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How incredibly crass. Not a thought for the poor girl who was brutally murdered.

Confirmation from comedy websites (nothing from MSM yet afaik). Third WDYD alumnus to go this year.

I am aware of the British Character Actors thread but I thought it was time to set Ackland up with his own thread. He was born in 1928, so he may be one to keep an eye on. Possibly one for the 2021 DL.

There's no reason why any news about him can't go in the dedicated LotSW thread.

In an unfortunate turn of events, Kanye West has conceded this election.

I thought it was about time for Last of The Summer Wine actor Robert Fyfe to receive his own forum. Many sources indicate Fyfe will be turning 96 next year but there seems to be some dispute over his year of birth. Nevertheless, I would suggest Fyfe for the 2021 DL. As Juliette Kaplan and Jean Fergusson both got BBC obits, I would expect Fyfe to get one too.

I thought it was time to include a forum for 80 year old Yaphet Kotto, following the many recent deaths of actors involved in the James Bond franchise. I think Kotto should make his inaugural DL appearance in 2021.

Want some better names? Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Italian cardinal and president of CEI Gualtiero Bassetti, who are both critically ill with COVID.

Trump today, Biden in January.

Any other reason for him going on DL 2021 apart from him being old? Is he frail/terminally ill?

Not sure whether this should go in the rabbis thread, but Claude Giraud who co-starred with Louis de Funes in The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob is dead. He was also a prolific French voice for among others, Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sean Connery in Name of The Rose, Roger Moore in Bullseye, Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby and Alan Rickman in Harry Potter and the innumerable sequels.

This is a win - thank you Omaha...

Some sympathy for those of us who work in the Fourth Estate. First election since 2008 I've not worked overnight, but still waking up at 5am to deal with American TV adverts on their news channels and drinking enough Red Bull to buy Leipzig a new training facility.

It was a likely scenario though, and the scenario Trump liked, that he would be ahead on election day and the early vote would come in later the week, especially in Pennsylvania. That's why he telegraphed in advance, that the Dems would "steal the election" etc.... And yes, Biden still has better chance to win, for example, The New York Times gives him a 63% chance of winning in Georgia. Still, the state polls were off. Shy Trump voters it seems. And why, oh why, does it always have to be so chaotic? Will there be another "Brooks Brothers" riot, i.e. Republican party activists disrupting the state count? But this time in Pennsylvania.... And in addition, yes, Biden gained a lot over Hillary, for example in Minnesota and New Hampshire, also a couple of points in Ohio. You would think that it would translate to Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania at least somewhat. Trump won those states in 2016 by less than 1%. But no, it gets just as close as the last time.

Can you prove this?

The hopes and dreams for the next 4 years of half of America died this morning.

It would mean that Trump lost and if that point is not big enough, I don't know what else you could want.

I'm going to call this election for Biden. I just saw the first county-level data come in for Kentucky, and there is a swing of 5-7 % for Biden in counties where 60% of votes have been counted. So it looks like the opinion polls were basically right this time..

never mind

Aviation pioneer Max Ward, most famous for founding the Canadian airline Wardair in 1953, died at 98 years: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/max-ward-obituary-1.5788258 He was a member of both Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame and the Canadian Business Hall of Fame.

Rumours on Twitterforum that Peter Goodwright has also gone.

I'm a trans woman myself. Knew it for years, and some on here have known in private for a while - no reason to keep hiding. Life's too short. Don't want any fuss - just here to deadpool and perpetually increase my knowhow of yesteryear celebs. And agreed wrt the above, having that deadpooler's sense of black humor definitely helps keep me sane.

Most significant deaths since 2003 from an American perspective (so don't get offended if you disagree ): 2003: Bob Hope & Katharine Hepburn 2004: Ronald Reagan 2005: Pope John Paul II 2006: Gerald Ford 2007: Benazir Bhutto (runner up: Anna Nicole Smith) 2008: Paul Newman & Charlton Heston (tie) (runner up: Heath Ledger) 2009: Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite, & Ted Kennedy (tie) 2010: Robert Byrd 2011: Steve Jobs & Elizabeth Taylor (tie) (runner up: Kim Jong-il) 2012: Neil Armstrong (runner up: Whitney Houston) 2013: Nelson Mandela (runner up: Margaret Thatcher) 2014: Maya Angelou & Robin Williams (tie) 2015: BB King (runner up: Leonard Nimoy) 2016: Muhammad Ali (runners up: Prince, David Bowie, Carrie Fisher, John Glenn, Fidel Castro, Antonin Scalia, George Michael, and Nancy Reagan) 2017: Jerry Lewis 2018: George H.W. Bush (runners up: Aretha Franklin, Stan Lee, and John McCain) 2019: Doris Day