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Hardly justified dumping her in this thread. Famous in her own right. Sure, not as famous as him, but it would be like posting Bobby Brown in here as "ex husband of Whitney".

5 / 9 of the names on that list are still alive.

British perennial political candidate, WWII vet, blogger, and all round pain in the ass Norman Scarth (wiki) supposedly dead at 98. Disappointed to see he wasn't picked in the DDP. Really curious to see if he gets a QO. My hunch is he will.

Robert R. Holt (wiki) dead at 106 according to his son. Awaiting an obit.

Married?! That guy’s a kinky bastard.

Have a decent Wiki page too. Maybe I’m just sick as fuck but would’ve been interesting to see one of them die and the other live on for several more years.

Nah. American case. Not interested in international broadcasters. None of my lists on here are intended to be exhaustive.

So prominent was this case you could compile several DDP teams from it. Murder trial of O.J. Simpson, 1995 concerning the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson (1959–1994) and Ron Goldman (1968–1994) accused: O. J. Simpson (1947–2024) judge: Lance Ito (wiki, born 1950) defense "Dream Team": led by Johnnie Cochran (1937–2005), with Robert Shapiro (wiki, born 1942), F. Lee Bailey (1933–2021), Alan Dershowitz (wiki, born 1938), Robert Kardashian (1944–2003), Shawn Holley (wiki, born 1962), Carl E. Douglas (wiki, born 1955), Gerald Uelmen (wiki, born 1940), Barry Scheck (wiki, born 1949) and Peter Neufeld (wiki, born 1950) prosecution: Marcia Clark (wiki, born 1953), William Hodgman (wiki, born 1952), Christopher Darden (wiki, born 1956) and District Attorney Gil Garcetti (wiki, born 1941). other trial contributors: investigator Mark Fuhrman (wiki, born 1952), domestic violence expert Lenore E. Walker (wiki, born 1942), chief medical examiner Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran (wiki, born 1949), physician Robert Huizenga (wiki, born 1950s), pathologist Michael Baden (wiki, born 1934), forensic scientist Henry Lee (wiki, born 1938) and toxicologist Fredric Rieders (1922–2005). broadcasters covering the chase: Zoey Tur (wiki, born 1960) – spotted his vehicle from a news copter, NBC's Tom Brokaw (wiki, born 1940), ABC's Peter Jennings (1938–2005) and Barbara Walters (1929–2022), and Jim Hill (wiki, born 1946). broadcasters covering the courtroom: Larry King (1933–2021), Linda Deutsch (wiki, born 1943), Harvey Levin (wiki, born 1950), David Margolick (wiki, born 1952). Writers Dominick Dunne (1925–2009) and Joe McGinniss (1942–2014) also had full access. others associated: football player Al Cowlings (wiki, born 1947) – close friend of O.J. / aided him in the low speed police chase whilst evading capture, actor Kato Kaelin (wiki, born 1959) – with friend Nicole Brown Simpson shortly before her murder, former football coach to O.J. John McKay (1923–2001), and fellow players Walter Payton (1953–1999) and Vince Evans (wiki, born 1955) – all spoke to Simpson during his police chase to talk him out of committing suicide, former NFL player and pastor Rosey Grier (wiki, born 1932) – visited and comforted O.J. shortly after his capture, television personality and author Faye Resnick (wiki, born 1947) – friend of Nicole's who O.J.'s defense team described as a drug user in debt to dealers who may have been involved in the murders, journalist Jeffrey Toobin (wiki, born 1960) – printed a famous article claiming that the defense were considering suggested the glove was planted at the scene by "racist" investigators, Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan (wiki, born 1933) – provided Cochran with bodyguards during the trial after he received death threats, prosecutor and author Vincent Bugliosi (1934–2015) – wrote the famous book "Outrage" detailing why O.J. got away with murder, Willie L. Williams (1943–2016) – head of the LA Police Dept during the case and trial, lawyer Daniel M. Petrocelli (wiki, born 1953) – filed the 1997 wrongful death civil suit against O.J., screenwriter Pablo Fenjves (wiki, born 1953) – ghostwrote "If I Did It", a collaborated account with O.J., journalist Ed Gordon (wiki, born 1960) was the first to interview O.J. following the trial, with Katie Couric (wiki, born 1957) getting an in depth interview with O.J. in 2004 about the case, actress and television personality Ruby Wax (wiki, born 1953) did a famous interview with O.J. in 1998 where he pretended to stab her with a banana, detective William Dear (wiki, born 1937) – published "O.J. is Innocent and I Can Prove it", convicted serial killer Glen Edward Rogers (wiki, born 1962) – claims to have been hired by O.J. to carry out the murders.

Look up Irving Kahn + siblings or Maggie Renfro + siblings

Wait until you hear about these things called supercentenarians!

Odd timing. I watched a movie of hers the other night. Furneaux wouldn’t die off radar. Though there is some controversy as to whether she was born in 1928 or 1926. I think we discussed her before? Seem to be having deja vu.

Obit.

I see you just read his Wiki page.

But what we really want to know is did he get a breaking news notification from Le Monde @Lafaucheuse?

Times obit reveals that Sir Paul Fox died yesterday (8th April) from stroke complications.

Now that's the type of death I was expecting 2024 to deliver. This could be the start of it now.

I went on his Wiki page earlier and groaned when I saw it. "Simkin co-produced shows that have collectively garnered 3 Tony Awards (and 5 nominations), 7 Drama Desk Awards, 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 2 Lucille Lortel Awards, 3 Drama League Awards, 1 Theatre World Award, 1 Olivier Award, 3 OBIE Awards and 1 Pulitzer Prize. Shows that Simkin was involved in marketing have garnered an additional 243 Tony nominations and 96 wins"[3] [3] = TobySimkin.com

Thanks! My verdict is she still looks ok. Could see another birthday but I don’t expect her to become a supercentenarian.

Sir David Attenborough is now the last living BBC Controller from that generation.

@YoungWillz comment here confirms O'Neale and Ellis were also still alive in 2020, living in Canada. I'm pretty certain it's just the 2 members that are deceased then (Potter and Cresswell).

Forgot about that. Will have a look later. Just tested my theory on the Who link being dubious. Mike Wakelin was born in Essex in 1941 as Michael A Wakelin. He doesn't show up in the GRO up to 2021, isn't in the Probates after that, and according to 192.com, was alive as recently as 2020. Looking like he's still around, so Hoather probably isn't the only surviving member, hence the odd wording in the link.

Thanks for this @YoungWillz! That is indeed a death notice for Cresswell. As there was only one Curtis Cresswell born in 1946–1948, plus the area concerned is also a match. As for the others, I will add a note to the listing with that Who link. The wording bothers me slightly. It says "the surviving". If they had said "the last surviving" then I would have been more happy to mark all the others as deceased but I want to err on the side of caution to make room for any potential oversights.

Dude, it’s been little over an hour. Patience.

Updated. Chubby Checker must be checking his pulse right now.

Clarence "Frogman" Henry a DDP pick for 2 teams. Ralph Puckett last picked in 2023. That's a bit of a surprise but oh well.