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14 and a half years later ....

Pastor way.

Fucksake, really?

If she is breathing Dec 31 I think Katharine Johnson would be a decent pick for the Deathlist, especially after how the movie Hidden Figures has introduced her achievements to millions of people.

By the way, over 200 pages of excellent one-line memorials, and yet this thread hasn't been pinned? How odd. Yes, that is a suggestion. Anyway, on with the dead people...Malcolm became an X-human rights activist at the age of 39, when he was shot 53 years ago today in an incident in which, for legal reasons, one cannot confirm nor deny the involvement of current Deathlist candidate Louis Farrakhan. Reminds me of someone...

He dodged bullets for your right to post that Charon

McCain, but only because I had some of his chips tonight. I see it as an omen.

The world is a better place for his passing. Judgemental bollocks creates division which in turn leads to division, hatred and violence.

I view Yeager and Zeffirelli as the oldest 100% DLy names that have yet to appear. The former is still pretty active on Twitter though.

Nice work DI. There usually is the odd "blimey" pick you'd assume would have got on their list before if they were going to (Giscard d'estaing, Rockefeller, Rainer), but I guess from 1930 and earlier, you can limit the Deathlist likely candidates to: 1916 –Beverly Cleary 1917 - IM Pei, Diana Athill 1919 – James Lovelock,Sheila Mercier 1920 – John Paul Stevens 1921 – Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, Carol Channing 1922 –Lyndon LaRouche, Dilip Kumar, Ivor Broadis 1923 –Glynis Johns, Franco Zeffirelli, Gen. Chuck Yeager, Judith Kerr, Freeman Dyson, Edwin Bramall, Sumner Redstone, Peregrine Worsthorne 1924 –Eve Marie Saint, Christopher Tolkein 1925–David Graham, June Whitfield, George A Cooper, Jacques Delors,Bernard Hepton, Mikis Theodorakis, Richard Baker, June Lockhart 1926 –David Attenborough, Roger Corman, Norman Jewison, Alan Greenspan, Leonard Fenton, Charlotte Rae 1927 – Sidney Poitier, Hubert de Givenchy, Harry Belafonte, Rosalyn Carter, Albert Uderzo,Steve Ditko, Fenella Fielding, Mary Higgins Clark, Geoffrey Palmer, Ken Dodd, Freddie Jones 1928 – Walter Mondale, Tom Lehrer, Burt Bacharach,, Hans Blix, Nicolas Roeg, Ennio Morricone, Noam Chomsky, Mark Eden, Bernard Cribbins, Tommy Docherty, James Watson, Peter Firmin, Jean-Marie le Pen Pete Murray, Berry gordy, Monty Norman 1929 – Patricia Routledge, Len Deighton, Sir Roger Bannister, Max von Sydow, Joseph Jackson,Bob Newhart, Barbara Walters, Bob Hawke, Imelda Marcos, Winnie Ewing, Christopher Plummer, Mohammed Al-Fayed, Thelma Barlow, Betty Boothroyd, Stuart Hall, Gerald Harper, Jack Higgins, Peter Higgs, John Nettleton, Joan Plowright, Whitey Bulger, Vera Miles And even a bunch of them are border line or we have Cmme word they wont consider them.

Even Zsa Zsa isn't most selected celebrity in history (of who have died at least). Because of a huge amount of selections in the mid 2000 due to a health scare, Fidel Castro got on 1709 teams before he died the same year as Zsa Zsa. But I think the most selected celeb in the DDP was Ms Thatcher. Appeared on a whopping 1766 teams from 2003 to 2013, and that's with her living three years less than both Castro and Zsa Zsa...

Another thought sparked by Rev BG's death, the last surviving people on the DL by year of birth: 1890: Rose Kennedy (d. 1995) 1893: Andres Segovia (d. 1987) 1894: Jim Joel (d. 1992) 1896: George Burns (d. 1996) 1898: Ninette de Valois (d. 2001) 1899: Lord Denning (d. 1999) 1900: Queen Mother (d. 2002) 1901: Princess Alice (d. 2004) 1902: Brooke Astor (d. 2007) 1903: Bob Hope (d. 2003) 1904: John Gielgud (d. 2000) 1905: Charles Lane (d. 2007) 1906: Albert Hofmann (d. 2008) 1907: Oscar Niemeyer (d. 2012) 1908: Claude Levi-Strauss (d. 2009) 1909: Ernest Gallo (d. 2007) 1910: Luise Rainer (d. 2014) 1911: Joseph Barbera (d. 2006) 1912: Karl Malden (d. 2009) 1913: Erich Priebke (d. 2013) 1914: Chapman Pincher (d. 2014) 1915: Herman Wouk (d. 2019) 1916: Olivia de Havilland (d. 2020) 1917: Vera Lynn (d. 2020) 1918: Billy Graham (d. 2018) 1919: Lord Carrington (d. 2018) 1920: George Shultz (d. 2021) 1921: Prince Philip (d. 2021) 1922: Norman Lear (d. 2023) 1923: Henry Kissinger (d. 2023) 1924: Jimmy Carter (living) 1925: Dick Van Dyke, Jacques Delors, and Pete Murray (living) Stopped there, as there's 5 living 1922 names! Usually these days if you're on the DL, you're on it by your mid-90s, but there are the occasional Luise Rainer surprise additions, so the last few years there could still see a new debutant or two.

Billy Graham cracked. He was largely ir-Reverend to this pool, but five teams still thought he'd crusade against the inevitable and are now praying they won't get another hit. =1. Bibliogryphon 0 =1. CastAway 0 =1. CharonsCrew 0 =1. deadsox 0 =1. Dr_T 0 =1. drol 0 =1. FixedBusiness 0 =1. Garn2 0 =1. gcreptile 0 =1. Grim Up North 0 =1. John Key 0 =1. machotrouts 0 =1. Mercarte 0 =1. msc 0 =1. Pedro67 0 =1. Spade_Cooley 0 =1. theoldlady 0 =1. time 0 =1. Torva Messor 0 =1. YoungWillz 0 21. Wormfarmer 1 22. Toast 2 23. CaptainChorizo 4 =24. Death Impends 10 =24. The Unknown Man 10 26. Deathray 11 27. Bentrovato 12 28. Book 15 29. GraveDanger 16 30. Joey Russ 18 31. The Dead Cow 19 =32. Phantom of the Midway 20 =32. Sean 20 34. Dead Wait 22 35. paddyfool 24 36. Sir Creep 29

So he outlived his younger colleague, Fred Phelps by 3 years and 11 months. Let us use this opportunity to cite a few lines from Fred's "premature eulogy" (or should I say "cacology") to Billy: Thanks for the detailed explanation Fred – I would never have found out the meaning without you!

As soon as I found out he died I instantly came here. Is that bad?

GRAHAM GIVES UP THE (HOLY) GHOST 3/50 21st February 2018 God has finally acquiesced to popular demand, and made Rev Billy Graham a new house guest, and another success for the Crowdsourced Deathlist. A few months off his centenary, Graham was a trailblazer in the American God industry. While other evangelical preachers shouted loudly about hellfire and damnation, Billy Graham spoke softly and quietly... about hellfire and damnation. He became friendly with every US President from Truman on, and gave advice on the Vietnam War. His ministry moved into countries all over the world, and he sold out the likes of Wembley arena. While he held deeply ingrained views against communists, gay people and Jews, Graham did surprise the KKK with a conversion in his 40s against segregation, insisting his services be desegregated and becoming a good, if strained, friend of Martin Luther King. This was Billy Graham's third appearance on the Crowdsourced Deathlist.

Still Nil Nil in the battle of the titans though, I see....

Praise the Lord

Lyle was hunting geese up in the Northern Minnesota woods. He leaned the old 16 gauge against the corner of the hide to take a leak. As luck would have it, his foolish dog Ginger knocked the gun over, it went off and Lyle took most of an ounce of shot in the groin . Several hours later, lying in a Duluth hospital bed, he came to, and there was his doctor, Sven. "Vell Lyle, I got some good noos and some bad noos. Da good noos is dat you’re going to be OK. Da damage vas local to your groin, dere was very little internal damage, and I vas able to remove all of da buckshot." "What's the bad news?" asks Lyle. "The bad noos is dat dere vas some pretty extensive buckshot damage done to your pecker. I'm going to have to refer you to my sister, Lena.” "Well, I guess the news could be worse," says Lyle. “Your sister's a plastic surgeon?" Not exactly," Sven says. "She's a flute player in da Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, and she's going to teach you where to put your fingers, so you don't pee in your eye."

M is a fantastic film, mind you. Peter Lorre was great at needling sympathy out of horrific characters.

Blind bisexual goose stuck in love triangle with two swans dies aged 40 There's a headline you don't see every day.

Well if the National Enquirer says he is going strong he should be dead by the end of the week.

An Englishman and a Scotsman are driving head on, at night, along a twisty, dark road. Both are driving too fast for the conditions and collide on a sharp bend in the road. To the amazement of both, they are unscathed, though their cars are both destroyed. In celebration of their luck, both agree to put aside their dislike of the other from that moment on. At this point, the Scotsman goes to the boot and fetches a 12 year old bottle of sherry. He hands the bottle to the Englishman who exclaims, "May the Scots and the English live together forever in peace and harmony!" The Englishman then tips the bottle and gulps half of the bottle down. Still flabbergasted over the whole thing, he goes to hand the bottle to the Scotsman, who replies: "No, thanks, I'll just wait till the Police get here."