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2022 Shadow DeathList Competition Big note: Please don't challenge individual names on someones list when they post. When a celebrity dies, this discussion can take place then. This is more of a "everyone who already makes a normal Shadow DeathList should come and submit this here anyway" kind of thing, to explain the motive of this competition and why the rules are generally relaxed. To enter: Have a list of 50 celebrities chosen by yourself, for their likelihood to die in 2022. Candidates must be famous enough that their death is confidently expected to be reported by any countries media On the issue that someone isn't famous enough, I have no idea how to deal with that. Adding strict rules and limitations doesn't seem very cool though, because I want people to feel comfortable posting their normal Shadow DeathList. Candidates cannot be famous solely for the fact they are likely to die imminently Candidates may submit their list any time from September 2021 to December of 2022 of 50 names + 5 subs. Post your list here to enter, there's no stress in posting it by January 1st if you're ultra-competitive with keeping your names a secret Names on the scoreboard will only count AFTER you submit your list. If you submitted your list on the main Shadow Lists Forum or another similar forum late this may be taken into consideration. (If you submit a list in February of 2022 without having had posted it elsewhere, deaths occurring in January aren't going to count) Things to keep in mind about any person you choose: Are they likely to obit in a major newspaper? Are they a well known celebrity? Do they have a Wikipedia page in any language (that clearly wasn't made just for Deathlisting) You will not be asked to prove any of these when you post your list, but upon your candidates death you may need to meet some of these criteria. I will try and be pretty relaxed on these and use discretion, but family members of yours/local nobodies are the reason why I'm not just saying that all names will count if they die. A rough guideline that I don't follow is to probably try and pick names that the "main" DeathList may also pick. Scoring System: One death = One Point Making this early to take criticism of making this, suggestions, and to give me time to think of necessary rules. The inspiration for creating this comes from wanting a clear place to compare how my Shadow List does to the main DeathList. Anyone else that wants this for any reason is welcome to join and post their list below at a reasonable time. It is a valid criticism to say that the lack of rules may affect the quality of names or the formality of this deadpool. Some people already make a Shadow DeathList and I want this to be a place where we can compare them. For 2022, at least, I won't have formal rules on names. Being reported in the newspaper and having a Wikipedia Article that isn't a stub will go a long way.

I thought that was Mott the Hoople. And he also created Monopoly, Twenty-one, Checkers and Chess. Yeah yeah yeah yeah..

Reuben Klamer the inventor of Game of Life dead at 99

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/reuben-klamer-game-of-life-creator-dies-age-99/ Reuben Klamer, creator of The Game of Life has completed his game of life at the age of 99.

There was an idea in Punt Pool (iirc) that the game runner essentially creates a Star Chamber of maybe five or so individuals who for borderline picks rule on their eligibility a simple 3:2 majority allows them in. Otherwise it is no QO no point which means player must make the judgement for themselves

I would genuinely be in support for those people to be in a shadow DeathList. It's all clear that they're famous, they all have Wikipedia pages and are regionally or locally famous. That's something I may need to rephrase, I'm unsure how to convey that message. Those people aren't nobodies. But then I have no problem with someone like Bill Gates' Dad being on the official DeathList, so I may need to be hanged, drawn and quartered. Most of my rules were taken from the main DeathList page with just making it any country rather than just the UK. A lot of people keep a shadow DeathList and I wouldn't want people to have to think too hard or change what they would usually make just for this!

Nice one, and about time, I guess. I guess many will just drop their Shadow lists in here, but I think in a few cases it will require a little tweaking, as the picks have to be at least somewhat internationally famous, i.e. no Ruth Apilado, for example. From my current shadow list, I might have to remove Catherine Wybourne, possibly Brendon Ormsby, maybe Michael McKevitt? Ah well, should be doable.

I am going early My names are either so well known or not well considered enough to be stolen so here goes Thanks @John Key for running this 1. Leslie Philips 2. Jimmy Greaves 3. Bob Dole 4. Abdelaziz Bouteflika 5. Betty White 6. Joanne Woodward 7. James Watson 8. Pope Benedict XVI 9. Douglas Hurd 10. Sidney Poitier 11. June Spencer 12. Desmond Tutu 13. Bob Barker 14. Jimmy Carter 15. Jean Marie Le Pen 16. Penelope Lively 17. Ysanne Churchman 18. Gudrun Ure 19. Shirley Hughes 20. James Lovelock 21. Frank Williams (Motor Racing) 22. Kane Tanaka 23. Raymond Briggs 24. Timothy Dudley-Smith 25. Rosalynn Carter 26. William Russell 27. Alan Dean Foster 28. Harry Belafonte 29. David Attenborough 30. Bob Newhart 31. Ray Lawler 32. David Graham 33. Robert Fyfe 34. Michael J Fox 35. Bill Turnbull 36. Nigel Lawson 37. Larry Niven 38. Vanessa Redgrave 39. Rupert Murdoch 40. Eileen Derbyshire 41. Edna O’Brien 42. A S Byatt 43. Frank Borman 44. Niels Olsen 45. Alice Munro 46. Stanley Baxter 47. Jean Marsh 48. Mikhail Gorbachov 49. Cleo Laine 50. Jiang Zemin Subs Joan D.Vinge Anthony Sher Nichelle Nichols Billy Connolly June Brown

I'm a people. I'll come.

Just for clarity, it was people to 'the left' of the political spectrum who were banging drums about her origins and making fucking idiotic points about migrants, racism and all that shit. Adil Ray was the lynchpin of all of that bollocks. Strangely, I never saw or heard anything which suggested right wingers were cry wanking into their socks because blue British blood didn't run through her veins. None of it matters a fuck to me anyway, I'd rather roast my knackers on a coal fire than watch tennis.

Manhole covers Токио - Tokyo Берлин - Berlin Нью-Йорк - New-York Челябинск - Chelyabinsk A resident of Chelyabinsk fell into an open sewer and drowned https://74.ru/text/incidents/2021/05/23/69929792/

Elzbieta Tomashevska, nee Radziwill, daughter of the penultimate owner of the castle in Nesvizh, Prince Albrecht Radziwill and the Englishwoman Dorothy Parker Deacon, died at the age of 103 July 20. https://belsat.eu/pl/news/21-07-2021-zmarla-elzbieta-radziwill-jej-domem-byl-zamek-w-nieswiezu/

FB post reporting the death of Rabbi Ephraim Einhorn (wiki), Austrian-born British-raised head of the Taiwanese Jewish community, aged 103. A deadpooling favourite but not picked in this year’s DDP.

If you run it the people will come (or not)

Bob Enyart, an anti-vax right-wing radio host....I'm sure you can figure out the rest. Follows Marc Bernier, Phil Valentine, Jimmy DeYoung Sr. and Dick Farrel, who walked the path before him. https://newsone.com/4209341/bob-enyart-dies-covid-anti-vax-right-wing-radio-hosts/

Actress Jean Marsh - 87. Last appeared on screen according to her IMDB in 2014. After filming S1 of rebooted Upstairs, Downstairs (which she also wrote) she had a stroke and a heart attack.

He actually has had coronary heart disease, but the doctors fixed him, removed a blockage, put in a stent, and now he has regular check-ups. Actually, some new info from the Express, for once: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1488233/patrick-stewart-health-latest-coronary-heart-disease

John Shelby Spong, Episcopal bishop of Newark NJ and quite the controversial figure in his day, dead at 90. https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/12/john-shelby-spong-liberal-episcopal-bishop-dies-ag/

Went through the SAG-AFTRA Magazine Summer issue. Here are the names who died in 2021 who have a Wiki page: *names in red are passings not covered on DL Forums up until now. Rod Arrants (wiki), 76, actor (The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives, Rent) Lisa Banes (wiki), 65, actress (Cocktail, Freedom Writers, Gone Girl) Ned Beatty (wiki), 83, actor (Deliverance, All the President's Men, Superman, Toy Story 3) Frank Bonner (wiki), 79, actor (WKRP in Cincinnati, Equinox) and television director Martin Bookspan (wiki), 94, announcer (Live From Lincoln Center, Live From the Met) Ed Bruce (wiki), 81, country singer-songwriter and actor (Public Enemies, Country Strong) Johnny Crawford (wiki), 75, actor (The Rifleman) and singer Stuart Damon (wiki), 84, actor (General Hospital, The Champions) Lois de Banzie (wiki), 90, actress (Naked Gun 33 1/3, Annie, Addams Family Values) DMX (wiki), 50, rapper and actor (Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave, Romeo Must Die) Olympia Dukakis (wiki), 89, actress (Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias, In the Land of Women), director and producer Mark Elliott (wiki), 81, voice-over artist (Tangled, Lilo & Stitch) John Gabriel (wiki), 90, actor (Ryan's Hope, The Untouchables, El Dorado) Simone Gad (wiki), 73, actress (Eating L.A., Speed, A Dark Foe) Arlene Golonka (wiki), 85, actress (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D.) Craig "muMs" Grant (wiki), 52, actor (Oz, Dark Water) Charles Grodin (wiki), 86, actor (Midnight Run, The Heartbreak Kid, King Kong, Beethoven) and comedian Marvelous Marvin Hagler (wiki), 66, professional boxer and actor (Indio, Indio 2) James Hampton (wiki), 84, actor (F Troop, The Doris Day Show, Love American Style, The Longest Yard, Teen Wolf) and director Billie Hayes (wiki), 96, actress (The Black Cauldron, Pufnstuf, Shrek Forever After, Johnny Bravo) Gloria Henry (wiki), 98, actress (Dennis the Menace, Air Hostess, Law of the Barbary Coast) Chuck Hicks (wiki), 93, actor (Dick Tracy, Legion, The Ring) and stuntman (Star Trek II, Runaway Train) Betty Lou Holland (wiki), 95, actress (Johnny Belinda, The Man in the Net, Love Story) John Hora (wiki), 80, cinematographer (Gremlins, The Howling, Gremlins 2) and actor (Innerspace, Honey I Blew Up the Kid) Robert Hogan (wiki), 87, actor (Another World, The Wire, Batman, Gunsmoke, Law & Order, Species II) Amy Johnston (wiki), 66, actress (The Buddy Holly Story, Charlie's Angels) Nathan Jung (wiki), 74, actor (Big Trouble in Little China, Darkman) Bruce Kirby (wiki), 95, actor (Days of Our Lives, Kojak, Columbo, The Muppet Movie, Hogan's Heroes, Stand by Me) Tawny Kitaen (wiki), 59, actress (Bachelor Party, Gwendoline, After Midnight) and model Joe Krebs (wik), 78, news anchor (NBC-4 WRC-TV) Tommy Lasorda (wiki), 93, baseball player and manager and actor (Homeward Bound II, Hart to Hart, Ladybugs) G. Gordon Liddy (wiki), 90, lawyer, FBI agent and actor (Rules of Engagement, 18 Wheels of Justice, Street Asylum) Joanne Linville (wiki), 93, actress (Star Trek, Barnaby Jones, The Twilight Zone, Dynasty) Norman Lloyd (wiki), 106, actor (Dead Poets Society, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Age of Innocence, Spellbound) Ray MacDonnell (wiki), 93, actor (All My Children, Dick Tracy) Gavin MacLeod (wiki), 90, actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Kelly's Heroes, The Party, The Love Boat) Frank McRae (wiki), 80, actor (Licence to Kill, Loaded Weapon I, Last Action Hero) Roger Mudd (wiki), 93, broadcast journalist (CBS, NBC, The History Channel) Trisha Noble (wiki), 76, singer and actress (Star Wars Episode III, Out of the Unknown, Z-Cars) Walter Olkewicz (wiki), 72, actor (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Twin Peaks, The Client) Christopher Pennock (wiki), 76, actor (Dark Shadows, General Hospital) Howard Schnellenberger (wiki), 87, American football coach and commentator (NBC, CBC, ESPN) Felix Silla (wiki), 84, actor (Spaceballs, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi) and stuntman (The Golden Child, Poltergeist) Joseph Siravo (wiki), 66, actor (The Sopranos, Carlito's Way, American Crime Story) Quindon Tarver (wiki), 38, singer (Romeo + Juliet) B.J. Thomas (wiki), 78, singer (Spider-Man 2, Forrest Gump, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle) Buddy Van Horn (wiki), 92, stunt coordinator (Outbreak, In the Line of Fire) and director (The Deadpool) Isela Vega (wiki), 81, actress (Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Lovers of the Lord of the Night) and singer Erica Watson (wiki), 48, actress (Precious, Dirty Laundry) Clarence Williams III (wiki), 81, actor (The General's Daughter, Reindeer Games, Purple Rain, Half Baked, The Mod Squad) If I remember to, I'll do this quarterly with the release of each SAG-AFTRA issue. Need some help with one name who appeared in this issue. The date of death given was 4th November 2016 and the name is Jeanette Miller. Is this THE Jeanette Miller (b. 1932, wiki, IMDb) who appeared as Aunt Edie in The Middle, as well as Norbit, Legion, The Truman Show etc. and was active until 2015? It would appear so but I need some kind of linking evidence to get Wiki/IMDb updated appropriately.

Algerian independent fighter and civil right activist Saadi Yacef died at 93 years: https://www.algerie360.com/yacef-saadi-est-mort-un-grand-nom-de-la-revolution-seteint/ He was senator in Algeria's Council of the Nation who led Algeria's National Liberation Front during the country's war for independence, which occurred from 1954 to 1962. In the war he was captured by the French military and sentenced to death but was eventually pardoned after Charles de Gaulle returned to power in 1958.

Actor Art Metrano, known as Lt./Capt./Cmdt. Mauser in the second and third installments of the Police Academy franchise, died at 84 years: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/art-metrano-dead-police-academy-stand-up-comic-1235010490/ He also had roles in films such as the original The Heartbreak Kid and Warhead.

He ist not that unknown if even I know him He was president of Screen Actors Guild from 1999 to 2001 and played in so many movies, for example Dustin Hoffmann character's father in The Graduate, in "Reds" beside Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty or in "Two for the Road" beside Audrey Hepburn.

I was sure Myfanwy Talog, David Jason's partner for many years before her death from cancer aged 50 had been in the odd episode but she's not. I wonder if there is a general John Sullivan curse, none of the main male actors in Dear John reached 70 and Diane Bull who was in the mostly forgotten Sitting Pretty died aged only 46. The cast of Citizen Smith seem to have escaped it though. Edit - I know there isn't really a curse and any programme which ran for years and with a long cast blah di blah, I just find interesting to note these things.

Ok, so after all this chat about the Only Fools curse, I thought I'd do some digging and I've created this (not exhaustive) list. Main cast members who are dead are listed first, then the rest by age. I also checked up on some people who struck me as having roles in notable episodes, but as I said, it's not exhaustive: Buster Merryfield (Uncle Albert Trotter) - b. 27/11/20, d. 23/6/99, aged 79 (brain tumour) Roy Heather (Sid, the cafe owner) - b. 20/5/35, d. 3/9/14, aged 79 (undisclosed cause) Lennard Pearce (Grandad Trotter) - b. 9/2/15, d. 15/12/84, aged 69 (heart attack) Roger Lloyd-Pack (Trigger) - b. 8/2/44, d. 15/1/14, aged 69 (pancreatic cancer) Kenneth MacDonald (Mike "The Barman" Fisher) - b. 20/11/51, d. 6/8/01, aged 59 (heart attack) John Challis (Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce) - b. 16/8/42, d. 19/9/21, aged 79 (cancer) David Jason (Derek "Del Boy" Trotter) - b. 2/2/40 (81) Denis Lill (Alan Parry, Cassandra's dad) - b. 22/4/42 (79) - appeared once on tv since 2017 Sue Holderness ("All the boys remember" Marlene Boyce) - b. 28/5/49 (72) Paul Barber (Denzil) - b. 18/3/51 (70) Patrick Murray (Mickey Pearce) - b. 17/12/56 (64) - suffering from COPD since 2018 and retired from public life Tessa Peake-Jones (Raquel Turner, Del's partner) - b. 9/5/57 (64) - series regular in Grantchester Gwyneth Strong (Cassandra Trotter) - b. 2/12/59 (61) Nicholas Lyndhurst (Rodney Trotter) - b. 20/4/61 (60) - only child (a son) died September 2020, aged 20 Multiple appearances: Peter Woodthorpe (Reg Trotter, Del and Rodney's dad) - b. 25/9/31, d. 13/8/04, aged 72 (short illness) Christopher Mitchell (DS Terry Hoskins) - b. 21/5/48, d. 22/2/01, aged 52 (cancer) Wanda Ventham (Pamela Parry, Cassandra's mum) - b. 5/8/35 (86) - mother of Benedict Cumberbatch Nick Stringer (Aussie Man/Jumbo Mills) - b. 10/8/48 (73) - also in The Bill Jim Broadbent (DCI Roy Slater) - b. 24/5/49 (72) Andree Bernard ("Nervous" Nerys the Barmaid) - b. 29/11/66 - jobbing actress, still active Nula Conwell (Maureen the Barmaid) - b. 24/5/59 (62) - also in The Bill Steven Woodcock (Jevon, Rodney and Mickey's mate) - b. 23/2/64 (57) - also in Eastenders Tony Marshall (Chris, Rodney and Mickey's mate) - b. 14/5/64 (57) Ben Smith (teenage Damien Derek Trotter) - b. 27/12/89 (31) - still acting Julie La Rousse (Julie the Barmaid) - unknown Michele Winstanley (Karen the Barmaid) - unknown Peta Bernard (Joyce the Barmaid) - unknown Jamie Smith (young Damien Derek Trotter) - unknown, only appeared in OFAH Memorable appearances: Ann Lynn (Audrey Turner, Raquel's mum in "Time on our Hands") died in 2020, aged 86 (unknown causes) John Bardon (Tom Clarke, the supermarket security guard in "The Longest Night") died in 2014, from complications following a stroke, aged 75 Max Harvey (Mr Peterson, the supermarket manager in "The Longest Night") died in 2006, aged 64 (unknown causes) Tony Anholt (Abdul, Boycie's diamond-smuggling partner in "To Hull and Back") died in 2002 of a brain tumour, aged 61 Eva Mottley (Corinne, Denzil's wife in "Who's a Pretty Boy") died in 1985 of a drugs overdose, aged 31 Elizabeth Benson (Lady Ridgemere in "A Touch of Glass" [the Chandelier episode]) is still going, aged 95 Michael Jayston (James Turner, Raquel's dad who finds the fortune-making watch in "Time on our Hands") is nearly 86 Roy Marsden (Danny Driscoll [the tall one] in "Little Problems") is 80 Seymour Matthews (The Auctioneer announcing the watch had made £6m in "Time on our Hands") is 76 Christopher Ryan (Tony Driscoll [the short one] in "Little Problems") is 71 Philip McGough (Arnie the con man in "Chain Gang") is still going, no idea on age but he'll be 70-odd like the main cast I assume Angela Bruce (Councillor Murray, rescued by Batman and Robin in "Heroes and Villains") is 70 Daniel Peacock (Mental Mickey in "It's Only Rock and Roll") is nearly 63 Philip Pope (Tony Angelino, the singer with a lisp in "Stage Fright") is 60-odd - also a noted television composer Vas Blackwood (Lennox "The Shadow" Gilby, the wannabe supermarket robber in "The Longest Night") is nearly 59 Erika Hoffman (Anna, the pregnant German girl in "From Prussia with Love") is 56 As always, open to suggestions/additional information, but hope this is useful to someone.