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Our number 49, Didi Constantini, has died at age 69: https://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/didi-constantini-ist-tot-trainerlegende-aus-oesterreich-gestorben-a-85f38153-f215-4675-8813-54ab58adc323 Former national football coach of Austria. Our hit no. 9 this year.

Rik van Looy dead at 90.

Jean Adamson, best known for her Topsy And Tim books has died aged 96: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/14033978/jean-adamson-dead-childrens-author-topsy-and-tim A pick for Toast in 2020 in the DDP @Death Impends so List of the Missed. https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_A.html#adamsoj020

I remember someone on here saying something about Alzheimers a while back bur I have never seen anything more than that about his health. He is mentioned a lot I think because not only is he due to turn 95 in March but he was a household name in Britain.He was also very active in public life regularly appearing in public and giving interviews then nearly 10 years ago now he resigned from the House of Lords and has not been heard from since.He was passionately against Brexit and spoke out against the idea before the referendum but to my knowledge never commented after the referendum as by that time he retreated from public life.

William Labov dead at 97.

Risky bet but...Michael Bolton? A few brain tumor communities I am in or have visited have judged he's likely suffering from a more severe brain tumor (well, brain cancer) especially due to the emergency surgery, visible weakness and confusion on stage last year. His O2 show was postponed with a full year around the summer and seems that back in October nearly all his shows, atleast all before July 2025, were postponed indefinitely. There's also this health update his nephew provided in August that feels a bit ominous: “He’s the strongest person I know. I mean, honestly, he is determined. Every day he’s getting better,” Adam told EW. “He communicates so much with his eyes, and the power that’s behind them is just reassuring to everybody that this man is built out of something special.” He later clarified to EW that Michael is still able to speak and sing, and added, “He is well and recovering very well.” (He was also seemingly unable to send a video message) Anyways, he has not given any details to the public about what type of brain tumor he has, god knows when his last appearance anywhere was and from a quick look on his Facebook and Instagram I get a feeling he might not be managing his own social medias anymore. Conclusion: I hope I am wrong and have missed something, but it feels like he is either: 1) terminally ill, family is avoiding media attention and the July 2025 O2 show will again be postponed around March or April if he's alive. 2) Not ill, but not the same as he was before - perhaps a massive benign tumor that fucked something up.

Originally we had the Lee Evans gambiting, deliberately hyping up someone with a low-grade, treatable cancer in December. Then we did the reverse of that, which was going so gung-ho on a solid pick that people thought you were bluffing. Then it was just buck-shotting the board with a mix of good and bad info in December so nobody could work out what was viable data. The next great dark art of deadpooling is yet to be discovered, though.

Thank you so much @YoungWillz.. I sent my 3 teams in. Hopefully I did well being my first time

Wow, I didn't expect another hit this year! 9 hits, not so bad in 2024!

Stay away from me, Satan! Ahem.

From what I understand, Kara sort of got caught up in a media rush around a misunderstanding of his diagnosis, and never got around to correcting news stories (in fairness he only gave a couple of interviews, a lot of the Kara content out there is prime churn-era journalism "rewriting a story we saw elsewhere with no new content").

Aaahh you mean young Ritchii Kara, who is now middle-aged Ritchii Kara. Still living, and still loving life going by his SM posts!. Its over eleven years since he hit the headlines with only "months to live" (though to be fair, there was never a specific number of months mentioned). Actually scratch that last part, according to our local news reports, he was given 14 months in August 2012!

Julen Lopetegui's father José Antonio Lopetegui, dead at 94: https://www.footboom1.com/en/news/football/2196157-jose-antonio-lopetegui-known-as-aguerre-ii-passes-away-at-94 José Antonio was also a prominent weightlifter and courted to become a heavyweight boxer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Antonio_Lopetegui

Roscoe Draper, the "oldest living" Tuskegee Airman, has died. He was 105. Draper died October 31st. https://www.phillytrib.com/obituaries/roscoe-d-draper-last-living-tuskegee-airmen-flight-instructor-dies-at-105/article_a502545b-dfd3-5638-9eda-46c03780a59b.html

Zsa Zsa Gabor died on this day 8 years ago, aged 99. - Gabor's real name was Sari Gabor, and she received her nickname due to being unable to pronounce her name as a young child. She was named after Sari Fadak, a popular actress in her native Hungary. - Gabor would become notable by competing in beauty pageants, and after moving to the US in 1941, made it big in Hollywood. Her breakout role was as Jane Avril in the 1952 version of Moulin Rouge, followed by other hit movies such as Lili and Touch of Evil. She also often appeared on TV, notably on multiple late night talk shows and as a one-time villain on the Adam West Batman show. Her final role was in 1996's A Very Brady Sequel. - Gabor was equally as well-known for her nine marriages. Among her husbands were Conrad Hilton (founder of the Hilton brand of hotels), George Sanders (actor), and Jack Ryan (co-inventor of Barbie and Hot Wheels). - In later years, Gabor had very notable health issues (and was very much deserving of "immortal" status). A 2002 car crash partially paralyzed her and made her rely on a wheelchair to move. She had two strokes in the mid-2000s, and in 2010 would receive last rites before being discharged from the hospital. Her right leg would be amputated in 2011 and she fell into a coma which she was not expected to survive- yet she emerged from it. For the last five years of her life she relied on a feeding tube to eat and drink, which ended up leading to an infection in 2016 that required surgery. What ultimately killed her was cardiac arrest. - Gabor appeared on the DeathList a total of 10 times between 1991 and 2016, and was the 10th hit (of the 12) that year.

Justus Frantz clarifies that he does not have a tumour, just an aneurysm in his aorta that could explode under too much strain: https://www.bunte.de/stars/star-life/stars-privat/justus-frantz-ich-fuehle-mich-wie-mit-18.html Otherwise he feels like 18, and recently announced that he lives together with his 27-year old male manager (as one parallel with Michael Tilson Thomas goes away, other one appears): https://schwulissimo.de/klatsch/neue-liebe-mit-80-jahren-star-dirigent-justus-frantz-ist-verliebt

Yes, you have it right, no arses in faces here

Marisa Paredes, the exceptional Spanish actress of film, stage and television, a great lady of Spanish stage, well known for her 6 collaborations with Pedro Almodóvar reportedly dead at 78: https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/cine/muere-actriz-marisa-paredes-78-anos_1_11907016.html

Loath as I am to agree with you, I do think Sir Keir Starmer KC, former DPP, has been surprisingly bad at presenting the case for his government and its policies. For a laugh I looked up the required skills to be a barrister on the National Careers Service website. How many of these do we think he's demonstrated as PM?

On this day 58 years ago, Walt Disney passed away at the age of 65.

Glenn Miller died on this day 80 years ago, aged 40. - Miller's first name was actually Alton, and he went by an alternate spelling of his middle name (it originally had one N). - Miller would form a band with some of his friends during high school, and would soon become a freelance trombonist for big bands. Notably he worked for the Dorsey Brothers, writing several songs for them. - Miller formed the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1938, and their first hit was 1939's "In the Mood": The band would have a string of hits over the next few years, many of which became swing music staples- "Pennsylvania 6-5000", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "Tuxedo Junction", and the original version of "At Last": - Miller would enlist in the US Army in 1942 to serve in World War II. Rather than have him serve in combat, the military would use him and his band to entertain soldiers and boost troop morale. They would be stationed in England in June of 1944. Miller was planned to be restationed to Paris in December of that year. Miller grew impatient due to delays made because of inclement weather, and would soon learn that an acquaintance would be flying there and so joined him without notifying his superiors. The plane took off- and went missing, believed to have crashed into the English Channel due to either a mechanical failure from freezing weather, or poor visibility from fog. Miller was declared dead in absentia a year later, and the wreckage remains to be found.

I might participate this year. Despite having lurked for six or seven years I haven't before...gone close to, but I've either been a lazy bastard or haven't remembered

John Stephen Cummins (Wiki), American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Oakland from 1977 to 2003 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento from 1974 to 1977 dead at 96