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A school accidentally mourns for former Indian PM Vajpayee: http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/school-in-odisha-mourns-demise-of-expm-ab-vajpayee-conducts-condolence-meet-to-pay-tribute-245197.html But the report says, he IS in bad health.

Way beyond the cusp, BBC obit guaranteed as well as probably being the lead obit that day in the Guardian. Would probably even get a tribute show on Radio 2 actually. Oh wow.... I was having my doubts because so far, the news has only been announced on a local US station, the Toronto Star, and specialist magazines. But my research wasn't all that deep, obviously.

Retro-funk singer Sharon Jones's pancreatic cancer is back: http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Sharon-Jones-fighting-new-battle-with-cancer-327209981.html It was originally diagnosed as stage II. I guess she's on the cusp of obitability, having been nominated for a Grammy after her first cancer fight in 2014, and an appearance on BBC TV in February 2015.

The COMPUTER THAT PREDICTS YOUR DEATH: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34245655

Norman Farberow, 'Father of Suicide Prevention', dies on World Suicide Prevention Day, aged 97: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/norman-farberow-suicide-prevention-dies_55f65e9ee4b077ca094f7509 It wasn't the full irony potential though, because he didn't commit suicide.

"Real life Tarzan" and slightly mysterious person Michael Fomenko, 84, who had disappeared from view three years ago, has now been found in a care home, 'alive and well' but confined to a wheelchair: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3233460/Real-life-Tarzan-Michael-Peter-Fomenko.html

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Frank Gilroy, whose best known work was Broadway drama The Subject Was Roses, has died of natural causes at 89: http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/sep/14/frank-d-gilroy-playwright-dies-aged-89

More charges against Rolf incoming: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3233534/Rolf-Harris-face-eight-new-sex-charges-day-20-women-came-forward-claim-predator-attacked-them.html

Nothing of note to update Ms. Bettencourt, but I only recalled her name and really couldn't place her. So after wiki -- I'm being told that she, basically the owner of L'Oreal and not much else I can attest to, is somehow the 10th wealthiest person in the world with $41B? For cosmetics??????? WTF? And it isn't like it's the only cosmetic line, though maybe they have a 90% market share in Europe or some shit? How in fucking hell does owning L'Oreal make someone $41B. Bollocks I say. And anyone responding defending that statistic I say bollocks to you as well. Poppycock in fact! SC In his Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty gives Liliane Bettencourt as the prime example of how money tends to attract more money. She could simply sit on her investments and get impossibly rich. No work required.

I have absolutely no idea who James R Messenger was but seeing as the Doug Stanthorpe site gave you the points and the link you gave seems legit I am confident that he is indeed deceased whoever the hell he was.Can you please enlighten me as to who he was out of personal curiosity?Anyhow you gave me a substiute for Amy Watts that is now on my master list so it is only right that you get to pick another name.Who would you like?This option will of course be open to anyone who has a candidate that died before they entered the game but wasn`t reported on. Uuh, I had also picked Mr. Messenger. I replace him with Howard Marks in that case.

Mick 'Iron Man' Murphy, mainly known for his "epic 1958 win in the Rás Tailteann" race has died somewhat older than 80: http://www.rte.ie/sport/cycling/2015/0911/727279-iron-man-mick-murphy-dies/ Apparently, he was quite a character.

Gay porn performer Mehran Chestnut, who thought his last name wasn't suitable enough and went by the alias King B or KB Love, has died at 25: http://instinctmagazine.com/post/gay-porn-performer-mehran-chestnut-aka-king-b-has-died Likely some drug-related death.

Ronald Bridle, engineer behind Birmingham's Spaghetti Junction, is dead at 85: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brains-behind-birminghams-legendary-spaghetti-6428352

Someone is going to spill water all over the electronics.

Yesterday, I thought how there hasn't been any major death in almost two weeks now (since the death of Sacks and Wes Craven), so consequently I dreamt last night about how this drought led to two really major deaths today. One of them was Rupert Murdoch (how it could happen: a stroke at hearing the Labour leadership vote?), ut I forgot the other one...

Wow, I could have sworn Maria Riva (daughter of Marlene Dietrich was dead), thanks!

Blackrock co-president Charles Hallac dies of cancer at 50: http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/blackrocks-first-employee-and-copresident-charles-hallac-dies-at-50-10494422.html I didn't know it before today, but Blackrock is now, by far, the biggest investment company of the world, with several trillions of dollars in assets.

Beryl Renwick, award-winning local BBC geriatric radio star, dead at 89: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-34214039

Camilla ill with gastroenteritis: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3229117/Duchess-Cornwall-left-disappointed-falling-ill-overnight-forced-pull-official-visit-Portsmouth.html It occurred to me that Camilla, already 68 years old, might actually never become Queen, but not because Charles doesn't inherit the throne, but because she dies before her mother-in-law.

DDP unique pick Nhat Hanh had a stroke last year, and now has spoken the first words since then: http://www.lionsroar.com/recovering-thich-nhat-hanh-speaks-first-words-after-stroke/

What is this, a broadway holocaust?

Schmidt's heart surgeon says that Schmidt hasn't smoked for ten days now: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/altkanzler-im-krankenhaus-helmut-schmidt-laesst-das-rauchen-sein-1.2643255(link in german) The article implies that his smoking caused the blood clot in his leg, the second time after 2011 this has happened. He uses a nicotine patch though.

Interesting case. Though he is covered under my rule as written above because he has his own Wikipedia page in other languages, just not in English. It's actually funny (to me) because I had imagined that this rule would mostly cover former head of state of little-covered non-english speaking nation XYZ, with an obituary in the AP or Reuters, copy/pasted into the Daily Mail.

According to the Telegraph, Jihadi John is Nr. 1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11852303/Jihadi-John-tops-secret-kill-list-of-five-Isil-extremists.html

Yeah, I took that phrase from the related Daily Mail article. It would have made more sense to also link to it, but I had already accidentally closed that window and then used the first link I found. It killed the joke. Edit: Here it is: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3227904/Heiress-Reiss-empire-dies-Debra-Reiss-brand-director-fashion-firm-father-started-1971.html