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From yesterday, Mike Farrell (83) & Alan Alda (86) toasting the 50th anniversary of M*A*S*H.

A reminder that if you haven't entered a team and wish to do so then you have just over 13 hours left to submit a team. Thanks to all who have entered so far.

I meant ill enough for the death list next year.Having a thread is fine as he is famous and seriously ill.

I was bored so I made a list with the nationality of every DL pick, some were hard to decide since they hade multiple nationalities, so I went with the one I thought fit the best, I probably made some mistakes because I'm really tired so please inform me of any mistakes so I can edit them. Also I'm using the names of current countries, so for example Gorbachev was born in Russia and not in the Soviet Union. UK (255)- Clive Dunn, John Arlott, Kenneth Connor, Stewart Granger, Queen Mother, Harold Larwood, Fred Davis, Johnny Morris, Les Dawson, Barbara Cartland, Bob Hope, Beryl Reid, John Gielgud, Lord (Harold) Wilson, Jimmy Saville, Anna Wing, Dan Maskell, Fred Perry, Laurence Olivier, Alec Guiness, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Wright, Ray Moore, George Melly, Lew Grade, Magnus Pyke, Frank Bruno, Bobby Robson, Stanley Unwin, Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Paisley, Kenneth Kendall, Cyril Smith, David Jenkins, George Cole, Jon Pertwee, William Hartnell, Peter Cushing, Marti Caine, Jim Joel, Derek Jarman, John Mills, Terry Thomas, Queen Elizabeth II, Peter Ustinov, Peter Alliss, Jill Ireland, Ronnie Baker, Rex Williams, Mary Whitehouse, Lord Denning, Terry Waite, Norman Willis, Brian Clough, Patrick Moore, Denis Compton, Leighton Rees, Bernard Manning, Bob Paisley, Alistair Cooke, Sir Michael Havers, Lord Hailsham, Arthur Mullard, Joan Sims, Willie Whitelaw, Stanley Matthews, John Smith, Len Murray, Glyn Worsnip, Peter West, Kitty Godfree, Dilys Powell, Joe Fagan, Arthur Marshall, Jack Hargreaves, Bert Millichip, Lord Goodman, Robert Dougall, Tom Finney, Shaun Ryder, Doris Speed, Audrey Hepburn, Roy Castle, Ray Kennedy, Frank Muir, George Lineker, George Chisholm, Eric Sykes, Michael Foot, Gretchen Franklin, Alf Ramsey, Quentin Crisp, James Callaghan, Simon Cadell, John Curry, Jackie Mann, Kenny Everett, Catherine Cookson, Denis Thatcher, Anne Kirkbride, Brian Johnston, Holly Johnson, Jeremy Thorpe, Alec Douglas-Home, Jeffrey Bernard, Peter Shilton, Geoffrey Dickens, Fred Pontin, Stan Flashman, Paul Eddington, Arthur C. Clarke, Princess Alice, Bruce Forsyth, Sean Connery, Muriel Spark, Julian Critchley, E.W. Swanton, Baroness Castle, Lord Longford, Wilf Mannion, Bill Deedes, Norman Wisdom, Edward Heath, Thora Hird, Bunny Austin, Joan Hickson, Hardy Amies, Deryck Guyler, Nick Leeson, Ian Dury, Lord Scarman, Helen Rollason, Ernie Wise, John Diamond, Dudley Moore, Ronnie Biggs, John Paul Getty Jr, Princess Margaret, Harry Secombe, Mary Wesley, Jack Jones, Chapman Pincher, Ian Brady, Alex Higgins, Barry Sheene, Cliff Michelmore, Elizabeth Taylor, Claire Rayner, Olivia de Havilland, Peter O'Sullevan, Harold Pinter, John Profumo, Vera Lynn, Margaret Thatcher, Russell Watson, Francis Pym, Wendy Richard, Ludovic Kennedy, Christopher Lee, Dai Llewellyn, Denis Healey, Simon MacCorkindale, John Edrich, Frank Bough, Frank Thornton, Denis Norden, Richard Attenborough, Angela Lansbury, Gerry Rafferty, Geoffrey Hughes, Bob Godfrey, Diana Wynne Jones, Bill Tarmey, Michael Gough, Robin Gibb, Nigel Lawson, P.D. James, Patrick Macnee, Stephen Hawking, Prince Philip, Henry Cecil, Reg Presley, Michael Winner, Richard Adams, Peter Sallis, Nicholas Parsons, Peter O'Toole, Wilko Johnson, Chris Woodhead, Terry Pratchett, Lord Carrington, Shaw Taylor, Leslie Phillips, Liz Smith, Eddie Large, Bill Maynard, Prunella Scales, Doug Ellis, Sandy Gall, Lester Piggott, Murray Walker, Jimmy Greaves, Gordon Banks, Paul Gascoigne, John Noakes, Tony Booth, Leah Bracknell, Nobby Stiles, Jill Gascoine, Honor Blackman, Ian St John, David Prowse, Liz Dawn, Errol Christie, Stirling Moss, Tessa Jowell, Stanley Baxter, June Brown, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Mark E. Smith, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Tony Britton, John McCririck, Ginger Baker, Genesis P-Orridge, Tom Smith, Terry Jones, David Attenborough, Peter Sutcliffe, Betty Boothroyd, Frank Williams, Bernard Cribbins, Captain Tom Moore, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Sir Bobby Charlton, Desmond Morris, James Whale, Bill Turnbull, Denis Law, Bill Treacher, Norman Tebbit, Douglas Hurd, Marianne Faithfull, Joss Ackland, Pete Murray, Dennis Skinner, Michael Parkinson, Andy Taylor, Glynis Johns, Patricia Routledge, Derek Draper, Julie Walters, Esther Rantzen, Tom Baker USA (219)- Jimmy Stewart, Yehudi Menuhin, Ronald Reagan, Bette Davis, Mike Ditka, Brian Wilson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Katharine Hepburn, George Burns, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Nixon, Frank Sinatra, Don Ameche, Burt Lancaster, Red Adair, Walter Cronkite, Perry Como, Tony Bennett, Tony Curtis, Bill Bixby, John Lee Hooker, Arthur Ashe, Rose Kennedy, Dean Martin, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Lee Lewis, William Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Gene Sarazen, Red Auerbach, Edmund White, Victor Mature, Helen Wills Moody, Telly Savalas, Richard Pryor, Ginger Rogers, Joe DiMaggio, Timothy Leary, Larry Hagman, Tim Gullikson, Mr. T, Fats Domino, Marlon Brando, James Earl Ray, Mickey Rooney, Burgess Meredith, Gregory Peck, Gerald Ford, Kirk Douglas, Roy Rogers, Sam Snead, Arthur Miller, Evel Knievel, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Milton Friedman, Frankie Laine, Carly Simon, Johnny Cash, Louis Farrakhan, Charles Schulz, Walter Matthau, Don Budge, Karl Malden, Artie Shaw, Estée Lauder, William Hanna, Elia Kazan, Ernest Gallo, Milton Berle, Liza Minnelli, Byron Nelson, Stanley Kramer, Eli Wallach, Herman Wouk, Chuck Jones, Joseph Barbera, W. Clement Stone, Lionel Hampton, Benny Carter, Buddy Ebsen, Warren Zevon, Strom Thurmond, Harry Morgan, Jack Palance, Johnny Carson, Rodney Dangerfield, Brooke Astor, William Rehnquist, Al Lewis, Rosa Parks, Jake LaMotta, Tony Martin, Jane Wyman, Les Paul, Betty Ford, Jerry Lewis, Lou Rawls, Charles Lane, Stanley Kunitz, Lady Bird Johnson, Caspar Weinberger, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, J.D. Salinger, Charlton Heston, Aaron Spelling, Ruby Muhammad, Ernest Borgnine, Tim Johnson, Mark Felt, Tammy Faye Messner, Oral Roberts, John Forsythe, Al Molinaro, Abe Vigoda, Gore Vidal, Jack Kevorkian, Sydney Pollack, Richard Widmark, Elizabeth Edwards, Jesse Helms, Blake Edwards, Jack Klugman, Bo Diddley, Levi Stubbs, Captain Beefheart, Patrick Swayze, Susan Atkins, George Steinbrenner, Edward Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, B.B. King, Robert Novak, Peter Tork, Ray Bradbury, Dennis Hopper, James Garner, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Harlan Ellison, Patty Andrews, Michael Douglas, Fergie Frederiksen, Etta James, Harper Lee, Dick van Dyke, Chuck Berry, George Bush Senior, Doris Day, Stan Lee, Pete Seeger, Elaine Stritch, Sam Simon, Valerie Harper, Sid Caesar, Lauren Bacall, Casey Kasem, Ed Asner, Ken Kercheval, Leonard Nimoy, John Nash, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Kirk Kerkorian, Mary Tyler Moore, Jimmy Carter, Robert M. Pirsig, Glen Campbell, Betty White, Bob Barker, Hugh Hefner, David Rockefeller, John McCain, Barbara Bush, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Jerry Stiller, Alan Greenspan, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Loretta Lynn, Little Richard, Larry King, Tina Turner, Leon Spinks, Willie Nelson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Carl Reiner, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, William H. Gates, George Shultz, Rush Limbaugh, Rosalynn Carter, Bob Newhart, Walter Mondale, Burt Bacharach, Shannen Doherty, Ted Kaczynski, Estelle Harris, Robert Durst, Noam Chomsky, Linda Ronstadt, Robert Wagner, Ethel Kennedy, Alan Alda, Norman Lear, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Sonny Rollins, Hal Linden, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Tom Brokaw, Roberta Flack, Ted Turner, Buzz Aldrin, Sly Stone France (14)- Jacques Cousteau, Stéphane Grappelli, Charles Aznavour, François Mitterrand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Cardin, Laurent Fignon, Jacques Chirac, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Jacques Delors, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Jean-Luc Godard, Brigitte Bardot. Germany (13)- Marlene Deitrich, Henry Kissinger, Charles Bukowski, Erich Honecker, Max Schmeling, Leni Riefenstahl, Brother Theodore, Erich Priebke, Helmut Schmidt, Luise Rainer, Helmut Kohl, Pope Benedict XVI, Franz Beckenbauer Ireland (12)- Wilfried Brambell, Red Rum, Vicent O'Brien, Spike Milligan, Ninette de Valois, Charles Haughey, Bernadette Nolan, Maureen O'Haara, Gay Byrne, Linda Nolan, Shane MacGowan, Michael Gambon. Canada (9)- Fay Wray, John Kenneth Galbraith, James Doohan, Rowdy Roddy Piper, James Randi, Tommy Chong, Gord Downie, Joni Mitchell, Alex Trebek. South Africa (6)- Nelson Mandela, P.W. Botha, Desmond Tutu, Basil D'Oliveria, Joost van der Westhuizen, Johnny Clegg. Australia (6)- Don Bradman, Anne Haddy, Clive James, Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, Rolf Harris. Russia (5)- Boris Yeltsin, Rudolph Nureyev, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Mikhail Gorbachev. Argentina (4)- Diego Maradona, Alfredo di Stéfano, Pope Francis, Daniel Barenboim. Austria (4)- Kurt Waldheim, Billy Wilder, Simon Wiesenthal, Josef Fritzl Italy (4)- Andrea De Cesaris, Joseph Bonanno, Dino de Laurentiis, Silvio Berlusconi. Brazil (3)- Oscar Niemeyer, João Havelange, Pelé. Czechia (3)- Václav Havel, Herbert Lom, Milan Kundera. Egypt (3)- Hosni Mubarak, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Mohamed Al-Fayed. Hungary (3)- Edward Teller, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joe Bugner. Japan (3)- Emperor Akihito, Yoko Ono, Ryuichi Sakamoto. Spain (3)- Salvador Dalí, Andrés Segovia, Seve Ballesteros. Sweden (3)- Greta Garbo, Ingmar Bergman, Hans Blix. Cuba (2)- Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro. India (2)- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Ravi Shankar. Iran (2)- Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iraq (2)- Saddam Hussein, Tariq Aziz. Israel (2)- Yitzhak Shamir, Ariel Sharon. Libya (2)- Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. Netherlands (2)- Leo Beenhakker, Queen Juliana. New Zealand (2)- Edmund Hillary, Martin Crowe. North Korea (2)- Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-Il. Phillipines (2)- Corazon Aquino, Imelda Marcos. Poland (2)- Pope John Paul II, Wojciech Jaruzelski. Saudi Arabia (2)- King Fahd, Osama bin Laden. Zimbabwe (2)- Robert Mugabe, Ian Smith. Afghanistan (1)- Hamid Karzai. Albania (1)- Mother Teresa. Algeria (1)- Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Cambodia (1)- Pol Pot. Chile (1)- Augusto Pinochet. China (1)- Deng Xiaoping. Denmark (1)- Victor Borge. D.R. Congo (1)- Mobutu Sese Seko. Greece (1)- Andreas Papandreou. Indonesia (1)- Suharto. Jordan (1)- King Hussein. Kenya (1)- Daniel arap Moi. Liberia (1)- Charles Taylor. Malawi (1)- Dr. Hastings Banda. Malta (1)- Dom Mintoff. Mexico (1)- Anthony Quinn. Monaco (1)- Prince Rainier. Norway (1)- Thor Heyerdahl. Pakistan (1)- Pervez Musharraf. Palestine (1)- Yasser Arafat. Panama (1)- Manuel Noriega. Peru (1)- Javier Pérez de Cuellar. Portugal (1)- Sister Lucia. Romania (1)- King Michael of Romania. Slovakia (1)- Alexander Dubček Switzerland (1)- Albert Hofmann. Thailand (1)- Bhumibol Adulyadej. Tonga (1)- King Taufa'ahau Tupou. Uganda (1)- Idi Amin. Ukraine (1)- John Demjanjuk. Venezuela (1)- Hugo Chávez.

I see the plunging pound is bowing its head out of respect

Kjell Espmark, Swedish writer, literary historian, professor and the oldest incumbent member of the Swedish Academy at the time of his death, dead at 92. The Swedish Academy is best known for being the body that chooses who gets the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy has 18 seats, Espmark had held Seat No. 16 from 1981, when Elias Wessén (1889-1981) died. He had announced that he would not participate in the work of the Academy in 2018 due to a MeToo scandal but returned in January 2019. The oldest member of the Academy is now Per Wästberg, born in 1933.

I'll be there when I'm good and ready. Thank you very much.

Still looking dapper in recent photos. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11214801/Michael-Caine-89-cuts-sharp-figure-navy-blazer-wife-Shakira-75-Harrys-bar.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11217751/Michael-Caine-89-reunites-former-star-dear-friend-Vin-Diesel-55-London.html Maybe one to include on the 2024 DL but not the 2023 DL.

Gailard Sartain, American supporting actor, often playing characters with roots in the South, known for his work in films, including "Blaze", "Trouble in Mind", "Mississippi Burning" (as a racist sheriff), "Fried Green Tomatoes" and "Ali", is 76 today. Gailard Sartain is also an accomplished illustrator and painter. Frankie Avalon, American actor and singer of Italian descent who was a teen idol and made a series of beach films with Annette Funicello such as "Beach Blanket Bingo", "Beach Party", "Bikini Beach" and "Muscle Beach Party", is 82 today. In 1978, he made an appearance in the musical film "Grease". Frankie Avalon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

There are a few examples of the Oxford comma’s effect going around:

Not quite, but Cnut seems to be the preferred spelling of Canute nowadays. Asking for trouble though if you ask me, I've already seen the inevitable typo in one history magazine.

I'm enjoying reading the archived obits. The Ruby Muhammad one is a classic. Now I need to find out what the hell a bean pie is. I'm very rarely around this site, and I'm absolute shit at the game, but I sure do enjoy it. My co-workers think I'm unbelievably morbid participating in and tracking the Deadpool, but honestly, Death comes for us all in the end. Why not have some fun with it along the way?

Liam Holden dead at only 68.

But who would ........... you know where I'm going with this.

No I thought something was up with her shoe.

I thought I heard someone say that the Queen had left her horses to Camilla. I was hoping that Zara would get the racehorses, as she would be a good person to take the Queen's place as a patron of racing. She's usually to be seen at Cheltenham, although that was more the Queen Mother's thing.

Charles Martinet is 67.

Sounds similar to my 7 year old nephew last week on Friday the day after Queen died his Mother asked him “Did you do anything to remember the Queen?” My Nephew said “Yes we lit a candle and had to share our favourite memory of the Queen but I didn’t do it” his Mother asked “Why?” My Nephew said “ Because I didn’t have any Memories of her, I never saw her it was Silly.” Made me laugh. Also the other day he went to his Grandparents house and his Grandma had news on and naturally it was about the Queen and he groaned “This is boring when is the Tv getting back to normal?” His Grandma said “It’s for the Queen and it’s History and don’t you think it’s Sad the Queen has died?” and my Nephew Said “Yes it’s sad but it’s gone on too Long Now” My family tried too, must admit though I had to agree with him over the Tv coverage if I’d of said it I would of got a mouthful about disrespecting the Queen and being against the Monarchy but he gets away with it bless him.

…where was the anger? You take this mildly amused bewilderment as anger, when the post above is once again a spit of venom towards Meghan Markle who has fuck all to do with what we were talking about?

S Club 7 member Jo O'Meara hospitalised for "unbearable (Bring it all) back pain": https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/14/s-club-7s-jo-omeara-shares-update-after-being-hospitalised-for-back-surgery-17371067/ I guess she stopped moving, but is still Alive and didn't have to Say Goodbye.

Odd to think that (roughly) about 37 of his predecessors since 1066 were dead by the time he's come to the throne.

As some have said, it’s still odd to read ‘King Charles III’. Maybe the subheading of this thread should be ‘The artist formerly known as Prince’?

The wonderful Ingrid Bergman, my favourite actress, died after a long battle with cancer on her 67th birthday. But... "We'll always have Paris".