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Leading American union organizer and current DDP pick Jane McAlevey has entered home hospice care.

Well, it was about time the Americans got their own Savile figure.

Might make the final of the Euros, definitely won't make opening day of the Prem season.

From Byron "Cowboy" Wolford's 2005 autobiography. Cannon, on the right, could definitely be the guy whose photo is on the FindAGrave mentioned upthread 25 years on...

There's a much larger version of the image seemingly scanned from a book on Reddit here. Cut-off at the bottom original scanner's error:

Which leaves Carl Cannon (if he is still alive, which I'm not 100% convinced of) as the only person definitively known to have competed at the first World Series of Poker still living (the first WSOP is very poorly recorded, some say it was just a seven-man table game, some say it was a mini-tournament of 30 people).

Anyone foolish enough to try and find out if Samuel Ajak, an "artist and brigadier general of the Sudan People's Liberation Army" who, in the mid-90s, designed what would later become the flag of South Sudan is still alive? Close to zero information about him online.

Not to break up the thread by discussing the king's health, but from this week's Popbitch:

Wonder if this burgeoning trend for "oldies" media websites might turn out to be an essential area for deadpool research in coming years. Will serious DDP competitors have to get themselves a subscription to Best of British magazine?

Not to muddy the waters, but I heard from one journo on the royals beat that "he won't make it to his face being on the banknotes". I'm skeptical, though.

Cochell was still alive in 2019 when this photo of his wife's gravestone was taken. Either that or he died in such obscurity that they forgot to bury him with her, which I suppose could be feasible.

Watching a repeat of this 2017 episode of House of Games just now, and three consecutive answers were Ray Liotta, Caroline Flack and Lionel Blair. So maybe worth keeping an eye on the next answer in the sequence (Daniel Kaluuya).

RIP, loved her in Billions and 27 Dresses.

As of 9:45pm on April 13, Spanish composer Lorenzo Palomo is the only notable listed as dying today.

He's been working more in recent years than he has for decades though - Megalopolis is due to hit the festivals circuit next month, a project that he's been tinkering with since the late 70s and had to sell his winefields to finance because it ballooned in production costs a la Apocalypse Now.

This set me on a short detour trying to find the shortest Wikipedia article (excluding external links and disambiguation pages). In terms of character count, this takes some beating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_bandy_team

Literally in one case if you believe the rumours...

Juice detox.

Does he try and jog her memory by going "have you seen this? did you hear about this?"

Mister Cee, legendary New York hip-hop DJ and the man who (probably) discovered Biggie, dead at 57.

Probably too early for the "Dying off the radar" thread, but while looking for something else I found out that the character actor Tom Stern died last month and it doesn't appear to have made it anywhere outside of his family's Facebook. Not to be confused with the Tom Stern who has a long history as cinematographer for Clint Eastwood movies, or Tom Stern the director of music videos by Marilyn Manson and Ice Cube, this Tom Stern was the lead in the 1971 namspolitation film Trip to Kill (billed ahead of Telly Savalas, Robert Vaughan and Burgess Meredith), but was also a mainstay villain-of-the-week in American TV throughout the 60s and 70s. Was also one of the endless "it could have been us!" residents of 10050 Cielo Drive prior to Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski taking up residence there.

Toby Simkin, theatre producer and the first man to sell tickets for performances on a new-fangled thing called "the internet" in the mid-90s, dead at 59. Normally wouldn't have posted, but he hits one of my favourite niches for dead celebs: people who clearly wrote their own Wikipedia entry.

How have you people managed to make this thread even worse?

Latest on David Elmore Smith (the censoring of the name is done by him, not me, because it's a total mystery what could come after the "David S" in the Facebook account for David Elmore Smith).

Is there an explanation somewhere of how a Chess Records mainstay of the 50s ended up doing the scampi-and-chips seaside circuit in the UK 30 years later? Was it just a "people in the UK gave more of a shit and he had bills to pay" deal?