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Litokwa Tomeing, former president of the Marshall Islands, died last month at age 80: https://www.state.gov/on-the-passing-of-former-marshallese-president-litokwa-tomeing/ Former DDP pick.

Interesting! Wikipedia has a nice helpful list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tanzanians They also count Freddie Mercury, by the way. If I had to guess, Tanzania's status is going to change relatively soon.

He's back in hospital... a german version of the article quotes him saying "I could be dead soon": https://www.gpone.com/en/2020/11/04/motogp/phil-read-back-in-hospital-a-fundraiser-organized-for-him.html

- edit... sorry, it was already posted by Biblio... - Fay Weldon could be a good DeathList addition... Edit: But here's a link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8898995/Novelist-Fay-Weldon-lays-bare-secret-misery-marriage-files-divorce-89.html

Picking up a frequent suggestion by MPFC.... Roger Whittaker?

German player of the 80s, Uwe Rahn, has had colon cancer, but is okay for now. They say roughly "it had spread but not metastasized"...so I assume it's stage 2 or 3. https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/fussball/darmkrebs-ex-nationalspieler-uwe-rahn-erkrankt-73977856.bild.html

I can agree there. But there are many people being picked who are not properly famous, obscure government officials, Dr. Who scriptwriters, "behind-the-scenes" cultural people like architects, publishers, Jana Bennetts and so on.

A tiny desk for tiny hands.

Lots of good names already mentioned. I might only add Carlos Menem and Larry Flynt. Ah, and isn't there an Australian PM very old now? XYZ Howard? The Dalai Lama or King Simeon of Bulgaria?

Probably not. But when one reads through this thread, well, there is no Lisa Magill cancer blogging-award. Pete Felton at least had something to work with.

Nice that Joe Biden lived long enough....

Well, in the end Pete Felton is just as important to the team as, say, Alex Trebek, or David Hagen. It's the timing that puts the focus on him now. In terms of fame, well, he was apparently well-known in Birmingham as a street singer, or busker as they are apparently called. He also released an EP on iTunes, as many up-and-coming artists do today: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-road-less-travelled-ep/1424547565 He had an appearance on a BBC casting show, was in fact, invited to it, possibly because of his local notability. He was well-known enough that there is a music festival PeteFest in his name, and he gave his name to a street music award at the Birmingham Music awards: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=206015500641057 I think there is some local notability (fame is stretching it too far though), and his musical output is the same as 2019 DDP pick Billy Clayton. But Pete didn't tweet as often. Clayton had his very media active mother to make him further known. Felton had his wife. It would have been more elegant had the QO come through himself, not through his widow's sob story. That is indeed a little disappointing.

He seems to look a little gaunt in this morning's interview: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8989969/Bill-Turnbull-64-emotionally-urges-men-prostate-exams-amid-terminal-cancer-battle.html

Lol, too much honor, but thanks a lot, I'm celebrating with Weissbier and Marianne Rosenberg.

One of the weirder "deciding hits" we've had. Obit 9 months after death, quite possibly in relation to the "lockdown isolation" of his widow. (Obviously decisive only under normal further developments)

Jesus fucking Christ!! I guess that's a wrap!

For whatever reason, the Birmingham Mail picked up the story of Pete Felton and his lonely widow up again... https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/newlywed-alone-lockdown-after-losing-19260677 Too bad the Mirror doesn't follow... ...Anyway that last obit chance, the Birmingham Music awards, was supposed to take place on Nov 15th but has been delayed again to Dec 5th. And it's going to be completely online. Also, as the article mentions, there'll be another edition of PeteFest, a music festival in his honor, on Nov 28th...

Did we miss Cardinals Hall of Famer Larry Wilson? https://www.azcardinals.com/news/cardinals-hall-of-famer-safety-larry-wilson-dies-at-age-82 Dead at 82 and also a former DDP pick.

William Wingett, US World War II veteran and one of the last survivors of the "Band of Brothers" died last month at 98: https://eu.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2020/10/01/band-of-brothers-member-world-war-2-bill-wingett-dies/5879581002/ Picked in the DDP sometime before 2017.

Takna Jigme Zangpo, the longest-imprisoned Tibetian independence activist, died last month at 91: http://www.phayul.com/2020/10/19/44602/ DDP pick in 2015 and 2016.

Efrem Bisaga, a perfectly unremarkable polish priest, died on November 3rd: https://www.powiatsuski24.pl/wydarzenia/sucha-beskidzka/zmarl-o-czeslaw-efrem-bisaga/v6g Picked by, of course, Not Gone Yet, but Still Forgotten, in the DDP 2017.

New Zealand formerly up-and-coming opera singer Matt Hirst died this summer according to this tweet: DDP pick 2017.

Swiss shark expert Erich Ritter, DDP pick in 2017 and this year, died on August 28th: https://www.sharkproject.org/dr-erich-ritter-ist-verstorben/ List of the Lost.

DDP 2017 pick Stephen Shull, US veteran and pilot, died in Nov 1st: https://www.fox13news.com/news/cancer-cuts-life-of-service-short-for-army-veteran-sarasota-deputy-pilot-stephen-shull (I assume it's that Stephen Shull, because he had been fighting cancer since 2016.)

^^ as above, now with QO - unique hit in the DDP: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-roy-beldam-obituary-wpv9cm9fm