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Hello This is my first ever post. I would like to nominate the former mercenary and British soldier Colonel 'Mad Mike' Hoare. He's led an extraordinary and fascinating life, you can read all about him on Wikipedia. We've all got to go sometime of course but Mike Hoare will celebrate his 101st birthday if he survives until March 17th 2020.

They'll be dead!

Team PMd

There's clearly something not right about Madonna. Be it illness or her rampant narcissism. Actually, that could be her killer blow, the fact shes not the person she thinks she was. Even my other half whose a massive fan thinks shes loosing the plot - Madame X is a clearly a cover up for something.

Her sel-preservation drive is weaker than I thought. What's the use of eating rice-crackers and spending much of her life in the gym, if she is surrounded with malicious advisors? Those butt implants have killed many women before, her adopted children won't care for her when she's old , and her biological children resent, that their new siblings usurped their birthright. I wouldn't like to be in her shoes.

Oh that's demoralising. That's it, the campaign to get him on the 2021 list starts now. #Schaferknackered2021

All good Sean Here's how the battleground for the Crowdsource list is currently looking like 41. 321 42. 309 43. 297 44. 287 45. 285 46. 278 47. 277 48. 264 49. 255 50. 253 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 51. 244 52. 243 53. 241 54. 238 55. 235 56. 234 57. 234 58. 212 59. 211 60. 206 Anything is possible really, I'm just showing you that's kind of about where the margin is to qualify...

The one who knew Jeffrey Epstein. I put him and Ghislaine Maxwell on my list, because I think their lives are in danger. Happy new year!

Btw, if you aren’t submitting a list because you think your list will have 0 impact on the crowdsource, you couldn’t be further from the truth. Especially this year. Multiple names have made some major comebacks within the last few days. Which means there is still time to make a bit of a shakeup on the crowdsource list...

I know, I just added a bit to my comment above. Your English is fine!

There's more than 4k Indian MLAs, plus they tend to be on the older side to begin with. Not surprising imo.

Team Name-Roasting Bodies In Redcar 1-Vera Lynn 2-Bobby Brown(Rangers Legend) 3-Bobbi Brown(Bobbi Brown Cosmetics) 4-Judith Magre 5-Margaret Stuart Barry 6-Aaron Carter 7-Daniel arap Moi 8-Michael Verhoeven 9-Medea Amiranashvili 10-David Gulpilil 11-Freeman Dyson 12-Chris Doleman 13-Roger Scruton 14-Lynne Reid Banks 15-Mary Ward (actress) 16-Anne Baker(writer) 17-Demi Lovato 18-Jean-Claude Carriere 19-Shin Kyuk-ho 20-Jill Knight(Parliament)

Dear DL predictors, the end of 2019 is near, I have to do the dishes and have got no more time, so here are some stats*: *if there are still hits within the next hours, I will adjust everything, of course! Overall winner based on point system: Vaagheid, as mentioned on 01.01.2019 Most hits with 14: Book 13 hits: @The Old Crem, also the Official DeathList/ the Committee 12 hits: @gcreptile @Joey Russ @theoldlady 10 hits: @msc @RadGuy (Phantom of the Midway) @YoungWillz 9 hits: @Kinnock (Deathray) @nantonian2013 @Vaagheid 7 hits: @WhoamI Our hits in 2019: 01. Carol Channing (15.01.2019): nantonian2013, WhoamI 02. Windsor Davies (17.01.2019): WhoAmI 03. Shivakumara Swami (21.01.2019): theoldlady 04. Diana Athill (23.01.2019): gcreptile, msc 05. Jonas Mekas (23.01.2019): Vaagheid 06. Albert Finney (07.02.2019): Deathray 07. Gordon Banks (11.02.2019): Book, Deathray, YoungWillz 08. Paul Flynn (17.02.2019): The Old Crem 09. Peter Tork (21.02.2019): Phantom of the Midway, theoldlady 10. Le Duc Anh (22.04.2019): Joey Russ, theoldlady 11. Jean Grand Duke of Luxembourg (23.04.2019): The Old Crem 12. Doris Day (13.05.2019): Book, Deathray, gcreptile, Joey Russ, msc, nantonian2013, Phantom of the Midway, The Old Crem, YoungWillz 13. Tim Conway (14.05.2019): gcreptile, Joey Russ, Phantom of the Midway, theoldlady, Vaagheid 14. Bob Hawke (16.05.2019): WhoAmI 15. I.M. Pei (16.05.2019): Joey Russ, theoldlady 16. Herman Wouk (17.05.2019): Book, Deathray, gcreptile, Joey Russ, msc, nantonian2013, Phantom of the Midway, theoldLady, The Old Crem, Vaagheid, WhoAmI, YoungWillz 17. Judith Kerr (22.05.2019): gcreptile 18. Franco Zeffirelli (15.06.2019): Book, gcreptile, Joey Russ, YoungWillz 19. John McCririck (05.07.2019): Book, Deathray, Joey Russ, msc, Phantom of the Midway, theoldlady, The Old Crem, YoungWillz 20. Freddie Jones (09.07.2019): gcreptile 21. Johnny Clegg (16.07.2019): Book, Joey Russ, Phantom of the Midway 22. John Paul Stevens (16.07.2019): nantonian2013 23. Kathleen Blanco (18.08.2019): msc, The Old Crem 24. Valerie Harper (30.08.2019): Book, gcreptile, The Old Crem, Vaagheid, YoungWillz 25. Robert Mugabe (06.09.2019): Book, Deathray, Joey Russ, msc, nantonian2013, Phantom of the Midway, theoldlady, The Old Crem, Vaagheid, WhoAmI, YoungWillz 26. Fernando Ricksen (18.09.2019): Book, Deathray, gcreptile, Joey Russ, msc, theoldlady, Vaagheid, YoungWillz 27. Jacques Chirac (26.09.2019): Book, gcreptile, Joey Russ, msc, nantonian2013, Phantom of the Midway, The Old Crem, Vaagheid, WhoAmI 28. José José (28.09.2019): nantonian2013, theoldlady 29. Leah Bracknell (09.2019): Book, Deathray, gcreptile, msc, nantonian2013, Phantom of the Midway, theoldlady, The Old Crem, Vaagheid, YoungWillz 30. Gay Byrne (04.11.2019): Book 31. Clive James (24.11.2019): Book, Deathray, gcreptile, Joey Russ, msc, nantonian2013, Phantom of the Midway, theoldlady, The Old Crem, Vaagheid, WhoAmI, YoungWillz 32. Sheila Mercier (13.12.2019): Book, The Old Crem 33. Martin Peters (21.12.2019): The Old Crem Most picked candidates: Herman Wouk and Clive James (12 times, every player) No.1-hit: gcreptile: Herman Wouk Joey Russ: Clive James theoldlady: Tim Conway The Old Crem: Doris Day Vaagheid: Leah Bracknell YoungWillz: Herman Wouk No.50-hit: msc: Leah Bracknell RadGuy (Phantom of the Midway): John McCririck theoldlady: Fernando Ricksen The Old Crem: Martin Peters Vaagheid: John Mekas There are two hits on the DeathList nobody picked here, Ginger Baker and Tony Britton, so the Committee remains a mystery... Thank you! And thanks for joining this fine little game in 2019... and in 2020! Happy New Year everyone!!!

Since Alex Trebek has been suggested several times. I suggest Johnny Gilbert who has been the announcer for Jeopardy since 1984. At 95 no telling how long he will be with us. Perhaps his life in Jeopardy as much as Trebek's.

American historian and former 20/20 pick of mine, Gertrude Himmelfarb dead at 97: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/gertrude-himmelfarb-historian-moral-change/604276/

How about Peter Sutcliffe? He should be ready to bow out next year

Congratulations to Death Impends on a likely victory! Been a while since a DDP winner had at least one unique hit.

No worries, if you do decide to submit something either here or in the future, you’re always welcome. Right, so about 8 hours and 45 minutes for everyone else to submit something...

Liverpool v Man City final I reckon.

Most significant deaths since 2003 from an American perspective (so don't get offended if you disagree ): 2003: Bob Hope & Katharine Hepburn 2004: Ronald Reagan 2005: Pope John Paul II 2006: Gerald Ford 2007: Benazir Bhutto (runner up: Anna Nicole Smith) 2008: Paul Newman & Charlton Heston (tie) (runner up: Heath Ledger) 2009: Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite, & Ted Kennedy (tie) 2010: Robert Byrd 2011: Steve Jobs & Elizabeth Taylor (tie) (runner up: Kim Jong-il) 2012: Neil Armstrong (runner up: Whitney Houston) 2013: Nelson Mandela (runner up: Margaret Thatcher) 2014: Maya Angelou & Robin Williams (tie) 2015: BB King (runner up: Leonard Nimoy) 2016: Muhammad Ali (runners up: Prince, David Bowie, Carrie Fisher, John Glenn, Fidel Castro, Antonin Scalia, George Michael, and Nancy Reagan) 2017: Jerry Lewis 2018: George H.W. Bush (runners up: Aretha Franklin, Stan Lee, and John McCain) 2019: Doris Day

I'm going to pin this thread again until 00.00 01/01/2020. We have lots of visiting guests right now, so they might need it for handy reference.

The beguine came to an end on this day 15 years ago upon the death of Artie Shaw (94).

It was the Ender Wendy Richard on this day 9 years ago, aged 65.