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She deserves her own thread anyway.

Gospel "Legend" Carman Licciardello might be one to watch: http://www.christianpost.com/news/gospel-legend-carman-shares-miracle-of-healing-with-others-battling-cancer-170929/ He says he beat the incurable cancer he had three years ago. Since his recovery he had multiple heart attacks. No idea if he can obit though. He has a wikipedia article as "Carman".

Costume designer and four-time Oscar nominee Janet Patterson dead at 74/75: http://www.680news.com/2016/10/25/oscar-nominated-costume-designer-janet-patterson-has-died/

Ginger Baker looking ill and frail and only able to play for a short time at a Jack Bruce tribute concert: http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-10-26/ginger-baker-rides-again-7-things-we-learned-at-the-jack-bruce-tribute-show

Ah, there were rumours of ill health about him. He might have been a part of my B-Team for next year.

Well, it's early, but I'd defnitiely keep: Zsa Zsa Billy Graham Kirk Douglas Henry Kissinger Jimmy Carter George Bush Sr. Leslie Phillips Fidel Castro Desmond Tutu Glen Campbell Jake Lamotta Jacques Chirac Bruce Forsyth I'd return: Robert Mugabe Elizabeth II Helmut Kohl Doris Day I'd add: Hugh Hefner Sumner Redstone Pelé Terry Jones and well, some more women: Diana Athill Vanessa Redgrave Gina Lollobrigida

A men's rights activist and Lena Dunham. Elton John and Madonna. Tom Daley and Sam Smith Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Ritchii Kara and Ryan Buell

I would also consider Sumner Redstone, Hugh Hefner and Pelé.

Yeah right, whatever happened to him? Dying of brain cancer, that's what! http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dying-pop-star-peter-skellern-9116751

Not even really a "Music Shock Death", more like "surprised he wasn't dead yet", similar to Prince.

The oldest living "All Blacks" player, Walter "Wally" Argus, dead at 95: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11734031

Comedian Kevin "That's not right" Meaney, dead at 60: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/21/entertainment/kevin-meaney-comedian-obit/

Designer Richard Nicoll, dead at 39 of a heart attack: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37729806/richard-nicoll-who-designed-for-jack-wills-and-topshop-has-died-aged-39

Brian May of Queen cancels a Christmas concert because of a 'persistent illness that is destroying his energy and will': http://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2016/10/brian-may-cancels-candlelit-christmas-show-due-to-ill-health/

Hmm, not every Ivy League university, I guess, but occasionally someone from the MIT, or Stanford instead.

William G Bowen, former Princeton president, dead at 83: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3860242/Princetons-17th-president-William-Bowen-dead-83.html I had him in my Excel file ever since someone mentioned him here a couple of years ago (around nr. 20 out of now 1500). Never thought he'd get a Daily Mail obit though.

Next Navajo code talker, Sgt. Maj. Dan Akee, dead at 96: http://www.12news.com/news/local/arizona/navajo-code-talker-sgt-maj-dan-akee-passes-away-at-96/336188320

Last weekend, I saw the former manager (not coach, but chief executive, or however you call that in english) of Bayer Leverkusen, Rainer Calmund on television (a live cooking show, naturally). He has only gotten fatter through the years and recently had a disc prolapse which forced him into a wheelchair, I also thought he looked unhealthy in general: Here's a german article with a picture: http://www.bild.de/bild-plus/sport/fussball/reiner-calmund/bild-interview-im-rollstuhl-47937298,view=conversionToLogin.bild.html

Welsh professional poker player Dave Colclough dead at only 52: http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/poker-professional-dave-colclough-passes-away-29016/

Hairdresser, philantropist (spelling?), almost politician and Liverpool original Herbert "King of Bling" Howe, dead at 72: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-37713048

2008 Exeter bomber Nicky Reilly aka Mohammad Rashid Said-Alim dead in prison: http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/exeter-terrorist-attacker-nicky-reilly-has-died-in-prison/story-29826921-detail/story.html

This article here calls him "the late Sandy Gall": http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/balochistan-becomes-cemetery-journalists-pakistan-targets-intellectuals-50651

He turned 93 last week: http://www.foxsports.com/motor/story/its-murray-walkers-birthday-today-faaaantastic-101016 Somehow we forgot....

Do Le Monde and Le Figaro seriously not count as "reliable, respectable sources of international news" ? http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2016/01/02/le-chanteur-michel-delpech-est-mort_4840953_3382.html http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2016/01/02/03006-20160102ARTFIG00134-le-chanteur-michel-delpech-est-mort-a-69ans.php OK new rule.If you want to win points from these sources then you have to get obits from both to count for HPDP points. Thus you are awarded your prize. I had the same Problem with Hendrikje Fitz whose death was reported in every single german newspaper, including the respected ones.

Do Le Monde and Le Figaro seriously not count as "reliable, respectable sources of international news" ? http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2016/01/02/le-chanteur-michel-delpech-est-mort_4840953_3382.html http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2016/01/02/03006-20160102ARTFIG00134-le-chanteur-michel-delpech-est-mort-a-69ans.php OK new rule.If you want to win points from these sources then you have to get obits from both to count for HPDP points. Thus you are awarded your prize. I had the same Problem with Hendrikje Fitz whose death was reported in every single german newspaper, including the respected ones.