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Spanish playwright and Franco critic Alfonso Sastre, a DDP pick, died two weeks ago, but no english language obit yet. I wouldn't rule it out, though, maybe from that socialist one. https://www.publico.pt/2021/09/18/culturaipsilon/noticia/morreu-escritor-dramaturgo-argumentista-espanhol-alfonso-sastre-1977914

Sumiko Sakamoto, Japanese actress and a DDP pick for Easy Peasy Japaneasy, already died back in January, but there is no english obit: https://kumanichi.com/articles/110709

Could the last original SAS trooper, Mike Sadler (a DDP pick) be dead? This reddit thread seems to think he passed away, but could just be ignorance:

"Shoot Out the Lights" was playing in the background...

She would have been in my orbit for the next year. Her final blog post - already a couple of months old - was very foreshadowing. We are kind of running out of those "well-established" cancer campaigners though, aren't we?

Ah, that's a good thought.

Thanks, however, she's probably not dead yet. That first tweet was too soon. And mainstream press has not followed up: https://mobile.twitter.com/Krista_BH/status/1444992972928475146

Todd Akin, a representative from Missouri has died at 74: https://apnews.com/article/business-health-election-2020-st-louis-missouri-0a1b944f96eee4b63d9ea57e04c44ca4 He lost a Senate race to Claire McCaskill after he spoke of "legitimate rape" and denied that women could get pregnant from rape because they can "shut it all down".

Nadia Chaudhri has died according to this one-hour old tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/KarenCo36324098/status/1444889332691603458 A shame, she seemed to be a lovely person.

Or as he was called here, "SS-Siggi". (No joke, nobody here knows him by his real name).

They got him in the end after all!!!

Well, I don't know the year, but most likely on a Thursday afternoon.

Cross-posting here, because this time, the rumours were true!

Robert Mugabe's vengeful spirit is killing his enemies as they debate a re-burial, his family claims: https://www.newzimbabwe.com/mugabes-bitter-vengeful-spirit-decimating-foes-family-claims/

Man eats a kilo of metal objects, like nails and screws, after he quits alcohol: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/02/doctors-in-lithuania-find-kilo-of-nails-and-screws-in-mans-stomach

He isn't: https://www.samaa.tv/entertainment/2021/10/omer-sharifs-washington-travel-yet-to-be-decided/

Elizabeth Warren's brother John Herring dead of cancer: https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warrens-brother-john-dies-003501991.html Another brother died of Covid last year. One brother left. She's the youngest one.

Still looking at dat ass... We've kind of known that he's a wasted pick, and we've known it each time he was picked in the past years. But he's going to stay on the list until the end, thanks to Ed Asner. The committee does not want to miss the next big name from the Mary Tyler Moore orbit, and Ed Asner shows how quickly things can deteriorate.

Obit watch: He got a Washington Post obit, but not the New York Times. He got an Associated Press obit that the Daily Mail didn't copy/paste. And he didn't get a yahoo obit. So now we know, this is where to draw the line.

Seemed to be a good guy, if his last years on social media show the real guy. At least, he had a few more good years since his diagnosis, and actually a bit of a second career.

Only 34 years of age difference between father and son? What a break of family tradition.

^^ Die Zeit can't even decide on an age for her.

Irmgard Furchner has not appeared at court and is now being searched for arrest: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/itzehoe-ehemalige-kz-sekretaerin-vor-prozessbeginn-geflohen-a-6c4e3e70-4d54-4e33-b27c-610d1cc03346 (sorry, paywall, but something else will come up)

Dianne Feinstein's husband, billionaire investor Richard Blum, has been in critical condition lately. Apart from the lung cancer mentioned above, he also suffers from "crippling respiratory issues": https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/09/28/feinstein-returning-to-dc-after-husbands-hospitalization-1391479

Carlos Bilardo still doesn't know about Maradona's death - this article however, tells us that Bilardo is suffering from Hakim-Adams syndrome, i.e. pressure on the brain causing occasional, but reversible, dementia. While that doesn't sound terminal, he has consistenly been in poor health apparently: https://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/sport/28854622/carlos-bilardo-dramma-mister-maradona-morto-malattia-come-campa-oggi-ex-ct-argentina.html