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Saddest of all David Warner dead at 80: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62219839

German-born American scientist and Nobel Prize Winner John B. Goodenough (Wiki) turns 100 today

Well, shame that given David Warner's death: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62219839 Seemingly always around, obviously from The Omen to Doctor Who, but because he was so wonderful, never out of work. Deservedly worth a mention here.

English actor David Warner, well known for his appearances throughout the Star Trek franchise, died at 80 years: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62219839 He won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1981 for his role in Masada. He has also had roles in the films The Omen and Tron. He had also supporting role in the classic 1997 film Titanic.

Never shared many beliefs with him politically .I remember some years ago him saying that the Republican Party was the most dangerous organisation in human history which is just ridiculous and mind numbing as are his comments about the US living in a more totalitarian culture than Soviet Russia.

John Astin, Robert Wagner, Buzz Aldrin, George Soros and even Gene Hackman will also be 93 in 2023 and would be much better bets at this stage. Frankly, I expect Eastwood to die in 11 years from now but realistically, his DL induction should probably be made in 2025, I have a feeling he will be included on next year’s list however and be carried on each year for the next 10 years.

I know the face.... I know the face... but from where? Never watched Twin Peaks, maybe Star Trek VI? Maybe Titanic or Avatar? He seems to have been in everything. He was the voice of Jon Irenicus, main villain of RPG Baldur's Gate II. Edit: Also an actor in Time Bandits, but then who wasnt...

Thank God you joined and shared this thought. I'd be lost without such wisdom. What a delight to the community!

It will be an extremely sad day when it is his last rodeo. An idol of mine

Was thinking about him just the other day. Creepy how this happens, but then again, with so many people on this earth, it is unlikely that it shall not. Rest in Peace.

This yearbook confirms that Md/ Reazuddin Ahmed (also known as "Bhola Mia") died on 14 February 1997, aged 67/68. That's me done.

Interviewed here in 2011. He is mentioned once or twice in articles from 2021/22, and they seem to talk about him in the present tense.

Dahanayake died prior to 2008 according to this news article.

On this day two years ago in 2020, american actor John Saxon died aged 83. He was skilled in martial arts so a great many of his acting roles in both film and television reflected his strong physiciality and skill. Among his many films in his fifty year acting career include Enter the Dragon (1973) with Bruce Lee, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) , The Unforgiven (1960) with Burt Lancaster, Lillian Gosh and Audrey Hepburn, A Nightmare on Elm Str 3 (1987), Planet Earth (1974) and Queen of Blood (1966) with Dennis Hopper and Basil Rathbone. Numerous roles in many of the big television shows during his careers, mainly guest or short roles include , Burkes Law, Gunsmoke (small one episode stints between 1965-1975), Bonanza, The Virginian, Dr Kildare, Fantasy Island and The Six Million Dollar Man. His biggest and longest television role was as Tony Cumson in Primetime Soap Falcon Crest- his character being the son in law of the shows devious matriarch Angela Channing played by Jane Wyman. He married three times and had one son with Hollywood screenwriter Mary Ann Saxon.

Matt LeBlanc, American actor and comedian widely known for his portrayal of Joey Tribbiani in the world-famous hit television series "Friends" for ten seasons, is 55 today.

RULES: The competition will start 1 AUGUST 2022 (all lists must be in by 11:59pm (GMT) July 31) and scoring will end July 31, 2023. Submit a list of 26 people. The first name OR last name of the first person must begin with an A. Second person with a B. You get the idea. This game doesn't require you to choose a joker. Please use this format A - Alvin Chipmunk or S - Homer Simpson Qualifying names will be those getting an obit in sources used by the great Windy City Deadpool, which uses the obit sources of the Derby Dead Pool, plus The NY Times, LA Times, CBS News, Fox News, TMZ, and MSN. Also acceptable: CNN, ABC, NBC, the Associate Press (AP) and Time. Due to the large number of names possible, and because the more tenacious of you can find the folk on the very fringes of celebrity, please police your own obits and notify me by PM or a post on this thread. Of course if it's the likes of the Queen or the Pope scoring, just give me time to post it, no need to bring it to my attention.  SCORING: A hit using the first name (all letters except as below) - 1 point A hit using the last name (all letters except as below) - 2 points A hit with the first name . . . (A, E, I, O, U, Y) - 2 points A hit with the last name . . . (A, E, I, O, U, Y) - 3 points A hit with the first OR last name . . . (Q, X, Z) - 4 points A hit with an alliterative name scores the points for both first and last names as specified above (so an alliterative at the A spot would be worth 5 points, the B spot would be worth 3 points, the Q spot would be worth 8 points) NOTE: General titles such as Queen/Pope/Prince, etc. may still be allowed, but will score only 1 point rather than the 4 points you would score with a legitimate name at the Q spot, for example. BONUSES: Whippersnapper Bonus (WS): dies at age 75 or younger = 2 points (if there is substantial ambiguity or birth year is unknown, no bonus will be awarded) Solos = 3 points Duos = 1 point Vowel Movement Bonus (VMB): hit all five vowels (A, E, I, O, U) = 5 points hit any four vowels + the letter Y = 3 points Scoring Example: if someone gets a solo hit with 71 year old Zadora Zephyr, the score would be 8 + 2 (WS) + 3 (solo) = 13 (the best you could do with one hit). TIES: Will be broken by the date the final score is reached. That is, if three folks end up with 48 points, the person that got to 48 on the earliest date will be the winner.  NAMES: I prefer to see real names used (e.g. Richard Penniman instead of Little Richard). But any name that has been previously accepted in any of the prior ABC Deadpools is valid. I will be lenient on submissions, but beware the missing QO for scoring. I have been bitten many times by names I thought would certainly get a QO, but nooooooo . . . . No animals, due to the ease of earning the WS bonus that way. SUBS: Please check in at the start of the game if anyone on your list dies before the game starts. I will allow a sub for that letter, but it can't be someone who is new to the DP radar since the game started. That means no one who is diagnosed with cancer/has an accident on the 30th, say. Enjoy!

Hello, and welcome to the thread for the 6th running of the ABC Deadpool! 26 entries received, all in the table a couple of posts below this. Scoring will be more abbreviated this year. Instead of a mass of text, I will just list the hits, followed by each player who gains points from that hit, followed by a master standings table. SCORING SUMMARY: Olivia Newton-John - GUB (7) N, WS, solo Bill Pitman - Death Impends (5) P, solo Robyn Griggs (Wiley) - Banana (5) G, WS, duo/HDS (5) W duo Lenny Johnrose - perhaps (6) L, WS, solo Tom Weiskopf - Baby Blue (5) W, solo Carl Kabat - gcreptile (5) K, solo Tim Page - gcreptile/Baby Blue (3) P, duo Josephine Tewson - Grimgrass (5) T, solo Bill Turnbull - gcreptile (7) T, solo + WS Mikhail Gorbachev - Grimgrass/Book/Joey Russ/GUB/theoldlady/wannamaker/Funeralopolis (2) G Marsha Hunt - Wormfarmer (5) H solo Queen Elizabeth II - Yvonne (5) Q solo Irene Papas - Perhaps and Wannamaker, duos at I, (3) Loretta Lynn - Stuart Beck solo! (6) Judy Tenuta - HDS solo + WS, T (7) Peter Tobin - Wannamaker solo, T (5) Angela Lansbury - Capn Cho/theoldlady/Yvonne/Book, L (2) Antonio Inoki - msc/baby blue, duos at I, (4) Charley Trippi - wormfarmer solo, T (5) Leslie Philips - Hell/Grimgrass at L (1), GUB/msc at P (2) Harry K Yee - wormfarmer solo at Y (6 if obit?) Doddie Weir - wannamaker/wormfarmer duo at W (5), WS bonus! David Butler - bibliogryphon solo, B (5) Ned Rorem - bibliogryphon solo, N (5) Mickey Kuhn - MariNisia solo, K (5) Vicky Phelan - msc/gcrep/Hell at V (3), Perhaps/banana/capn cho/Book at P (4) WS bonus! Hans Magnus Enzenberger - gcreptile solo, E (6) Jiang Zemin - Funeralopolis J (1), banana/Hell/wannamaker/tolady Z (4) Assem Allam - Perhaps allit solo, (8) Julia Reichart - HDS/Banana/Joey Russ/gcrep R, (2) Georgia Holt - MariNisia solo, H (5) Louise Tobin - Yvonne solo, T (5) . . . Now she gets full credit! Pierre Soulages - Death Impends solo, S (5) Philip Pearlstein - WEP solo allit, (6) Xi Xi - DI/msc/GUB/Hell/Joey Russ/Yvonne/Grimgrass/book/Baby Blue/Toast/Joe Money/HDS, allits X, (8) Don West - DI/gcrep/msc/Book/Perhaps/banana/capn cho/Joey Russ at W (4), HDS/Joe Money at D (3) WS bonus! Barbara Walters - GUB/Yvonne duo at W, (2) Helen Grayco - solo at G for Death Impends (5) Pele (Edson Nascimento) - treating as a first name P for HDS/Joey Russ/Funeralopolis (1), and as a first name E for wannamaker (2) Lise Norgaard - wormfarmer solo at N, (5) Mark Souder - banana solo at S + WS, (7) Gianluca Vialli - gcreptile at G (3), book/perhaps/marinisia/wannamaker/joey russ/banana/wormfarmer/capn cho/theoldlady at V (4), WS bonus Clare Marx - cap'n cho solo at M +WS, (7) Mike Davis - cap'n cho/joey russ/banana/msc at D, (2) Carole Cook - book/WEP/wormfarmer/Perhaps allit, (3) Gina Lollabrigida - Baby Blue solo at L, (5) Lucille Randon - msc at L (1), Baby Blue/wormfarmer at R (2) Betty Boothroyd - solo allit for theoldlady (6) Stella Stevens - duo allit for Toast/Perhaps (4) Traute Lafrenz - duo at L for wormfarmer/death impends (3) Virginia Zeani - solo at Z for MariNisia (7) Ryuichi Sakamoto - duo at S and WS bonus for wannamaker/HDS (5) Hugh Hudson - solo allit for WEP (6) Bill Butler - duo allit for Death Impends/wormfarmer (4) Bobby Caldwell - solo at C plus WS bonus for Joey Russ (7) Al Jaffee - solo at J for wormfarmer (5) Ben Ferencz - solo at F for wormfarmer (5) Mary Quant - at Q for biblio/funeralopolis/yorkbank/msc/toast/theoldlady/joey russ/banana (4) Richard Riordan - solo allit for Perhaps (6) Harry Belafonte - missed low hanging fruit! Slava Zaitsev - solo at Z for JoeMoneypenny (7) Rolf Harris - solo at H for theoldlady (5) Robert Zimmer - very nice solo at Z plus WS bonus for gcreptile (9) Ed Ames - solo at E for GUB (5) Ted Kaczynski - 2 pts each at the K spot for Joey Russ/HDS/banana/theoldlady/msc/Stuart Beck/wannamaker, 1 pt at the T spot for Hell Tony Brown (NBA Ref) - solo at B plus WS for Joey Russ (7) Sheldon Harnick - solo at H for Biblio (5) Lawrence Turman - solo at T for MariNisia (5) . . . . and a bunch of scoring updates reported by MariNisia, who is doing the work of most of y'all (including me): Winnie Ewing - solo E for Cap'n Cho (6) Tim Keller - solo K and WS bonus for Cap'n Cho (7) Otis Taylor - solo T for Cap'n Cho (5) Yoon Jeong-Lee - solo Y for Cap'n Cho (5) Sinisa Mihajlovic - solo at S and WS bonus for Book (6) Mutulu Shakur - at the S plus WS for Funeropolis/gcreptile/joey russ (4) David Oreck - at O solo for Death Impends (6) John Aniston - at A solo for Yorkshire Banker (6) Nora Forster - at F solo for Yorkshire Banker (5) Dick Groat - at G solo for Yorkshire Banker (5) Francoise Gilot - at G solo for wormfarmer (5) Pervez Musharraf - at M for Perhaps (2)/at P for Grimgrass/wannamaker/Hell (1) Lando Buzzanca - solo at B for Cap'n Cho (5) George Alagiah - a whippersnapper listed at A by Banana/Hell/msc/wormfarmer/HDS/gcreptile/Funeropolis/Book/Death Impends (5) Justin Yerbury - a WS at Y for Joey Russ/msc/gcreptile (5) 81 scoring names this year. WEP's list of all alliteratives was only good enough for 24th out of 26. I did like the strategy though. gcreptile got another hit Aug 10 with Hery Dickerson that would have given him the win, but alas, 10 days late. Ahh, but we have to cut off the scoring at some point, don't we? And reverse congrats to Guy From Future for scoring zero over the course of a year! Next year I am adding a bonus for futility. So after ample time for players to check their lists for missed hits, none have been reported, so the game is closed, and yours truly notches his first ever win on the Deathlist site. I don't expect to do as well next year as so many of my best names are gone, but I will give it a go. Check for a new thread up very soon on the 2023-24 pool, which will commence on Sep 1. Thanks for playing! FINAL STANDINGS: 1. Wormfarmer - 56 (+5?) 2. gcreptile - 56 3. Joey Russ - 52 4. Captain Chorizo - 51 5. Death Impends - 50 6. Perhaps - 44 7. Banana - 43 8. msc - 40 9. HDS - 38 10. Book - 38 11. wannamaker - 33 12. theoldlady - 29 13. Baby Blue - 27 14. Great Uncle Bulgaria - 26 15. MariNisia - 26 16. Hell - 23 17. Yvonne - 22 18. Yorkshire Banker - 20 19. bibliogryphon - 19 20. Joe Moneypenny - 18 21. Grimgrass - 17 22. Funeralopolis - 17 23. Toast - 16 24. WEP - 15 25. Stuart Beck - 8 26. GuyFromFuture - 0 A late 10 points puts gcreptile in a high score tie with wormfarmer, but tie breaking procedures specify the team reaching the highest score first secures the win. If a number occurs in parenthesis after your score, that reflects a hit without a QO yet. So far that only applies to wormfarmer . . . .

Barari died on 10 January 2016, at the age of 86, as per this. Literally the first result on Google when you hit in "Hari Anand Barari" "died"....

Banerji died in 2006 as per this journal published by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.

American actor James Lafferty, best known for playing the role of Nathan Scott in hit US teen Drama One Tree Hill in the 2000s, celebrates his 37th birthday today.

Well, my first hit in this pool, I guess. Thank you all! 1922 - Roland Dumas/Juli Lynne Charlot 1923 - William P. Murphy/Ruth Adler Schnee 1924 - Juan Ponce Enrile/Anne Vernon 1925 - Igwe Kenneth Onyeneke Orizu III /Lee Grant 1926 - Emmanuel Kardinal Wamala/Betsy Jolas 1927 - Benedict XVI/Rosalynn Carter 1928 - Martin Cooper/Line Renaud 1929 - Milan Kundera/Yayoi Kusama 1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl/Peggy King 1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev/Eva Queler

Thiounn Mumm died around March according to a post by facebook user Fichenou Lapaix, March 29. Translated from French. In recent days, several Cambodians have paid tributes on Facebook to Thiounn Mumm, one of the Pol Pot regime's "intellectual" bonds, who died in Paris aged 96. These admirers feel veneration for this "great man" from polytechnic, who is one of the four very famous "intellectual" brothers who served the Khmer Rouge regime. He is the third son of the powerful aristocratic family that has been linked to monarchic power since the French protectorate. Indeed, his grandfather, Thiounn, was the palace minister from 1902 to 1941. The Thiounn brothers curiously escaped the Khmer Red Purges while several important cadres were eliminated in S-21. They held important positions, but they did not have the decision-making power. They still remained loyal to Pol Pot for several years after the fall of Khmer Reds in 1979. Can't find any articles or other confirmation, knowing his Khmer name could help.

She is an unique hit for @MariNisia CONGRATULATIONS!!!

A few suggestions: - Sir Michael A. Epstein - Meets the famousness criteria and 102 next year. - Norman Lear - Doubtlessly mentioned before. Needs no introduction. Thread here. - John Astin - Gomez Addams most famously. 93 next year. Thread here. - Alan Oppenheimer - 93 next year. Doubtful whether he meets the notability criteria, but I think that, after William H. Gates, he ought to. - Rosey Grier - RFK's bodyguard, American Football Player, Protestant Minister, occasional Actor, and the bloke that caught Sirhan Sirhan is 91 next year. - James Hong - Still incredibly active, so I do not expect him to go yet, but a rather Deathlisty name. 94 next year. Thread here. - Donald P. Bellisario - A name I am surprised I do not hear much about these 'ere parts. 88 next year. - David Sutherland - One of the creators of the modern Dennis the Menace ought to QO, and is 90 next year. Died 19th January 2023. - Gladys West - One of the early developers of the GPS. 93 next year. Never mentioned before on this forum according to a quick search. - Hazel McCallion - 102 next year. Mentioned on the Ideas and Possibilities for 2022 thread. Ought to meet the famousness criteria. - Bill Cobbs - The third nightguard in the Night at the Museum franchise, the other two being Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney, both DL alumni, is 89 next year. - Frank Drake - Initiator of the SETI programme. 93 next year. Died 2nd September 2022. - Fred Roos - 89 next year. Apparently the man who introduced George Lucas to Harrison Ford. Also produced The Godfather II, which he won an Oscar for. - Lloyd Morrisett - One of the folks that created Sesame Street alongside Jim Henson and Joan Ganz Cooney. 94 next year. Died 15th January 2023. - Joan Ganz Cooney - See Lloyd Morrisett. - John Williams - The most prolific film composer of all time turns 91 next year. Bound to die as I have dropped him from the earliest draft of my Shadowlist. Thread here. - Billy Dee Williams - Seems a tad premature, but, evident these past two years, such folk have a habit of turning up on the main list. - Paul Ignatius - This one's notability in the UK is questionable, but his death ought to be rather well-reported in the USA when it happens. 103 next year. - Ashraf Ghani - Former Afghan President, as most should know following the August of 2021. Enemy of the Taliban, and has not had a whole stomach since the 1990s, as a result of cancer. - Joan Morecambe - Only as questionable as William H. Gates. 96 next year. - Bernard Donoughue - 89 next year and could succumb to chronic awful haircuts. - Bas de Gaay Fortman - 86 next year and looked rather rough in the recent documentary about Queen Beatrix. - Lando Buzzanca - In failing health in a nursing home, according to the Foreign Personalities thread. 88 next year. - Frank Field - Terminal Cancer. Frankly (geddit?) should have been on this year's list, and probably will not see The New Year. That said, few expected him to celebrate his 80th birthday, and that was last month (at the time of this edit into the original post). Thread here. - Terry Waite - One of those people that Summer Sr. thought died years ago. Everyone else on that list, bar Julian Glover, that I am aware of have died in the last two years. Thread here. - Siân Phillips - 90 next year. Still somewhat active, however. - Bela Lugosi - The son of Bela Lugosi. 85 next year. - Alvin Rakoff - The man that gave Sean Connery and Alan Rickman their first jobs is 96 next year and isn't looking that well. - Peter Falk - I hear he might have Alzheimer's. - Jon Rumney - 95 next year, still rather active. - Jules Walter - 94 next year and, as far as I know, the oldest living actor to have appeared in any of the Star Wars films. - Caroline Blakiston - Many Bothans died to bring you this suggestion. - Cy Town - Another one like Jules Walter. Both would almost definitely find a place on the List of the Lost. - Leonard Peltier - Vice Presidential nominee in 2020 for a lesser-known party. Withdrew from the election not because he is serving two life sentences for murder but for health reasons unknown. He has previously been the victim of beatings in prison. - Julian Glover - See Terry Waite. - Alan Kooi Simpson - Has looked ancient for years. I honestly thought he would be dead by now. 92 next year. - Daniel Ellsberg - The man that released the Pentagon Papers is still with us at 91. - Wilhelm Buesing - Another rather unfamous name, with low, but not nonexistent, chances of a QO. 102 next March. - Brian Murphy - 91 next year. The oldest living member of the main cast of Man About the House. Also said the famous line "During the war" when Buster Merryfield was still a banker. Thread here. - Brian Cooke - The surviving of the two creators of Man About the House is 86 next year. - Sir Colville Young - Governor-General of Belize for 27 years until his retirement in 2021. 90 in November. - Story Musgrave - The astronaut is 87 next August. Obitable? Yes. Obitable enough? Maybe. - William Turnbull - The Hong Kong sailor that I discovered after Bill Turnbull died. 90 next year. - Jane Fonda - Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. I think she will be on the list next year regardless of whether her death is imminent or not, she just seems like the kind of pick that the committee will go for as soon as news like this cancer diagnosis breaks, even if she stays on the list for a few years. Thread here. - Peter Cellier - 95 next year. - Melvyn Hayes - 87 next year. - Baroness Jane Campbell - 64 next year. Can't see her making it to 80, maybe 70. She may have a few more years left in her yet, though. - Robert C. Wise - Ancient American politician. 98 next May. - Bob Biard - The inventor of the Infared LED will Obit and is 92 next year. Died 23rd September 2022. Didn't Obit. - Amartya Sen - 90 next year and probably famous enough for the DL. - Richard M. Sherman - 95 next year. Probably the most Deathlisty name that has hardly been mentioned on this forum. - Ales Bialiatski - Byelorussian Nobel Laureate. Currently in prison for his work. Enemies of Putin/Lukashenko have a habit of "mysteriously" dying. - Luis Garavito - One of the most prolific serial killers of all time is eligible for parole in 2023, suffers from eye cancer, and needs blood transfusions regularly. 66 next year. - Norman Kember - A pacifist who went to Iraq to promote peace, and ended up being taken hostage. Born at somepoint in 1931. - Wole Soyinka - The first black recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 89 next year. - Amou Haji - The man dubbed 'dirtiest in the world' is 95 next year. Died 23rd October 2022. - Franco Migliacci - The writer of Volare is 93 next year. - J. Reginald Murphy - A journalist whose main claim to fame is being the victim of a kidnapping some 50 years ago. 90 at some point next year. - Charles Lagus - David Attenborough's cameraman for his original television show Zoo Quest. 95 next year. - Yasushi Akashi - The UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs from 1996 to 1998 is 92 next January. - W. Gifford-Jones - Born plain old Ken Walker in Croydon, he is a physician and author residing in Canada. 99 next February. - Lina Medina - Youngest mother ever, having given birth to a boy aged just 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days. 90 next year. - Masahiro Mori - The creator and coiner of the term "Uncanny Valley" is 96 next year. - Meredith Belbin - A British researcher that, in 1981, created the Belbin Team Inventory (other names include the BSPI and BTRI, which stand for Belbin Self-Perception Inventory and Belbin Team Role Inventory respectively). He is 97 next year. - Per Waestberg - The current oldest serving member of The Swedish Academy. 90 next year. - Marion Kozak - Ed Milliband's mother is 89 next year. - Gloria Dea - One of the last surviving centenarian stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, as well as being the first magician to perform on the Las Vegas Strip, is 101 next year. - Levin H. Campbell - 96 next January. Currently a serving US Court of Appeals Judge, albeit inactive. - Shoichiro Toyoda - Former Chairman of the Toyota group. 98 in February. Died 14th February 2023. This list is still a work in progress. I shall update it when necessary.