Death Impends

Not only that, his name is finally spelt right after 8 months!! And that, I fear, is about as exciting as this thread is going to get all year. Seems as if you were right OoO, as it is now his 88th birthday and there's been only one post in between. Now it is his 89th and not a single post inbetween. Until he dies, he'll probably never get another non-birthday related post.

Immortality does not exist. It's a word that is hypothetical for "celebrated". Immortality does exist. [points to Clive Dunn]

Not anymore

Harold Pinter

Two 1950s years: 1955 would be Albert Einstein, 1953 would be Josef Stalin.

Not only is McMahon still attending public events, but now he's also done several new commercial segments.

Today is Michael Foot's 95th birthday.

Gone With the Wind actress Evelyn Keyes is gone at age 91. Out of her four marriages, one was to John Huston, and her last one was to Artie Shaw. EDIT: Also a unique pick for Team Bigfoot on DDP, if she gets the proper obit she'll also be said team's first hit. SECOND EDIT: BBC obit

I checked, and she's the third miss. Zachrison, Solignac, and now Borchert. It's four if you count Botterill who died in 2004 Oh. Silly me, I was only using List of the Lost as a reference.

Voted Felt

Good job, DeathList! Something that I like about this year thus far is that only 2 of the 10 hits were on last year's list(Suharto, Hofmann) and 5 of the hits have never been on a previous list before(Pym, Widmark, Pollack, Diddley, and Helms).

I checked, and she's the third miss. Zachrison, Solignac, and now Borchert.

What was the crap Iain posted in specific? I wasn't around when he was on DL.(I was around during Dave, though) But the Gordon Brown thing made me laugh.

f**k! Why can't Fidel Castro drop dead of a heart attack? He's an old seenile brutal dictator whose time has past and needs to leave his life and join his buddies Saddam Hussein and Jerry Falwell. But for those who think I'm being tasteless or whatever, hell, even Presidential candidate John McCain agrees with me: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/...ng-castro-dies/ Eh, I prefer him over Mugabe anyday.

Perry turned 100 the other day. Maybe this thread can be merged somewhere else, but I figured it might be the best place to mention it. By the way, that post was almost three years ago and, out of all of them, Eaton-Travis, Lane, Kent, Perry, Bartlam (at least according to IMDb), Allan (ditto), Rainer, Stuart, Laemmle, Page, and Ros are still alive. Claverling, Oldland, Baring, Boyd, and Grey were already dead at the time of the discussion too. I just happened to be thinking about this and it happens to be exactly one year since my last update (barring the leap year) so, out of all of them, Eaton-Travis, Kent, Bartlam (apparentely she was alive at least as recently as March 2007), Allan (same caveat as last time), Rainer, Stuart, Laemmle, Page, and Ross are still alive - we only lost Lane and Perry over the year, perhaps a good survival rate given their ages. Also worth a mention that Ros is the only male from that list who's still alive.

A link.

Sorry for double post, but oldest winner of a Nobel Prize, Leonid Hurwicz, has died aged 90, the age he received his Nobel Prize at: http://wcco.com/local/nobel.prize.stockholm.2.757017.html

That's strange as I remember reading it on the CNN crawler just last week Either way, he has a New York Times obit now.

It has yet to be reported in an actual news source, but Muppet creator Kermit Love has died at age 91. This blog mentions his death, but not with much detail. Despite being a Muppet creator with Kermit for a name, he's NOT the namesake for Kermit the Frog(yet Kermit's actual namesake had died about a month ago, and it was reported in this very thread). He did, however, play a hot dog vendor called Willy on Sesame Street.

Congrats to End of the world as we know it for the successful pick of Jean Delannoy, who has received a New York Times obituary, becoming the team's first Ordinary hit, worth five points.

My money would be on 1998: Rooney & Sykes are fine now, but well in their 80's, whereas Solzhenitsyn & Jaruzelski are in poor health. I agree with you on that one . I must admit to not knowing of Jaruzelski before hand but I think he seems like a good bet for the not too distant future. I think that he'd be a good pick for next year on DL if he lives to then, what with the hospitalizations he's had this year. And it's neat to see how the former list survivors go on. It shows that skill has improved in picks over the years - the early years of DL went under 50 pick wise, yet today some of those years still have at least 10 living names, yet there's 5 living names for '97, 4 for '98, and 3 for '99. And 2006 already has barely more than half of the list alive.

It wouldn't be legit considering it's a personal sort of list, I'd think.

Reports seem to say he had a stroke a few days ago - but then maybe with the Ariel Sharon situation that counts as "nothing particulary wrong" these days Noticed an error, it says "2 June 2006" on the heading. I think you mean 2008.

Good job to DeathList with the successful pick of Bo, especially considering this is the best first half DL has seen to date. [i checked, and when comparing the success of the first six months of this DL to previous years, it has more deaths than any other year. The closest are 2000 and 2003, both with 8 deaths in the first half of the year]

Went with Felt