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Indian actor and singer Puneeth Rajkumar, died at 46 years after heart attack: https://zeenews.india.com/regional/kannada-actor-puneeth-rajkumar-aka-appu-dies-of-heart-attack-sonu-sood-and-others-mourn-sudden-demise-2406484.html His performance in the 1985 movie, Bettada Hoovu, earned him a 1986 National Film Award for Best Child Artist.

Florence Alice Lubega (1917-2021) You're a woman, right? (Prince Philip when meeting Florence Lubega in the Heaven of Immortals) Age at death: 103 Known health issues: Wheelchair bound for years, suffering from a "serious illness" in March 2020. Cause of death: Natural causes. Alignment: First female MP of Uganda, so quite a groundbreaking feature in her country.

Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian host of their "Who wants to be a millionaire" dead of a heart attack at 46: https://www.the-sun.com/news/3957032/puneeth-rajkumar-dead-cardiac-arrest/

It used to be the Clive Dunn slot. Supergran Despite many efforts Gudrun Ure, now 95, has never received her rightful promotion from Supergran to the successor to Clive Dunn. If this had happened at the rightful time, 2013, she would by now have also attained legendary death list status (maybe ).

Florence Alice Lubega finally dead at 103.

https://www.radiofarda.com/a/iran-darroodi-painter-artist-modern-died/31535112.html Iranian contemporary artist Iran Darroudi who made surreal paintings dealing with Iranian themed imaginery and strong lighting has died at the age of 85 in...Iran. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598089/ Also the subject of this 2009 documentary.

Talking about these POS who somehow keep breathing (Sidney Cooke, Robert Durst, Rose West, Ian Huntley...) another one who's still going is the Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo: He's only 75 but has lost a ton of weight since getting caught and had a brain embolism a year ago. There's also Austria's incest rapist dad Josef Fritzl, was declining from dementia nearly three years ago, now 86. Hoping that all six will meet their ends soon.

It's easy to forget that a load of people who did other things also did a bit of telly. So London Fringe theatre bod June Abbott, who died in December 2020 has an IMDB entry which isn't updated: https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/june-abbott and for more information: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3829155 Played Lorna Keating in Crossroads back in the 1960s. Pic on Aveleyman: https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=94126 Aveleyman still not updated either!

Biddy is famous enough that she could be a surprise main list member one day.

On the thread link to Gudrun Ure I've just posted above there is an implied guarantee from @Paul Bearer that @maryportfuncity (hmm why does that not work for mary?) would be able to join the committee if he made a further 8,000 posts. That was in 2015 - wonder how close mary is to that now?

Thanks to this amazing list. We know he was the 2nd oldest governor! https://oldestsandlasts.com/index.php?title=List_of_oldest_living_United_States_governors Jimmy Carter is now the oldest living president and second oldest living governor.

Republican politician Linwood Holton Jr., who served during the early 1970s as sixty-first Governor of Virginia, died at 98 years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/linwood-holton-dead/2021/10/28/99615272-c5da-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html As governor, he created state government jobs for African-Americans and women and supported educational, mental health, and environmental initiatives.

@gcreptile Robin McNamara QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10142393/Robin-McNamara-dies-age-74best-known-1970-song-Lay-Little-Lovin-Me.html

Saw this on the news tonight. It feels like the Palace are trying really hard to make it clear that she's generally fine. Some think they're trying too hard and that they're hiding that she's ill, when in actual fact it's the exact opposite and they're just trying to combat the rumours that she's at death's door. She's a 95-year-old woman being told to start thinking about acting like a 95-year-old woman. Nothing more sinister than that.

Not at all, I welcome any appearance of Sean Bean.

Nobody fucking cares.

Currently 17 over par after his first round and last by 8 shots.

So, Sedaka's hit making career speaks for itself (when he couldn't get arrested as a performing artist his songs still made occasional hits for others). That said, the album shared below belongs squarely in the audio crimes museum. The man re-imagines his hits as if written for his own grandchildren and delivers a paint-peeler of a collection that's likely seen heavy rotation wherever inventive techniques of interrogation are employed to rapidly reduce hard men to whimpering wrecks. I'll confess to owning a copy and sharing it very sparingly with a few loyal listeners online.

David Moran died without making a known will, which has helped in tracing a date of death of 25 April 2021: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3906496 Now all that has to happen is for someone to let IMDB know.

Yes it did come across as harsh but I have no issue with Tom himself but the huge Tom bandwagon was a little nauseating. Unfortunately I do think Michael Palin will be the next Python to go. As far as I can see Maggie Smith and Judy Dench are both still active and she was really included as the type of person who might be suitable. Patricia Routledge may have been a better example. I think it will be sad when Cribbins goes but the sheer hard work of the man like when John Hurt went and you started thinking about the sheer volume of things he had been in. His body of work will be a cause of celebration. After his wife died someone on Twitter who knows him did mention to him about all the messages of goodwill that had been expressed and he thanked everyone and hoped they would all send him a fiver. So he still has his sense of humour. He is a national treasure and probably deserves a knighthood.

Oh I'm usually a cynical bastard but I do bloody love Michael Palin. Always have. He was also really nice to me once when he had no need to be, so yeah, long may he live. Attenborough will be a sad one, but I'm also aware he's had a long and relatively happy life too, which is nice. I like to think you prepare yourself for some of these people going (Tom Baker for example requires a lot of mental preparation), but then I found you can get completely blindsided by folk you never even thought you would pre-death. Like this last week or so I've been properly fucked off by Peter Scolari's untimely death. I hadn't thought of him in years, but I loved his stuff when I was a kid.

Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway? Only 48 but she has pulmonary fibrosis, diagnosed three years ago. It's a progressive, terminal illness, no known cure and the average life expectancy of someone with it is 3-5 years. "As the condition progresses, a person with pulmonary fibrosis is at risk of other health complications including heart attack or failure, stroke, pulmonary embolism, and other lung diseases and infections." She was ill in May but currently attending events. However, as mentioned here, "The disease may get worse quickly (over months) or very slowly (over years)" Has also had some health problems in the past (pneumonia, several instances of norovirus, low blood pressure, along with some falls, concussions, a neck injury and a herniated disc according to this)

American actor and comedian Morey Amsterdam died on this day 25 years ago, aged 87.

RESULTS In reverse order, to maintain some pretend suspense.... First up, harsh luck to Captain Chorizo, who has had 3 deaths since the game ended on May 31st. I hummed and hawed about Z-Cars, but decided to stick to Deathray's list to save nightmares (although I totted up the points WITH Z-Cars as fairness and it turns out... sod all difference between the top scorers!). Apparently Alan Bradley never murdered anyone either - I assumed he must have, but no, attempted murder doesn't count. Nor does death by tram count as a car crash. Curses, foiled again. Deathray's Point Stack intent was taken on board, so basically everything accumulates. So in 8th place Death by Arsenic, 33 points Taking part is cool though, yeah? 7th place Great Uncle Bulgaria, 51 points In the DDP, 51 points off one pick would be fucking amazing, to be fair... 6th place Captain Chorizo, 89 points A low placing for a regular but they went for a number of hunches which didn't pay off. JOINT 4th PLACE That's nearly a podium spot Handrejka, 175 points and (don't fall over in shock, Biblio) Bibliogryphon, 175 points Some teams ask where they went wrong. Both of them teams missed out on Johnny Briggs, who would have got them the win. 3rd PLACE The Bronze Medalist Msc 199 points Hi everybody! Yep, more bridesmaid status for that guy. Whoever he is... And now... The moment you've all been waiting for... The best loser is.... RUNNER UP Silver Medalist Old Crem 224 points You lost by 8 points, very harsh luck, literally any other pick in the world being successful would have meant a win. And the winner of the Soapstar to Superstar Deadpool 2020-21 was... TOAST!!!!! With 232 points She got 3 of the Big Four, and Jim Trott to boot. No no no no no no yes she's the winner! Now it's time for everyone to go "well done Toastie!" and wait for Deathers to show up and tell me I should have counted Softly Softly Taskforce or something... The Calculus Section

My list of immortal-candidates, some with more health issues and some with less, most could be considered if they're still alive in around a year or two: Boris Pahor (1913-2022) Slovene Necropolis author, holocaust survivor still alive and going to be 108 this year. Arne Konrad Eldegard (1917-2018, off radar) Norwegian politician. Didn't look at the camera on his 100th birthday which can be a sign of some age-related issues, but I don't know if he has any. Died 12 March 2018 off-radar. Eduard Kuuskor (1918-2022) Estonian soldier, geologist and radio operator. Looked absolutely horrible over three years ago, speaks very unclearly. As seen in that video, needed help to stand. Looks even more skeletal nowadays. Died 18 January 2022. Hazel McCallion (1921-2023) Canadian ancient politician. Died 29 January 2023. Elvy Olsson (1923-2022) Swedish former Minister for Housing 1976-1978. In a wheelchair for years. Died on the 23rd of February 2022. Hédi Fried (1924-2022) Swedish-Romanian author, Bergen-Belsen survivor. After the death of Prince Philip she is challenging Olsson, Dole, Golpaygani and a couple of cardinals (now dead except for Wamala and Alexandre do Nascimento) for the title of most "ghoul-looking" people alive. Ele Alenius (1925-2022) The "He's still alive?" guy of Finland, a former parliament member and party leader, minister in the 60s and 70s and author. Had a stroke in 2018 and moved to a care home in 2021. Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929-2024) Soviet official, Gorbachev's prime minister. Suffered a serious heart attack in 1990, overweight. Looks like William Shatner at the age of 140. Dries Van Agt (1931-2024) Dutch politician and former prime minister. Suffered a stroke in 2019 but still doing great and smoking joints. Than Shwe (born 1933/1935) Burmese strongman and former military dictator. Has had health issues since 2006 and hasn't been seen in public for a long time despite the coup his successor organized. Survived covid in 2021. Kamuta Latasi (born 1936) and Tulaga Manuella (born 1936) Former Tuvaluan Gov-Gen and PM. No serious health issues but extremely old for Tuvaluans. Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937-2021) Algerian former dictator. Has been wheelchair-bound and frail for years and a laughingstock for Algerian twitterists because he's still alive. Died 17th of September 2021. Pasqual Maragall (born 1941) Mayor of Barcelona 1982-1997, President of the Govt of Catalonia, "King of Alzheimer's" still alive fourteen years after diagnosis. Once cared for by her wife Diana Garrigosa (1944-2020) who died in February 2020 after a sudden heart attack. Paavo Lipponen (born 1941) Former Finnish prime minister. Young compared to most of the ones I've listed above but he's broken some records with heart-related issues: Hospitalized multiple times in the 1990s and 2000s, heart problems started in 2012, got a heart attack in 2017 and had an open-heart surgery and six bypass surgeries, hospitalized again in 2019. Wife doesn't live in the same house as Lipponen due to covid and Lipponen can't walk much nowadays. Margarita Terekhova (born 1942) Russian actress. Alzheimer's since 2006, some reports say that it started to affect her badly in 2011 and still not dead. Couldn't recognize any of her family members in 2019, can't speak, bedridden and her family doesn't have money for her treatment. Vesa-Matti Loiri (1945-2022) Finnish comedian, hospitalized tens of times during the last 50 years first for using a ton of drugs, mental problems, in the 2000s and 2010s for being extremely obese, alcohol and tobacco user, was in a wheelchair for a long time in the 2010s. In new pictures, looks like he's wearing a plastic mask of himself. Died from esophageal cancer and liver cancer on the 10th of August 2022. Levon "LTP" Ter-Petrosyan (born 1945) First President of Armenia. He's smoked probably more than anyone else still living, has had colorectal cancer. One to consider if he lives around five years... Looks very parkinson-y. Tempt One (1968/1969-2023) American graffiti artist icon extremely resisant towards ALS. He was diagnosed with it in 2003. Seems to have been bedridden for the last 10+ years and communicates with his eyes. Still doing art and selling it to pay his hospital bills. As you can hear in that video from 2012 he has had near-to-death situations already back then. Also with locked-in syndrome caused by ALS. Died on the 1st of September 2023. "Animal Immortals" Jonathan (hatched c. 1832) World's oldest tortoise and the oldest land animal, on a Saint Helena coin, internet celeb. Has lost sense of smell and is blind. Muja (born before 1936, likely between 1925 and 1935) World's oldest alligator, Belgrade Zoo celeb. Survived WW2's nazi occupation, Belgrade offensive, near-total destruction of the Belgrade zoo, NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Parts of the alligator's leg was amputated in 2012 due to gangrene. Can't move much or hunt. Alphabet Soup (1991-2022) Breeder's Cup Classic 1996 winner. Earliest Breeder's Cup Classic winner. Has survived multiple cancers. Euthanized on 28th of January 2022 due to CKD. Kabosu (2005-2024) Internet celebrity known from the "Doge" meme. Blind, got vestibular disease last year, frail but can still walk. Also has been suffering from stage 2 CKD for nearly 2 years. ----- 2022 addition: Wisdom aka. #Z333 (born 1951) Oldest confirmed wild bird in the world, ancient and survived the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. People, dead before 1990, who could be called Immortals: Ramesses II (1303 BC-1213 BC) Pharaoh of Egypt, lived to around 90 despite severe dental problems, atherosclerosis and arthritis. George III (1738-1820) King of Great Britain and Ireland 1760-1820, blind with rheumatism and critically ill by 1810, suffered from what was likely dementia during his last 6-10 years and was unable to walk during his last weeks. Tu'i Malila (1777-1966) Tortoise owned by the Tongan royal family, allegedly given to them by James Cook (1728-1779). Also "met" QEII in 1953. Johann II (1840-1929) Prince of Liechenstein 1858-1929, ruled for 70 years. Willem Drees (1886-1988) Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1948-1958, lived to 101 despite being extremely frail and in failing health for a long time before his death. Current "Honorary immortals", people described as immortals by many: Betty White (1922-2021) Forever young? Sounds frailish. Died 31st of December 2021, six days after a stroke. Dick Van Dyke (1925-) Forever young? Elizabeth II (1926-2022) Forever young? Hospitalised in 2021, otherwise in great condition. Died on the 8th of September 2022. John Astin (1930-) On the top of Ranker's "Celebrities You Didn't Know Are Still Alive" list, lots of people on twitter seem to be suprised that he's still alive. Willie Nelson (1933-) Lung collapse in 1981, history of alcohol, drug use and smoking, CTS, emphysema and multiple bouts of pneumonia but still going, he didn't come here and he ain't leaving. Chabelo (1935-2023) Mexican counterpart of Bouteflika and Ponce Enrile. Has had many near-death experiences Dalai Lama (1391/1935-) Keith Richards (1943-) Forever old? Heroin use, etc. Multiple death hoax victims with health concerns: Bob Barker (1923-2023) Death hoaxes in 1995 and 2007, frail for ages. Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) Death hoaxes in 2016, 2018 and 2021. Died on the 26th of December 2021 after a long illness, two months after the last hoax. Neil Young (1945-) Death hoaxes in 1975, 1979 and 2012 Bonus: Dick Cheney (1941-) Last living one of the people who got premature obits from CNN on the 16th of April 2003. Long history of health troubles.