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Yesterday, when the fatality count was still at 37, I thought about making a poll on how high it will eventually be. But it's already higher than I thought it would be (around 200). Now I guess it's going to be around 500 in the end.

Oh well, Walter Scheel is my fifth hit... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3756454/Former-West-German-president-Walter-Scheel-dies-97.html

Walter Scheel a Hit for me. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3756454/Former-West-German-president-Walter-Scheel-dies-97.html

Oh Lord, Telegraph coverage: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/08/22/mark-hamill-lends-his-support-to-campaign-for-terminally-ill-sta/

I can think of 2 TV related people and one chap who needs to get a-head in life, all oft-mentioned on here, who will be in several of the top 20 next year providing they are breathing on January 1st. Also, its only August. "Dead certs" tend to show up in October-December time more than earlier. The earlier ones tend to die before new year. I think I know which people you are speaking of. True, I forgot about the "chap", But he's an unusual case and lots of things may still happen. I've heard that one of those two TV people (if I guess correctly) may be a fraud.

Hang on in there Toots, I want you for next year. You sure it's not just a desire to singToots toots tootsie goodbye ....or should that be gooddie? Now back to Verbruggen.... You can sing it now. BBC Obit for the DDP: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37153355 And there goes another from my long list for 2017 If this fataility doesn't bring back Magere Hein (from the dead?), nothing will.

Heh, of course now that I've said that this competition is not about speed, I'm leading with 4 hits, now that SR Nathan has received a Daily Mail obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3753184/Singapores-longest-serving-president-S-R-Nathan-dies.html

This year, the "canon" of must-haves is relatively small as compared to last year. Of course, everyone has their potential uniques, but the common-knowledge dead-certs are few, a consequence of this year's armageddon. Basically Gord Downie and Piers Sellers. Plus the possible survivors of this year, Errol Christie and Vera Caslavska. Maybe Mark Sims? A couple of them will still die this year. Next year will be interesting.

Ok, I'll go there... Caster Semenya, the intersexual olympic runner. I mean, there is a reason the sexes are separated in sports.

She's a granny, sometimes Granny needs a little help going up the stairs.

Hmm, Pinochet's widow, Lucia Hiriart maybe? 91 years old in the Guardian, 93 years old on Wikiepedia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/19/pinochet-widow-lucia-hiriart-cema-chile

70 today!!! picture from last week:

Havelange... I also thought it's spoken like "avalanche"... but the (german) newsreader pronounced it like A-vee-lan-geeee

Not yet convinced it's THAT bad. Yesterday, I read that she might exaggerate her disease because of the trial against her insurance company.

Gawker.com to shut down next week, after that Multi-million dollar compensation payment to Hulk Hogan: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gawker-shutting-down-univision-sale

Has heart problems: http://www.closerweekly.com/posts/barbara-walters-hospitalized-report-110811

Out of hospital, and back in: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/delhi-congress-president-sonia-gandhi-hospitalised-again/story-JvugWLoArN9hpmNFrp6TVO.html

A young man named Dean Eastmond writes in the Guardian about living with Ewing's sarcoma: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/18/cancer-side-effect-masculinity No word on whether it has spread. Previously, he was in the news for talking about being raped: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3352295/Teenager-reveals-raped-man.html Hmm...he really puts it all out there...

Guillermo Farinas now in critical condition on 25th day of hunger strike: http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/08/15/cuban-dissident-guillermo-farinas-critical-day-25-hunger-strike/ He's a Cuban striking against Raul Castro.

Pat Hickey, Irish chief of the Olympic council, hospitalised immediately after his arrest for ticket laundering (?): http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/irish-olympic-chief-pat-hickey-8649623 I wonder what's wrong with him.

Didn't even survive the week. I thought so. He was one of the fossils who believe that they can't retire because the world would fall apart without their little-watched shows. Only death could make him stop. Edit: Still, I should thank him for denying that Obama was the first black US president: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yokXXGjZ8KI (The video didn't play, anyway he says that "Warren G. Harding was a negro.")

James Woolley, keyboardist with Nine Inch Nails from 1991-1994, that is, during the recording of Broken and The Downward Spiral, dead at 50: http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/08/r-i-p-james-woolley-keyboardist-of-nine-inch-nails-has-died/

Alasdair Graham, scottish pianist, dead at 82, link to Telegraph obit in that obit: http://slippedisc.com/2016/08/an-elegant-british-pianist-has-died/

Kendall Betts, "formidable US horn player" dead from lung cancer at 68: http://slippedisc.com/2016/08/formidable-us-principal-horn-has-died-aged-68/ And while you're on that site, Brazilian composer Sergio Robero De Oliveira has pancreatic cancer: http://slippedisc.com/2016/08/heres-a-piece-i-composed-with-cancer-i-might-not-finish-it/ He is not very obitalbe, though.

I want a pick for myself, Henry Kissinger.