Deathrace

Who would have thought Avicii would die before Kirk Douglas and Olivia De Havilland? The grim reaper moves in mysterious ways.

Utmost respect for her. She’s basically the only person left standing who was famous in the 1930s as an adult. She’s pretty much the last famous person of an entire generation. It’s quite an achievement. Sadly no one is immortal and one day soon it will be her last but what an innings she has had.

Poor family - they don’t appear to be well blessed in the genes department sadly.

He needs to lay off the fags! 2-3 more years left I reckon.

Still looks remarkable for her age in that photo which we are told is recent. Not saying she’s going to last that much longer but compare her to Kirk Douglas and it’s pretty obvious who has had the better time being a centenarian. Olivia has had the very best of the lottery of life, not many look like that at over 100.

Based on the photo he’s just put up on Twitter he looks like a fairly normal 50 year old. I think this pick is 10 years premature.

Based on recent photos looks like a very bad pick. Then again, Mandy Rice-Davies looked amazing at a similar age a few years back and died of cancer about three months later after those photos were taken so you never can be totally sure. But on balance it looks a bad pick.

Barry Cryer crossed over the road on a zebra crossing when I was driving just before Christmas. He looked ok for his age.

Decent list but Gazza should have been substituted for Stiles and a place should have been found for Val Kilmer.

Well her long running on screen husband in the Likely Lads has recently gone to meet his maker so probably not a great surprise

How about considering the two creepiest Bond villains of all time, Mr Kidd and Mr Wint, actors Bruce Glover and Putter Smith are now 85 and 76 respectively.

Says a lot about the sick sense of humour the Reaper has that strong athletes such as Jonah Lomu and Joost van der Westhuizen have died in their 40s and Shane has made it to 60.

I have a source who has inside info on Alliss. Word is “he could go anytime” but he is still hoping to travel to the US to commentate on the US Masters in April. Definitely worth a punt I would say.

How about Sean Connery and Michael Caine? Both massive names in declining health.

If he’s eligible to line up for the starter in 2018, Shane Rimmer would make an excellent Deathlist choice. As well as Star Wars and Thunderbirds, he also played a psychopathic conman researching his family tree in an episode of Tales of the Unexpected.

All things considered he looks pretty good for 90. He could always worsen quickly at that age but ,on balance, there are better candidates for 2018. One to drop.

Still allegedly “on form” https://mobile.twitter.com/tomhatton1/status/939554965022011392

Ken Clarke said he wouldn’t restand at the next General Election after 2015 but reversed his decision in 2017. He and Skinner are carrying on til the bitter end. It’s a bit like Tommy Cooper, they know they are going to depart this world in the act and appear at peace with their decision.

I wonder when it will be time to look at ABBA? Somewhat rare for a 70s group for all members to be alive and seemingly doing well considering three of the four are now 70 plus.

Skinner and dear old Kenneth Clarke are going to have to be carried out of the Commons in a coffin. They will continue their verbal jousting to the bitter end now I expect.

Based on this, he could die in the next 12 months but he could last another 10 years. Chances are he’ll live another 2-5 years. In my view there’s easily 50 better candidates for 2018. One to drop from the list.

Reckon Geoff Hurst and Bobby Charlton will probably be the last of the Boys of 66 standing but that’s just a hunch.

John McCririck looks very unwell, painfully thin these days and very pale complexion. Looks like he has cancer to me. I think he’d be a good pick for 2018.

What about this bloke? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Trelles Find it incredible that someone who was a manager at the 1966 World Cup (his team played England of course as well) is still going and now over 100...

Was absolutely sure he had died a few years back but a Google search says no.