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    Pelé

    Hidden in here is the information that Pelé (Happy belated 75th birthday! ) actually had three surgeries this year, including a very recent hip surgery.
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    Interesting Ways To Die...

    Accidentally getting trapped in a cryochamber: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3287872/Salon-manager-24-froze-death-cryochamber-Nevada.html Didn't quite work out like Futurama.
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    The 13th Death Of 2015

    The same guess, Martin Crowe.
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    Internet Celebrities

    The woman who reviewed 31000 books on Amazon, Harriet Klausner, has died at 63: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/woman-who-reviewed-31000-books-on-amazon-dies She says she was a speedreader, reviewing 2 books a day. 31000 books divided by 365 days, that's 41 years, or, since it's two books per day, 20.5 years...
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    Maureen O'hara

    So she died homeless then? SC No, she moved to Idaho.
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    Maureen O'hara

    RIP....
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    Terrorists & Topical Terrorist Targets

    Abu Suleiman al-Masri, one of the biggest names in Syria's al-Qaeda, is ...probably.... dead: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/leader-of-syrian-branch-of-al-qaeda-abu-suleiman-al-masri-reportedly-killed-fighting-against-syrian-a6707396.html He either got killed by Assad's army or by Kurdish forces.
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    Wrestlers/actors

    The matriarch of the Von Erich wrestling family Doris Adkisson has died according to this here: http://www.gerweck.net/2015/10/24/doris-adkisson-passes-away/ The Rose Kennedy of wrestling, as far as I know.
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    Cartoonists And Animators

    Silver Age artist Murphy Anderson dead at 86, or 89: http://www.newsarama.com/26488-report-murphy-anderson-passes-away-at-89.html
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    George Bush Senior

    what about when he loses We'll see soon: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeb-bush-hunkers-down-with-family-to-assess-where-his-candidacy-stands/ Bush Sr. gets the family together to discuss Jeb's candidacy. Barbara Bush will also be coming.
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    Checkmate

    Croatian chess grandmaster Krunoslav Hulak dead at 64: http://sport.hrt.hr/304562/preminuo-veliki-hrvatski-sahist-krunoslav-hulak(croatian link) Won a couple of tourneys and participated in the chess olympics many times. Also a national chess champion of Yugoslavia and Croatia for a year.
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    Val Kilmer

    I think it's curious he has to check every couple of months if there is a tumour. Maybe he had one. Or at least, he has some kind of "pre-cancerous condition", like Morrissey's Barrett's syndrome, or something like pancreatitis, only for the throat.
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    Elvis Presley

    I'm reading this interview with Priscilla at the moment: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/22/priscilla-presley-elvis-spirit-speaks-to-me-its-beautiful Apart from laryngitis and speaking with Elvis's spirit, she's fine, but now I have the idea that she might be the replacement for Nancy Reagan in the "famous widow" category, eventually.... Also, this forum missed the death of Elvis's bandleader in the 70s, Joe Guercio in January, even though he had a DDP-qualifying obit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11330944/Joe-Guercio-obituary.html
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    Ask A Deathlister

    Yes, it was. Boothby was a Tory, and a bit of a scoundrel, but I'll always admire his gall for the time he was introduced to Hitler, and when everyone around the table did the Hitler Salute, complete with "Heil Hitler!", Boothby paused a second, then did the salute complete with a loud "Heil Boothby!" Ah thanks!
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    Val Kilmer

    Some breaking news that he's hospitalised because of cancer. Only headlines so far.
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    Death Links

    South Korea fights its suicide epidemic with one-day test funerals for pupils: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3284587/Learn-dead-day-Suicidal-people-locked-coffins-bizarre-death-experience-schools-South-Korea-40-people-kill-day.html Hmm, doesn't look that scary to me. Actually somewhat cozy.
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    Ask A Deathlister

    Was the Monty Python sketch about the Dinsdale Brothers inspired by the Kray twins? I'm just reading about the rumours of an affar between one of the twins and Tory politician Lord Boothby: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/covered-up-50-years-how-6686843 which reminds me of the Dinsdale bit with John Cleese as a female impersonator.
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    Helmut Kohl

    Ok, joke aside, they say it was a constant up and down, but now he's stable enough to go home. His initial hip surgery led to complications which required more surgery, including bowel surgery. The final sentences are curious. "The doctors fought for weeks to get him to leave the hospital alive. Considering the circumstances, he's doing ok. But he's not healthy". It sounds a bit as if he wants to die at home. I guess they were surprised that he was in a worse general shape than they (and he himself) expected. They didn't expect that the initial hip surgery could go so bad. Who knows, maybe he doesn't even want to leave home during the next health crisis.
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    Helmut Kohl

    Helmut Kohl is back home: http://www.bild.de/politik/inland/helmut-kohl/kanzler-der-einheit-ist-wieder-zuhause-43113218.bild.html(german link) The photos don't really tell whether he's dead or alive.
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    Wrestlers/actors

    Hang on a minute..... Dunno who's more anxious for the results of these scans, me or him. Kristoffer Travis ‏@RealKrisTravis 57m57 minutes ago Im basically in the hospital...... Had an operation. Not going to go into much detail here. Thanks everyone for kind words. Xx Kristoffer Travis ‏@RealKrisTravis 32m32 minutes ago I'm going to put this out there right now..... I won't ever be wrestling ever again. Gutted yes. But I have to accept this. Lots of love. X Any guesses? Can you go from remission to recurrence to death that quickly at 31? Hmm, according to tweets from his friends/fans, the cancer has really come back. But he's having a holiday in Iceland right now.
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    Not Really Famous, But What A Moniker!

    Santa Claus has two types of unspecified cancer: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/15/santa-claus-north-pole-alasak-politician-medical-marijuana He treats it with medical marijuana. His name could actually get him a british obit.
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    Robert Mugabe

    Awarded the 'Chinese Nobel Peace Prize': http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/22/zimbabwes-robert-mugabe-awarded-chinas-nobel-peace-prize For "injecting fresh energy" into the global quest for harmony.
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    Johan Cruijff

    Guardian, too: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/22/johan-cruyff-barcelona-ajax-holland-lung-cancer German newssites as well.
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    Derby Dead Pool 2015

    The one that annoys me the most is Liz Smith the english tv actress, and Liz Smith the american gossip lady. In fact, I believe the latter lady would be the better Deathlist pick, especially if the Deathlist wants to compensate for the missed death of Joan Rivers.
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    Conspiracy Theories

    Does Beyoncé's father accidentally reveal that she is older than she pretends to be? http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/beyonces-father-matthew-knowles-hints-6669975 That is not a new theory, by the way. An extended version of it is that Solange Knowles is not Beyoncé's sister, but her daughter from a teenage pregnancy. And Beyoncé totally faked her pregnancy (she had a surrogate).
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