Life Is Beautiful

He was a musician?!

Richard Nixon, Kurt Cobain, Jackie Kennedy, John Candy, Bill Hicks and Kim Il-sung from 1994 Jerry Garcia, Selena, Dean Martin and of course the assassination of Yitzah Rabin from 1995 Francois Mitterand, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly and Marcello Mastroianni from 1996 Deng Xiaoping, Jacques Cousteau, Robert Mitchum and Jimmy Stewart from 1997 (up until late August), with the last two less than two months before Diana.

Diana. PS: After answering ladyfiona I think the correct answer might be Jacques Cousteau, who died some two months before Diana. I was 6.

Wasn't Shannon Doherty on the list too or did I imagine that? and nothing makes me madder than the spelling mistake on Robert Duvall, I do not want to see that for a whole year.

I don't think a lot of people will be calling the death of a 95 year old good news, but then again this is HERE. BTW, would you guys call this the biggest DL miss ever?

It gives citations for its claims or else it gets the hose again. RIP Benedict, I love how he angered so many people over here as a final service to Earth.

There was a weird time in history during Ulysses S. Grant's presidency where not only he was the only living president, he also had no vice president! Poor guy said he felt really lonely.

Trump is definitely going to be the GOP frontrunner if he choses to run again tonight. He is still popular there, is a debate monster and the MAGA cult is still going strong. As Dave Chappelle said, never underestimate the poor whites. However, I do not think that he will do a Grover Cleveland and win. The element of surprise is gone. The media, as someone else has already said, is not backing him this time and the midterms are already a telltale indicator of what is going to happen next. A Trump nomination is basically a guaranteed four more years for the Democrats. As for Biden, if he is healthy enough, he will run. It is very difficult to say no to power once you have it, especially if there is a chance to have it again for the same amount of time. As far as I know, LBJ is the last president to say no to reelection (he finished JFK's term, won his own in a landslide and could have run for another one but chose not to). I am not sure if it was his failing health or the unpopularity of his administration that made Johnson decline to run again (unpopularity AT THE TIME, since now LBJ is widely considered a top tier president), but unless Biden has equally strong reasons not to run, nobody in the Democratic Party is going to stop him.

Ok I just found out that he was on the Deathlist back in 1993 (the year I was born) and now I have to go lay down and think about it for the next four hours.

What other 50s rock stars are still with us? Pat Boone and Cliff Richard come to mind...

Also the last surviving member of the original inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now everyone inducted on the Hall's first year is gone.

I have never thought that in 2022 I would still be discussing if Jerry Lee Lewis is alive or not.

The most obvious song choice to listen to right now.

Great thread guys. Congratulations. The racism is *chef's kiss*.

You're from the UK, right? But since you want to discuss that then again, sorry but it's not even close. Gorbachev, Godard, Sidney Poitier, Monica Vitta, the UAE Cheikh and of course Shinzo Abe have had all greater impacts during their lifetime on Earth than all the names you've mentioned barring QEII. The Queen is still the biggest overall death of the year though, you got that right.