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Derek Chauvin, George Floyd's convicted killer, seriously injured and hospitalised after prison stabbing.

The following people should be definitely ve on 2024 list If not dead by end of the year the following people will definitely be dead next year David Attenborough Ruth langsford Ruth langsford mother joan langsford Eammon Holmes Lorraine Kelly Jane Moore (she is wrinkly and crinkly)

You could use it to wash down something from the chippy.

Muff. Not really my usual thing but it has proven tobe pretty moreish.

the world is healing

It's fast, it's furious it's f***in' good fun. Teams of 20 topplers posted on this thread or PM'd to MPFC will be collected into a masterlist to provide a carnival of carnage, the counting of which goes live in the first second of 2024. Points aplenty pour into the scoreboard until someone snags the stupendous total of 2024, at which point the event that used to be the fastest deadpool in common useage (until MPFC started something faster!) slams on the brakes and the lucky winner is duly given metaphorical back-slaps and allowed to claim a prize worth about a tenner (though tradition thus far dictates this turns into a charitable donation). Closing date for entries is midnight on 30 December 2023. Currently MC'ing the whole operation is an experienced public servant with a book to promote and an address book full of press contacts who didn't want to know when it came to printing extracts. We told her this would help, she told us Boris will be back in Number 10. The 49 teams in it to win it this year are... An Fear Beag - af Arghton - ar BabyBlue - bb Banana - ba Bibliogryphon - bg Book - bk CalebH - cl Captain Chorizo - cc Commtech Sio Bibble - cs Deadsox - dx DeathByArsenic - da DeathBecomesThem - db Death Impends - di Diego - dg Drol - dr Etushispushingupdaisies - ed Famous6Eva - f6 gcreptile - gr Gooseberry Crumble - gc Great Uncle Bulgaria - gb GuyFromFuture - gf Hell - hl Captain Hemlock - ch Imelda - im The Immortal - ti John Key - jk TheKilling Time - kt Ladyfiona - lf LizLemon - ll MariNisia - mn Marshqld - mq Maryportfuncity - mp JoeMoneypenny - jm msc - ms Nantonian2013 - n3 RadGuy - rg Sean - sn Sideik - sk Summer in Transylvania - st Thatcher - th The Old Crem - tc theoldlady - to ThereWillBeDeaths7 0 t7 The Unknown Man - tu Toast - tt Wannamaker - wm WEP - we WillyWonka442 Yorkshire Banker - yb  Top talent aplenty in our list of previous champions: 2009 - Raskolnikov 2010 - Nobody, I mean f***in' nobody, reached the winning points total 2011 - DDT 2012 - Spade Cooley 2013 - DDT 2014 - Death Impends 2015 - MSC 2016 - DDT 2017 - Death Impends 2018 - MSC 2019 - Phantom of the Midway 2020 - RadGuy 2021 - An Fear Beag 2022 - Banana 2023 - Banana 2024 - Banana (provisional)

Hastings Banda died on this day 26 years ago, aged ~99. - Banda's year of birth is contested between 1898 and 1906- he claimed the latter, but the tribe he belonged to claimed the former (and he would accept the former later in his life). - Banda received his education overseas (earning a medical degree), returning to Malawi (then Nyasaland) in 1958. He would be arrested the following year for anticolonial activity, being released after a year. - Banda was the one who gave Malawi its post-independence name, naming it after a lake. - After becoming Malawi's first president in 1964, Banda immediately showed dictatorial tendencies by firing cabinet ministers who proposed limiting his power. His Malawi Congress Party became the only legal political party in the country, and he was made president for life in 1971. - Under the Banda regime, all businesses had to have an official picture of him (nothing could be hung higher than it), movies were not allowed to show acts of love (and all of them began with a preshow of Banda waving while Malawi's anthem played), and books about the history of colonial Malawi were burned. - Banda's 30-year presidency ended after he allowed the country to transition to democracy in 1993- he was easily defeated in the 1994 elections by Bakili Muluzi of the newly-formed United Democratic Front Party. - Banda would be arrested in 1995, charged with the murder of four political dissidents in 1983, but was acquitted due to a lack of evidence. - Banda made four appearances on the DeathList (from 1994 until his death), and was the ninth and final hit of 1997.

This is the DeathList Forum. You are allowed to say "died".

Kids today. The great thing about yer classic Doctor Who was that it was treated as a drama. So while it may seem a little slow for today's audiences, the great thing was you got to know the characters in depth - thus your love or dislike for characters was all the more, and there was more tension. Conversely, I find the 45 minuters of today too fast, all action so the regular cast get the development and the supporting cast are to a great extent ignored - I really ended up not caring whether Graham's partner got killed for example. All too rushed, no character development, no machinations or glimpses of planning for the denouement by the baddies. Having said that, there are great episodes of New Who, I just find them so glancing that to this day I don't really understand the arcs they are supposed to reflect - Bad Wolf? What was that? I said. It's like you have to invest in stuff outwith the TV episodes to understand a lot of it, whereas in the good old days, it was all in front of you. But then, I'm old and grumpy about things.

HOF player and the first challenger to Babe Ruth’s home run prowess, Hack Wilson, died 75 years ago (age 48 in ‘48). Interesting history, as the booze got the better of him. Died penniless and even his son wouldn’t pick up the ashes. But eventually some big name ball players pitched in and got him a proper memorial. Wilson’s 191 Runs Batted In in 1930 remains the all-time record, despite baseball going from 154 to 162 games per year and adding steroids/PEDs. Amazing.

On this day 60 years ago, Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated US president John F. Kennedy, was killed himself.

I'd like to see Patricia Routledge on the 2024 list. I'm a great admirer of her entire body of work.

Recent Photos of Horror Legend Tony Todd have got me concerned. He's looking extremely frail.

Eugenia Cooney. A lot of you just need to brush your opinions about her aside and realise that she will obit regardless of how you all feel about it. More interesting than the random 90s olds that are floating around here. Would be great if the deathlist just got with the times?

I think Allen and Polanski could probably live many more years actually. Allen had a centenarian father (his mother wasn't far off either) and he's always been very health-conscious, and based on his recent appearances he hasn't seemed to have had any real decline. Polanski looks great too I'd say, and I figure he'll probably make another movie given his latest was so trashed. Ivory could have a couple years left IMO, he seems pretty healthy still, but he's old enough that I wouldn't object to him on the list. I notice Norman Jewison hasn't been mentioned yet, but I'd like to see him on the list eventually. He's not a guy I'd be too surprised to see reach 100 (he wrote a fairly long tribute to Alan Arkin this year, so he's probably doing well) but there aren't many filmmakers as old and notable as him still going.

I agree with you. Her "absence" is a little bit worrying and Harry Potter's actors are not in good spirit at the moment (Gambon, Coltrane ...) By the way, I add Maggie Smith in the suggestions : 89 years old, she looks frail in latest outings and she is an iconic actress. May be she could live another year but I won't be surprised if she dies soon

Update: Monkey Shoulder works a treat. This was the recipe I made it to and I served it warm. Made it virgin and then mixed in the whisky afterwards because that's how you do drinks when you're living with a teetotalist.

You fuckers will take any thread and make it about US politics. Why can't you be normal and suggest some random 90 year-old?

Yeah, like that'll make a difference to their fortunes this season or mine in this pool!

I’d have slid down the bannister in my tutu, blaring out The Smiths. Though perhaps that’s why I didn’t get the newsreader job, looking back.

And why is that you think he will

The Addams Family lost one of its members when Ted Cassidy died on this day 40 years ago, aged 46.

"Dear Brad Renfro, we came by to fuck you, but you died of a heroin overdose today in 2008. Signed Tiffany and Amber."

Amiri Baraka wrote his last stanza on this day 5 years ago, aged 79.

No one inherited the genes of Gregor Mendel when he died on this day 135 years ago, aged 61.