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    Pope Benedict XVI

    I might have to substitute Benny for Sandra Day O’Connor, if he goes in the next few days. Is there any particular reason why O’Connor is such a popular choice? I know she is 92 and has had Alzheimer’s for five years, but is there something else?
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    Pope Benedict XVI

    Pelé, Harris, Whale, Vialli, Benedict What a majestic top 5 they would make for the 2023 DeathList! Has the DL ever had all its top five as successes?
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    Alberto Fujimori

    He definitely passes the fame threshold but I honestly don’t see him as a Committee pick unfortunately, like Mahathir Mohamad and José Sarney.
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2023

    Alan Greenspan and Sandy Gall are on until they croak now. Especially Greenspan, he hasn’t missed a DL appearance since his inauguration in 2019, and he is always in the top 25. However, I’m open to the possibility the DL will drop Joss Ackland or Milan Kundera, but it would be a grave mistake...
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2023

    Assuming Pelé is out before 2023, here are my revised 11 recommended drops and 11 likely drops. Recommded drops Dick Cheney (81, doesn’t seem to be in any immediate danger, still semi-active in politics) Emperor Akihito (recovering from heart failure, looks in good shape for late eighties) Desmond Morris (in top form for a ninety-four year old, still giving interviews) Prunella Scales (still out and about whilst passing for someone ten years young) Denis Law (occasionally still steps out in public, not in any immediate danger) David Crosby (still working, better candidates to have at this stage) Michael Gambon (made quite a few recent zoo visits, not in immediate danger) Silvio Berlusconi (still active in politics this year, looking a youthful 86 year old) Marianne Faithfull (next one I would drop: in care home but still was able to give recent lengthy interview) Linda Ronstadt (76, no immediate danger, gave interview not long ago where she looked fabulous) Shane MacGowan (only 65, well enough to give Christmas message, although he may not see seventy) If someone disagrees with any of these, that’s ok, as long as you can name an alternate name to be dropped. 11 will likely have to be dropped. Likely drops Dick Cheney Desmond Morris Denis Law Norman Tebbit David Crosby Michael Gambon Silvio Berlusconi Marianne Faithfull Linda Ronstadt Douglas Hurd Shane MacGowan
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    Emperor Akihito

    After hearing his improvement and seeing that recent photo (also seen it on another article dated as 8th December), I’d now have to agree he deserves to be discarded alongside sensible drops Law, Crosby, Gambon and Berlusconi.
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    Michael Schumacher

    The current status of Michael Schumacher’s mysterious condition is put into question after his son’s unexplained tribute of his father on Instagram. https://www.news.com.au/sport/motorsport/formula-one/sons-update-sparks-fresh-michael-schumacher-fears-after-latest-update/news-story/19798d92473ec39f353dd9450afc29a4
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    Pelé

    Rolf Harris and Joanne Woodward should make up the other two in the top five.
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2023

    I can see the DL Committee bringing Linda Nolan back (maybe in position 17 to 19).
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    Ozzy Osbourne

    Looking better than I was expecting https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11534745/Ozzy-Osbourne-74-leans-walking-stick-heads-wife-Sharon-70-LA.html
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    Who Should Make The Deathlist 2023?

    Patricia Routledge, Thelma Barlow and Joan Plowright (all English actresses born in 1929) also feel such Deathlisty names. I can almost guarantee at least one of them will make up one of the fifty next year.
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2023

    Yes, brilliant suggestion, a must returnee for the 2023 DL, as much as Barbara Walters. For a long time now, I have had the sense Ono might go at the big 90.
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2023

    92-year-old German actor Mario Adorf?
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    Advent Avalanche 2022

    Good game drol. You smashed it!
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    Françoise Hardy

    It might also be the case of Alain Delon, at a later date.
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    Most Significant Death Of Each Month

    2022 January - Sidney Poitier February - Monica Vitti March - William Hurt April - June Brown May - Ray Liotta June - Jean-Louis Trintignant July - Shinzo Abe August - Mikhail Gorbachev September - Queen Elizabeth II October - Angela Lansbury November- Leslie Phillips December- ?
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    The Dead of 2022

    Unbelievable! Vitti was one of Italy’s most renowned film stars, Trintignant one of France’s, and somehow Sacheen Littlefeather makes it on, whilst Vitti and Trintignant don’t? Vitti and Trintignant are two of the biggest deaths this year, definitely in the top 10 IMO, with Angela Lansbury, Sidney Poitier, Queen Elizabeth II, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shinzo Abe, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jean-Luc Godard and Olivia Newton-John.
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    Vladimir Putin

    Supposedly injured in a fall
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2023

    I can see Chris Rea taking next year’s no. 50 position on the DL, if not Vladimir Putin or Andy Taylor.
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    The Dead of 2022

    Can anyone spot Monica Vitti and Jean-Louis Trintignant above? They are the two that seem to be missing upon first glance...
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    Pelé

    I’d put Rolf Harris ahead of Pele and Carter in a heartbeat. Harris, Pele, James Whale, Carter, Bob Barker would make my top five next year in that order. The no. 50 spot could be most appropriate for Putin, as we don’t know what is exactly going on with his health situation but the rumours are getting overwhelming. I’m putting Andy Taylor in my no. 50 though, he’s young and his condition isn’t immediately life threatening; a lot of young musicians have also been put at no. 50 before on the DL.
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    Advent Avalanche 2022

    Frank Field (the UK politician born in 1942)
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2023

    Oscar Quitak Lee Montague Peter Cellier Michael Craig Colin Jeavons John Cairney
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    Who Should Make The Deathlist 2023?

    Of the names mentioned above, Rolf Harris, Joanne Woodward, Jiang Zemin, Roberta Flack, Pope Benedict and Sonny Rollins, seem most important to introduce or re-introduce in 2023. Additionally, Robert Wagner, George Alagiah, June Spencer, Françoise Hardy, Andy Taylor and Giorgio Napolitano need to be on there as debutees. I’d plump for Roy Clarke, Stuart Hall, Topol, Michael Caine, Don King, John Farnham, Alberto Fujimori and Joan Plowright along that line too. I would similarly like to see Liza Minnelli, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, General Pervez Musharraf and Imelda Marcos return. Putin will be on there (presumably in position no. 50) and so will Bob Newhart (again).
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2023

    Perhaps Joni Mitchell and/or Tina Turner will be back on the DL in 2023.
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