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All his life waiting for the second coming but on deathlist he is the second going

14 and a half years later ....

Pastor way.

Fucksake, really?

If she is breathing Dec 31 I think Katharine Johnson would be a decent pick for the Deathlist, especially after how the movie Hidden Figures has introduced her achievements to millions of people.

By the way, over 200 pages of excellent one-line memorials, and yet this thread hasn't been pinned? How odd. Yes, that is a suggestion. Anyway, on with the dead people...Malcolm became an X-human rights activist at the age of 39, when he was shot 53 years ago today in an incident in which, for legal reasons, one cannot confirm nor deny the involvement of current Deathlist candidate Louis Farrakhan. Reminds me of someone...

Prunella Scales in 12 days

Rest in peace Reverend. He was suffering for years and years so this is one of the few "happy releases" on this list.

While that might be true, it might be worth stressing that among Evangelical preachers, he might have been one of the more palatable folks. Quoting the BBC:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-13374487 In that hilarious Fred Phelps video I cited above, Phelps called Graham a "Hell-bound false prophet" (and an Armenian heretic) because in his opinion Billy "told sugary lies" when he taught that "God hates the sin, not the sinner". Anyways, I'd be curious whether the Westboro Baptist Church will keep Fred's promise and really picket his funeral with their good old "God hates America" and "God hates fags" signs, just to remind us that even though Phelps and Graham are dead, there are still enough bigotted idiots to take their place.

He dodged bullets for your right to post that Charon

McCain, but only because I had some of his chips tonight. I see it as an omen.

If anything, your aforementioned words were far from stiff enough: the man was an arsehole. Religion is often - not always, but certainly very often - inherently discriminatory. It's all well and good to have one's own beliefs but to preach to others that their own ways, beliefs, mannerisms and traits are wrong in the eyes of their 'god', that's where it becomes inflammatory and a largely sore topic. Reverend Billy would've found you an unacceptable human being, and me, and many others, for varying reasons. And that's because he was an appalling bigot, fixated only on his religion and paying no heed to the divisive nature and general distress and truculence it caused. Happily, he's now in the process of rotting.

The world is a better place for his passing. Judgemental bollocks creates division which in turn leads to division, hatred and violence.

I view Yeager and Zeffirelli as the oldest 100% DLy names that have yet to appear. The former is still pretty active on Twitter though.

Nice work DI. There usually is the odd "blimey" pick you'd assume would have got on their list before if they were going to (Giscard d'estaing, Rockefeller, Rainer), but I guess from 1930 and earlier, you can limit the Deathlist likely candidates to: 1916 –Beverly Cleary 1917 - IM Pei, Diana Athill 1919 – James Lovelock,Sheila Mercier 1920 – John Paul Stevens 1921 – Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, Carol Channing 1922 –Lyndon LaRouche, Dilip Kumar, Ivor Broadis 1923 –Glynis Johns, Franco Zeffirelli, Gen. Chuck Yeager, Judith Kerr, Freeman Dyson, Edwin Bramall, Sumner Redstone, Peregrine Worsthorne 1924 –Eve Marie Saint, Christopher Tolkein 1925–David Graham, June Whitfield, George A Cooper, Jacques Delors,Bernard Hepton, Mikis Theodorakis, Richard Baker, June Lockhart 1926 –David Attenborough, Roger Corman, Norman Jewison, Alan Greenspan, Leonard Fenton, Charlotte Rae 1927 – Sidney Poitier, Hubert de Givenchy, Harry Belafonte, Rosalyn Carter, Albert Uderzo,Steve Ditko, Fenella Fielding, Mary Higgins Clark, Geoffrey Palmer, Ken Dodd, Freddie Jones 1928 – Walter Mondale, Tom Lehrer, Burt Bacharach,, Hans Blix, Nicolas Roeg, Ennio Morricone, Noam Chomsky, Mark Eden, Bernard Cribbins, Tommy Docherty, James Watson, Peter Firmin, Jean-Marie le Pen Pete Murray, Berry gordy, Monty Norman 1929 – Patricia Routledge, Len Deighton, Sir Roger Bannister, Max von Sydow, Joseph Jackson,Bob Newhart, Barbara Walters, Bob Hawke, Imelda Marcos, Winnie Ewing, Christopher Plummer, Mohammed Al-Fayed, Thelma Barlow, Betty Boothroyd, Stuart Hall, Gerald Harper, Jack Higgins, Peter Higgs, John Nettleton, Joan Plowright, Whitey Bulger, Vera Miles And even a bunch of them are border line or we have Cmme word they wont consider them.

What's left of 1918 in my notes: 1918 –Shinobu Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Martin Pope, Guje Lagerwall, Hutton Gibson, Jens Skou, Rene de Obaldia, Paul D Boyer, Fay McKenzie, Katherine Johnson, Lloyd Geering, Ivy Bethune, Brenda Milner, Henri Vernes, Louise Tobin, T. Berry Brazelton, Josephine Webb, Francis Nye, Chuck Stevens, Frank Lambert, Doris Grumbach, Paul Farnes, Diana Serra Cary, Arthur Brauner Fascinating figures, all, yes, but none of them really jump out as massively exciting potential centenarians. 1919 currently has a Beat poet, a Twilight Zone alumnus, Lord Carrington, James Lovelock, Spencer/Mercier and Mad Mike Hoare as it stands.

So he outlived his younger colleague, Fred Phelps by 3 years and 11 months. Let us use this opportunity to cite a few lines from Fred's "premature eulogy" (or should I say "cacology") to Billy: Thanks for the detailed explanation Fred – I would never have found out the meaning without you!

we all know he'll hang on until he's about 160

#MeToo

GRAHAM GIVES UP THE (HOLY) GHOST 3/50 21st February 2018 God has finally acquiesced to popular demand, and made Rev Billy Graham a new house guest, and another success for the Crowdsourced Deathlist. A few months off his centenary, Graham was a trailblazer in the American God industry. While other evangelical preachers shouted loudly about hellfire and damnation, Billy Graham spoke softly and quietly... about hellfire and damnation. He became friendly with every US President from Truman on, and gave advice on the Vietnam War. His ministry moved into countries all over the world, and he sold out the likes of Wembley arena. While he held deeply ingrained views against communists, gay people and Jews, Graham did surprise the KKK with a conversion in his 40s against segregation, insisting his services be desegregated and becoming a good, if strained, friend of Martin Luther King. This was Billy Graham's third appearance on the Crowdsourced Deathlist.

Still Nil Nil in the battle of the titans though, I see....

M is a fantastic film, mind you. Peter Lorre was great at needling sympathy out of horrific characters.

Tom was already on a restraining order for peeping but he just can't help himself

An Englishman and a Scotsman are driving head on, at night, along a twisty, dark road. Both are driving too fast for the conditions and collide on a sharp bend in the road. To the amazement of both, they are unscathed, though their cars are both destroyed. In celebration of their luck, both agree to put aside their dislike of the other from that moment on. At this point, the Scotsman goes to the boot and fetches a 12 year old bottle of sherry. He hands the bottle to the Englishman who exclaims, "May the Scots and the English live together forever in peace and harmony!" The Englishman then tips the bottle and gulps half of the bottle down. Still flabbergasted over the whole thing, he goes to hand the bottle to the Scotsman, who replies: "No, thanks, I'll just wait till the Police get here."