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Spiro Boursine or Boursinos (articles differ), founder of Earthcore Festival, dead at 45 in police custody... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6299959/Bush-doof-pioneer-died-pinned-handcuffed-police-bar-brawl.html First the Burning Man festival, now Earthcore....who's next??

Reminds me...Gustav Gerneth turned 113 6 days ago: https://www.bild.de/regional/sachsen-anhalt/sachsen-anhalt-news/keine-diaet-kein-sport-opa-gustav-wird-113-jahre-alt-57826578.bild.html (german link)

DMK general secretary and friend of M Karunanidhi, K Anbazhagan, hospitalised: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/dmk-general-secretary-k-anbazhagan-admitted-to-hospital-1372368-2018-10-21#close-overlay A worthy successor?

Artie Lange has another infection, hospitalised: https://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/10/artie_lange_hospitalized_cancels_show_blood_sugar.html

Tom Jones has started boxing: https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/21/tom-jones-78-fighting-fit-as-he-takes-up-boxing-following-hospital-stint-8060312/

Thai Boxer and Guinness World Record holder for "most full-contact knee strikes/elbow strikes and elbow strikes with one arm", Mubzz Bajwa, dead at 38 from a heart attack: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mubzz-bajwa-dies-thai-boxer-15308549

Will MS require surgery at one point? Blair Stitch Project? (groooooaaannnn.....)

Wikipedia now tells me that yesterday we had the deaths of Kok, Kwok and Ngok.

I was mostly surprised to see she actually had a decent career after Cruel Intentions.

Gemma Nuttall also LotM...

The Guardian has absorbed the word "woke": the search for Mr. Woke: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/aug/11/my-search-for-mr-woke-a-dating-diary Woke business: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/16/woke-business-nike-colin-kaepernick-levis-pepsi writing about wokeness: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/14/wokeness-black-writers-evening-standard-woke-christmas re-awokening: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/feb/17/pop-cultures-re-awokening-is-this-political-shift-a-movement-or-moment

Danniella on a motorbike: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6297419/Danniella-Westbrook-flashes-abs-grey-crop-rides-motorbike-amid-cancer-diagnosis.html

Craig Bryden, man who made the news two and a half years ago by fighting cancer in a pirate costume, dead at 58, straight from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-45917046

Horst Herold, police mastermind during the time of the Red Army Faction, Germany's home-grown terror, turns 95 in 2 days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Herold The inventor of dragnet (is that how you say it?). He had a heart attack in 1980 and his wife died last year: http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/horst-herold-wird-95-letzter-gefangener-der-raf-bundeskriminalamt-chef-der-70er-a-1233549.html (german link)

I hated that song.

Brian Kennedy's cancer is still there and "increasing in thickness": https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/celebs/brian-kennedy-opens-up-cancer-13439666

No QO yet... which I like here but dislike in the Windy City Deadpool.

Thank you reddit, the name of the president of Turkmenistan is "Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurbanguly_Berdimuhamedow "The first dentist in the world to head a state or a government" His father, Mälikguly Berdimuhametowyç Berdimuhamedow, is still alive at 86

Buzz Aldrin's ex-wife Lois Driggs Cannon, dead at ...unspecified age: https://theblast.com/buzz-aldrin-ex-wife-lois-driggs-cannon-dead/ She was his "most recent" wife.

The "Eye of Istanbul", photographer Ara Guler, dead at 90: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45899844

manhole - peoplehole? unihole?

Even with BBC obit... https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45895230

My condolences.

"Head-turning" Belfast model Mairead O'Neill, suddenly dead at 21: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/736781/Model-Mairead-O-Neill-dead-Northern-Ireland-Belfast-tragedy

A Kenyan MP talks about the cancer of his sister, the cancer of his mum, his own cancer, and the cancer of 63 (!) Kenyan Members of Parliament: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2001299224/juja-mp-francis-waititu-battling-cancer-and-determined-to-win