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Obvious drol baiting...but what about Philipose Mar Chrysostom, 103 years old, and possibly "the longest reigning bishop in the world": https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Philipose_Mar_Chrysostom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipose_Mar_Chrysostom_Mar_Thoma

2019 DDP pick Ursula Maury, a GDR schlager singer, probably died between 2005 and 2015 in Alicante in Spain, according to a german forum poster who wrote to her twice without reply: https://www.memoryradio.de/memoryforum/viewtopic.php?t=6307

"Finbarr Returns From the Dead" receives some late points for ALS "awareness raiser" Chris Penderast, because of a Daily Mail article about him. It comes a month late and slipped through the cracks - sorry! I assume Mr. Wolfensohn will get an obit in no time, which puts us at 246 hits, i.e. 30 away from the record with about 36/37 days left. And even if we fail to break the record, with a slightly smaller number of teams, it's still impressive and a credit to the wide quality of players.

German wikipedia claims that SS Totenkopf Division Nazi Johann Rehbogen, died in November 2019. He was picked here and there last year, including in the DDP 2019 and 2020, after he was deemed unfit for trial.

That turned out to be a "false positive". However, now Nick Saban has it for real, it seems: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30386828/alabama-coach-nick-saban-tests-positive-showing-covid-19-symptoms

31 - I don't know who the other person is.

Hah... the curse of too many choices. Congratulations!

RIP... quite the character. And dare I say.... biggest death of the year? I had a long-standing prediction Pelé wouldn't make 80. Well, he lives, but Diego died on our watch, so to say. With some people, you look at their ups and downs of life, you just know it's not going to end well, though I guess, a heart attack isn't that unusual, but damn, only 60. Too much sports for the heart, and of course, too much doping, too much cocaine.

This cabinet is somewhat unique in that Biden is pretty definitely going to be a one term president. And with all the ongoing crises, he needs to hit the ground running. So there's a lot of careerists and old names in there. Old names as in, they all already worked for Obama before. This cabinet is remarkably unspectacular, and is going to try to woo voters by sheer competence. It's going to be interesting to see (to me) if this approach works at the polls.

"Was it right to give him a Guardian obituary?" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/23/guardian-obituary-peter-sutcliffe

Yes, quite sad. I didn't realize until recently how much I actually liked him. He was a very anarchic comedian.

ulous. They are mostly trying to throw out the mail-in votes. And those are all paper ballots.

Parkinson's and abdominal cancer, says some professor: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/putin-emergency-surgery-battling-cancer-23042765

At my favourite US politics blog they're talking about a caller on Limbaugh's radio show who is willing to die for Trump. https://politicalwire.com/2020/11/20/willing-to-die-for-trump/#disqus_thread Comments are also about how gaunt he looks and that he might die this year already. And yes, he might just be the one who dies too soon and wreaks havoc in our pools.

I think one needs an interest in the main character. It's basically a character study.

I finished The Queen's gambit. Really well done. The fans of chess love it, and yes, it's very good at giving you the impression of the games - except that they sped up the games for the camera. Usually, each move in top tournament game takes a couple of minutes, not a couple of seconds. And it took place in Kentucky, Las Vegas, Paris and Moscow - but where was it actually filmed? Berlin! I would have liked to be a person in the background, but I missed the announcement last year - I'm only finding about it right now! If you're not a fan of chess, it's still good, especially as a period piece and for the main performance. But the "damaged genius" plot might just be stretched out an episode or two too much.

Vladimir Putin Novak Djokovic Emperor Naruhito (The current one)

A nice list of ideas. Indeed, my 2nd choice has been picked by An Fear Beag. Dark Horse: Grim Up North.

I'm in the mood for some André Maranne fan fiction. Anyone? Preferably some erotic story between him and the Pink Panther (comic version).

Yes, that's indeed the mystery. I try to look at the speed of progression. But with the slower cases, say, OJ Brigance, they might last in that state for many years.

Stacy Title “can no longer walk, talk, swallow, or breathe without a machine,”; https://heavy.com/entertainment/survivor/jonathan-penner-wife-stacy-als-gala/

Margaret Guilfoyle, first female Australian cabinet minister, dead at 94: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/margaret-guilfoyle-an-immigrant-who-became-australia-s-first-female-cabinet-minister-dies-at-94 Anzac List, also LotM if I recall correctly.

David Deutchman, "ICU grandpa", who made news 3 years ago by hugging premature babies, dead after a short pancreatic cancer fight: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8959029/ICU-grandpa-cuddled-hospital-babies-14-years-dies-cancer-age-86.html

It just occurred to me that we haven't seen his wife in a while, Elizabeth Dole, now 84 years old, and a former Senator as well.

List of the Missed additions: First picked in 2018: Yves Pouliquen Howie Meeker Mary Kay Letourneau Melanie Kennedy ("cancer warrior") Ray Hannigan Marc Fumaroli Ronald Forfar Leland Fay (dad with brain cancer) Rickey Dixon Jean-Loup Dabadie Jim Conacher Dawn Wilson First picked in 2019: Franca Valeri Kellye Nakahara James Megellas Suna Kirac Giancarlo Ghironzi Günter De Bruyn Aline Chretien First picked in 2017: Stephen Shull Joe Pennington / Joe Penny Juan Marsé Matt Hirst James Dunn Anne Cox Chambers Efrem Bisaga First picked in 2016 or before: Dana Zatopkova Takna Jigme Zangpo Dmitry Yazov William "Bill" Wingett Larry Wilson Pete Way Tom Watkins Ricky Valance McCoy Tyner Moussa Traoré Litokwa Tomeing John Meurig Thomas Qaseem Suleimani Jaswant Singh Paul Shrubb Baron Sheldon, Robert (?) Paul Shanley Ramadan Shalah Mike Sexton William Sessions Joel Schumacher Michel Roux Blanca Rodriguez Michel Piccoli J.I. Packer Alan Minter George Mikell Noel Martin (Nazi victim?) Khagendra Thapa Magar Jose Jimenez Lozano Joseph Lowery Eduard Limonov Tony Lewis (The Outfield?) Masatoshi Koshiba Abdul Halim Khaddam (Syrian president - spelling as in database) Tom Kennedy Donald M. Kendall Hayrettin Karaca Christo (Javacheff) Fred Jarvis Irinei, patriarch of Serbia Paul Hornung Roy Horn Lou Henson Erich Haase Robert M. Graham Ronald Graham (IT?) Edward Graham James Gordon (?) Charles E. Friedgood Peter Florjancic Harwood Henry "Bud" Flintoff Oskar Fischer Conchata Ferrell Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi Betty Dodson Malcolm Dixon Edwina Davies (Councillor?) Julian Curry Roy C Terrence Conran Curtis Cokes Basu Chatterjee Len Barry John Barrow (physicist?) Thomas Balcazar Junrey Balawing Pip Baker Qasim Al-Raymi Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa Barney Ales Berni Alder Sultan Hashim Ahmed (Al-Tai) Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah Herb Adderley