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On this week's The Reunion programme, five of the people present at the assasination of John F Kennedy were interviewed. One of them, the venerable James Leavelle, was the detective handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby. Leavelle is 93 now and I thought he sounded a little breathless.

Kim Jong Un's former girlfriend, the singer Hyon Song Wol, has been executed by firing squad, along with eleven other North Koreans, for allegedly selling pornographic videos of themselves. The families of the deceased watched the executions, and have now been sent to a labour camp in accordance with the country’s practice of punishing relatives. Hyon Song Wol's most famous song was .A Girl In The Saddle Of A Steed.

Daily Telegraph obituary for Tom Christian.

I couldn't find another thread for sitar players, so Ravi's will have to do. Mick Taylor, not the ex-Rolling Stone, but the classical sitar player, is suffering from incurable multiple myeloma. He may be better known in India than he is the UK and is considered to be the best non Indian practitioner of the instrument. I'm not sure if that would translate to a UK obit, but you never know.

Bernie Madoff's other son, Andrew Madoff, is suffering from stage 4 lymphoma.

Now Paul Revere, the eponymous hero and organist of the group, is in a bad way. Former Raider Mark Lindsay has posted this on Facebook: , anyone? It went all the way to number 1 in the US in 1970.

Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos recently vanished from public view, but has now reappeared. The official version of events is that he spent several weeks in Barcelona because his presidential palace was undergoing repairs...

Going by the complete lack of empathy for the dead and those close to them, a general fondness for lists and some of the neat and ordered member signatures, detailing every deadpool ever played, complete with team line up, who died and finishing position, I'd say we boast a greater proportion of those on the autistic end of the spectrum than your average family forum.

Vogue photographer Sussie Ahlburg has been found deceased in a pond on Hampstead Heath.

A benefit concert has been held for Wizzard saxophonist Mike Burney, who is suffering from cancer for the second time.

Especially when my pre-planned autumnal surge kicks in.

Kongar-ol Ondar, 51, a giant of the Tuvan throat singing scene and famous enough , has died of a brain hemorrhage.

British middleweight Billy Smith has committed suicide, aged 35. He fought 160 times, losing on no less than 145 occasions. Billy Smith's twin brother Ernie, also a boxer, also killed himself in 2010, after his 161st fight.

Paul Baumer, one half of Dutch house music duo Bingo Players, has been diagnosed with cancer. The Bingo Players had a UK number 1 single last year with

Seriously obscure rockabilly singer, Alvis Wayne, is unwell. I would have said no chance at all of a UK obit, but his (rather small) Wikipedia page gives us the faintest of hopes

Stevie Wright is currently in hospital, with a multitude of ailments likely to be keeping his doctors busy for a while.

Australian child murderer Derek Percy is suffering from terminal cancer. He is also a suspect in on of Australia's most notorious cold cases, the disappearance of the three Beaumont siblings in 1966.

I heard the other day that Tom Christian, O.B.E, decendent of Fletcher Christian and Pitcairn Island's radio communications officer for forty years, has died aged 72. He may not be famous in the conventional sense, but I think there is a very good chance he will receive a UK obituary, as he played such a crucial role in the survival of the tiny, troubled and isolated island community, which is all that is left of Britain's former Pacific Empire. There isn't much online so far, save for this tribute by Maurice Bligh, decendent of Fletcher Christian's archnemesis, Captain William Bligh

Marich Man Singh Shrestha, Prime Minister of Nepal from 1986-1990, is suffering from lung cancer.

TV station erroneously names pilots involved in San Francisco in crash landing.

Ian Paisley, from head injuries sustained after tripping on a banana skin during the marching season and falling awkwardly.

Bishop Kiril of Varna, who stood in as interim Bulgarian Orthodox leader following the death of Patriarch Maxim last year, has become possibly the first cleric on this thread to die by drowning.

F.D Reeve, 84, poet, translator and the father of Superman, has died. Here's one of his own meditations on death. The Village Grave Yard The fallen leaves are red and dry. Autumn burns. The still lake mirrors a blue October sky. In the cemetery the forgiven and unforgiven lie side by side. Hoarfrost on the goldenrod. On the northern mountains new-fallen snow. Time like a kindly god reserves some open spaces in each row for the living dead. How long do we have who follow the sky? Beneath the rustling maple leaves in a green plot eleven by five these ashy bones compact our fond belief that the sun won’t die. —F. D. Reeve

Norwegian skiiing legend and Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen, 85, is suffering from neurological problems which have caused him to spend time in intensive care recently.

Amateur ornithologist Nancy Tanner, aged 96. Perhaps the last living person ever to have seen an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.