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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.

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.

Peter Falk has lung cancer

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.

I have some news Patricia Unertl who died on 4 October 2021 is not Patricia Michon, the actress. I received a message from Samuel Clemmens. He did some research and found out that Patricia Michon moved to England and got married there. The good thing is that he tracked what happened to her. According to him, she died in 2015 under the name Patricia Westwood. He sent me this He claimed she was married to actor Patrick Westwood who died two years later in 2017. I was very surprised to learn that beacuse none of their IMDbs have any information about their subsequent marriages other than their first divorce. Samuel told me that they did a television episode in the early 1960s. I'm assuming that's how they met. Here: That's all, as you know I don't have access to GRO and I believe you can see if you check the year 2015, what was her real birth date and age.

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.

Even I have heard of Harold Bishop, and I've never watched a single episode of Neighbours.

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.

https://www.pametnaroda.cz/en/jelinek-josef-1941

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

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.

He'd definitely get a UK obit. The character of Harold Bishop was a fan favourite.

Israel Vazquez unable to do anything any more. Dead, aged 46.

I've been wanting to create this thread for a while... We've all heard of Bryan Johnson, the millionaire who is doing everything to reverse his aging: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Johnson Well, he was on a book tour in India and experienced throat and eye burn there: https://in.mashable.com/culture/86052/age-reversing-millionaire-flags-serious-health-situation-in-mumbai-my-throat-and-eyes-burn He seems destined to die of something rather stupid, or even get cancer from all the supplements he takes. Still, I've been interested in him and the anti-agers in general and wonder if there's something to it or not. There's actually a ranking of all of them, i.e. who rejuvenates the most (Bryan Johnson is currently 5th): https://www.rejuvenationolympics.com/ So I'd like to have place to document their failures (or successes). A very long-term thread.

The irony of Bryan Johnson is he's trying not to age, but in the process has made himself look older than his actual age of 47. Looked great in 2015, looks like a freak now. The key to ageing well is don't fuck about with your face and body too much, drink alcohol moderately, eat sensibly, don't smoke, exercise and drink tons of water. Honestly, that's all there is to it. Having good genes helps too ofc but that's outside your control.

Come on Weinstein just 30 more days you evil motherfucker!

Wheelchair bound and on oxygen in latest pictures. Definitely a keep.

Teams for 2025/2026: Physics Chemistry Medicine Literature Peace Economics Points diego Leo Esaki E. J. Corey Werner Arber Gao Xingjian Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Robert J. Auman Funeralopolis Carlo Rubbia Alan Jay Heeger Merio R. Capecci J.M.G. Le Clezio Lech Walesa Daniel L. MacFadden ladyfiona Rainer Weiss Robert Huber Tu Youyou Bob Dylan HRH, 14. Dalai Lama Eugene F. Fama livingbygrace David M. Lee Walter Gilbert Eric R. Kandel John M. Coetzee Ellen Johnson Sirleaf William F. Sharpe polar duck George E. Smith John C. Polanyi William C. Campbell Elfriede Jelinek Narges Mohammadi Amartya Kumar Sen theoldlady Chen Ning Yang Rudolph A. Marcus Torsten N. Wiesel Wole Soyinka Jimmy Carter Vernon L. Smith Toast Roger Penrose Akira Suzuki James D. Watson Mario Vargas Llosa Mairead Corrigan Edmund S. Phelps It is planned to update this list weekly or bi-weekly - please be patient Hits 2025/2026:

One month to go and still no sixth hit. If no one else on the 2024 list dies before December 7th, the 2024 list will fall behind the 2011 list.

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.

Yep, totally allowing that! It was in The Muppets Christmas Carol after all. Posting a new scoreboard as I can't allow Bobby Helms. Besides, he had his chance in last year's game. 41 Mykola Leontovych — Carol Of The Bells 36 David Willcocks — God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 33 Charles Wesley — Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 28 Isaac Watts — Joy To The World 26 John Williams — O Holy Night 25 Lewis Redner — O Little Town Of Bethlehem 23 Franz Xaver Gruber — Silent Night 23 Edmund Sears — It Came Upon A Midnight Clear 23 John Mason Neale — Good King Wenceslas 23 Thomas Oliphant — Deck The Halls 22 James Chadwick — Angels We Have Heard On High 22 Cecil Frances Alexander — Once In Royal David’s City 22 Frederick Oakeley — O Come All Ye Faithful 20 John Mason Neale — O Come, O Come, Emmanuel 20 John Henry Hopkins Jr. — We Three Kings 20 Cecil Sharp — The Holly And The Ivy 20 Jehan Tabourot — Ding Dong! Merrily On High 20 John Mason Neale — A Great And Mighty Wonder 20 William Sandys — I Saw Three Ships 18 Edward Caswall — See Amid The Winter's Snow 14 Michael Perry — Calypso Carol 13 Ernst Anschütz — O Tannenbaum 12 Muppet Ensemble — It Feels Like Christmas 12 John Rutter — Quittez Pasteurs 12 Cynthia Clawson — Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus 10 Nahum Tate — While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks 10 Davies Gilbert — The First Noël 

I know I said my definition of 'carol' was gonna be loose but that's pushing it. It even has 'rock' in the title. Try again.