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    The Happy Birthday Thread

    And so is Quincy Jones.
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Actress Lynne Thigpen died on this day 19 years ago, aged 54. Younger people here might remember her best as the voice of Luna (the moon) on Bear in the Big Blue House.
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Andy Gibb died on this day 34 years ago, aged 30.
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    The Happy Birthday Thread

    Gary Numan is 64. (reminder that he's 2 weeks older than Gary Oldman)
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Harold Lloyd was out of time on this day 51 years ago, aged 77.
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Five Bostonians were killed in an instance of police brutality on this day 252 years ago. Samuel Gray, 51 Samuel Maverick, 17 James Caldwell, 17 Crispus Attucks, 47 Patrick Carr, 31 This incident would later be known as the "Boston Massacre", and served as one of the catalysts for the beginning of the American Revolution.
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    11-time DeathList alumnus Michael Foot died on this day 12 years ago, aged 96.
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Dusty Springfield died on this day 23 years ago, aged 59.
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    The Happy Birthday Thread

    Harry Belafonte is 95.
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    The Ukraine Crisis

    Ukraine begins drafting.
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Poor old Johnnie Ray died on this day 32 years ago, aged 63.
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    The Ukraine Crisis

    Russia currently targeting large population centers. I've also seen reports of gunfire being heard at Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv.
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Stan Laurel died on this day 57 years ago, aged 74.
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    The Ukraine Crisis

    I think you're overhyping the situation.
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    Statistics

    Here's how many years it took for each hit to pass away following their first appearance on the list. 32: Queen Elizabeth II 30: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger 29: Jerry Lee Lewis 28: Charles Aznavour 26: Anna Wing, George Cole 25: Clive Dunn, Ian Paisley, Zsa Zsa Gabor 24: Nelson Mandela 23: Kirk Douglas 22: Fidel Castro, Bruce Forsyth 21: Cyril Smith, Fats Domino 20: Bobby Robson 19: John Demjanjuk, Eric Sykes, Pervez Musharraf 18: George Melly, Yitzhak Shamir, Herman Wouk 17: Ronald Reagan, Kurt Waldheim, Vincent O'Brien, Walter Cronkite, Michael Foot, Mickey Rooney 16: Bob Hope 15: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Pope John Paul II, John Mills, Ian Brady, Robert Mugabe, Olivia de Havilland, Abdelaziz Bouteflika 14: Don Bradman, Peter Ustinov, PW Botha, Augusto Pinochet, Vera Lynn 13: Barbara Cartland, John Gielgud, Katharine Hepburn, Alistair Cooke, Edmund Hillary, Arthur C Clarke, Norman Wisdom, Ronnie Biggs, Eli Wallach, Chapman Pincher 12: Red Adair, James Callaghan, Gretchen Franklin, Cliff Michelmore, Jerry Lewis, Jake LaMotta, Billy Graham, Angela Lansbury 11: Mary Whitehouse, Bill Deedes, Pierre Cardin, Nigel Lawson 10: Jimmy Stewart, Lord Hailsham, Richard Pryor, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Oscar Niemeyer, Peter O'Sullevan, Muhammad Ali, John Edrich, Bob Dole 9: Lew Grade, Lord Denning, Stanley Matthews, Denis Thatcher, Idi Amin, Duchess Alice, Gerald Ford, Karl Malden, Abe Vigoda 8: Harold Larwood, Jacques Cousteau, Frank Sinatra, Ted Heath, Harry Morgan, Herbert Lom, Al Molinaro, Denis Norden, Hosni Mubarak, Prince Philip 7: Andreas Papandreou, Mother Teresa, Simon Wiesenthal, Milton Friedman, Claude Levi-Strauss, Tony Martin, Margaret Thatcher, Nancy Reagan, Joao Havelange, Leslie Phillips 6: Les Dawson, George Burns, Deng Xiaoping, Alf Ramsey, Quentin Crisp, Thora Hird, Gregory Peck, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Fay Wray, Max Schmeling, Ernest Gallo, Suharto, Albert Hofmann, Elizabeth Taylor, Betty Ford, BB King, Christopher Lee, Stephen Hawking, Doris Day, Clive James, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Bob Barker 5: Dan Maskell, Derek Jarman, Gene Sarazen, Victor Mature, Lord Longford, Billy Wilder, Hardy Amies, Lord Scarman, Byron Nelson, Denis Healey, Stan Lee, George H W Bush, Valerie Harper, Murray Walker, Jimmy Greaves 4: Richard Nixon, Glyn Worsnip, William S. Burroughs, Helen Wills, Catherine Cookson, Joe DiMaggio, EW Swanton, Spike Milligan, Sam Snead, Artie Shaw, Charles Haughey, Joseph Barbera, JD Salinger, Dino De Laurentiis, Helmut Schmidt, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Peter Sallis, Lord Carrington, Betty White, June Brown, Harry Belafonte, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan 3: Jim Joel, Dilys Powell, Jeffrey Bernard, Hastings Banda, Leni Riefenstahl, Johnny Cash, Queen Juliana, Estee Lauder, Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi, Erich Priebke, Patrick Macnee, Richard Adams, Joost van der Westhuizen, Gordon Banks, Jacques Chirac, Honor Blackman, Nobby Stiles, Sidney Poitier, Mikhail Gorbachev, Loretta Lynn, Jacques Delors, Bob Newhart 2: Salvador Dali, Burt Lancaster, Rose Kennedy, Dean Martin, Simon Cadell, Bunny Austin, Dudley Moore, Elia Kazan, Brooke Astor, Charlton Heston, Harold Pinter, Blake Edwards, Kim Jong-il, Ray Bradbury, Patty Andrews, PD James, Leah Bracknell, Stirling Moss, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Burt Bacharach, Rosalynn Carter 1: Michael Havers, Erich Honecker, Kim Il-sung, Roy Castle, Kenny Everett, Alec Douglas-Home, Jackie Mann, Francois Mitterand, James Earl Ray, Ian Dury, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, John Diamond, Ninette de Valois, Milton Berle, Edward Teller, Al Lewis, Charles Lane, Lady Bird Johnson, Ingmar Bergman, Mark Felt, Bill Tarmey, Gough Whitlam, Sam Simon, Chris Woodhead, Martin Crowe, Liz Smith, Mary Tyler Moore, John Noakes, Glen Campbell, Jerry Stiller, Leon Spinks, Milan Kundera, Bobby Charlton, Joss Ackland >1: Andres Segovia, Ray Moore, Sugar Ray Robinson, Terry-Thomas, Greta Garbo, Jill Ireland, Marlene Dietrich, Kitty Godfree, Rudolf Nureyev, Audrey Hepburn, Arthur Ashe, Bill Bixby, Brian Johnston, Telly Savalas, John Curry, Ginger Rogers, Paul Eddington, Tim Gullikson, Timothy Leary, Mobutu Sese Seko, Burgess Meredith, Pol Pot, Roy Rogers, Joan Hickson, King Hussein, Ernie Wise, Helen Rollason, Deryck Guyler, Don Budge, Charles Schulz, Walter Matthau, Stanley Kramer, William Hanna, Brother Theodore, Harry Secombe, Chuck Jones, Joseph Bonanno, Lionel Hampton, W Clement Stone, Barry Sheene, Strom Thurmond, Warren Zevon, Rodney Dangerfield, Sister Lucia, James Doohan, William Rehnquist, Rosa Parks, Lou Rawls, John Profumo, Caspar Weinberger, Stanley Kunitz, Aaron Spelling, Tammy Faye Messner, Ian Smith, Francis Pym, Richard Widmark, Sydney Pollack, Bo Diddley, Jesse Helms, Levi Stubbs, Dai Llewellyn, Wendy Richard, Robert Novak, Ted Kennedy, Patrick Swayze, Susan Atkins, Ludovic Kennedy, Dennis Hopper, Laurent Fignon, Simon MacCorkindale, Gerry Rafferty, Michael Gough, Diana Wynne Jones, Etta James, Robin Gibb, Michael Winner, Reg Presley, Hugo Chavez, Henry Cecil, Bernie Nolan, Peter O'Toole, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Sid Caesar, Casey Kasem, Lauren Bacall, Luise Rainer, Leonard Nimoy, John Nash, Kirk Kerkorian, Maureen O'Hara, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, David Rockefeller, Errol Christie, Liz Dawn, Tony Booth, Hugh Hefner, Gord Downie, King Michael, Mark E Smith, Barbara Bush, Tessa Jowell, John McCain, Neil Simon, Bob Hawke, John McCririck, Johnny Clegg, Ginger Baker, Tony Britton, Terry Jones, Daniel arap Moi, Genesis P-Orridge, Carl Reiner, Bill Gates Sr, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alex Trebek, Peter Sutcliffe, Captain Tom Moore, George Shultz, Rush Limbaugh, Walter Mondale, Frank Williams, Robert Durst, Estelle Harris, Bill Turnbull, Jean-Luc Godard, Bill Treacher, Pele, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Rolf Harris, Michael Parkinson, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Norman Lear, Glynis Johns, Derek Draper, Franz Beckenbauer Accurate as of July 18, 2024
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2023

    Bill Murray looks much older than 71. (For reference, Ahmad Rashad (to his right) is TEN MONTHS OLDER than he is)
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Max Schreck, best known for his role as Count Orlok in Nosferatu, died on this day 86 years ago, aged 56.
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    20/20 + 2

    1922: Norman Lear/Micheline Presle 1923: Larry Storch/Gloria Whelan 1924: Woody Woodbury/Joyce Randolph 1925: Ian Hamilton/Virginia Patton 1926: Tony Bennett/Gudrun Ure 1927: Vin Scully/Rosemary Harris 1928: Tom Lehrer/Estelle Harris 1929: Mohamed Al-Fayed/Patricia Routledge 1930: Pat Robertson/Dolores Huerta 1931: Mwai Kibaki/Mitzi Gaynor
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