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A thread for people who have passed the age of 100 but have (very, very) faint claims to fame other than "just being old". The lifeblood of many a DDP theme team, really, may as well get them all in one place. Plus it gives me an excuse to have a regular meeting point for two of my favourites: 110-year-old paranormal investigator Alexander Imich and 107-year-old financier Irving Kahn, who apparently still goes to work daily. Check out his current stock portfolio here. Anyway, so here's where we can rhapsodise about Run Run Shaw, Roy Douglas and Vo Nguyen Giap and the many public appearances they'll no doubt be making in the near future. One of the leading actors of the pre-blaxploitation era cowboy "race movies", Herb Jeffries, just turned 100.

Entrepreneur and investor Peter Cowley, who did a lot of "what my stage 4 cancer has taught me about business" appearances over the past 12 months, dead at 69. Probably just under the barrier for DDP selection imho.

Ariana Grande, tiny pop strumpet whose skintone has darkened 500% in the past five years, is clearly the Jonah of pop: people come into contact with her and drop dead seemingly instantly. As deadpoolers, we should adopt a "Thank U, Next" attitude, so here's some names to consider Pete Davidson: Ex-boyfriend, looks like absolute shit even at the best of times, dominated the press over the weekend by apparently threatening to commit suicide on Instagram. You would have thought he'd get enough dying every week on Saturday Night Live etc etc etc Marjorie Grande: Grandmother, 93 years old and a guaranteed Daily Mail QO when she passes. Big Sean: Paedo-y ex, has had legal troubles in the past but apparently doing well enough to buy Slash from Guns N Roses' old house Victoria Justice: It was supposed to be her... the Marty Jannetty of teen TV, has to have some possibilities as a suicide case Dan Schneider: [deleted on legal grounds]

A thread for, in the spirit of Doreen Keogh and Gerard Sim, detective work that needs to be undertaken by deathlisters to ascertain as to whether people with possible claims to celebritydom are still alive. I mainly ask this because I cannot find, after two hours online, if Brian Walker is still alive. My assumption is the man's death would at least get a mention somewhere, as he was the only man in history to be both a member of The Wurzels and a contributing artist to Viz. He was part of the original Adge Cutler line-up of the West Country's finest but left soon after their first album was released (he'd also played with Acker Bilk as well). He then became a full-time comics artist, and has his own entry in the Dictionary of British Comics. He drew mainly for Whizzer and Chips, an example of his work is pictured below: But I cannot find a) a death notice for him (he would be 89 now), or any sign of him making any sort of public declaration of being alive any time in the past decade. Can this forum's more learned members help out? Also, please suggest other names you consider to be Schroedinger's Dead Pool picks, not alive or dead until proven otherwise.

Someone here thanking a hospice for looking after their father Bill Hargreaves who died on March 19. Clicking through to their profile reveals a picture of a man in the 70s holding a Yoda puppet, so I think that's a match.

Denise Holstein dead at 97.

Frank Kelly, who has fought bowel cancer in the past, has now been diagnosed with Parkinson's. This thread will also, presumably, double as a thread for Irish TV character actors. If one of the more listmania posters on the site could do the honours via IMDB that'd be appreciated.

A catch-all thread I've been toying around with for a bit, for when you get stuck down a research hole and find someone of (minor) fame died a few years back with no mention on here, or indeed in the wider media. Anne Sellors, a Sheffield-based drama teacher who shot to viral internet fame due to her IMDB page containing one solitary credit - Woman Who Urinates on Herself in legendary TV movie Threads - died in 2015 aged 63. Also dying in 2015, this time at the age of 58, Labj Janjua. A journeyman singer for numerous Bollywood movies, a song he recorded for the 1997 film Legalised - "Mundian To Bach Ke" - was remixed by Panjabi MC and rereleased in 2002, going to #1 across the world (#2 in the UK) and selling over 10 million copies. And yet no mention outside of Indian-language entertainment press at the time of his passing.

Former Kerrang editor, and contributor to most places that write about music, James McMahon dead at 44. Very much a "troubled" individual but looks like it was cancer that took him out rather than his own hand.

Score one for Peter Sinfield here.

William Hill's doing 10/1 on the draw, take that all day long.

Never mentioned on the forum before and never picked in the DDP, but groundbreaking British female boxer Barbara Buttrick turns 95 next month and was covered by the BBC earlier this year.

I mentioned in the "Fringes of Fame" thread that beloved-by-roidhead internet "fitness" guru Zyzz died in a gay sauna yesterday aged 22, and somehow this has actually made eight actual real Australian newspapers, according to Google News. I was disinterestedly scouring Spankwire, as you do, and was reminded of the existence of Tila Tequila. At one point she was the most popular person on MySpace (ask your grandparents). She then went on to have a brief career as a celebrity, but after the MTV reality shows ran out it was just her being bottled off-stage at gigs and having whoever she stuck her tongue into that week die on her. She strikes me as a good candidate for a TMZ-friendly overdose within the next few years. Anyway, there's loads of these "internet famous" folk nowadays and we need a thread for them I feel. Maybe Tron Guy will battle a brave fight against cancer or that guy from Evolution of Dance will go mad and shoot up a shopping mall. Talk about these guys here. Or don't.

Maybe I'm too far down the rabbithole, but this doesn't strike me as exactly the reason the Democrats lost.

Going to Berlin later this month, was checking out some reviews of the hotel we're staying at on TripAdvisor (4.5 from 4,591 ratings). However, this dissenting voice has decided it's "woke" because there's no bedside USB chargers.

Kudos to the "you know, I think Timothy looks worse than Prunella" brigade in this thread.

Chanel Maya Banks, an actress who had a recurring role in Gossip Girl, hasn't been heard from since October 30. Could her husband, who is apparently refusing to speak to authorities, have anything to do with it? That's one secret I'll never tell. XOXO, Gossip Girl.

Tom Gerrard, who played a lance corporal, I believe is still alive. Was living in Hove in 2008 and has a bunch of interests on Company House, pretty sure he'd not go off-radar. The Zulu movie forum (I was surprised as well) seems to think he's still alive as well. There's also a couple of possibles from the credits , but good luck finding child actor Daniel Tshabalala's current status without crashing into 400 mentions of the former Bafana Bafana international of the same name.

William Radice, poet but probably more famed for his work as a translator/reviewer/general pointsman for Bengali-language literature in the anglosphere, dead at 73.

How come Frankie Fraser's never on the TV any more? He was never off the bloody thing in the late 90s. Is there some, like, Sky 3 or Bravo documentary series he hosts now, or is he just dying in a home alone and unloved somewhere? People who I crossed off my DDP team for this year at the last minute: "cancer stricken" Glaswegian crimelord Jamie Daniel, because I have absolutely no idea about Scottish crime whatsoever and for all I know these guys could just be having a laugh and a carry on with bored local crime reporters. Most of the current capi of the American Mafia are in their 70s and unlikely to be shot any time soon. On the other hand, Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano turns 90 this year, having spent 15 of the past 18 years in prison for his part in an extortion racket that saw the Mafia make $2 for every window replaced in New York for five years.

Fucking blows my mind that Woody Woodbury is still going, I remember him being used as a "how is this guy not dead?" punchline 15 years ago.

He don't wanna wait, for his life to be over....

Still top 10 internet gags of all-time imho