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Two fallers from 1924:

Italian-born Norwegian painter and printmaker Gino Scarpa (wiki) supposedly died today, aged 98.
American inventor and clock designer Gordon Bradt (wiki) supposedly died yesterday, aged 98.

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Bradt's page was changed back by someone just an hour ago

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11 minutes ago, Murdoc said:

Bradt's page was changed back by someone just an hour ago


Yes. Me.

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1 minute ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Yes. Me.

Right. Nice one

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3 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Two fallers from 1924:

Italian-born Norwegian painter and printmaker Gino Scarpa (wiki) supposedly died today, aged 98.
American inventor and clock designer Gordon Bradt (wiki) supposedly died yesterday, aged 98.

So are both of these still alive now?

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4 minutes ago, Steve said:

So are both of these still alive now?


Do I need to explain how Wikipedia works?

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On 04/12/2022 at 18:37, Ulitzer95 said:

Two fallers from 1924:

Italian-born Norwegian painter and printmaker Gino Scarpa (wiki) supposedly died today, aged 98.
American inventor and clock designer Gordon Bradt (wiki) supposedly died yesterday, aged 98.

Both of these are now showing to be deceased. Scarpa apparently died in Oslo on the 4th December 2022 whilst clock designer Bradt timed out on 3rd December 2022 at the Circle of Life Hospice. Would these two have any chance of getting decent obits? 

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An old-ish one I just remembered. In 2019, an account with no other edits added a 2017 death date for Theodore Streleski (wiki), a Stanford University student who murdered one of his professors and served seven years in prison. He would've been 81 and is obviously pretty off-radar given the crime he committed. He was most recently living in San Francisco per familytreenow and other sites, but he doesn't have any kind of mylife page, lending credence to the idea that he might've died. Thoughts?

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Ze'ev Iviansky (wiki), Israeli political scientist, reportedly dead at 99.

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James Kinnier Wilson (wiki), British Assyriologist, reportedly dead at 101.

His father was the neurologist Samuel Kinnier Wilson, for whom "Wilson's disease" was named after.

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Photo from his 100th birthday last year.

Guardian obit at some point I imagine.

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Italian historian Mario Rosa (wiki) reportedly dead at 90.

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Jean Blondel (wiki), France most important politologist, reportedly dead at 93.

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French classical composer Alain Bernheim (wiki) reportedly dead at 91.

 

French are really sucking with obits.

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Obits for Bernheim and Blondel.

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Martin Ravallion (wiki), prominent Australian economist, supposedly dead at 70.

EDIT: Obit.

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Ronald E. Asher (wiki), linguist at the University of Edinburgh, supposedly died on 26 December, aged 96.

Gerald Moore (wiki), British literary scholar, supposedly died on 27 December, aged 98.

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Martin Davis (wiki), American heavyweight mathematician, reportedly dead at 94.

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1 hour ago, drol said:

Martin Davis (wiki), American heavyweight mathematician, reportedly dead at 94.

 

I've checked his Wikipedia page, and there was no way that guy was competing in the heavyweight weight class. Even if he let himself go in later life, he was a super-middleweight at most!

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20 minutes ago, An Fear Beag said:

 

I've checked his Wikipedia page, and there was no way that guy was competing in the heavyweight weight class. Even if he let himself go in later life, he was a super-middleweight at most!

I agree, I had some mathematicians in my theme team last year and he wasn't even close to my radar

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1 minute ago, Sideik said:

I agree, I had some mathematicians in my theme team last year and he wasn't even close to my radar

:whoosh:

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Golden Hollywood actress Miiko Taka (wiki) and Marlon Brando’s co-star in Sayonara (1957), allegedly dead at 97.

 

A pick in several pools on here.

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Quite big if true! 

 

Also awful news broke on wiki.

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55 minutes ago, drol said:

Also awful news broke on wiki.

 

What is said awful news?

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