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David Collings from Sapphire and Steel and shitloads of other stuff has died aged 80, his family have announced. Sad news, great actor, and a genuinely nice guy too from what I knew of him.

Enough for there to be skirmishes. Watch for how prominent Joanna Cherry becomes in the near future.

I remember where I was when I heard Margaret had died - reading the breaking news bit at the bottom of the screen during a really bad episode of WWE Smackdown. Can't mind when I heard about the Queen Mum. Alas, I know exactly how I'll find out about Philip. Logging on here one day in the future and seeing the "Dead" tag!

Poor Princess Margaret!

I did offer to look after the team again as it would have been of great help to me putting a team together, but Joey was too wise on the uptake...

Trebek. Forgot I hadn't voted already.

"Oh no! The front door's exploded!"

The great Dino Buzzati's short story Seven Floors comes to mind.

Yeah, I started it as a way of getting good tips for the DDP, but people kept sending in Prince Philip and Olivia de Havilland rather than off the radar unique tips.

Well, this turned out quite accurate. Bad luck Willz, out by 21 days...

Ebola really was the Fort William FC of wannabe modern pandemics.

On the other hand, I think December-February will be babies everywhere. Not in this house, mind you.

2009's flu pandemic was 150,000–575,000 estimated and that was just a more contagious than normal flu so that's my ball park guess now. Although the official number will likely be way below that as we're not testing folk for the illness...

There was a wee old dear nearby who died a few months after the wean was born. Just went in her sleep one night out of the blue. She was lovely. Anyhow, never married or anything like that, had a few nieces who organised the funeral, but the church was absolutely packed too with regulars from around the area as she was so loved. Most of whom reacted in considerable shock to the news she was apparently 93 when she died! If you'd put me on the spot I'd have guessed 70, 75 at most.

An absolute legend for sure, no jokes. Not sure he'll make a DL though as he is in frail health and living full time in the Charterhouse Infirmary for end of life care in London.

I'd just like to admit that this was *slightly* overly optimistic...

Probably. My thoughts on Irritable Duncan Syndrome are well documented by now.

Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle has coronavirus. Might be a problem as despite being younger than me, he also has HIV.

Luckily, VAR have us covered:

Wasn't she the one who kept saying kidnap victims were dead and she could talk to their spirits...then they turned up alive? Also that the spirits had told she'd live to 110, and she didn't even see 80?

? Hudd's death was all over the place for days!

All the bread and circuses are getting cancelled. I'd hate to be a crap Prime Minister in 2020...

Does not compute.

Record to date, complete with my shit puns from 2016 to 2018 (and Joey's from 2019 onwards...) 2016 1. 3rd March 2016 - Martin Crowe (Crowek'd) 2. 4th March 2016 - Joey Feek (Feek Out) 3. 6th March 2016 - Nancy Reagan (Nancy AIDS the Crowdsourced List) 4. 16th March 2016 - Cliff Michelmore (Michelnomore) 5. 22nd March 2016 - Rob Ford (Ford Fiesta) 6. 24th March 2016 - Johan Cruyff (Cruyff Turn in his Grave) 7. 10th April 2016 - Howard Marks (No More Mr Nice Guy!) 8. 28th April 2016 - Jenny Diski (Jenny on the Block) 9. 4th June 2016 - Muhammad Ali (Float like a butterfly, stung like a bee, now we must say RIP Ali) 10. 16th August 2016 - Joao Havelange (Full Time!) 11. 30th August 2016 - Vera Caslavska (Vera wins Gold for Crowdsourced List) 12. 13th October 2016 - Bhumibol Aduladeyj (The King and Die) 13. 25th November 2016 - Fidel Castro (One Ways to Kill Castro) 14. 18th December 2016 - Zsa Zsa Gabor (To Kill a Gabor Sister) 2017 1. 10th January 2017 - Clare Hollingworth (Hollingworth Meets Her Deadline) 2. 14th January 2017 - Zhou Youguang (Zhou Now Gone) 3. 31st January 2017 - John Wetton (One More Dead Nightmare) 4. 6th February 2017 - Joost van der Westhuizen (Joost in time for another hit) 5. 12th February 2017 - Sara Coward (Coward's End) 6. 17th February 2017 - Peter Skellern (No Telling When This Will Peter Out) 7. 27th February 2017 - Sir Gerald Kaufman (Father of the Hearse) 8. 11th May 2017 - Geoffrey Bayldon (Catweazle Bayls Out) 9. 15th May 2017 - Ian Brady - no headline quip 10. 29th May 2017 - John Noakes (Gone with Noakes) 11. 5th June 2017 - Peter Sallis (See Ya Cleggy) 12. 11th June 2017 - Errol Christie (It's a Knockout) 13. 16th June 2017 - Helmut Kohl (Kohl Bunkered) 14. 27th July 2017 - June Foray (That's All Folks) 15. 8th August 2017 - Glen Campbell (Adios to the Record) 16. 18th August 2017 - Bruce Forsyth (Didn't He Die Well) 17. 20th August 2017 - Colin Meads (Pinetree Wilts) 18. 26th September 2017 - Tony Booth (Till Death Did us Part) 19. 18th October 2017 - Gord Downie (In a World Possessed by the Human Death) 20. 19th October 2017 - Danielle Darrieux (24 Hours in the Death of a Woman) 21. 25th October 2017 - Fats Domino (Ain't That a Shame) 22. 5th December 2017 - King Michael of Romania (Exiled from Life) 2018 1. 9th February 2018 - Liam Miller (This List now Miller-Lite) 2. 14th February 2018 - Morgan Tsvangirai (Tsvangir-died) 3. 21st February 2018 - Rev Billy Graham (Billy gives up the Holy Ghost) 4. 18th April 2018 - Barbara Bush (Bushed) 5. 13th May 2018 - Tessa Jowell (Tessa of the D'urber...fills a coffin) 6. 6th June 2018 - Lady Mary Wilson (Stop! In The Name of Death!) 7. 9th July 2018 - Lord Carrington (Reflects on Hits Passed) 8. 6th August 2018 - Charlotte Rae (Facts of Death) 9. 21st August 2018 - Stefan Karl Stefansson (Rotten Luck) 10. 26th August 2018 - John McCain (McCain's Had His Chips) 11. 19th September 2018 - Denis Norden (It'll Be All Dead on the Night) 12. 6th October 2018 - Montserrat Caballe (La Muerta) 13. 12th November 2018 - Stan Lee (Lee Disassembled) 14. 1st December 2018 - George HW Bush (Read My Lips: No More Dying) 2019 1. 22nd April 2019 - Le Duc Anh (For Auld Anh's Syne) 2. 23rd April 2019 - Grand Duke Jean (The Grand Death) 3. 13th May 2019 - Doris Day (End of a Sentimental Journey) 4. 14th May 2019 - Tim Conway (Dorf on the Stairway to Heaven) 5. 16th May 2019 - IM Pei (Pei in the Sky) 6. 17th May 2019 - Herman Wouk (The Winds of Death) 7. 15th June 2019 - Franco Zeffirelli (Brother Life Sister Death) 8. 5th July 2019 - John McCririck (McCririck's Final Furlong) 9. 16th July 2019 - Johnny Clegg (Scattering of Johnny's Ashes in Africa) 10. 18th August 2019 - Kathleen Blanco (Dying on Sunshine) 11. 6th September 2019 - Robert Mugabe (Beloved Deathlist Poster Dies) 12. 18th September 2019 - Fernando Ricksen (You Can't hear the Drums, Fernando) 13. 26th September 2019 - Jacques Chirac (Chirac Est Mort) 14. 16th October 2019 - Leah "Brackers" Bracknell (Emmerdead) 15. 24th November 2019 - Clive James (Reports of Clive Jame's Death) 16. 13th December 2019 - Sheila Mercier (Annie Buys the Farm) 2020 1. 10th January 2020 - Sultan of Oman (Oh Man Off with a Bang) 2. 12th January 2020 - Sir Roger Scruton (Scrutonizing Roger's Death) 3. 21st January 2020 - Terry Jones (A Dead Parrot) 4. 28th January 2020 - Nicholas Parsons (Parson's Pleasure) 5. 4th February 2020 - Daniel Arap Moi (That's Arap) 6. 5th February 2020 - Kirk Douglas 7. 5th March 2020 - Javier Perez de Cuellar 8. 13th March 2020 - Genesis P-orridge

He got a Guardian obit but I haven't seen reference in my catch up so far. Corona-drowning out the minor numbers...