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Agree. Still baffles me that She wasn’t pick yet by the committee. Is She dies without being on the list, I’d consider her a miss

Weird bur not unbelievable… will keep an eye on Twitter and facebook to see What comes off of it

probably better with this one

Out recently to several hockey match, looks good I think but a little aged

I would argue that Luise Rainer belongs with the formers that you mentionned : 2 oscars and one of the most prominent actress of the 30-40´s Hollywood movies. I doubt George Burns and Glynis Johns reache the level of the other 3 in terms of international notability though but I could be wrong and would glady accept it. other names that comes to mind at the moment are Lupita Tovar, Mary Carsisle, Micheline Presle, Gisèle Casadesus and Earl Cameron but I can’t tell how famous they’ve been outside of the deadpool zone

That’ll be me though

I don’t think he looks that great to be honest. Everyone seems to think he’ll be fine and he looks good but he does look frail. Nothing unusual at his age but that’s not because you’re still working that you can’t drop dead all of a sudden, which is I suspect, the way it’ll go for him

Simone Weber, "la Diabolique de Nancy" dead at 94. Surprisingly enough, this makes all the front cover right now (and a breaking news notification from Le Monde ) whereas I thought she might have died under the radar… Should have put her on my french list, didn't know she was famous enough. She was convicted of having cut up her husband with a concrete grinder but always refuted the allegations

Martial Solal is another one of them, don’t know if he’s famous enough outside of France but here he’s an A lister

Did someone really created a thread for a prime minister dead 18 years earlier ?

Also my impression. A lot of hanging fruits on the list who managed to survive that far but I can’t see Chomsky, Starmer Smith, Woodward, Newhart, Rantzen or Sonny Rollins surviving 2024. Let alone the great Carter. I don’t think it’s a bad list but if most of them survive the year, then 2025 will probably be a bloodbath

The heavy breathing of the person taking the video is sending me. Feels like he’s ready to attack

As announced in the Twisted DL 2022-2023, I'm glad to host the Twisted Deathlist for a second year. For those of you who haven't participated in the first edition, here is a quick recap of the rules Rules : Make a list of 20 names + 3 subs who could die between 15th of October 2023 and 15th of October 2024. The one winning is the one with the most points at the end of the year, thus the most hits as one hit = one point. Every time a pick of your list dies, the first sub on your list of 3 replace the dead pick in his/her position and enters the official list of 20. Then, you’ll have to choose another celeb to take the n°3 spot on your sub list. The subs left will move up from one spot putting them a step closer to the official list. If a sub dies before being on the list, then notify it and choose another celeb to enter at spot nº3. Each subs left behind will move one spot up. You can choose similar celebrities as other participants. The only criteria for their admission as hit is a qualifying obit when they pass : a qualifying obit means an article from a respectable source in any country or language. In this case, "respectable" is voluntarily unclear to let a wide range of choice in your picks. Facebook post, insta post, death certificate or others like that doesn't count as qualifying obit. You can choose whoever you want as long as they're famous enough (which means they have articles about their action available online, wikipedias article about them, acknowledgment in their field…) Entries are now opened. Teams will be uncovered on the 15th of October when the competition begins. I'll check regularly to see if any hits occurred (besides the obvious pick) but, as there have been many teams last year and I don't have the time to check them all everytime, I'd strongly appreciate it if, from times to times, you can check your own list on the first page in case a hit went under the radar. Every time you have a hit, you just have to choose another celeb. I'll make sure to make a recap every week (or so) of every death and everyone's points. Feel free to tell me if I forget about your hit in your point ranking or anything like that. You can send me your list by pm or just post it here. For those of you who participated last year and want to keep the same list, just tell me and I'll move the lists here. Hope everything is clear, Good Luck !

actually, he did ! Le Monde doesn't give breaking news about death that much so I guess they judge he was significant enough

Stafford last flight ! Thomas P. Stafford is a hit for gcreptile, maxbossetti, perhaps and Sean and a miss for CaptainChorizo and therewillbedeaths @gcreptile : Sven Goran Eriksson in and two others subs to choose since both Joe Flaherty and Fritz Wepper from your sub bench didn't last long enough max_bossetti : Juhani Palmi in @Perhaps : Frank Caprio in and Josip Manolic on the sub list @Sean : another Eriksson for the official list and Nelson Acosta waiting for his turn -------------------------------- Ettinger Extinguished ! Amy Ettinger surprisingly secured a Washington Post obit and is thus a solo pick for Captain Chorizo : Anders Vendel in, whoever that is. -------------------------------- Not everyone who makes it to 114 makes it to 115… Juan Vicente Perez Mora is a hit for buffalophil and CaptainChorizo @BuffaloPhil : Sven Goran Eriksson in and June Spencer as sub 3 @CaptainChorizo : Eriksson makes it onto the official list too, ans Caprio as sub 3 -------------------------------- End of the Lynn ! Lynn Reid-Banks is a hit for handrejka and yorkshireBanker @Handrejka : Roy Strong in and Le Pen père as new sub @YorkshireBanker : Dickie Bird in and Bob Packwood as sub 3 -------------------------------- Zhang Lixiong is not faking it this time ! Zhang Lixiong is a hit solo hit for @max_bossetti : Sven Goran Eriksson in again and two subs to choose please -------------------------------- Puckett kicks the bucket ! Ralph Puckett is a solo hit for @tracy: Steve McMichael and Sven Goran Eriksson as new sub @Famous6Eva : Fritz Wepper didn't make it to your official list so still one sub to choose please Sven Goran Eriksson seems to be the new favorite at this point… Let me know if I missed someone !

Why a french deathlist you may ask ? Well, why not ? This site is filled with french-speaking, french enthusiasts and other french nerds who fight every year to see their favorite names included on the official list. And what a disappointment to see, year after year, that our wishes, like most of those expressed here, are not listened to by the committee (ie. Bernadette Chirac)… And as there is no such thing as an official French Deathlist site or forum (except this weird one), we began to loose hope of ever being adequately represented… Fear not ! The official French Deahtlist is coming soon ! The little community of french deathpoolers on this site have gathered in the last few months and after many talks, endless dithering and hasty reorganization (Cf. Gerard Collomb and Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie) we came up with a list of 50 french-speaking personalities (and not exclusively french per se) whom, we think, could die in 2024. This list was made possible thanks to the involvement of @BeretBleu @etib80, @Fantomasss, @La Tombe, @thadee and I. A special thanks to @Book whose help and example with the DACH list have greatly facilitated our task ! We will only post here in english and only on news about our 50 picks. Others news and talks about french personalities will take place in the French Speaking Deathlist thread. Every time a hit occurs, we will post it here, cross his or her name on the list on front page, and I'll make a quick recap on the deceased hit. We hope it'll be successful and that you'll enjoy it The official list will be unveiled on the eve of the 31st of december or on the morning of the 1st january. Till then… Bonne chance !

2nd of April 2024 Hit n°9 Condead Literary genius Maryse Condé has died two months after her 90th birthday to score yet another hit for our french deathlist. Condé was born in Guadeloupe in 1934, in a upper-class family which got her used to reading French classics from an early age. At 19, she moved to Paris where she started writing her first novels. In the late 1950's she traveled to Africa where she wrote her first published novel and moved back to the UK where she worked for a while for the BBC Africa. For the next decades, she focused on writing plays, before her rise to fame in 1984 with the novel Ségou. Since this critically acclaimed novel, Condé was seen as one of the main black writers on colonialism, slavery and black identity. Her other main works included I, Tituba : Black Witch of Salem and Windward Heights, in which she imagined the sequel of Emily Brontë's famous Wuthering Height taking place in the very early XXth century in Guadeloupe. In the second part of her prolific career, she ended up teaching history, literature and history of black movement in such prestigious university as Berkeley and Columbia. In 2018, she received the New Academy Prize in Literature, often referred as the Alternate Nobel Prize for Literature due to the cancellation of the attribution of the Literary Nobel Prize that year. In her final years, Condé suffered from ill-health and secured a spot in the middle of our list, being chosen in 25th position. She is the 9th hit of our productive french deathlist.

André Boniface, former XV de France player, dead at 89

6th hit for my ddp theme this far, not bad

Following the passing of Marc Fumaroli yesterday, I thought it was a good idea to start a new topic concerning the 40 French/frail academicians. To be honest, I was quite hesitant to make it as a game just like the oldest state leaders alive where everyone can choose a candidate between the remaining one, but maybe a simple topic about is enough ? Let me know if a game sounds interesting for you ! Anyway, I doubt those people are barely even famous outside of France (except for a few one) and, even here, there's some names which remains quite unknown ! Here are the 33 remaining academician alive after Fumaroli's death : - René de Obaldia (seat n°22) : 1918 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (seat n°16) : 1926 - Jean Denis Bredin (seat n°3) : 1929 - Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (seat n°14) : 1929 - Dominique Fernandez (seat n°25) : 1929 - François Cheng (seat n°34) : 1929 - Gabriel de Broglie (seat n°11) : 1931 - Pierre Nora (seat n°27) : 1931 - Pierre Rosenberg (seat n°23) : 1936 - Michael Edwards (seat n°31) : 1938 - Claude Dagens (seat n°1) : 1940 - Angelo Rinaldi (seat n°20) : 1940 - Jean Clair (seat n°39) : 1940 - Daniel Sallenave (seat n°30) : 1940 - Florence Delay (seat n°10) : 1941 - Jules Hoffman (seat n°7) : 1941 - Jean Marie Rouart (seat n°26) : 1943 - Frédéric Vitoux (seat n°15) : 1944 - Michel Zink (seat n°37) : 1945 - Jean-Luc Marion (seat n°4) : 1946 - Eric Orsenna (seat n°17) : 1947 - Patrick Grainville (seat n°9) : 1947 - Xavier Darcos (seat n°40) : 1947 - Barbara Cassin (seat n°36) : 1947 - Daniel Rondeau (seat n°8) : 1948 - Amin Maalouf (seat n°29) : 1949 - Alain Finkielkraut (seat n°21) : 1949 - Jean Christophe Ruffin (seat n°28) : 1952 - Danny Lafferière (seat n°2) : 1953 - Dominique Bona (seat n°33) : 1953 - Maurizio Serra (seat n°13) : 1954 - Marc Lambron (seat n°38) : 1957 - Andreï Makine (seat n°5) : 1957 There is actually 7 seats empty : - N°6 : following the death of Marc Fumaroli the 24th of June of 2020 - N°12 : following the death of Jean d'Ormesson the 5th of December of 2017 - N°18 : following the death of Michelle Serres the 1st of June of 2019 - N°19 : following the death of Jean-Loup Dabadie the 24th of May of 2020 - N°24 : following the death of Max Gallo the 18th of July of 2017 - N°32 : following the death of François Weyergens the 27th of May of 2019 - N°35 : following the death of Yves Pouliquen the 4th of February of 2020 Noted that there is actually 3 deaths of French academicians this year, the deadlier year for academicians is 2007 with 7 deaths. Plus the deaths of Dabadie and Fumaroli are exactly one month appart : could we expect another death on the 24th of July now ? So, now, who will be the next one to die ? Who will be the next one to join this frail assembly ?

Will update everything at the beginning of next week

Her albums are back on Spotify ! Love it

As mentionned by arghton a few weeks ago in the idea and possibilities 2023 thread, there is a list of "last survivors of historical events" on wikipedia. The principe of this sweepstake is quite simple and is inspired by the "oldest living state leader" one. Choose a candidate among the ones listed below. No candidate can be choosen twice. Every time one of them die, the people having chosen him/her win and a new round opens. Only the 30 oldest ones of the list will appear at first with a new inclusion every time some of them die. I decided to include solely the people with a wiki page (no matter the langage) because of tracking facilities. Some of those mentioned in the list are obscure names and thus could be dead for some time or won't score an obit when they go. Here are the picks : 1) John Hemingway (b. 1919) : last surviving airman of The Few 2) Traute Lafrenz (b. 1919) : last member of the White Rose 3) Benjamin Ferencz (b. 1920) : last prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials 4) Ray Anthony (b. 1922) : last member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra 5) Léon Gautier (b. 1922) : last french participant of the Normandy Landings 6) Ivan Martynushckin (b. 1923) : last liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp 7) Khamtai Siphandon (b. 1924) : last Pathet Lao leader in the Vietnam War 8) Galina Brok-Beltsova (b. 1925) : last member of the 586th, 587th and 588th women's aviation regiments of the Soviet Union during WWII 9) Robert Hebras (b. 1925) : last survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre 10) Ruth Slenczynska (b. 1925) : last pupil of Sergei Rachmaninoff 11) Vasiliy Dobritsa (b. 1925) : last bearer of the Soviet Order of Glory 12) Gordon Moore (b. 1929) : last member of the Traitorous eight who founded the Silicon Valley 13) Albert H. Crews Jr. (b. 1929) : last astronaut from the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar program 14) Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (b. 1929) : last Sultan of Zanzibar 15) Fred R. Harris (b. 1930) : last participant of the Kerner Commission 16) Thomas P. Stafford (b. 1930) : last member of Apollo 10 17) Buzz Aldrin (b. 1930) : last member of Apollo 11 18) Khieu Samphan (b. 1931) : last member of the Khmer Rouge 19) Lowell Weicker (b. 1931) : Last member of the US Senate Watergate Committee 20) David Scott (b. 1932) : last member of Apollo 15 21) Clint Hill (b. 1932) : last passenger of the JFK infamous limousine 22) Joe Engle (b. 1932) : last X-15 pilot 23) Joseph P. Kerwin (b. 1932) : last member of Skylab 2 24) Kurt Diemberger (b. 1932) : last person to make the first ascents on two mountains over 8000 metres 25) James A. Abrahamson (b. 1933) : last astronaut from Manned Orbiting Laboratory Group 3 26) Fernando Suarez Gonzalez (b. 1933) : last minister of Francisco Franco's regime 27) Marlene Hagge (b. 1934) : last founder of the Ladies Professional Golf Association 28) Boris Volynov (b. 1934) : last member of the first squad of Soviet Cosmonauts 29) Dave Burgess (b. 1934) : last recipient and nominee of the 1st Grammy Award 30) A. J. Foyt (b. 1935) : last driver to participate in the Races of Two Worlds

I Wonder if your obsession for Jimmy is not What keeping him alive at this point…