy one to start with. JANICE P NICHOLLS was born 24th Jan 1946 at 27 Moor Street, Mesty Croft, which is part of the Friar Park ward of Wednesbury, West Midlands (then a part of Staffordshire). Sourced from this page but backed up by the GRO records. Married Brian Meacham in Wednesbury c. Sep 1965. Living at 6 Braemar Gardens, Hednesford near Cannock, Staffordshire as of the 2010 census. Nothing in the Wills or GRO Index since then so living and turning 75 in a couple of months.

Alright, I'm off work til Thursday and bored at home watching movies with the other half. I want to start a new project now that I've put the UK Singles Chart on indefinite hold for now. Anybody have any suggestions/areas they want explored or even just have any "possibly living" names they'd like me to investigate?

Turns out jazz musician Bill Graham (wiki), b. 8th September 1918, died on 29th December 1975. Somebody added a FindAGrave memorial for him just two months ago. It checks out. Here is the official death record on Ancestry. Mentioning because he's been picked in the DDP in the past and was recently discussed on @chilean way's centenarian deadpool.

Says the person who hasn’t presented any argument.

Evidence?

James Watson is not a racist. That whole thing got blown way out of proportion and it shows how oversensitive people have become on anything concerning race and how we can’t have a mature conversation about it without resorting to finger pointing and name calling. One of his studies looked at genetic differences between different races, and one factor he looked at was measures of intelligence. Now, I’m all for calling out racists when pseudo science is concerned e.g. social Darwinism employed by the Nazis, but when a study uses true scientific method, we can’t simply refuse to acknowledge its findings because we don’t like the results and then the general conclusions arrived from it. Ofc it was ONE study, and there have been many, and MOST of them say that there are no significant differences in intellect between races. However, is it really hard to believe that there COULD be? For millennia many groups of humans were completely isolated from one another on this planet. It follows that they would have evolved separately and differently according to thousands of situational factors. Anyway, I don’t believe in shooting the messenger. It is the job of scientists to uncover the truth. Facts don’t care about feelings at the end of the day.

Updated for the death of Clemence.

Dame Rachel Waterhouse (wiki), local historian of Birmingham and the West Midlands, died October 14th aged 97, but only announced yesterday.

Updated.

He actually was one sadly.

Long enough to tickle your autistic obsession with him.

Peter Florjančič (wiki), Slovenian ski jumper at the 1936 Winter Olympics, who was also known as an inventor, dead at 101. A former DDP pick.

Yeah, I didn’t check if he was a pick. Handy to know though.

Jim Radford featured alongside Lord Sacks and John Sessions on the latest episode of The Last Word. Does that count as a QO?

Obituary for Miller.

Surely his replacement has to be Sidney Cooke? I mean the guy is literally hanging on by a thread. Why would we take a risk with Tobin instead?

@Octopus of Odstock, maybe you know about this but there's an article here dated 29th July 2002. Two paragraphs down it talks about a moment's silence for the memory of the LATE Urbano Rivera. So likely he died that month. Translation of 2nd paragraph: "The Jardines loudspeaker network sent one that deserved "sticks" from its people. Yesterday while the minute of silence in memory of the late Urbano Rivera, a former Danubio player in the 1950s, was being fulfilled, the man went on and on with the formations. As he did not stop, people began to turn around and with gestures they silenced him, so the minute was "longer" than expected."

Just looking at the comments about this on several Simpsons forums. Agree with them that the joke in the sketch is that Marge can't sing. The fact that Marge's voice sounds totally normal when she says the following line "You're home." suggests Kavner has no real problems doing the voice to same way she always has. Twitter storm in a teacup. Next.

Updated. Thanks @gcreptile.

Ok, it's late, so i'll try not to waffle, but this is her. Firstly, I agree. The photos are a likeness because of her unique nose. Secondly, I've found their marriage. Dear old Aunty be telling little white lies in the interest of "good taste" though because they wed c. June 1953 after the birth of their daughter! IRENE A KING + ROBERT J WISE / JUN 1953 / ISLINGTON Using the age from the BBC 51 Annual, we get her birth record. IRENE A KING / DEC 1925 / SHOREDITCH Then we occur a slight problem – FreeBMD is missing 1000s of (mainly death) records from the 1980s. They are not on the GRO or Ancestry either. But there's another way around this. Google Irene King and Johnny Wise together and they actually recorded on a number of records together as per credits lists like this Harry Hayes discography. That list features pretty much all the same names listed on the link that gives King's death date. Convinced it's her now. Merci, added.