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I'd say for my first list which was pretty haphazard I did okay. A few blunders like me completely forgetting Pervez Musharraf and thinking Bobby Charlton could go another year prevented a truly good performance, but not bad. On to try no 2 Jimmy Carter Alan Greenspan Bob Newhart Nigel Starmer-Smith Mel Brooks Joanne Woodward Stanley Baxter Jean-Marie Le Pen Yoko Ono Noam Chomsky James Earl Jones Jim Lovell Eva Marie Saint Don King Norman Jewison Tom Lehrer Gena Rowlands Sonny Rollins Dabney Coleman Raul Castro Ted Turner Willie Nelson June Spencer Franz Beckenbauer Roberta Flack Louis Gossett Jr. Joan Plowright Buzz Aldrin Pete Murray Quincy Jones Berry Gordy Robert Duvall Glynis Johns Shannen Doherty Leslie Caron Roger Corman Ruth Westheimer James Baker Toby Keith Joe Don Baker Claire Bloom Dick Cheney Louis Farrakhan Hal Linden John Astin Douglas Hurd Imelda Marcos June Squibb David Attenborough Ron Jeremy

John Ashton Joe Don Baker Daniel Barenboim Black Bart Franz Beckenbauer Greg Cannom Dyan Cannon Frank Caprio Jimmy Carter James Carter Cathcart Bernadette Chirac Noam Chomsky Barry Corbin Tim Curry Shannen Doherty Derek Draper Joe Engle Frank Field Roberta Flack Teri Garr Louis Gossett Jr. Elliott Gould Joel Grey John Driskell Hopkins Jim Inhofe Jonnie Irwin (joker) Erik Jensen Ron Jeremy James Earl Jones Toby Keith Edmund Kemper Susan Kohner Frank Langella Jim Lovell Edie McClurg George J. Mitchell Pete Murray Dikembe Mutombo Linda Nolan Yoko Ono Seiji Ozawa Valerie Perrine Sonny Rollins Richard Scolyer Nigel Starmer-Smith Russ Tamblyn Ted Turner Liv Ullmann M. Emmet Walsh James Whale sub Joe Bugner

I'll take Joanne Woodward to replace Shecky Greene

Here's a team that hopefully should make up for the 2023 team being improperly formatted. Alvin Rakoff Bob Newhart Clive Revill Dabney Coleman Dick Button Don King Dub Jones Eva Marie Saint George Schlatter Glynis Johns Ion Iliescu James Earl Jones Jerry Adler Jim Lovell Len Deighton Noam Chomsky Priscilla Pointer Sandy Gall Shannen Doherty Sonny Rollins Stanley Baxter Steve McMichael (joker) Ted Turner Vera Miles William Russell sub Nigel Starmer-Smith

Herb Kohl, U.S. senator from Wisconsin and Milwaukee Bucks owner, dead at 88. Humorously, he had no mentions on here until yesterday when he was picked for a 2024 pool.

Torben Ulrich dead: https://www.nme.com/news/music/torben-ulrich-lars-ulrichs-father-has-died-3562071

Thanks for hosting. I'll run it back... Maria Branyas Marita Camacho Quirós Frank Chuman Ruth Johnson Colvin Caren Marsh Doll James Clayton Flowers James C. Floyd Lloyd Geering Sister Jean Ma Shitu Marianne, Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn Nguyễn Đình Đầu Juan Vicente Pérez Mora June Spencer Zhang Lixiong sub: Vic Seixas

Andre Braugher, Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street and Raymond Holt on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, dead at 61.

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Seems like bs to me. The article is based entirely off a US Weekly quote where a source says he has more bad days than good. There is no mention in the body of him having recently "worsened dramatically". As of Thanksgiving he was still able to stand up unassisted and sit at a table. He didn't look very lucid, but not physically any worse for wear. I mean we're about to have Nigel Starmer-Smith on his third DL with the same condition and we all know how long he's been a bedridden zombie. I think he'll be a popular pick because he gets so many "Bruce Willis is fucking dead as we speak" tabloidy articles but he is probably fool's gold until he turns 70 or so.

"I turn 91 in December and I'm busier than I can ever remember being at any point in my career. And I don't understand it at all. I mean, what's all this stuff about ageism in Hollywood? How did I get left out of it? I don't know, except possibly that everybody else who could play those parts has already died, so I'm the only actress still standing who can play the great-grandmother or something." I think based on this quote from the summer, she is more likely to join DeathList forums than actually appear on the list.

Society if the DeathList committee doesn't pick Bruce Willis and spares us 20 pages of "he seems physically well despite his dementia, why is he on the list??" Prunella Scales-style posts:

Why's the alive guy the committee have so far correctly believed will continue being an alive guy not on the list? He's famous!!

1923: Victor A. Lundy / Kari Polanyi Levitt 1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Ramona Fradon 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Mary Costa 1931: Darryl Hickman / Ann Roth 1932: Joe Engle / Marisa Pavan

Not to pile on but lol, what? His death was announced 9:30 Ontario time on May 1, and they had an obit up for him an hour later.

Wondering if Gordon Lightfoot and Lily Tomlin will QO is wild. Your grandma could QO if she appeared for five seconds in a 1960s sitcom.

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I'll take Bob Newhart as a sub to replace Becton

Frances Sternhagen dead at 93.

This guy is probably still alive, actually. It seems that whoever added January 1935 as his DOB to IMDb probably just picked a similar-seeming "Bates" who was about the right age from the California birth index, and the editor who wrote his Wiki page copied it, but the problem is that "Charles Bates" was a stage name (which his article notes already). Here is the right birth record: Name Charles Edward Perry Sex male Birthdate 10/22/1934 Birthplace Los Angeles County, California Mother's Maiden Name Bates Based on public records, he lives in the Spokane area in Washington. So while the guy IMDb was claiming to the actor is indeed dead, the actual man himself isn't.

Charlie Munger dead at 99.

There were some photos of him taken today: I don't think he looks bad, especially given the amount of health challenges he's had recently (and how rough he looked at times last year). Will he die in 2024? My gut feeling is probably not, but I wouldn't really be opposed to including him given how big of a blunder missing Benny was.

Marty Krofft dead at 86.

I think Allen and Polanski could probably live many more years actually. Allen had a centenarian father (his mother wasn't far off either) and he's always been very health-conscious, and based on his recent appearances he hasn't seemed to have had any real decline. Polanski looks great too I'd say, and I figure he'll probably make another movie given his latest was so trashed. Ivory could have a couple years left IMO, he seems pretty healthy still, but he's old enough that I wouldn't object to him on the list. I notice Norman Jewison hasn't been mentioned yet, but I'd like to see him on the list eventually. He's not a guy I'd be too surprised to see reach 100 (he wrote a fairly long tribute to Alan Arkin this year, so he's probably doing well) but there aren't many filmmakers as old and notable as him still going.

I dropped everyone I was using at the halfway mark. Given that I've so far gotten 0 hits since then, it could be going better.