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May I be the first to wish Mikhail Gorbachev a happy 89th birthday,(as it is now March 2 in Russia) although sadly ,judging by recent health reports, there is a good chance it could be his last..

Looks like DeDeceased on Feb 4th:

Perhaps a good candidate for impending bucket-kicking is that overweight Scottish thespian Mr Robbie Coltrane. Robbie has always looked rather unhealthy, but in recent years his colour has been a little grey. I believe he's also a smoker who's had a lifetimes worth of lack of exercise and overindulgence. Add that to the dangerous middle age stage in his life and surely you get an an outside chance for pegging out next year? Comments anyone?.....

Nicaraguan priest, politician and poet Ernesto Cardenal, who founded the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands. died at 95 years https://www.registercitizen.com/news/world/article/Ernesto-Cardenal-Nicaraguan-poet-and-priest-15097110.php

Sorry but the build up was too much and the programme was rubbish, I should never have gone back to it.

Died in 1981.

Powerlifter and paralympic Siamand Rahman, who won gold at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, dies at 31 years after heart attack: https://ifpnews.com/worlds-strongest-paralympian-siamand-rahman-dies-at-31

Specifically asks to be included in your prayers. I checked and he's never used a "remember me" or "include me" in his tweets before...

And Geoffrey Hayes and Bill Maynard.

I think he has a great shot at becoming the oldest man ever. I also envy his hairline. EDIT: Here's a video interview of him taken recently:

Well, I gave Yorkshire multiple warnings to get in his team at all, and he ends up being a no show. So as per rules, he has now been disqualified from the competition, and the highest ranking loser takes his place. Which is really good news for Sir Creep, who would’ve beaten every other team in the round. So he lives another days and faces me. I’m gonna add his team to the masterlist now and prepare my squonking. It will be up in a bit In the mean time, commiserations to Old Crem, LizLemon, Unknown Man, Annami, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Markb4, Sean, Joemoneypenny, Djemba Djemba, and Yorkshire Banker (DQ). Better luck next year?

Let's do another update after last week's flurry of hits... New hits are: Hosni Mubarak, Pearl Carr, Diana Serra Cary, Sonny Franzese and Katherine Johnson. All of them picked here and there... My pick Pete Felton is likely not going to get a QO, unless his chemo pal Reice Reilly aka "Patient Zero" delivers an indirect QO (he's still alive and posted a Pete Felton picture just last week). Ironically, the most popular name of all the relevant ones for this update, Henry Gray, is also missing a QO. One would have suspected that NYT obit at least... I hope I didn't miss anything - if so, inform me. The new scoreboard looks like this: Rank Team Points 1 Death Impends 381 2 gcreptile 350 3 RadGuy 342 4 Banana 341 5 Cpt. Chorizo 327 6 Clorox Bleachman 319 6 Joey Russ 319 8 Grave Danger 296 9 The Quim Reaper 294 10 Torva Messor 289 11 Deadsox 287 12 John Key 283 13 Skinny Kiltrunner 273 14 msc 269 15 drol 256 16 The Mad Hatter 241 17 JiroemonKimura 237 18 Book 236 19 The Unknown Man 234 20 Sir Creep 212 21 DevonDeathTrip 208 22 Etushispushingupdaisies 189 22 Toast 189 24 theoldlady 175 25 YoungWillz 170 26 Sean 166 27 Kenny 149 28 The Old Crem 144 29 Great Uncle Bulgaria 101 30 markb4 81 31 Chilean Way 68 32 ThePrematureBurial 58 33 Bibliogryphon 42 34 Pedro67 40 35 Gooseberry Crumble 0

Considering the names of current kids, I don't give much hope for the next one: Still, at least you are not Jacob Rees-Mogg's children:

Linda Robson has spoken out about her "battle with anxiety" and her alcohol self-medication: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8058339/Linda-Robson-rushed-rehab-Stacey-Solomon-suffering-breakdown-Ibiza.html

Just a Minute regular too. One of the very few people to go the full minute on a topic without a single interruption for hesitation, repetition, or deviation. More than once iirc.

And stop posting Instagram posts too. Can't you just write a sentence and put a link like everyone? Don't be offended, but I find it pretty unnerving. And the vast part of those posts actually don't carry information, only are old photos of old actresses on their birthday, celebrated on Instagram by some perfect unknown. What's the purpose of that?

4ft 2"

OK, this is a bit of a long shot, but I think Harvey Keitel might be due some sort of health crisis/Grim Reaper situation in the not too distant future. I'm basing this on the scene in the film Red Dragon where Harvey and Ed Norton are having a coffee together and discussing the tactics of capturing serial killer Ralph Fiennes. At one point the camera does a close up of Keitel's face and there was some discolouration there as regards a patchy, unhealthy looking palour consistent with heart ailments. We're not talking a white sheet face like an immediate pre-death Jon Entwhistle but an uneasy colour patchwork. Possible ticker tantrums? Harvey is 65 in a couple of months and hasn't exactly led an abstinent lifestyle, Noo York boy an' all. Wild card for next year perhaps?

Co-creator of Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son Ray Galton Dead https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1027754/Ray-Galton-dead-Galton-and-Simpson-duo-cause-of-death-news

http://www.deathlist.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/cool.png I think a near-certainty for next year is former Tory PM Ted Heath. Given the fact he's now in to his eighties, overweight and fresh from a recent(ish) health scare his inclusion would seem wise.

No evidence...just a hunch. I think he does'nt look all that healthy actually. Seems a little creaking gate these days imho. Hope I'm mistaken

You beat me to it. I was just about to nominate MJ for a self-topper! Curses. I think it's quite likely, especially if he does end up in prison. Mind you, he must be pretty thick-skinned by now after years of lurid tabloid speculation - perhaps insensitive enough to live through a spell in the clink? We shall see.....

Oh come on now Birdie person, Phil the Greek is the most consistently entertaining member of the Royal Fambly. How can you say you want the bloke dead? He's the perfect antidote to the corporate-safe generation, a man who comes out with wonderfully innapropriate comments at all the right times. The fact that he murders wildlife by the score and is a member of the WWF just adds to his charm. There are too many humourless PC-centric media types blowing his comments out of all proportion anyway. Why cant you just accept the fact that he's a man from a different generation who has very little impact on the world we live in? He's in damn good shape for his age though, like all the Windsors, and hoping for his imminent death is a little far-fetched just now, I feel.