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I am always a spectacular dismal flop in the deathrace pool !Low expectations here too although there is always a tiny sliver of hope!

Happy 72nd Birthday to American sitcom legend Ted Danson

Happy 73rd birthday to the one and only Marianne Faithfull

No Jimmy Carter or indeed his wife former first lady Rossalyn Carter?

Well the former King of Romania as an ex world leader was considered deathlisty enough.....

An excellent list

Indeed but so did Mary Wilson until a matter of months before she died.....

I must remember to get my list in by the afternoon of New Years eve! Ie just over 48 hours! Yikes! Because after that alcohol will be temporarily taking possession of me!

Any particular name in mind or that you wish to suggest?

A belated Happy Birthday to the brilliant Dame Maggie Smith who turned 85 yesterday.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7833103/Zac-Efron-flown-Australia-suffering-medical-emergency-Papua-New-Guinea.html An 'update' on Zac Efron

Shes on my longlist for my personal shadow list.This may well help edge her closer to the shortlist.

Really hope the committee includes the oldest living spouse of a British Prime minister in its 2020 list and does not repeat what happened with Mary Wilson by overlooking her .

I think as we enter the decade were Ethel would possibly reach her 100th birthday if she lived that long ,she is likely to be on more and more peoples radar. I will be interested to see how many select her for any of the pools/games that begin in the early new year.

Beautiful! @Paul Bearer

Hollywood hunk actor Zac Efron rushed to hospital in Australia after suffering a life or death emergency. Wasnt sure which was the best thread for this so put it in two.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10633080/zac-efron-hospital-life-death-emergency/ Zac Efron rushed to hospital in an apparent life or death emergency in Australia.

Naughty!!

Are you expecting the new year to be like an enema?!

Yes I think that's right and that feeling was particularly heightened by the double shock of famous mother and daughter Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds dying within days of each other. I think deadpooling aside or if deadpooling didn't exist then 2016 in itself would have been classed as a big year for celebrity deaths regardless-in large measure because so many of the big names were unexpected. I suspect 2020 will be a different version of this in the sense that lots of big iconic/significant names will die ,a higher number than typical but the bulk of those names will not be unexpected .There will just be an awful lot of them.That is my take on the issue.2020 has watershed,end of an era kind of vibes about it in my opinion .

Indeed, Prince Philip, Vera Lynn, Pope Benedict, Kirk Douglas, Sultan of Oman, Jimmy Carter,Leslie Phillips, Nobby Stiles just being some of the more obvious ones.

I think in truth you are probably closer to the truth in that more nuanced description. But it did 'feel' big.

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Pope Benedict?

100% agree