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Cameo seems an excellent place for formspotting. I don't completely know how to use it to search for people , but there's a suprisingly large amount of elderly celebrities and ones with a history of ill health there, here's a list with links to their pages: Barry Corbin (82, oral cancer, decrepit) Bruce Dern (87) George Hamilton (84, some history of ill health I recall) Tommy Chong (85) Jamie Farr (89) Paul Dooley (95) Brian Cox (77) Gianni Russo (79, godfather actor) Sportspeople/"sports"people too: Marv Levy (98) Ronnie Coleman (59, bodybuilder, tons of health issues) Richard Petty (86, stock car racing legend) Baron von Raschke (82, professional wrestler) Peter Shilton OBE (73) Sir Geoff Hurst (81) Harry Carson (69, American football player with a ton of health problems) Larry Bowa (77, old MLB guy) Many more there if you want to go check.

Reminds me of this "poem":

Afraid that ship sailed a long time ago.

And I’ll be remedying said downvote with my upvote I’m afraid Also, Tax That were always gonna get minus votes from me on account of them being thoroughly shite. This shouldn’t be a game of politics, it’s a game of what the fuck’s the best music. That’s how I score.

Gayle Hunnicutt according to the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/03/gayle-hunnicutt-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I said to myself in my head "I wonder how long until someone finds a way to mention Jimmy Carter". Only took 11 minutes. Impressive.

Oh, and look at this absolute weapon reflecting on the mess he helped create. Yet another episode of Tories complaining how everything is broken after thirteen and a half years in power.

Updated for Mohamed Al-Fayed The next important date is 12th September when the 13th (Penultimate) hit in 2003 occurred but is the earliest ever 13th hit

He hasn't been able to walk at all since he broke his pelvis several years ago

@Paul Bearer please ban this cunt

List of US Cabinet members from the 20th century: Richard Nixon (1969–1974) – EXTINCT Gerald Ford (1974–1977) Jimmy Carter (1977–1981) Ronald Reagan (1981–1989) George H.W. Bush (1989–1993) Bill Clinton (1993–2001)

It’s fun to see who got so little attention despite many forum mentions. I would have thought Wendy Williams, John Astin, and Mario Zagallo would have been much higher up.

Celebrating that fact that I have now earned all 8 reactions on this site at least once, the last one I needed was Confused which @mymango has so graciously just betrothed upon me in the Jimmy Carter Thread, they're also the only ever user to give me the Angry reaction and 2 of my 3 Facepalms.

I've only actively tracked my main DDP team in this thread, but I note that with the death of DJ Casper, my 2018 B Team Bobby Zarin's Mack the Knifed is now on a clean sweep.

EARLY MOURNING NEWS WITH GEORGE ALAGIAH 10/50 24th July 2023 Easily one of the most popular British news presenters of the last 30 years, BBC broadcaster George Alagiah has lost his long and public battle with bowel cancer to give the Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. Born in what is now modern day Sri Lanka, Alagiah’s family moved to Portsmouth when he was in secondary school, and after a degree with Durham University, he moved into local journalism, before being snapped up by the BBC in 1989. Throughout the 1990s, George Alagiah was a familiar face on BBC news as a foreign correspondent, being their man on the ground during the Rwanda genocide and being stuck in the middle of civil wars in Somalia and Afghanistan, and his coverage of the Kosovo crisis won a BAFTA. By the late 90s, he had swapped the danger of war zones to the dangers of live TV, as a regular news anchor for the BBC news, a role he continued in until close to the end. In 2007, he graduated to the most plum position in British news broadcasting, solo anchor of the BBC Six O’Clock evening news. With his contacts from a decade as a correspondent, Alagiah managed to nab prize interviews for the BBC, such as Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe. In 2014, George Alagiah was diagnosed with bowel cancer, and would become the public face of male awareness in getting checked for the disease. Like the late Bill Turnbull, Alagiah was credited with encouraging thousands to get checked, saving countless lives in the process. His own cancer went into remission for three years, but returned as Stage IV in 2018, and, despite stoic treatment, eventually spread to all his major organs. The widespread tributes since his untimely death this week befit a man well respected for his integrity, his knowledge and his bravery in the face of insurmountable odds, be they from the bullets of genocidal soldiers, or the march of incurable cancer. The Daily Express even referred to him as “fearless and kind” and the Telegraph, no friend of the BBC, said George Alagiah was the “gold standard for newsreaders”. Because he was. George Alagiah had been picked every year since his cancer relapsed, and this year was in 5th position.

STRANGER NOW IN PARADISE 9/50 21st July 2023 In news about as surprising as its possible for be for a ninety-six year old with dementia, legendary singer Tony Bennett has provided The Crowdsourced Deathlist with another success. In an eighty-five year career (longer than some TCD successes entire lifespan) he worked with Frank Sinatra and Lady Gaga. A New York Italian-American, Bennett had the choice to go into music, or go into the Mafia. (Or be Frank Sinatra and do both.) Tony was singing publicly by the age of ten, and earning money for it by a teenager. He also studied art, and worked as a copy runner for the AP, before winding up as infantryman in France during the latter stages of World War Two. His experiences crossing the Rhine, and later in liberating concentration camps, turned the young Tony Bennett into a lifelong pacifist. Post-war he quickly developed a reputation as a crooner, and his cover of Because of You sold over a million copies in America in 1951. He’d recorded several number one hits by the mid-1950s, and already showed a capacity for moving with the times, which was to prove crucial to his longevity as rock n roll became in vogue. Whilst crooners fell out of fashion unless they had seven horcruxes hidden at Fort Knox (hi Pat Boone), Bennett expanded his output, involving himself in the successful American jazz industry, and working with the legendary Count Basie. Basie Swings, Bennett Sings was the result, and following that, Tony Bennett became, in 1962, the first male pop singer to perform at Carnegie Hall. A TV regular, he popularised the likes of The Best is Yet to Come, and I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Grammy's came his way, followed by a tsunami of likewise awards. In 1966, he appeared in the film The Oscar, which didn’t win the Oscar. In the 1970s, even time seemed to pass Bennett by, like the other crooners, and he wound up an impoverished drug addict. In 1979, he nearly killed himself with an overdose of cocaine. He survived that, and went on a health kick, and with the help of his sons he made a comeback with The Art of Excellence album. His sons also got him roles alongside The Muppets and Bart Simpson, which introduced him to a much younger audience. (“There’s a swinging town I know called Capital City” – yes this was my introduction to Bennett!) This gave him new fans who would go onto work with him in his elder statesman part of his career. He would work with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Kd Lang and found the new generations receptive to his Gershwin and Cole Porter classics. By the late 1990s he had his own MTV Unplugged Special, had headlined Glastonbury, and was a multi-millionaire once more. Outside the arts, Bennett participated in the Selma march, was an outspoken critic of apartheid South Africa. Even as his health declined in his nineties, Tony Bennett stated that the only thing that could retire him from music was death itself. True to form, reports stated Bennett kept his own spirits up on his deathbed, singing the Great American Songbook, until the final curtain call. This was only his second appearance on The Crowdsourced Deathlist.

I reckon Billy Bob and Cleatus are sharpening thier skills at the moment. So lets take a straw poll on how many month's Mr Obama gets in office. Another pool could be "How many days before our chums in the states realise he will not make a blind bit of difference and the feel good factor dissappears"

Blimey, what did he do to upset the Clintons?

Barack Obama's chef Tafari Campbell dies in a "paddling accident": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66297450 Is this a message to Putin that this is how you dispose of your chef?

Had to miss is show last weekend because he wasnt feeling so good after treatment: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/james-whale-missing-show-stays-30540592 He might be willing to go to Dignitas and also mentions Jonnie Irwin.

He's been wanting his own all-in-one service for a while. He basically wants his own AOL.

Has been "doing really, really good", singing and dancing

I managed to have my wound after a fall regularly dressed from early march to early May. I don't think we can call him a virus death when he departs being it's unlikely it had not spread to the lungs pre March 1st.

It's sad to lose a friend. Cats may not have much social status in the big bad world but they can be loved as family members, all the same. My sympathies, CP.