Thoughts and Opinions on the 2020 List

[Thoughts and Opinions on the 2020 List]

OK list. It's a travesty that Loretta, Little Richard, Greaves, Walters and Gorby were dropped

[The Dead of 2019]

1 minute ago, Toast said:

 

I'm glad you didn't, as Time's reply gave me the biggest laugh I've had in a while.

After all, English is not my native language. 

[The Dead of 2019]

41 minutes ago, time said:

I'm not surprised, stupid place to stand.

I wanted to say that he's the man, who created this bomber. He was an aviation engineer.

[The Dead of 2019]

https://m.lenta.ru/news/2019/12/30/bluznuk/ Valentin Blizniuk, the man behind the Tu-160 bomber, is dead at 91.

[Most Significant Death Of Each Month]

6 hours ago, drol said:

Writing from a mobile?

I always write from the mobile.

[Gianluca Vialli]

8 minutes ago, redrumours said:

How many times did he play?.

 

 

I've not counted yet. This is my first year on Deathlist. So I've picked him for DDP and many other teams, including AO and Deathrace.

[Death By Numbers 2020]

5 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

@Etushispushingupdaisies

 

Sure. No problem with this team. I assume your Quincy Jones is the legendary producer, not the minor comedian who was an issue here about 4 years ago..

Quincy Jones the record producer, sure is.

[The DL Prediction Game 2020]

1. Kirk Douglas 

2. Vera Lynn 

3. Olivia De Havilland 

4. Alex Trebek

5. Lee Kerslake

6. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. 

7. Javier Perez De Cuellar 

8. Pierre Cardin 

9. Betty White 

10. Beverly Cleary 

11. Norman Lear

12. Carl Reiner 

13. Bob Dole 

14. Bob Barker 

15. Chuck Yeager

16. Henry Kissinger 

17. Jimmy Carter 

18. Eva Marie Saint

19. Cicely Tyson

20. Leslie Phillips 

21. Tabare Vazquez (due to Britton's death)

22. Dick Van Dyke 

23. Honor Blackman 

24. Angela Lansbury

25. Hal Holbrook

26. Queen Elizabeth II 

27. Valery Giscard D'Estaing 

28. Stanley Baxter

29. Norman Jewison

30. Tony Bennett

31. Roger Corman

32. David Attenborough

33. Sidney Poitier 

34. Terry Jones 

35. Jerry Stiller 

36. Ennio Morricone

37. Hosni Mubarak 

38. Barbara Walters  

39. Stirling Moss 

40. Sean Connery

41. Mikhail Gorbachev 

42. Desmond Tutu 

43. Little Richard. 

44. Nobby Stiles 

45. Michael York

46. Dave Mustaine

47. Johnny Depp 

48. Mel Brooks 

49. Loretta Lynn 

50. Gene Hackman 

[The 5th Crowdsource Deathlist (2020 edition)]

1. Kirk Douglas

2. Margarita Terekhova (77, Russian actress suffering from end-stages of Alzheimer's)

3. Michael York

4. Alex Trebek

5. Nobby Stiles.

6. Ian St John

7. Norman Jewison

8. Pierre Cardin

9. Holly Johnson

10. Andy Bell

11. Marc Almond 

12. Armen Dzhigarkhanian (84-year-old Armenian-Russian actor suffering from heart disease)

13. Valentin Gaft (84-year-old frail Russian actor)

14. Jean Luc Godard

15. Anastasia Zavorotniuk (48, Russian soap actress with possible brain cancer)

16. Iggy Pop

17. Linda Ronstadt.

18. Tim Curry

19. Alexey Zolotnitsky (73, retired Russian voice actor)

20.  Vasily Kulkov (Russian footballer riddled with esophageal cancer)

21. Brandon Sorensen (an Iowan wrestler suffering from Leukemia)

22. Jay Allen (Detroit Tigers announcer battling bile duct cancer)

23. Olivia Newton-John

24. Tina Turner

25. Joni Mitchell

26. Phil The Greek

27. Carl Reiner

28. Vera Lynn

29. Jimmy Greaves

30. Cullan Brown (Kentucky golfer battling bone cancer)

31.  Tabare Vazquez

32. Bob Gibson

33. Alcee Hastings

34. Jean Louis Trintignant

35. George Alagiah

36. Lee Kerslake

37. Mark Gastineau

38. John Andretti

39. Gianluca Vialli

40. Pat Smullen

41. Frankie Banali

42. Terry Jones

43.  Tom Smith (the rugby player)

44. Dominic Matteo

45. Genesis P-Orridge

46. Terry Jones

47. Doddie Weir

48. Arne Sorenson

49. Slick Woods

50. Sean Connery

Subs:

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Valentin Yudashkin

Norm Coleman

Joanne Woodward

[Death By Numbers 2020]

Here's my team. Is it good enough?

1) Alain Delon 

2) Alcee Hastings

3) Alex Trebek (JOKER)

4) Anastasia Zavorotniuk

5) Armen Dzhigarkhanian

6) Bernard Tapie

7) Bill Turnbull

8) Bob Gibson

9) Chris Rea

10) Daniel Arap Moi

11) Daniel Hernandez

12) Dave Mustaine

13) David Gulpilil

14) Doddie Weir

15) Fra McCann

16) Frankie Banali

17) George Alagiah

18) George Clooney (because of that Simpsons episode, where Homer kills Neil Armstrong, Prince and Clooney)

19) Genesis P-Orridge

20) Gianluca Vialli

21) Ian St John

22) Jean Louis Trintignant

23) Jimmy Carter

24) Jimmy Greaves

25) John Andretti

26) Johnny Depp

27) Kirk Douglas

28) Lee Kerslake

29) Margarita Terekhova

30) Mark Gastineau

31) Michael York

32) Mikhail Gorbachev

33) Nobby Stiles

34) Olivia Newton-John

35) Pete Davidson

36) Prunella Scales

37) Quincy Jones

38) Roger Scruton - DEAD 12.01.20

39) Ruth Bader Ginsberg

40) Sean Connery

41) Stirling Moss

42) Tabare Vazquez

43) Terry Jones

44) Tom Brokaw

45) Tom Smith (the rugby player)

46) Valentin Gaft

47) Vasili Kulkov 

48) Vera Lynn

49) Wilko Johnson

50) Yoko Ono

Subs

1. Bob Dole

2. Barbara Walters

3. Sheldon Adelson

4. Olivia De Havilland

5. Sumner Redstone.

6. Oskar Lindblom

[Shadow Lists]

1. Kirk Douglas

2.  Vera Lynn

3. Olivia De Havilland

4. Beverly Cleary

5. Alex Trebek

6. Jimmy Carter

7. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, a casual racist

8. Javier Perez De Cuellar

9. Bob Dole

10. Bob Barker

11. Henry Kissinger

12. Leslie Philips

13.  Chuck Yeager

14. Eva Marie Saint

15. Cicely Tyson

16. Honor Blackman

17.  Dick Van Dyke

18. Angela Lansbury

19. Johnny Mandel (MASH composer)

20. Alan Bergman (Windmills of your mind lyricist)

21. Mikis Theodorakis (Composer)

22. Norman Jewison

23. Tony Bennett

24. Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II

25. Roger Corman

26. Mel Brooks

27. David Attenborough

28. Valery Giscard D'Estaing

29. Joe Turkel (Dr Tyrell and Lloyd the Bartender)

30. Jerry Stiller

31. Harry Belafonte

32. Sidney Poitier

33. Joss Ackland (Diplomatic Immunity guy)

34. Ennio Morricone

35. Hosni Mubarak

36. Joan Plowright

37. Hans Blix

38. Stirling Moss

39. Barbara Walters

40. Sean Connery

41. Mikhail Gorbachev

42. Desmond Tutu

43. Little Richard

44. Loretta Lynn

45. Tom Brokaw

46. Michael York

47. Terry Jones

48. Dave Mustaine

49. George Clooney (because of that Simpsons episode)

50. Johnny Depp

[Each Year's Most Significant Death.]

Since my year of birth.

Worldwide:

2000: Sir Alex Guinness

2001: Jack Lemmon

2002: Queen Mother

2003: Johnny Cash

2004: Ronald Reagan/Marlon Brando

2005: Pope John Paul II

2006: Saddam Hussein

2007: Benazir Bhutto

2008: Paul Newman/Heath Ledger

2009: Michael Jackson/Brittany Murphy

2010: Dennis Hopper

2011: Amy Winehouse/Elizabeth Taylor

2012: Whitney Houston

2013: Margaret Thatcher/Paul Walker

2014: Robin Williams

2015: Christopher Lee

2016: David Bowie

2017: John Hurt

2018: Stan Lee

2019: Karl Lagerfeld

In Russia:

2000: Yuri Klinskikh (the rock star)

2001: Georgy Vitsin (an actor)

2002: Sergey Bodrov Jr (a young and promising actor)

2003:  Leonid Filatov (an actor)

2004: Klara Rumyanova (an actress)

2005:  Georgy Zhzhonov (an actor)

2006: Lyubov Polishchuk (an actress)

2007: Boris Yeltsin (an alcoholic president)

2008: Alexander Abdulov (chainsmoking actor)

2009: Oleg Yankovsky (an actor)

2010: Vladislav Galkin (a young, but alcoholic actor)

2011: Lyudmila Gurchenko (an actress)

2012: Eduard Khil (Mr Trololo)

2013: Mikhail Kalashnikov 

2014: Anatoly Kuznetsov ( an actor)

2015: Eldar Ryazanov(filmmaker)/Zhanna Friske(pop star)

2016: Vladimir Zeldin (an actor)

2017: Alexey Batalov (an actor)

2018: Oleg Tabakov (an actor)

2019: Alexei Leonov/Yulia Nachalova (pop star)

 

[Gianluca Vialli]

I picked him for my very first teams.

[Most Significant Death Of Each Month]

I'm Russian and here's my opinion

January:  Carol Channing/Kris Kelmi 

February: Karl Lagerfeld/Kirill Tolmatsky

March: Dick Dale/Yulia Nachalova

April: Jean Grand Duke of Luxembourg/Georgy Daneliya

May: Doris Day/Sergey Dorenko

June: Franco Zeffirelli

July: Rutger Hauer

August: Peter Fonda/Willie Tokarev

September: Ric Ocasek/Mark Zakharov

October: Alexey Leonov

November: Clive James

December: Marie Fredriksson/Galina Volchek

[Each Year's Most Significant Death.]

Worldwide: Karl Lagerfeld or Peter Fonda

In Russia: Yuliya Nachalova (38-year-old pop singer, had gout, SLE and diabetes, died of a cerebral edema, has left a 12-year-old daughter behind).

[Predict The Biggest Death Of Each Year of the next decade]

2020 Kirk Douglas

2021 Richard Donner

2022 Dick Van Dyke

2023 Christopher Plummer

2024 Clint Eastwood

2025 John Williams

2026 Buzz Aldrin

2027 Queen Elizabeth II

2028 Al Pacino

2029 Judi Dench

[Alt Obituaries Deadpool]

35 minutes ago, drol said:

4 for me too. Plus, a pick I thought was very low quality was accepted.

Three of my picks (Brandon Sorensen, Jay Allen and Cullan Brown)  were rejected and I had to replace them

[Foreign Personalities, From Stage, Screen, Politics And Life]

1 hour ago, Etushispushingupdaisies said:

https://ru.euronews.com/amp/2019/12/26/ru-galina-volchek-dies. Russian actress and theatre director, Galina Volchek, has died of pneumonia at 86.

English language Obituary. Are AP obits q/o, Drol?

[Foreign Personalities, From Stage, Screen, Politics And Life]

https://ru.euronews.com/amp/2019/12/26/ru-galina-volchek-dies. Russian actress and theatre director, Galina Volchek, has died of pneumonia at 86.

[Hartlepool Deadlypool 2020]

Made my team public.

1) Alex Trebek

2) Jimmy Carter

3) Daniel Arap Moi

4) George Alagiah

5) Bernard Tapie

6) Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh

7) Iggy Pop

8) Johnny Mandel (Suicide is Painless singer)

9) Alan Bergman (Windmills of your mind lyricist)

10) Dave Mustaine

Subs: 

Bill Turnbull

Norman Jewison 

[World War II Veterans]

https://m.lenta.ru/news/2019/12/25/umer/ Russian general, Chairman of Military Sciences' Academy and  former Deputy Chief of Red Army Staff, Makhmut Gareev, is dead at 96

[Ideas and Possibilities for 2020]

This is my first year here. I've picked Kirk and some terminally ill people for my  first DDP team.

[The 14th death of 2019]

I think there'll be no more deaths this year. The next year could be a bloodbath, since it's a leap year.

[Ideas and Possibilities for 2020]

My shadow-list.

1. Kirk Douglas 

2. Vera Lynn 

3. Olivia De Havilland. 

4. Alex Trebek

5. Lee Kerslake 

6. Javier Perez De Cuellar  

7. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh.  

8. Beverly Cleary 

9. Pierre Cardin  

10. Carl Reiner 

11. Norman Lear 

12. Betty White 

13. Chuck Yeager 

14. Bob Dole. 

15. Bob Barker 

16. Henry Kissinger 

17. Eva Marie Saint

18. Jimmy Carter 

19. Leslie Phillips

20.  Tony Britton 

21. Dick Van Dyke 

22. Angela Lansbury

23. Honor Blackman 

24.  Hal Holbrook

25. Norman Jewison

26. Mel Brooks

27. Roger Corman

28. David Attenborough

29. Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II

30. Tony Bennett

31. Stanley Baxter

32. Sean Connery

33. Nobby Stiles 

34. Jimmy Greaves 

35. Sidney Poitier 

36. Harry Belafonte 

37. Ennio Morricone

38. Hosni Mubarak 

39. Mikhail Gorbachev 

40. Burt Bacharach 

41. Terry Jones

42. Michael York

43. Desmond Tutu 

44.  Little Richard 

45. Johnny Depp (this year's Gazza, but way more famous)

46. Dave Mustaine

47. Paul McCartney (leap years are famous for loads of celebrity deaths, pick him on leap years only)(sub Prunella Scales)

48. Bob Dylan (the same thing) (sub Olivia Newton-John)

49. George Clooney (because of that Simpsons episode, where Homer kills Neil Armstrong (2012), Prince (2016) and George Clooney (2020?) (Sub Valery Giscard D'Estaing )

50. Madonna (the same thing with McCartney and Dylan) (sub Loretta Lynn)

[Wrestlers/actors]

1 hour ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Good ol' boy Tracey Smothers gets into your 2020 considerations with a good ol' bout of lymphoma.

Another waste for me. I've entered all the pools long ago. And It's illegal to edit them.