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Patrick John, first PM of Dominica, has finally died at 83: https://wicnews.com/caribbean/dominicas-first-pm-patrick-john-passes-away-151935836/ He had a leg amputated in 2017, and was mentioned here back then, mostly by Sir Creep.

Fashion designer and DDP Dame Zandra Rhodes had a secret cancer battle but is now in remission: https://www.survivornet.com/articles/zandra-rhodes-secret-cancer-battle-six-months-to-live/ She was even told, she had only six months to live but is fine now. Still, bile duct cancer can be pretty bad: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9754947/The-real-reason-kept-cancer-secret-Dame-Zandra-Rhodes-80-told-six-months-live.html

England 2-1 Denmark

Le Monde obit for Axel Kahn: https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2021/07/06/axel-kahn-medecin-geneticien-et-essayiste-est-mort_6087196_1650684.html

Italy 2-2 Spain (Italy winning 3-2 ET)

He was still alive???

Online porn actress Kristina Lisina dies after falling from a tower in St. Petersburg, as you do in Russia: https://www.the-sun.com/news/3220335/pornhub-onlyfans-kristina-lisina-tower-block-mystery-hand/ Could have been an actual suicide this time, though.

Oh, you'll get busy, just wait and see...

I think so, too! I think there'll be numerous updates, but no super biggie though.

If msc doesn't do it, then I do: Rick Laird finally opens this Cup round: https://musicfestnews.com/2021/07/rick-laird-bassist-for-mahavishnu-orchestra-dead-at-80/

Interesting that it's not the Covid, nor the Parkinson's, nor infections or whatever, but cardiac arrest. This man was sick of everything.

Stan Swamy a hit for me: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57718356 Why did I pick him here but not in the Cup? Some kind of schizophrenia, I guess.

Meh, one big meh.

Tomorrow I will be leaving for a week of holidays. No updates in that time, not that they seem to be necessary right now...

Czechia 1-2 Denmark Ukraine 0-2 England

The list of regrets grows and grows... Lou Ligouri: https://wbng.com/2021/07/02/epac-co-founder-passes-away/

Thanks all, just saying, time for replacements is over.

Shatner gets a show on Russia Today, just like Larry King! https://nypost.com/2021/07/01/william-shatner-to-host-new-show-on-russian-state-run-tv/

Jamie Spears, Britney's controlling father seems "frail": https://www.yourtango.com/entertainment/is-jamie-spears-dying-britney-spears-father-pictures-looking-frail There might be something to it, as he "almost died" in 2019, and has had several surgeries since then.

Yeah, thanks all for not retroactively putting Biz Markie into your already posted replacements. It would make me sad.

Indeed, Louis Andriessen has now died at 82, half a year later: https://www.nu.nl/muziek/6142949/componist-louis-andriessen-op-82-jarige-leeftijd-overleden.html

Yeah, he didn't like news about his health being leaked. It sounded not that fatal.

First regret from my huge list, Anwar Iqbal: https://www.geo.tv/latest/357908-veteran-tv-actor-anwar-iqbal-passes-away

Heh, well, the duplicates indicate that I basically just throw them all together into an Excel list as the names appear. I already see that I hadn't noticed that Mike Bailey (weatherman) had since passed away. And that's the problem - you can collect, but you also need to prioritize. I posted this here because I know that most of these names are kind of useless, and will never be needed again in the future. All these moments will be lost....like tears in the rain. This year, COVID did its work for us though. Just look for Covid people on google news, especially in combination with oxygen support. This ballooning of names will not happen again the future (hopefully).

Here's my Cup longlist, i.e. the people not necessarily on my DDP longlist, who at various times were considered for Cup purposes - and then occasionally checked up on again - in other words, the regret list: Mick Bates (Leeds) (12.07.2021) Dilip Kumar (07.07.2021) Albert Raboteau (18.09.2021) Kabir Suman Nadia Chaudhri (05.10.2021) Michael Bishop 9/11 (14.02.2022) Spiriman Matt Loede (29.09.2021) Mwai Kibaki Dan Campbell (coach) Campbell Little Louis De Zoysa John "Zip" Connolly Nahne Marsters (27.01.2022) Sonia Hoey Tony Jacome (03.10.2021) Jonathan Tjarks Rex Graham (Councillor) Joop Van der Laan (10.03.2022) Guy Thomas (track coach) (13.07.2021) Orlando Drummond (27.07.2021) Tom Ridge John Gwynne Jhala Nath Khanal Mohammad Sharif "Chacha" Josh Falconer (local musician) Rae Spoon Antonio Inoki Jaya Sawant Artur Garcia Da Silva (back in April) Bobby Kirkness (30.09.2021) Mike Boyle (12.09.2021) Tetsuro Ozawa (01.06.2021) Zeba Begum Naila Jaffery (17.07.2021) Archie Roach Yu Mo-Lin Mussab Ali Ron Mozart Tim Shadley Keith Ape Bappi Lahiri (15.04.2022) Ivan Arenas Bob Valvano SP Muthuraman Peter Tobin Brutus Beefcake John Mutorwa Gary Corbett (KISS) (15.07.2021) Samaresh Majumdar Mike Bailey (Weatherman) dead in June already R R Soares Terry Roles dead in late June Juiz Jeronimo Roberto (17.06.2021) Jeffrey Veregge Brendan Sweeney Elyana Emrizal V Hanumatha Rao Kanam Rajendran Ali Humar (29.06.2021) Muhammad Mahbubur Raman Jamil Mukulu Dwight Watson Anvar Iqbal (01.07.2021) Prafulla Mahanta Alfio Basile Susana Gimenez Lou Ligouri (08.07.2021) Ines Prieto Madan Krishna Shrestha Alan Melinek Agatha Mainarska Yusuf al-Qaradawi Harry Greenway State Sen. Tom Brewer Dalal Abdel Aziz (07.08.2021) Sheldon Silver (22.01.2022) Mark S. Geyer (NASA) (07.12.2021) Rene Juarez Cisneros (26.07.2021) Vin Welch (28.09.2021) Kat Bjelland Anthony Wameli Sasha Johnson Gerald Pizzuto Jr. Dean Peter Todd Joseph Estrada Fritz Wepper Bob Dole (05.12.2021) Joanna Mamombe Steve Schoeny Schoenfelder (13.08.2021) Carlos Reutemann (07.07.2021) Julia Holz Salah Aougrout Ousmane Gaoual Diallo Joy Goswami Alfredo Cornejo Beverly Tate (24.10.2021) Gil Silgado LA Parka Drew Dhabalt (24.10.2021) William Booth Scott Hargett Bill Miller (New London) (31.08.2021) Khaleda Zia Gina Barilone Azam Khan Stan Swamy (05.07.2021) Carl Bean (07.09.2021)