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You’ve got to be a total saddo to buy this and to make your Christmas time about hating people. Still, I suppose it’s infinitely better than LadBaby.

I think he should be dropped. Firstly, so Lafaucheuse can go on one of his French nationalistic rants about French people and how big they are in France, and asking where all the French entries are. Secondly, because I think he's a weak candidate. For me, he fails every single criteria for including a nonagenarian on DL: Sounding frail/broken voice: NOPE Struggling to walk unaided: NOPE Looking pale/discolouration of the skin: NOPE Noticeable weight loss: NOPE Series of recent hospitalisations: NOPE Given that he's in his 90s, sure, he could die next year, but with 100s of names to choose from, there are far more frail octogenarians and nonagenarians that would serve a better place on DL.

Rumours that Qi Xin has died from COVID-19 aged 96. No confirmation or denial from the CCP as of yet.

Number 9: Ma Jianzhang, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineers, dead at 85.

Didn't realise that Angela Rippon was a presenter on GB News now (she's a stand-in for Alastair Stewart from time to time apparently). Looks pretty good for someone who's turning 79 next year. I reckon she'll be with us for a long time yet.

Telegraph death notice for Anthony Whetstone (wiki), aged 95.

Times death notice for Gavin Weightman (wiki), 77, journalist and documentary filmmaker with a focus on the social history of London (and Britain) since the 18th century.

Times death notice for Brenda Swinbank (wiki), 93, probably the first female professional archaeologist in Britain.

Full list of those featured in the 2022 BBC review: Music Meat Loaf, Ronnie Spector, Vangelis, Irene Cara, Lamont Dozier, Jamal Edwards, Takeoff, Taylor Hawkins, Terry Hall, Gary Brooker, Christine McVie, Betty Davis, Loretta Lynn, Lata Mangeshkar, Wilko Johnson, Father Abraham, Darius Danesh, Coolio, Drummie Zeb, Tom Parker, Joyce Sims, Julee Cruise, Angelo Badalamenti, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Andy Fletcher, Bappi Lahiri, Jerry Lee Lewis, Monty Norman World leaders Mikhail Gorbachev, Madeleine Albright, Shinzo Abe, Lord David Trimble, Elizabeth II Television, film & radio Hilary Devey, Cherry Valentine, Gwyneth Powell, Dennis Waterman, Barry Cryer, Bill Treacher, Leonard Fenton, Mona Hammond, June Brown, Peter Bowles, Lynda Baron, Ruth Madoc, Gary Waldhorn, Bamber Gascoigne, Kirstie Alley, Louise Fletcher, Dame Angela Lansbury, Nichelle Nichols, Ray Liotta, Sacheen Littlefeather, Anne Heche, James Cann, Jean-Luc Godard, Leslie Phillips, Robbie Coltrane, Bernard Cribbins, Sidney Poitier, Dame Olivia Newton-John Arts & literature Dame Paula Rego, Peter Brook, Issey Miyake, Nino Cerruti, Thierry Mugler, Raymond Briggs, Shirley Hughes, Jack Higgins, Hilary Mantel Sports Shane Warne, Rod Marsh, Ronnie Radford, Lester Piggott, Phil Bennett, Doddie Weir Journalism Dame Deborah James, Bill Turnbull, Michael Barratt, Bob Wellings, Harry Gration Other James Lovelock, Ivana Trump, Sir David Butler, Johnny Johnson

Loretta Lynn was on there. Pretty sure David Warner was. Edit: Just checked Loretta Lynn was there, as was Andy Fletcher, James Lovelock and Sir David Butler. David Warner wasn't.

@diego, already posted in this thread several days ago. Use the search function before you post.

An 8th has gone. Jiang Hualiang, and he was only 57, so the care home theory is likely not true. None of these guys have immunity. They've been shielded from COVID for 3 years by their government, then were given two doses of the Chinese vaccine (which doesn't work). They're going to drop like flies.

Cotton Davidson (wiki) dead at 91 according to several tweets. Quarterback/punter with the Baltimore Colts, Dallas Texans and the Oakland Raiders.

Or not. Jean-Robert de Cavel (wiki) dead at 61. Report confirms it was the same cancer.

Christopher Needler (wiki), 78, becomes the second chairman of Hull City F.C. to die this month.

George Maher, former member of The Farm (from 1984 to 1986) has died according to fellow former member Tony Evans:

23 December Li Wenhua, 90, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Lu Qiang, 86, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Zhang Youshang, 97, Chinese biochemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering 22 December Gu Zhen'an, 86, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Long Yuqiu, 96, Chinese engineer and academic, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 21 December Zhang Guocheng, 91, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Zhao Yijun, 92, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering A second name (Long Yuqiu, 96) now added to 22 December, so make that 7 in 3 days. Yup, mass spreader event more than likely the cause. Sweepstakes on how many to go before the end of the year? I'm going to say 14 (including the 7 above).

Odette Roy Fombrun (wiki) dead at 105.

Sunny Gale was living in a nursing home in Florida in 2013, to the surprise of many as she was long presumed dead. In 2015 and 2016, she was still being referred to in the present tense, but I can't find anything more recent. Wiki says her real name was Selma Segal and that she was born in Clayton, New Jersey. Newspaper cuttings from the 1950s confirm this is true, but I still can't find her birth record. The same newspaper clippings state that she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when she was four and she considered that to be her "home". Census records from Pennsylvania reveal that her father was born in Lithuania/Russia. Her father was Meyer Siegal/Segal/Siegel/Sigal (born c.1896) and Blanche Siegal/Segal/Siegel/Sigal (née Geizler born c. 1898). He died in New York in 1958. She died in New York in 1977. She had one sibling – a sister Florence Siegal (later Florence Resnikoff, who was born in 1920 and died in 1987). As per this, Sunny Gale was married to theatre exec Noel Kramer in 1958, and they had a daughter that year. They were married in Manhattan in 1956 – here's the marriage record. By 1966, she had a new boyfriend. He was also her agent AND her dentist as per this. Can't find his name anywhere. That would be key to finding out what her name is nowadays. Of course, she may have married somebody else since then.

Betty Madigan... Interview from 2020 here when she was 92. Lives in Florida as Betty Madigan Brandt. Still alive aged 94 according to MyLife.

James Kinnier Wilson (wiki), British Assyriologist, reportedly dead at 101. His father was the neurologist Samuel Kinnier Wilson, for whom "Wilson's disease" was named after. Photo from his 100th birthday last year. Guardian obit at some point I imagine.

I think an editor on there has put 2 + 2 together and come up with 5. I've removed the "Deaths from pancreatic cancer" category.

Round-up: 1: Gordon Banks OBE 1937–2019 2: George Cohen MBE 1939–2022 3: Ray Wilson MBE 1934–2018 4: Nobby Stiles MBE 1942–2020 5: Jack Charlton OBE 1935–2020 6: Bobby Moore OBE 1941–1993 7: Alan Barr Jr. MBE 1945–2007 8: Jimmy Greaves MBE 1940–2021 9: Sir Bobby Charlton CBE 1937–2023 10: Sir Geoff Hurst MBE b. 1941 11: John Connelly 1938–2012 12: Ron Springett 1935–2015 13: Peter Bonetti 1941–2020 14: Jimmy Armfield CBE 1935–2018 15: Gerry Byrne 1938–2015 16: Martin Peters MBE 1943–2019 17: Ron Flowers MBE 1934–2021 18: Norman Hunter 1943–2020 19: Terry Paine MBE b. 1939 20: Ian Callaghan MBE b. 1942 21: Roger Hunt MBE 1938–2021 22: George Eastham OBE b. 1936 Coach: Sir Alf Ramsey 1920–1999

Twitter full of rumours that Big Scarr (wiki) has died aged 22. No media confirmation yet.

Beulah Garrick granted an interview last week. Sounds very alert for someone turning 102 in 6 months.