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  5. Posted · Edited by Grimgrass
    Updated for Bob Newhart

    How many of each years picks eventually became DL hits, in that year or in any later year:

    Spoiler

    1987 – 14/31 (1 still living)

    Misses: Ayatollah Khomeini, Laurence Olivier, Bette Davis, John Arlott, Stewart Granger, Kenneth Connor, Fred Perry, Lord Harold Wilson, Beryl Reid, Yehudi Menuhin, Johnny Morris, Alec Guinness, Jimmy Savile, Andrea de Cesaris

    Others: Any one Beatle is debatable. It could be argued as a miss, as the first Beatle to die since then (George Harrison in 2002) wasn't on the list when he died.


    1989 – 15/32 (5 still living)

    Misses: Malcolm Muggeridge, Magnus Pyke, Peter Cushing, Peter Wright, Marti Caine, Jon Pertwee, Stephane Grappelli, Yehudi Menuhin, Stanley Unwin, Kenneth Kendall

    Others: William Hartnell (d. 1975) and Wilfrid Brambell (d. 1985) appeared post-mortem.


    1990 – 28/42 (4 still living)

    Misses: Alexander Dubcek, Peter Cushing, Stephane Grappelli, Alec Guinness, Ronnie Barker, Corazon Aquino, Manuel Noriega, Peter Alliss


    1991 – 22/40 (1 still living)

    Misses: Magnus Pyke, Don Ameche, John Smith, Peter Cushing, Arthut Mullard, Bob Paisley, Denis Compton, Johnny Morris, Willie Whitelaw, Joan Sims, Brian Clough, Leighton Rees, Lord Len Murray, Saddam Hussein, Bernard Manning, Patrick Moore, Norman Willis


    1992 – 23/37 (1 still living)

    Misses: Jack Hargreaves, Lord Goodman, Red Rum, Arthur Mullard, Robert Dougall, Perry Como, Joe Fagan, Bert Millichap, Peter West, Lord Len Murray, Tom Finney

    Others: Arthur Marshall (d. 1989) and Bette Davis (d. 1989) appeared post-mortem.


    1993 – 40/56 (1 still living)

    Misses: Charles Bukowski, Doris Speed, Jerry Garcia, Marti Caine, George Chisholm, Frank Muir, Johnny Morris, Alec Guinness, Victor Borge, John Lee Hooker, Yasser Arafat, Ronnie Barker, Tony Curtis, Patrick Moore, Ray Kennedy


    1994 – 40/50 (3 still living)

    Misses: Peter Wright, Lord Harold Wilson, Hunter S Thompson, Red Auerbach, Jeremy Thorpe, Anne Kirkbride

    Others: Bette Davis (d. 1989) appeared post-mortem.


    1995 – 41/50 (1 still living)

    Misses: Stan Flashman, Fred Pontin, Geoffrey Dickens, Prince Rainier, Boris Yeltsin, Tony Curtis, Patrick Moore, Sean Connery


    1996 – 33/50 (1 still living)

    Misses: Willie Whitelaw, Stan Flashman, Wilf Mannion, Alec Guinness, Julian Critchey, Fred Pontin, Victor Borge, Baroness Castle, Marlon Brando, Yasser Arafat, Prince Rainier, Muriel Spark, Red Auerbach, Boris Yeltsin, Larry Hagman, Jeremy Thorpe


    1997 – 42/50

    Misses: Willie Whitelaw, Alec Guinness, Victor Borge, Perry Como, Anthony Quinn, Marlon Brando, Prince Rainier, Boris Yeltsin


    1998 – 39/50

    Misses: Johnny Morris, Anne Haddy, Willie Whitelaw, Alec Guinness, Fred Pontin, Perry Como, Baroness Castle, Arthur Miller, King Fahd, Boris Yeltsin, General Jaruzelski

     

    1999 – 36/50 (2 still living)

    Misses: Alec Guinness, Julian Critchey, Victor Borge, Perry Como, Thor Heyerdahl, Baroness Castle, Yasser Arafat, King Fahd, Frankie Laine, Boris Yeltsin, Evel Knievel, Vaclav Havel


    2000 – 41/50 (1 still living)

    Misses: Anthony Quinn, John Lee Hooker, John Paul Getty Jr, Yasser Arafat, King Fahd, Boris Yeltsin, Vaclav Havel, General Jaruzelski


    2001 – 43/50 (1 still living)

    Misses: Princess Margaret, Bert Millichip, Baroness Castle, Mary Wesley, Jack Jones, Desmond Tutu


    2002 – 43/50

    Misses: Buddy Ebsen, Benny Carter, John Kenneth Galbraith, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Alex Higgins, Osama Bin Laden, Kenneth Kendall


    2003 – 44/50

    Misses: Yasser Arafat, Johnny Carson, King Taufa'ahau Tupou, Jack Palance, Jack Jones, Vaclav Havel


    2004 – 46/50

    Misses: Arthur Miller, Frankie Laine, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Dom Mintoff


    2005 – 41/50 (1 still living)

    Misses: John Kenneth Galbraith, Frankie Laine, Jane Wyman, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Les Paul, Claire Rayner, Patrick Moore, Diego Maradona


    2006 – 44/50

    Misses: Jane Wyman, Tony Curtis, Claire Rayner, Dom Mintoff, Patrick Moore, Alfredo di Stefano


    2007 – 37/50 (2 still living)

    Misses: Les Paul, Oral Roberts, John Forsythe, Ruby Muhammad, Jack Kevorkian, Dom Mintoff, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, Patrick Moore, Ariel Sharon, Rowdy Roddy Piper


    2008 – 41/50 (3 still living)

    Misses: Elizabeth Edwards, Captain Beefheart, Basil D'Oliveira, Patrick Moore, Jack Klugman, Ariel Sharon


    2009 – 41/50

    Misses: John Forsythe, George Steinbrenner, Captain Beefheart, Seve Ballesteros, Vaclav Havel, Patrick Moore, Ravi Shankar, Jack Klugman, Ariel Sharon


    2010 – 42/50

    Misses: Dom Mintoff, Jack Klugman, Frank Thornton, Ariel Sharon, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Peter Tork, Frank Bough


    2011 – 36/50 (3 still living)

    Misses: Ernest Borgnine, Geoffrey Hughes, Dom Mintoff, Ravi Shankar, Jack Klugman, Bob Godfrey, Frank Thornton, Ariel Sharon, Fergie Frederiksen, Harlan Ellison, Aretha Franklin


    2012 – 41/50 (2 still living)

    Misses: Bob Godfrey, Ariel Sharon, General Jaruzelski, Tariq Aziz, Harper Lee, Chuck Berry, James Randi


    2013 – 43/50

    Misses: Pete Seeger, General Jaruzelski, Elaine Strich, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Harper Lee, Nicholas Parsons


    2014 – 44/50 (1 still living)

    Misses: Shaw Taylor, Terry Pratchett, James Randi, Ed Asner, Wilko Johnson


    2015 – 43/50 (1 still living)

    Misses: Harper Lee, Chuck Berry, Helmut Kohl, Bill Maynard, Ken Kercheval, Eddie Large


    2016 – 40/50 (5 still living)

    Misses: Robert M Pirsig, Doug Ellis, James Randi, Desmond Tutu, Lester Piggott


    2017 – 40/50 (3 still living)

    Misses: Doug Ellis, Gay Byrne, Jill Gascoine, David Prowse, Ian St John, Desmond Tutu, Pope Benedict XVI


    2018 – 35/50 (10 still living)

    Misses: Jill Gascoine, Sean Connery, Ian St John, Olivia Newton-John, Pope Benedict XVI


    2019 – 38/50 (7 still living)

    Misses: Little Richard, Larry King, Ed Asner, Desmond Tutu, Barbara Walters


    2020 – 35/50 (11 still living)

    Misses: Desmond Tutu, Tom Smith, Lester Piggott, David Crosby


    2021 – 27/50 (17 still living)

    Misses: Bernard Cribbins, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, David Crosby, Betty Boothroyd, Shannen Doherty

     

    2022 – 25/50 (21 still living)

    Misses: David Crosby, Ted Kaczynski, Silvio Berlusconi, Michael Gambon

     

    2023 – 20/50 (30 still living)

    Misses: None yet!

     

     

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  11. Posted

    The Queen is a hit for Yvonne. Congrats!

     

    Next round:

    1922 – Bernard Kalb / Margia Dean

    1923 – Henry Kissinger / Yuriko, Princess Mikasa

    1924 – William Russell / Siiri Rantanen

    1925 – Jacques Delors / Phyllis Dalton

    1926 – Tony Bennett / Helen Gallagher

    1927 – Sidney Cooke / Cleo Laine 

    1928 – Peter Cellier / Ann Blyth

    1929 – John Nettleton / Patricia Routledge

    1930 – Roy Clarke / Sara Jane Moore

    1931 – Don King / Barbara Young

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  14. Posted

    11 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

    The GRO Index has been updated to include all deaths up to the end of 2021 (remembering that not all Dec 2021 deaths will be included if they weren’t registered until 2022). 

     

    Anyone want any names checked?

     

    Could you check Jeanne Hepple (IMDb) and Elizabeth Kelly (IMDb), please? I know Kelly is someone who shouldn't die off radar, but there have been so many off-radar notable soap actor deaths in recent years.

     

    EDIT: Also John Evitts (IMDb)?

  18. Posted

    On 22/08/2022 at 10:36, Grimgrass said:

     

    1922 – Bernard Kalb / Margia Dean

    1923 – Henry Kissinger / Yuriko, Princess Mikasa

    1924 – William Russell / Siiri Rantanen

    1925 – Jacques Delors / Phyllis Dalton

    1926 – Tony Bennett / Helen Gallagher

    1927 – Sidney Cooke / Cleo Laine 

    1928 – Peter Cellier / Ann Blyth

    1929 – John Nettleton / Patricia Routledge

    1930 – Roy Clarke / Sara Jane Moore

    1931 – Don King / Barbara Young

    Congrats Summer!

     

    (Apologies if there's duplicates, don't have time to check if someone's been nicked).

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  21. Posted

    9 hours ago, Grimgrass said:

     

     

    1922 – Bernard Kalb / Margia Dean

    1923 – Henry Kissinger / Yuriko, Princess Mikasa

    1924 – William Russell / Siiri Rantanen

    1925 – Jacques Delors / Phyllis Dalton

    1926 – Tony Bennett / Helen Gallagher

    1927 – Sidney Cooke / Cleo Laine 

    1928 – Peter Cellier / Ann Blyth

    1929 – John Nettleton / Patricia Routledge

    1930 – Roy Clarke / Sara Jane Moore

    1931 – Don King / Barbara Young

    Congrats Arghton!

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  22. Posted

    Congrats Summer in Transylvania!

     

    1922 – Bernard Kalb / Margia Dean

    1923 – Henry Kissinger / Yuriko, Princess Mikasa

    1924 – William Russell / Siiri Rantanen

    1925 – Jacques Delors / Phyllis Dalton

    1926 – Tony Bennett / Helen Gallagher

    1927 – Sidney Cooke / Cleo Laine 

    1928 – Peter Cellier / Ann Blyth

    1929 – John Nettleton / Patricia Routledge

    1930 – Roy Clarke / Sara Jane Moore

    1931 – Don King / Barbara Young

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  23. Posted

    On 19/08/2022 at 17:32, Grimgrass said:

     

    1922 – Bernard Kalb / Margia Dean

    1923 – Henry Kissinger / Yuriko, Princess Mikasa

    1924 – William Russell / Siiri Rantanen

    1925 – Jacques Delors / Phyllis Dalton

    1926 – Tony Bennett / Helen Gallagher

    1927 – Sidney Cooke / Cleo Laine 

    1928 – Peter Cellier / Ann Blyth

    1929 – John Nettleton / Patricia Routledge

    1930 – Roy Clarke / Sara Jane Moore

    1931 – Don King / Barbara Young

    Congrats DoorSlammer!

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  25. Posted

    26 minutes ago, msc said:

    Tbf you only said she was unwell in March. That might be behind the lack of DDP traction!

     

    It was actually me who mentioned her ill health, not Biblio.

     

    Though I'm not sure would she have gotten any more DDP traction anyway. For comparison, Phyllida Law, another aged British actress like Tewson, has been known to have Parkinson's for some time now, yet no one appears to have picked her in the DDP this year.

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