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Here is two photos of my great grandmother from June 2021. She's still fine, she was recently diagnosed with a tumor on her cheek (doctor seems to believe it's benign but she'll have further examination and operation in a few weeks). She's now 101 and 5 months : still walking, still reading (she has an excellent eyesight) but she's nearly deaf and has recently lost memories… She has lost her husband from lung cancer in the late 80's when she was in her 60's and her only daughter (my grandmother) from breast cancer in 2007 when she was 87. She immediately took her place in my family, being a lovely grandmother for her great-grandchildrens and a caring mother for both my mother and my aunt. I'm still impressed by how though and sweet she is, I love her very much and hope she will still be with us for some times …

Here is the first list of potential winning picks: 1. Roy Hattersley (mc) 2. Douglas Hurd (mc) 3. Nigel Lawson (mc) 4. John Morris (mc) 5. Bill Rodgers (mc) All of these would be acceptable candidates for the main Deathlist. I have long advocated Douglas Hurd as a potential pick and there has been recent speculation about how ill Roy Hattersley looked in the last round of photos, John Morris is very old. With the demise of Shirley Williams Bill Rodgers is clearly going to be the next of the Gang of Four to go and despite his weight loss Nigel Lawson still does not look the picture of health. How long has this game got left and does @msc have some good topics for Game V?

Death Notice for Sir Peter Thompson aged 93: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/252751/thompson Known as the godfather of the management buyout, he led the National Freight Corporation as it became effectively privatised through an employee share buyout in 1982, one of the first privatisations of a state owned industry. As a result, Sir Peter made millions personally from the deal when the company was floated in the late 1980s on the Stock Exchange. (That's Thatcherite Conservatism folks!). He even wrote a book about it, thus squeezing every last penny from his story, called Sharing The Success: The Story Of NFC.

German actor Ludwig Haas has died at the age of 88. He was best known for his leading role in the WDR series "Lindenstraße", where he played the role of Dr. Dressler from 1985 to 2019. https://www.focus.de/kultur/vermischtes/im-alter-von-88-jahren-lindenstrasse-star-ludwig-haas-ist-tot_id_24327656.html

Well, the saddest of news, especially for those of us who were going to pick him next year - Renton Laidlaw has died aged 82: https://www.golfaustralia.com.au/news/one-of-golfs-great-voices-renton-laidlaw-dies-aged-82-571183 Edit: The COVID, contributing to his poor health. RIP, good sir. Allis and Laidlaw were a great team back in the day and now they are both dead.

Brian Goldner, Longtime Chairman and CEO of Hasbro, died at 58 years: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211012006149/en/

Just two days after he stepped down "to focus in his cancer treatment"...meh... Edit: Prostate cancer... usually not that deadly, but there've been a few bigger cases lately. I guess Mr. Goldner took it too easily.

Deathlist was created after Cary Grant's death (1904-1986). Kane Tanaka is the last person alive, born before Cary Grant.

Hubert Germain has died: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/12/hubert-germain-last-of-elite-group-of-french-resistance-fighters-dies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Death Notice for James Higgins, past president of the Film Distributors' Association, aged 98: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/252683/higgins Apparently received an award back in 2012 for outstanding contribution to the film industry - this article also references the films he distributed: https://www.screendaily.com/james-higgins/5047422.article Held a number of Directorships, as of this moment, he is still listed as an active Director of Eon Productions: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/jKB45kj2cMi3A5x_a8YQ4j3lkuQ/appointments

Yeah, Hunt was the first choice - it was between Hurst and Greaves for the second spot up front. Mea culpa.

Vicente Fernandez keeps living in a mediatic Schroedinger's box...he is slowly improving and brain dead at the same time

Steve Harwell, lead singer of Smash Mouth, leaves the band and retires because of mounting health issues. https://www.tmz.com/2021/10/12/smash-mouth-singer-retiring-chaotic-show-health-issues/ I couldn't think of a witty thread subtitle so I didn't create one.

Baker looks like someone has already embalmed him

Drol and me now with a 2 hit advantage over the field - can either of us land a lucky punch? Personally, I think the 11/15 rate is already an excellent result, a deserving win for us both, and now we're definitely surpassing the 7 hits of last year's winners after 3/4rds of a year.

Sgt. Zinaida Korneva dead aged 99: https://www.fontanka.ru/2021/10/12/70188305/ She was a head of an observation post in the Air Surveillance Units of the Soviet Union during WWII and took part in the Battle of Breslau. However she was more known from being the "Captain Tom of Russia", raising 4.5 million rubles for covid doctors by talking on instagram and youtube.

Had Norman Lloyd died aged 80 we probably wouldn't have spoken much of him as he'd have died about a decade before this forum opened! (His role in Dead Poets Society would have gotten him remembered as much as Jessica Tandy who was roughly the same age, was in a big film of the late 80s, and isn't mentioned much round here, due to the being dead for a quarter of a century lark...)

This competition is nicely poised for a potentially exciting (despite it geological timescale progress) finish

A person of local "fame" is dead: Siegfried Roland Borchardt, aka SS-Siggi, has finally met his idol Adolf Hitler at the age of 67. Borchardt was an active member of several neo-Nazi groups, lastly the "National Resistance Dortmund", and had multiple legal convictions, which stopped him from entering the political main stage. https://taz.de/Neonazi-Groesse-Borchardt-gestorben/!5805268/ As a politician, he had a short but painful career. Painful for the audience. SS-Sigi was functionary of the later banned right wing party "Freedom German Workers' Party" (Freiheitlichen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei). In the 2014 local elections in Dortmund, he won a seat on the city counci for "The Rigts" (Die Rechte), a neo-nazi-party, but resigned two months later.

TV actor Heinz Lieven has died aged 92. https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/heinz-lieven-schauspieler-tot-100.html He was best known for his roles in tv series like "Adelheid und ihre Mörder", "Notruf Hafenkante", "Tatort" and "Großstadtrevier". (No need to translate these titles, since none of these series was internationally known.) In 2011 he had a role in "Cheyenne - This Must Be The Place" together with Sean Penn and was guest at the Cannes-festival as well.

Angela Lansbury, Betty White, Ruthie Thompson, Barbara Walters, dick van Dyke, Glynis Johns, Phil Collins...it looks like a better list than the official

Not dead, just posting here about Bob Moran. A cartoonist for the Daily Telegraph being a covid denier and openly targeting an NHS doctor on Twitter. He has deleted original tweet but it has been screenshotted. It randomly came on my timeline in last 24 hours and now her legal team/police is involved.

Oh, one of the all time greats managed it too - Roy Orbison (and Bill Dees) with Pretty Woman and It's Over in 1964.

Was watching the 1983 BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre recently so I will add my voices to those calling for more attention for rent a victorian lawyer Colin Jeavons

One of Germanys well known journalists Fritz Pleitgen has pancreatic cancer: https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/ex-wdr-intendant-fritz-pleitgen-hat-bauchspeicheldruesenkrebs-71162128.bild.html