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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11266613/Skull-hunt-Ian-Brady-Myra-Hindleys-victim-Keith-Bennett.html The Police are digging on Saddleworth Moor trying to find the remains of Keith Bennett after a child’s skull was found.

Snowflake.

Laura Esquivel, Mexican novelist, politician and screenwriter best known for her popular novel "Like Water for Chocolate" who was made into a film in 1994, is 72 today. The novel was a bestseller and it has been translated into more than 30 languages. Esquivel wrote the screenplay for the film. Cissy Houston, the Grammy Award winning American gospel and soul singer, the proud mother of megastar Whitney Houston, who started singing at a young age as a member of the gospel group, "The Drinkards", is 89 today. She was a backup singer for such artists as Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley. Cissy Houston is also the aunt of Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick and a cousin of Leontyne Price.

I agree, this one is alarming but none of the other examples posted in this thread are particularly IMO. A lot of it strikes me as confirmation bias. Biden making a joke about public spending is not evidence that his brain is about to explode.

English Actor Brian Murphy, star of 1970s/1980s sitcoms Man About the House as well as its spinoff George and Mildred turned 90 a few days ago. He is famous enough, evident from previous statements that he should have a place on the list as and when it is deemed necessary, and he is certainly more famous than some names that have turned up on the list over the years. He is also one of the oldest remaining regular cast members from Last of the Summer Wine, having portrayed Alvin Smedley from 2003 until the show's end in 2010. Absolutely meets the fame criteria and getting on in years by now. I sure hope not, but could he be a potential candidate for 2023? Intriguing Fact: When serving at RAF Northwood he met and formed a friendship with future The Good Life and Monarch of the Glen actor the late great Richard Briers, one and a half years his junior.

Ah shit, I've got a tenner in the sweepstake but my money depends on them finding his campsite!

Hmmm - there may be disadvantages

American actress and former Hollywood sex bomb Angie Dickinson celebrates her 91st birthday today. Angie is also the ex wife of official DeathList alumni Burt Bacharach.

Coronation Street actress and soap legend Barbara Knox ,who has played Rita since the late 1960s, celebrates her 89th birthday today.

exactly 20 lists received plus mine. Glad so many people are interested in this and that everyone has followed the famousness criteria. One day left before the beginning. I’ll post the teams here by Saturday.

Not really surprising Anne signed it. On the Friday it was signed (the Friday of the lying-in-state), Charles was on a helicopter going to Wales for his first official visit and Anne was in Scotland meeting patrons of charities the Queen was involved with. She was her daughter and present at the death, why does it need to be Charles? Also not surprising. I know plenty of examples of parents who keep their maiden names and double-barrel their children. She is from the House of Windsor, she married a Mountbatten, so her children are Mountbatten-Windsors. In the same way Queen Victoria was the last monarch of the House of Hanover and her son was the first monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. Which the Windsors technically are too.

I’m sure such a test would only prove him to be a ‘stable genius’…

Tom Urbani, pitcher with the Cardinals (1993-96) finishing the 96 season with the Tigers, has died* aged 54. No cause of death disclosed, at family's request. *Or will die in a month's time.

Alma Adamkiene hospitalised with COVID. Valdas is also positive but with no remarkable symptoms.

Australian screenwriter Peter Yeldham OAM (Wiki) for motion pictures and novelist dead at 95

I wouldn't say it is his comments that are necessarily concerning (although the Jackie Walorski one is very worrying( when you consider his stutter although his speaking ability is not what it was several years ago but fair enough.What is concerning is the way he seems to have trouble navigating himself and stops on the spot looking around with a vague expression like someone who is lost.I have seen it in many people with dementia.Not saying he definitely has it but there is something clearly wrong besides ageing alone. He should definitely take a cognitive test.

Johnny Mathis is 87.

Also interesting her surname was just Windsor when her descendants use Mountbatten- Windsor.

87 years old today

The 2nd is more likely than the 3rd which is the day of the Derby and the FA Cup final.

I hope he's moving to somewhere that's much bigger than it looks from the outside.

You put your wife on Ebay next to your Monkees vinyl?.... ...which of them got the best offer?

Fado singer of Portuguese folk songs Carlos do Camo, who was famous for his Frank Sinatra-style and utilization of the jazz and pop genres, died at 81 years: https://24.sapo.pt/atualidade/artigos/morreu-o-fadista-carlos-do-carmo-avanca-o-expresso

Congratulations, I like the list. john wtfcirick is the only obscure choice for my taste, he may be old, ill or whatsoever, but really famous he is not. On the other side there are so many brave choices, new and big names. Gorbatchev or Tina Turner are real famous people that everyone knows in every hidden corner of the world. Happy and Healthy new Year to all of you