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Yes, there are threads for these people, not that I have bothered to really look...…. Thing is, I'm thinking about variety performers, not the kind of people noted for anything in particular but were the mainstay of British ( maybe US and other nations had the same) TV in the golden era before we had 52,000 channels of shite to choose from instead of just 3. What got me thinking about this was seeing Lionel Blair on the TV the other day, 90 years old now and, tbf, beginning to look it a bit. Actor, dancer, performer, guest in a zillion shows, the man was part and parcel of British variety shows of the 60s and 70s but went out of fashion. Des O'Connor is another, just shy of 87, he was on the TV a while back and his speech and movement had slowed although he was still being Des. Both are worth a punt for next year if only for the reality that, at some point 'a much loved British entertainer' is going to pop their whatsits. Some of the list compilers out there, maybe, can get a list up, remind us of who we haven't seen clog dancing on Seaside Special for, like 45 years.....not that Seaside special has been on for eons either. How times change.

The local cinema was an art deco building called Essoldo but known locally as 'the fleapit'. I used to spend about three hours on a Saturday morning watching the Children's Film Foundation's output for the princely sum of a tanner (sixpence, 6d now 2½p ). It closed down and was turned into a bingo hall before being demolished and replaced with an Aldi supermarket.

We can't mention Jimmy Tarbuck without Kenny Lynch. Joe Longthorne was at death's door a while back but still soldiers on. Also, The Daily Mail almost killed Barry Cryer off.

He's never been a veritable picture of health, but that is fucked.

Unique hit for me in the DDP too!

April 2018: Thanos kills half the universe

Well, as they're dead, something for I'd imagine, is more accurate..........

Same with a device for receiving transmitted sound: GrandaBob - Crystal Set OldWillz - Wireless Older Friends - Radio Me - Transistor or Tranny (latter has a very different attachment now!) And so on...

Ah history! October 1849? One Edgar Allan Poe and one Chopin after all... A year later, Robert Peel (British PM) and Zachary Taylor (US President) died in the same week. Of course there was much less celebrities in the 19th Century, which therefore brings notice to 3 dying in April 1882: Darwin, Emerson and Jesse James! Did Verdi hear of Queen Victoria's death, or William McKinley mourn Toulouse-Lautrec - the former died 5 days after the latter in 1901. Leo Tolstoy and Dr Crippen within the same three days in 1910 - there's two folk who surely never heard of each other! But yeah, not many before WW2, unless you count April 1912 - a bit of a cheat, given the Titanic, but Bram Stoker died 5 days later, so that is a number of famous folk in one week, even if 6 of them were on the same boat. Oh well, a modern one then: July 2007 Boots Randolph Bill Pinkney George Melly Jack Sowards (Wrath of Khan writer) Peter Tuddenham Charles Lane Lady Bird Johnson Nigel Dempster Kelly Johnson (Girlschool) Kronus Ivor Emmanuel Kai Seigbahn Doon Arden Jesus de Polanco Tammy Faye Messner Danny Bergara John Normington Tom Snyder Mike Reid Phil Drabble Bill Walsh Tam McGraw (gangster) Ingmar Bergman Michelangelo Antonioni Bar the stock wrestler, all of them got BBC/Guardian obits, and the last 8 were all announced on the same day practically.

Thank you, next

Stan Boardman, Roy Walker, Jimmy Tarbuck, Freddie Starr, Gary Glitter, Brian Murphy, Rolf Harris, Windsor Davies, James Bolam, David Jason, Geoffrey Palmer, Ricky Tomlinson, June Whitfield, Josephine Tewson, Patricia Routledge, Penelope Keith, Tony Robinson, Jasper Carrott, Roy 'Chubby' Brown, Billy Connolly, Barry Cryer, Pam Ayres, Dame Judi Dench, Tom O' Connor, Richard O' Sullivan, Tommy Cannon, Bobby Ball, Syd Little, Eddie Large, Stanley Baxter, Bernard Cribbins, Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Bill Oddie

The words “Keith Richards warmed up” spring to mind.....

Any NHL Hall Of Famer's will easily get a QO,but its' really a regional/niche sport even in American outside of Cold weather cities in the Northeast and Midwest. Alexander Ovechkin or Sidney Crosby could walk down the street in Los Angeles,Mami and a lot of other big cities and no one would know who the hell they were. That said I think Gordie Howe was a huge DL omission a few years ago.He was basically the name associated with that sport until Gretzky came along,similiar to how people who have never watch still associate say Tony Hawk with Skateboarding,Pele with football,Tiger Woods with Golf etc.

Tim Conway is 85 years old today! Suffering from advanced dementia and being a household name in the USA (therefore, assured a Daily Mail obituary), Conway has a good shot at making the Drop 40 for the 2019 DDP imo. Having starred in both McHale's Navy and Spongebob Squarepants with Ernest Borgnine, as well as the Carol Burnett Show, perhaps he might just meet the fame criteria for the Deathlist as well.

It's a pity you departed from the rig site as there was an almost perfect transit of the ISS on Thursday of this week. It went from northwest to southeast going almost directly overhead (85 degrees) and was as bright as Venus.

So, here's a thing Only eleven men have managed Manchester United since the war and of them only TWO - Matt Busby and Dave Sexton - are dead. The Doc (90), Wilf McGuinness (81) and Frank O' Farrell (91) - all of whom managed them in the 70's being the most obvious totterers in that company

Here is a new photo of most of the other surviving doctors: Also one of Peter Davison and the terrible trio. Janet Fielding is wrapped up in a shawl, possibly due to her cancer: Monarch's up the back, looking green with envy about the new talking frog in the series. Okay, I'll get me coat.

Ok @gcreptile, team has been sent over to you. Best of luck everyone!

Forecasting well beyond their data... means they're basically engaging in wild speculation.

NANCY WILSON Dead??? Heart fans it's a sad day. Wh.....what's that? Oh the JAZZ artist Nancy Wilson. My bad.| Manager says Grammy-winning jazz singer Nancy Wilson has died at age 81. I'm off to see if anyone got a HIT in Scavenger Hunt. SC EDIT: Better Obit EDIT 2: NOPE no one had her 81 year old arse in Scavenger. We all suck collectively.

FTFY

Loads and loads of good names mentioned in this thread already. Some better than others of course! Any unique picks not mentioned so far then that I would suggest? Looking at my own list from this year I can suggest: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) - hymn writer Desmond Morris (b. 1928) - zoologist Lyndon LaRouche (b. 1922) - American conspiracy theorist and political activist Jean-Marie Le Pen (b. 1928) - former French National Front leader Josef Fritzl (b. 1935) - Austrian incest dad Irmin Schmidt (b. 1937) - German keyboardist, most of his bandmates have passed Rex Garrod (DOB unknown) - engineer, creator of Brum and Cassius on Robot Wars Plus pretty much all the other living candidates on my list in my signature as well would be decent enough picks (read it!) I had an old list of names that I wrote up in 2016. Here are some less obvious names, still living, that I obtained from that list. Hosni Mubarak E O Wilson Eugene Wright (jazz bassist) Jean Raspail Richard Lynn Jurgen Habermas Alan Greenspan Ross Perot Walter Mondale Micheline Bernardini (French bikini woman - would be an absolutely ingenious pick) Ron Jeremy Gary Glitter Anders Breivik Ian Watkins Roberta McCain Burt Bacharach Richard Sherman (Disney songwriter) Peter Tobin Tony Bennett Bill Wyman Kurt Westergaard John Cantlie Arvo Part Richard Wilson Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg Judy Blume There are probably more people that I could think of, people whose names I have encountered throughout the year and thought to myself they would be good candidates for this place, but I'm just too busy with my own life to be able to remember who they all are. I am a strictly casual Death Lister and only really come on here at Christmas and New Year, or when someone famous dies. Hope this post has helped anyway, if even in just some small way!

Lennon/Robinson/CokedUpChav was sent down for contempt of court, while serving a suspended sentence for contempt of court. He's not a hero, he's not a journalist and he's not a martyr. He's a bigot and an idiot. If his actions had caused a mistrial, then it is likely that vulnerable female victims of sexual abuse would not have received justice. A point seemingly lost on the man himself, who is too busy trying to promote his own warped populist agenda to take anyone else's needs into consideration.

Time for you to spot who they missed.