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An absolute 2023 must. Roy Clarke would be another very wise 1930 born pick.

Congratulations @RoverAndOuton a fine victory. Despite the huge number of potential picks in this game, getting unique picks in this game is harder than it looks. I'm normally happy to have 5 or 6 uniques to give me at least a chance of winning that way. To get three unique hits takes a fair bit of doing- well done

Updated after Leslie Phillips' death. I was surprised to discover that Leslie wasn't even the oldest person on this list: Vincent Ball is, and he is still living.

I greatly admire the dedication of players who keep longlists during the year and start working on shortlists in November. I usually start drawing up a shortlist the day before I submit the team. It normally gets up to about 30 names that I have scavenged from a quick hunt through my previous year's team, the previous year's top-10 teams, and a quick perusal of this site. Then I spend about an hour trimming down the team, and a year regretting my decisions! It will probably never be a winning strategy, but it's done ok so far. But major kudos to those of you who work hard at this - you have my utmost respect!. For all you players who are worried about people on your shortlist not getting a QO, can I say that the Hare's Pool 2023 will be opening for business in about 10 days time, and that would be an excellent place to offload your dodgy, slightly obscure, not-sure-of-a-QO picks. We have extremely low standards over there - pretty much anything is acceptable as a QO. There is virtually no possibility that your selection won't score (unless you pick Diane Berberian, @Salmon Mousse). So, if you haven't played the Hare's before, maybe give it a go this year. If you are worried about me nicking a potential pick for the DDP, just PM your team late on New Year's Eve - unlike the previous host, I won't bite.

I fixed the Suzi Quatro mistake on my list as well. @Book

Rule #1: Only vote when awake and fit Otherwise there will be chaos here.

Don January, American former professional golfer who won 10 PGA Tour events including, his most notable victory over Don Massengale, the PGA Championship in 1967, is 93 today. Estelle Parsons, the exceptional American film, stage and television character actress who received an Oscar for her phenomenal work as Blanche Barrow in the crime film "Bonnie and Clyde", is 95 today.

How about Robert Wagner?

Been a month again - here's 28 Nov up until 31 Dec. Old (85+)/ill celebs/"celebs"/oldest folks and others for formspotting, etc part five or something. 28 November: Ada Thompson, 112, Berry Gordy, 93, Gary Hart, 86 29 November: Shirley Porter and Alan Lee Williams, 92, John Mayall, 89, Diane Ladd, 87, Bill Jenkins, 86, Jerry Lawler, 73 30 November: Eeri Hyrkkö, 100, Steele Hall, 94, Joan Ganz Cooney, 93, Jimmy Bowen, Frank Ifield and Ridley Scott, 85 1 Dec: Micheline Bernardini, 95, Alfred Moisiu, 93, Marie Bashir, 92, Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar, 91, Woody Allen, 87, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 85 2 Dec: Klaus Obermeyer, 103, David Piper, 92, Masaaki Hatsumi and Edwin Meese, 91, Tarcisio Bertone, 88, David Hackett Fischer, 87, Manohar Joshi, 85 3 Dec: Hide Hamabe, 114, Charlotte Kretschmann, 113, Jaye P. Morgan, 91, Nicolas Coster, 88, Eddie Bernice Johnson, 87, Bobby Ellison and Morgan Llywelyn, 85, Ozzy Osbourne, 74 4 Dec: Alex Delvecchio, 91, Wink Martindale, 88, Max Baer Jr., 85 5 Dec: Klavdiya Gadyuchkina, 112?, Reuben Sinclair, 111, Guido Gorgatti, 103, Adetoun Ogunsheye, 96, Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs and Sheldon Glashow, 90, Calvin Trillin, 87, James Lee Burke, 86 6 Dec: Philippe Bouvard, 93, Donald J. Kutyna, 89, Bill Ashton, David Ossman and Kenneth Copeland, 86 7 Dec: Hermano da Silva Ramos, 97, Noam Chomsky, 94, Christopher Nicole, 92, Bobby Osbourne, 91, Ellen Burstyn and Oktay Ekşi, 90, Stan Boardman, 85 8 Dec: Concepcion Alarcon Vega, 113, Arnaldo Forlani, 97, Bob Arum, 91, Dharmendra, 87, Peter Parfitt, 86 9 Dec: Marianne, Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, 103, Raif Dizdarević, 96, André Milhoux, 94, Cliff Hagan, 91, Billy Edd Wheeler, 90, Ashleigh Brilliant, 89, Dame Judi Dench, 88, Dick Butkus, 80 10 Dec: Georg Stefan Troller and Herbert Wahler, 101, Edith Ballantyne, 100, Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, 92, Terry Allcock, 87 11 Dec: Taisto Tähkämaa, 98, Rita Moreno, 91, Keith Waldrop, 90, Salim Durani, 88, Taku Yamasaki and Hans van den Broek, 86 12 Dec: Addold Mossin, 103, Vasily Borisov, 100, Bob Barker, 99, Ray Cordeiro, 98, Toshiko Akiyoshi, 93, Cesar Virata, 92, Bob Pettit, 90, Sharad Pawar, 82 13 Dec: Yang Longsheng, 112, Dick Van Dyke, 97, Aga Khan IV, 86 14 Dec: Abbe Lane, 90, Shyam Benegal, 88 15 Dec: Isabel Crook, 107, Rusi Cooper, 100, Emmanuel Wamala, 96, Edna O'Brien, 92, 16 Dec: Ruth Johnson Colvin, 106, Menahem Pressler, 99, Terry Carter, 94, Quentin Blake, 90, Morris Dees, 86, Joyce Bulifant and Edward Ruscha, 85 17 Dec: Zhong Yiren, 101, Armin Mueller-Stahl, 92, James McGaugh, 91, Pope Francis and Tommy Steele, 86, Brian Hayes, 85 18 Dec: Boris Volynov, 88, Jacques Pépin, 87, Ady Barkan, 39 19 Dec: Franca Pilla, 102, Niels Holst-Sørensen, 100, Eve Bunting, 94, David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, 93, Ginger Stanley, 91, Kevan Gosper and Christopher Smout, 89, Pratibha Patil, 88 20 Dec: Tony Vaccaro, 100, Selim Hoss, Lee Hyun-jae and Milan Panić, 93, Jean Carnaham, Olavi Salonen and Rik Van Looy, 89, Khalid Ibadulla, 87 21 Dec: Iris Cummings, 102, Phil Roman, 92, Edward Hoadland, 90, Robert Worcester and Jackie Hendricks, 89, Giuseppina Leone, 88, Jane Fonda, Phil Donahue and Edward Schreyer, 85, Hu Jintao, 80 22 Dec: Lim Kean Chye, 103, Jean Malaurie, 100, Wazir Mohammad, 93, Gisela Birkemeyer, 91, Abel Pacheco, 89, James Burke and Héctor Elizondo, 86, Ken Whitmore, 85 23 Dec: Vasily Reshetnikov, 103, Akihito, 89, Bobby Ross, 86, Barney Rosenzweig, 85, Bob Kahn, 84 24 Dec: Philip Ziegler, 93, Stjepan Mesić and Alex Hutchinson, 88, Ivan Lawrence, 86, John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, 85 25 Dec: Una Webster, 111, James Clayton Flowers, 107, Steve Wochy, 100, Leo Kubiak and Ram Narayan, 95, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, 86, Maung Aye, 85, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, 79, Shane MacGowan, 65 26 Dec: Duke Fakir, Norm Ullman and Rohan Kanhai, 87, Peep Jänes, 86, Eliezer Berland, 85 27 Dec: Isabel Gomes Sarmento, 112, Larisa Latynina and Jeffrey Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow, 88, Michael Turnbull, 87, Eve Uusmees, 86, Gérard Depardieu, 74 28 Dec: Loretta Ford, 102, Philippe de Gaulle, 101, Boris Kravtsov, 100, Efraín Goldenberg, 93, Roy Hattersley, 90, John Y. Brown Jr., 89, Maggie Smith, 88, Lawrence Schiller, 86, Ratan Tata, 85 29 Dec: Luis Torras Martinez, 110, Ye Ming, 108, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, 99, Inga Swenson, 90, Samuel Brittan, 89, Marianne Faithfull, 76 30 Dec: Roy Yorke Calne and Tu Youyou, 92, Timité Bassori, 89, Barry Briggs and Russ Tamblyn, 88, Sandy Koufax, 87, Jim Marshall and Paul Stookey, 85 31 Dec: John Frank Bookout Jr, 100, George Schlatter, 90, Salman of Saudi Arabia, 87, Anthony Hopkins, Avram Hershko and Tess Jaray, 85, Baron Waqa, 63 Unknown day, December: Lu Yongfu, 100 Chanoch Ehrentreu, 90

Watching bbc4 ATM. I remember as a kid watching her show on the tellybox in the 60's/70's. Born 1934, aged 85 now. Might be worth a punt?

@ThePrematureBurial Please try again, using the last voting of Grim Up North. Thank you. Something must have crossed there. Edit: Ah, thanks!

In an embarrassing result, the little bigot has lost his seat in parliament, coming fourth out of five candidates! His first election loss in 53 years. He should have retired after his second premiership.

DDP pick Gerald Pizzuto jr, the death row inmate with terminal bladder cancer is now set to die by lethal injection on Dec 15th, so probably no points for those fools who picked him: https://www.newsweek.com/gerald-pizzuto-idaho-sets-terminally-ill-man-execution-cancer-1760374

Will edit as I find: Mack Sennett - Born 1880 - Died aged 80.

Transfered to Scavvy Hunt thread

Hilary Duff made a statement regarding it. They used to date when they were teenagers (with him making an appearance on her Disney show Lizzie McGuire). He infamously cheated on her with Lindsay Lohan. A few years back, he openly pined for her as the one who got away. "For Aaron -- I'm deeply sorry that life was so hard for you and that you had to struggle in-front of the whole world. You had a charm that was absolutely effervescent... boy did my teenage self love you deeply. Sending love to your family at this time. Rest easy <3 " https://www.instagram.com/p/CkmZqINJtD1/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=6eef61ba-fbb8-4637-a5bd-472e1ba8a1a2

Mikael Gorbachev for me

I can just picture you lurking round her neighbourhood, armed with a feather duster for the cobwebs and a tub or margarine. Back off pervert.

Very sad news I actually listened to side two of their last two albums on vinyl yesterday. Loved the magic video where Ric walked on water, awesome. RIP, now you`re reunited with Ben!

Uncredited actors are a nightmare to track down, especially if they had a common name and disappeared after a few credits 60 years ago. Even the experts in the field tend to draw a blank.

Don't you mean com... orma... llier... ha... ie...? Was going to make a post similar to that, but couldn't be arsed.

Here are the lyrics. And here is 10 HOURS(!!!) of Trololo! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkfVdrtLcRs

Wassenaar has the highest number of millionaires per capita of all Dutch municipalities. That, and a communist. regards, Hein