Shadow Lists

[Shadow Lists]

My list based purely on age, targeting 14 expected deaths, and maximising the number of famous people:

 

Boris Pahor

Irwin Corey

Norman Lloyd

David Rockefeller

Herman Wouk

Bernard Lewis

Kirk Douglas

Earl Cameron (actor)

I. M. Pei

Billy Graham

Bobby Doerr

Dave Bartholomew

Frank Popper

Hutton Gibson

Beverly Cleary

Olivia de Havilland

Arjan Singh

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington

Danielle Darrieux

Vera Lynn

A. E. Hotchner

Asghar Khan

Bill Gold

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao

Edmond H. Fischer

Ehsan Yarshater

Aaron Temkin Beck

Al Jaffee

Allan MacEachen

Edgar Morin

Ernest Hollings

Francisco Morales Bermúdez

Jake LaMotta

Michael of Romania

Peter Sallis

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Chen Ning Yang *

Henry Kissinger *

Freeman Dyson *

Bob Dole *

Chuck Yeager *

Bob Barker *

Betty White *

George H. W. Bush *

Jimmy Carter *

Robert Mugabe *

Chuck Berry *

Alan Greenspan *

Pope Benedict XVI *

 

 

If I was going for maximum number of deaths (about 15.3 estimated), I would replaced the asterisked ones with:

Reinhard Hardegen

Aharon Leib Shteinman

Gretel Bergmann

Charles E. Lindblom

Patricia Morison

Diana Athill

Albert Memmi

Armin Hofmann

Diana Serra Cary

Brenda Milner

Ernest Angley

Clifton James

Aldo Parisot

[Ideas And Possibilities For 2018]

whoisbigger.com has a ranking of the most famous people who have ever lived, by order of significance. It of course aims to be objective as possible - whether it is or not is another matter. It was made about 2010-2011, so is not quite up-to-date.

 

I've gone through a list of births for each year from 1928 and earlier (an example list is: 1928 births)

(I've noticed that there are people who should appear in such lists but for some reason do not - a minor issue).

 

Such a list gives a description of the person, so it makes it easier to tell if the person was dead by 2011 or so (it's not as simple as that though, as there are instances of people being referred to in a past tense who are still living).

 

My list of still living people by birth year, ordered by "significance" within each year:

1913

Boris Pahor

Reinhard Hardegen

 

1914

Norman Lloyd

Irwin Corey

Aharon Leib Shteinman (birth also listed as 1912)

Gretel Bergmann

 

1915

David Rockefeller

Herman Wouk

Patricia Morison

 

1916

Kirk Douglas

Bernard Lewis

Olivia de Havilland

Beverly Cleary

 

1917

I. M. Pei

Vera Lynn

Danielle Darrieux

Earl Cameron (actor)

Diana Athill

Charles E. Lindblom

 

1918

Billy Graham

Bobby Doerr

Frank Popper

Hutton Gibson

Dave Bartholomew

Brenda Milner

Diana Serra Cary

 

1919

Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington

Anne Cox Chambers

Arjan Singh

Dina Wadia

 

1920

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao

Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon

Ehsan Yarshater

Alicia Alonso

Edmond H. Fischer

A. E. Hotchner

Albert Memmi

Armin Hofmann

 

1921

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Michael of Romania

Carol Channing

Jake LaMotta

Aaron Temkin Beck

Peter Sallis

Allan MacEachen

Al Jaffee

Francisco Morales Bermúdez

Bill Gold

Edgar Morin

Asghar Khan

Françoise Gilot

Ernest Angley

Clifton James

Aldo Parisot

 

1922

Stan Lee

Betty White

Dilip Kumar

Chen Ning Yang

Ernest Hollings

Carl Reiner

Pierre Cardin

Denis Norden

 

1923

Henry Kissinger

Bob Dole

Chuck Yeager

Bob Barker

Freeman Dyson

Franco Zeffirelli

Ara Parseghian

 

1924

George H. W. Bush

Jimmy Carter

Robert Mugabe

Doris Day (birth also listed as 1922)

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Charles Aznavour

Gloria Vanderbilt

Eva Marie Saint

Daniel Akaka

Daniel arap Moi

Christopher Tolkien

Leslie Phillips

Doug Ellis

 

1925

Barbara Bush

Angela Lansbury

Dick Van Dyke

Albert Bandura

Giorgio Napolitano

Brian Aldiss

Honor Blackman

 

1926

Elizabeth II

Chuck Berry

Alan Greenspan

Hugh Hefner

Jerry Lewis

David Attenborough

Cloris Leachman

 

1927

Pope Benedict XVI

Edwin Edwards

David Dinkins

 

1928

Hosni Mubarak

Burt Bacharach

Ennio Morricone

Fats Domino

Bob Cousy

Fidel V. Ramos

Adam West

Bruce Forsyth

 

I only included people in the top 100,000 in the overall ranking, and I think for the years 1921-1988 I limited the number of people quite considerably).

 

Looking at the 2017 Deathlist, Liz Dawn, Jill Gascoine, and Errol Christie are outside the top 100,000. Leah Bracknell and Sandy Gall don't appear to be ranked, Javier Perez de Cuellar breaks the website basically (the characters in his name seem to be the issue), and Ian Brady doesn't have his own wiki-page which probably means they didn't process him.