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Blast from the past... Def Leppard's Vivian Campbell misses tour dates because of cancer treatment: https://www.loudersound.com/news/def-leppard-viavia-campbell-misses-show

Matthew Gergely dead at 45.

Funnily enough, January 20 is his 79th birthday.

This isn't true, I am here and sat at home!

Quite agree with you. I’ll add Jose Mujica, Vanessa Redgrave and Raul Castro.

IMO the only names that can be considered "major misses" are: Peter Yarrow Tom Brokaw Jean Marsh Don King Joan Plowright Roberta Flack Jose Mujica and Flack is the only one whose exclusion is "unjustifiable".

No BBC for Yarrow is weird because Mary Travers DID get a Beeb obit when she died, and Peter, Paul, and Mary were one of those bands where no one member was substantially more famous than the others. Though the BBC itself did decline compared to 15 years ago.

Law could be considered a miss too because, unlike some who were kept, he was known to be terminally ill, even when it was something unpredictable as Alzheimer's. But at the same time, had someone like Eastwood been dropped instead and then died the same way as Carl Reiner did while Law had survived the year people would have gone 'why was Eastwood dropped instead of [random old person who's survived the year]???'.

Yarrow's illness, correct me if I'm wrong, had no coverage anywhere outside of social media and the cmme probably doesn't read these forums often. I agree with you on Black Bart. On the other hand they seem to have a thing for some niche names. I've already mentioned a year or two ago how they love African musicians and there's already been three BBC obits for those this year: Dandy Krazy, Winnie Khumalo and Teddy Osei.

The BBC is pretty unreliable for coverage now a days. Lots of people don’t get a obituary anymore. Seems to depend who is on shift.

Out of the 6 crowdsource hits so far, the official DL has shared 2, but I wouldn't count the other 4 as misses necessarily. Black Bart isn't really a deathlisty name and I'd never have expected him to make the list. Plowright was one of many interchangeable nonagenarian female actors, she could have been swapped for someone like Dickinson or Novak, but that category feels more like a lucky dip than anything else. Law is the first inevitable victim of last year's catastrophic list and the need to drop 19 people, it's the nature of the game and not something that was unexpected coming into 2025. Yarrow feels the most like a miss, definitely could've and probably should've made it, even if he didn't get the BBC coverage almost every other UK paper did put out an obit, more worthy than certain other US picks *cough* Gates Sr *cough*.

He's got a huge majority for four and a half years. Fuck the Tories and fuck Reform and get things done. Why should we be poorer still because Badenoch or Farage might say something that might make the sheeple cry?

Exactly. That bloke's a nutter, as they said on the adverts folk round here don't remember. If Starmer had any sense, he'd be getting alternatives in place, rather than sitting down to dinner with him. Trump tells the world to go fuck itself. I'm content with fucking off as far as possible for four years and sorting our problems/challenges elsewhere. I maintain it is unpleasant to watch the leader of our country writhe in the dirt, rather than do something else, however distasteful it may seemingly be.

I imagine it was written in 2017 just after she announced she had terminal cancer. Would have been odd to do it earlier unless they really do have thousands of them.

If Asma Al-Assad goes, I hope the write up is headlined "fatal Asma attack"

You're the only person to have mentioned 7/10 of these people. Tell us more about them and why you think they might die this yead. They're truly just names without context.

Sorry, but I'm not familiar with any of these individuals.

Mon 20 Jan 34 The Specials - Gangsters 33 The Selecter - On My Radio 30 Eagles - Hotel California +4 29 Kate Bush - The Man With the Child in his Eyes 28 Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town 26 Supertramp - Breakfast in America 26 Electric Light Orchestra - Mr Blue Sky 25 Carole Bayer Sager - You're Moving Out Today 25 Plastic Bertrand - Ça Plane Pour Moi 25 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing 24 Madness - One Step Beyond 24 Stranglers - No More Heroes 23 Electric Light Orchestra - Wild West Hero 23 Skids - Into The Valley 22 Gary Moore - Parisian Walkways 22 Bill Withers - Lovely Day 22 Stranglers - Peaches 22 Ram Jam - Black Betty 22 Manfred Manns Earth Band - Blinded By The Light 20 Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant  20 Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman 20 Eddie & The Hotrods - Do Anything You Wanna Do  20 Blondie - (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear 19 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Is This Love 19 David Bowie - Golden Years 18 Elton John - Pinball Wizard  18 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden -2 18 Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces -2 15 Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Delilah 12 Sham 69 - Hersham Boys 12 Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia 00 Queen - Don't Stop Me Now -2

Joyce Piven, an acting teacher who had a handful of roles between 1992 and 2022, including as an extra on Entourage on which her son Jeremy starred, has died. She was 94. https://chicago.suntimes.com/theater/2025/01/19/joyce-piven-obituary-jeremy-theater-workshop-evanston-chicago