Wickerman

Still one up on your crowdsourced list (me 9/50) at this date Joey. I still think I can keep a lead through to the end of the year

Anton Coppola composer and conductor dies age 102. Ah the joys of low hanging fruit! Hit #9 for my 2020 list.

And to come: many more, many many more, many many many more

Life (DEATH) certainly moving forward apace this year - JPdC gives me my 8th hit. Wonder what coronavirus might do to increase the hits on our lists?

Awaiting my copy of the “Mysteries and Myths of Death List Gaming” (shorter concise edition in 8 volumes). Once I’ve read, digested and understood I may start playing some of the more arcane competitions, races and games on here. Give me about 3 years and I may get there

The Army Game’s Cpl. Springer aka Michael Medwin has passed and provides me with my 7th hit of the year.

Norwegian jazz drummer Jon Christensen has died age 76. He appears on many recordings on the ECM label and was in particular a member of the legendary Keith Jarrett European Quartet of the 1970s which produced five renowned recordings on ECM Records.

KD! Gone! After all these years on the list! Well, well, well - that's #6 for me - 6 in 36 days. Quick pour me another espresso

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/04/daniel-arap-moi-former-president-of-kenya-dies-aged-95 5th hit in 5 weeks - problem is my shadow list started like this last year, but by May slowed down to a mere trickle of successes - such are the vagaries of death

Keep racking 'em up UM, And #5 for me - one a week

Yes, I had seen the posts on his thread - so I know you know (not a starter for any subsequent: “little does he know I know he knows I know ........” quips)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/02/02/mad-mike-hoare-mercenary-leader-obituary/ Mercenaries for hire or sale Mad Mike Hoare is no more - he made the world a more fearful place and many will not grieve his passing. #4 hit for my shadow list.

My error . Thanks for your correction

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/paul-farnes-last-battle-of-britain-ace-dies-aged-101-thxl6k2vn Paul Farnes the last of the few has died . A generation passes and provides me with my third hit of the year.

After Terry Jones naked organs will never be the same again

And that’s my number 2 for the month (on a roll now) - if you meet your dad again Chris tell him that I never enjoyed the cross country runs around the Hobbit Holes

Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont Obituary: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-chalfont-obituary-r5r3mgz8d Get to a hundred and then retire - DEAD Thats the way to do it. 1st hit of the year.

1) Daniel arap Moi (Nyayo), 2) Gottfried Böhm (Build ‘em high), 3) Carol Channing (Thoroughly Modern) , 4) Olivia De Havilland (Maid Marion), 5) Javier Perez de Cuellar (Sec Gen #5), 6) Stanley Donen (On the Town) , 7) Kirk Douglas (Ear-ear), 8) William Frankland (Immune to death), 9) Jean Heywood (Billy’s gran) , 10) Clive James (A life critical) , 11) Robert Mugabe (Everlasting ex-president) , 12) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (death mask), 13) Leslie Phillips (Left hand down a bit), 14) William Russell (Companion), 15) Betty White (Hollywood mayor), 16) Herman Wouk (Sailor) , 17) Franco Zeffirelli (Tea time) , 18) George Alagiah (BBC News), 19) Ivor Broadis (Oldest England cap) , 20) Gay Byrne (Uncle Gaybo) , 21) Roger Corman (Low-budget cult), 22) Eileen Derbyshire (Emily), 23) Bob Dole (Candidate), 24) Lou Donaldson (Alto), 25) Patrick Duffy (Labour MP & NATO [NAA President]), 26) Benjamin Berell Ferencz (Last Nuremberg prosecutor), 27) Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Supreme Court), 28) Glyn Houston (Don’s little bro) , 29) John Hume (SDLP), 30) Johnny Johnson (Dambuster), 31) Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont (Falklands!), 32) Jill Knight (Baroness Knight of Collingtree), 33) Ted Luscombe (Bishop - Scottish Episcopal), 34) David McNee (Met commissioner) , 35) Michael Medwin (Army Game), 36) Gwen Moffat (Barefoot mountaineer & author), 37) John Papworth (Turbulent Priest), 38) Rosamunde Pilcher (Old romantic), 39) Sidney Poitier (Sir with Love), 40) David Prowse (Green X code man), 41) Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), 42) Jim Russell (Grand Prix) , 43) Elizabeth Sellars (Weegie acting lass), 44) Joe Sinnott (What a Marvel!), 45) Ron Smith (Judge Dredd) , 46) Larry Storch (Comic), 47) Everton Weekes (Last of the 3 Ws), 48) Richard Williams (Tennis dad), 49) Peregrine Worsthorne (sometime journo), 50) Chuck Yeager (Glamorous Glennis). One final hit for this years list in the closing hours of the year - Elizabeth Sellars RIP. This takes my final number to 15 for the year - not too shabby; so now an adjustment to my 2020 list

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Thank you Kinnock. Your sentiments are so so right, I cannot imagine this being better expressed. Those that we had forgotten and lost live again for us, and we even discover more of their journey through life, their joys and their travails.

There are quite wonderful and reflective moments reading Death Listers Shadow Lists. Those moments of recognition and remembrance; moments of: “Are they still alive? I haven’t thought of them for years. Where are they now? What are they doing?” and then the research to answer those questions. Thank you Death Listers everywhere

Death Listers - as we awake to a new year and commence our journey through the flaming Twenties, remember we are all mortal; yet - I wish you happiness and hope with all my heart that we shall all be together here on 1st January 2021

The Wickerman’s shadow list for 2020 19/50 Dead 1) Gottfried Böhm, 1920 (Build ‘em high), 2) Roger Corman, 1926 (Cult - Low-Budget), 3) Javier Perez de Cuellar, 1920 (Sec Gen #5), 4/3 4) Eileen Derbyshire, 1931 (Emily), 5) Bob Dole, 1923 (Candidate), 6) Lou Donaldson, 1926 (Alto), 7) Kirk Douglas, 1916 (Lust for – Death?), 5/2 8) Patrick Duffy, 1920 (Labour MP & NATO [NAA President]), 9) Benjamin Berell Ferencz, 1920 (Last Nuremberg prosecutor), 10) William Frankland, 1912 (Immune to death), 2/4 11) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933 (Good Judge), 18/9 12) Olivia de Havilland, 1916 (Going, Going, Gone), 25/7 13) Johnny Johnson, 1921 (Dambuster), 14) Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, 1919 (Falklands!), 10/1 15) Ted Luscombe, 1924 (Bishop - Scottish Episcopal), 16) Michael Medwin, 1923 (Army Game), 26/2 17) Daniel arap Moi, 1924 (Nyayo), 4/2 18) John Papworth, 1921 (Turbulent Priest), 4/7 19) Leslie Phillips, 1924 (Left hand down a bit), 20) Sidney Poitier, 1927 (Sir with Love), 21) Joe Sinnott, 1926 (What a Marvel!), 25/6 22) Larry Storch, 1923 (Comic), 23) Alex Trebek, 1940 (Life in Jeopardy), 8/11 24) Everton Weekes, 1925 (Last of the 3 Ws), 1/7 25) Betty White, 1922 (Hollywood mayor), 26) Bob Barker, 1923 (Price is Right), 27) Eric Bentley, 1916 (Brechtian), 5/8 28) Ronald Blythe, 1922 (Akenfield) 29) Raymond Briggs, 1934 (Time For Lights Out?), 30) Mel Brooks, 1926 (Cone of Silence Awaits?), 31) June Brown, 1927 (Dot Cott), 32) Jimmy Carter, 1924 (Peanut farming), 33) Anton Coppola, 1917 (Operatic), 9/3 34) Paul Farnes, 1918 (Fewer & Fewer), 28/1 35) Paul Fox, 1925 (Controller at Beeb), 36) Ian Hamilton, 1925 (Stone Thief), 37) Mike Hoare, 1919 (Mad), 2/2 38) Hal Holbrook, 1925 (Film Guy), 39) Marsha Hunt, 1917 (Blacklisted), 40) Norman Lear, 1922 (TV Prod), 41) Norman Lloyd, 1914 (Perimutter?), 42) James Lovelock, 1919 (Gaia), 43) Roberta McCain, 1912 (Matriarch), 12/10 44) Carl Reiner, 1922 (Bernie fan), 29/6 45) June Spencer, 1919 (Peggy), 46) Christopher Tolkien, 1924 (Hobbit and Middle-earth mapmaker), 16/1 47) Bill Turnbull, 1956 (BBC news), 48) Brian Urquhart, 1919 (UN Under-Sec-Gen), 49) Murray Walker, 1923 (Legend), 50) Donald Zec, 1919 (Daily Mirror Journo).