YoungWillz 21,062 Posted August 1, 2016 Piet De Jong, former PM of The Netherlands, has died at 101. Link to follow. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volkskrant.nl%2Fpolitiek%2Foud-premier-piet-de-jong-101-overleden%7Ea4349696%2F&edit-text= 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted August 1, 2016 Piet De Jong, former PM of The Netherlands, has died at 101. Link to follow. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volkskrant.nl%2Fpolitiek%2Foud-premier-piet-de-jong-101-overleden%7Ea4349696%2F&edit-text= I'm a bit surprised by that. Dutch people are well known for their longevity and he seemed to be in fairly good shape for his age.He was the 2nd oldest former world leader I believe. Anton Vratusa is the oldest at 101 here's a link by the way http://www.nltimes.nl/2016/08/01/former-pm-piet-de-jong-dies-age-101/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,479 Posted August 1, 2016 One of those names I learned of through their permanent presence on deadpools. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mad Hatter 1,092 Posted August 1, 2016 Piet De Jong, former PM of The Netherlands, has died at 101. Link to follow. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volkskrant.nl%2Fpolitiek%2Foud-premier-piet-de-jong-101-overleden~a4349696%2F&edit-text=i had him on a couple of my deathpools 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Weebl 216 Posted August 1, 2016 I had Piet de Jong on my list bringing my 2016 total up to 11 hits and there's still 5 months to go! Only problem is, I haven't seen a UK obituary for him anywhere? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,618 Posted August 1, 2016 Piet De Jong, former PM of The Netherlands, has died at 101. Link to follow. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volkskrant.nl%2Fpolitiek%2Foud-premier-piet-de-jong-101-overleden%7Ea4349696%2F&edit-text= The second hit on my Nederlandse Deadpool team (2011 edition)! My first hit was Geertruida Draaisma, Dutch super-centenarian, which was rather wasted. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,538 Posted August 3, 2016 Sonia Gandhi back on the radar Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,941 Posted August 3, 2016 I had Piet de Jong on my list bringing my 2016 total up to 11 hits and there's still 5 months to go! Only problem is, I haven't seen a UK obituary for him anywhere? None yet. Hopefully the Guardian or Telegraph will come good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 3, 2016 Claude Simard, a former Liberal minister and brother-in-law of former Premier Robert Bourassa, has died, current Premier for Quebec Philippe Couillard said on his Twitter account on Tuesday. Born in Montreal in 1938, he was elected Liberal MP for the riding of Richelieu in Montérégie during the 1970 election. He served as Minister of Industry and Trade from May 12 1970 to Oct. 31 1972. SC https://reportca.net/2016/08/former-liberal-minister-claude-simard-dies-at-78/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,062 Posted August 4, 2016 Unless a misspelling, the search box comes up empty. How the hell did we all miss THIS one from late May??! Former Rep. Steve LaTourette (Ohio), gravely ill with pancreatic cancer, has filed a claim against the government over the treatment he received from his Capitol doctors, claiming they failed to pass along critical information about a lesion on the organ and the need for follow-up monitoring. Story was carried in UK as well so no excuses lol. SC http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/27/former-rep-latourette-files-claim-against-us-government-over-missed-cancer/ LaTourette dead: http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/former-congressman-steve-latourette-dies-after-cancer-battle/286951129 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Unknown Man 586 Posted August 4, 2016 Unless a misspelling, the search box comes up empty. How the hell did we all miss THIS one from late May??! Former Rep. Steve LaTourette (Ohio), gravely ill with pancreatic cancer, has filed a claim against the government over the treatment he received from his Capitol doctors, claiming they failed to pass along critical information about a lesion on the organ and the need for follow-up monitoring. Story was carried in UK as well so no excuses lol. SC http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/27/former-rep-latourette-files-claim-against-us-government-over-missed-cancer/ LaTourette dead: http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/former-congressman-steve-latourette-dies-after-cancer-battle/286951129 That's a hit for four teams on the DDP when the UK obit comes. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,062 Posted August 4, 2016 Unless a misspelling, the search box comes up empty. How the hell did we all miss THIS one from late May??! Former Rep. Steve LaTourette (Ohio), gravely ill with pancreatic cancer, has filed a claim against the government over the treatment he received from his Capitol doctors, claiming they failed to pass along critical information about a lesion on the organ and the need for follow-up monitoring. Story was carried in UK as well so no excuses lol. SC http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/27/former-rep-latourette-files-claim-against-us-government-over-missed-cancer/ LaTourette dead: http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/former-congressman-steve-latourette-dies-after-cancer-battle/286951129 That's a hit for four teams on the DDP when the UK obit comes. Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3722869/Former-Ohio-Congressman-Steve-LaTourette-dies-age-62.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,989 Posted August 4, 2016 Noteworthy on the DDP front as a boost for Heading Nowhere and Pan Breed - puts the former at second place now, I believe. Also means everyone who was on my subs bench is now dead, as he was third after Marks and Granger. But hard to complain given the carnage that's happened among the twenty who did make the final cut. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,479 Posted August 4, 2016 He was another who was said to be in remission. Bishop Robinson and Keith Farnham will be quaking in their boots. On a personal superstitious level, I am glad my DDP team didn't hang around at 13 hits too long. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted August 4, 2016 Indeed, pancreatic cancer gets them all (except for Vera Caslavska, and maybe Sharon Jones, but then, she's only stage 2, so could take another year). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youwanticewiththat 611 Posted August 4, 2016 Indeed, pancreatic cancer gets them all (except for Vera Caslavska, and maybe Sharon Jones, but then, she's only stage 2, so could take another year). Or indeed like Steve Jobs who took ju-ju and mungo beans for a perfectly treatable form. Homeopathy anyone - the DDP's favourite treatment? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,989 Posted August 4, 2016 Indeed, pancreatic cancer gets them all (except for Vera Caslavska, and maybe Sharon Jones, but then, she's only stage 2, so could take another year). Be shocked if both Caslavska and Jones are still breathing by the year's end given how both of them are seemingly riddled with the disease now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 4, 2016 Some points for this one! Former U.S. Rep. Steve LaTourette died Wednesday night at age 62 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, according to his former chief of staff. Dino Disanto said LaTourette died at his home in McLean, Virginia, surrounded by his family. SC http://nbc4i.com/2016/08/04/former-ohio-congressman-steve-latourette-dies-at-age-62/amp/ QO http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3722964/Former-Republican-Congressman-Steve-LaTourette-dies-62.html Well fuckall I didn't go back to previous page and pan up high enough. What a dolt. Seemed odd it was 14 hours old and no one said anything. Now we know what's odd around here *hangs head in shame* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,959 Posted August 6, 2016 Alphons Egli, President of the Swiss Confederation in 1986, died on August the 5th aged 91. http://www.rsi.ch/news/svizzera/E-morto-Alphons-Egli-7837871.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,989 Posted August 6, 2016 Anyone starting a Rotten Deadpool team soon? Former Maryland congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley in hospice care: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/06/22/former-journalist-maryland-congresswoman-in-hospice-care/ Now she's feeling 'stronger every day': http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/eb46aea0bca642ff98ea4bbddc61ece2/MD--Retired-Congresswoman-Hospice All that strength for naught, as she's just died. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 7, 2016 Anyone starting a Rotten Deadpool team soon? Former Maryland congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley in hospice care: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/06/22/former-journalist-maryland-congresswoman-in-hospice-care/ Now she's feeling 'stronger every day': http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/eb46aea0bca642ff98ea4bbddc61ece2/MD--Retired-Congresswoman-Hospice All that strength for naught, as she's just died. Well that makes up for my dumping LaTourrette the day before and swapping her in. All is good again. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted August 8, 2016 Anyone starting a Rotten Deadpool team soon? Former Maryland congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley in hospice care: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/06/22/former-journalist-maryland-congresswoman-in-hospice-care/ Now she's feeling 'stronger every day': http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/eb46aea0bca642ff98ea4bbddc61ece2/MD--Retired-Congresswoman-Hospice All that strength for naught, as she's just died. She died of brain cancer, I guess they just put her on a lot of painkillers which she thought was a healing process. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,062 Posted August 15, 2016 The man who coined the phrase 'winter of discontent' , former tory MP and govt minister Sir David Price has died at 89 http://www.telegraph...e-obituary.html . He's the 2nd minister from the Mcmillan/Home govts to die in as many weeks following the death of Sir Christopher Chataway, leaving just 5 still alive. In case you were wondering the 5 surviving ministers are Peter Carrington (the only cabinet minister still alive), James Ramsden, Bertram Bowyer, Edward Du Cann and Robin Chichester Clarke Robin Chichester-Clarke has died aged 88. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/08/15/sir-robin-chichester-clark-mp-for-londonderry--obituary/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,479 Posted August 15, 2016 Sadly he was too young to qualify for The Honourable Member for DDP North. At some point I should update my list of surviving government ministers on this forum somewhere, they've been dropping like flies the last few years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 15, 2016 Ex-Mogadishu mayor Ahmed Mude Husein passed away in the Somali capital family members announced on Monday. The late man served as Mogadishu’s mayor between 1958-1963 before the collapse of the former central Somalia goverment led by Siyad Barre in 1990. SC http://radiokulmiye.net/index.php/2016/08/15/former-mogadishu-mayor-dies-at-the-age-of-88/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites