Life Is Beautiful

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.

Um, no. Sorry. Not even close. But it's not nice to discuss that now (yeah, I know which website this is). Rest in peace Ms Lansbury.

The first picture of a US president at 98, and probably the only one in our lifetime.

So do you guys think he still has a full-on Secret Service?

I thought the Committee did not post in here lol Calm down son, I was just joking around. Nobody cares that much about this (except you of course).

He's good enough for Wikipedia's main page major news, but not for the DL's apparently.

This picture looks like it was taken in 2004 and posted on Myspace.

I should have specified: living HUMAN director.

So who's the greatest living director now? My money is on either Scorsese or Allen.

He also decided not to have a funeral. He played his last trick on us before leaving. A genius even in death.

Everything in cinema changed after Breathless, and I do mean EVERYTHING. Every single frame of modern cinema was inspired more or less by Godard et companie. Au revoir.

Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney definitely changed history and impacted genrations in more than just a little way. They are part of a handful of musicians whose impact was well and truly beyond their art. Also, call me crazy but in this year's death entries alone, I think Gorbachev was much more impactful than the Queen in the six years he was in power.

That was probably true before that awful Move Like Jagger song, but not now.

This forum did not exist back in 1945 so your brilliant take on that matter was sadly missed. We also have different lists somewhere in this forum about the most significant death for every year dating all the way back to 1900. I know because I helped with one.

Trump and Obama, for as significant as they are, are just former heads of state now (Yeah, I know Trump can technically still run again, but he's not in office as we speak). The only death that could even try to rival this one would be the sudden assassination/suicide of the three "main" current world heads of state right now: Putin, Pope Francis or Biden. Only then would it be the Hitler/FDR case all over again.

My condolences to the UK and to the British people on this website.

Lol at Khamtai being dead already. Murayama san will probably easily live beyond the 100 year mark, although if I was his advisor I'd probably double down on the security around him. It's a scary world out there for former Japanese PMs right now.

Is now the third oldest living head of state. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_state_leaders