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I've long been fascinated by the huge stretch of time between Baby Peggy's peak of fame and the present day. Incredible that someone who was an irrelevant hasbeen by the time The Great Gatsby was published was still alive in 2020. It must be disorientating for a once-huge star to quite possibly outlive their entire contemporary fanbase. It should be almost impossible for a celebrity to live beyond all first-hand memories of their stardom, but then most people her age are probably too young to remember her. She lived to see her fans become 100% second-hand – people taking a historical interest, far removed from Peggymania. When's the last time she'd have heard from anyone who was authentically nostalgic for her? I don't know of any other figure who was a living relic in quite the same way.

There’s a remoteness about Baby Peggy’s stardom which the Dames can’t match, not for a long time to come. Silent movies were antiquated before most of us were born. Almost all of her films are long lost, and hardly anyone alive has ever seen any of them. And the whole idea of a four-year-old girl as a movie star in 2020....

Dead - BBC breaking notification on my phone

5TH UPDATE May hits Tim Conway Sprent Dabwido Tommy Donbavand Bob Hawke Roz Petterson Im Pei Jean Vanier Herman Wouk June Hits Ellen "Dolly" Gibb Franco Zefirelli Mark Waraka Helen Legh Beth Chapman Maria Giuseppi Robucci July Hits Christopher Booker Johnny Clegg Sutopo Purow Nugroho Joe Kadange John McCirrick August Hits Harley Race Alf Smith Kathleen Blanco Fred Rister Sheila Steafal Valerie Harper Septembers Hits Beloved Poster Mugabe Chris Duncan Fernando Ricksen Jose Jose Leah Bracknell October Julie Gibson November Clive James December Gershon Kingsley January John Andretti Chris Doleman Tom Long Terry Jones February Diane Serra Cary Kirk Douglas Katherine Johnson In this update Kirk Douglas-Bibliogryphon,Book,Bou1,FixedBusiness,GreatUncleBulgaria,markb4,theoldlady,TheQuimReaper,TheUnknownMan,WormFarmer Chris Doleman-DeathImpends,GCR,JoeyRuss,Msc,RadGuy Julie Gibson-markb4 Tom Long-Banana,CaptainChorizo,CloroxBleachman,DeathImpends,drol,GCR,GrimUpNorth,JiroemonKimura,JoeyRuss,Msc,RadGuy Clive James-CloroxBleachman,FixBusiness,theoldlady,YoungWilz Terry Jones-GooseberryCrumble,TheQuimReaper, YoungWilz Gershon Kingsley-TorvaMessor John Andretti -Banana,GrimUpNorth,RadGuy Katherine Johnson-markb4 Diane Serra Cary-The OldCrem 5th Scoreboard 1st place DeathImpends-2615 2nd place TorvaMessor-2381 3rd place GUN-2330 4th place TheOldLady-2320 5th place CloroxBleachman-2236 6th place RadGuy-2191 7th place TheQuimReaper-2105 tied 8th place CaptainChorizo-2035 tied 8th place Banana-2035 10th place Wormfarmer-2030 11th place JoeyRuss-2011 12th place Book-1980 13th place tied FixedBusiness-1880 13th place tied YoungWilz-1880 15th place Msc-1790 16th place Gcreptile-1726 17th place Markb4-1660 18th place TheOldCrem-1435 19th place Drol-1430 20th place Jiroemon Kimura-1336 21st TheUnknownMan--1296 22nd place Bou1-1160 23rd place Bibliogryphon-1105 24th place tied GreatUncleBulgaria-870 24th place tied GooseberryCrumble-870 26th place ebless-770 If I missed any names or point totals lemme know

For me it's mixologist Harry Yee, inventor of the Banana Daquiri and (pictured) the Blue Hawaii.

Arguably Dames Olivia de Havilland and Vera Lynn who have both lived around 80 years after their peak fame level.

That's 5 famous centenarians died since yesterday. At this rate I expect Vera Lynn or Olivia de Haviland to go by the end of the week !

Since this is the Death List site, I would like to see a ban on all the twee euphemisms like "passed". Dead, died, death. We are grown ups and shouldn't be afraid of these words. I don't mind the more jocular ones once in a while, eg fell off the perch, kicked the bucket etc. The ones that you don't imagine being said in a hushed tone.

Ah, no wonder then why he didn't post anymore. And yeah, another Cup name come and gone. Drol, we need replacements!

Mario Bunge, argentine philosopher and scientist dies at 100 https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/2020/02/25/murio-el-cientifico-argentino-mario-bunge/ (in spanish)

he dead

And thread closed before anyone votes him posthumously at that.

Dead according to Egyptian TV.

Dmitry Yazov has died at age 95. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/last-marshal-of-ussr-dmitry-yazov-passes-baton-at-95/news-story/c860c6596aefee4ae30d1dd713fd9c29

More centenarians that dropped (though less famous than Johnson/Baby Peggy): John Franzese Sr., mobster for the Colombo crime family, dead at 103. Juan Eduardo Zúñiga Amaro, Spanish writer who was apparently very important in the Spanish literary scene, dead at 101 (Spanish obit).

Well isn't that convenient !

A bad day for centenarians...

Diana Serra Cary, a child actress under the name Baby Peggy, has died. She was 101. A DDP pick, too. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/baby-peggy-dead-silent-film-star-was-101-831926

That was the "nul points" one, wasn't it? I've heard worse!

Incidentally, found out Ida Schuster was in cult classic SF film Death Watch. Filmed in Glasgow in 1979 incidentally so you can see a lot of Glasgow before the conservation work started up*. But anyhow, Schuster's credited role in the film? OLD WOMAN. Forty plus years ago! *example for @YoungWillz

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/25/whats-next-after-mahathir-mohamad-quits-as-malaysias-prime-minister.html Could means something? Now Queen Elizabeth is oldest living state leader currently in power

Aye, sorry to hear of your loss, Biblio.

AO just scored him so he’s QO’ed now