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My annual look at the new top 50. · Jimmy Carter – Hospice care for nearly a year, recently lost his wife and looked like a corpse, probably on most of our DDP teams. · Dick Van Dyke – Super healthy 98 year old. Will go one day, not convinced this year. · Pete Murray – Looked frail as hell during lockdown. Didn’t do his usual shows in 2023, but is also ancient. · Alan Greenspan – Boring economist bedblocker. · Pope Francis – In increasing frail health, lots of little things adding up, only has one working lung, and is the most famous man on the planet. Great pick. · Ethel Kennedy – Frail and little seen these days. Biden spoke to her on her birthday. · Cleo Laine – Reclusive and retired for years. · Sandy Gall – Recently published a 400+ page book on Afghanistan, but has recently slimmed down his schedule. Finally retiring or feeling his age? · Noam Chomsky – If I can count on Rent a Cynic Chomsky for anything, its to speak out on any given event. Nothing on his birthday? Strange. Nothing for half a year? Worrisome. Nothing about Henry Kissinger dying? This guy must be on his deathbed. · Robert Wagner – Seems one of the healthier old guys on the list. · Mel Brooks – 98 this year and still working! · Dennis Skinner – Quiet since retirement, recent rumours of dementia, though he is seen out and about in his local area. · Nigel Starmer Smith – Bedridden since 2022. No life at all, really. · James Whale – Is absolutely going to die in a few months, he assures us, just lack in the last four years. Can only keep going for so long though. · Glynis Johns – Super frail, super legend, great pick. · Stanley Baxter – Significantly quietened down of late, as he is ancient. Feels close to the end, and is 500 years old in Scottish years. · Joanne Woodward – Has had end-stage dementia for decade. Recent documentary confirms she sees her family weekly but takes in very little. Can’t have long left. · Patricia Routledge – TV legend who is now in a care home and lost her close friend Betty last year. Very DLy. · Clint Eastwood – Had to make the list. · Derek Draper – Recently suffered a massive HA so could be an absolute gimme for the list. · Vanessa Redgrave – Severe lung problems in 2021 have diminished her health and she looked hellish in recent appearances. · Desmond Morris – Now lives in Ireland and seemed quite alert for his age in an interview last year. · Gene Hackman – Retired A lister, very DLy. · Jean Marie Le Pen – Was ill last year and for a moment we thought we could get rid of the guy. But no, he recovered. · Denis Law – Was keeping a public profile even with his vascular dementia, but recently, nothing, even when close friends die. Suggests he’s gone downhill quickly. · Hans Blix – Just released his memoirs, still gives interviews but is retired in Sweden. · Julie Walters – Rumours she is gravely ill seem to just be rumours to my mind? · Tom Brokaw – Apparently he’s still got the same cancer from 2014, and looks ghastly of late. · Linda Nolan – Her cancer is now in her brain. Surely even she can’t romance away this… · Bob Newhart – Looked frail for years and recently lost his wife, a dangerous combo. · Louis Farrakhan – Not someone I am very familiar with, but Ulitzer said they should have died years ago. Am assuming that’s a frail health comment! · Norman Tebbit – Sean’s cuddly uncle secretly takes in the life essence of everyone else so cannot die. Tebbit’s quietness of late is so unlike Norman Tebbit, however. · Willie Nelson – Survived full on covid and lung issues in 2022, because he’s Willie fn Nelson. Will probably die on stage one day. · Daniel Barenboim – A classical pianist, this is a classy pick I don’t know much about, but apparently he’s been diagnosed with a severe neurological health issue, had to retire abruptly, and recent news that he had to take life “day by day” didn’t sound promising. · Esther Rantzen – That bloody woman. She now has terminal lung cancer, which we’ll hear all about until it ends. Great pick. · Roberta Flack – Going into her 2nd year of ALS in her eighties, sadly a top pick. · Dick Cheney – Well he has to die one of these days. And he is at the upper limit of life expectancy for a heart transplant. Clutching at straws? · Prunella Scales – Physically well, mentally gone, think her longevity is linked to Timothy West. One goes, the other follows rapidly. · Robert Duvall – Is still acting, though he is starting to slow down his work load now. · Josef Fritzl – Cunt. · Brigitte Bardot – Frail French legend with reported health issues in recent times. · Raul Castro – Fake Death news recently, last Castro sibling left standing. · Imelda Marcos – Had emergency heart surgery last year, could be a shoe in. · Ted Turner – Has been suffering from one of the shorter term dementias for five years. Under the radar top pick. · Buzz Aldrin – LEG. END. Don’t care if he’s on the DL for ten minutes or ten years, this is where he belongs. · Sonny Rollins – How is he still alive? · Sly Stone – How is HE still alive? And with his failing lungs, he wont be for much longer. · Tom Baker – Sentimental favourite for me, in frail health nowadays. · Franz Beckenbauer – One of the GOAT footballers, has a variety of health issues now and also has gone very quiet. Something is up. · Joe Bugner – A heavyweight boxer in a care home is DL Cmme manna. Gut feeling? Great list. Lots of inspired new picks, and frail longtimers. The DL went 17 picks in 2017, and 20 in 2020, I'm calling it now, this year they'll go 24 for 24.

Françoise Bornet, half of a couple captured by photographer Robert Doisneau in his photograph "Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss by the City Hall)", has died aged 93.

Remember when this happened with Raul Castro - I’ll spare you a facepalm.

And that's a wrap on 2023. Congrats Banana!

Some articles who have him dead, also have him 74 years old. It's not credible (yet).

He looks fine. I very much doubt he will die anytime soon.

The Queen did some work with Paddington during her Platinum Jubilee and was dead in 3 months.

Hard to pick one. Derek Draper in terms of fame but a few others in terms of health.

Italian actress and voice artist Germana Dominici (Wiki) dead at 77 The widow of Enrico Bomba (Wiki)

According to this website he’s dead. I couldn’t find other sources mentioning his death though.

Congrats @Banana Thanks to @gcreptile, @Banana and @Death Impends for doing a terrific job!

French politician Pierre Pranchère (Wiki) dead at 96

Thanks MariNisia you are a star

Dabney Coleman is 92.

Current host is Ken Jennings. Previously the most successful Jeopardy contestant, and the road to him becoming permanent Jeopardy host was a very convoluted one you could write a book on but I'm glad it ended up with him as he is very much the best choice. Nails the "feels like he knows all the answers" vibe that Trebek had, and very witty as well. Further information may be given, especially during Final Jeopardy, though it's always going to be a few seconds of discussing it. Plus if a contestant gives a reasonable wrong answer Ken might explain the connection of the wrong answer to the right answer. Two boards (regular first round, plus Double Jeopardy where point values are doubled) and final Jeopardy is correct.

Norm MacDonald did it the right way. If I knew I was surely dying I don’t believe I would tell anyone other than my family. It’s a private affair and “sharing the news” is just attention seeking behavior. Jimmy Buffett also did it right. I was shocked by both of their deaths.

Desmond Morris is a duplicate pick, dear. If you're interested on using them for your team: Bob Cousy, Paul Dooley, Earl Holliman, Jean-Marie Le Pen or James Dewey Watson are free picks. Edna O'Brien is a duplicate pick, too. Lynn Hamilton, Katherine Jackson, Sara Jane Moore, Faith Ringgold or Lois Smith are free picks, too. I hope this helps you.

She was one of the most famous French film actresses. Similar to Catherine Deneuve, anyone with an interest in cinema would know of her. Bardot, I have to say, is famous more for being a sex symbol than for her film career. Would Moreau have been Deathlisty? Definitely. Jeanne Moreau is in one of my favourite films - A Foreign Field it's about WW2 veterans returning to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D-Day. It's very funny and very moving. Do see it if you can track it down.

Leslie Caron also a household name for the older generation. Not many other non British/Irish European actresses household names either. Sophia Loren, Penelope Cruz? Anyone else?

Gordon R. Sullivan, Chief of Staff of the US Army 1991-1995, dead at 86. (For DL search purposes Gordon Sullivan or Gordon Russell Sullivan) Two of his predecessors are still alive, John A. Wickham Jr (96 this year) and Carl E. Vuono (90 this year). Vuono was still attending events as of 2019 and probably later, not so sure about Wickham who already looked very frail in 2010.

He's hardly the first person who's name I only know because they appeared on this site.

I am watching Mr Bates Vs The Post Office and it is a great drama. It's based on real life events as well and it gets me really annoyed because I know that a lot of the victims havn't been compensated.

Since entering hospice, Jimmy Carter has outlived: *2 family members *2 chairpersons of The Carter Center *6 former Governors *16 "Immortals" *20 DeathList picks (16 hits; 4 misses) *265 DDP picks

Got to replace Kissinger with someone!