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Former chairman of the Scottish Communist Party and peace activist Alan MacKinnon dies after a cancer-related illness: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-34302549 Hmm... a bit of a miss?

India's cricket boss and former world cricket boss Jagmohan Dalmiya dead at 75: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34311339

I know time is running out for me getting a unique and unnatural-death hit with Alexis Tsipras, but I applaud him for really doing everything to provoke it. I feared he was gone after announcing the snap elections, but there he's back again...

A curious parallel to the last day that had a truly significant death, which, in my opinion was the 30th of August with Oliver Sacks and Wes Craven: Both Oliver Sacks and Brian Sewell were gay intellectuals probably on many deathpoolers' shortlists - and both Jackie Collins and Wes Craven kept their cancer a secret.

He was so self-loathing, maybe that explains how he died "ahead of schedule".

The Unknown Man is missing from the scoreboard, unless he has withdrawn in secrecy.

Ah I see, thanks! Like this one here: http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20395222_20953420,00.html His daughter is sometimes considered his 'replacement' heir because the Crown Prince is an incompetent idiot. I wonder where this is going.

No comments or likes---proving no one read this :-( it was a test of sorts. I'm meloncholy now. SC He just wasn't a very interesting person, like most of those who died in the past 3 weeks, I would say.

Scottish game designer Stewart Hogarth, has died of his heart disease at 34: http://www.develop-online.net/news/scottish-dev-stewart-hogarth-passes-away/0211356 He founded Smiling Bag Games and made a couple of indie games and worked on games for leading brands such as Sky, BBC, and the Cartoon Network.

Former Japanese Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa dead at 93: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/19/national/former-finance-minister-shiokawa-dies-at-93/#.Vf03nPntlBc He also was a mentor of former PM Koizumi, transport minister, education minister and chief cabinet secretary.

Her memoirs will be published in November: http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/THE-FACTS-OF-LIFEs-Charlotte-Rae-to-Release-Memoir-20150904#

He has left the hospital today, i.e. a little later than it was expected: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/helmut-schmidt-aus-klinik-entlassen-a-1053358.html(link in german) It was his own wish to leave (so the doctors would have liked to keep him there). After the surgery had restored the bloodflow in his leg, it declined again but has been 'mostly compensated'. His doctors discussed another operation with him, but "with concern regarding his compromised general well-being" it has been delayed for now.

May Boss, stuntwoman for Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth, Doris Day and everyone else, who appeared in movies like Mary Poppins, The Blues Brothers, Blazing Saddles and everything else has died at 90: http://deadline.com/2015/09/may-boss-dead-stuntwoman-doubled-for-bette-davis-rita-hayworth-1201530534/

He's getting some publicity because of the release of a documentary, like here, with interview and all. Looks ok for now. http://www.espn.co.uk/rugby/story/_/id/13623450/rugby-world-cup-joost-van-der-westhuizen-playing-second-half-my-life-now

Awww...

She succeeds at selling her Irish home, personal statement included in the article: http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/maureen-o-hara-sells-west-cork-home-for-1-6m-1.2345704

Re: Clever ploys, I accidentally put Billy Graham twice on my team. I pondered pretending I chose the wrestler Billy Graham, but decided against it because he's too fine so there was no upside to it.

Tonight is another Republican primary debate, this time the traditional Ronald Reagan library debate. The procedure is such that Nancy Reagan 'invites' the candidates to the debate (which she did) and appears in the auditorium. Let's see if she does tonight...

Update after the second round of treatment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/jimmy-carter-says-he-has-no-ill-effects-midway-through-cancer-treatments/2015/09/15/2d069952-5c11-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html

Interesting. I had her as a lock for 2016, now I'm not so sure, with the cancer possibly in remission. And she's not THAT old, so her lungs might not fail that quickly. As for her bleakness, I guess that's what you become under harsh treatment.

Briton Lindsay Sandiford, sentenced to death in Indonesia for smuggling drugs, will probably not be executed this year: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-34256316

President of La Societe Guernesiaise, important political figure of Guernsey and a 'world authority on bats' Pat Costen dies after a short illness at 71: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-34256916 Not too long ago, she was in the news because two calves 'invaded' her home.

I bet they won't immediately announce his death, but I bet there will be certain signs that one might watch out for, for example, an increase in suppression and incarcerations.

Did they pull up the forums and all? Did they read this thread and Spade Cooley's remark and then turn around their head and watch their colleague keeping suspiciously shtum?

Haiti's chief voodoo priest, Max Beauvoir, has died at 79: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/14/max-beauvoir-the-biochemist-who-became-haitis-chief-voodoo-priest-dead-at-79/ Before his spiritual career, he was a biochemist, but then his dying voodoo grandfather appointed him successor by pointing a finger at him.