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Eric Clague was 64 when he did his interview with the Sunday Mirror in 1998, so he'd be 88 this year. Old, but not surprisingly old, especially when he kept an active lifestyle (he quit the police after the accident and became a postman).

So the Wiki edit was wrong, only for him to die for real a few days later.

VIC-KY WICKET 4/50 13th March 2022 Former English racing driver Vic Elford has died after a long battle with cancer. Elford was an accomplished multi-purpose race driver with records in rally and in Formula 1, and he won the 1967 European Rally Championship. In 1968 he won the Monte Carlo Rally and the 24 Hours Daytona in consecutive weeks. He competed in the Le Mans race eight times, and was considered one of its most dogged competitors. Later he competed in NASCAR, saying that if drove, he could race it. However, if he was respected for his skills, it was for his humanity he won even more plaudits, stopping his racing car in the Le Mans race in 1972 to try and save two drivers from a fiery crash. The announcement of ill health in early 2021 gave him a Crowdsourced Deathlist debut, and it is perhaps the last telling fact that Vic Elford lasted over a year in hospice care with lung cancer aged 86.

KILL HER QUICK 3/50 2nd February 2022 Italian actress Monica Vitti has died to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. Vitti was best known for her roles in long time partner Michelangelo Antonioni films such as La Notte, and L’Ecclise, the latter of which she appeared alongside future TCD alumnus Alain Delon. In 2011 it was revealed she had been suffering from Alzheimer's since the 1990s. This was her 4th appearance on the list.

THEY CALL ME MR DEATH 2/50 6th January 2022 Sidney Poitier, justly regarded as one of the all time Hollywood greats, has received the final curtain call, aged 94. Born in Florida, he moved to New York aged 16 to avoid southern racism, a subject he would later criticise on screen. A Broadway debut in his early 20s led to his role as a campaigner for civil rights in the arts, which led to him being blacklisted for (alleged) Communist sympathies. This only slightly held back a burgeoning film career, which saw him win a BAFTA in 1958 for his performance alongside Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones, and he continued on an acclaimed stage career. But he is best known for his blockbuster films of the 1960s. Lilies of the Field is the lesser of four, but it did make Poitier the first black actor to win the Oscar for Best Actor. To avoid being typecast, he immediately signed up for The Bedford Incident. In 1967, he appeared in 3 of the biggest films of the 60s in one year. In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, he took on middle class casual racism and won the heart of his fiancée's parents. For In The Heat of the Night, he took on small town racism, solved a crime in rural southern America, and famously slapped that racist guy really hard in the face. His most difficult task, however, was To Sir With Love, in which he was stuck having to listen to Lulu singing for hours. Two of those films remain great, and Poitier had shattered the glass ceilings that were in his way. He became a director, and won Honorary Oscars, and grow gracefully into becoming one of the grand elders of acting. Sidney Poitier had been picked six times for the Crowdsourced Deathlist, appearing every year since 2017.

BURGESS (NOT SO) MERRY-DEATH 1/50 1st January 2022 ITV regional presenter Gary Burgess celebrated the new years bell by promptly snuffing it to become the first Crowdsourced Deathlist hit of 2022. Burgess had been a popular presenter on BBC Radio Guernsey before joining the ITV staff in Jersey, and becoming a regular columnist for The Jersey Evening Post. He became popular with deathlisters in 2020 when he announced his battle with terminal cancer, which grew worse throughout 2021. However he remained much loved in the Channel Islands, and shortly before his death he was awarded the Silver Seal award for island contributions by the Bailiff of Jersey, Timothy Le Cocq. Gary Burgess was 46 years old and making his debut in 50th place on the list. In fact, he knocked Marsha Hunt off the list on the final day by the "picked on most lists" tiebreaker. Only the 2nd time in 7 years that was ever needed, fact fans.

Yes. Soon.

"In good health" - yes, quite. Though it does imply what I think many of us have long assumed - Lana Wood might blame Robert Wagner for Natalie Wood's death, but I suspect Robert Wagner blames Robert Wagner for Natalie Wood's death too.

Aye and on that note, thanks for the tip @Octopus of Odstock! Also my sympathies for your loss.

"Yo, Grim Reaper, nice finish you got there, can't wait to kick out of it." He's doomed but a fighter to the last breath.

Yeah, and as he's died of the same cancer, apparently, this goes down as a bit of a fail miss by all of us.

Kevin Nash has said life support is getting turned off once Hall's family can be present, and he's about the best source you can get on his best friend, alas.

Ah, fuck. Not good.

Most of mine have gone and snuffed it already (thank you Michael Bond, Jon Pertwee, John Lambie, Curt Hennig and Peter Green, for example), but having a think. 1. Bernard Cribbins (a man who has brought my life joy since before I could string sentences together as a wean) 2. Tom Baker 3. Sylvester McCoy (self-explanatory, Sir Tom of TARDIS is pretty much an icon. McCoy's my favourite living Doctor, and I met him once. He was great!) 4. Bret Hart (limiting pro-wrestlers to just one name, it had to be Bret, survivor of far too many personal tragedies, seems to be in a good place now but in his 60s and already took on cancer and is a severe stroke survivor) 5. David Butler (a brilliant man who opened my eyes to a whole new interest in psephology) 6. RL Stine (one of my favourites as a kid. Too many of my favourite kids authors are long gone, Stine is still writing in his late 70s.) 7. Michael Palin (one of the nicest celebs around, and another long time favourite. Also very encouraging to a nervous young writer once.) 8. Angela Lansbury (TV gran) 9. Jean Marsh (as previously mentioned, an old favourite) 10. Michael Caine (seems a popular choice for folks favourite actor and I'm no exception - been fond of him ever since Muppet Christmas Carol) 11. Vernon Dobtcheff (standing in for all those near 90 year old character actors I am ludicrously fond of. Dobtcheff was in Dr Who and Father Ted and James Bond, and fun in all of them so another name I've known since childhood. He did so many "I have a spare few days so can be this 5 minute role for you" TV and film parts that I'm still coming across random Vernon appearances all the time. Plus how can you not like someone who spent so much on trying to encourage other actors and writers? 12. Mary Danby (edited all those Fontana Book of Ghost type anthologies in the 70s!) 13. Joe Don Baker (he camps it up in the Bond films, he steals every scene in Edge of Darkness, another old fave) 14. Ozzy

Good news, though. (And it's always the same. "This person's in hospice care", ignored. "Oh Michael Gambon's got memory issues and hasn't been seen in a while" - fast tracked to the front page! )

To be fair, we all think of DDT's domination of the DDP a decade ago, but since then, barring Reptile, Bert and one of Spade's wins, most contenders in February-April time have tended to be swept aside by a second half of the year sprint to victory by someone else. This has happened in 70% of the last 10 DDP years. Spade's in a brilliant position of course. Better spot to be in than 5th with a LOTL goalie and having ignored the 10 point Ozzie criminal...

Unsourced edit on Wiki a month after pool started, obit appeared 4 months later. I believe the phrase for such incidents is "shit happens".

Glynis Johns continually being ignored by the Cmme does surprise, as a big name actress who happens to have been in one of the biggest films of all time. Some of the others frankly died too soon. Roger Bannister for example I was sure would be a DL regular but he was dead within a month of that post of the flu. In the post Bill Gates Sr world the ceiling for Deathlist picks is considerably lower too. Still, not a bad batting average.

English median age 27 West German median age 26. English squad 30+ - 5 (oldest Ron Flowers who was 31) German squad 30+ - 1 (Tilkowski) English squad under 25 - 7 German squad under 25 - 10 I mean, slightly, but not really much of one.

Yeah, the medical advancement with HIV/AIDS is genuinely one of the great achievements of the last 30+ years. Folk who would have had a death sentence in the early 80s can now live to old age - see Jerry Herman as a famous example but it's more common than dying of it now, unless you take the God will Cure me route that boxer did. The kicker as a music fan is that Freddie Mercury died a few mere months because the first drugs went on sale that helped people control his variant.

One of the most frustrating bits of lost fictional TV, that. Obviously the moon landing coverage is a bigger archive loss but I'd love to have seen those 60s M.R. James adaptations. And yes, I think this forum stands out for it's genuine liking of many know the face maybe not the name people from all areas of life.

There was a contestant on Tipping Point the other day who thought Tony Blair was PM during the reign of Queen Victoria.

Well, in this hypothetical scenario, providing no one told Diana Rigg of course...

2010 - 148 2015 - 90 2019 - 74 That list will expand considerably over the next 24 months. Charles Walker is a proper loss to the Tory party. Labour names early, maybe due to them being asked if they'll stand again already (though they can change their minds nearer the date if they've said they plan to run again). Tory MPs perhaps waiting to see if the boundary changes go through first.