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Greetings and welcome! I'll try and do my best on this one: UK *there are no living members of the Royal Family who served following the deaths of Prince Philip in 2021 and Queen Elizabeth II in 2022. *there are no living former Cabinet ministers who served. *there is 1 living former MP who served – Sir Patrick Duffy (b. 1920) and Ben Ford (b. 1925). *there is still 1 current member of the House of Lords who served – Lord Christopher (b. 1925); and there are 2 living formers members of the Lords who served – 21st Baron Saye and Sele (b. 1920), 11th Earl of Elgin (b. 1924), 9th Baron Walsingham (b. 1925), 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (b. 1926) and 13th Earl of Airlie (b. 1926) *there are no living former MEPs who served. USA *there is 1 living former President who served – Jimmy Carter (b. 1924). *there are no living former Vice Presidents who served following the death of George H. W. Bush in 2018. *there is 1 living former Cabinet members who served – Henry Kissinger (b. 1923) and Ray Marshall (b. 1928). *there are 4 living former members of the House of Representatives who served – Al Quie (b. 1923), Frank Joseph Guarini (b. 1924), G. William Whitehurst (b. 1925), Lucien Nedzi (b. 1925), Benjamin B. Blackburn (b. 1927), Austin Murphy (b. 1927) and James W. Symington (b. 1927). *there is 1 living former Senator who served – James Buckley (b. 1923) and Daniel Evans (b. 1925). *there are 3 living former Governors who served – Al Quie (b. 1923), Jimmy Carter (b. 1924), Ted Schwinden (b. 1925), Daniel Evans (b. 1925), George Ariyoshi (b. 1926), George Nigh (b. 1927) and Winfield Dunn (b. 1927). *there are no living former justices of the Supreme Court who served following the death of John Paul Stevens in 2019.

Never heard of him.

Diego 14 Lady Fiona 12 Gcreptile 8 HDS 8 Marinisia 6 Redrumours 4 Great Uncle Bulgaria 4 MSC 4 Paul Bearer 4 Hell 4 Biblio 3  En Passant (sorry, bloody autocorrect caught me out) 3 Wannamaker 2 @Lady_Fiona picks up another bonus point as the bonus game finished 2-0 to Hashtag ladies.

It's just after 5 am on Thanksgiving Day, a splendid American holiday. We take a moment to be thankful for all our blessings. I am thankful that my wife, children and grandchildren are with me and healthy. I am also thankful that I am still working in this difficult economic period. I am always thankful to live as a free man in a country where millions of us recently turned out to vote and I can mostly do what I please. How about my DL friends?

Didn't know whether this warranted a thread or whether it should be tapped on to the Katrina thread? Anyway, After his outburst on NBC could he now be a target for assassination? BBC Article: Rap Star Attacks Bush At Benefit White supremacists like GWB don't like uppity black fellas and this could surely put West on the receiving end of an NSA drive by?

Yep, it's your all-purpose themaninblack-baiting thread to discuss potential cadavers that popped up in The Sopranos, The West Wing, The Wire, Mad Men, Oz, Deadwood, The Shield, Breaking Bad (if you're a pleb who thinks that's an intelligent show) et al. If Ginny Sack carking it gets a Daily Mail obituary, we can probably assume anyone who had a named role on these shows is DDP eligible. Dominic Chianese paying tribute to James Gandolfini is one of those things that just looks weird, like when you saw the Queen Mum at Princess Di's funeral.

It’s that time of year again where we suggest folk like the greatest truck driver from South Dakota and company only for the committee to completely ignore our suggestions. So who do you think should make the list? Honestly I think Sonny Rollins wouldn’t be a bad pick for the list, one of the last surviving jazz greats from that era…

Not sure if ever mentioned on these forums before, I assume this is the right thread? Japanese footballer/journalist Hiroshi Kagawa will be 98 next month. Probably most known for getting the FIFA Presidential Award from Sepp Blatter in January 2015 (last person to get that) and he already didn't look that great back then. This article from August seems to say that his health condition is quite bad. (Japan also has another similar but a bit younger and less known football personality Kazuo Nakajo (ja wiki) 96-year-old Hiroshima footballer later football journalist who covered the FIFA world cup eight times. Survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb 1.8 kilometres from the hypocenter)

Giving lesser-known actors their dues has long been one of the forum's strong points so I'm a little confused by the argument. It's not even like they were being suggested for DL since this is the general deadpooling ideas thread.

Cellier and Jeavons fit into the Doreen Mantle/Super Gran/John Woodvine/John Savident list of recognisable TV faces I could see the Cmme picking at some point but don't expect it. "Oh that guy" type "I know the face" picks. Bless Oscar Quitak, who is 96 now, but he really isn't! Michael Craig's main fame pre-dates the birth of the Cmme, and most of the rest of us best know him for a role in 4 camp episodes of Dr Who!

Yep, according to Peplum fans he died in 2005!

Keep 1. Henry Kissinger 2. Bob Barker 3. Jimmy Carter 4. Nigel Starmer-Smith 5. Alan Greenspan 6. Dick Van Dyke 7. Tony Bennett 8. Harry Belafonte 9. Mel Brooks 10. Jacques Delors 11. Cleo Laine 12. David Attenborough 13. Rosalynn Carter 14. Jean-Marie Le Pen 15. Pele 16. Stanley Baxter 17. Noam Chomsky 18. Sandy Gall 19. Bobby Charlton 20. James Whale 21. Norman Tebbit 22. Milan Kundera 23. Burt Bacharach 24. Ted Kaczynski 25. Douglas Hurd Return 26. Pope Benedict XVI 27. Joanne Woodward 28. Barbara Walters 29. Bob Newhart 30. Linda Nolan 31. Shannen Doherty 32. Nigel Lawson 33. Yoko Ono 34. Rex Williams Debut 35. Rolf Harris 36. June Spencer 37. Glynis Johns 38. Eva Marie Saint 39. William Russell 40. David Graham 41. Roberta Flack 42. Gudrun Ure 43. Jonnie Irwin 44. Robert Wagner 45. Winnie Ewing 46. Dennis Skinner 47. Tom Lehrer 48. James Earl Jones 49. Kenneth Cope 50. Vladimir Putin (this was mostly copied from my most recent hypothetical list- I replaced some debut names)

That, and a bunch of Cardinal appointments come up next year, and Francis wants his own men in place, not some from the John Paul/Benedict school.

German actor Thomas Fritsch, known for "Der Bergdoktor" or "Rosenheim-Cops", died at 77 years: https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/schauspieler-thomas-fritsch-77-ist-tot-76144066.bild.html

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That is sad. She is my age.

Bill Backer, the advertising executive who created the "I'd Like To Teach the World to Sing" campaign before Don Draper, dead at 89.

The oldest celebs in my database are Zoltan Sarosy (chess player) and Zhou Youguang (father of Pinyin), both born 1906. Other exciting centenarians include Bobbie Heine Miller (Wimbledon quarterfinalist in 1929), Tyrus Wong (one of the Bambi animators), Robert McCain (John's mum), and Jeremy Hutchison. And there's the legendary Clare Hollingworth, of course.

Democracy Now! reporting that Grace Lee Boggs is intersectionally interred. That means "dead" for those of you reading at a year 7 level.

His condition worsens, mutliple organ failure: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6356d782-0618-11e5-89c1-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3bcLz6KWe

Died back on Feb 4, Joseph Langdell, last surviving member of the USS Arizona that lost 1,177 men on the Pearl Harbor attack. Massive RIP, your crew members are waiting for you. SC http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/goodbye-uss-arizonas-oldest-living-crew-member-joseph-langdell.html

Even if this news is incorrect, he is still worthy of a thread, because:1. He has a long history of deaths in the family; word on the street is, most of his ancestors died themselves.2. All men are mortal. Vladimir Putin is a man. The cancer of the spinal cord conspiracy theory might be reignited as a back specialist doctor was reported to be treating the Russian president. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-russian-leader-getting-5341551 Alternatively, a stroke, a coup and a bastard child from ex-gymanst Alina Kabaeva might also explain his absence according to the prestigious British journal Daily Mirror… (but the story about the specialist physician was also reported elsewhere).

A while back I was complaining about how Godfrey Rampling never got any credit for being both the oldest British Olympian and very likely* the oldest gold medal-winning athlete and there was some doubt expressed as to whether or not he was alive. Well, to the best of my knowledge, The Independent finally got it right (only under the assumption, of course, that "last surviving gold medallist from the 1936 Games" means "from Britain") and included a very high quality photo to boot, just before he turns 100 on the 14th of May. He looks pretty good given his age, but I heard that he's fairly unwell, which is why I was surprised to see this. *Incidentally, if you care about trivia, the only older gold medallist who I cannot confirm as being either alive or dead is German rower Joachim Spremberg. If he were deceased, then Rampling would be the oldest.

I'm sorry if this is boring to most DLers, but I'd like to point out that Twombly has an exhibition at Tate Modern and that I consider him one of the premier C20th artists. Of course, he won't get Rolf-like column inches and he may not die for years, but the Deathlist is a broad church, I'd hope. (Hmmm, I'd had a few drinks when I wrote that. I do rate his work, but maybe 'one of the premier C20th artists' is a bit OTT)