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Ludwig Bauer has died aged 97. He used to have a Wiki page (before it got deleted). Mentioning him because I think there is now a very small handful of Knights Cross recipients still living. The only two I know by name: *Gerhard Sommer, turns 99 this month *Hugo Broch, 98, who people better know as the Luftwaffe ace who got to fulfil his life-long dream of flying in a spitfire aged 95, with the help of Dan Snow

Sure, I will create my list at the weekend!

Nicolas Rea, 3rd Baron Rea, died on Monday aged 91 according to the UK Parliament site. Before taking an active role in the House, he was an Army doctor, serving in Nigeria before becoming a GP in north London. A hereditary peer, he first sat in the House of Lords in 1982 and was elected to remain in 1999 when the reforms came in. His death means that The 3rd Viscount Simon, 79, is the last Labour hereditary elected to stay in 1999 still living.

Hoy Wong is dead. See the "talk" section of his Wikipedia page.

70s B (part 3/4) Blue Wiki UK pop rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 1973, attempted and failed to sue the boyband Blue over their name in 2003 Ian MacMillan 16 Oct 1947 – Living David Nicholson c. 1951 – Living Hughie Nicholson 30 Jul 1949 – Living Charlie Smith c. 1949 – Living 30/04/1977 Gonna Capture Your Heart #18 Barry Blue 04 Dec 1950 – Living Wiki UK singer-songwriter and producer from London 28/07/1973 Dancin' (on a Saturday Night) #2 03/11/1973 Do You Wanna Dance #7 02/03/1974 School Love #11 03/08/1974 Miss Hit and Run #26 26/10/1974 Hot Shot #23 Blue Haze Discogs UK reggae studio group composed of session musicians, assembled by producers Johnny Arthey (1930–2007) and Phillip Swern (1948–2024) 18/03/1972 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes #32 Cover of a single popularised by The Platters NB: Can't find a lineup at all for this group! Blue Mink Wiki UK pop rock group Madeline Bell 23 Jul 1942 – Living Roger Cook 19 Aug 1940 – Living Ray Cooper 19 Sep 1942 or 1947 – Living Roger Coulam 21 Aug 1940 – 23 Oct 2005 (65) Herbie Flowers 19 May 1938 – 05 Sep 2024 (86) NME obit Barry Morgan Apr 1931 – 01 Nov 2007 (76) Ann Odell 1947 – Living Alan Parker 26 Aug 1944 – Living 28/03/1970 Good Morning Freedom #10 19/09/1970 Our World #17 29/05/1971 The Banner Man #3 11/11/1972 Stay with Me #11 03/03/1973 By the Devil (I was Tempted) #26 30/06/1973 Randy #9 Blue Öyster Cult Wiki American rock band from Stony Brook, New York Eric Bloom 01 Dec 1944 – Living Albert Bouchard 24 May 1947 – Living Joe Bouchard 09 Nov 1948 – Living Allen Lanier 25 Jun 1946 – 14 Aug 2013 (67) Rolling Stone obit Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser 12 Nov 1947 – Living 20/05/1978 (Don't Fear) The Reaper #16 Colin Blunstone 24 Jun 1945 – Living Wiki UK pop rock singer-songwriter from Hartfield, Hertfordshire 12/02/1972 Say You Don't Mind #15 11/11/1972 I Don't Believe in Miracles #31 17/02/1973 How Could We Dare to be Wrong #45 Bob and Marcia Wiki Jamaican vocal duo, both had solo careers prior and subsequent to their partnership Bob Andy 28 Oct 1944 – 27 Mar 2020 (75) Guardian obit Marcia Griffiths 23 Nov 1949 – Living 14/03/1970 Young, Gifted and Black #5 Cover of a song by Nina Simone 05/06/1971 Pied Piper #11 Hamilton Bohannon 07 Mar 1942 – 24 Apr 2020 (78) Guardian obit Wiki American R&B and disco percussionist, bandleader and songwriter from Newnan, Georgia 15/02/1975 South African Man #22 24/05/1975 Disco Stomp #6 05/07/1975 Foot Stompin' Music #23 06/09/1975 Happy Feeling #49 26/08/1978 Let's Start the Dance #56 Boiling Point Discogs American disco and funk group from Atlanta, Georgia 27/05/1978 Let's Get Funktified #41 NB: Can't find a lineup at all for this group! Bombers Discogs Canadian disco group from Montreal, Quebec Daniel Barbe 05 Apr 1953 – Living Mack L. Jones (aka Busta Jones) 26 Sep 1951 – 06 Dec 1995 (44) Mention of death Tamara Lorincz no info available Terry Martel no info available John McDiarmid no info available Walter Rossi 29 May 1947 – 29 Apr 2022 (74) Obit Marty Simon no info available Jimmy Tanaka 08 Feb 1950 – Living 05/05/1979 (Everybody) Get Dancin' #37 18/08/1979 Let's Dance #58 NB: Album notes credit both Barbe and McDiarmid on keyboards. Not sure if one or both of them played on the records above. Some versions of the album credit Tanaka, others don't. Boney M. Wiki Euro/Caribbean disco and reggae vocal group, formed in West Germany in 1975 after being assembled by record producer Frank Farian (1941–2024), Mitchell and Barrett were from Jamaica, Williams was from Montserrat and Farrell hailed from Aruba – he was discovered dead in a hotel room in St. Petersburg in December 2010 Marcia Barrett 14 Oct 1948 – Living Bobby Farrell 06 Oct 1949 – 30 Dec 2010 (61) Guardian obit Liz Mitchell 12 Jul 1952 – Living Maizie Williams 25 Mar 1951 – Living 18/12/1976 Daddy Cool #6 12/03/1977 Sunny #3 25/06/1977 Ma Baker #2 Features the uncredited vocal contributions of Lorraine Pollack as Ma Baker and Bill Swisher as the radio announcer 29/10/1977 Belfast #8 29/04/1978 Rivers of Babylon / Brown Girl in the Ring #1 B-side is based on a Jamaican nursery rhyme 07/10/1978 Rasputin #2 Banned in Russia 02/12/1978 Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord #1 03/03/1979 Painter Man #10 28/04/1979 Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday #3 11/08/1979 Gotta Go Home / El Lute #12 15/12/1979 I'm Born Again #35 Booker T. & the M.G.'s Wiki American instrumental band from Memphis, Tennessee, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, MG stands for Memphis Group, Al Jackson was murdered in his home by two intruders in October 1975 Al Jackson Jr. 27 Nov 1935 – 01 Oct 1975 (39) FindAGrave memorial Booker T. Jones 12 Nov 1944 – Living Steve Cropper 21 Oct 1941 – Living Lewie Steinberg 13 Sep 1933 – 21 Jul 2016 (82) Rolling Stone obit 15/12/1979 Green Onions #7 Released in the U.S. in 1962 The Boomtown Rats Wiki Irish rock band from Dublin, formed in 1975, lead singer Bob Geldof went on to form supergroup Band Aid, and subsequent Live Aid concerts, in aid of famine relief in Ethiopia, he was awarded a KBE in 1986 Pete Briquette 02 Jul 1954 – Living Gerry Cott 15 Oct 1954 – Living Simon Crowe 14 Apr 1955 – Living Johnnie Fingers 10 Sep 1956 – Living Bob Geldof 05 Oct 1951 – Living Garry Roberts 16 Jun 1950 – 08 Nov 2022 (72) BBC obit 27/08/1977 Looking After No. 1 #11 19/11/1977 Mary of the 4th Form #15 15/04/1978 She's So Modern #12 17/06/1978 Like Clockwork #6 14/10/1978 Rat Trap #1 21/07/1979 I Don't Like Mondays #1 Inspired by the Cleveland Elementary School shooting in the States 17/11/1979 Diamond Smiles #13 Daniel Boone 31 Jul 1942 – 27 Jan 2023 (80) Times obit Wiki UK pop singer-songwriter from Birmingham, before his solo career he was known as Peter Greene and played with Tommy Bruce and The Bruisers 14/08/1971 Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast #17 01/04/1972 Beautiful Sunday #21 Debby Boone 22 Sep 1956 – Living Wiki American pop singer and actress, born in Hackensack, New Jersey and raised in Los Angeles, California, daughter of singer Pat Boone 24/12/1977 You Light Up My Life #48 Ken Boothe 22 Mar 1948 – Living Wiki Jamaican ska and rocksteady vocalist from Kingston 21/09/1974 Everything I Own #1 14/12/1974 Crying Over You #11 Bootsy's Rubber Band Discogs American funk group, formed in 1976, frontman Booty Collins previously played with James Brown in the early 1970s and would later form the Parliament-Funkadelic collective, Bootsy and Catfish were brothers Bootsy Collins 26 Oct 1951 – Living Catfish Collins 17 Oct 1943 – 06 Aug 2010 (66) Guardian obit Rick Gardner 07 Jan 1948 – Living Richard "Kush" Griffith 08 Aug 1948 – 18 Jun 2007 (58) Local obit Joel "Razor Sharp" Johnson 05 Apr 1953 – 03 Oct 2018 (65) Mention of death Maceo Parker 14 Feb 1943 – Living Frank "Kash" Waddy 30 Nov 1948 – Living Fred Wesley 04 Feb 1943 – Living 08/07/1978 Bootzilla #43 Boston Wiki American hard rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, lead singer Brad Delp committed suicide at his home by carbon dioxide poisoning in March 2007 Barry Goudreau 29 Nov 1951 – Living Brad Delp 12 Jun 1951 – 09 Mar 2007 (55) Guardian obit Sib Hashian 17 Aug 1949 – 22 Mar 2017 (67) Ultimate Classic Rock obit Tom Scholz 10 Mar 1947 – Living Fran Sheehan 26 Mar 1949 – Living 29/01/1977 More Than a Feeling #22 07/10/1978 Don't Look Back #43 David Bowie 08 Jan 1947 – 10 Jan 2016 (69) BBC obit Wiki UK singer-songwriter from Brixton, London, born as David Jones but changed the surname to avoid confusion with Davy Jones from The Monkees, appeared as an actor in a number of films including Labyrinth, The Last Temptation of Christ and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, inducted into the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame in 1996 24/06/1972 Starman #10 16/09/1972 John, I'm Only Dancing #12 09/12/1972 The Jean Genie #2 14/04/1973 Drive-In Saturday #3 30/06/1973 Life on Mars? #3 15/09/1973 The Laughing Gnome #6 Originally released in 1967 but didn't chart 20/10/1973 Sorrow #3 23/02/1974 Rebel Rebel #5 20/04/1974 Rock 'n' Roll Suicide #22 22/06/1974 Diamond Dogs #21 28/09/1974 Knock on Wood #10 01/03/1975 Young Americans #18 02/08/1975 Fame #17 11/10/1975 Space Oddity (re-release) #1 29/11/1975 Golden Years #8 22/05/1976 TVC 15 #33 19/02/1977 Sound and Vision #3 15/10/1977 Heroes #24 21/01/1978 Beauty and the Beast #39 02/12/1978 Breaking Glass (EP) #54 05/05/1979 Boys Keep Swinging #7 21/07/1979 DJ #29 15/12/1979 John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) / John, I'm Only Dancing (re-release) #12 Brass Construction Wiki American funk and disco group from Brooklyn, New York City, formed in 1968 and disbanded in 1985 Sandy Billups 06 Aug 1954 – Living Mickey Grudge no info available Randy Muller 10 Nov 1952 – Living Wayne Parris 09 Mar 1954 – Living Larry Payton 04 Sep 1954 – 21 Mar 2016 (61) Mention of death Morris Price no info available Jesse Ward Jr. n/a – 2016 Mention of death Wade Williamston 16 Jan 1954 – Living Joseph Arthur Wong c. 1953 – Aug 1998 (45) Obit 03/04/1976 Movin' #23 05/02/1977 Ha Cha Cha (Funktion) #37 Bread Wiki American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California Mike Botts 08 Dec 1944 – 09 Dec 2005 (61) LA Times obit David Gates 11 Dec 1940 – Living James Griffin 10 Aug 1943 – 11 Jan 2005 (61) Rolling Stone obit Larry Knechtel 04 Aug 1940 – 20 Aug 2009 (69) LA Times obit 01/08/1970 Make it with You #5 15/01/1972 Baby I'm-a Want You #14 29/04/1972 Everything I Own #32 A #1 hit single for Ken Boothe two years later 30/09/1972 The Guitar Man #16 25/12/1976 Lost Without Your Love #27 Freddy Breck 21 Jan 1942 – 17 Dec 2008 (66) Mention of death Wiki German singer, composer and record producer from Sonneberg 13/04/1974 So in Love with You #44 Brecker Brothers Wiki American jazz duo from New York City, New York, consisted of two brothers, formed in 1974 and disbanded in 2007 Michael Brecker 29 Mar 1949 – 13 Jan 2007 (57) Guardian obit Randy Brecker 27 Nov 1945 – Living 04/11/1978 East River #34 Brendon Aug 1954 – Living Wiki UK pop and glam rock singer, full name Brendon James Dunning 19/03/1977 Gimme Some #14 Brian and Michael Wiki UK pop duo from Manchester Brian Burke no info available Michael Coleman c. 1945 – Living 25/02/1978 Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs #1 Features backing vocals by St. Winifred's School Choir

So I haven’t found any records for him at this stage, but Roger McGough does note in this book that Peter Batten was interviewed by The Sunday Telegraph in 1999 (he even quotes him). Presumably after The Guardian put out that article in the same year saying he had disappeared. Haven’t found anything more yet but I’ll get to the bottom of it.

See her thread.

Only made public today though...

I would need at least his year of birth to uncover anything. According to this 1999 Guardian article he vanished without a trace after the production of YS!

Death record from Ancestry gives us the date – 8th April 2009 aged 66. And the GRO confirms he died in Lambeth.

It’s not my game. @chilean way is running this. I’m sure he’ll say you can enter ppl who are dead or likely dead if you like! You just won’t get any points

God knows. I thought Bob Weighton would live to 115. It’s a game of roulette with centenarians. Personally I just don’t see it.

Rota Onorio, Bill Graham and Gunther Schwagermann are almost certainly deceased. They’re just missing dates of death on Wiki.

Yes. At least five.

And to prove my point, ppl were tweeting about Thurlow’s death 2 days ago.

It’s not a farce at all. The same rule carries in just about every single deadpool. There’s a small chance players could pick up on news of a death elsewhere, including on social media or forums, even though it still hasn’t been reported on more widely. That rule has to apply across the board. If you wanted the points, should’ve entered earlier.

Washington Post obit for Meyer Rubin. He died from COVID-19.

Definitely 1924. Here's her birth record. Marjorie Redmond in the Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1998 Name: Marjorie Redmond Birth Date : 14 Dec 1924 Birth Place: Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA Certificate Number: 1924130148

Out of interest @drol, how many names from 1926 are still outside the list of 30? Just Adamkus and Dizdarevic?

My usual pick, grrrr. Ok, I’ll take Luis Echevveria please. His son killed himself last week and I think that may contribute to finishing him off.

Crossposting. Youssoufi dead at 96.

Abderrahmane Youssoufi has died aged 96. He was hospitalised several days ago. I shall let @drol confirm and congratulate though.

I knew this wouldn't have just been Wiki vandalism. The Hollywood Reporter confirm that she did die on 10th February aged 95!! They appear to have clocked her death after it was listed in the latest SAG-AFTRA magazine. Speaking of which... does anyone have access to the latest copy so they can see if anyone else has gone off radar?

According to his LinkedIn, his name is Eddie James Summers. Klunis seems to be a stage name. On Ancestry there’s an Eddie J Summers who married a Laura Broomfield in L.A. in 1966. He was born in Cherokee, Texas on 23 Aug 1947. If a book or an article etc. can link any of these details, then it’s him. Nothing comes up for “Edward” in place of Eddie.

Polly want a cracker?