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Big miss by the committee. Sorry, force of habit.

William Reynolds dead at 90. Had a number of film and TV roles in the 50s and 60s. Probably best remembered for starring on The F.B.I. and his lead role in the Twilight Zone episode "The Purple Testament".

He's not dead. It's just a "special departing operation".

For those of you not around at the time, probably THE most pivotal figure of that era in the progress of humanity towards a better world. He certainly stopped pop stars predicting nuclear wipeout which they had been doing for some years, although his contribution to the rise of David Hasselhoff as a singer should not be forgotten as a remaining stain on life on Earth. In all seriousness, his policies were for better rather than worse, though short term suffering of the people couldn't be tolerated and in came the inebriated Yeltsin. Just like de Klerk, a convert to legacy, although whether he really wanted Putin's return to a glorious Soviet era Russia might latterly cloud that.

A DeathList classic

RIP to the guy from Epic Rap Battles of History

Leaderboard after 35 hits MariNisa - 7 Grimgrass - 4 Arghton - 4 Yvonne - 3 Bibliogryphon - 3 Hell - 3 Chilean Way - 3 Summer in Transylvania - 3 Doorslammer - 2 Death Impends - 1 Lady Fiona - 1 WEP - 1

No I didn’t fucking forget. Gorby, one of the less punty of the punts, has plonked Buffalo and Spade onto the scoreboard, and Banana into the joint lead with En Passant and Sir Jonathan Van-Twat. The Scoreboard So Exhilarating I Could Cum: Engineer - 2 En Passant - 2 Banana - 2 gcreptile - 1 Death Impends - 1 RoverAndOut - 1 Charles d’Irlande - 1 Newjack - 1 Joemoneypenny - 1 Grim Up North - 1 BuffaloPhil - 1 Spade Cooley - 1 Every other fucker - 0

Had Mr Gorbachev very low down on my selection. Will he tear down my chances of a high finish?

Okay I think that's now a three-body pile-up since I was last here? Sorry, had a busy August and so did death. Will update soon!

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32)  1990: Queen Elizabeth II, Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (5/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (4/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50)  2002: (0/50) 2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: Angela Lansbury (1/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (3/50)  2015: Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (3/50)  2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (7/50)  2017: Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Queen Elizabeth ll, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Emperor Akihito (7/50)  2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (14/50)  2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (14/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (21/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Loretta Lynn, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, David Crosby, Prunella Scales, Tony Bennett, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Queen Elizabeth II, Harry Belafonte, Bob Newhart, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Betty Boothroyd, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (35/50) Updated for Mikhail Gorbachev.

Rest in Peace Gorby. Politician, Nobel Laureate, and, above all, Pizza Hut advert star.

Oddly poetic to see the last person to rule over Russia AND Ukraine die at the same time the relationship between the 2 nations couldn't be worse. To think at the end of the cold war the world was full of visions of a peaceful world free from dictatorships and threats of war - how young and stupid a thought.

Nothing for Gorby? I hope you will start a new thread for the next game, and also ask for teams to be PM'd rather than posted openly before the start date. It's better that way as nobody can be influenced by seeing other people's picks.

Front page should've gone with "Gorbachev leaves huge mark on 2022 Deathlist".

I hadnt picked neither Olivia, nor Weiskopf, nor Gorbachev, update pleeease!

Gorbachev really felt like this years Chirac. Dropped seemingly arrogantly but then brought back right in time for his demise

Dead https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1564710548842889216?s=20&t=G6sUTJHPoRWTcTubalM8Ow

Actress and model Charlbi Dean, who is perhaps most famous for her role as Syonide on the CW comic book series Black Lighning, died at 32 years: https://www.tmz.com/2022/08/30/south-african-actress-charlbi-dean-dead-dies/ As a model, she has done shoots for Elle, Glamour, Cosmopolitan and more. She made her film acting debut in the comedy Spud in 2010.

Doesn't pass current fame criteria, mind, and so won't be added to the LotM page.

Pavel Nedvěd, retired Czech footballer who played as a midfielder, one of the best of the 1990s, famed for his successful career with teams such as Sparta Prague, Lazio and Juventus, is 50 today. Timothy Bottoms, American film, stage and television actor known for his performances in films such as "Johnny Got His Gun", "The Last Picture Show", "The Paper Chase" and "Rollercoaster", is 71 today. His brothers, Joseph, Sam and Ben are all actors. Sam Bottoms died of glioblastoma multiforme, a virulent brain cancer, in 2008.

American actor Lee Marvin died 35 years ago today, from a heart attack amidst other medical conditions, aged 63.

"Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri was a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004." Something strange must be happening in the Finnish film industry for a role to be played 20 times. Vesa-Matti Loiri arghton 1+1 Book 16/50 John Key 11/50 theoldlady 12/50 gcreptile 11/50 wannamaker 11/50 MariNisia 10/50 The Daredevil 9/50 TQR 9/50 Salmon Mousse 10/50 Annami 9/50 jonnythegamemaster 8/50 Hell 7/50 _floydylan_ 7/50 Nick 6/50 markb4 6/50  Bibliogryphon 6/50 six feet blunder 5/50 Pop_Zeus 5/50 Death Duke 5/50 Main Deathlist 4/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 4/50 The Old Crem 3/50 Gooseberry Crumble 3/50 earl 3/50 Miranda lass 3/50 Doulton 3/50 Redrumours 2/50 arghton 2/50 dimreaper 1/50 Dying Probably 1/50 DieHardGiantsFan 0/50

Did some digging as this shocked me. I didn't realize how relatively recent Picasso's era was! Not only does he have multiple children alive, but also an ex-partner who is now 100 years old! (Wiki) Françoise Gilot for those interested.

Actress Lydia Clarke dead at 95 years, she was the wife of Charlton Heston: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lydia-clarke-heston-dead-actress-wife-charlton-heston-was-95-1140095