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Queen Elizabeth II died on this day 2 years ago, aged 96. Going to do something a bit different today... I'm going to take you back down memory lane by recapping her final week as recorded by the forum (time zones are EST). September 1, 2022: Joke made about the queen dying before Boris Johnson can turn his duties over to incoming PM Liz Truss. September 2, 2022: Confirmation that she would no longer attend the Braemar Highland Games (scheduled for the following day). September 3, 2022: Speculation made that she may stay at Balmoral Castle permanently- which she did. Somehow leads to a semantics argument on the spelling of 'toerag'. September 6, 2022: Meets with Liz Truss to confirm her as PM. Everyone instantly notices the odd coloration of her hands (in her last picture): September 7, 2022: Cancels a privy meeting due to exhaustion. Makes her final written statement issuing condolences for the victims of the mass stabbing in Saskachewan. Nobody seems to think she's imminently on the way out. September 8, 2022: - 7:35 AM: TQR makes the announcement about Buckingham Palace's statement about her health. TV coverage begins with the palace's official announcement. - 7:44 AM: Repost from then-Twitter noting that Nadhim Zahawi "urgently" briefing Liz Truss. - 7:51 AM: Announcement that Prince William is heading to Balmoral. People finally begin to recognize her incoming demise and post sweepstake dates. - 8:48 AM: Announcement that Princess Anne, Prince Edward and the Archbishop of Canterbury are heading to Balmoral. - 11:10 AM: Queen Elizabeth II's recorded time of death. - 11:31 AM: First death rumor posted by Sean 20 minutes after it actually happened (still not announced). - 11:47 AM: Announcement that ITV to suspend normal programming indefinitely at 5 PM BST. - 1:30 PM: Thatcher (obviously) breaks the official announcement of her death. The forum's loading times slow to a crawl due to all the incoming user traffic, but are mostly back to normal within a few hours.

8/Sep/2024 46 Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons 36 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover 32 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 31 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock +1 30 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock 29 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 26 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette +1 23 Paul Anka — Diana +1 23 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes +1 23 Elvis Presley — All Shook Up 23 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 22 Rosemary Clooney & The Mellomen — Mambo Italiano 20 Guy Mitchell — Singing The Blues 20 The Teenagers ft. Frankie Lymon — Why Do Fools Fall In Love 20 Frankie Laine — I Believe 14 Alma Cogan — Dreamboat 12 Perry Como & The Ramblers — Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes 00 Mantovani & His Orchestra — The Song From Moulin Rouge -6

Innovation Idiot He comes on here, probably after some beer, with a stupid idea and verbal diarrhoea, alliterative names and stupid games why don’t you fuck off you stupid prick

Sun 8 Sep 44 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover +4 40 Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons 34 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 32 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock 31 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock 30 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 28 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 23 Paul Anka — Diana 23 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 23 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 21 Rosemary Clooney & The Mellomen — Mambo Italiano 20 Guy Mitchell — Singing The Blues 20 The Teenagers ft. Frankie Lymon — Why Do Fools Fall In Love 17 Frankie Laine — I Believe 17 Elvis Presley — All Shook Up 09 Perry Como & The Ramblers — Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes 08 Alma Cogan — Dreamboat -6

08.09.2024 40 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover +4 40 Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons -6 34 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 32 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock 31 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock 30 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 28 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 23 Paul Anka — Diana 23 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 23 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 21 Rosemary Clooney & The Mellomen — Mambo Italiano 20 Guy Mitchell — Singing The Blues 20 The Teenagers ft. Frankie Lymon — Why Do Fools Fall In Love 17 Frankie Laine — I Believe 17 Elvis Presley — All Shook Up 14 Alma Cogan — Dreamboat 09 Perry Como & The Ramblers — Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes

She was just plain ‘Yoko’ till she started singing.

Back to the ol' drawing board until this time around in 2025, I shall not give up until one of my annual ideas to use the DeathList to inspire and motivate people is approved by the masses on this forum and fully implemented. The DeathList as I have always said should keep its morbid reputation intact because it is all in jolly good fun to count up the celebrity deaths year after year, but it could be such a force of change if we put our heads together and worked to promote a human-focused message. Also, your poem was delightfully devilish. One of the reasons why I am absolutely enthralled by this website and the people on it is that everyone speaks their minds so assuredly. This motivates me even more greatly to try harder and convert you to my side like Henry Fonda did with the jurors in "12 Angry Men" so congratulations for this backfiring on you. Ta-ta for now.

No worries- I have disallowed so many of your picks that it must be difficult to keep up with them all! Congratulations on your first hit. I will be doing an update shortly, so will see yourself rocketing up the leaderboard. Which is an unsubtle hint to the rest of you to mention any other hits that may have occurred since the last update.

@polar duck @Dim Reaper @John Key Good Morning! Please update your Masterlists to show that I have 8 hits please and not 7. Please refer to my list on page 2 in order to see my hits. Thank you for this great team effort!

P!nk is 45.

08/09/24 48 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian 41 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 37 The Damned - Eloise +4 36 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 30 Madness - Baggy Trousers -6 28 Tears for Fears - Mad World 22 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 14 Queen - A Kind of Magic 12 Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) 10 The Vapors - Turning Japanese 06 Queen - I Want It All

Former first lady of New Hampshire Nancy Sununu dead at 85. Also the mother of current Governor Chris Sununu.

Ben Garrison, the creator of these ridiculous pro-Trump cartoons is in a cancer fight but seems to now be healing after 28 radiation sessions: https://x.com/GrrrGraphics/status/1832164323004969010

Will Jennings reportedly dead: https://bestclassicbands.com/will-jennings-lyricist-obituary-tears-in-heaven-my-heart-will-go-on-9-6-24/ Lyricist for Up Where We Belong and My Heart Will Go On. Also, Tears In Heaven, Higher Love, One Day I'll Fly Away etc etc.

Sonny Rollins is 94.

Obviously. This is DeathList, not LifeList.

Sorry, my bad. __________________________________ Academician, Soviet and Russian scientist, engineer, general designer of over 200 nuclear and diesel-electric submarines Igor Spassky has died. kommersant.ru

It was recorded this year. The first one is up on Iplayer already. To be blunt, by most people at 95 years old standards, she looks great. And she's recorded about 40 minutes of this (over several sessions by looks of it but still). By Patricia Routledge's standards, however, she's clearly declined a fair bit since her Channel 5 interview in 2022. More pauses in sentences, lost weight compared to then, clearly faded slightly as the reminisces went on. Reminded me of several elderly relatives in their twilight. Not at deaths door imo but I'd keep her on the list tbh.

Frank Torpey, guitarist for The Sweet and their last surviving original member, died in March aged 78. Was with them only briefly (1968–1969) and never appeared on any of their hits. The other 3 original members were Steve Priest (1948–2020), Mick Tucker (1947–2002), and Brian Connolly (1945–1997).

Yuriko back in the ICU with pneumonia. Already recovered and is expected to return to her normal hospital bed soon.

My pick Al Attles is dead https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40941565/al-attles-former-warriors-player-coach-gm-dies-87

Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah (1926-2024) "Who's that on the corner? Oh, don't worry, it's old Sheikh Salem from Kuwait. He has been doing poorly, he won't be there for long" (God to Adam and Eve)" "Sheikh Salem has recently undergone complete self-ignition but he is still doing well" (arghton, updating the forum on Salem's conditions) Age at death: 98 Known health issues: He had ICU stays atleast in the early 2000s and after suffering seemingly hypoxia and cardiac arrest (possibly also internal bleeding) due to severe gastrointestinal perforation he underwent tracheotomy (see around 1:13 in this video - that clip is from 2007) and following a two and a half year recovery at hospitals somehow recovered and returned to Kuwait in January 2010. He had hospitalisations in February-March 2013, September 2018, December 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021...in 2020 he was critically ill, Kuwaiti social media users have for the last few years been saying "I pray for his recovery" or something similar every time he's being talked about. (credit to arghton) Cause of death: Fucking Israel, they got another one of them! Alignment: Stone guest in the last 60 years of Kuwait history, he survived 5 emirs as head of National Guard.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944-2024) "There can be only one perennial COPD sufferer, curry boy!" (Kenneth Cope) "Hold my beer" (Jake the Snake) "How do you spell it? Bhudd.. Buddadh... Fuck, I'll take him next time!" (The Reaper is unable to take Buddhad...Budd... well, you know) Age at death: 80 Known health issues: Suffered from COPD for years, hospitalised in 2019 on life support, hospitalised in very critical condition in December 2020, of course on life support. Few survive the dreaded "very critical" conditions, but he did. Hospitalised with COVID in May 2021 and, guess what, a bit of life support. Hospitalised again in "very critical" condition in July 2023. No one survives "very critical" conditions twice, but he did. Cause of death: Died after a few days of fever at home, which apparently did not require hospitalization. Ironic, but only for Alanis Morrissette. Alignment: Hardline communist, commonly known as "The Red Buddha". His tenure aimed at industrial development of West Bengal and he was behind the world's cheapest car, Tata Nano. His tenure also aimed at protestors, usually with a rifle, and this quite caused his downfall and tarnished his legacy.

Apologies for the extended absence. Huge Thanks to John Key and Polar Duck for holding the fort down. Ray Reardon Pop_Zeus 3+1 theoldlady 7+1 TQR 6+1 MrShadrak 8+1 Grimgrass 4+1 Bob Newhart Trome 0+1 Biblyiogryphon 5+1 Brad252 4+1 Morrisey 3+1 Nasqucker 0+1 Etushispushingupdaisies 6+1 Diego 9+1 Perhaps 6+1 Zsa Zsa's leg 2+1 St3ve 9+1 Thatcher 9+1 livingbygrace 5+1 Markb4 9+1 ThereWillBeDeaths7 7+1 LWCZ 5+1 Hell 4+1 MariNisia 12+1 Superstar 7+1 Death Duke 9+1 Arghton 3+1 Steve 10+1 Johnnas 3+1 The Daredevil 6+1 Grimgrass 5+1 MrShadrak 9+1 heiheiheihei 7+1 Tomtomtelekom 2+1 Nick 9+1 Wannamaker 12+1 jonnythegamemaster 10+1 polar duck 9+1 Salmon Mousse 9+1 Scoreboard gcreptile 19/50 BuffaloPhil 16/50 Max_bossetti 15/50 Book 15/50 The Immortal 15/50 CaptainChorizo 14/50 Prophet 14/50 MariNisia 13/50 Wannamaker 13/50 six feet blunder 12/50 Sean 11/50 Torva Messor 11/50 Philip 11/50 jonnythegamemaster 11/50 Steve 11/50 John Key 10/50 Ladyfiona 10/50 Diego 10/50 Markb4 10/50 Thatcher 10/50 Death Duke 10/50 Nick 10/50 polar duck 10/50 St3ve 10/50 Salmon Mousse 10/50 MrShadrak 10/50 DeathBecomesThem 9/50 Imelda 8/50 dimreaper 8/50 Charles De Gaulle 8/50 Joltin Joe 8/50 ThereWillBeDeaths7 8/50 theoldlady 8/50 Superstar 8/50 Heiheiheihei 8/50 The Old Crem 7/50 Windsor 7/50 Perhaps 7/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 7/50 The Daredevil 7/50 TQR 7/50 LizLemon 6/50 Bibliogryphon 6/50 LWCZ 6/50 livingbygrace 6/50 Grimgrass 6/50 Brad252 5/50 Hell 5/50 Main Deathlist 4/50 Morrisey 4/50 Johnnas 4/50 Arghton 4/50 Pop_Zeus 4/50 Redrumours 3/50 Earl 3/50 Khthonia 3/50 Zsa Zsa's leg 3/50 Tomtomtelekom 3/50 Gooseberry Crumble 1/50 Kissofdeath 1/50 Trome 1/50 Nasquacker 1/50