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The Senate Speaker of Canada, Pierre Claude Nolin is apparently going to die very soon: http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/senate-speaker-nolins-health-has-seriously-deteriorated Too bad he isn't famous enough for the rotten dead pool.

Well, here it is, an obituary for Paris Hilton's dog Tinkerbell with the age of death in dog years (72): http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainment/fashion/paris-hiltons-dog-has-died-aged-72-20150422-300055/

Former head of Syrian military intelligence Rustom Gazaleh has died: https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Apr-24/295615-former-syrian-intelligence-chief-in-lebanon-rustom-ghazali-has-died-media-sources.ashx He was a mjaor figure of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon and possibly responsible for the assassination of lebanese Prime Minister Hariri. Then he became chief of the Syrian "political security branch". There might have been a split with Assad though on the course on the Civil War in Syria.

I've wondered why, with all the categories, we don't have one called Suicides, where we put them all. I particularly like the jumpers and may damn well start up a jumper thread next participant. SC I thought about that as well, but for some reason, it was too morbid for me. I think that would be too much misery in one place.

Here's a video about him: http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2015/apr/23/russian-man-worlds-first-head-transplant-video I can understand the desire. Though they say that the operation is meant to take place within the next 2 years, and it doesn't sound as if Mr. Spiridonov will live that long.

She sounds trainsgender. SC I know some people like trains almost to a sexual degree, but to identify as a train is new to me... On the other hand, of course, I had to check what the difference between transgender and transsexuality is, and transgender (?) theorists say there is "no meaningful difference": http://www.transawareness.org/what-is-the-difference-between-transgender-and-transsexual.html

Mikki Nicholson, UK and European Scrabble champion kills herself by jumping in front of a train after being taunted at for her transsexuality: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mikki-nicholson-transgender-scrabble-champion-5566289

The gambling-addicted former mayor of San Diego, Maureen O'Connor, has breast cancer: http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/Former-San-Diego-mayor-fighting-breast-cancer-301005931.html In 2011, she already had a brain tumor removed.

Norm Frank, one-time recordholder of having run the most marathons worldwide, is dead at 83: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/2015/04/22/norm-frank-marathon-running-brighton-world-records/26176753/

Monte Merrick, screenwriter and occasional writer of novels, dies of cancer at 65: http://variety.com/2015/film/people-news/monte-merrick-dead-dies-writer-memphis-belle-1201477565/

Well, now he'll become an indistinguishable part of Earth.

New York Times bestselling true crime writer Ann Rule, 84, has been ripped off by her sons. She's in declining health since 2013, can't perform tasks of daily life without assistance, is on oxygen at all times, and has periods of extreme confusion: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/21/ann-rule-sons-theft_n_7111854.html

A British equivalent to deathlist favorite Javier Perez de Cuellar, former Secretary of the Commonwealth Sir Shridath Ramphal has been hospitalized for an unspecified illness. He's 86 years old. http://caribnewsdesk.com/news/9706-sir-shridath-ramphal-hospitalised

After a misquote, Martin Crowe does not not want the knighthood: http://tvnz.co.nz/cricket-news/no-sir-martin-crowe-misquoted-in-knighthood-rejection-report-6295414

The father of Mayim Bialik who plays the awkward sort-of girlfriend of even more awkward Sheldon Cooper on Big Bang Theory has died afte ra two-month stay at a hospice: http://www.people.com/article/mayim-bialik-father-barry-bialik-dies

Major economic historian of central Europe, Alice Teichova, is dead at 94: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/alice-teichova She was one of those people who escaped both the Nazis and the Communists and became the first female professor at East Anglia.

Already posted, though not yet commented on. Perhaps cos it was in wrong thread..... He never played at the WC... Yeah, though using the search function led me to DDT's original mention of this case in that thread.

I've previously wondered why Michael Schumacher's son wants to pursue a racing career, now his daughter takes up a slightly less dangerous sport, horse riding: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3048581/Michael-Schumacher-s-daughter-shows-impressive-riding-skills-horse-show.html Also, the article mentions that Schumacher's son was involved in a 100mph crash just last week.

A member of Churchill's Special Operations Executive, Bob Maloubier, is dead at 92: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/french-secret-agent-bob-maloubier-dies-aged-92-churchill He had a colorful time being an operative in France under the Nazis.

Already posted, though not yet commented on.

Commander of ISIS, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was seriously hurt in an air-strike last month and has not been in day-to-day control since then: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-wounded-air-strike

The lady responsible for the above sign, Betty Willis, has signed off: http://www.8newsnow.com/story/28851893/betty-willis-designer-of-welcome-to-fabulous-las-vegas-sign-dies

Cher is active on Twitter (as I learned through the Kirk Kerkorian thread). She seems fine.

And now he's dead: http://www.sport24.co.za/Soccer/PSL/Shoes-loses-battle-with-cancer-20150421

I double posted in pop stars thread--- sorry :-( SC I forgive you, but it's not the pop stars thread, it's the dead pop stars thread, so this news doesn't belong there /trolltrolltroll