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I genuinely don't like making criticisms of the committee, my posting history illustrates that. (Afterall they provide this website for all of us)But it is frustrating that if they hadn't of so foolishly dropped/ not included Jill Gascoigne, Little Richard and Sean Connery on this years list then we would now have broken the 2017 record.

Well this couldn't have come at a worse time. Congratulations to @gcreptile Terry Gilliam's fantasy masterpiece Time Bandits is the first entry into our Hall of Fame and will be out of bounds in all future rounds. November will be the entry period for the new round and all films from Round One are out of bounds. PM me your entries First come first served I will start a new thread though.

Leader of the Opposition Marcus Rashford is 23 today

We have a winner! Well done, @gcreptile !

Just realised all 3 people on the Goldfinger poster have died this year - Connery, Honor Blackman and Margaret Nolan

Entry for Round Two sent! Huzzah for gcreptile!

Sean Connery is quite a big shock... and a big hit for Book, CaptainChorizo, Clorox Bleachman, Etushispushingupdaisies, gcreptile, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Joey Russ, msc, RadGuy, Sean, theoldlady, ThereWillBeDeaths7 and Vaagheid. Not a hit for the DL and the second James Bond actor to miss. Outch.

Heartbroken It really does feel like there’s a generation of legends passing these times. Thanks for all the great movies. Great man and absolute icon. RIP!

Hugo Drax, Pussy Galore and James Bond all die in 2020. What a year it's been.

You were only 10 years out.

49 today. Who would have thought that? Jokers gonna joke...

Bishop Rance Allen of The Rance Allen Group, reportedly dead aged 71.

Same here.

Yes. Best to have a new thread too, so that master list and scoreboard can be kept on Page 1.

His is the fifth death in the James Bond category of Scavenger Hunt III - fortunately no-one has all five, so we continue.

Who on the committee really thought it was a good idea to put John fucking Edrich over Sean Connery? I really don’t know what the fuck they’re thinking sometimes...

The bedblocker collapse continues... Nobby Stiles's mission to seemingly outlast every other Boy of '66 has fallen short, and three teams score. 45 points for YoungWillz, 35 for Old Crem, and 25 for Great Uncle Bulgaria. The next scoreboard emerges. DeathByArsenic enters the top 10 and a few others climb up the lower echelons of the scoreboard, but no change to the tantalizingly close summit. 1. maryportfuncity 308 2. YorkshireBanker 305 3. Book 266 4. drol 248 5. Clorox Bleachman 231 6. Toast 218 7. Sir Creep 215 =8. DeathByArsenic 214 =8. RadGuy 214 10. msc 212 11. CaptainChorizo 208 12. gcreptile 200 13. The Old Crem 180 14. Prophet 178 15. Banana 160 16. time 155 17. the_engineer 152 18. Pedro67 140.19 =19. Great Uncle Bulgaria 135 =19. theoldlady 135 =21. Skinny kiltrunner 129 =21. The Unknown Man 129 23. markb4 124 =24. Exu 110 =24. Joey Russ 110 26. John Key 100 27. Etushispushingupdaisies 92 28. Sean 91 29. The Mad Hatter 86 30. Torva Messor 75 31. YoungWillz 73 32. Death Impends 70 33. The Quim Reaper 64 =34. Bibliogryphon 63 =34. JoeMoneypenny 63 36. Kinnock 21 37. DevonDeathTrip 0

Saddam's guys alive (atleast the more known ones): Hamid Raja Shalah (b. 1950) Air marshal and ten of spades. Served his sentence Mahmud Dhiyab (b. 1953) Diplomat and seven of spades. Served his sentence Amer Mohammad Rashid (b. 1939) Oil minister under Saddam, six of spades. Served his sentence Kamal Mustafa Abdullah (b. 1955) Secretary General of the Republican guard, queen of clubs. Sentenced to death in 2011. Said Al-Din Al-Rawi (b. 1949) Republican guard commander, jack of clubs. Still at large Larif Nassif Jassim (1941-2021) Minister of labor, culture etc, ten of clubs. Life imprisonment. Jamal Mustafa Abdullah Sultan (b. ?) deputy head of tribal affairs. Released June 2020 Walid Hamid Tawfiq (b. 1954) governor of Basra, released June 2020. Husam/Hossam Amin (b. 1953/1958) national monitoring directorate head, served his sentence Samir Abdul Aziz al-Najim (b. 1937/1938) held several positions, currently imprisoned? Hani Abd Latif Tilfah (b. 1962) special security organization director and king of hearts. At large. Barzan Sulayman Majid (b. 1960) special republican guard commander, released 2020. Rafi Tilfah (b. 1954) director of general security, at large Muhammad Mahdi Salih (b. 1947/49) minister of trade, served his sentence and living in Jordan Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash (b. 1953) Ms. Anthrax, only female on the list, served her sentence. Aziz Salih (b. 1941/1945) Ba'ath party branch command chairman, sentenced to death in 2011. King of diamonds Muzahim al-Tikriti (b. unknown) air defence forces commander, released 2012 Tahir Jalil Habbush (b. 1950) intelligence service, at large. Jack of diamonds Amir Hamudi Hasan al-Saadi (b. 1938) man behind Iraq's superweapons program? Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (b. 1940) Comical Ali. Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed (b. 1949) Current Ba'ath party leader? Family: Sajida Talfah (b. 1937) Saddam's wife and Iraq's first lady Raghad Hussein (b. 1968) oldest daughter Rana Hussein (b. 1969) daughter living in Jordan. Hala Hussein (b. 1972) third daughter Samira Shahbandar (b. 1946) Second wife, former Iraqi Airways flight attendant Ali Hussein (b. 1983/1987) Hussein's only alive son with Shahbandar Ayman Sabawi Ibrahim (b. 1971) half-nephew, guerrila fighter Kuwait: Alaa Hussein Ali (ca. 1948-) Prime Minister of the Republic of Kuwait (Saddam's puppet regime) 4th to 8th of August 1990, called "Kuwaiti Quisling"

Because of Sean Connery: Book 20, DL 15

I wasn’t expecting to hear it but it’s hardly ‘shocking’. What’s ‘shocking’ about a 90 year old dying?

BBC appears to be the first major news outlet to report this.

January 2021.

C’mon Pete, help make it a DL Christmas

Gary McSpadden, a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and a former member of the legendary country group the Oak Ridge Boys, has died. He was 77. https://tasteofcountry.com/gary-mcspadden-dead-dies-oak-ridge-boys/