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Also worth noting that Lindblom’s death means that there is now only one credited cast member of The Seventh Seal still living. Inga Landgré (wiki) turns 94 in August and was still acting as recently as 2019.

Lindblom dead. Edit: A DDP pick for IKEA Nokia Lego.

Keith Arnold (wiki), the first Bishop of Warwick (1980–1990) supposedly dead at 94. If true it means that 97 year old Henry Moore (wiki) and 95 year old David Galliford (wiki) are the last surviving Church of England bishops who served during WWII.

James Lee Purify dead at 76 from COVID-19 complications. The act never charted in the UK in the 1960s when they were big in the States, but instead were part of a wave of re-releases from that era in the 70s which subsequently did better commercially. The charting act is gone now, but Ben Moore survives. He was the replacement "Bobby" from 1974 until the act was disbanded in the 1980s. He'll turn 80 this year.

*Or until an admin blocks you for being a cunt.

Had a look earlier. Couldn’t find a cause of death. Likely TMZ will do some digging then leak details later.

Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Walter Bernstein (wiki) dead at 101 according to several tweets. A pick for The Colnbrook Coroner on the DDP and guaranteed to obit. As far as I can tell, there are now no centenarian Oscar nominees/winners. First time this has happened in quite a while I would have thought? Edit: Hollywood Reporter obit.

King wrote a book in 2004 about his experience living with heart disease, titled "Taking On Heart Disease: Famous Personalities Recall How They Triumphed over the Nation's #1 Killer and How You Can, Too". In it he interviews a number of celebrities who were living with heart disease, whether it be genetic or lifestyle induced. 16 years later here's who has gone or is still around from the book: Ed Bradley, 1941–2006 (65), journalist Walter Cronkite, 1916–2009 (92), broadcaster Mike Wallace, 1918–2012 (93), journalist Regis Philbin, 1931–2020 (88), television presenter Tommy Lasorda, 1927–2021 (93), baseball player and manager Joyce Carol Oates (wiki), writer. Turning 83 in June. Diagnosed way back in the 1960s! Pat Buchanan (wiki), conservative political commentator and journalist. Turning 83 in November. Open heart surgery to replace a valve in 1992. Mike Ditka (wiki), former American football player and coach turned commentator. Turning 82 in October. Survived a heart attack in 1988 and a stroke in 2012. Peggy Fleming (wiki), former Olympic figure skater. Turning 73 in July. Her father had 3 heart attacks and was dead by the age of 41! Kate Jackson (wiki), actress known for her role in Charlie's Angels. Turning 73 in October. Diagnosed with a heart defect in 1998, underwent surgery to correct it. Victoria Gotti (wiki), writer and TV personality. Turning 59 in November. Pacemaker installed at a young age, went faulty in 2002 and needed replaced. Eddie Griffin (wiki), comedian. Turning 53 in July. Suffered a heart attack in 1998 whilst rehearsing for a show. Put it down to smoking and bad diet. Brian Littrell (wiki), lead singer of the Backstreet Boys. Turning 46 next month. Born with a congenital heart defect, survived a bout of swine flu in the 2000s. Not exactly a high mortality rate so far and 4/5 of those gone were above life expectancy but handy for note keeping/considering future DDP names.

Beating myself up over this. So stupid of me to depend solely on amateur sites that clearly just copy and pasted info from Wiki and/or the 2016 articles. A quick glance on Facebook reveals posts, including one from her grandson, from 2018 confirming her death then. She died in or around July.

Second DL "miss" this year after Phil Spector. In danger of sounding like a perpetual moan, but I said this on Jan 1st and I reckon I'll be vindicated come December – it's a crap list. Favouring healthy 90-something year olds over ill 80-something year olds is a stupid policy that should have been binned years ago and never repeated but there are too many users on here who parrot the "they're too big not to include" line. Thus you end up with a useless list, few hits, and then the same people saying "QEII, Lansbury etc. are too big to miss" complain that we missed King. (I'm allowed to complain cos he was on my shadow list )

You have serious OCD. Get it seen to.

Crossposting. Loongkoonan is for the List of the Lost. Died off radar in 2018.

Well turns out these 2019/20 articles were just copying from Wikipedia / older existing articles after all. They assumed her to be alive, but looks like she died off radar in 2018. A DDP miss for two teams.

Also got a lengthy, but very fascinating Telegraph obit.

Guardian obit for Cornwell.

Exactly. I think on the Pfizer trials there were 43,500 people on it. Of those 8 died within the time frame. Read the small print of the trial you’ll see they tested every group of people they could, including those with terminal illnesses, and age groups that included 80+, 90+ year olds etc. so likely that those 8 were within the expectancy of mortality for their respective groups. Of those 8, 5 were actually on the placebo not the vaccine (not that they knew that ofc). I wish people would read the small print on research pieces before just jumping to daft conclusions by only lapping up a headline or a Tweet they saw.

What is it you think the vaccine can do? One in ten get a “bad” reaction i.e. the body develops a temporary raised temperature, but if anything that’s a good sign. It shows your immune system is in tip top shape. The temperature disappears after 1-2 days, as the body soon realises that there is no real threat present. It’s plainly clear that the vaccine played no role in his death.

Something tells me there will be a lot more prominent African COVID deaths to come. Waka waka, eh eh.

Not a winner but a two time nominee, and somebody I had on my watchlist for 12 years(!) but had assumed was looong dead. English sound engineer John Aldred (wiki) died on December 15th at the age of 99. Notable credits include The Italian Job, Dr. Strangelove and Mary, Queen of Scots.

Henryk Chmielewski (wiki), Polish comic book artist, journo and participant in the Warsaw Uprising during WWII, dead at 97.

James Cross (wiki), British diplomat who was kidnapped by nationalist/terrorist group FLQ in October 1970, dead from COVID-19 aged 99.

Hmm... maybe on here that is the case but I invite you to take a look on Twitter where a large amount of gullible people think he’s some sort of Messiah

Very odd to see so many on the Left on the Twittersphere celebrating the election and inauguration of this man. Liberal conservatives/neo-conservative types are both bemused and delighted. Mr. Biden is after all a centrist, pro-intervention, free marketeer, pro-globalisation champion of NATO. This week he announced a further $300 million of investment in policing, having only recently condemned and threatened to defund them in order to pander to the Left/BLM vote. I wonder how long until the Left realise they’ve been well and truly duped, and that the election of Biden simply means a return to business as usual. That being the continuation of the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama project, or the “swamp” as Trumpers would call it. I’ll give it 6 months. I suppose the bigger question is, after many in the States realise that nothing has changed/improved in the next 4 years, will people turn to another off-the-wall candidate like Trump again in the future? He has demonstrated that the system can be broken into. Given the appetite for change in the U.S., and the reluctance of the political class to enact it, it is easy to manipulate the heads and hearts of voters if you can pit those people against their “masters” in the political establishment. Is it any wonder that Congress are desperate to ensure Trump cannot run again in the future? Though it may not be enough. If either a Republican or Democrat were to run a similar populist campaign in the future, I can see the last 4 years being repeated by another “Trump-esque type”.