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    12. Dennis Skinner

    Actually, no. Spencer Perceval died in the House - assassination. But there was also an old Liberal guy around 1910 - I forget his name - who keeled over and died right as he was casting his vote! Just one of those urban legends, I'm afraid. As is, I'm pretty sure, the "death in the Commons = state funeral" thing.
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    12. Dennis Skinner

    Ah now, Sean, you know that Dennis's ideal road out of here would be to keel over in PMQs right after denouncing Tory cuts! Or she believes its a jinx to wish someone happy birthday before their actual birthday?
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    Films with entirely dead casts

    It was the title of the play in the US iirc? Anyhow, bloody good book. One of her best. And do you know what's annoying, as a fan? In her autobiography, she notes how it was one of her trickiest novels to plot out. Guess what one of her few novels for which none of her prep notes still exist is!
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    Authors Last A Long Time, But....

    That's shocking news. He signed books in the first place?
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    Dead Pop Stars

    David Gest was getting ready for the David Gest is Not Dead tour when he died.
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    Films with entirely dead casts

    Christie herself suggested And Then There Were None as a suitable title, becoming uncomfortable with the Ten Little N's title very early on. (Especially as it takes away from the fact the one actual admitted racist in the book is portrayed as a monster.)
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    Celebrity Pets

    Maria Menounos is a US TV presenter. She's done a fair bit for the WWE (wrestling) but works for Access Hollywood or one of those type shows. Bit self-centred imo. Her mum is her mum, and has brain cancer. The dog was an innocent party in all of this, I'm pretty sure.
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    Boxing Clever?

    Well the hope is Nathanial May wins his world title eliminator in a few months time, and then gets a match with a champion and thus QO's care about him "doing it for his former trainer". There is some sort of method to the madness.
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    Morgan Tsvangirai

    It's as real as the Robert Mugabe twitter account.
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    Ideas and Possibilities for 2019

    Tesco fraud trial abandoned after Carl Rogberg has "major heart attack".
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    Morgan Tsvangirai

    Would be a big miss for me, only on my Alt Obits team as a late replacement!
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    Georgian Deadpool

    Those Nazi uncles, what are they like?
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    The Dead of 2018

    Well, bugger that news.
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    Football

    Not looked at the lower league tables in a while, but I see Plymouth's crisis was shortlived - 11th in League One now.
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    Hollywood Possibilities

    Given the search for film with 100% dead cast in another thread, here's a few favourites which didn't qualify and their surviving credited actors (not counting extras, folk who disappeared off the face of the earth, etc etc) - Curse of Frankenstein (1956) Sally Walsh (1950) Melvyn Hayes (1935) - Asylum (1972) Robert Powell (1944) Barbara Parkins (1942) Sylvia Syms (1934) Ann Firbank (1933) Charlotte Rampling (1946) Britt Ekland (1942) Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Patricia Garwood (1941) Valerie Singleton (1937) Horror Express (1972) Silvia Tortosa (1947) Helga Line (1932) Angel del Pozo (1934) The Wild Geese (1978) Hardy Kruger (1928) Winston Ntshona (1941) John Kani (1942) David Ladd (1947) Rosalind Lloyd (1953) Ian Yule (early 1930s) – apparently now not in good health Thomas Baptiste (1936) Valerie Leon (1943) Anna Bergman (1948) Suzanne Danielle (1957) Rocky Taylor (1946) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Albert Finney (1936) Jacqueline Bisset (1944) Sean Connery (1930) Vanessa Redgrave (1937) Michael York (1942) Vernon Dobtcheff (1934) (So, an alcoholic, 3 old people in poor health, and Vernon and Bisset there...) The Eagle Has Landed (1976) Michael Caine (1933) Donald Sutherland (1935) Robert Duvall (1931) Jenny Agutter (1952) Jean Marsh (1934) Sven-Bertil Taube (1934) Siegfried Rauch (1932) John Standing (1934) Judy Geeson (1948) Treat Williams (1951) Michael Byrne (1943) Tim Barlow (1936) Kate Binchy (1937) Maurice Roeves (1937) Alexei Jawdokimov (c 1938) Leonie Thelen (1959) Denis Lill (1942) Keith Buckley (1941) Kent Williams (1950) Roy Marsden (1941) Wolf Kahler (1940) Harry Fielder (1940) Carry On Screaming (1968) Billy Cornelius (1934) Angela Douglas (1940) Fenella Fielding (1927) Jim Dale (1935) It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1961) Barrie Chase (1933) John Clarke (1932) Nicholas Georgiade (1933) Carl Reiner (1922) Dam Busters (1952) John Fraser (1931) Denys Graham (1926) Gerald “Adam Adamant” Harper (1929) Philip Latham (1929) Hell Drivers (1957) Vera Day (1935) Sean Connery (1930) David McCallum (1933)
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    Films with entirely dead casts

    Mind you, you know what'd be a toughie here? Symbiopyschotaxiplasm Take One!
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    Films with entirely dead casts

    Despite coming out after Gone with the Wind and Oz, His Girl Friday (1940) is 100% dead for speaking parts iirc. Of course, the youngest cast would be super-centenarians now, even if a bunch of them died fairly young. For 1950s, what about Guys and Dolls? That must be close here.
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    Life In Prison

    Chapman will be up for parole again soon. Think he's trying to go for the world record of most parole hearings denied at this point.
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    Leah Bracknell

    Tbf I feel the same about a good bed and the cause of art, but hell if I got a Tracy Emin sized check I'd probably change my opinions very quickly too.
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    Leah Bracknell

    There's Toast, dismissing in one sentence the only form of poetry I can write.
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    Deadpool Detective Work

    Uncredited actors are a nightmare to track down, especially if they had a common name and disappeared after a few credits 60 years ago. Even the experts in the field tend to draw a blank.
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    Dead Drummers

    Theolonius Monk/Miles Davis collaborator Leon Chandler dead aged 65. Drummer on Billie Jean among many others. Obits in German so far.
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    Five4Three2One Deadpool - 2018

    Don't worry, my mum's in denial about it too.
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    Deadpool Detective Work

    Born 1921 according to Smashwords link to her book, so about 94 when she went, by looks of above?
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    Ideas and Possibilities for 2019

    Oft mentioned Mikis Theodorakis may be 92, in a wheelchair and with lung issues, but that wont stop him addressing 140, 000 Greek protestors raging about the existence of the country Macedonia.
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