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I've long been a drum-banger for Glynis around these parts and see absolutely no reason why she shouldn't be a DL callup: one of the last remaining leading ladies of 50s Hollywood, truly iconic role in a movie everyone has seen (Mary Poppins) and also one of the last remaining Batman 66 villains.

Stop making me feel old, you. Tippi Hedren with The Birds, Eva Marie Saint with North by Northwest, Glynis Johns with Mary Poppins are all sort of on the same level, but obv Glynis has the edge with her role in a kids film presumably all of us have seen at some point. Fame wise, Saint also has On The Waterfront so edges ahead somewhat career wise but we're talking shades of difference between 3 worthy contenders.

Thanks for creating her own thread. For my taste she is famous enough and would definitely be a nice new entry for the list. On the other hand, there are many other (maybe better?) actress-alternatives like Eva-Marie Saint (who won Academy Award) or Cicely Tyson, who was nominated for an Academy Award at least.

Vera Miles another Hitchcock blonde is still alive as is Kim Novak who unless I'm confusing her with someone else was also a Hitchcock blonde.

We can replace him with someone who isn't a QO in the English-speaking world, but is of interest to some on the forum (and a former DDP pick iirc): Franca Valeri, Italian actress who despite a wide and varied career is still best remembered as the advertising pitchman for Pandoro Melegatti:

He seemed to be doing OK until he turned 100 and became victim to the 2020 Centenarian Apocalypse....

Even Tippi Hedren ? I mean... come on « The Birds », « Marnie » : one of Hitchcock’s favorite actress, maybe the last one alive ! She player with Sean Connery in Marnie, has her own star on the hollywood hall Of fame etc... you can’t say she’s not famous enough

I would be happy to see her on the list next year but I have to agree with @TomTomTelekom : there is some more famous and successful actresses who need to be on the list like Tippi Hedren, Eva Marie Saint, Gina Lollobrigida or Arlene Dahl (who is rarely mentioned here but quite prominent)

She should be in the list next year... to replace the big names gone this 2020 (Kirk Douglas, Olivia deHavilland , Lynn, Mubarak, ecc) and start a kind of new era for the Deathlist alongside with other names like Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Maradona, Pope Benedict XVI

More dead people?

Beverly Cleary was a more succesful 20th Century author then Deathlist regular Herman Wouk. She certainly would merit a spot on the list if alive Jan 1.,though I wouldn't bet on it.

Lovelocks the other possible. Although, a word in defence of Captain Tom: he is now very famous, very old and very frail. He might not have been the first of those 6 months ago, but then its an extreme case of the likes of Dick King-Smith making his breakthrough aged 60. Fame is fame and he's a household name zeitgeist now so if they pick him, it's still a good degree above the likes of fame of a Genesis Porridge or a Bill Gates's dad already getting on the list.

To put numbers on Gooseberry's theory, every year since 2007 I've put together a small years end memorial. Here are the number of folk shortlisted (as in notable enough for a mention) by August 3rd on each year since 2014 (earlier stats lost to time...) 3rd August 2014 - 231 names 3rd August 2015 - 267 names 3rd August 2016 - 329 names 3rd August 2017 - 408 names 3rd August 2018 - 433 names 3rd August 2019 - 435 names 3rd August 2020 - 510 names (John Hume being the 510th) Even by the normal rising standards (because more boomers are getting older), 2020 is running ahead of schedule.

Hey, serving up a Bob Ryland is dead post: https://patch.com/new-york/upper-west-side-nyc/bob-ryland-first-black-pro-tennis-player-u-s-dies-100

Barack Obama, off of better times, is 59 today

Ah yes, I’d almost forgotten her comparing supporting gay rights to supporting ISIS. Coleen really is the human personification of a shit. It’s really awful what cancer has done to their family but you’re right, they’re ghastly creatures a lot of the time.

I think you overestimate what the Dem's will do. Sinema,Tester and Manchin are pretty Moderate and a Narrow Democratic Senate Majority would still need them to sign off on anything. That's why if RBG died in the last few weeks of the year I don't think the GOP would try and rush through a judge in the Lameduck session because they wouldn't want to give Democrats the political capital to add judges

Beverly Cleary and Marsha hunt would've been my suggestion, they are already in their 100s...

We need more people like him in these dark times !

Hume changed the political landscape in Northern Ireland enormously. The biggest landscape change Blair facilitated was in Baghdad.

Big one... and maybe a miss. As great as the DeathList is doing right now, I can't stop thinking that we could have had a few more hits by now.

Dead aged 83. BBC, Daily Mirror, The Independent, Daily Express, The Guardian, Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Times obits.

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Queen Elizabeth II, Peter Alliss, Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (6/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (5/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson, Sean Connery (2/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Desmond Tutu, Liza Minnelli (2/50)  2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai, Diego Maradona, Olivia de Havilland (2/50) 2006: Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Olivia de Havilland, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: Pierre Cardin (1/50)  2010: Olivia de Havilland, John Edrich, Frank Bough, Angela Lansbury (3/50)  2011: Olivia de Havilland, John Edrich, Ali Khamenei, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Pierre Cardin, Michael Douglas (6/50) 2012: Olivia de Havilland, Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, James Randi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (5 /50) 2013: Prince Philip, Olivia de Havilland, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger (3/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Olivia de Havilland, Prince Philip, James Randi, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett, Ed Asner (6/50)  2015: Olivia de Havilland, Prince Philip, Leslie Phillips, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (5/50) 2016: Olivia de Havilland, Prince Phillip, James Randi, Bob Dole, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Desmond Tutu, Lester Piggott, Murray Walker, Jimmy Greaves, Paul Gascoigne (14/50)  2017: Prince Phillip, Pierre Cardin, Olivia de Haviland, Bob Dole, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Betty White, Nobby Stiles, Queen Elizabeth ll, Bob Barker, Ian St. John, David Prowse, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Desmond Tutu, Emperor Akihito (15/50)  2018: Olivia de Havilland, Prince Philip, Betty White, Linda Nolan, Pierre Cardin, Bob Dole, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, June Brown, Sean Connery, Louis Farrakhan, Ian St. John, Jimmy Greaves, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (24/50) 2019: Olivia de Havilland, Prince Philip, Jimmy Carter, Pierre Cardin, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Murray Walker, Emperor Akihito, Betty White, June Brown, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Nobby Stiles, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Desmond Tutu, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Ed Asner, Vanessa Redgrave, Jimmy Greaves, Sidney Poitier, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prunella Scales, Larry King, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (28/50) Updated for Olivia De Havilland