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Sal Buscema, the exceptional and legendary American comic book artist, primarily for Marvel Comics, one of the greatest and most prolific talents of all time, probably remembered for his ten-year run as a remarkable artist of "The Incredible Hulk", is 87 today. Oscar Ruggeri, the excellent Argentine former professional footballer, nicknamed "El Cabezón" ("The Big-Headed One"), a very successful defender, who started his phenomenal career in Boca Juniors, and won the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, is 61 today.

Indian-born British property developer and polo player Kuldip Singh Dhillon (wiki) dead at 72. Brits on here will remember the big controversy in 2009 when it was revealed that Charles' nickname for Dhillon was "Sooty". Dhillon not only defended Charles but said he was called it by all of his friends and he liked it. Times obit.

And, hey, why not: the Round 2 draw as well: Match 1 : msc vs Winner of Famous6Eva vs TheKillingTime Match 2 : BabyBlue vs Annami Match 3 : The Old Crem vs Banana Match 4 : Winner of  Pop_Zeus vs Bibliogryphon vs An Fear Baeg Match 5 : Winner of justonecornetto vs Arghton vs gcreptile Match 6 : alt obits guy vs YorkshireBanker Match 7 : TQR vs MariNisia Match 8 : Winner of Wormfarmer vs diego vs Sir Cunto Match 9 : Winner of Il Magento vs CalebH vs Captain Hemlock Match 10 : Winner of  GuyFromFuture vs DeathByArsenic vs CaptainChorizo Match 11 : Winner of Gooseberry Crumble vs ThereWillBeDeaths7 vs Winner of theoldlady vs deadsox Match 12 : Winner of Great Uncle Bulgaria vs ladyfiona vs DevonDeathTrip Match 13 : Perhaps vs Grim Up North Match 14 : Sideik vs Winner of wannamaker vs Sean Match 15 : SpadeCooley vs Winner of JoeMoneypenny vs Dying Probably Match 16 : Winner of Liz Lemon vs TheSpinosaurus vs Winner of Hell vs MortalCaso

On this day 33 years ago, American actress Ava Gardner, who starred in the movies "Mogambo" and "The Barefoot Contessa", passed away at the age of 67.

Congrats @Banana for one more title

46 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 51 George Michael — Careless Whisper +4 41 Madonna – Into The Groove 36 Feargal Sharkey – A Good Heart 31 Frankie goes to Hollywood – Relax 28 Midge Ure – If I Was 27 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover 27 Eurythmics – There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) 27 Dead or Alive – You spin me round (like a record) 23 Duran Duran – The Reflex 22 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes 21 Chaka Khan – I feel for you 20 Frankie goes to Hollywood – The power of love 19 Wham - Wake me up before you go go 18 Foreigner – I want to know what love is 18 Wham – I`m your man 17 Jim Diamond – I should have known better 17 Wham – Freedom 15 Paul Hardcastle – 19 13 Phyllis Nelson – Move Closer 12 Shakin´ Stevens – Merry Christmas everyone -1 12 UB40 & Chrissie Hynde – I got you babe  7 David Bowie & Mick Jagger – Dancing in the street 0 Whitney Houston – Saving all my love for you -5

Ignoring the rest of your diatribe, this I entirely agree with. Probably the most talented musician of the late 20th century. For some bizarre reason his only UK number one single was The Most Beautiful Girl In The World. Occasionally (mostly around election time) I find myself utterly bewildered by my countrymen.

In good health accrding to the man himself, but diverticulitis is back.

513 so far, it's an increase of 15 actually.

I think I’m correct in saying all members of the death list and crowd sourced list are picks?

No one else could be bothered to spell it!

I think we might go live this weekend. Jeff Beck Shimon Baadani Ronald Blythe Bill Campbell Constantine II Carole Cook Walter Cunningham Roberto Dinamite Bessie Hendricks Bernard Kalb Gina Lollobrigida Frank McGarvey Dick Savitt Gianluca Vialli Fay Weldon David Sutherland David Crosby Lucile Randon Arthur Duncan Yoon Jeong-Hee Lin Brehmer And we await QOs for . . . Abdelsalam Majali Mark Stokes Marcel Zanini List of the Missed: Gino Odjick Lisa Marie Presley Sgt. Stan Pepper Karl Alexander Müller (?) Paul Johnson (?) Jim Molan (?) Lise Norgaard (?) ...probably like 20 more names...

She was also picked in 1998 according to this. https://web.archive.org/web/20011225084237/https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool1998/entries/selections.htm

Hmm, 13 hits in not quite 14 days. Well done, everyone.

Ladies and Gentlemen… ! Here are the results of the first ever In Memoriam Award Ceremony ! Biggest Female Death Of course, her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second collected all the votes. Not a single other woman was nominated ! An evident choice. Biggest Male Death Here again, Gorbachev, last president of the USSR, received a vast majority of votes. Worth noting that Pelé and Robbie Coltrane were nominated with one vote each. Most Socking One Now this was a category with very split votes. Shinzo Abe is, however, the winner here with only 7 votes. Kirsti Alley and Shane Warne are tying for the 2nd place. Christine McVie, Coolio, Irene Cara, Bob Saget or Leslie Jordans were also considered with one vote each. The Saddest One Well, it's a tie ! Olivia Newton John and Bernard Cribbins both received 3 votes. A very split category. Honorable mentions : Sidney Poitier, QEII, Deborah James, Loretta Lynn, Tom Parker… The Best Received One The most infamous death this year was attributed to Peter Tobin with 6 votes. Robert Durst was a close second with 5 votes. Also nominated in this category : Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russell Bishop, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Margot Eskens, Jerry Lee Lewis and somehow, her majesty the queen… The Most Awaited One Here, the votes were quite unanime. Leslie Phillips is the winner of the most awaited death of 2022 with 12 votes. Meatloaf, Tom Smith, QEII, Peter Tobin and Satya Mohan Joshi were mentioned once. The Biggest Survivor Another tie in this category with 4 votes each for Kissinger and Field. Deathlist favorites have been considered the biggest survivor of the year. Will they also survive 2023 ? Let's see… Violetta Chamorro got two votes and several lingerers such as Carter, Barker and Whale got 1. The Biggest Miss With the very late passing of Pope Benedict, a lot of you changed your votes from Olivia Newton John or Nichell Nichols to Bennie. He then wins this category with more than 10 votes. Worth noting that Meatloaf, Madeleine Albright and Bernard Cribbins were mentionned once each. The Most Promising One Well, Rolf Harris wins this category with a quick advantage on Constantine II and Jonnie Irwin. Let's see if this promise turns out to be successful. The 50 spot And finally, you chose Putin to be the n°50 spot. Rolf Harris, Ozzy Osbourne were just behind him and Hazal McCallion, Andy Taylor or Liza Minelli (among others) received one vote each. Well, that's all for this year folks, see you in early 2024 for the next In Memoriam Award of 2023. Thanks for your participation !

I had Tony Brown EDIT: seems like you missed John Gwynne back from July as well

Congratulations @Banana-. You are on a seriously impressive run of form over the past couple of years. Incredible deadpooling over a variety of formats. I've changed my location to reflect current events. .

On this day 30 years ago, Soviet Ballet Dancer Rudolf Nereyev died. This marked the first hit on the 1993 deathlist. On this day 17 years ago, singer Lou Rawls died. This marked the first hit on the 2006 deathlist. On this day 1 year ago, Sidney Poiter died. This marked the first hit on the 2022 deathlist.

Well anyone that didn't sub in Andy Goram has already dropped the ball...

Sigh. John Lennon and Paul McCartney's complete falling out (which started before Yoko appeared on the scene) and George Harrisons inability to take more of their shit split up the Beatles. Not anyone else.

Her highest chart position in living memory if it happens

Rest in peace. Another friend to the Beatles died, played with them during their residency in Paris.

Italian Actress Anna-Maria Bottini died at 104 years: https://www.actualitte.com/article/culture-arts-lettres/de-pirandello-au-guepard-de-visconti-mort-de-l-actrice-anna-maria-bottini/102160

oh crap!!! i spoke too soon