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Doesn't seem like it was noted anywhere but Eve Bunting, who is a pick this year, died on Oct. 1: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2023/celebs_B.html#buntine023 Only just now got a WaPo obit, so I assume she will QO eventually.

He's one of those Space Odyssey trolls, at least if I remember his previous posts well enough. (ETA: oh yeah, he confirmed it here by giving me a shock reaction.) Seems like he's dished out 219 facepalms in this current ragefest of his. Can he top Diego's like count before the mods catch on?

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 Congrats again diego

Narrator: Rudolph Isley was not safe.

Hughes Van Ellis, younger brother of Viola Fletcher and himself a Tulsa race massacre survivor, dead at 102. Cause of death: shock from logging into his favorite forum, DeathList.net, and seeing his sister compared to Fraudster Singh.

Nah I just thought it was funny. I'm not seriously implying he's still alive. For those not in the loop, Butkus' Twitter was (in)famous for being run by someone who was clearly far younger than him. Is a pretty unexpected death though. Appeared at the Bears game on Sept 10 and seemed fine.

Good news, he has risen from his grave in record time to post on Twitter.

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 Congrats diego

Tim Wakefield dead at 57.

He posted a tribute to David McCallum on Instagram three hours ago, so I'm going to say no, he is not dead. If I ran the DL, I'd probably cut him next year. Looked and sounded great for his age last month: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvvf2kLuQRr/

Dead

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 Congrats MariNisia

This article is 13 hours old. I had to delete it from "deaths in 2023" on Wikipedia earlier today. Looking forward to the fourth random link you find to make a fail death announcement on here.

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 Congrats diego

A forum post by "Stefanie" isn't what I would call an obit. By that standard the original post on here could count.

^ Well, he did appear at last fall's Greenwich Economic Forum for a few minutes, and didn't seem to have noticeably declined from that 2021 video linked earlier. I suspect he's mostly just not interested in the spotlight these days, given he doesn't really appear to have regularly hit the media circuit for some years now. And, well, he is 97...

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 Congrats diego

Most likely. This is his wife, and based on public records, he was born on February 2, 1940, so he'd only be 83 now. (I looked him up when he was mentioned on here previously a few months ago. And hey, searching suggests that was also you, so here you go.)

Today also saw an Atlantic article published which has some bits from an upcoming Romney biography, relevant enough to mention given that it talks about how Romney is fascinated by his own death and touches on his suspicions he will die "suddenly and violently".

I think Bardot and Polanski will probably appear on the list in the next couple of years. Anouk Aimee and Leslie Caron would be fair candidates also, but I'm not sure they're in the DL wheelhouse when guys like Trintignant couldn't make the list (although Caron was pretty Hollywood). I don't think Chirac will make the list but it's ok as Delors and Le Pen will probably be on it until the sun explodes.

Sure, I'm bored, why not. 1. Why would Biden "travel[ing] around the United States to campaign and attend[ing] multiple events a day" have such a dramatic effect on his health that he'd actually croak? Just glancing at his schedule this month, he's already made about ~12 flights, and obviously he still attends events. This seems like something that'd be quite unlikely to take him out. 2. Why would Biden be "forced" to travel? I imagine with his age/senility, his handlers have a tight leash on him. If, in the event that somehow this stuff puts him on death's door, they would likely come up with an excuse to make his rallies "virtual"/just trot someone like Jill out. 3. We all know Biden is, to put it politely, not especially sharp, but it's more than possible to be mentally fried and still live for years. In Biden's case, he doesn't seem very physically fragile; there are several octogenarians who would have been crippled by the tumbles he's taken over the years, and his parents were both long-lived. 4. Why should the list gamble on someone who is not outwardly dying and likely being constantly watched by a medical staff when theoretically everyone on the list should be very likely to die? Yes, they do wishful thinking picks occasionally (why else would Cheney have been on 5 times by now) but those are middling selections and shouldn't be imitated. I'd also at the moment be against adding McConnell, even though he's clearly declining, because he's still in the "ailing-but-potentially-not-imminent" phase.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi is a hit for MariNisia. Congrats! 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

Nelson Broms seems to be the first faller from my list here.

Jimmy Buffett dead.

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 Congrats SIT