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Sound the alarms…it has started. Best of luck everyone!

Absolutely. His versatility speaks for itself. Singer (including a number 1 hit and a Led Zeppelin cover) Musician (including invention of the wobble board) TV presenter Artist (painted a portrait of the Queen among much else) Convicted paedophile

A quick update as the 2023 thread typically is set up around this time. If all goes as planned we should be ready to open for 2023 around December 4th. Banana is all set to succeed GUN in the team entry role, with GUN providing appropriate training as needed. Stay tuned...

Lee Trevino, the remarkable American former professional golfer, one of the greatest players in golf history, who won six major championships and 29 PGA Tour events over the course of his extraordinary career, is 83 today. In 1975, Trevino was struck by lightning at the Western Open. Miraculously, he survived but his back was permanently injured. Lee Trevino was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1981. Gilbert O'Sullivan, the famed and successful Irish singer and songwriter who is best known for his early 1970s hits "Alone Again (Naturally)", "Clair", "Get Down" and "Nothing Rhymed", is 76 today. O'Sullivan sold more UK singles than any other solo male artist in 1972. His best-selling album is "I'm a Writer, Not a Fighter", which sold over 100.000 copies.

Welcome to the first Deathlist-competition dedicated to Nobel laureates: The Nobel Prize Dead Pool As last year, the nomination period opens on December 1st, 2022 and ends on January 31st, 2023. The rules are still easy: Pick one living Nobel laureate by each category (Physics, Chemistry, Medicine/Physiology/Peace/Literature and Economic Sciences), who you think will die during the following next twelve months. This will make six nominated people. Send your list between December 1st and January 31st! My remaining rule: No laureate can be chosen twice, so check who was picked by other deadpoolers! Further rules: 1. In case, one of your laureates dies, replace him/her by a person from the same category. This will give you the chance to score twice in a category. 2. I will be the last to choose my picks – to avoid discrepancies for the other contestants! Every laureate who dies in December or January will be excluded automatically and should be replaced in case of being chosen. People, who accepted the award on behalf of someone or represent an organization are excluded from the contest, the 2023 laureates cannot be chosen since they are unknown until October! The Nobel Prize Dead Pool will start from February 1st, the day the nomination period for new laureates ends. The last day to score a hit will be January 31st, 2024! All main sources will be accepted as well as the official Nobel Prize website www.nobelprize.org. (The deaths will be mentioned there, so no lost hits to expect!) Since not so many Nobel laureates die during a year - 2017, 2019 and 2020 it had been 9 dead laureates per year, 2018 there were 18, in 2022 seven so far (So do not expect a rushing contest!) – the scoring will honor every hit separately. So good luck and enjoy the contest.

As last year, the scoring will appear on a four digit base. The first digit will represent the category, sorted from least living laureates to most: Literature (20): 6.000 points Peace (30): 5.000 points Economic Scienes (48): 4.000 points Chemistry (62): 3.000 points Medicine/Physiology (70): 2.000 points Physics (75): 1.000 points The second digit will honor the decade, the laureate was awarded: 2020s – 900 points 2010s – 800 points 2000s – 700 points 1990s – 600 points 1980s – 500 points 1970s – 400 points 1960s – 300 points 1950s – 200 points There were no laureates left from the decades before, so a sore of 100 points is not possible! The third digit will show the age of your laureate: < 30 – 90 points. 30-39 – 80 points 40-49 – 70 points 50-59 – 60 points 60-69 – 50 points 70-79 – 40 points 80-89 – 30 points 90-99 – 20 points 100-??? – 10 points The last digit gives a bonus score: Last survivor of his awarding year: 9 points bonus. Youngest death of the contest: 8 points (awarded in February 2022!) Represents an African country: 7 points Represents an Asian country: 6 points A female laureate: 5 points. Awarded alone (organizations excluded): 4 points Represents a South or Middle American country: 3 points Comes from Germany (born there or naturalized): 2 points Oldest death of the contest: 1 point (awarded in February 2023!) So for example: Edward C. Prescott, currently the last laureate to die, was worth 4.730 points. 4.000 as a laureate in Economic Sciences, 700 for the decade (he was awarded in 2004), 30 for his age (81), and zero bonus points.

Sir Murray Halberg, a legendary New Zealand athlete and 1960 gold medalist, has died. He was 89. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/sir-murray-halberg-dies-aged-89/P5UBSYZQ7FFRPEOU22QCFBFUWM/

I present to you… the first annual In Memoriam Award Before the end of december (votes close on the 2 of january at 12pm english time), whoever wants can vote by PM for the person who deserves to win in each category below explained. I will then sum up all the votes and come with a winner for each category and two "honorable mentions". A candidate can be nominated and win in several categories. Results will be post on this thread in the first days of january 2023. Without further ado, here are the categories : The biggest female death : the most groundbreaking death of the year, the one which you think was the most influential, the most important, the most… the biggest. The biggest male death : read above… but with a man Most shocking one : the death that you didn't expect, that made you feel like "omg what ?" The saddest one : that one death that, when you heard of, you suddenfly had a speck of durst in your eyes. The best received one : the one that you laughed at, that you acclaimed The most awaited one : the one that wasn't a shock, that was long overdue, that made you feel like "at last, finally !". Immortals and lingerer candidates mostly in here. The biggest survivor : the celeb that you're the most surprised to see have survived the year The biggest miss : the one that the committee should have picked… but didn't The most promising one : the prominent celeb that you think is the most promising to be a hit for your personal list or the official one in 2023 The 50 spot : the most deserving of the n°50 spot on the 2023 deathlist ps : if anyone has a better title, let me know it's currently the obvious and boring one that I went with...

Teams for 2022/2023: It is planned to update this list weekly or bi-weekly - please be patient! Physics Chemistry Medicine Literature Peace Economics Points arghton Tsung Dao Lee Yuan Tseh Lee Tu Youyou Gao Xingjian Oscar Arias Sánchez William F. Sharpe 5.734 Bibliogryphon Peter Higgs Akira Suzuki James Watson John M. Coetzee Lech Walesa Vernon L. Smith Diego Leon N Cooper Martin Karplus William C. Campbell Elfriede Jelinek HRH, 14. Dalai Lama Amartya Kumar Sen Evil Grimace Carlo Rubbia Ryoji Noyori Bengt I. Samuelsson Bob Dylan Mohamad ElBaradei Robert B. Wilson Funeralopolis Ivar Giaever John C. Polanyi Eric R. Kandel J.M.G. Le Clezio Muhammad Yunus Daniel L. MacFadden ladyfiona C. Cohen-Tannoudji Walter Gilbert Mario R. Capecchi Patrick Modiano Albert Arnold Gore Eugene Fama 12.269 Hell J. I. Friedman Alan Heeger Andrew V. Schally Annie Ernaux Jimmy Carter Robert J. Auman 10.169 MariNisia Leo Esaki Rudolph A. Marcus Hamilton O. Smith Alice Munro Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Angus Deaton 4.920 theoldlady Chen Ning Yang Roald Hoffman Roger Guillemin Wole Soyinka Mairead Corrigan Myron S. Scholes 13.757 Toast Roger Penrose E. J. Corey Torsten N. Wiesel Mario Vargas Llosa Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Edmund S. Phelps wannamaker Herbert Kroemer Kurt Wüthrich Werner Arber Peter Handke Aung San Suu Kyi Daniel Kahneman WEP James Peebles Dudley Hershbach John B. Gurdon S. Alexejevitsch Ales Bialiatski George Akerlof 4.634 Hits: 2023-02-15: Paul Berg, chemistry 1980, 95 (3.520 points/Hell) 2023-03-03: Kenzaburō Ōe, literature 1994, 88 (6.649 points/Hell) 2023-05-15: Robert E. Lucas, economic sciences 1995, 85 (4.634 points/WEP) 2023-06-22: Harry Max Markowitz, economic sciences 1990, 95 (4.920 points/MariNisia) 2023-06-23: John B. Goodenough, chemistry 2019, 100 (3.813 points/theoldlady) including +1 point for the oldest hit 2023-09-04: Ferid Murad, medicine 1998, 86 (2.630 points/ladyfiona) 2023-10-13: Louise Elisabeth Glück, literature 2020, 80 (9.639 points/ladyfiona) + 8 points for the youngest hit 2023-10-16: Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari, peace 2008, 86 (5.734/arghton) 2023-11-29: Henry Alfred Kissinger, peace 1973, 100 (5.412/theoldlady) 2023-12-21: Robert Merton Solow, economic sciences 1987, 99 (4.524/theoldlady)

To make it easier, here is a list of all living Nobel laurates (sorry for the German spellings): Chemistry: 2019 John Bannister Goodenough b. 1922 1992 Rudolph Arthur Marcus b. 1923 1990 Elias James Corey b. 1928 1986 John Charles Polanyi b. 1929 2010 Akira Suzuki b. 1930 2013 Martin Karplus b. 1930 1980 Walter Gilbert b. 1932 1986 Dudely Robert Hershbach b. 1932 1986 Yuan Tseh Lee b. 1936 2000 Alan Jay Heeger b. 1936 2000 Hideki Shirakawa b. 1936 2007 Gerhard Ertl b. 1936 1981 Roald Hoffman b. 1937 1988 Robert Huber b. 1937 2004 Avram Hershko b. 1937 2001 Ryoji Noyori b. 1938 2002 Kurt Wüthrich b. 1938 2015 Tomas Robert Lindahl b. 1938 1987 Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn b. 1939 2009 Ada E. Yonath b. 1939 2013 Arieh Warshel b. 1940 2017 Joachim Frank b. 1940 1997 John Ernest Walker b. 1941 2001/2022 Karl Berry Sharpless b. 1941 (Only living individual with two Nobel Prizes) 2011 Daniel Shechtman b. 1941 2018 George Pearson Smith b. 1941 2019 Michael Stanley Whittingham b. 1941 2005 Robert Howard Grubbs b. 1942 2016 James Fraser Stoddart b. 1942 2017 Jacques Dubochet b. 1942 1988 Johann Deisenhofer b. 1943 2012 Robert Joseph Lefkowitz b. 1943 2016 Jean-Pierre Sauvage b. 1944 2005 Richard Royce Schrock b. 1945 2017 Richard Henderson b. 1945 2015 Aziz Sancar b. 1946 2015 Paul Lawrence Modrich b. 1946 1989 Thomas Robert Cech b. 1947 2004 Aaron Ciechanover b. 1947 2006 Roger David Kornberg b. 1947 2008 Martin Chalfie b. 1947 2013 Michael Levitt b. 1947 1988 Hartmut Michel b. 1948 2019 Akira Yoshino b. 1948 2003 Peter Courtland Agre b. 1949 2016 Bernard Lucas "Ben" Feringa b. 1951 2018 Gregory Paul Winter b. 1951 2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan b. 1952 2014 William Esco Moerner b. 1953 2022 Morten Peter Meldal b. 1954 2012 Brian Kent Kobilka b. 1955 2003 Roderick MacKinnon b. 1956 2018 Frances Hamilton Arnold b. 1956 2002 Koichi Tanaka b. 1959 2014 Robert Eric Betzig b. 1960 2014 Stefan Walter Hell b. 1962 2020 Jennifer Anne Doudna Cate b. 1964 2022 Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi b. 1966 2020 Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier b. 1968 2021 Benjamin List b. 1968 2021 David William Cross MacMillan b. 1968 Peace: 1973 Henry Alfred Kissinger b. 1923 2002 James Earl Carter jr. b. 1924 1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel b. 1931 1989 HRH, 14. Dalai Lama b. 1935 2008 Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari b. 1937 2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf b. 1938 2006 Muhammad Yunus b. 1940 1987 Oscar Arias Sánchez b. 1941 2005 Mohammed ElBaradei b. 1942 1983 Lech Wałęsa b. 1943 Last living laureate 1976 Mairead Corrigan b. 1944 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi b. 1945 2003 Schirin Ebadi b. 1947 1996 Carlos Felipe Belo b. 1948 2007 Albert Arnold Gore jr. b. 1948 1996 José Ramos-Horta b. 1949 1997 Jody Williams b. 1950 2016 Juan Manuel Santos Calderón b. 1951 2014 Kailash Satyarthi b. 1954 2018 Denis Mukengere Mukwege b. 1955 1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum b. 1959 2021 Dmitri Andrejewitsch Muratow b. 1961 2009 Barack Hussein Obama jr. b. 1961 2022 Ales Bjaljatzki b. 1962 2021 Maria Angelita Ressa b. 1963 2011 Leymah Roberta Gbowee b. 1972 2019 Abiy Ahmed Ali b. 1976 2011 Tawakkul Karman b. 1979 2018 Nadia Murad Basee Taha b. 1993 2014 Malala Yousafzai b. 1997 Literature: 1986 Wole Soyinka b. 1934 2000 Gao Xingjian b. 1940 2003 John Maxwell Coetzee b. 1940 2004 Elfriede Jelinek b. 1946 2006 Orhan Pamuk b. 1952 2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio b. 1940 2009 Herta Müller b. 1953 2010 Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa b. 1936 2012 Mò Yán b. 1955 2013 Alice Ann Munro b. 1931 2014 Jean Patrick Modiano b. 1945 2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah b. 1948 2015 Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch b. 1948 2016 Bob Dylan b. 1941 2022 Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux b. 1940 2017 Kazuo Ishiguro b. 1954 2018 Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk b. 1962 2019 Peter Handke b. 1943 2020 Louise Elisabeth Glück b. 1943 Medicine/Pysiology: 1977 Roger Charles Guillemin b. 1924 1981 Torsten Nils Wiesel b. 1924 1977 Andew Victor Schally b. 1926 1962 James Dewey Watson b. 1928 Last living laureate 1978 Werner Arber b. 1929 2000 Eric Richard Kandel b. 1929 2015 Tu Youyou b. 1930 2015 William Cecil Campbell b. 1930 1978 Hamilton Othanel Smith b. 1931 2012 John Bertrand Gurdon b. 1933 1982 Bengt I. Samuelsson b. 1934 Last living laureate 2015 Satoshi Ōmura b. 1935 2020 Harvey James Alter b. 1935 1989 Michael John Bishop b. 1936 1998 Ferid Murad b. 1936 2005 John Robin Warren b. 1937 2007 Mario Renato Capecchi b. 1937 1975 David Baltimore b. 1938 1987 Susumu Tonegawa b. 1939 1989 Harold Eliot Varmus b. 1939 2001 Leland Harrison Hartwell b. 1939 2014 John Michael O'Keefe b. 1939 1985 Joseph Leonard Goldstein b. 1940 1996 Peter Charles Doherty b. 1940 1985 Michael Stuart Brown b. 1941 1998 Louis Joseph Ignarro b. 1941 2007 Martin John Evans b. 1941 2011 Jules Alphonse Hoffmann b. 1941 1991 Bert Sakmann b. 1942 1995 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard b. 1942 1997 Stanley Ben Prusiner b. 1942 2018 Tasuku Honjo b. 1942 1993 Richard John Roberts b. 1943 2001 Richard Timothy Hunt b. 1943 1991 Erwin Neher b. 1944 1993 Phillip Allen Sharp b. 1944 1996 Rolf Martin Zinkernagel b. 1944 2017 Michael Morris Rosbash b. 1944 2016 Yoshinori Ōsumi b. 1945 2017 Jeffrey Connor Hall b. 1945 2004 Richard Axel b. 1946 1995 Eric Frank Wieschaus b. 1947 2002 Howard Robert Horvitz b. 1947 2004 Linda B. Buck b. 1947 2008 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi b. 1947 2009 Elizabeth Helen Blackburn b. 1948 2013 Randy Wayne Schekman b. 1948 2018 James "Jim" Patrick Allison b. 1948 2001 Paul Maxime Nurse b. 1949 2017 Michael Warren Young b. 1949 2020 Michael A. Houghton b. 1949 2013 James Edward Rothman b. 1950 2005 Barry James Marshall b. 1951 2009 Jack William Szostak b. 1952 2020 Charles Moen Rice III. b. 1952 2019 Peter John Ratcliffe b. 1954 2022 Svante Erik Pääbo b. 1955 2013 Thomas Christian Südhof b. 1955 2021 David Jay Julius b. 1955 2019 Gregg Leonard Semenza b. 1956 2011 Bruce Alan Beutler b. 1957 2019 William George Kaelin jr. b. 1957 2006 Andrew Zachary Fire b. 1959 2006 Craig Cameron Mello b. 1960 2009 Carol Widney Greider b. 1961 2012 Shin'ya Yamanaka b. 1962 2014 Edvard Ingjald Moser b. 1962 2014 May-Britt Moser b. 1963 2021 Ardem Patapoutian b. 1967 Physics: 1957 Chen Ning Yang b. 1922 1973 Leo Esaki b. 1925 1957 Tsung Dao Lee b. 1926 2000 Herbert Kroemer b. 1928 1973 Ivar Giaever b. 1929 2013 Peter Ware Higgs b. 1929 1972 Leon N Cooper b. 1930 Last living laureate 1990 Jerome Isaac Friedman b. 1930 2009 George Elwood Smith b. 1930 1996 David Morries Lee b. 1931 2020 Roger Penrose b. 1931 2021 Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann b. 1931 2021 Syukurō Manabe b. 1931 1979 Sheldon Lee Glashow b. 1932 Last living laureate 2013 François Englert, Baron Englert b. 1932 2017 Rainer Weiss b. 1932 1978 Arno Allen Penzias b. 1933 1997 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji b. 1933 1984 Carlo Rubbia b. 1934 2005 John Lewis Hall b. 1934 2019 Philip James "Jim" Edwin Peebles b. 1935 1976 Samuel Chao Chung Ting b. 1936 1978 Robert Woodrow Wilson b. 1936 2017 Barry Clark Barish b. 1936 2003 Anthony James Leggett b. 1938 2007 Albert Louis François Fert b. 1938 1998 Daniel Chee Tsui b. 1939 1973 Brian David Josephson b. 1940 2017 Kip Stephen Thorne b. 1940 1993 Joseph Hooton Taylor b. 1941 2004 David Jonathan Gross b. 1941 2005 Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch b. 1941 2016 John Michael Kosterlitz b. 1942 2019 Michel Gustave Mayor b. 1942 2022 John Francis Clauser b. 1942 1985 Klaus von Klitzing b. 1943 2015 Arthur Bruce McDonald b. 1943 2008 Makoto Kobayashi b. 1944 2012 David Jeffrey Wineland b. 1944 2012 Serge Haroche b. 1944 2018 Gérard Albert Mourou b. 1944 1996 Douglas Dean Osheroff b. 1945 2022 Anton Zeilinger b. 1945 2006 George Fitzgerald Smoot III b. 1945 1999 Gerardus 't Hooft b. 1946 Last living laureate 2006 John Cromwell Mather b. 1946 1986 Gerd Karl Binnig b. 1947 2022 Alain Aspect b. 1947 1997 Steven Chu b. 1948 1997 William Daniel Philips b. 1948 2021 Giorgio Parisi b. 1948 1998 Horst Ludwig Störmer b. 1949 2004 Hugh David Politzer b. 1949 1987 Johannes Georg Bednorz b. 1950 1993 Russel Alan Hulse b. 1950 1998 Robert Betts Laughlin b. 1950 2001 Carl Edwin Wieman b. 1951 2004 Frank Anthony Wilczek b. 1951 2016 Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane b. 1951 2020 Reinhard Genzel b. 1952 2014 Shūji Nakamura b. 1954 2001 Wolfgang Ketterle b. 1957 2010 Andre Konstantinowitsch Geim b. 1958 2011 Saul Perlmutter b. 1959 2015 Takaaki Kajita b. 1959 2018 Donna Theo Strickland b. 1959 2014 Hiroshi Amano b. 1960 2001 Eric Allin Cornell b. 1961 2020 Andrea Mia Ghez b. 1965 2019 Didier Patrick Queloz b. 1966 2011 Brian P. Schmidt b. 1967 2011 Adam Guy Riess b. 1969 2010 Konstantin Sergejewitsch Nowoselow b. 1974 Economic Sciences: 1987 Robert Merton Solow b. 1924 1990 Harry Max Markowitz b. 1927 2002 Vernon Lomax Smith b. 1927 2005 Israel Robert John Aumann b. 1930 1998 Amartya Kumar Sen b. 1933 2006 Edmund Strother Phelps b. 1933 1990 William Forsyth Sharpe b. 1934 2002 Daniel Kahneman b. 1936 1995 Robert Emerson Lucas b. 1937 2000 Daniel Leigh McFadden b. 1937 2020 Robert Butler Wilson b. 1937 2013 Eugene Francis Fama b. 1939 2001 George Arthur Akerlof b. 1940 2010 Peter Arthur Diamond b. 1940 1997 Myron Samuel Scholes b. 1941 2018 William Dawbney Nordhaus b. 1941 2003 Robert Fry Engle III. b. 1942 2011 Christopher Albert Sims b. 1942 2001 Joseph Eugene Stiglitz b. 1943 2001 Michael Andrew Spence b. 1943 2004 Finn Erling Kydland b. 1943 2011 Thomas John Sargent b. 1943 1997 Robert Cox Merton b. 1944 2000 James Joseph Hackman b. 1944 2015 Angus Stewart Deaton b. 1945 2017 Richard H. Thaler b. 1945 2013 Robert James Shiller b. 1946 2010 Christopher Antoniou Pissarides b. 1948 2016 Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart b. 1948 2020 Paul Robert Milgrom b. 1948 2016 Bengt Robert Holmström b. 1949 2007 Eric Stark Maskin b. 1950 2007 Roger Bruce Myerson b. 1951 2012 Alwin Eliot Roth b. 1951 2013 Lars Peter Hansen b. 1952 2008 Paul Robin Krugman b. 1953 2022 Ben Shalom Bernanke b. 1953 2022 Douglas Warren Diamond b. 1953 2014 Jean Marcel Tirole b. 1953 2018 Paul Michael Romer b. 1955 2022 Philip Hallen Dybvig b. 1955 2021 David Edward Card b. 1956 2021 Joshua David Angrist b. 1960 2019 Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee b. 1961 2021 Guido Wilhelmus Imbens b. 1963 2019 Michael Robert Kremer b. 1964 2019 Esther Caroline Duflo b. 1972

Anybody considering choosing Barbara Eden might be interested to know she is flying to Germany in the next few days to a fan convention. Not bad for a woman in her nineties.

Ed Webster, described as someone who pushed the limits when he climbed Mount Everest in 1988, has died. He was 66. Webster mentored numerous people over the years. Webster was also a writer and award-winning photographer whose work was featured in Rolling Stone and the New York Times. https://gripped.com/profiles/ed-webster-who-defied-odds-on-everest-dies-at-66/

Andy Capp cartoonist Roger Mahoney has died. He was 89. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tributes-pour-legendary-andy-capp-28614075?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=sharebar

Guyana plays cricket.

I actually would know Rolf Harris without this forum as Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport charted pretty high in the States and surprisingly I've heard it on 60s radio a few times. Granted, a fraction of his UK fame/infamy.

Canada: 0 - Morocco: 0 Croatia: 3 - Belgium: 1 Costa Rica: 1 - Germany: 4 Japan: 2 - Spain: 1 Yellow cards: 16

Yes, I've accumulated quite a long list even before expanding it to band members. The Cabinet Ministers category was quite limited too. Think I was the only person to pick a winner there.

I wouldn't put Putin on the list at all tbh. There's too many better names out there to waste a spot on a punt, even a cunt like Putin.

Time for Harry to edit his book for the 20th time to add this in.

Movingly beautiful, every time.

Thank you for letting me know. That means you have 90 points and second with @Gooseberry Crumble third.

Wow we are really in need of a major death right now

He looks as if his head and upper and lower body have been taken apart, then put back together but not all the same way round.