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Zagallo,92 years,born in Atalaia died in Rio de Janeiro Morre Zagallo, uma das lendas do futebol brasileiro | Rio de Janeiro | G1 (globo.com)

Mario Zagallo (1931-2024) "I'm very concerned about the health of Zagallo" (Pelé before being outlived by Super Mario) Insert here generic pun which involves Jimmy Carter outliving another one Age at death: 92 Known health issues: Irregular heartbeat in 2007, hospitalised in 2016, hospitalised with extreme respiratory failure in 2022, Pelé concerned for him, Pelé ends the years in a casket, Zagallo discharged. Hospitalised in July 2023 for UTI, discharged, hospitalised in December 2023. Cause of death: Went down like a true immortal, multiple organ failure. Alignment: Brazilian legend of football who was called Formiguinha (Little Ant) for his diminutive frame. Lived to 180 in footballer years.

With his death, Swedish Kurt Hamrin is the last living 1958 finalist, and Brazilian Amarildo and Czech Josef Jelinek are the last living 1962 finalists. Brazil 1958 Squad is now down to 4 players : Jose Altafini "Mazzola" Dino Sani Moacir Pepe Only the first two, Altafini and Dino Sani, actually played games, the two others being unused substitutes. Zagallo was the longest lived WC winning manager. He was the last 1970 and 1974 surviving manager. He was the earliest surviving WC winning manager, outliving 2 of his successors, Helmut Schon and Enzo Bearzot. Now the earliest surviving WC winning manager is Cesar Luis Menotti.

I do now. Two teams have Soul. BTW, 220 teams have Carter. Potentially more if any teams fell down sofa. Most since Zsa Zsa in 2014. Glynis and Draper are Drop 40. Putin, Kate Keltie, and Rhod Gilbert won't be. Nor Randy Jackson, who is on fewer teams than Scott Thorson. Should be enough to whet y'alls appetite till we're properly up.

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Mario Zagallo, a huge death, actually!

My congratulations to the Inverse Dead Pool 2023 champion – and the new all-time lowest-scoring player – @tracy! You are now at least 25% of the way to achieving your coveted EGOI (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Inverse). THE WINNING TEAM: Honourable mention also to runner-up @LizLemon for achieving the second best score in Inverse Dead Pool history – and for only being 4 days off tying for the lead after Glynis Johns' death. (Which would have remained a @tracy win under current tie-break rules, but still...) FINAL LEADERBOARD: 1. tracy 1 2. LizLemon 3 3. diego 12 3. Perhaps 12 5. gcreptile 13 6. Grimgrass 14 7. Joey Russ 15 8. CaptainChorizo 20 9. Book 24 9. Summer in Transylvania 24 9. Sean 24 12. Spade_Cooley 26 13. Grim Up North 27 14. deadsox 28 15. wannamaker 29 16. Nick 30 17. MortalCaso 31 18. machotrouts 32 19. ThereWillBeDeaths7 34 19. The Unknown Man 34 21. Death Impends 35 21. Torva Messor 35 21. The Immortal (née TheSpinosaurus) 35 24. Great Uncle Bulgaria 37 24. Bibliogryphon 37 26. CalebH 38 27. An Fear Beag 40 28. TQR 44 29. Captain Hemlock 45 30. Annami 47 30. BuffaloPhil 47 30. marinade 47 33. Newjack 51 34. nantonian2013 55 34. BabyBlue 55 34. MariNisia 55 37. Pedro67 57 37. The Old Crem 57 39. Funeralopolis 59 40. Wormfarmer 61 41. En Passant 62 41. Hell 62 43. Toast 68 44. YoungWillz 71 45. Sir Creep 72 46. chilean way 74 47. Alcalina 86 48. machotrouts' mum 87 48. theoldlady 87 50. msc 113 FINAL CELEBRITY ROUND-UP: TOTAL POINTS # OF TEAMS 1. Donald Trump 1147 49 2. Vladimir Putin 916 48 3. Ozzy Osbourne 841 48 4. Bill Cosby 834 44 5. Clint Eastwood 817 45 6. Billy Connolly 806 48 7. Phil Collins 799 45 8. Buzz Aldrin 780 46 9. Dick Van Dyke 749 44 10. Rupert Murdoch 710 44 11. David Attenborough 609 42 12. Shane MacGowan 594 39 13. Prunella Scales 531 43 14. Mel Brooks 496 44 15. Willie Nelson 488 43 16. Yoko Ono 457 39 17. Burt Bacharach 392 39 18. Randy Jackson 368 35 19. Shannen Doherty 353 33 20. Linda Nolan 266 28 21. Tony Bennett 257 26 22. Janey Godley 248 27 23. Rhod Gilbert 228 26 23. Stanley Baxter 228 32 25. Tim Bilton 202 23 26. Francoise Hardy 195 21 27. Bobby Charlton 176 22 28. Harry Belafonte 169 20 29. Henry Kissinger 162 16 30. Eva Marie Saint 161 25 31. Roberta Flack 146 14 32. Ted Kaczynski 134 16 33. Kate Keltie 127 20 34. Jimmy Carter 115 13 35. Andy Taylor 97 16 36. Bob Barker 81 11 37. Glynis Johns 67 13 38. Rob Burrow 58 7 38. Larry Pressler 58 8 40. Frank Field 55 5 41. Johnny Ruffo 51 11 42. Ryuichi Sakamoto 49 4 43. Rolf Harris 46 3 44. Joanne Woodward 44 9 45. George Alagiah 41 3 46. Jonnie Irwin 37 2 47. Nigel Starmer-Smith 31 5 48. Steve McMichael 22 3 49. Simon Cowell (wildlife) 10 2 50. James Whale 4 1 And congratulations, somehow, to the entire bottom five on their survival. (@Great Uncle Bulgaria was the one person who trusted that James Whale would still be with us.) Thank you for playing. See you in the Inverse Dead Pool 2024 soon.

That's all!

Theodore Roosevelt died on this day 105 years ago, aged 60. - When he was 7 years old, Roosevelt became interested in zoology when he saw a dead seal that was planned to be butchered at a local market- the butcher gave him the seal's skull. From there, Roosevelt would learn taxidermy and made a makeshift museum in his parent's house. - Roosevelt's mother (Martha) and first wife (Alice) died on the same day: February 12, 1884. He gave custody of his daughter Alice to his sister Anna while he grieved, and took her back once she was three years old. - During his presidency, Roosevelt owned many exotic pets- these included a bear, a hyena, and a lion. - In 1912 Roosevelt attempted to run for president after his first presidency had ended- this split the Republican ticket, leading to a landslide victory for Woodrow Wilson. He was notably shot in the chest during one of his speeches, but continued for the next 90 minutes before allowing himself to receive medical aid. - Roosevelt was also known for his post-presidential expeditions- these included an African safari to hunt specimens for the American Museum of Natural History, and going to Brazil to explore the "River of Doubt" deep in the Amazon (where he nearly died from malaria)- the river has since been renamed "Rio Roosevelt". - Roosevelt died in his sleep from a detached blood clot that got stuck in his lungs. His Vice President, Thomas Marshall, stated "Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight."

Here's a Reuters obit for Mario Zagallo, who is a hit for DoorSlammer. Congratulations. 1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Ramona Fradon 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Mary Costa 1931: Darryl Hickman / Ann Roth 1932: Joe Engle / Elaine May 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston

How are we suppose to live without him?

Yes. Thread closed. Stop creating pointless threads. Yellow card.

Not a week into 2024 and he's dead. What better pick for a death list could there be?

Kishin Shinoyama, who took one of the final pictures of John Lennon, one of him kissing Yoko Ono, has died. He was 83. Shinoyama was also known for his artistic nudes of women. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67889309

Susana Gutiérrez Godoy was born in Tepechitlán, Zacatecas on May 24, 1910 and died on Jan 5, 2024, she was the oldest known person in Mexico as of Oct/2022, Throughout her life, she focused on selling food, particularly menudo (a traditional Mexican soup), and preparing dinners in his hometown The oldest person in Mexico now is Maria Mendoza Sanchez born May 9, 1912 Pessoa mais velha conhecida do México morre aos 113 anos - LongeviQuest

You don't bring a knife to a gunfight, you don't challenge Haku to a bar fight and you don't challenge Odstocks knowledge of racing drivers!

As pointed out in another thread (altough I found a better source), Michael Bolton apparently had a brain tumor. This may explain his strange behavior during the filming I saw at Magic Kingdom back in November, and may explain quite a bit of the other reactions we've seen from people about him in the past few months...

This is the type of, with respect, horseshit that makes the Beatles just that little bit easier to knock. (IMO, not here to change opinions, just share)

If you are a license fee payer go to BBC iPlayer and watch BBC News at One from today and go to about 9 and a half minutes in and just watch, he was a part of founding 'New Labour' and was involved in two lobbying scandals before catching COVID. Here's a link to make it even easier for you.

Yeah but Coleen Rooney would be a deathlisty name if she was ill I would say as she is known in her own right through extension of the profile her marriage . Similarly Sharon Osbourne would be a famous enough name for the Death List but wouldn't be if she had never married Ozzy. None of the first ladies of the US on the list over the years would have been famous if it was not for their marriages and if Prince Philip had never married the Queen he would have just been an obscure foreign Royal and if it wasn't for his daughters social media skills we would never have known who Tom Moore was. Draper was an influential lobbyist who was a key part of the New Labour movement and had a number of notable scandals.Just because his wife kept his plight in the spotlight is irrelevant he is still more famous in his own right than say Bill Gates Dad or Elizabeth Edwards and most political and royal spouses. I didn't even pick him for my shadowlist as I partly overlooked him but also when his name came into my head I queried whether he was deathlisty enough but there was merit to his inclusion.His obituaries cover all the things he did behind the scenes for the Labour party.He was famous for reasons other than his impending demise and was always going to get obituaries from every major paper and news station.Which by the committees own definitions is enough. Never known so much anger over the committee being bold rather than just stuffing the list with seemingly healthy A list nonogenarians as they have been criticised for in the past.The committee have had 2 hits in 2 days I say good calls.The Deathlist has never looked stronger this early in the year since I followed it.

Congratulations, @DoorSlammer! 1924 Khamtai Siphandone / Joyce Randolph 1925 David Graham / Phyllis Dalton 1926 Philip Springer / Gudrun Ure 1927 Arthur Cohn / Geneviève Page 1928 Jim Lovell / Ethel Kennedy 1929 Len Deighton / Joan Plowright 1930 Thomas Patten Stafford / Joanne Woodward 1931 Robert Ito / Alice Munro 1932 Dabney Coleman / Naina Yeltsina 1933 Alexander Mitta / Barrie Chase

Let's wrap this up, shall we? We've had a couple of late year hits, and yes, they actually decided the game. Let's start with Norman Lear. The groundbreaking TV showrunner was a hit for 5 players. Ryan Minor was a hit for quite a few people, some of them making use of the 5 substitution slots for him. Maybe a minor hit, minor difference, etc.... but that's the one that counted, in the end. Richard Franklin, as noted above, was a hit for Perhaps and Bibliogryphon. One of the hundreds of British names that seem very quite significant, but not having grown up with the BBC, does put me at a disadvantage remembering these actors. Jacques Delors, Mr. Euro, was another popular hit and gives some late points across the board. Robert Solow, a significant economist, not just signficant in the science, but also popular with deadpoolers finally died at 99. Diego and Mr. Wonderful score. Ryan Minor was not the only hit named Ryan in this update, as Ryan O'Neal also died in the final month. He should have asked his doc what's up a little more often - though actually, his age of 82 is not particularly low, considering the drug use.. Cale Yarborough was the final hit of the game, a hit on the final day. He was quite the popular mid-year substitution and actually would have decided the game, if it wasn't for Ryan Minor. EDIT: As seen below, yes, there was also Beach Boys collaborator and guitarist Jeffrey Foskett. He had been ill and with gofundme for years. The patience for two players, msc and JoeyRuss finally paid off. Slightly curiously, Gaston Glock was not a hit. And as far as I can tell, none of the non-obits got a late QO, Daniel N Paul, Steve Woodmore, Chris Stone or Oommen Chandy among them. So, unless I have made mistakes (it's likely), the final scoreboard is below. Banana wins with a small advantage over me. He actually needed Ryan Minor, or I would have won on the final day with Cale Yarborough. But then, it's also a title defense, very rare in this competitive environment. Well done, and congratulations! Behind the top duo, we see An Fear Beag, RadGuy, and Funeralopolis, sort of in the "needed two more hits" territory. Interestingly, both Funeralopolis and Rad Guy had more hits than the players above them. Funeralopolis wins "Most hits" with 23, RadGuy has 22. Banana has 19, I have 18. DIfferent strategies at work! In my opinion, maybe the biggest surprise, the "best improved" player might be Buffalo Phil at 12th. Well done, as well! We all still chase the score records of DevonDeathTrip's win a couple of years ago. But maybe there's a parallel to the DDP, more hits overall, but fewer "high scores". 61 players was a record. It's doubtful that this record can be reached soon again. We've had a reduction in 2024 by 8 teams. The 50+X field seems the "natural" size, considering 2022 had 44 teams. DeathByNumbers 2023 was even bigger than the AltObits pool, if I count it right, especially if you count "picks total", because AltObits is only 40 names per team, here we are 50 (+ 5). Rank Team Score 1 Banana 1235 2 gcreptile 1196 3 An Fear Beag 1136 4 RadGuy 1127 5 Funeralopolis 1116 6 Salmon Mousse 1073 7 Cpt. Chorizo 1067 8 JoeyRuss 1056 9 msc 1050 10 Grim Up North 1015 11 Perhaps 932 12 Buffalo Phil 870 13 Book 840 14 The Spinosaurus 825 15 wannamaker 808 16 ThereWillBeDeaths7 787 17 Mr. Wonderful 763 18 Summer in Transylvania 749 19 DeathBecomesThem 679 20 Predictor 672 21 Death Impends 671 22 Torva Messor 647 23 Toast 644 24 Joltin Joe 640 25 GuyFromFuture 619 26 TheQuimReaper 607 27 TheUnknownMan 597 28 Thatcher 580 29 Wormfarmer 557 29 DevonDeathTrip 557 31 tracy 551 32 The Old Crem 545 33 MortalCaso 542 34 Liz Lemon 535 35 Sean 529 36 Gooseberry Crumble 525 37 The Daredevil 520 38 MariNisia 519 38 Hell 519 40 TheOldLady 510 41 Cpt. Hemlock 508 42 Drol 507 43 JoeMoneypenny 498 44 Diego 481 45 YoungWillz 478 46 John Key 471 47 chilean way 462 48 Annami 445 49 Nick 421 50 Bibliogryphon 393 51 Etushipushingupdaisies 385 52 Charles De Gaulle 373 53 Mr. Custard 363 54 CalebH 349 55 Pedro67 320 56 Famous6Eva 316 57 Great Uncle Bulgaria 307 58 etib80 260 59 Lady Fiona 257 60 Ghostofchristmaspast 224 61 sam081 198

Plus the six surviving Germans who played in the final.

German-born actor Christian Oliver, who starred in Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Speed Racer and Valkyrie, died at 51 years after plane crash: https://deadline.com/2024/01/christian-oliver-daughters-killed-caribbean-plane-crash-speed-racer-1235695821/ He played Steve Chensky in the 2009 film, Tribute, which was based on the book by novelist Nora Roberts