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Longtime ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings anounced today that he has been diagnosed with lung cancer. Jennings, 66 will be taking chemotherapy on an outpatient basis while continuing his anchor duties. But medical experts are saying that by taking chemo and not having surgery that his prognosis doesn't sound good.

Saudi Arabia's King Fahd has been admitted to hospital according to news sources. They have not been able to confirm his condition, but he has been in poor health since suffering a stroke in 1995. His brother, Prince Abdullah has been performing most of the royal functions since then. At 82 and in frail health for many years, could he be meeting his maker soon?

How's Paul Scofield (b.1922) for a 2006 contender?

High-voiced singer with the Chi-Lites and all time afro hair growing champion died last week aged 64.

Dead today, been living and working in Canada for the last 25 years but will still be missed all over the place. Let the heartaches begin.

Didn't he die this year? I see hide, nor hair of his name.

In case this chap has slipped through your net, Emlyn Hughes, former Liverpool and England soccer captain from the 70s has brain cancer, which is almost always fatal. A good bet for next year I reckon. WDYT?

b. 1913, host of "This Is Your Life"

News that Frank Gorshin who played The Riddler in the original Batman series has died. Makes me wonder how the other Batman villains are getting on and Batman and Robin themselves for that matter - Adam West and Burt Ward. I seem to recall that the Penguin (Burgess Meredith) and the Joker (Cesar Romero) had been zapped! What about the others?

Fmr. U.S. Senator Howard Baker has recently undergone open-heart surgery and is retiring as U.S. Ambassador to Japan. Baker who turns 80 in November of this year was also the Republican co-chair of the Senate Watergate Committee. Another Deep Throat candidate?

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according to the always fact-filled Evening Standard, Monaco's Prince Rainier's getting old and trying to decide which of his kids is least likely to f*%$ things up in the principality when he goes. He was recently in hospital for a recurrence of heart problems. That family's due to have something bad happen to 'em - it's been a good few years since anyone died or got cheated on by their bodyguard/husband nailing a stripper

Saul Bellow, 89, well-known writer has also popped his clogs... Csaba

Sad news Frankie Perdue has died. Purported and oft misreported cause of death was unsubstantiated at best, leaving us knowing only that he indeed did go to the poultry house in the sky. There seem to be at least these few things which are known. his last meal was chicken. he was not chicken himself and was heard to utter in his last moments: "cluck cluck cluck" as one of his 'lightly seasoned and coated tenders' lodged in his throat. Loosely translated this meant that he was aware that he was going to the hen house, and from his actions he made no attempt to stop it from happening not even cracking open a bottle of Wishbone dressing. His next statement was less understood but it is known he shall never make another peep. I wonder if he'll still be head rooster.

Barney Martin the actor who portrayed the father Morty on the lackluster Jerry Seinfeld television show has died. According to reports the 82 year old man succumbed to cancer. Rumor has it though he was forced to watch all the episodes of the program and that the strain was too much for him. http://abcnews.go.co...Story?id=610893

Betsy Cronkite, wife of Death Lister Walter Cronkite, died last night after a battle with cancer at the age of 89. The Cronkites married in 1940 and were said to have had a very happy marriage. Typically, after the death of a much-beloved spouse, the widow or widower dies soon after.

How sad to hear of David Kosoff's demise, especially as I thought he shifted off this mortal doobrey years ago. If only I had known, he would have been under consideration for 2005. Oh well, there is still Dame Vera. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bu...rts/4378131.stm

The alleged cocaine selling car maker, John Delorean kicks the stainless steel bucket. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...s/obit_delorean

At last after all these desperate years of searching, I've finally found a picture of Glyn Worsnip. Glyn left the planet in 1996, headed for Cerebellar Ataxia armed with the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and a sweater wearing companion by the name of Doc Cox. Indeed, even Patrick Moore thought Cerebellar Ataxia was a rare constellation when he was approached and secretly filmed for a episode of the notorious Brasseye series, that to date has never been shown on british television. Channel 4 hold the episodes fate in their hands. Thats Life. Don't panic! Publicity photograph: Worsnip & 'Doc' Cox, Interstellar shenanigans; The search for Cerebellar Ataxia, 1996. Reminding us that universal hitch-hiking is not safe and can be dangerous.

Sheila Gish On her way out by all accounts

George Atkinson, who opened the United States' first video-rental store, in West Los Angeles in 1977, has died of emphysema at his home in Northridge, California. He was 69. In the fall of 1977, George Atkinson bought one VHS and one Betamax copy of each of the first 50 movie titles that were then being sold to the public. Announcing the availability of the videos for rent in a one-column-inch ad in the Los Angeles Times in December 1977, Atkinson launched the first video rental store, Video Station, a 600-square-foot storefront on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeless. In order to raise capital, Atkinson charged $50 for an "annual membership" and $100 for a "lifetime membership," which provided the opportunity to rent the videos for $10 a day. Atkinson was soon threatened with a lawsuit for renting the videos, but discovered that U.S. copyright law gave him the right to rent and resell videos he owned. Atkinson went on as an entrepreneur to create the Video Station chain of video stores; at its peak, the chain had over 600 franchised outlets. Atkinson retired in 1997 George Atkinson

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/t...dio/4323345.stm Bit of a John Peel moment really.

This should be elsewhere on this site, but the hell with it, rank hath its priviledges. Chris was a very good friend of mine. He taught me to rope and let me hang out with him at numerous rodeos and concert appearances. I knew he had not been doing well, but couldn't accept this was coming. Very sad day for lots and lots of fans, including myself, of one of the most talented, modest, and above all, honest men who ever lived. I'm going to go cry in my Copenhagen now. And now, hypocrite that I am, I'm going to go merge that Teresa Wright thread where it belongs; then get very, very drunk. -TH

I know it's easy to be wise after the event but how was a 79 year old with Alzheimer's disease missed?

The founder of human rights group Amnesty International, Peter Benenson, has passed away aged 83. more at http://news.bbc.co.u.../uk/4300997.stm