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Paul Di'Anno, former frontman of Iron Maiden, does NOT battle cancer for a third time, but he's had an infected abcess around/on/in (?) his lungs: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/paul-dianno-cancer/ He's responding to treatment. He's also in a wheelchair because of double knee-replacement surgery.

Hungarian Scientist Rudolf Kalman, inventor of the Kalman filter, dead at 86: http://hungarytoday.hu/news/renowned-hungarian-scientis-rudolf-kalman-dies-aged-86-46732 The filter was a mathematical technique that got applied in the Apollo program and the US Space Shuttle program. He also was a professor at Stanford.

Bill Armstrong, former senator of Colorado, also a university president, and close ally of Ronald Reagan, dead at 79: https://www.denverpost.com/2016/07/06/bill-armstrong-colorado-dies/

Transgender whistleblower Chelsea Manning attempts suicide: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/06/chelsea-manning-reportedly-hospitalised-after-attempting-suicide/

Roscoe Brown at 94, another Tuskegee airman and "national war hero", also college president: http://pix11.com/2016/07/04/roscoe-brown-former-tuskegee-airman-and-nyc-educator-has-died-at-94/

South Korea says, Kim Jong-Un is fat and paranoid: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/03/kim-jong-un-weight-insomnia-spy-agency-north-korea

Just to give some news, he was voting in the national elections last month, photo included in the article: http://rpp.pe/politica/elecciones/javier-perez-de-cuellar-fue-a-votar-en-silla-de-ruedas-y-con-96-anos-noticia-968527

Katherine Johnson, trail-blazing African-American mathematician at NASA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson Turns 98 in August. There's going to be a movie about her and her already deceased comradettes: http://www.salon.com/2016/07/02/monae_says_film_on_black_women_at_nasa_key_part_of_history/

Why did nobody change their avatar to Turkey as a sign of solidarity? Also, I believe I've had the same avatar for as long as I had one.

Prince von Anhalt is visiting Germany for the first time in 20 years, because German public television is producing a documentary about him: https://www.tz.de/stars/prinz-frdric-anhalt-nach-20-jahren-wieder-muenchen-6536417.html(german link) He says he has a Biergarten at ZsaZsa's mansion because she loves Bavaria so much. He says he almost canceled the trip because of her health, but then he checked one last time and everything was ok. Apparently, she doesn't talk much anymore. To cheer her up, he puts her old movies into the DVD player and she believes that TV stations are still playing them. Their 30th wedding anniversary is at the 14th of August. Frederic also plans her 100th birthday bash: "She has to make it!". He expects around 800 guests. The party motto will be "Bavaria". He says Kirk Douglas has already accepted the invitation.

The first novel inspired by the Brexit: With J.K. Rowling's seal of approval: http://www.newnownext.com/pounded-by-the-pound-gay-erotic-brexit-fiction-gets-j-k-rowlings-seal-of-approval/06/2016/

I think there's a decent chance that the crew members of the starship Nostromo of Alien die in the same order as in the movie. Funny trivia: While the crew actors are all still alive, the man inside the Alien and the computer voice are already dead.

His new signature is making the news.

News from April, but they somehow passed me by. The trial of Goran Hadzic was delayed indefinitely because of his ill health: http://www.rferl.org/content/hague-war-crimes-court-halts-trial-ill-serbian-leader-hadzic/27657192.html You can never know with these types, but he actually IS terminally ill.

Some recent news on how Stan Mikita is doing: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160619/sports/160618969/ "Still able to walk and maintain his balance", still knows which child is the youngest, but not their names. "He's himself, and he's not"

Not that he's dead (yet), but Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's birthday is the 10th of August 1937 according to the german wikipedia page: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_James_Robinson

The silliest thing I've read in this silly week: Tetris - the movie, now to be a trilogy, because the story is too big for a single movie: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/28/tetris-films-trilogy?CMP=fb_gu

This is for msc (although that was in 2015):

Now she's feeling 'stronger every day': http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/eb46aea0bca642ff98ea4bbddc61ece2/MD--Retired-Congresswoman-Hospice

As one could already guess by his recent health troubles, Robert Mugabe's chief opponent for the last 17 years, Morgan Tsvangirai has colon cancer: http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2016/06/28/Zimbabwe-opposition-leader-Tsvangirai-says-has-cancer-of-the-colon This probably gives Mugabe the motivation to outlive him.

Buddy Ryan is dead, and I just added him to my list last week: http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/agent-buddy-ryan-nfl-coach-mastermind-super-bowl-40185042

Do you think an independent Scotland will keep her? And, oh my God, what happens to Balmoral? Edit: I just read that Balmoral Castle is the Queen's private property. So she may keep it.

Bud Spencer's death was breaking news in german media. Götz George's death as well. It doesn't seem to stop this year.

What do you think of this recent picture of DNA discoverer James Watson? http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/dna-discovery-pioneer-james-watson-pays-cambridge/story-29382045-detail/story.html

1. Michel Delpech 2. Thomas Libous 3. Jimmy Borges 4. Andy Haworth, the christmas dad with cancer 5. Hendrikje Fitz 6. Helen Hutchinson 7. Angela Sykes 8. Brian Wiedmeier 9. David Bowie 10. Prince