Still no confirmation on the possible death of abu ayyub al masri.
AIGHHHHH!
I carry my DP2008 list o’ potentials with me in my purse.
I remember at least one person picked them both. I asked if they were hoping for a murder/suicide but I got no response.
One can always hope that the widow commits suttee.
(OK, that was over the line…)
Superbia-acedia
gesundheit
CNN.com is reporting the death of astronaut Wally Schirra; I picked the wrong spaceman!
Cite for Schhirra’s death.
Thanks, Annie! I scouted around and couldn’t find more than the mention on the CNN crawler at the time. Not Wiki, not NASA, not Google News.
Down to two of the original 7. 
Wiki has been updated.
Glenn and??? My memory is failing.
Scott Carpenter?
NASA link
I wonder if he and Glenn have a side bet.
This Wikipedia article on Carpenter is quite prejudice in his favor; Chris Kraft fried his ass in the book Flight.
Carpenter was a doofus who almost used all his fuel on the Mercury flight with potential fatal results. He ended up working with undersea habitats rather than continuing in the space program.
Pete Conrad on the other hand, the ultimate cool, died in a motorcycle accident at 69, a short guy, his first words upon stepping onto the Moon were, “that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me.” 
Damn, again. Schirra and Carpenter are on my B list…
Farewell to Aussie guitar great Lobby Loyde, 65.
Congrats to the two other Dopers sharing in this poor fellow’s misfortune.
And Rachm Qoch takes the lead (I am ignoring the doper who mostly just copied RQ’s list).
GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I forgot to put Lobby on my list this year.
Nuts. Nuts. Nuts.
I’m still hoping for a major terrorist death trifecta done by Stephen Hawkins.
Hawking is on my list too, and I thought he was being especially cooperative by risking that trip in the vomit comet, but he seems to have survived it. (I’m glad, really I am.)
Diego “Chico” Corrales, who shared the 130-pound title in boxing and later became the champ in the 135-pound class, died in a motorcycle accident at the age of 29.
Woohoo! My Factiva track folder pays off 35 points!