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Aída Judith León (wiki) died on 20th November aged 96. Not picked up by any media, but all over X, YouTube, Threads and Facebook. Death notice here. Post confirms that her husband, Guillermo Rodríguez, was alive aged 101 on 20th November.

Wed 4 Dec 40 John Williams — O Holy Night +1 39 Charles Wesley — Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 39 David Willcocks — God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen  36 Mykola Leontovych — Carol Of The Bells 31 Isaac Watts — Joy To The World  26 Thomas Oliphant — Deck The Halls  25 Lewis Redner — O Little Town Of Bethlehem  25 Edward Caswall — See Amid The Winter's Snow 23 Franz Xaver Gruber — Silent Night  23 Edmund Sears — It Came Upon A Midnight Clear  23 John Mason Neale — Good King Wenceslas  22 Jehan Tabourot — Ding Dong! Merrily On High  22 James Chadwick — Angels We Have Heard On High  22 Cecil Frances Alexander — Once In Royal David’s City  21 Frederick Oakeley — O Come All Ye Faithful -1 20 John Henry Hopkins Jr. — We Three Kings  20 Cecil Sharp — The Holly And The Ivy  20 John Mason Neale — A Great And Mighty Wonder  20 William Sandys — I Saw Three Ships  18 John Rutter - Quittez Pasteurs +5 14 Muppet Ensemble - It Feels Like Christmas 12 Rowe - Cradled in a manger, meanly NEW 12 Cynthia Clawson - Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus 00 John Mason Neale — O Come, O Come, Emmanuel -8 While we're celebrating the festive season, I' m also celebrating - 25 years of me and GAB today...

I bet he will pull a Pope Benny/Betty White/Barbara Walters and die on the 30th or 31st.

Since his name has finally been made public, I can make this post. To answer an old question, the final man from the 1900s decade is likely Manoel Ribiero da Silva of Brazil (b. 19 May 1909). Although unvalidated, I have good faith his age is indeed correct. He is Semi-Documented.

The Bill Clinton wins and Obama 08 probably have more of an argument that they’re landslides but I don’t think those are true landslides so if those aren’t landslides then Trump 2024 definitely isn’t a landslide when it basically was just a repeat of 2016 plus Nevada. The last real landslide was probably 1984.

Eminem's mother, Debbie Nelson, dead at 69.

You read that right. 30 years of the DDP. A mighty milestone few could've envisioned when it was a local 90s affair that had its own trophy. 2024, despite an overall hits tally on track to break the record, felt fairly arid on the headliner and competitive fronts, perhaps portending a mighty 2025 enema. Whatever happens, @time, @Banana and I are once again here to guide you through it... Dear Jimmy - either die in the next week, or go all the way to- wait, I wrote this before... THE RULES are near exactly what they were last time, with the only edits done being updating all instances of 2023/2024 to 2024/2025, and changing The Times' URL from .co.uk to .com. IMPORTANT REMINDER: The spreadsheet method of entry that began in 2021 remains in service. The 2025 spreadsheet, identical to the 2024 one in all but filename, can be found here. It is heavily recommended to use the spreadsheet as means of entry to reduce Banana's workload as much as possible. If you are absolutely unable to work with the Excel spreadsheet, still make sure to recheck GUN's DDP entry guide thread from 2020 to make the formatting of your email as smooth as possible.

He is fucking overdue. This year has been incredibly bad in terms of elder state leaders deaths.

And here's a photo of Guillermo Rodríguez at a memorial for her on 25th. Your thoughts on his longevity prospects please @drol?

Your list missed this one Sam Fox (Wiki), American businessman and the United States Ambassador to Belgium from April 11, 2007 until January 2, 2009, dead at 95

John Stephen Cummins (Wiki), American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Oakland from 1977 to 2003 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento from 1974 to 1977 dead at 96

4-Dec 48 Katy Perry — Teenage Dream -4 48 Rag’n’Bone Man — Human -2 38 Adele — Rolling In The Deep +4 30 Bastille — Pompeii 29 Emeli Sande — Heaven 24 Pink ft. Nate Ruess — Just Give Me A Reason 18 George Ezra — Paradise 18 Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera — Moves Like Jagger 18 Bruno Mars — Locked Out Of Heaven 09 Taylor Swift — I Knew You Were Trouble

This list started out extremely promising in January, but it's not that surprising that the list underperformed. 2020 eliminated a lot of the less healthy celebrities thanks to the pandemic. The survivors were, in general, slightly healthier than people the same age a few years ago, so they tend to live longer than their predecessors. Eventually the pandemics effects on the general health of the older population will dissipate and we will get back to a more normal death rate, but it will probably take another couple years.

As enthralling as a five-hour tabloid trawling extravaganza sounds, I know there's probably also some people here who have Google Alerts switched on for things like this, so they get notified of them automatically.

The Celebrating David Bowie UK and EU tour, which was due to take place in January, has been called off because Peter Murphy has "suddenly taken ill". He survived a heart attack in 2019. Might be worth keeping tabs on, sadly.

As we're waiting for one of this year's picks to die, I can't find a list of surviving AVALDP / Advent Avalanche / Advent game survivors here. I've already done a list of survivors for MMMDP, so here's one for AVALDP: 2016: Chris Rea Queen Sirikit MC Ren Donald J. Trump Eileen Derbyshire 2017: Ami Brown 2018: Anna Thornton Naka Drotské Anne Baker MBE Stanley Baxter Donald J. Trump 2019: Ron Boswell Willie Nelson 2020: James Whale Mairead Philpott Yoko Ono 2021: Liza Minnelli Khaleda Zia Jean Marsh Sidney Cooke Kat Bjelland Jimmy Carter Phyllis Dalton Rowshan Ershad Bernadette Chirac Gavin Robertson 2022: Steve "Mongo" McMichael Nigel Starmer-Smith Roberta Flack Norman Tebbit MC Ren James Whale Bernadette Chirac Badal Chowdhury Jimmy Carter Jean-Marie Le Pen 2023: Jimmy Carter Dick Van Dyke Noam Chomsky Yoko Ono V. S. Achuthanandan John Hemingway Steve Wells Steve "Mongo" McMichael Jay-Jay Solari Pope Francis Nigel Starmer-Smith Joanne Woodward About the less famous ones: Winners of 2018 and 2019: Bradley was an Ohioan (WBNS) Chief Meteorologist with leukemia. Karl Kiefer was a local US football coach who'd been in hospice following a heart attack Other picks with less info online: Peter Overton (2017) was a Kent footballer whose clubs included Tonbridge and Maidstone. Tanya Gendle (2018) was an Australian personal trainer and I can't find if she ever got any media attention when she died. Patti Goyette (2019) was an US owner of "La Crosse Olive Oil Company" and had cancer. Another who didn't get any real media attention when she died. Badal Chowdhury (2022) I assume is the Indian communist politician of Tripura.

I think it's silly. If there's no offensive content in the actual programmes, why not show them? Nobody is forced to watch. It's so depressing , this unnecessary censoring of stuff. I couldn't give a shit if he offended somebody off camera, they could have walked away or given him a slap.

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My own theory for the low score thus far is that Jimmy staying alive has cockblocked the List.

Rescheduled event was last night. He seemed fine for a 70 year old man. Full head of snowy hair, a bit overweight, walks and stands unaided, can talk and field unimaginative questions for an hour. He mentioned that his mother was 97 when she died. Rubbish surreptitious photo from when the stage was getting moved around.

Charli XCX at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow. Wow. Wow wow wow wow. Telling my grandkids I was there. Charli will be the first to admit that she's not a good singer and relies on autotune, but her lack of raw talent meant nothing here. That was the best crowd I've ever seen (I'm full of superlatives for this one; it was really, really good). She had no backup dancers, no groundbreaking staging gimmicks, the budget was spent on 2 big wrinkled curtains and a showerhead, yet she had the crowd in the palm of her hand for the entire runtime. I'm proud of my city. I've also never seen so many members of the LGBT community in one space. A twink came up to me and told me I look like Paramore guitarist Taylor York. Then, I went to a club with 7 new lesbian friends and watched strippers in chartreuse green outfits pouring water over each other to the tune of "you wanna guess the colour of my underwear". I did 31,000 steps tonight.

Come on Weinstein just 30 more days you evil motherfucker!

Droppable names: Pope Francis (fragile health, but could be fine for some more years) Sandy Gall (will probably go, but who really cares if he is not on the list? calculated risk) Robert Wagner (doing fine, despite COPD and decrepitude) Nigel Starmer-Smith (at this point he can cling on years. Beside that, he would not be that hell of a miss) Vanessa Redgrave (despite all her moans, doing fine) Julie Walters (the obvious drop) Linda Nolan (take the risk, after all she is an attention seeker) Louis Farrakhan (sadly doing very well) Dick Cheney (no issues for a while) Brigitte Bardot (doing well) Ted Turner (still doing very well, will likely see 88/89) Sly Stone (no specific health issues, too young) Tom Baker (doing well) Joe Bugner (too young, a risk to take) I'd keep Castro as he seemed quite thinner at his last appearance. The reality is many of the drops will die anyway, so good luck.

Wow. That's some incredible deadpool insight right there! See the spoiler below to see what you've won.