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As requested in PM by @gcreptile earlier when we couldn't find it on the forum. DL hits by year of birth 1890 – Rose Kennedy 1893 – Andres Segovia 1894 – Jim Joel 1896 – George Burns, Kitty Godfree 1898 – Ninette de Valois, Hastings Banda (circa) 1899 – Lord Denning 1900 – The Queen Mum 1901 – Princess Alice, Barbara Cartland, Dilys Powell, Marlene Dietrich 1902 – Brooke Astor, Leni Riefenstahl, Strom Thurmond, W Clement Stone, Gene Sarazen 1903 – Bob Hope, Alec Douglas-Home, 1904 – John Gielgud, Deng Xiaoping, Harold Larwood, Salvador Dali 1905 – Charles Lane, Stanley Kunitz, Max Schmeling, Joe Bonanno, Lord Longford, Helen Wills Moody, Greta Garbo 1906 – Albert Hoffman, Billy Wilder, Brother Theodore, Bunny Austin, Lew Grade, Joan Hickson, Catherine Cookson 1907 – Oscar Niemeyer, Sister Lucia, Fay Wray, Katharine Hepburn, Quintin Hogg, EW Swanton, Burgess Meredith 1908 – Claude Levi-Strauss, Simon Wiesenthal, John Mills, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Estee Lauder, Alastair Cooke, Edward Teller, Lionel Hampton, Milton Berle, Don Bradman, Quentin Crisp, Jimmy Stewart, Dan Maskell 1909 – Ernest Gallo, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, Elia Kazan, Hardy Amies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr 1910 – Luise Rainer, Artie Shaw, Mary Whitehouse, William Hanna, Mother Teresa, Jacques Costeau 1911 – Joseph Barbera, Gretchen Franklin, Lord Scarman, Ronald Reagan, Thora Hird, Roy Rogers, Ginger Rogers, Terry-Thomas 1912 – Karl Malden, Lady Bird Johnson, Milton Freidman, Byron Nelson, Jim Callaghan, Sam Snead, Chuck Jones, Kim il-Sung, Erich Honecker, Brian Johnston 1913 – Erich Priebke, Tony Martin, Michael Foot, Mark Felt, Bill Deedes, Gerald Ford, Rosa Parks, Stanley Kramer, Victor Mature, Burt Lancaster, Richard Nixon 1914 – Chapman Pincher, Anna Wing, Richard Widmark, Deryck Guyler, Joe DiMaggio, William Burroughs, Jackie Mann 1915 – Herman Wouk, David Rockefeller, Eli Wallach, Yitzhak Shamir, Harry Morgan, Norman Wisdom, Augusto Pinochet, John Profumo, Red Adair, Denis Thatcher, Stanley Matthews, Don Budge, Frank Sinatra 1916 – Olivia de Havilland, Kirk Douglas, Joao Havelange, Gough Whitlam, Michael Gough, Walter Cronkite, PW Botha, Ted Heath, Gregory Peck, Francois Mitterand 1917 – Vera Lynn, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Denis Healey, Kirk Kerkorian, Herbert Lom, Vincent O’Brien, Arthur C Clarke, Caspar Weinberger, Dean Martin 1918 – Rev Billy Graham, Helmut Schmidt, Peter O’Sullevan, Nelson Mandela, Patty Andrews, Betty Ford, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Ingmar Bergman, Kurt Waldheim, Spike Milligan 1919 – Lord Carrington, Cliff Michelmore, Al Molinaro, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Dino de Laurentiis, JD Salinger, Ludovic Kennedy, Edmund Hillary, Ian Smith, Andreas Papandreou 1920 – George Schultz, Captain Tom Moore, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Richard Adams, Maureen O’Hara, PD James, Mickey Rooney, Clive Dunn, Ray Bradbury, John Demjanjuk, James Doohan, Pope John Paul II, Walter Mathau, Alf Ramsey, Timothy Leary 1921 – Prince Philip, King Michael of Romania, Jake LaMotta, Peter Sallis, Liz Smith, Nancy Reagan, Abe Vigoda, Jesse Helms, Suharto, Rodney Dangerfield, Peter Ustinov, Harry Secombe, Sugar Ray Robinson 1922 – Betty White, Pierre Cardin, Carl Reiner, Doris Day, Stan Lee, Denis Norden, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Patrick Macnee, Christopher Lee, Sid Caesar, Blake Edwards, Francis Pym, Charles Schulz, Telly Savalas 1923 – Bob Dole, Murray Walker, Eric Sykes, Charlton Heston, Aaron Spelling, Al Lewis, Michael Havers 1924 – Daniel Arap Moi, Tony Britton, Robert Mugabe, George HW Bush, Charles Aznavour, Lauren Bacall, William Rehnquist 1925 – Angela Lansbury, Bill Gates Sr, Honor Blackman, Barbara Bush, George Cole, BB King, Margaret Thatcher, Charles Haughey, Idi Amin, Ernie Wise, Pol Pot 1926 – Queen Elizabeth II, Valery Giscard D’Estaing, Hugh Hefner, Jerry Lewis, Fidel Castro, Ian Paisley, George Melly 1927 – June Brown, Sidney Poitier, Jerry Stiller, Sam Simon, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Paul Eddington 1928 – Estelle Harris, Walter Mondale, Hosni Mubarak, Fats Domino, Bruce Forsyth, John Forbes Nash, Cyril Smith, Bo Diddley, James Earl Ray 1929 – Stirling Moss, Bob Hawke, Ronnie Biggs, Audrey Hepburn 1930 – Jean-Luc Godard, Harold Pinter, Mobutu Sese Seko 1931 – Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Booth, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Novak, Les Dawson 1932 – Loretta Lynn, Jacques Chirac, Casey Kasem, Peter O’Toole, Elizabeth Taylor, Ted Kennedy, Johnny Cash, Jeffrey Bernard, Roy Castle 1933 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bobby Robson, Lou Rawls 1934 – John Noakes, Diana Wynne Jones, Sydney Pollack, Bill Bixby 1935 – Michael Winner, Dudley Moore, King Hussein 1936 – John McCain, Glen Campbell, Mary Tyler Moore, Dennis Hopper, Levi Stubbs, Jill Ireland 1937 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, John Edrich, Gordon Banks 1938 – Ian Brady, Etta James, Glyn Worsnip, Rudolf Nureyev 1939 – Clive James, Ginger Baker, Valerie Harper, Liz Dawn 1940 – Jimmy Greaves, Alex Trebek, John McCririck, Richard Pryor 1941 – Reg Presley, Bill Tarmey, Kim jong-il 1942 – Frank Williams, Nobby Stiles, Terry Jones, Stephen Hawking, Muhammad Ali, Tammy Faye Messner, Ian Dury, Derek Jarman, Ray Moore 1943 – Robert Durst, Henry Cecil, Wendy Richard, Arthur Ashe 1944 – Kenny Everett 1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, Chris Woodhead, Dai Llewellyn 1947 – Tessa Jowell, Gerry Rafferty, Warren Zevon 1948 – Susan Atkins, 1949 – Robin Gibb, John Curry 1950 – Genesis P-orridge, Barry Sheene, Simon Cadell 1951 – Rush Limbaugh, Tim Gullikson 1952 – Al Megrahi, Simon MacCorkindale, Patrick Swayze 1953 – Leon Spinks, Johnny Clegg, John Diamond 1954 – Hugo Chavez 1955 – Sam Simon 1956 – Bill Turnbull, Helen Rollason 1957 – Mark E Smith 1960 – Bernie Nolan, Laurent Fignon 1962 – Martin Crowe 1963 – Errol Christie 1964 – Leah Bracknell, Gord Downie 1971 – Joost van der Westhuizen

Considering three people who were on my original hypothetical list have already died, here's Hypothetical DeathList 2023 v2: 1. Rolf Harris (93- Four Little Girls; NEW) 2. June Spencer (104- Peggy Woolley; NEW) 3. Henry Kissinger (100- Diplomat; 2) 4. Glynis Johns (100- Actress; NEW) 5. Bob Barker (100- The Price is Right; 4) 6. Jimmy Carter (99- Ex US President; 9) 7. Leslie Phillips (99 - Comedy Actor; 19) 8. Nigel Starmer-Smith (79- Rugby Commentator; 6) 9. Eva Marie Saint (99- Actress; NEW) 10. Alan Greenspan (97- Economist; 5) 11. Tony Bennett (97- Crooner; 10) 12. Harry Belafonte (96- Singer; 13) 13. Dick Van Dyke (98- Actor; 1) 14. Mel Brooks (97- Comedian / Director; 14) 15. Joanne Woodward (93- Actress; -) 16. Pope Benedict XVI (96- Former Pope; -) 17. Rob Burrow (41- Rugby player; NEW) 18. Stanley Baxter (97- Comedian; 35) 19. David Graham (98- Voice Actor; NEW) 20. Jacques Delors (98- French Politician; 30) 21. Rosalynn Carter (96- Ex-FLOTUS; 20) 22. George Alagiah (68- Newscaster; NEW) 23. David Attenborough (97- Broadcaster and Natural Historian; 17) 24. Gudrun Ure (97- Super Gran; NEW) 25. Barbara Walters (94- Broadcast Journalist; -) 26. Noam Chomsky (95- Intellectual; 37) 27. Sandy Gall (96- TV news reporter; 21) 28. Burt Bacharach (95- Singer songwriter; 34) 29. James Watson (95- Casually racist geneticist; NEW) 30. Cleo Laine (96- Jazz Singer; 27) 31. Pele (83- Footballer; 41) 32. James Whale (72- Broadcaster; 26) 33. Bobby Charlton (86- Footballer; 16) 34. Tom Lehrer (95- Comedic Singer; NEW) 35. Jerry Lee Lewis (88- Rocker; 29) 36. Winnie Ewing (94- Scottish Politician; NEW) 37. James Earl Jones (92- Vader's Voice; NEW) 38. Bob Newhart (94- Comedian; -) 39. Shannen Doherty (52- 90210 Actor; -) 40. Milan Kundera (94- Author; 46) 41. Linda Nolan (64- Nolan Sister; -) 42. Norman Tebbit (92- Politician; 39) 43. Thelma Barlow (94- Corrie's Mavis Wilton; NEW) 44. Ted Kaczynski (81- Unabomber; 23) 45. Ted Turner (85- CNN Founder/Captain Planet; NEW) 46. Buzz Aldrin (93- Moonwalker; NEW) 47. Nigel Lawson (91- UK Politician; -) 48. Rex Williams (90- Snooker player; -) 49. Yoko Ono (90- Mrs Lennon; -) 50. Vladimir Putin (71- Khuylo; NEW) If 2022 holdover dies- Jean-Marie Le Pen joins If potential debuter dies- either Constantine II of Greece, Doddie Weir, or William Russell joins

Terry Gibbs, the ancient jazz vibraphonist is 98 today. I checked his name around and did not expect to find an active facebook account!

Rob Burrow not looking that great, might see 2023 but not much beyond that https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/63235539 Also Marcus Stewart was diagnosed with MND last month

Steve Roberts, sometime drummer with UK Subs who did some singles and albums, reported dead by the band:

Sacha Baron Cohen is 51.

Thanks a lot! Looks like 1930 could use a whole lot more representation.

President of the Mexican Hunting Federation, Mario Alberto Canales Najjar, was killed by a buffalo after he shot it. Karma. Except the buffalo still ended up dead as well.

Rugby League legend.

Another U-Turn imminent, this time on corporation tax. It’ll find £18bn of her £61bn black hole, but will also piss off royally most of the people who put her where she is, and arguably won’t do much for her push for growthgrowthgrowth.

Could be one for the main list...

Hurd it through the grapevine that Douglas is next to go.

A lot of Hitchcock blondes must be on their way to making their DL debuts: especially Eva Marie Saint, but also Vera Miles, Kim Novak, Tippi Hedren and Julie Andrews (she was a blonde in Torn Curtain). The last two not so urgent, but the first two must be getting near close consideration. 97-year-old Brigitte Auber from To Catch a Thief is also still with us, but unfortunately would not pass the famousness test.

Hospice as the chemo doesn't work: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/bbc-radio-presenter-gordon-sparks-7696270

Derek Draper hospitalised again, this time with sepsis. Yaaaaawn.

Henry Witherspoon, the father of comedian Kevin Hart, has died. https://www.instagram.com/p/CjomRvypqCE/?igshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY%3D

She's used that one a lot in the last few years.

The 92-year-old can reportedly no longer eat or talk due to his condition. His neighbour explained: "Only carers and nurses, who care for him 24 hours, come and go." Any medic on the forum? does this mean he might now have a peg in place for fluids, feed and flushing?

Susie Dent: the political commentator we don't deserve.

Does it really matter if 2 people pick the same date?

Dick Cheney: The Hunting Song (2006)

The younger brother of former EastEnders star actress and singer Martine McCutcheon has died suddenly aged 31. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11302807/Martine-McCutcheons-brother-dies-aged-31.html