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Via his official twitter, Wallace and Gromit writer and K9 creator Bob Baker dead aged 82. Sad news, one of those underrated kids TV heroes.

Yup, the pope that raped Natalie Wood.

It will be my intention to run 20/20 + 2 which is still proving to be enormous fun for a handful of players but that is the only game I run that is a calendar year. However both my other games are one hit away from ending so we could easily be in to a Silver Screen or Scavenger Hunt preseason at the end of the year (or we could still be here in 12 months)

Rose West could be a good pick, considered "clinically extremely vulnerable" due to being hugely overweight and suffered a bad reaction from the vaccine. Around two thirds of the people on this year's list were over 90, however there are a lot of good picks who are under 90 and not nonagenarians who'll live until 102. West, Milos Zeman, Marianne Faithfull, Frank Field, Jerry Lee Lewis, Martti Ahtisaari, George Alagiah, de Klerk...

Norman Macfarlane, Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden, Scottish Development Agency Board member and patron of the arts and Queens Park Football Club, dead: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19697394.scottish-business-doyen-lord-macfarlane-bearsden-dies/ Retired from the House of Lords in 2016.

Elke Sommer turns 81 today. As one of the last surviving cast members of A Shot In The Dark and And Then There Were None among other films, she may well be worth considering for the 2022 DL. No recent health information, just a hunch 2022 may be her year and that she’ll go at the age of 81. I really hope I’m wrong but then again my Yaphet Kotto hunch turned out to be correct and he was 81......

@Wormfarmer... Alan Igglesden is a hit for @Banana at the I spot too.

It means Henry Lincoln and Chris Boucher are the only two Doctor Who writers alive from before 1980. (As far as I am aware, John Flannagan, co-writer of Meglos, is still around in his late 70s.)

Art Garfunkel is 80 today. Paul Simon reached that age a month ago. Art's coming back to the stage apparently?

Taboo, one of the rappers for the Black Eyed Peas, recently had stage II testicular cancer, and had one of them removed (there must be a peas/balls joke in here somewhere): https://www.survivornet.com/articles/black-eyed-peas-rapper-taboo-on-testicular-cancer-symptoms-masking-as-a-broken-tailbone-and-welcoming-miracle-baby-after-chemo/

Ah tell out your soul, the greatness of the shortlist? My shortlist are mostly all dead now, tbh.

Former Ukrainian PM Yukhym Zvyahilsky in ICU with COVID.

Andrew McDonald, former chair of SCOPE, has died: https://www.scope.org.uk/media/press-releases/andrew-mcdonald-cb/ Suffered from Parkinsons's and cancer - DDP pick, and already one of these cases where you wonder if that backlog broadsheet obit still comes in time to count.

And this led to her getting a QO... Telegraph obit. And she almost died off radar. It wasn't until her local press reported on it more than a week later that led to a stream of subsequent bigger obits. Strange how these things play out. No certainties in deadpooling I suppose.

Death notice as confirmation.

Whoever Leslie Martens is, she just confirmed it on her Facebook.

RA is a dead pooling legend that even Mary doffs his cap to. The man is meticulous!

You literally think everyone's ill!

Owen Paterson is a hit for me in this pool anyway so I am having some success of sorts...!

I've just realised his wife was the chairman of Aintree racecourse who topped herself last year. The Grand National is currently sponsored by Randox which is one of the companies that's been paying him. And also one of the companies paid multi-millions by the government for dodgy Covid testing kits. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/04/tory-linked-firm-involved-in-testing-failure-awarded-new-347m-covid-contract It all stinks worse than the sewage they've allowed into our rivers.

North Shropshire: At the last election Owen Paterson had over 60% of the vote The seat had neve left Conservative hands The low water mark was 1997 when Paterson stood for the first time. At that election which was a huge Labour landslide the Conservatives won with around 40% of the vote with a majority of less than 2200 Labour has been second in every elections since 1997 with the exception of 2010. Shropshire vote 57:43 to leave the EU in 2016

He thought it was all over…..

There does exist this: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/entertainment/legendary-jazz-guitarist-pat-martino-214957470.html I will do an update tomorrow though, (hopefully with a different QO) but yes, it's a well-timed boost to Salmon Mousse's score.

If there's a QO for Pat Martino, think that more or less seals the deal for Salmon Mousse.

Nice new thread, and of course she is famous enough! Her seven decade long career started in the early 50s, since then she has appeared in over 50 film and theatre roles. With her career on stage and screen, she won nearly all of the biggest awards available to actors: She was nominated for a Tony Award nine times and won in 1966 for Best Actress in "The Lion in Winter". In 1974 she won her first Emmy Award for her work in the BBC serial "Notorious Woman". In 1978 she picked up a Golden Globe award for the series "Holocaust" In 1994 she has been nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress in the film "Tom & Viv" And last year she has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.