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Simone Edwards (Wiki) reportedly dead from cancer.

Average is that, though in terms of the DDP, Terry Jones's near 5 years is about normal. A relative died of it last year - tbh it's something you don't want them to linger with.

Underestimate Deadsox at your peril. He's beaten many greats in this cup.

One of my favourite tv shows Police Woman (1974-78) has all its main cast (its police team of four) still living! Who will be first to go and finally break up the team? Angie Dickinson (born 1931) Earl Holliman (born 1928) Charles Dierkop (born 1936) Ed Bernard (born 1939)

11 years ago yesterday in 2012 (February 15th) British journalist James Whittaker, who specialised in royal coverage and ended up as the royal editor for the Daily Mirror newspaper, died from cancer aged 71. He was the first journalist to learn that Princess Diana suffered from an eating disorder after his colleague Anne Robinson noticed Diana was very late to an official function she and other journalists were present at. Anne informed Whittaker of the Princesses increasing pattern of being late, he made enquiries and learnt from one of her sisters about her medical condition.

Kirstie Alley did too. And frequent guest panelist Leslie Jordan

Kurt Marnul, one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's first fitness idols, has died.

Neil Young will perform for the first time since 2019 at Willie Nelson's 90th birthday party in April

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42) 1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40) 1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37) 1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, George Lineker (3/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50) 1995: Holly Johnson (1/50) 1996: Mr T (1/50) 1997: (0/50) 1998: (0/50) 1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50) 2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50) 2002: (0/50) 2003: (0/50) 2004: (0/50) 2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50) 2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50) 2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50) 2009: (0/50) 2010: (0/50) 2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50) 2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50) 2014: Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (2/50) 2015: Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (2/50) 2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (6/50) 2017: Jimmy Carter, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Emperor Akihito (4/50) 2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (12/50) 2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (12/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, Jean-Marie Le Pen, David Attenborough (17/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, Prunella Scales, Tony Bennett, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Harry Belafonte, Bob Newhart, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Betty Boothroyd, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (27/50) 2022: Dick Van Dyke, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Jimmy Carter, Tony Bennett, Dick Cheney, Harry Belafonte, Mel Brooks, Bobby Charlton, David Attenborough, Emperor Akihito, Rosalynn Carter, Sandy Gall, Desmond Morris, Ted Kaczynski, Jean-Marie Le Pen, James Whale, Cleo Laine, Jacques Delors, Denis Law, Prunella Scales, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Noam Chomsky, Norman Tebbit, Michael Gambon, Douglas Hurd, Silvio Berlusconi, Marianne Faithfull, Milan Kundera, Linda Ronstadt, Joss Ackland, Shane MacGowan (34/50) Updated for Burt Bacharach.

Perhaps he was given CSN instead of CPR. (Courtesy of Bad Muso Jokes Inc)

It’s a shame there’s been hardly any love for him on here, just death-time discussion. He may have had lifelong tendencies to wankerdom, but he was a great singer/writer, almost as good as Gene Clark and Stills/Young of his bandmates. His debut album is wonderful, and his autobiography is fascinating, as I remember. Weirdly, I sang four of his songs yesterday, before the news came out. RIP ya ornery millionaire-hippie bugger.

Where did you get his height from? And what figure did you find?

Statistically based on his height a 2023 or 2024 death seems likely.

He seemed fairly chipper last week.

Is this a hoax and he lives for years to come? Or did his PR team jump the gun and he has days/hours left

Yeah I’m torn here. And if you do a Twitter search, that article is the only thing mentioned in the past 10 minutes

On this day in 2011 Steve Jobs, american businessman, Cofounder of Apple and their CEO, died of pancreatic cancer aged 56 . A key figure in the development and evolution of personal computers and smartphones.

Isn't she in Fleabag?

Harry McNally also knows his CSNY and - as you'll see - he's in agreement. No mean musician himself our Harry. Bit livelier and more in your face that the Croz, mind

Interview with Gayle King from June. Looks and moves well. She discusses her health problems and is at peace with her mortality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d30Y0n1nDH4 Its time for Abe Vigoda to re-enact this movie-scene, for real. He belongs necessarily to the deathlist 2016.

In good time before January ends, I can proudly announce my first correct prediction the former German president (1984-1994) Richard von Weiszäcker died today in Berlin. He was 94 years old. My personnel Goal in 2015 is to land at least 12 matches (one hit every month or every fourth one off my list this year 12/50 minimum)

My attempt at an update. Any errors are regretted. Any one Beatle in 1987. Two are still alive. Should they not be on the list ? They probably should be. They were missed out by the person who first drew up the list for this thread, probably because they make the rankings problematic. If you were to add on two survivors for the remaining Beatles, does it mean there were actually 34 entries on the 1987 list? As the list is composed of those we think will die, I've always taken it that "any one Beatle" (i.e. George Harrison) has died since the 1987 list. However I understand the semantics of this particular entry, and why it could be argued the other way around.

I've never rated Crosby. There's that famous picture of CSN&Y at Woodstock with Joni Mitchell and there was Crosby looking so pleased with himself! He was always the least talented of the Byrds: McGuinn was the best...

He's given his fat some battering as well, being the biological father of Melissa Etheridges' turkey-baster child. You'd have thought that, given the choice of about 70% of the male population of the planet, Ms. Etheridge would have chosen not to have her child grow up to look like this...