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Bad luck for one DDP team who picked her! According to a recent IMDb update, Lelita Rosa (b. 1908) died back in 1980 aged just 71.... shit times!

Marvin Rainwater. The only way that guy could sound any more country is if his name was Cletus McMethteeth And despite this he still scored a UK no.1 in the 50s with his song "Whole Lotta Woman"!

DELETE!

Tried the exact same thing. Plenty of Roads but no Michael, I think we can assume it was his stage name. Very odd that no obituary was ever produced and the media has failed to notice it at all. Though the same thing appears to have happened last year with Leila Danette.

Actor Mike Road (b. 1915 or 1918, depending on the source) died on April 14, 2013 according to this link : http://www.tvrage.com/person/id-8574/Mike+Road Can't find anything else and the link doesn't seem the most reliable?

According to this Facebook page > Louise Currie has died aged 100. Leading lady but also last surviving cast member of Citizen Kane! (played an uncredited reporting)

World-famous auto trader Cal Worthington has finally kicked the bucket after featuring in excess of 10,000 of his lame television commercials.... http://www.presstelegram.com/general-news/20130909/cal-worthington-dead-at-age-92

Unique DDP hit Lord Barney Hayhoe, a former Conservative MP and fierce critic of Maggie Thatcher, has did at 88. Obit from the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph...ord-Hayhoe.html

They say deaths happen in threes.... fellow journalists and MPs on Twitter are paying their respects to Geoffrey Goodman CBE who apparently died last night at the age of 92. No articles as of yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Goodman

Two months later and finally found a death notice for Sheila Wright, former Labour MP for Birmingham who died on July 5th aged 88. http://www.bmdsonlin...ource=tmmi_bmem Very unusual for any British MP's death to go completely unnoticed by the mainstream press and their obituary writers.

Gilbert Taylor, cinematographer of Star Wars and Dr. Strangelove fame has died aged 99. Fan scoop here > http://starwarsaficionado.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/goodbye-gilbert-taylor.html BBC tweeted something about them being aware of it but they'll cover it laters or summin...

BBC North West Tonight reporting on Twitter that the man who brought The Beatles to the States, Sid Bernstein has died aged 95. And so we wait... EDIT: Link - http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/tributes-paid-man-who-brought-5763654

Marian McPartland OBE gone at 95. http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/08/21/161653933/marian-mcpartland-piano-jazz-host-has-died

Cheers for the links OoO, I've edited my post to include them. As for Draga Matkovic, an obit has sprung up here > http://www.domus-mea.de/2013/08/draga-matkovic-im-alter-von-105-jahren-gestorben/ so she did indeed die at the end of last month at the age of 105. A DDP miss unless the Telegraph have a really slow day within the next few months...

Unique hit for me

According to Wiki, he died today (August 9th)

There were 10 altogether. Deceased Angelo Muscat (1930-1977) George Claydon (1932-1993) Marcus Powell (1932-2000) Living Malcolm Dixon (b. ?), still acting, attends reunions Rusty Goffe (b. 1948), still acting, attends reunions Albert Wilkinson (b. 1938), still acting in panto No Info Ismed Hassan (b. ?), hasn't appeared in anything since the 70s, looked old(ish) back then! Norman McGlen (b. ?), ditto - hasn't appeared in anything since the 70s Pepe Poupee (b. ca. 1950), presumably alive Rudy Borgstaller (b. ?), no info - Willy Wonka seems to have been his only role

Wiki edited to say 107 year-old Rose Morat has died. http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Rose_morat She was famously beaten up and mugged when she was 101 but got the last laugh as the felon who committed the crime against her got 75 years in prison! EDIT: obituary - http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Rose-Morat&lc=1051&pid=166320771&mid=5627420

Although we already have a rumours page, I thought it was time a thread was creating for people solely declared dead on Wikipedia but with no obituaries yet circulating the internet. Over the past few months or so I've been scribbling down names of people who have been declared dead on the site and 90% of them turned out to be true, but in some instances I had to wait several weeks for anything to come out. Some obituaries can be quite tricky to find so it'd be good for some of the more experienced deathpoolers to be informed so they can help dig an obit out whether it be found on Google, through Twitter (which I've found to be the most useful recently) or even an archived search. 4 names for now, all declared dead on Wiki in the last few days, no obits as of yet! Sheila Wright (b. 1925) Labour MP; 1979-1983 http://en.wikipedia....i/Sheila_Wright *Page says she died on July 5 after a long illness - nothing on net, but nor can I find any pics/much info about her. I reckon she was a really obscure backbencher. EDIT: death notice - http://www.bmdsonline.co.uk/28909485?s_source=tmmi_bmem Draga Matkovic (b. 1907) Croatian-born German classical pianist http://en.wikipedia..../Draga_Matkovic *Deutsch language page states she died in Bad Reichenhall on July 29th - I believe she's also a DDP pick EDIT: obituary - http://www.domus-mea...hren-gestorben/ Benjamin Walker (b. 1913) British Indian-born English writer http://en.wikipedia...._Walker_(author) *According to page, died 30 July aged 99 in Teddington, England. Uses several pseudonyms. EDIT: obituary - http://www.suttongua...enjamin_Walker/ V. Dakshinamoorthy (b. 1919) Indian carnatic musician http://en.wikipedia....Dakshinamoorthy *Page edited to say he died today (Aug 2nd) EDIT: obituary - http://www.deccanchr...thy-passes-away I will post more as soon as they flag up on my watchlist. Hopefully posting them here will speed up things up and also help to dispel rumours.

Important to note that both Ian Paisley and his wife Eileen have taken a leave of absence from the House of Lords as of last week. Maybe both of them have booked themselves into a Dignitas clinic? We can but hope...

Your new world's oldest man is Arturo Licata, a Sicilian and now the only male aged over 110 on the planet. Calm down. Plenty of 110+ year old men on the planet. The GRG are just an incredibly shit organisation and it takes them forever and a day to verify cases.

Lilio Ramdohr, 99, WWII resistance fighter and member of the "White Rose" http://white-rose-studies.org/May_31_2013.html

Priebke

Mandela - he's taking the piss now.

A family friend and most certainly irreplaceable. Very sorry to hear this. RIP.