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Luckily us pre-2017 DLers don't do lists. I just about managed that with a straight face...

A couple of drummers celebrating birthdays today. Brian Downey of Thin Lizzy is 72 and Nick Mason of Pink Floyd is 79

Neither 99 Red Balloons nor Nena have anything to do with Eurovision.

The likelyhood of mistakes is higher because I'm doing a whole months worth of names at once - corrections are very much welcome, I'll try and be as careful as I can. This log is kept to make corrections and fixes easy! Fay Weldon* grimgrass 0+1 theoldlady 0+1 six feet blunder 0+1 Bibliogryphon 0+1 Frank McGarvey* Book 0+1 gcreptile 0+1 Famous6Eva 0+1 Windsor 0+1 Gianluca Vialli* Doorslammer 0+1 Book 1+1 Diego 0+1 gcreptile 1+1 philip 0+1 Grimgrass 1+1 _floydylan_ 0+1 Nick 0+1 Death Duke 0+1 Murdoc, Hell, MariNisia, MrShadrak, The Daredevil, The Old Crem, CaptainChorizo, Thatcher 0+1 BuffaloPhil, tracy, Redrumours, wannamaker, TQR, 0+1 Famous6Eva, theoldlady, Windsor 1+1 DeathBecomesThem, Dying Probably, Clarence, LizLemon 0+1 Dick Savitt Gooseberry Crumble 0+1 Carole Cook WinterCake 0+1 Etushispushingupdaisies 0+1 markb4 0+1 Gina Lollobrigida Nick 1+1 Johnnas 0+1 Zsa Zsa's leg 0+1 MariNisia 1+1 MrShadrak 1+1 CaptainChorizo 1+1 Thatcher 1+1 BuffaloPhil 1+1 markb4 1+1 DeathBecomesThem 1+1 WEP 0+1 earl 0+1 David Crosby MortalCaso 0+1 @Gooseberry Crumble your third sub Etushispushingupdaisies 1+1 dimreaper 0+1 Clarence 1+1 Yoon Jeong-hee CaptainChorizo 2+1 Constantine II Doorslammer 1+1 Diego 1+1 philip 1+1 Grimgrass 2+1 Nick 2+1 Murdoc 1+1 TheDaredevil 1+1 The Old Crem 1+1 John Key - my first sub tracy - 1+1 wannamaker 1+1 Windsor 2+1 WEP 1+1 earl 1+1 @Joltin Joe - your first sub Steve - 0+1 Charles De Gaulle - 0+1 TheSpinosaurus 0+1 When The 0+1 Summer in Transylvania 0+1 Fixes Salmon Mousse 0+1 (Gianluca Vialli) Scoreboard: Grimgrass 3/50 Windsor 3/50 Nick 3/50 CaptainChorizo 3/50 theoldlady 2/50 BuffaloPhil 2/50 tracy 2/50 MrShadrak 2/50 The Daredevil 2/50 The Old Crem 2/50 Book 2/50 gcreptile 2/50 Famous6Eva 2/50 Doorslammer 2/50 diego 2/50 philip 2/50 Clarence 2/50 DeathBecomesThem 2/50 wannamaker 2/50 MariNisia 2/50 Murdoc 2/50 Thatcher 2/50 WEP 2/50 earl 2/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 2/50 markb4 2/50 six feet blunder 1/50 Bibliogryphon 1/50 Gooseberry Crumble 1/50 Johnnas 1/50 MortalCaso 1/50 _floydylan_ 1/50 Death Duke 1/50 Dying Probably 1/50 LizLemon 1/50 Redrumours 1/50 TQR 1/50 Hell 1/50 WinterCake 1/50 TheSpinosaurus 1/50 When The 1/50 Salmon Mousse 1/50 Charles De Gaulle 1/50 Steve 1/50 dimreaper 1/50 Zsa Zsa's leg 1/50 Summer in Transylvania 1/50 Main Deathlist 0/50 ThereWillBeDeaths7 0/50 Khthonia 0/50 Joltin Joe 0/50 ladyfiona 0/50 LWCZ 0/50 Torva Messor 0/50 John Key 0/50 TheKestrelofDoom 0/50 Pop_Zeus 0/50 Brad252 0/50 polar duck 0/50 jonnythegamemaster 0/50 *Repasted the first 3 deaths tracked for my convenience.

That would help.

Mimi Rogers, the attractive American film and television actress, model, and professional poker player, who started her versatile acting career with a recurring role in the television series "Hill Street Blues", and probably remembered for her sensational work in the Ridley Scott's thriller "Someone to Watch Over Me", is 67 today. Samuel Chao Chung Ting, the renowned American educator, physicist and scientist of Chinese ethnicity, who was one of the co-recipients, with his colleague Burton Richter, of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics, is 87 today.

Donald Trelford, formerly editor of The Observer, reported dead aged 85, after long illness. eta: Suggested by @arghton in Ideas & Possibilities, but not followed up by anyone.

Love to all my fellow DLers who have joined since 2019 and love lists.

Do you mean fewer notable deaths, or that the people who have died are less notable?

A lion hunter was killed by the pride of lions of the one he'd killed for an instagram story.

Lists are good as long as subsequent posters don't keep quoting them in full.

Yeah if you look at 2004-6 I think there's about 5-10 (at a stretch) number ones I liked, which doesn't tell the story that there was a lot of music I liked at that time which just didn't make it to the top, or even into the charts all together.

My thoughts exactly with 00s music. The charts paint rather a poor picture of the state of music a lot of the time.

I was 16 in 1985. There was great music around just it didn't get to no.1

58 Nena – 99 Red Balloons +1 58 George Michael – Careless Whisper +2 43 Madonna — Into the Groove +1 38 Eurythmics – There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart) 34 Feargal Sharkey — A Good Heart 32 Midge Ure — If I Was 31 Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Relax -6 30 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes 28 Chaka Khan – I Feel for You 27 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover 26 Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) 25 Duran Duran – The Reflex 21 Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go 12 Wham! – I’m Your Man 09 Wham! – Freedom  Not really feeling this round which is strange because I was 16/17 when all this was out.

The population of Japan in 1922 was 57,390,000 but only 90,000+ people from that figure still alive today. Despite of this, it still a remarkable achievement if we compared it to other countries.

57 Nena – 99 Red Balloons +4 56 George Michael – Careless Whisper 42 Madonna — Into the Groove 38 Eurythmics – There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart) 37 Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Relax 34 Feargal Sharkey — A Good Heart 32 Midge Ure — If I Was 30 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes 28 Chaka Khan – I Feel for You 27 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover 26 Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) 25 Duran Duran – The Reflex 21 Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go 12 Wham! – I’m Your Man 09 Wham! – Freedom  0 Paul Hardcastle – 19 -6 (= 13, unlucky for some)

Is Peggy still living with Christine or are they both in the Laurels now?I know Christine was for a while but then moved in with Peggy. I doubt June Spencer or Lesley Seaward will return but you never know.If not they would just say Peggy is ill in hospital I imagine .

56 George Michael – Careless Whisper 53 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 46 Madonna – Into the Groove 40 Eurythmics – There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart) 36 Feargal Sharkey — A Good Heart +4 32 Midge Ure — If I Was -4 32 Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Relax -2 28 Chaka Khan – I Feel for You 28 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes 27 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover 26 Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) 25 Duran Duran – The Reflex 21 Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go 13 Wham! – I’m Your Man 13 Paul Hardcastle – 19 9 Wham! – Freedom  5 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – The Power of Love I actually don’t mind the Midge Ure song but it needs bringing down a peg or two as Feargal is a definite top 5 here.

Howard was the 2nd oldest Olympian known to be alive. Félix Sienra (b. 1916) is now the last known living Olympian born in the 1910s.

West Indies Test cricketer Irvine Shillingford, reportedly dead: https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/dominica-cricket-legend-irvine-shillingford-passes-away

Cartoonist & playwright etc. Jules Feiffer is 94 today

BAFTA winning director Piers Haggard (Blood on Satan's Claw, Quatermass, Pennies from Heaven) has died aged 83. Citizens Theatre to Hammer Horror to acclaimed drama. Never picked in the DDP or mentioned here before, probably because he looked bloody good for his age whenever he showed up in stuff!

Would you look at this. James Coyne, governor of the Bank of Canada during one of the central bank’s most tumultuous periods, died on Oct. 12, the bank said today in a statement. He was 102.