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Aye, but what the hell. Thought I’d stick in my tuppence worth.

Heath Streak dead at 49.

A spot-on set of finalists there for my tuppence worth (whatever that is). Bloody good job. And, once again, theoldlady is the one tearing this list limb from limb, with a fair amount of help from Cornetto, Toast and lilham. Kills: theoldlady - 7 Death Impends - 2 lilham - 2 LadyFiona - 2 DoltonMoney - 2 Sir Simpleton - 2 Root Inspector - 1 Bibliogryphon - 1 BuffaloPhil - 1 MariNisia - 1 Paul Bearer - 1 Drewsky - 1 Wee Jum - 1 Joey Russ - 1 Assists: justonecornetto - 4 Toast - 3 lilham - 3 Drewsky - 2 RoverAndOut - 2 Bibliogryphon - 2 theoldlady - 2 MariNisia - 1 Great Uncle Bulgaria - 1 Wee Jum - 1 Imelda - 1 Death Impends - 1 LadyFiona - 1 BuffaloPhil - 1

Come on now, be fair. She could just be a psychopath.

Former international umpire Piloo Reporter reported (!) dead aged 84. He, along with fellow Indian umpire VK Ramaswamy became the furst neutral umpires since 1912 when they officiated in the 1992 Pakistan - West Indies series. Reporter also officiated in the 1986 World Cup. He's alleged to have received a payment from a bookie for a pitch report in 1993.

September 2 Twelfth hit: Mohamed Al-Fayed Well, it didn't take long for the 'no 11th hit without a 12th' rule of thumb to come into play. With twelve hits now, this moves the game into the range of 12-22 hits where the bonuses and penalties are given out like candy and snatched away from the babes too. A quick comment on the accounting to keep track of scores is in order then. At the start, everyone was given the penalty of -2 for not hitting a joker and -2 for being out by more than five hits. 22 jokers have been hit so many have had this penalty removed. But the hits range is -2 (starting default), then as the hits occur: +2 (5 or less out), +2 (within 1), +4 (exact match), -4 (not matching), -2 (more than 1 away), -2 (more than 5 away). The game has reached a player who is at the exact match and those at 12-17 predicted hits are at one or more penalties removed/bonus. This has been a hit for 7 punters (7 hits, 0 joker). A few with Third hit bonuses (4 punters) too. Total hits: 7 Teams with hit: 7 Punters: chilean way, ThereWillBeDeaths7, Great Uncle Bulgaria, DoorSlammer, The Duke of Deadinburgh, The Old Crem, Annami Again, DoorSlammer gets a hit, with an impressive 10/12 hit rate. Teams with joker: 0 Punters: N/A Third hit bonus First round (3 hits): Great Uncle Bulgaria Second round (6 hits): ThereWillBeDeaths7, The Old Crem, Annami Within 5 predicted hits: Etushispushingupdaisies, tracy, The Duke of Deadinburgh (17 predicted hits) Within 1 predicted hit: diego, Great Uncle Bulgaria (13 predicted hits) Exact hit match: Grimgrass (12 predicted hits) As mentioned above, the range of 12-22 hits will mean constant changes to the rankings based on hits alone. Grimgrass wides the lead in first place, with Diego in second and Joltin Joe in third. Tied at fourth are gcreptile, wannamaker, DoorSlammer and Great Uncle Bulgaria. Another hit will change the ranks again, as more bonuses come into play... Updated Score Al-Fayed Third Hit Bonus Within 5 hits (17 predicted) Within 1 hit (13 predicted) Exact match (12 predicted) Grimgrass 0 4 diego -3 2 Joltin Joe -5 gcreptile -6 wannamaker -6 DoorSlammer -6 1 Great Uncle Bulgaria -6 1 1 2 LizLemon -8 Bibliogryphon -8 Sean -9 Newjack -9 Etushispushingupdaisies -9 2 Summer in Transylvania -10 Joey Russ -10 Book -10 tracy -10 2 YoungWillz -11 Annami -11 1 1 TQR -12 Torva Messor -12 theoldlady -12 The Old Crem -12 1 1 Funeralopolis -13 Hell -13 Dying Probably -13 The Duke of Deadinburgh -13 1 2 ThereWillBeDeaths7 -14 1 1 The Daredevil -16 WinterCake -17 chilean way -19 1

Let's start with an easy one. @Kenny

A solid list, indeed, but what is even more interesting is that the average age of a 2023 DL entry is 90.42 years old. Now, granted, the ages displayed on the main list take into account upcoming birthdays for the ongoing year, but that might be the highest average for a DeathList yet. The lowest age seems to be that of Andy Taylor (currently 62), while the oldest entry is Norman Lear at 101. If we look at the 2020 DL, we can notice that the average age is 89.1 years old because, while the upper half of the list has many old entries, the lower half is more mixed. The youngest name was Tom Smith at 49, with the oldest being Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland at 104. There are also more octogenarians on the 2020 DL. We'll see if the 2024 DeathList continues this trend of raising the overall entry age and taking fewer risks when it comes to younger, usually very sick or terminally ill picks. This is not a critique, though, because it seems to be working very well so far! It might be interesting to compare the current list to the 2020 DL in terms of notoriety, too, although that can be quite subjective. Wow, this post was utterly useless trivia... but self-awareness is key.

Nothing new. Several articles reported She celebrated her 90th bday with her family and her grandson published some tribute but didn’t even talked about her health or condition. The last interviews of some friends of her were saying that She was « really disminished », which I suspect is a way of saying she can’t talk or walk anymore. Her daughter is taking care of her 24/7 apparently. The fact that she’s still alive is quite unbelievable. I've been saying for a year that she's going to die soon…

I wonder if his namesake - Burnley’s new 20 year old Aaron Ramsey can also take up the theory in time.

Al Jardine (of the Beach Boys) is 81.

73 Tears For Fears — Everybody Wants To Rule The World +4 65 A-Ha — Take On Me -3 52 Duran Duran — A View To A Kill 52 Prince — 1999 / Little Red Corvette 42 Queen — Radio Ga Ga  00 Cyndi Lauper — Girls Just Want To Have Fun  -3

Hayashi’s birthday is already over in Japan. There is just no confirmation that she celebrated it yet or any new photos. So yes there is potentially 10 114 year olds

If Kame Uema gets validated it would mean we now have again a full top 10 of 114+ persons (after Okagi Hayashi's 114th birthday).

The state of the British press. Not a single paper ran with the headline Di's Dodi's Dad Dead

Buthelezi discharged. A true miracle.

Tunku Ampuan Najihah, Malaysian Queen Dowager of the state of Negeri Sembilan and Queen of Malaysia 1994-1999 on her 100th birthday yesterday:

2/9/23 18:16 hrs Grudgingly putting the Sugababes out their misery. 59 Nelly Furtado — Maneater 56 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 53 Rihanna ft. Jay Z — Umbrella -5 49 Mika - Grace Kelly 44 Scissor Sisters - I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ 40 Robyn with Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat 36 My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade 35 Orson - No Tomorrow 29 Razorlight - America +4 25 Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson - The Way I Are 25 Beyoncé & Shakira - Beautiful Liar 23 Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down 19 Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby 19 Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don’t Lie 0 Sugababes - About You Now -1

Also, after some introspection, I would say, the last third of the year will see some DL-favorite passings : Glynis Johns, Eva Marie Saint, Frank Field, Rob Burrow, June Spencer, Napolitano or Day'O Connor maybe ? A high profile celebrity death wouldn't be too surprising either : Julie Andrews ? Buzz Aldrin ? Liza Minelli ? Bardot ? For what concerns young and ill picks, I'd say Jonnie Irwin, Nolan, Doherty and Taylor are safe until 2024. Wouldn't be too surprised if we have some late health scares from the first three of them who would guarantee a top spot for the 2024 list. I'd say we will have some surprising "misses" : Chomsky, Attenborough or Farrakhan for example. For what concerns James Whale, I don't think he's in immediate danger but I do think he will either be a miss this year or be a very early 2024 hit following some decline in his condition in late 2023 Finally, I'd say the crowdsources deathlist total of hits will exceed the official DL hits and DDP drop 40 will be around 20.

Reuben Sinclair in such good health he's already dead and buried: https://globalnews.ca/news/9926725/canada-oldest-veteran-funeral-reuben-sinclair/

Mangosuthu fully recovered and to be discharged next week.

Neva Gilbert (Wiki), the oldest Playboy magazine model died at 93 Looks like she is off radar from press!