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Shortest wait: 1998 (Helen Wills, died 1/1/1998) Longest wait: 1991 (NO DEATHS)

Oh, maybe 30 people out of every 100 won’t make 80. The vast majority of the people still will see 80...

Ahhh. After weeks of poor torture including more Plasters than a certain supermarket can sell, the sheer joy of breaking in my DM shoes for work mean I’m in for st least 2 years pure heaven when I’m walking 8 miles a day minimum. Hell to to break in but heaven there after. Good olde Dr Martens

Dunno if I've ever mentioned it on here, but my laptop, purchased in the sales after the sales in 2015 and on which I'll be running the DDP from, has been named "Sadhana" as a little tribute to the Bollywood icon.

A new poem of his has been published in The New Yorker, although the first stanza suggests it was written in the Summer. In it, he reflects on mortality and how long he might have left. It's very touching, but it seems to signal that he might not have long left.

I know. I don't think we'll see Stan or George going to jail any time soon!

Grim for 1st and 2nd place in the DDP, most likely.

Johnny Grant was proudly welcome to the walk of death on this day 10 years ago, aged 84.

thank you so much that's so sweet I am new here and I don't understand everything about the forum ! thank you a lot sweety and have a good day

thanks a lot that's really kind of youuuuu

A mystery illness? Ok, I'll bite. The doctors still haven't found what they were looking for...

Yeh I'm surprised you have heard of him, as he does not play ice hockey.

Death from AIDS-related complications meant that Ricky Wilson would never be 52, dying today in 1985 aged 32.

Georgian actress Lika Kavzharadze has been found dead at her apartment. Police investigating a possible suicide. She was 57. And no, her name is not enough points for the Scrabble deficit game. Also, Wikipedia notes her last name as Kavzharadze but the article from Georgian Journal notes it as Lika Kavjaradze.

Jack Daniel got wasted on this day 106 years ago, aged 62.

Not only did he present the evening news when Alastair Burnet let anyone get a word in, Sandy Gall was also a frontline war correspondent for 50 years, covering everything from Vietnam to Iraq, and was one of the few Western journalists at various warzones like the Six Day war, for example. As a roving reporter earlier in his life, he covered the Mau Mau Rising (ie helped expose the British atrocities, and Suez, among many others. He also got arrested in Uganda for trying to uncover Idi Amin's crimes, is one of the foremost living authorities on Afghanistan (saying he respects the countries ability to repel any invasion), and made a number of interesting documentaries, not only on his exploits and charity work but also figures like the guy from Born Free. He also did a lot of charity work to raise money for people disabled in Afghanistan by bombs (all of them, be they Russian, Taliban or Western sent...), is a extensive whisky drinking Scot, and claims that live TV is actually scarier than facing live bullets on the ground. Also you know what he did after escaping a secret police camp in Uganda, after 3 days of being threatened with death? Reported on it immediately to the outside world, while still in Uganda. Dude's about as amazing as a war correspondent can be. That people on here don't know about him is their own fault and not his.

Urbain Le Verrier, who predicted/discovered Neptune using mathematics, died this day 140 years ago (66).

Heeeeeeeres jonnnngy

Indeed. Could be a contender for DDT's Scrabble Deficit thread.

HELLO?! Alexander Graham Bell was put on hold 95 years ago, age 75.

The things you see on the way home from work...

How's it going Diane, any more radio interviews lined up?

Is there really that much homosexual Hollywood gossip?!