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Ladies and Gentlemen…  ! Here are the results of the 2023 In Memoriam Award Ceremony !  Biggest Female Death She was simply the best ! With 18 votes, Tina Turner was by far the biggest female death of 2023 according to you. No comparaison to Sinead O Connor and Rosalynn Carter who both received one vote. We didn't want to lose you Tina… Biggest Male Death Kissinger voted as biggest male death of the year ! The votes were much more diverse here : Matthew Perry came close to overshadow old Henry while Yevgeny Prigozhin received two votes and Barker, Belafonte and Berlusconi both were mentioned once. Most Socking One Bing ! Matthew Perry finally wins a category : most shocking death of the year with a little advance on his fellow nominees. The votes here were even more diversified : Paul Reubens, Sinead O'Connor both received 3 mentions, Andre Braugher and Paul Cattermole totalized two votes and Lisa Marie Presley, Andy Rourke, Tatjana Patitz and Bray Watt were considered once each. The Saddest One The most subjective category didn't disappoint : the votes were so sparsed here that it's a five-way tie between Sinead O'Connor, Paul O'Grady, Michael Gambon, Andre Braugher and… Perry again ! They both received only two votes… Which means the other 11 nominees received one vote each (amongst which we can point out the presence of Barry Humphries, Bobby Charlton, Norman Lear, Sakamoto, Richard Franklin and Book's favorite, Ingrid Steeger ) The Best Received One Back to a more consensual category : Rolf Harris wins the best-received death of the year with 8 votes. A little more than Kissinger (6 votes) and Kaczynski (3 votes). Luis Garavito and Pat Robertson were considered one time each ! The Most Awaited One Kissinger wins a second election ! Most awaited death of the year, the one that made you think "at laaaast, finally !" saw Bob Barker collecting 3 votes, McGowan and Alagiah 2, and coffin-teasers Carman Sevilla, Dianne Feinstein and Chabello only one. The Biggest Survivor At the complete opposite end of the spectrum from the 'saddest' category, the biggest survivor category was (almost) unanimous. All of you (20) voted for the peanut farmer in this category. An evidence, but will he be voted biggest survivor of 2024 for the next edition of the In Memoriam Award ? Wait and see… Only one person voted for Zhang Lixiong, I'll let you guess who The Biggest Miss Another tie in this category : George Alagiah and Ted Kaczynski win the biggest miss of 2023, just in front of Sandra Day O'Connor and Giorgio Napolitano who tie for second place with 3 votes each. Then comes Gianlucca Vialli, and with one vote each, Phyllis Coates and Jimmy Buffett. The Most Promising one Carter wins a second category and is elected as the most promising figure to die in 2024. If it continues in the same vein as January, you all might have done the wrong choice here… Chomsky, Rantzen and Ira Schab were also mentioned here. Wait and see if your prediction comes true ! To sum up, we had 21 voters this year. Matthew Perry, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter and Rolf Harris were the most voted persons in general and Matthew Perry appeared the most, winning almost 3 categories this year. Surprised Joanne Woodward wasn't even mentioned once (for promising and biggest survivor). Bennett, Kundera, Jeff Beck (!), Lee Sun-Kyun (!) Jane Birkin or even Lucile Randon (for most awaited one) were among the ones that I was most surprised not to see appear a single time. A very sparse year in term of voting in general. Interesting. Hope 2024 will bring an even more diverse way of voting ! Well, that's all for this year folks, see you in early 2025 for the next In Memoriam Award of 2024. Thanks for your participation !

Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele (wiki) dead at 103. A unique DDP pick and straight to a Telegraph QO. He was the oldest living peer. That accolade now belongs to Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin (wiki), who will turn 100 next month (he is an alleged descendent of Robert the Bruce). Fiennes was also a non-affiliated member of the House of Lords from 1968 to 1999. Also a British Army officer and WWII veteran. Fascinating account "From D-Day to Bergen Belsen" available here:

I just thank the Mods for not only dealing with this person immediately, but you were able to take the disgusting start posts that he put up off the site completely. The titles themselves turned my stomach.

Whenever Sarah Ferguson is back in the news I think of this:

I banned them outright. Clearly not going to use this site in good faith.

Because Senis is a bellend, that’s why.

From his 2010 diary, not health-related but might be of interest to deathlisters:

2hrs down the road from Sydney, you find the Australian capital. No capital city is as spacious, modern, green, clean and serene as Canberra. Almost disappointed to be off to NZ tomorrow. From Mt Ainslie, Canberra at a distance:

A group photo from 1983. Quite a few of them ares till with us including John Alderton, Pauline Collins, Liza Goddard, Maureen Lipman, Tom Courtenay, Tom Conti, and Julia Mckenzie.

Frank Okey (wiki) died on 23rd December, aged 104. Obit here. A pick for me in the Centenarians Deadpool 2023, but not a hit as nobody spotted it in time. Such is life.

Belatedly my own personal shadowlist for 2024 1)George Carey 2) Imelda Marcos 3) Christina Crawford 4) Gary Myers 5) Bernadette Chirac 6) Robert Redford 7) Rose West 8) Paddy McNally 9) Joan Bakewell 10) Scott Madsen 11) Vigdis Finnbogadottir 12) Peter Higgs 13) Lee Majors 14) Yoko Ono 15) James Baker (US POLITICIAN) 16) Julie Goodyear 17) Tom Clarke (retired Scottish mp) 18) Robin Oakley 19) Michael Flatley 20) Sophia Loren 21) Alan Greenspan 22) Jane Rossington 23) Roy Hattersley 24) Jan Leeming 25) The Duchess of Kent 26) Elspeth Ballantyne 27) Gerald Seymour 28) Cindy Adams 29) Joni Mitchell 30) Laurie Taylor 31) Queen Sonja of Norway 32) Ethel Kennedy 33) Vera Miles 34) Jefferson King 35) Elaine Storkey 36) Leo Scullion 37) Douglas Hurd 38) Richard Beymer 39) Wink Martindale 40) Eileen Derbyshire 41) Phil Creswick 42) Billy Butler 43) Luke Halpin 44) Gary Tobian 45) Jackie DeShannon 46) Connie Francis 47) Pam St Clement 48) Jacqueline White 49) Freddie Foreman 50) Linda Ronstadt

Two — 5 songs go through in this round. @Toast

https://www.ilmessaggero.it/persone/gigi_riva_malore_come_sta_ricoverato_ospedale_cagliari-7887683.html Gigi Riva hospitalized but in stable condition. He will have a heart surgery.

I purposely omitted to list all the nominees in this category as they were quite numerous. Tommy Smothers was yours but we also had Benjamin Zephania, Steve Harwell and Len Goodman

John Tomlinson, Baron Tomlinson (wiki) dead at 84. Labour MP for Meriden (1974–1979), MEP (1984–1999) and member of the House of Lords since 1998.

Think that's Grim Reaper's wheelhouse. I'll shoot him a PM.

Laurie Johnson for the List of the Missed. Last picked 2017.

Interesting little titbit

Yeah, it won't be him; that doesn't help Trump in any way. The GOP now has Florida locked up in presidential elections, and DeSantis is also hard-right so it doesn't really help him pull from the pool of swing voters in swing states. Pence was a strategic pick to try to get Evangelicals; we'll see where his campaign goes this time.

Will the next poster please add 1 point to: 23 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well. ? 30 - 6 = 24, not 23. @Sir Creep They should have 24 points. Thank you. Use: January 22nd 61 Barry Ryan — Eloise 41 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 35 Nina Simone — Ain’t Got No / Do What You Gotta Do 33 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday 24 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 19 Fleetwood Mac — Man Of The World 19 The Foundations — Build Me Up Buttercup

22/01/24 61 Barry Ryan — Eloise 39 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 34 Nina Simone — Ain't Got No/Do What You Gotta Do 31 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well +4 29 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday 27 Fleetwood Mac — Man Of The World 14 Stevie Wonder — Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday 11 The Foundations — Build Me Up Buttercup -6

I don't know who this person is but I've just opened the site and been greeted with this, I'm not clicking on the link for obvious reasons. I know this user has now been banned and it's probably nothing but I'm seriously concerned about this.

James D. Hughes (wiki), Lieutenant General in the U.S. Air Force, dead at 101. Picked in some pools on here I think.

Time to give this 50s, 60s and 70s Hollywood icon, fast approaching 90, her own thread. Famous in her own right, too big for Hollywood Possibilities thread. Looking worryingly frail here