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His daughter said he's had a "big, big relapse" and couldn't attend the opening of her brothel gentleman's club. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/worrying-pictures-show-gazza-after-5603058 On the other hand, his daughter strikes me as a bit of an attention whore. Later addendum: It was not the opening of the strip club, but his daughter's first day as its manager.

You were correct (about Lil' Chris): http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/lil-chris-inquest-tragic-tv-5601349

The founder of Weight Watchers, "fat housewife" Jean Nidetch, is also dead, at 91: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/weight-watchers-founder-dies-aged-5603271 A hit for two teams in the DDP.

The longtime CEO of Michélin (the michélin man?) who turned the company into a global giant, Francois Michèlin, is dead at 88: http://www.autonews.com/article/20150429/OEM02/150429772/francois-michelin-dies-at-age-89 He once passed control of the company to his son Edouard, who, however, died before him in a car crash.

As Mubarak's retrial heats up, he gives a telephone interview for the first time in years: http://jpupdates.com/2015/04/28/mubarak-in-first-interview-israel-tried-to-deceive-egypt-in-every-way-possible/

Is he lying or getting senile? http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-22179-Bonus+saga+and+Mugabe+%E2%80%98memory+loss%E2%80%99/news.aspx Mugabe is currently facing a surprising amount of opposition within the government and could lose the support of the bureaucracy for scrapping their bonuses.

King Salman reshuffles the line of succession: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/29/saudi-arabias-crown-prince-dismissed The next king, as it stands now, will be the first one from the third generation of the House of Saud. The new crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef, 55, is the current interior minister and "counter-terrorism" tsar and has been an assassination target of Al-Qaida and others.

Swiss football player Gottlieb "Godi" Stäuble is dead at 85: http://www.football.ch/de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-1540/2373_read-123216/(swiss link) He scored more than 100 goals in 200 appearances for several top swiss clubs, and had one appearance in the national team, a 7:5 victory against The Netherlands in 1950.

He sat down for another hour-long interview with his favorite TV-journalist Sandra Maischberger yesterday, you can watch it here (though I'm not sure it can be seen outside of Germany): http://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/talk/menschen-bei-maischberger/sendung/28042015-100.html He was in adequate shape, better than the last time, actually. He said that he doesn't want to become 100 but can't prevent it either. He doesn't expect to live until 2020 which is when the menthol cigarette ban begins, and so he feels it's unnecessary to familiarize himself with e-cigarettes.

Plays a one-man show at Cardiff and appears to be in good health: http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/leisure/reviews/12917697.Bruce_Forsyth_Entertains_New_Theatre__Cardiff/

And already he's dead: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/more-sports/canadian-swimming-coach-randy-bennett-dies-after-brief-battle-with-cancer/article24150071/

French screenwriter/director/actor René Féret is dead at 69: http://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2015/04/28/disparition-de-rene-feret-realisateur-de-la-communion-solennelle_4623939_3476.html (french link) Also dead, but at age 68, French guitarist Serge Koolenn of the group "Il était une fois": http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2015/04/28/serge-koolenn-mort-il-etait-une-fois_n_7160472.html (french link)

The last of the Navajo Code Talkers, Chester Nez, is dead at 93: http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/last-of-the-navajo-code-talkers-has-died-aged-93.html#.VTzph4-Myno.facebook The Navajo Code was formed out of a Native American Language to safely communicate on the Pacific Front of the World War.

The parole board types have massively failed to consider the potential consequences when he finds out Jodie was a lesbian all along. Maybe he'll think he can turn her around by killing President Obama...

I hope they bury, or better yet burn, the weapon with the criminal. I see he died of cancer, was it stomach cancer? You know, ventriloquist, hand in puppet, stomach...

Well, she was an archaic person... Also, I searched her name and this thread appeared.

The Sun (wrongly) claimed an exclusive on this and said they were printing the story to deny him his last wish, even ringing the mother of one victim to get a comment. So, do the families feel better if his death is reported, or not? I wouldn't feel worse knowing it. I might feel better, or I might feel unchanged in a "his-death-doesn't-change-anything-about-what-happened" way. Also, yes, thanks, Toast.

Jayne Meadows Allen, a 40s Broadway star with the occasional appearance in Hollywood movies, and major roles in a couple of TV series' is dead at 95: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Star-of-Stage-Screen-Jayne-Meadows-Allen-Dies-at-95-20150427# Two DDP teams picked her. She was also the wife of Hollywood star/composer/TV host Steve Allen.

Apparently, Templeton was shortly dead three times after his heart attack, but he survived, which the medical staff did not expect: http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/04/ty-templeton-recovering-after-heart-attack-im-not-dead-yet/

The news passed me by, but the Sultan of Oman returned to his home country last month after being treated for something unknown at a german hospital for eight months. http://www.timesofoman.com/News/49272/Article-VIDEO-His-Majesty-Sultan-Qaboos-bin-Said-returns-to-Oman-from-Germany

"Babes in the Woods" murderer and paedophile Ronald Jebson dead at 76: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3055851/Antonia-Kidman-s-ex-husband-Angus-Hawley-dies-46-suspected-heart-attack.html He wanted his death to remain a secret to spare the families any more pain. The article does not state his death as a fact, by the way, only as a claim.

My guesses for those who are still going to die this year are these: Gabor, Graham, Adulyadej, Kohl, Phillips, Reagan... and then a couple of people who should die "statistically", as in, I don't know anything new about their health, but statistically, a couple more hits should occur: Richard Adams, Havelange, Sallis, eh, and why not George Cole.

Yes, the committee prefers fame plus longevity more than illness. The "advantage" of this method is that, statistically about 20% of the picks should die, because the mortality rate of people around the age of 90 is about that. Then they add a couple of genuinely "good" picks, i.e. Sam Simon, Martin Crowe and the like. So 10-15 hits per year can be expected this way. But not many more without a lot of luck.

Nicole Kidman's former brother-in-law Angus Hawley is dead at 46: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3055851/Antonia-Kidman-s-ex-husband-Angus-Hawley-dies-46-suspected-heart-attack.html It happened 8 months after Kidman's father died. Hawley apparently was very fit and his death came completely unexpected.

Has ISIS chief Al-Baghdadi died? http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/islamic-state-chief-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-has-died-claims-radio-iran_1585671.html If he's still alive, I bet it won't be the last time people will falsely claim that he's dead. Also, with regard to my post above, Bill Young died the very next day.