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Bobby Moore was commentating on a football match seven days before his cancer finally wiped him out.

Unsurprisingly, Rayya Elias' slightly optimistic plans to perform a one-woman show called Death Love Life later this month have been cancelled, because she "cannot perform at the level she'd like".

I'll take Connie Sawyer, she played the Apartment Manager in an episode of Dynasty in 1982.

Captain Earthman was a long-lister for me this year, thought there might be a 15% chance of him getting a Mail obit.

Pop stars from major Anglophone African nations are guaranteed as BBC pick-ups now, a lot more than the equivalent famed star from, say, Germany or France would be. Yes I am still annoyed about Michel Delpech.

I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walking with the reaper, doing the werewolves of London, today in 1973.

Could always buy one of these and let it off near the door: http://www.ebay.com/bhp/air-raid-siren

Chris and Nancy morelike

Martin Molony, three time winning jockey in the Irish Grand National, winner of the 1951 Cheltenham Gold Cup and Irish Champion Jockey seven years in a row between 1945 and 1951, dead at 92. His career was over by the age of 26 due to injury, which makes it all the more impressive a CV.

Ding ding ding.

As I said elsewhere, Kendo's moved on from pestering his neighbours with topiary and now dedicates most of his time to fund-raising for Lee Rigby's family.

Anne-Marie Morris looks like she might be the first faller from this parliament.

Any of our Icelandic brothers able to translate this post his wife made to FB:

Joe Davis, the man who went undefeated in the World Snooker Championship from 1927 to 1946 and whose retirement from the sport brought it into a 20-year period of obscurity, died today in 1978.

BEIJING (AP) — The hospital treating imprisoned Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo said Monday his condition is now critical and doctors are in "active rescue" mode for China's best-known political prisoner. The First Hospital of China Medical University said in a statement that Liu, who has liver cancer, is suffering from a severely swollen stomach, low blood pressure and poor kidney function. An MRI scan also revealed growing cancer lesions. The lesions have caused localized bleeding in his liver, the statement said.

I'll tell you who I'm convinced is a goner in the next 36 months, Good Ol' Puppy Murdering JR. He's admitted himself that he's throwing himself into as much work as possible since the death of his wife, and he's allegedly hitting the bottle pretty hard too. A heart attack is almost guaranteed.

No longer breathing

Wolves goalie Carl Ikeme diagnosed with acute leukaemia, will start treatment "immediately".

drol jumping in as soon as someone's Jewish ancestry is mentioned? Stunned. Also, is "Coming Up" by Paul the best solo single by an ex-Beatle?

Talking of officials, one I only just found was still with us: Abraham Klein. Israeli ref who oversaw some of the most famous games in the tourny's history, including Brazil 1 - England 0 in 1970 and Italy 3 - Brazil 2 in 1982.

Dave Meltzer's father Herb has died aged 90. **1/2, not as convincing as Japanese fathers dying.

Not a bad response from Petey: