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Will be a unique hit on the DDP if a qualifying obituary emerges. Wikipedia now listing her as dead

I considered her for a few nanoseconds but couldn't find any health information or sense of her circumstances at all online,which for someone so relatively young I would need for it to make sense to pick her. So I plumped for Rosie Gaines instead who had considerable health information on her that made her worth considering as a choice.

Julie Goodyear would be an excellent choice by the committee.

On this day in 2007 Scottish actress Deborah Kerr died aged 86 in Suffolk England. A big name Hollywood star during much of the 1940s and 50s ,Deborah Kerr was nominated six times for an Oscar but to no avail. Eventually being awarded an honorary Oscar in 1994 in an increasingly rare public appearance for the Hollywood legend who had at this point been diagnosed with parkinsons disease. Her films include the incredibly successful 1950s musical The King and I, romantic war film From here to eternity (1953) with big name costars Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra and Montgomery Clift. romance film An Affair to remember(1957) with Cary Grant as her opposite , Drama Separate Tables (1958) along with Rita Hayworth and David Niven and Black Narcissus (1947) with David Farrar and fellow British actress Jean Simmons. Deborah married twice and had two children. In later years actor Stewart Granger claimed he was propositioned in a limunounise by Kerr whilst married and the duo went on to have an affair. When asked about this in any interview Deborah replied "What a gallant man he is!!" taken by many as an annoyed confirmation of sorts. There is no doubt that Deborah Kerr was one of the UKs most successful and versatile actresses in Hollywood during the golden age of tinseltown.

Craig Phillips, British television presenter and the first ever winner of the UK version of reality tv show Big Brother in the year 2000,celebrates his 51st birthday today. Oscar winning american actor Tim Robbins celebrates his 64th birthday today He has starred in numerous films such as Top Gun (1986), thriller Jacobs ladder (1990) , The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Dead man walking (1995) - for which his then partner Susan won a best actress Oscar, ⁸war of the worlds (2005) and Clint Eastwood directed movie Mystic River for which Tim won the best supporting actor Oscar at the 2004 ceremony.

Gosh she is making fools of some of her biggest cheerleaders in the media!!

Six 'hits' in six weeks amounts to an undeniable increase in sustained regular bowel activity . I am also getting a very strong feeling and intuition that there will be a third October 'hit'. VERY strong

On this day in 2011 British actress and Legendary stalwart of ITV soap Coronation Street Betty Driver died aged 91. She played barmaid and pub cook Betty Turpin/Williams for nearly 40 years. Hee character was affectionately nicknamed Hotpot Betty.

Sandra Kim, a Belgian singer of Italian descent who won the Eurovision song contest for Belgium in 1986, celebrates her 50th birthday today. She won the contest when she was just 13. The winning songvwas called J'aime La Vie.

I very much agree @arghton with regards to Harry Belafonte. He definitely should not be dropped. Similarly with Loretta Lynn there were the beginnings before she died last week of some posters suggesting she should be dropped for 2023 and some suggested last year she should have been dropped for this year! That would have been such a needless miss if the committee had heeded that opinion. With regards to the rest of your post of keeps, many of them seem to be in such precarious health that I could easily envisage around 9 of them going before the end of the year. I know @Bibliogryphon believes it will be more like three and probably thinks that I am a bit mad but I really do reckon a bumper busy last quarter of the year is very possible. I mean we have had 6 hits in as many weeks! Tebbit, Delors, Greenspan, Barker and Phillips seem especially vulnerable or likely 'hits' to me but time will tell!

On this day in 1986 american actor Keenan Wynn died aged 70. He starred in numerous films especially throughout the 1940s to the 1960s and latterly became a solidly regularly employed actor in the burgeoning world of television. His filmography includes the light hearted fun family film Herbie Rides again (1974) alonhwith Helen Hayes and Robert Stevenson, Western war film The War Wagon(1967) whose headline cast was John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Howard Keel . He featured in a number of film musicals when that genre was at its popularity peak during the 1940s and 1950s , such as Royal Wedding (1951) with Jane Powell and Fred Astaire, Kiss me Kate (1953) with Ann Miller and Kathryn Grayson as lead cast and fun Lucille Ball film Easy to wed(1946) which also starred up and coming starred Esther Williams and his good friend Van Johnson. Almost certainly the biggest or at least most famous film he starred in was director Stanley Kubricks Dr Strangelove in 1964 starring Peter Sellers , James Earl Jones and George C Scott. Less prestigious roles in standard Hollywood B list fayre such as horror film Piranha ((1978) came in his senior years along with plenty of television work Angie Dickinsons Police Woman , The Littlest Hobo and The Untouchables are some of the tv series in later years that he had regular roles in. For me as a big fan of the glitzy primetime US soaps of the 1980s I best know him as Digger Barnes in Dallas , father of Cliff Barnes and longtime antagonist of the Ewing men . He has some really touching scenes with the late Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie his former love in the show. The actress who played his ex wife in Dallas, Priscilla Pointer, is still alive in her late nineties. (Keenan Wynn on the left with former DeathList alumni Ken Kercheval who played his onscreen son Cliff Barnes in Dallas) In his personal life he divorced his first wife actress Eve Lynn Abbot who then later went on to marry the couples close friend actor Van Johnson .

Treacher has ataxia and is prone to falls . Also his former EastEnders costar Pete Dean let slip on a podcast that he now mainly speaks to Bill's family on the phone to find out how he is rather than Bill himself.

Dry those eyes!!

On this day two years ago in 2020, american actress Rhonda Fleming who made over 40 films mainly in the 1940s and 1950s during the golden age of Hollywood, died aged 97. Within the ecosystem of Hollywood back then Rhonda is probably best described as a solid B list actress. Never quite making it to the top A list but definitely a woman who made an impact in movies- especially as the way her extraordinary beauty and gorgeous luscious red hair translated in front of a camera earned her the nickname the Queen of technicolor. Her films included 1958 Western Bullwhip with Hunky Hollywood leading man Guy Madison, Gunfight at the O.K Corral (1957) with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Jo Van Fleet, Noir Crime Drama Slightly Scarlett (1956) alongside John Payne and surprisingly another red headed beauty who in latter years people regularly confused her with -Arlene Dahl, Famous Alfred Hitchcock directed movie Spellbound (1945) with Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck and psychological horror The Spiral Staircase (1946) with Ethel Barrymore and Dorothy McGuire as her costars. Despite being a prominent christian in Hollywood, speaking out and campaigning against americans drift away from God, Rhonda married six times with several divorces under her belt. She was a Presbyterian but it appears converted to the Jewish faith of her 5th husband Ted Mann as she was interred at a Jewish cemetery. Anyway in another world Rhonda may well have become First Lady of the United States as she is strongly rumoured to have dated future President Ronald Reagan at one time.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11313929/Sir-Ringo-Starr-82-CANCELS-tour-testing-positive-COVID-19-AGAIN.html Ringo Starr cancels tour after testing positive for covid again after testing negative just days ago .

British singer Cliff Richard celebrates his 82nd birthday today.

On this day in 1996 Award winning British actress Beryl Reid, who received awards for her work in both stage and screen , died aged 77. A BAFTA award for her role in John Le Carre television spy drama Smileys people in 1982, an Olivier theatre award in 1980 for best comedy performance in Born in the gardens and a Best actress Tony award for 1967 play The Killing of Sister George . Another notable memorable film is No sex please were british! (1973).

On this day in 2011 Canadian actress Barbara Kent died aged 103. She was one of the last living stars from the silent movie era at the time of her death. She also appeared in some talkie films in the 1930s. She won the Miss Hollywood beauty pageant in 1925. Here she is in a silent movie called 'Flesh and the Devil ' with the legendary Greta Garbo.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjnC8m3OFUU/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Joan Collins releases a lovely tribute clip to Angela Lansbury of the time they performed at the Oscars together.

American Olympian and professional diver Andrew Capobianco celebrates his 23rd birthday today. Liverpool born former broadcaster and Radio presenter Edwina Currie and most famously a former British Conservative MP and famously a junior health minister in Margaret Thatchers government in the 1980s who had to resign over a salmonella egg scandal, celebrates her 76th birthday today.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/towies-elliott-wright-wife-expecting-28193837 Former British reality tv star Elliott Wright from ITV2s The Only way is Essex is to become a father again.

On this day 25 years ago in 1997, popular american singer songwriter and guitarist John Denver died aged 53 in a plane crash in the Californian sea. He was the planes only occupant. One of his most successful , popular and well known songs is Take me home, country roads released in 1971. On this day 31 years ago in 1991 australian actress of stage and screen Sheila Florance died aged 75. Best known to millions around the world for being an original cast member of cult aussie tv soap Prisoner Cell Block H playing the role of Lizzie Birdsworth. Lizzie was a slightly eccentric elderly prisoner fierce, tough,foul mouthed but also kind and loyal. She was one of the shows most iconic ,legendary and popular characters who became synonymous with the show. You can't think of Dallas without JR, Sue Ellen or Miss Ellie or EastEnders without associating it with Peggy Mitchell, Ian Beale and Dot Cotton. For Prisoner Cell Block H Lizzie and her best mate Bea Smith have the same automatic association and identity with the show when it's mentioned. Sheila Florance played the role from 1979 to early 1984-a period many of the shows fans consider to be the shows golden years. The soap ended December 1986.

New video of a wheelchair bound Shane MacGowan vaping while at an Art exhibition with Kate Moss.

I've plumped for Bill Treacher

Australian actor Hugh Jackman celebrates his 54th birthday today.