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1920: Le Duc Anh, Norma Barzman 1921: Hugh Downs, Irene Apfel 1922: Lyndon LaRouche, Beverly Pepper 1923: Murray Walker, Gloria Henry 1924: Tony Britton, Carole Cook 1925: Baron Christopher, Honor Blackman 1926: Stanley Baxter, Cloris Leachman 1927: Harry Belafonte, Estelle Parsons 1928: Joss Ackland, Jean Ann Kennedy 1929: Andre Previn, Lady Pamela Hicks Although I'm a bit dubious as to whether some of the earlier names would get a QO, but it's not getting any easier to find names as the rounds progress!

She's planning to appear at Kingston Theatre later this week with a new play as a 'work in progress' - three performances, plus an Evening With Vanessa Redgrave on Saturday night. Tickets still available if any Deathlister wants to pop along and assess how she looks! https://www.rosetheatrekingston.org/whats-on/vienna-1934--munich-1938-a-work-in-progress

My first thought too - like Victoria Wood and David Bowie, some folk decide to keep news of any ill health private. The 'upday' news ticker on my mobile phone has just told me that Jeremy Hardy has died aged 75. I think the intern must have been the only one who made it into work today due to the snow and didn't check they'd got the numbers the right way round. I trust the Beeb's headline that he was 57 rather more.

Sunshine of Your Love from Disraeli Gears by Cream?

Darn, that rules out my second guess of the incomparable Shaddap Your Face from the album of the same name by Joe Dolce in 1981.

Well that could be anything depending on your own tastes.... I'll go with A Day In The Life from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.

The good folk of the forum were right to be sceptical on this one - Jose Jose's wiki page has been amended to remove the reference to his death. Jose Jose is undead, long live Jose Jose (well, for anyone who doesn't have him in any of their lists).

Hmmm. According to Wikipedia Jose Jose died on January 22nd from natural causes but the 'source' just links to an artist page on a music website that doesn't give a date of death. Can't see any other references on the internet to his demise?

Goddamn it, you take your eye off the ball for a few days and when you get round to checking the forum, you find not only are you fucked in terms of your opponent in round one, you've already been written off by Sir Creep....harsh, but fair. Time to drive to Norfolk in a Sherman tank and loiter round junctions to see if any Range Rovers pop out and see if I can improve my odds of achieving more than zero in what is likely to be the only round I play in.

Lorna Doom (born Theresa Ryan), bassist with the LA punk band Germs has died. Age claimed as 'unknown' but a comment under the article confidently states she was 50, swiftly rebutted by others who point out that would have made her about 8 years old when the band formed in 1976. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/17/lorna-doom-germs

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I'd like to join if that's ok.....and can I clarify, under rule 12 about tie breaks and the second point being the average age of hits - the younger the better, presumably? (I know, I know...but I'm a relative newbie, and not expecting to get very far in against such experienced opposition!).

Barbara Walters Bob Hawke Clive James Johnny Clegg Loretta Lynn Hosni Mubarak Stirling Moss Bob Dole Kirk Douglas Little Richard Harry Belafonte Herman Wouk Olivia de Havilland Sidney Poitier Ginger Baker Tina Turner 16 in total.....

Thanks for pulling this together, Joey. I trust there weren’t a majority of submissions that included Ray Sawyer to create more work for you at the last minute! I didn’t include Prince Philip in my 2019 list as I’m beginning to think the guy is immortal....but as it’s the first year I’ve had time to do a list, I had nothing to lose by not including him. If I’d included him in previous years I doubt I would have dropped him now given the way things seem to be going. An interesting list and I look forward to tracking its progress.

Jeez. I saw the Osmonds on stage about five years ago and I was more concerned for the health of Jay, who had put on a few pounds since his teenage years and performed a manic drum solo - I remember thinking I hoped they had a defibrillator on standby backstage.

Indeed....but then it seems a bit like the honours system. Go and work in the civil service for thirty years and you'll probably get a gong of some description. Work as a doctor or nurse for 30 years in the NHS saving lives (and having the fun of dodging punches from the drunks in A&E on a Friday night) and you'll be likely to get diddly squat. And sadly I can't help but wonder if poor old Georges would have got an obit at all, were it not for the fact he'd managed to reach the ripe old age of 108.

Georges Loinger, a French hero of WW2 has died at the age of 108, as reported by the BBC. Did anyone have him on their list? He falls into the "I've never heard of him before today" category but then again so do a lot of folk! I'm sure there must be some painstaking Deathlister who had got him marked down somewhere.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46714673

I'm replacing June Whitfield with Bernard Cribbins. Seems a bit of a shame to do this on his 90th birthday but this isn't exactly the place for sentimentality.....

To be honest, I was surprised when I read the story - I thought they'd already gone....

The BBC are reporting Peter Hill-Wood, former Arsenal chairman, has died: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46700308

I've had Richard O'Sullivan on my radar for a couple of years now but I didn't put him on my shadow list for 2019. I suspect that means that he, along with my other 'nearly' choices of Bernard Cribbins, Gene Hackman, Douglas Hurd, Phil Spector, Windsor Davies and Jim Lovell, Gordon Banks, and Robert Duvall, will all meet the reaper long before any of my actual choices make his acquaintance. Once I started doing a bit of research for my 2019 list there was a rich seam of folk in their late 80s and 90s where statistically you think a number of them should pop off before long. Maybe 2019 will make up for 2018's relatively quiet year.

My shadow list for 2019: 1) Clive James 2) Leah Bracknell 3) Herman Wouk 4) IM Pei 5) Olivia de Haviland 6) Vera Lynn 7) Kirk Douglas 8) Olivia Newton-John 9) Tommy Chong 10) Ruth Bader Ginsburg 11) Valerie Harper 12) Nichelle Nichols 13) Dave Prowse 14) Terry Jones (Python) 15) Bill Wyman 16) Beverley Clearly (US author) 17) Larry King 18 Frank Borman (astronaut) 19) Robert Mugabe 20) Chuck Yeager 21) Betty White 22) Henry Kissinger 23) Sidney Poitier 24) Doris Day 25) Franco Zeffirelli 26) Pierre Cardin 27) Carol Channing 28) Jimmy Carter 29) June Whitfield 30) Rolf Harris 31) Mikhail Gorbachev 32) Valery Giscard D'Estaing 33) Walter Mondale 34) Little Richard 35) Tony Bennett 36) Marion Ross (Happy Days) 37) Gina Lollobrigida 38) Imelda Marcos 39) Eva Marie Saint 40) Harry Belafonte 41) Bill Cosby 42) Buzz Aldrin 43) Carl Reiner 44) Jill Gascoigne 45) Javier Perez de Cuellar 46) Leslie Phillips 47) Angela Lansbury 48) Gary Busey 49) Liza Minelli 50) Michael Schumacher

Article on the BBC website where Olivia talks about "winning over it" but also says her cancer is not stage 4 and has metastasized to her spine. I'm thinking she may well see the year out......which probably means she won't last the week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45479702

14. He is actually Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin.

Some random thoughts.... Michael Schumacher Richard O'Sullivan Jean Marsh Jimmy Perry Pete Murray (DJ) Nichelle Nichols Bobby Brown Berry Gordy Jean Alexander Jim Bowen