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On the Wiki page for the Carter administration, these positions are listed under "Carter cabinet". Same goes for the Reagan one. On the Reagan page there are 20 positions listed (incl. Office of Management and Budget Director and the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.) and next to it there's a photo captioned "the cabinet of President Reagan in 1981". There are exactly 20 faces in that photo. Given how well looked after these type of Wiki pages are, I'm sure this issue will have been discussed at length in the past on there before between editors. I think it's safe to say they're Cabinet jobs, even if the ins and outs are somewhat different. In the UK we have the same sort of thing. We have "ministers without portfolio" who attend Cabinet, but are not "Cabinet members", and yet whenever the photos are taken or the cabinet list is drawn up, they're included in it. EDIT: News article here about Trump removing U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. role from the Cabinet. It was restored under Biden. White House website lists them as Cabinet positions.

Tweet reporting the death of Alastair Fowler CBE (wiki), aged 91–92, Scottish literary critic, editor and authority on Edmund Spenser, game theory and Renaissance literature.

Times death notice for Adam Clapham (wiki), aged 82, BBC director and producer of television programmes and films, including "Doomsday Gun" (1994), which starred Frank Langella and Alan Arkin. Also wrote an illustrated history on nudists... and was surprisingly unmarried.

Yes, and they also forgot Donald McHenry (wiki, b. 1936) and James T. McIntyre (wiki, b. 1940). There are seven still living, as the Office of Management and Budget Director and the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. were Cabinet positions within his administration. Could be another 15+ years before the last surviving member of Carter's Cabinet dies.

Guardian obit for British clown Arthur Vercoe Pedlar (wiki), aged 89. He was also President of the World Clown Association... yeah, apparently that's a thing. Lost my patience with the search function trying to see if we had a thread on clowns. Hundreds of results came up, but nearly all from the Boris Johnson thread.

Duncan's obit says he died from a fall... I'm getting rather suspicious now...

Taken from FB. A picture of Ray Marshall circa November 2021 celebrating his 75th wedding anniversary with his wife. She died in January. There's another pic of him on a Zoom call around the same time period. He looks frail but "normal" for a man of 93 (now 94).

NY Times obit as confirmation. This means that Ray Marshall (b. 1928) and Henry Kissinger (b. 1923) are the last living U.S. Cabinet Secretaries to have served in WWII.

Hoax. Belfast Telegraph confirm Ricky McEvoy is alive and well, and that news of his death was a "sick joke".

Some good news on this front. British ballerina Pauline Clayden (wiki) has just been moved into the Living People category on Wiki as a an article has appeared confirming she is alive and just turned 100! Also, The Royal Ballet Twitter account have also noted it:

Charles Duncan Jr., former U.S. Energy Secretary and Deputy Defense Secretary under Carter, died in Houston, Texas today according to his Wikipedia page. Doesn't appear to be vandalism. The editor seems to have a close connection to the Duncan family judging from his past edits. Incredible that DL gets intel on U.S. Cabinet Secretary deaths before the media does in 2022. No wonder journos read this forum... Could still be nonsense ofc... let's see.

Announcement on their official Facebook page here from 10th July. You should get on Facebook @YoungWillz, you'll get yourself Connected

American composer/conductor Thomas Sleeper (wiki), dead at 66 from ALS. A pick on several pools on here.

I presume this is the same record Goldberg has already seen though.

Kathleen Booth gets her well deserved Times obit.

Peter Butler (wiki), English professional golfer, dead at 90. Won the PGA Close Championship in 1963 and the French Open in 1968. Oldest surviving Great Britain and Ireland Ryder Cup player. DDP pick.

He was 102. There's no confusion. They use a different calendar system in Nepal, and they consider you to already be "one year old" from the time you're born.

Ralph Pearson (wiki), American chemist, supposedly died on October 12th, aged 103. Can't see any obits yet. So many names left from 1919 on EN Wikipedia. Surely that can't sustain itself for much longer?

Considering the same user edited Tory politician Chris Patten's page a few days ago to say that he had become a member of a pop group after the remaining members of Girls Aloud "founded the BBC in 2022", I think the chances of it being legit are... hmmm... zero?

Tweet reporting the death of Crispa Redmanizers and Detroit Spirits player Cyrus Mann (wiki), aged 66, from COVID-19.

Done. Thanks.

It's definitely him. The same record on Ancestry gives a middle name of Leonard, says he was born in NY and various corresponding records detail his army service during WWII. This newspaper cutting from 1983 gives a lot of details about him, including army service, where he came from and his middle name, and they all match perfectly.

Lincoln City / Rotherham Utd. player Dave Smith (wiki) died in late September, aged 74. Death seems to have gone unnoticed until now (his Wiki page was only updated today), probably over the confusion with Dave Smith (b. 1933, wiki) who also died in September. If your surname was Smith, god knows why you'd call your child "David", "John", "James" etc...

Not dead but CNBC did publish a premature obituary last week. He's 81. The media may know something we don't?