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She'll be hoping they're boys, no doubt.

Its eight years since the death of Trinidadian actor, voice actor, dancer, choreographer, director etc etc. Geoffrey Holder, best known as Baron Samedi in Live & Let Die. In addition to that role, he also appeared in Annie, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex..., Doctor Doolittle (the Rex Harrison one) and more as well as many TV roles, and narrator performances, even singing on a episode of the David Frost Show. He won two Tony awards for The Wiz, for direction & costume design, and was the pitchman for 7 Up in the 70s & 80s, and became just as famous for his laugh as much as anything else. He died aged 84, from complications of pneumonia.

Raymond Allen has died, aged 82.

Its been getting attention on Twitter lately, and every now and again someone mentions this 'Triffic' version from Mike Reid.

Sir Bobby, just in time for fulsome tributes at the FIFA World Cup (no doubt it'll be Stanley Baxter now)

Former Guardian & Observer photographer & picture editor Eamonn McCabe has died aged 74. He began as a sports photographer, became a picture editor and then moved to portrait photography. He won sports photographer of the year 4 times and was picture editor of the year 6 times. In 1985, he attended the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus as a sports photographer, winning News Photographer of the Year for his pictures of the Heysel Stadium tragedy.

Steve Reich is 86 today

Its 22 years since the death of Benjamin Orr (Orzechowski), bassist and lead vocalist of The Cars. Known locally as Benny 11 Letters, he joined local band The Grasshoppers, who released two single and were the house band on a local (later syndicated) TV show, before the band was dissolved owing to two members being drafted. Orr and Ocasek met in the late 60's and performed in a variety of guises until forming The Cars in 1976. Orr sang lead vocals on some their biggest hits, including Just What I Needed & Drive until the brand broke up in 1988, after which he formed his own band ORR, and played in two other bands, Voices of Classic Rock and Big People. In April 2000, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, though still continued to perform, his final performance with Big People, in Anchorage Alaska six days before he died, at home in Atlanta, aged 53.

There's a 30 minute interview with Glenda Jackson airing tonight on BBC4, 9pm, conducted by John Wilson, as was this BFI event. There was also an interview by Wilson on Radio 4 which aired on Saturday and gets a repeat broadcast this afternoon (2:15). Elizabeth is Missing follows at 9:30.

Coincidentally, I met a couple celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary a few days after you posted this. I asked, no card!

I knew Garry, nice bloke.

Mary Frances Veeck (paywall), widow of Baseball club owner (Brewers, Indians, Browns, White Sox) & innovator, died 10th September aged 102.

Its 34 years since the death of Sir Alec Issigonis, renowned motor car designer. Born 1906 in Smyrna in the Ottoman empire, Issigonis' family were evacuated to Malta just before the Great Fire of Smyrna, near the end of the Greco-Turkish War; Issigonis' father dfied shortly after and he and his mother relocated to the UK, where he studied engineering. While working for Humber, he began racing a self-modified Austin Seven, which led to him being employed by Austin. Moving to Morris he began working on designs for the Morris 10, but the war interrupted this work, but he continued designing, and worked on designs that would later become the Morris Minor. When BMC was formed by the merger of Austin & Morris, he moved to Alvis, however he was re-recruited back to BMC to work on 3 new designs, a large car, a mid-sized family car and a small town car. His work concentrated on the two larger cars until the Suez crisis necessitated the speedy introduction of the smaller, more economical, car. This car became the Mini, which remained in production from 1959 until 2000, with over 5 million being built. Issigonis was made a CBE in 1964 and knighted in 1969. He died aged 81, at his home in Birmingham.

The other half of the agency, Dan Wieden has now also died, he was 77, and is also given credit for coining the "Just Do It" slogan.

Antonio Inoki QO. Five DDP teams picked him.

Tony Blackburn kindly posting a picture from today's 55th anniversary meal.

Former Sussex captain Robin Marlar has died aged 91. He was also The Times' cricket correspondent and once President of the MCC

Having given her a few viewings, I agree. Hosting/co-hosting quiz/game shows is a definite talent that not everyone possesses. She also, at times, comes across as a bit too fangirlish. Plus, she can't read an autocue/laptop without it sounding like shes reading, and demonstrates lack of preparation with her delivery (see also Ann Robinson) such that it comes across stilted and full of mispronunciations. (e,g. Jean Dujardin pronounced as in Harlow, rather than Luc Godard). She was pretty good with that St. Winifred's thing though.

Rafael Chimiskyan, Soviet weightlifting Gold medallist from Helsinki '52, has died aged 93.

Its 48 years since the assassination of Carlos Parts & his wife Sofia Cuthbert. Prats had been Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, and also a minister in Salvador' Allende's government, until resigning amidst unrest. His second-in-command , Augusto Pinochet, who was thought to be loyal to Allende, and also recommended by Prats, was made C-in-C. This appointment removed any obstruction to a military coup and Allende was subsequently ousted. Immediately following the coup. Prats and Cuthbert exiled themselves to Argentina. Barely a year later, both were killed by a car bomb after leaving their apartment in Buenos Aires. It was later learnt that the bomb was the work of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, the Chilean Secret Police, as part of Operation Condor, the US-backed campaign to remove opposition to right-wing governments in South America.

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Tom Urbani, pitcher with the Cardinals (1993-96) finishing the 96 season with the Tigers, has died* aged 54. No cause of death disclosed, at family's request. *Or will die in a month's time.

Its 30 years since the death of actor, singer & songwriter Paul Jabara. A New Yorker, he began his career as an original cast member off-Broadway in Hair before moving to Broadway proper, played Herod in the original West End production of Jesus Christ Superstar. He took over the role of Frank N. Furter from Tim Curry for the LA production of The Rocky Horror Show. On screen he appeared in John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy and The Day of The Locust (See below), amongst others, as well as numerous TV roles. His biggest successes were as a songwriter, winning a Grammy, a Golden Globe & an Oscar for the Donna Summer hit "Last Dance", for the film Thank God its Friday! Other songwriting successes included the Donna Summer/Barbra Steisand duet No More Tears (Enough is Enough) and The Weathergirls It's Raining Men, and songs for Bette Midler and Diana Ross. Jabara died in LA aged 44, from complications of AIDS.

There's an 'Other Lives' obit in The Guardian, by Seán's widow, Anna, which doesn't mention Daniel, from which I infer it wasn't.