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40 years ago, Brigadier General Tran Van Hai of the Army of the Vietnamese Republic committed suicide during the Fall of Saigon, which also took place 40 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BA%A7n_V%C4%83n_Hai Yesterday was the 40th death anniversary of the last American fatalities of the Vietnam War, Chalres McMahon and Darwin Lee Judge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McMahon_and_Darwin_Judge

The miracle didn't happen: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/32537425

He looks awful, like the living dead, how much longer can he carry on like this, surely if he doesn't stop which seems unlikely he will be dead by the end of the year. Gazza could be a major miss for the death list. Frankly I think he looks a lot better there than in some recent photos. Such as the ones with the gold di girlfriend on the beach - he looked really grotesque in those. I'm not sure she could be called a gold digger, Gazza isn't exactly rolling in the money these days. No, but there is a type of person who assumes that anyone who is famous must also be rich. You can look on this as an investment future newspaper interviews possibly a ghost written books, the One Show etc And that's when they go on talk shows and get asked "how did you cope with his alcoholism and abuse"?, when the question they should be asking is "why did you bother to marry him in the first place"? Tilts head to one side and looks ernestly at the interviewer (perhaps tearfully if they are talented) "He was such a wonderful person, I thought he could change and it would be enough for him that I was there for him (big sigh) but his demons were just too much for me to fight" Interviewer nods sympathetically as she calculates how quickly she can spend the cash. Aye, more truthful answers might include: 1 - He was so well soaked in alcohol I thought if I set fire to him in late September I could leave the central heating turned off until Christmas! Hmm.. does he have life insurance? By the way, there's a documentary about him coming out this summer, featuring him getting called "the special one" by the special one. And Wayne Rooney calls him the most exciting english player. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3062415/Jose-Mourinho-Wayne-Rooney-Gary-Lineker-lead-tributes-Paul-Gascoigne-new-documentary-charting-life-England-great.html

A former roommate of Brad Pitt, Nicholas Kallsen, dies of an overdose at 48: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3058451/Brad-Pitt-s-former-roommate-star-dead-drug-overdose-Thailand-aged-48.html He overslept and thus missed the chance to audition for the role in 'Thelma and Louise' that made Brad Pitt a star. A classic case of what could have been... He did appear a few times in commercials and on TV though.

Frnech actor Jean Lescot is dead at 76: http://www.20minutes.fr/cinema/1598411-20150429-jean-lescot-voix-francaise-yoda-star-wars-mort Though judging from the headlines, his main claim to fame was to be the french voice of Star Wars' master Yoda.

Jack Ely with The Kingsmen of course. I've added his name as I didn't think to search on Louie Louie singer and if I hadn't spotted this I could have put it on the Dead on 2015 thread and that would have been embarrassing. There are more singers who covered ''Louie Louie'' than I care to count, but his version was remarkable, if only because the FBI started a 31-month investigation to see if the song contained profanity and concluded they were "unable to interpret any of the wording in the record". Ha! One can even read the report: http://vault.fbi.gov/louie-louie-the-song/louie-louie-the-song/view

The Last Mr. Bigg, the "most influential rapper" from Mobile, Alabama is dead and was in his early 40s: http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/04/mobile_rapper_known_as_the_las.html He was influential beyond that city though, and appeared on a Grammy-winning record, and apparently had a steady independent career. He was a household name in Atlanta, one of the centers of US rap music.

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.