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Witchell looking a lot older than 68 here.

I'm going with Bobby Charlton.

Quick, pick the celebrity death you think is going to get Mother Teresa/Groucho Marx'd by the Queen.

Queen's death announced via new Fortnite emote.

Wincest will see us through.

Off the record, and it may mean nothing, but the newsroom has gone very, very quiet. Think it might be a long day.

Was Darius murdered after leaking details of a bogus scheme to sell Rangers?

Fired by Bologna. Gotta assume they think he's going to be alive for at least another six months unless they want the mother of all bad publicity.

Swiss democratic socialist author Mariella Mehr and 1950s New Zealand badminton player Jeff Robson have ruined that potential perfect score for QOs.

With it all set and done, only two deaths for yesterday on Wikipedia. However, they were Moon Landrieu, who got a QO, and Lars Vogt, who was covered extensively and I would assume gets a Times/Guardian QO (maybe even a Last Word?) within a few weeks.

Both parents still alive, doesn't smoke... not much coming up on the old scouting report that could be of interest to poolers. Anyone got any inside info?

To the moon....

Pat Stay, probably the second most successful white battle rapper of all time, is apparently the guy stabbed to death in this news story. EDIT: confirmed here.

A new one for the "never mentioned on here" list: Charles R. Swindoll, now 87, is an evangelical Christian preacher whose Insight for Living radio program is broadcast on other 2,000 channels worldwide. However, more importantly, he was the first person to coin the term "catfishing" - he meant it strictly to define a sinner who keeps a Christian thinking about their faith. That guy quoting him in the 2010 documentary of the same name, and the subsequent hit TV show from Max and Nev, saw its definition change to mean someone who has a fake or inaccurate internet presence.

RIP to the most famous celebrity beekeeper. Suggs, Vince Cable and Scarlett Johansson battling it out for that title now.

RIP to the guy from Epic Rap Battles of History

Tom Cushman was one of many known as the "Fourth Beastie Boy" - he has a writing credit on "Fight for Your Right to Party" and is namechecked in "Hey Ladies" ("Tom Thumb, Tom Cushman, or Tom Foolery"). He was later arrested for selling Philip Seymour Hoffman the drugs that killed him. His Discogs profile says he died in 2018, and that seems to be backed up by a tweet here. Can't find any obituary though, which is odd - you'd have thought he'd have at least qualified for some sort of Brooklyn music blog-level coverage. Discogs claims his real name was Steven Cushing Thomas, and that name is associated with a British library music company called High Left. Their Company House page says that Steven Cushing Thomas, of Seattle, Washington ceased a stake in the company in mid-2018, but then retook one a day later. So I don't know. Probably dead. Edit: Died early June 2018 according to this Facebook post, with a memorial taking place on December 22 of that year at St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn Heights, if anyone fancies searching for a reference.

Recent Inoki appearance on Japanese TV.

Jesse McCartney and Jesse Metcalfe are different people.

Sitting in silence, living in fear?

Pro Wrestling Stories has corrected their piece on him, and even links to the DL forum as a place for "verifiable accounts"

Not completely off the radar, but I've only just discovered that the sumo wrestler Ulambayaryn Byambajav, aka Byamba, died in February 2020. He was the go-to sumo guy for American TV and film for the past decade, he was in Oceans 13, a One Direction music video and, perhaps most notably, a couple of guest spots on Impractical Jokers. And yet despite dying in Los Angeles, no coverage of his death in the west, seemingly, until a passing reference in a Sports Illustrated piece about another sumo guy two years later. Wonder if the date of his death hamstrung him because we were all looking at COVID and nothing else?