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It's Deathlist forum favourites Teddy Johnson (98) and Pearl Carr (96)! Oh, and Vicki from Allo Allo.

Van hits muslims leaving a mosque in London. 1 arrested, several injured

Note to the producers of Antiques Roadshow. There is no need whatsoever for the experts to give a long, boring description of what has been put in front of you to value. The owner isnt fucking interested, the viewers are not fucking interested. Just cut to the fucking chase and tell us what the bastard thing is worth!!!!!!

You are a bad man

We do have the Crowdsourced Deathlist.

Not ever. Biggest misses ever belong to Alec Guinness, Boris Yeltsin, and Patrick Moore.

Dennis Skinner or Ken Clarke if you insist on a serving MP. For retired MPs I'd go for Douglas Hurd, Betty Boothroyd, Peter Tapsell, Ronald Atkins, Norman Tebbit, Norman Lamont.

They voted the wrong way. They were meant to give a big mandate...

I think a fair few are as well as Prescott and Skinner.Douglas Hurd Roy Hattersley Norman Tebbit Michael Heseltine Nigel Lawson Sir John Nott Kenneth Baker Ken Clarke Glenda Jackson Shirley Williams Jill Knight Betty Boothroyd Bill Rodgers David Owen David Steel Neil Kinnock Tom King Norman Fowler and Bryan Gould all strike me as very Deathlisty. You can make the argument though that Edward du Cann or Michael Jopling are deathlisty as both where not just backbench MP`s but at shadow cabinet /cabinet level.They would easily get a telegraph and guardian obit even on a slow news day.Hence they have a legitimate claim to notability other than being old and their deaths are expected to be covered by UK media

How much more contempt for the voters does this Government have to demonstrate?

I don't think Yoko Ono is a cunt. John Lennon, on the other hand...

Coffin lodger posted in Dead of 17 thread , but this needs updated. Stephen Furst at 62/3https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/06/17/us/ap-us-obit-stephen-furst.html?mcubz=2&_r=0

Threadcromancy! Some good picks on page 1 - given most of them are still alive. Well, bar Paul Newman, of course. At the risk of looking foolish before long then, I think the 5 British acting Dames in their mid 80s - Dench, Smith, Philips, Atkins and Marsh - will be around well into their 90s. I know Jean Marsh techically isn't a Dame, but that is an error which will be rectified eventually...

There's rumours Hefner has terminal cancer, but they come from National Inquirer type sources iirc.

"That means fighting against the burning injustice that, if you’re born poor, you will die on average 9 years earlier than others." From Theresa May's first statement as PM. Time to walk the walk, Tories.

Fucking hell, im actually going to agree with you!!! A worlds first!!!!!

May is absolutely incompetent as a PM. A tragedy where 30 are dead and 76 are missing along with hundreds of families need rehousing and she meets with the emergency services only? Whilst I've no doubt it's important to do that, why on earth even go down to the site if you aren't going to engage with victims of the tragedy, even if you're going to get shouted and abused at - Sadiq Khan was on the receiving end of hostility but at least he went. She's went back today, and naturally found herself the target of anger greater than she would have got yesterday. The idea that the death tolls is being deliberately understated to lessen the effect appears to have taken hold (I doubt it's true, it must be incredibly difficult to identify people in a scenario like this) which isn't going to help in preventing any civil unrest breaking out. May needs to go, for the sake of the country. Every decision she takes appears to be a mis-step. Must be the least competent PM since Callaghan.

Yep, I think you are on the money. Its another own goal, she should have been there the next day giving out hugs all round and nodding in sympathy etc etc. Corbyn has played another blinder. For an experienced Politician May is a massive fucking idiot.

In absolute stitches at Glen Campbell's corpse propped up on a chair outselling Katy Perry's new 24/7 publicity blitz album in its first week of release.

Apparently I had intended a "Kohl fires up another hit" pun in my notes, which I forgot. Never mind. There's some right obvious and awful puns awaiting some big names on the list. Anyhow, our survivors at this point: 1. Leah Bracknell 487 2. Kirk Douglas 414 3. King Michael of Romania 409 4. Prince Philip 334 5. Glen Campbell 316 6. Rev Billy Graham 315 7. Bruce Forsyth 306 8. Tony Booth 299 9. Robert Mugabe 286 10. Jacques Chirac 274 11. Gord Downie 263 12. Desmond Tutu 258 13. George Bush Sr 257 14. Olivia de Havilland 251 15. Leslie Philips 244 16. Former Pope Benedict XVI 239 17. Vera Lynn 237 18. Sir Colin Meads 218 19. Jimmy Carter 217 20. Glynis Johns 213 21. Clive James 207 22. Gina Lollobrigida 203 23. Herman Wouk 200 24. Danielle Darrieux 188 25. Stefan Karl 182 26. Queen Elizabeth II 182 27. Fats Domino 180 28. Sidney Poitier 169 29. Denis Norden 169 30. Ian St John 168 31. Sumner Redstone 165 32. Mikhail Gorbachev 154 33. Joanne Woodward 145 34. Monica Vitti 128 35. June Foray 127 36. Jill Gascoine 118 37. Nannette Fabray 112.

So, via Joey's post, the list distills into: Already Gone: 1. MTM 2. Joost 3. Rockefeller 4. Brady 5. Noakes 6. Sallis 7. Christie On the Clock (either terminally ill or so ill, news of death at any moment would not surprise*): 8. Liz Dawn 9. Jerry Lewis 10. Glen Campbell 11. Akihito 12. Ian St John 13. Bruce Forsyth 14. Nobby stiles 15. Gord Downie 16. Leah Bracknell 17. Tony Booth 18. King Michael of Romania (*Nor would they surviving into 2018, of course - vagaries of death...) 50/50rs - folk who could go this year or linger, but appear to be nearing the end: 19. Jill Gascoine (?) 20. George Bush Sr (?) 21. Gay Byrne (?) And the longterm Deathlist favourites, law of averages (and history) says two of these names will be pan breed by December 31st: 22. 2 of Kirk Douglas/Vera Lynn/Rev Billy G/Carrington/Philip/Norden/Olivia/Dole/lamotta/de Cuellar/Domino I think it'll average out to 13 or 14 out of 50. Now, watch Betty White keel over tomorrow while Booth and Downie soldier on to 2018!

Yeah and you could put any Tory in Kensingt... ah, never mind. (Beaconsfield being less of a joke response...)

Imagine if a non deathlisters reaction to this.

Jawohl, mein führe... Oops, I mean, I thought you'd at least complain about the lack of German folks (or should I say Völker? the Austrians and the Swiss are missing as well), their only candidate on the list seems to be the Pope Emeritus and even he is a Vatican citizen (although at least he was affiliated with the Hitlerjugend). So many missed opportunities... (e.g. Kohl or Habermas etc.) @Gossip Gape: Attached the 50 Deathlist-People sorted by origin (percentage), here you can see what I meant before 42% from UK 40% from USA incl. 1 from Canada 8% from Africa (Tutu, Mugabe, Mubarak and van der Westhuizen) 4% from EU (Cardin, King Michael) 2% from South America (Perez) 2% from Asia (Akihito) 2% Rest (Pope from Vatikan) 82% are only from UK and USA. This is everything else than a worldwide cross-section. Or do the DL-comittee really believe that most of prominent figures exist only in UK and US? Only 4% from EU, this is embarassing, not only cause I am living in EU, but EU contains at least as many prominent people as the USA. Maybe DL-comittee are brexit-supporters, who knows, that would explain all. Ok, enough criticism. maybe they can try to improve this next year.... Note that there's a bit of an overlap when it comes to Olivia de Havilland. Think of her as an item that was assembled in Asia entirely out of English components, then swiftly exported for the usage of consumption-crazed Americans at its best shape. Of course, as time passed, the product got worn out to the extent that it eventually has ended up in a French antique shop where it's now being cherised by cultured Europeans for its historical value. So, we get the following four-in-one in Olivia: 1) Asia (place of birth) 2) UK (ethnicity) 3) USA (naturalized citizen) 4) EU (place of residence)

I don't like absolutes; Brian May!