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Nina Willis (USA) born in Robinson (Georgia), died in Atlanta in the same state, she did housework and worked at the Kessler department store https://longeviquest.com/supercentenarians/nina-willis/ The new top ten oldest validated people in the world is Ethel Caterham born in Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire, England, on 21/Aug/1909 and living in a nursing home in Ash Vale, Surrey

Thread for French sex symbol, actress, cultural icon, animal lover and ...uhh.. occasional racist Brigitte Bardot, now 87 years old. I was inspired to create this thread after her most recent racial faux-pas regarding the people of La Reunion, not the first time she "misspoke"! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/04/brigitte-bardot-fined-calling-french-indian-ocean-islanders/ Health-wise she had breast cancer in the 80s, and overdosed once (that we know of), indicating a history of drugs. After her worldwide career as an actress and occasional singer and model, she became an outspoken animal rights activist. Her current husband has connections to Jean-Marie Le Pen. She also had relationships with deathlist favourite Jean-Louis Trintignant, and, of course, Warren Beatty. But I guess it's her face and posture that is the stuff of legends (and inspiration for Jane Fonda's also iconic Barbarella):

English singer and songwriter Sam Smith is 31 today.

Jan Olsson , who played for Sweden in 1970 has died aged 79 according to the Swedish Team

Guido Gorgatti is a hit for me here.

Its 25 years since the death of composer and arranger Edwin 'Ted' Astley. If the name is not familiar, his compositions will be - The Adventures of Robin Hood (the Richard Greene 1950s version) as well as the themes and/or incidental music to many ITC productions - The Champions, Danger Man, Department S, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Saint, Gideon's Way and The Baron. He also composed for many films as well as the incidental music for the BBC (notably for the series Civilisations) and British Transport Films. He retired from composing at the end of the 70s, prompted by the decline of the British film industry, but still arranged music, for example orchestral arrangements of works by The Who (Pete Townshend was his son-in-law) and Rolling Stones for the LSO. Original recordings of his music were only released in the US but about a year before he died he achieved UK chart success of a sort, as his theme from The Saint reached number three in the UK chart, performed by Orbital (for the movie of the same name). He died after a debilitating illness, aged 76.

A few more hits to mention over the past couple of weeks: 5th May: Siiri Rantanen 7th May: Don January 9th May: Denny Crum 11th May: Guido Gorgatti 17th May: "Superstar" Billy Graham That's all I have, but let me know if you come across any more. The big winner, if there can be one at this time of year, is @BuffaloPhilwho is up into second place, but has taken 6 hits to get there. Down at the bottom, 9 players have yet to join the race, with illustrious names such as @Bibliogryphon @John Key @msc, and @Pedro67all waiting on a first hit. Loads and loads of time for that in this game! Top 5 is as follows, full scoreboard is on page 1 Wormfarmer (393 points) 4 hits [AL Jaffee*, Ben Ferencs, Bill Butler, Gianluca Vialli] Buffalo Phil (369 points) 6 hits [Ben Ferencs, Bill Butler, Gianluca Vialli, Guido Gorgatti, Hazel McCallion, Lucille Randon] Dying Probably (318 points) 4 hits [Betty Boothroyd, Harry Belafonte, Hazel McCallion*, Nigel Lawson] An Fear Beag (301 points) 5 hits [Gianluca Vialli, Lucille Randon, Mary Quant, Nigel Lawson, Ryiuchi Sakamoto] Torva Messor (274 points) 4 hits [Bernard Kalb, Bert I. Gordon*, Carole Cook, Menahem Pressler

my grand father was and still is a huge fan of Sylvain and Sylvette which Pesch designed since 1957. A great loss.

Bob Backlund the only pre-1983 WWF Champion alive now. He's in ludicrously good shape for a wrestler in his 70s though. Sheik's the oldest, aged 80-something (see previous debates on his inconclusive age). Updating that perennial wrestlers 70 (or about to turn 70 in 2023) and older who are both Names and should QO for certain... 1937 - Jim Breaks (especially now he's a killer), Paul Vachon, Mark Lewin, Eddie Sharkey (as a trainer) 1938 - Ted Turner 1939 - Billy White Wolf (because of his Saddam Hussein impersonations), Bill Watts, Jim Herd 1940 - Baron Van Raschke (here he is last summer), Iron Sheik (age a matter of dispute), Adrian Street (looked like a corpse at Clash at the Castle, Sept 2022), Alan Kilby (WoS alumni) 1941 - Abdullah the Butcher (now seemingly a victim of elder abuse), Dory Funk Jr, Johnny Rodz, Ivan Putski, Thunderbolt Patterson, Kendo Nagasaki (with whatever age he's claiming these days), Johnny Saint Added note - Johnny Rodz survived a heart attack that should have killed him in 2021. 1942 - JJ Dillon, Mil Mascaras, Jimmy Valiant, Afa, Ole Anderson (how is he still alive?) 1943 - Bill Dundee, Ken Patera 1944 - Jimmy Hart, Terry Funk (now in a nursing home), Tiger Jeet Singh, Michael Buffer 1945 - Rugged Ronnie Garvin, Sika, Vince McMahon 1946 - Gerry Brisco, Tony Garea (what does he do?*), David Crockett *It's a wrestling in-joke, don't worry 1947 - Bushwhacker Luke, George Wells (based off one WrestleMania match, he left wrestling in the 90s to become a renowned addiction counselor), Demolition Ax, Teddy Long 1948 - Black Bart (has everything wrong with him), Sgt Slaughter, Linda McMahon, Carlos Colon, Great Kabuki 1949 - Ric Flair (somehow), Earl Hebner, Jerry Lawler (survived a nasty stroke in March), Jim Brunzell, Bob Backlund, Stan Hansen, Don Muraco, Mike Adamle (CTE issues), Kevin Sullivan, Dutch Mantell, Rob Fuller (territories guy plus 90s WWF manager) Additional note - the Class of 1949 are clearly made of stern stuff but the Reapers starting to pick them off with recent Paul Orndorff and Dave Hebner deaths. Mostly they seem in pretty good nick, except poor old Adamle. And how Ric Flair is alive, no one knows. 1950 - Tenryu (indomitable, but frail), Bob Orton Jr, Shahid Khan (who gets a spot now for bankrolling AEW), Bruce Hart (probably the most famous of Bret's surviving brothers), Mando Guerrero (Eddie's brother) 1951 - Jesse Ventura (you know who he is - has health issues now, a result of being poisoned with Agent Orange while in the Navy), Skinner, Dos Caras (relative of Alberto Del Rio), Buck Zumhofe (previously mentioned paedo scum), Greg "the Hammer" Valentine, Keith Hart (another Bret brother), Larry Zbyszko 1952 - Good Old JR, Wayne Hart (another Bret brother), Dan Spivey (AKA Waylon Mercy), Hillbilly Jim, Mr T (he counts), Jimmy Garvin, Dennis Condrey (with his cancer issues, no idea how) 1953 - The Honky Tonk Man, Ricky Steamboat (had an aneurysm in 2010), Tito Santana, Billy Jack Haynes (nutter), Stan Lane, Hulk Hogan, Paul Ellering, Tatsumi Fujinami, Ricky Knight (Paige's dad, no idea how the fuck he's going to see 70), Marty Jones (may have been born in 1945)

@MrWonderful Don't, we all have misses and regrets. As @drol wrote in obit for the Immortals thread, he was a running joke for the growing list of ailments and requests for donations. As a whole, the DL and DDP community caught on quickly - the constant 'cry wolf' basically made few pay attention. Look at the numbers for the teams that picked him in the DDP. They spiked early on after he made his debut in 2011 and coincide with his medical issues. I would have thought he had a earlier appearance than 2011 given his health, but no. And he was never picked enough to make the D40. Rarely jokered. Last made double digits in 2015.

I'm as stunned as you are. Some 13 years after he first definitely only had a few months to live and you needed to book him for your wrestling convention ASAP, "Superstar" Billy Graham has finally agreed to do the job for multiple organ failure. The man who brought steroids into the world of professional wrestling has brought some succor for a few of our less fortunate players this round: AFB and wannamaker get their first points on the board, while alt obits guy goes back ahead of Grim Up North in a ding-dong battle on average age. alt obits guy 7 vs Grim Up North 7 DevonDeathTrip 11 vs An Fear Baeg 3  gcreptile 13 vs deadsox 0 Banana 6 vs wannamaker 3

No one knows… according to his wiki page, it’s supposed to be a penguin..

For me its gotta be cleaning up dead rats from beneath a warehouse loading bay. That was 5 years ago. Hated working there and was eventually fired for telling the boss' father that he wasnt my boss (after he was ordering me around despite being the same level as me). I was doing online courses outside of work, basically spending every moment either working or learning, and by the time I was fired I went straight into another job - one that actually had a good career path. I got the last laugh as I now make more than my managers, despite being half their median age

Ah, being a nursery school teacher certainly isn't what it was in my day.

Someone please email this novice journalist, Guarav Kanthwal, tell him that the kind folk at DeathList insist he do some real fucking investigative journalism and he will discover some truths about Singh.

A Jock Shock indeed! I rather liked him.

Harry Belafonte is a major hit.

Believe it when I see it He's absolutely the type who's people will insist he's fine until he dies and even then I wouldn't rule out a Weekend At Bernies scenario from them

American Olympic Gold medallist Otis Davis celebrates his 90th birthday today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-46958875 I like how you can just quote BBC obits as QO again instead of worrying where on the site it is.

How sad.

Jacqueline Cochrane, the first woman to go faster than speed of sound went quiet forever 35 years ago aged 70.

Yeah actually it does, dipshit, because the whole point of world's oldest people is that we all go "wow" at the number of years that they've lived. You wouldn't see a 110 year old person trying to get media attention for being really old but saying to the media people "Er, it doesn't matter how old I am actually." Prick!

Hmmmm, bang on the borderline of obit-worthy UK I reckon. CPDP might be a different matter, how big is Bluegrass in Canada? Mike got the BBC treatment. How about replacing him with Tim Hart, founder member of Steeleye Span, who is suffering from inoperable lung cancer? The article is from May, so he might have already died, but if he has, he's done it very quietly.