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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

John Marsden, Young Adult author of the Tomorrow series dies at 74: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-legendary-australian-author-john-34321803

Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey has quit his service

How is he supposed to live without you? Annoyingly I always got him and Richard Marx mixed up for no apparent reason. Even more annoyingly, Bolton doesn't start having UK top 30 hits until 1990, so not a qualifier for next year's TOTP team! (Still not decided whether to continue with this team into the 90s or go back to 1980 from 2026. Always assuming I'm still kicking in a year!).

Hunter killed by bear falling on him. Group out hunting, bear tries to escape by climbing tree, one of the group shoots it, bear falls, lands on top of another of the group, killing him.

Portuguese actress Alina Vaz (Wiki) dead at 88 in a nursing home.

With the death of Norman Spencer 5 "notable" women remain from 1914. I'd say Muazzez Cig is on another level of notability with respect to the others. All of them seem to be doing very well, but how long before they are all wiped out as it Is the good and right thing? *Viola Fletcher , Tulsa massacre survivor and activist, wheelchair bound but no health issues. *Anne Baker , British writer and fundraiser. Frail, but not too much. *Muazzez Ilmiye Cig , Turkish sumerologist, doing unexplicably well despite being overweight for decades. *Edith Renfrow Smith , survived serious COVID hospitalization some years ago, able to walk unaided and sound of mind. *Eileen Kramer , unsinkable until some time ago, has visibly declined in recent years, but still posting regularly on IG and apparently doing well.