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  1. Posted

    On 11/10/2022 at 22:56, 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 MariNisia!

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  7. Posted

    On 10/04/2022 at 21:32, arghton said:

    https://www.seiska.fi/Kotimaa/Kuolemansairas-Jorma-Kalevi-ottaa-riskin-lentaessaan-Suomeen-ei-voinut-menna-Kanarialla

    Finnish schlager singer Jorma Kalevi, 75, "King of the Canary Islands" who used to live in Spain is suffering from pulmonary fibrosis and I've been thinking of mentioning him here because he's now been "dying" for the three years and there's been more or less 500 articles about him being terminally ill in the Finnish tabloids.

    While he's been "dying" at a slow pace before, now he needs oxygen nearly all the time and says that he's "close to death" and "feels how the thread he's hanging on by is getting thinner". Looks death warmed up but he said that he'll die soon last year and the year before that.

     

    He's not really famous anywhere as far as I know, I'd say he's FFBI as he's more known for suffering from a terminal illness but his death will be mentioned in those tabloids.

     

    Jorma Kalevi dead at 76.

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  9. Posted

    That's the eighth Toy Story 3 voice actor to die within the last six years:

    • Don Rickles (Mr. Potato Head) d. 2017
    • John Cygan (Twitch) d. 2017
    • Bud Luckey (Chuckles) d. 2018
    • R. Lee Ermey (Sarge) d. 2018
    • Ned Beatty (Lotso) d. 2021
    • Jack Angel (Chunk) d. 2021
    • Estelle Harris (Mrs. Potato Head) d. 2022
    • Jan Rabson (Sparks) d. 2022
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  11. Posted · Edited by Grimgrass
    Updated for Bob Newhart

    Mutual hits for official DL, Crowdsourced DL, and Drop 40 by year:

     

    2016 – Martin Crowe, Nancy Reagan, Muhammad Ali, Joâo Havelange, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Fidel Castro, Zsa Zsa Gabor

     

    2017 – Joost van der Westhuizen, Ian Brady, Peter Sallis, Errol Christie, Glen Campbell, Bruce Forsyth, Tony Booth, Gord Downie, King Michael of Romania

     

    2018 – Billy Graham, Tessa Jowell, John McCain, Denis Norden, Stan Lee, George Bush Senior

     

    2019 – Doris Day, John McCririck, Johnny Clegg, Robert Mugabe, Leah Bracknell, Clive James

     

    2020 – Terry Jones, Kirk Douglas, Genesis P-Orridge, Stirling Moss, Vera Lynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nobby Stiles, Alex Trebek

     

    2021 – Leon Spinks, Rush Limbaugh, Prince Philip, Jimmy Greaves, Bob Dole, Betty White

     

    2022 – June Brown, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Turnbull, Queen Elizabeth II, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Lee Lewis, Leslie Phillips, Pelé

     

    2023 – Ryuichi Sakamoto, Harry Belafonte, Rolf Harris, Tony Bennett, Bob Barker, Bobby Charlton, Henry Kissinger

     

    2024 – Glynis Johns, Franz Beckenbauer, Bob Newhart

     

    Sidenote: I noticed hits shared by official DL and Drop 40 but not Crowdsourced DL are quite rare. There have been only six such hits: Mary Tyler Moore and Jerry Lewis in 2017, Stephen Hawking in 2018, Valerie Harper in 2019, Shane MacGowan in 2023 and Derek Draper in 2024. As of 2024, the only living names who are currently shared by both official DL and Drop 40 but not Crowdsourced DL are Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Prunella Scales and Buzz Aldrin.

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  13. Posted

    On 31/08/2022 at 06:54, 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 Yvonne!

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  14. Posted

    1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)

     

    1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32)

     

    1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42)

     

    1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)

     

    1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)

     

    1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (4/56)

     

    1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)

     

    1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)

     

    1996: Mr T (1/50)

     

    1997: (0/50)

     

    1998: (0/50)

     

    1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)

     

    2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)

     

    2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50)

     

    2002: (0/50)

     

    2003: (0/50)

     

    2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)

     

    2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50)

     

    2006: (0/50)

     

    2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)

     

    2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)

     

    2009: (0/50)

     

    2010: Angela Lansbury (0/50)

     

    2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50)

     

    2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50)

     

    2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50)

     

    2014: Wilko Johnson,  Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (3/50)

     

    2015: Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (3/50)

     

    2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (7/50) 

     

    2017: Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Emperor Akihito (6/50)

     

    2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (14/50)

     

    2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (13/50)

     

    2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (20/50)

     

    2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, David Crosby, Prunella Scales, Tony Bennett, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Harry Belafonte, BobNewhart, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Betty Boothroyd, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (32/50) 

     

    Updated for Angela Lansbury. The 2010 list is now extinct.

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  17. Posted

    1 hour ago, Sean said:

    Ackland,  Morris , Hurd and MacGowan I can all see getting dropped.

    Agreed on the first three. Ackland seems like one of the more likely drops. He retired from acting several years ago, but at the same time he doesn't have any known illnesses and he is ranked fairly low on this years list. He is by no means a bad pick, though.

     

    Morris is 50/50, can see him staying, can see him being dropped. Still relatively active though, which suggests he is one of the weaker picks this year, and I would personally drop him (watch the oldest debutant curse strike again now...).

     

    I reckon either Tebbit or Hurd (probably Hurd) will get booted from this list if it finishes low, though both would be very risky drops.

     

    I'm not sure on MacGowan though, it feels like they've setting him up to be another bedblocker. Past self-destructive/alcoholic picks have usually been on once or twice and then dropped entirely, but MacGowan has stayed on year after year.

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  18. Posted

    As healthy as the likes of Van Dyke, Brooks and Attenborough are, I really doubt any of them are going to be dropped next year, as 96+ names rarely get dropped. I believe the last time was in 2013, when Herman Wouk was dropped. 

     

    Glancing the list, there aren't actually too many names that seem like easy drops for next year. Crosby, Gambon and Berlusconi are probably certs to be dropped. Cheney seems like another one that would be an easy drop, but I can easily see them keeping him on next year anyway.

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