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5 février 2024 Hit n°2 The Great Expedition French explorer, anthropologist and geograph Jean Malaurie has died aged 101 and marks the second hit for our french common deathlist. Malaurie was born in Mainz, Germany in 1922 and studied at the Institute of Geography in Paris. He embarked for two French Antarctic Expedition in 1948 and 1949, the firsts of thirty-one expeditions between Groenland and Siberia. His 1955 book "Les Derniers Rois de Thulé" was traduced in more than 20 languages and rapidly became a reference about inuit people. He worked for a while between France and Russia, leading the first soviet-french expedition in Siberia in 1990. Defender of arctic minorities, he fought against globalization which he though was a risk for small cultures and diversity and even became a consultant for the United States, Danemark, Canada and Russia. Up until his death, he was also a UNESCO goodwill ambassador. His passing marks a significant loss, especially for deahtlist which now counts "only" seven centenarians. He was awarded the 9th spot this year and is the second hit of our list.

Jean Malaurie dead at 101. 2nd hit. Obit to come

That’s no protest but of course both would obit in UK so what’s the big deal of posting the obits there rather than in the DDP thread ?

Amelia Earhart plane may have been found in pacific !

edit : nevermind

He is due to hold the Olympic torch later this year. Here is a video of him from two days ago : looks really well, probably has a little time in him left. Will probably obit in the uk right ??

I do think Isadora Duncan death is one of the most tragic of the XXth century. Quite dramatic and camp, always loved the story. Just ran into this quick depiction which I though I should share even though it doesn't bring anything else to the debate

She stated that she is « preparing to sing again » which is quite complicated I think but we’ll see

I think he smells better than Ruth Langsford mom

Councillor canceled by cancer ! Jason Smith is a solo hit for @WEP (Alma Avraham in and Eriksson as sub 3) and a miss for @Book and @Perhaps : both of your new subs has been inducted in ------------------------------------------------------ Roger, Roger, can you hear me ! Roger Donlon is a solo hit for @max_bossetti (Patrick Murray in and Mike Martin as sub 2) and a miss for wannamaker(Svan Goren Eriksson as sub 3) ------------------------------------------------------ Gray's anatomy ! Stuart Gray is a hit for max_bossetti and @wannamaker : one point each ! max_bossetti : Thomas P. Stafford in and Jamal Yunos on the sub bench @wannamaker : Vanessa Redgrave in and Jamal Yunos as new sub also are Max and Wannamaker copying each other ? Anwyay, a good week for Max_bossetti with 2 points in 3 days !

Co-founded of AIDES, Frederic Edelmann dead at 72. The 3 co-founders are dead : Daniel Defert died last year in the 7th of february and Jean Pierre Mettetal died in 1992.

Joe Biden Donald Trump Michael J. Fox Clint Eastwood Janey Godley Andy Taylor Robert Wagner Buzz Aldrin Dick van Dyke Pope Francis Bruce Willis Rupert Murdoch Mel Brooks Frank Caprio Phil Collins Ozzy Osbourne William Shatner Billy Connolly Prunella Scales Dave Myers Shannen Doherty David Attenborough Linda Nolan Tim Bilton Erik Jansen

quite disappointed he wasn’t allowed in ao deadpool

well… I guess Norman Jewison was the "big hit" that we were expecting… a little disappointed

yep, trying to figure out if he's gonna be alive in 12 years based on a video is absolutely useful

So sorry for your loss Drol… I remember when my great grandmother died, one month shy of her 102bday, people tend to say old age makes mourning less difficult but I tend to think it's still quite difficult to process… Hope everything will be fine with you !

Ladies, gentlemen and in between… Here is the second edition of the annual In Memoriam Award Before the 20th of January (12pm english Time), whoever wants can vote by PM for the person who deserves to win in each category below explained. I will then sum up all the votes and come with a winner for each category and two "honorable mentions". A candidate can be nominated and win in several categories. Results will be post on this thread in the last days of January 2024. Without further ado, here are the categories : The biggest female death : the most groundbreaking death of the year, the one which you think was the most influential, the most important, the most… the biggest. The biggest male death : read above… but with a man The most shocking one : the death that you didn't expect, that made you feel like "omg what ?" The saddest one : that one death that, when you heard of, you suddenfly had a speck of durst in your eyes. The best received one : the one that you laughed at, that you acclaimed The most awaited one : the one that wasn't a shock, that was long overdue, that made you feel like "at last, finally !". Immortals and lingerer candidates mostly in here. The biggest survivor : the celeb that you're the most surprised to see have survived the year The biggest miss : the one that the committee should have picked… but didn't The most promising one : the prominent celeb that you think is the most promising to be a hit for your personal list or the official one in 2024 Entries open from now on, enjoy

je suis passé à côté mais Le Monde a publié le 31 décembre leur liste des morts de l'année. Malgré une année plus que calme en terme de décès de célébrité française, j'en avais oublié quelques unes qui sont quand même assez importantes, en plus de Birkin, de Fontenay, Carrère d'Encausse, Fontaine, Reeves ou Delors : Philippe Tesson, Paco Rabanne, Philippe Sollers, François Léotard, Jean Louis Murat (probablement la plus choquante et triste pour moi, j'aimais beaucoup ses chansons et il était encore relativement jeune), Guillaume Bats, Michel Cordes, Touraine et Gilot, Claude Sarraute, Jean Louis Georgelin, Guy Marchand, Claude Villers et même Collomb… Finalement une année plutôt remplie mais pas autant que je le pensais ou l'aurais imaginé !

I purposely omitted to list all the nominees in this category as they were quite numerous. Tommy Smothers was yours but we also had Benjamin Zephania, Steve Harwell and Len Goodman

Ladies and Gentlemen…  ! Here are the results of the 2023 In Memoriam Award Ceremony !  Biggest Female Death She was simply the best ! With 18 votes, Tina Turner was by far the biggest female death of 2023 according to you. No comparaison to Sinead O Connor and Rosalynn Carter who both received one vote. We didn't want to lose you Tina… Biggest Male Death Kissinger voted as biggest male death of the year ! The votes were much more diverse here : Matthew Perry came close to overshadow old Henry while Yevgeny Prigozhin received two votes and Barker, Belafonte and Berlusconi both were mentioned once. Most Socking One Bing ! Matthew Perry finally wins a category : most shocking death of the year with a little advance on his fellow nominees. The votes here were even more diversified : Paul Reubens, Sinead O'Connor both received 3 mentions, Andre Braugher and Paul Cattermole totalized two votes and Lisa Marie Presley, Andy Rourke, Tatjana Patitz and Bray Watt were considered once each. The Saddest One The most subjective category didn't disappoint : the votes were so sparsed here that it's a five-way tie between Sinead O'Connor, Paul O'Grady, Michael Gambon, Andre Braugher and… Perry again ! They both received only two votes… Which means the other 11 nominees received one vote each (amongst which we can point out the presence of Barry Humphries, Bobby Charlton, Norman Lear, Sakamoto, Richard Franklin and Book's favorite, Ingrid Steeger ) The Best Received One Back to a more consensual category : Rolf Harris wins the best-received death of the year with 8 votes. A little more than Kissinger (6 votes) and Kaczynski (3 votes). Luis Garavito and Pat Robertson were considered one time each ! The Most Awaited One Kissinger wins a second election ! Most awaited death of the year, the one that made you think "at laaaast, finally !" saw Bob Barker collecting 3 votes, McGowan and Alagiah 2, and coffin-teasers Carman Sevilla, Dianne Feinstein and Chabello only one. The Biggest Survivor At the complete opposite end of the spectrum from the 'saddest' category, the biggest survivor category was (almost) unanimous. All of you (20) voted for the peanut farmer in this category. An evidence, but will he be voted biggest survivor of 2024 for the next edition of the In Memoriam Award ? Wait and see… Only one person voted for Zhang Lixiong, I'll let you guess who The Biggest Miss Another tie in this category : George Alagiah and Ted Kaczynski win the biggest miss of 2023, just in front of Sandra Day O'Connor and Giorgio Napolitano who tie for second place with 3 votes each. Then comes Gianlucca Vialli, and with one vote each, Phyllis Coates and Jimmy Buffett. The Most Promising one Carter wins a second category and is elected as the most promising figure to die in 2024. If it continues in the same vein as January, you all might have done the wrong choice here… Chomsky, Rantzen and Ira Schab were also mentioned here. Wait and see if your prediction comes true ! To sum up, we had 21 voters this year. Matthew Perry, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter and Rolf Harris were the most voted persons in general and Matthew Perry appeared the most, winning almost 3 categories this year. Surprised Joanne Woodward wasn't even mentioned once (for promising and biggest survivor). Bennett, Kundera, Jeff Beck (!), Lee Sun-Kyun (!) Jane Birkin or even Lucile Randon (for most awaited one) were among the ones that I was most surprised not to see appear a single time. A very sparse year in term of voting in general. Interesting. Hope 2024 will bring an even more diverse way of voting ! Well, that's all for this year folks, see you in early 2025 for the next In Memoriam Award of 2024. Thanks for your participation !

Results to be published tomorrow ! Accepting the last votes until tomorrow morning at maximum !

Shouldn’t you rebrand the thread with « I predict JAMES THE MURDERFOX is going to confound sceptics and be its most powerful yet like a super strong enema in 2024 moreso than recents years equalling or even beating 2020. » ?

But the post about him is on linkedin, just found it, thanks

I've heard of him before, already mentionned him once or twice here in addition. But can't find any article or anything about him, where did you find the picture ? looks very well for his age btw

They won’t say anything about him unless he dies*. Not convinced it will ever happen.