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If she is still here in 2025...A glioblastoma, diagnosed 2 years ago: https://www.sophiekinsella.co.uk/news/sharing-some-news/

As you would know had you read the obit, she was exonerated https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/mismanagement-claims-kids-company-founder-thrown-out-camila-batmanghelidjh

Cher? She's trying to put a conservatorship in place for her son, so I doubt it

Same logic from me for Jean M. Auel... though 87 rather than 90, I think.

Antonia Fraser also sounding like a good bet.... https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-interview/2023/07/antonia-fraser-interview-historian-popularity

The marketing campaign for the most recent novel has felt very... valedictory. Though, yes, it's not as if he writes a novel a year. Though as part of the marketing round for Baumgartner Siri Hustvedt (wife) did an interview or two where it would really be much more usual for the writer himself to have done them... Let's just say, I am not getting positive vibes.

Wouldn't be surprised if Paul Auster (cancer; talking up his most recent novel as if it may be his last) doesn't see 2024 out

Gianluca Vialli

Fay Weldon, at spot 48 on my list, has gone.

Definitely.

Second hit for me after Tommy. Big miss from the committee.

I have my eye on Caroline Graham... 89 years old and hasn't written a new novel in 16 years. Ten years ago was writing a novel that never materialised. No news on health for a very long time but surely not long left.

Alan Bennett, perhaps? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/23/alan-bennett-2020-diary-reveals-growing-health-struggles

Is he actually ill? Or just 81?

John Harvey, author of the Charlie Resnick series of crime novels, is receiving radiotherapy for secondary bone cancer... that's pretty bad news, isn't it?

AND now John le Carre.... A particularly sad 2020 blow.

Same here. Here is my list so far (possibly subject to minor changes, particularly in terms of the order, as the New Year approaches!) The final couple of entries are perhaps there more out of hope than expectation... 1 - Gerd Muller 2 - Rush Limbaugh 3 - Leon Spinks 4 - Michael Parkinson 5 - Larry King 6 - Tommy Lasorda 7 - Dilip Kumar 8 - James Whale 9 - Jiang Zemin 10 - Bob Barker 11 - Shannen Doherty 12 - Duke of Edinburgh 13 - Duke of Kent 14 - Jimmy Carter 15 - Rosalyn Carter 16 - Prunella Scales 17 - Jimmy Tarbuck 18 - James Lovelock 19 - Robert Fyfe 20 - Patricia Routledge 21 - Jean-Louis Trintignant 22 - Henry Kissinger 23 - Michael Gorbachev 24 - Bob Dole 25 - Gunter von Hagens 26 - James Watson 27 - Yoko Ono 28 - Ray Reardon 29 - Glynis Johns 30 - Pope Benedict XVI 31 - Bill Turnbull 32 - Bill Oddie 33 - Beverly Cleary 34 - Alain Delon 35 - Trevor Peacock 36 - Jack Higgins 37 - Doddie Weir 38 - Noam Chomsky 39 - Leslie Phillips 40 - C.J. Sansom 41 - Raul Castro 42 - Pierre Cardin 43 - Emperor Akihito 44 - Sarah Harding 45 - Ronald Blythe 46 - Cormac McCarthy 47 - Michael Collins 48 - Lee Child 49 - Mitch McConnell 50 - Harvey Weinstein

No more Peter Alliss for 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/55204070

Ok - personally I think Jeroen Krabbe was the main villain in that film but I see I have made a claim easily disputable based on the perception of the word "main"! I withdraw it immediately.

I am CONVINCED that Lee Child is very unwell. On recent interviews over the last year he's looked strikingly thin (he has always been slim, but never as near-skeletal as recently). He smokes marijuana unashamedly (pain relief?) and now freely comments on it (not sure if it's a new habit, but him talking about it is). He has recently handed over writing duties of his Jack Reacher books to his younger brother. He's had an authorised biography written and published. In a recent interview with that biographer from the Hay Festival she kept using language like "final", "last", and when I commented on it on twitter she even "liked" the post! The whole interview was strikingly elegiac. I may be barking up the wrong tree, but...

Ackland's old no doubt with all the associated health issues but he doesn''t look too bad here from earlier in the year... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/legendary-devon-actor-joss-ackland-4061973 Yaphet Kotto may be the oldest surviving main Bond villain but does he actually have any known health issues? At 81 he'd be a bit of a punt without any...

I have had to register with my work email address (which I'd rather not, really) because the validation/verification emails just do not get delivered to my normal email address. I also can't change the email address back to the one I want it to be after having registered because there's a need for an email to be received at the email address that won't seem to receive emails from this site... ....can anyone help? Is there somewhere in particular I should be posting this question?