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Hmm, this time I'll actually hold out for the "last day of the month" bonus.

Birthday deaths certainly beat deathday births.

Yep, certainly now on everyone's list for everything - until further notice

Even more drol-ish, Chief Jeremiah Akaava, "the Obobanyi of Ohionwa in Ihima", supposedly the oldest monarch in the world, has died at 116: http://saharareporters.com/2019/04/27/worlds-oldest-monarch-dies-kogi-116-—-after-36-years-throne

Kind of encroaching on drol's territory here, but, former president of Ethiopia Negasso Gidada, dead at 75 in Germany: https://citizen.co.za/news/news-world/2123772/former-ethiopian-president-has-died-in-germany/

City landscape photographer Michael Wolf is dead at 64: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/apr/26/photographs-michael-wolf-architecture-density-tokyo-compression I always liked his abstract-looking pictures of East Asian skylines, like these:

Jason Bragg, Death By Numbers pick for me last year, died in March: https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/heartbreaking-tributes-paid-firefighter-husband-2672950

This very serious report says that Jolie is close to death: https://www.econotimes.com/Angelina-Jolie-Reportedly-Dying-Son-Maddox-to-Inherit-Her-116-Million-Fortune-1529272 Edit: Funny comment below the article, too

Lots of Samu Anoa'i articles about a fundraiser trying to get him a liver transplant https://411mania.com/wrestling/wwe-wxw-c4-doing-benefit-show-for-samu-anoai/

A location restricted article says that he's going to be on ABC's Good Morning America next week. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv-guy/os-et-jeopardy-host-trebek-talks-to-gma-20190426-story.html

I thought of Sumner Redstone as well. Then in the second generation Stanley Ho, Violetta Chamorro, and the king of Saudi Arabia (Salman?). I assume the DeathListees don't quite count.

Hmm, Scavenger Hunt Deadpool category?

Not just the Peruvian presidents are ill and dying together but the Vietnamese presidents, too: https://www.ft.com/content/a0cef428-674e-11e9-9adc-98bf1d35a056

Dana Scatton QO, late but it arrived: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6960327/Mother-19-diagnosed-untreatable-brain-cancer-months-giving-birth-dies.html

Former tobacco salesman turned chainsmoker Simon Neale now has inoperable lung cancer and sues his company for giving him free poison: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-48050476

Well, it added to the whole weirdness of late...

Soprano Charity Sunshine Tillemanns-Dick. Double lung transplant recipient and it still wasn't enough: https://slippedisc.com/2019/04/sad-death-of-a-lung-transplant-soprano-36/

He's selling his vacation home, wants to get rid off it as soon as possible, apparently: https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Jeopardy-Host-Alex-Trebek-Cuts-Price-on-13786498.php

I assume so. Didn't even know that one, I have to admit.

I could have sworn, he was talked about here before.... (after 2012) Benny Mardones, of "Into the Night" fame... is mentally going..well... Into The Night: https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2019/04/cny-benefit-concert-announced-for-ailing-singer-benny-mardones.html

Of my four hits, the only one I hadn't known before was the most Deathlisty one, Diana Athill.

There's only one way to find out - head to TMZ!

Richard Wagner's last grandchild, Verena Lafferentz-Wagner, has died at 98: https://slippedisc.com/2019/04/wagners-last-grandchild-has-died/ Married an SS guy - was a frequent guest at Bayreuth.

No current comment by Christopher Tolkien on the recent JRR Tolkien biopic: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/23/tolkien-estate-disavows-forthcoming-film-starring-nicholas-hoult They only cite a quote from 2012.

Le Duc Anh also puts me at 4. The Duke is a big miss though.