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^ Either that, or she's on every single team in March!

Damn, John Bosco McAtasney was naturally one of the last names on my shortlist, of course...

Yeah, a world possessed by the human mind!

Yeah, those cats are hilarious.

Well, that's the crux of a good joke. All you need is...

Hah, if you'd seen my vote of confidence in Tsvangirai's health a week or two ago, you'd be doubling down on Nolan right about now!

Yer nuts! Nah, a lot of top DDP sides have gone for her in 2018. I think she's a goner but more likely 2019/20, but time will tell. Next week (ie for the Cup), however? I'd be amazed.

There is actually a John Majors but given the rest of their team, typo? He was Major till 2015 when a very similar team had him as an unique with the S. Although that got me looking up Lee and Herring, which took me to this: Apparently, Herring did, it's where they met. You pop on to Deathlist Forums for 5 seconds and accidentally learn something new...

Hah. I should probably come up with my own tag line soon. I am open to ideas from the floor.

Those houses look shit tbh.

Ian Aitken, former political editor of The Guardian and Tribune writer, aged 90.

Me too. Though I'm narked in general that Everest climbers, Disney voice actresss and pioneering rocket scientists aren't getting QOs, but no name mums with fatal cancers are.

Should ask the Times too, they covered the Everest bit too. Free advice for "Pete".

Wasnae me but good luck to him anyway. Hmm, do we know any Liverpool fans?

Remigino (who as a 2 time Olympic gold medalist, is a cert QO) is currently suffering from pancreatic cancer, and would have been on my DDP team this year, only DDT went and named him, so he wouldn't have been unique. He is on DDT's team though, which is usually a bad sign for anyone wanting to live much longer...

Charlotte Rae is certainly a name I recognise from this forum, rather than your Dick van Dyke/Alan Alda/Bob Barker types I recognise from appearing on TV here in some form. The internet is helping become known internationally when perhaps they wouldn't 30-40 years ago. Roger Ebert, for example, was never on TV here, and only mentioned in dispatches ie by Barry Norman as one of the American greats. (Strangely no one ever mentioned Siskel!) Internet in nearly every home, YouTube, access to his archives and wham! Ebert becomes known enough in the UK to get front page BBC obit when he died, and I find people tend to know who you mean nowadays, even if you need to add "the film critic" Just one example.

Aye, but America's bigger! Seriously, a British show on PBS will likely have a much bigger audience than a US show shown on Channel 4, just through probability and number of households that is.

Rev Billy's demise got me to check over my long list. A few of the centenarians had died without my noticing, but a forum search showed YWillz or the like on the ball. Two that didn't show up via the forum search engine: Jean Anglade, French writer/historian, died aged 102, on 22nd November 2017. He did have an English Wiki page, but it's been merged by some idiot Wiki editor into an entirely different person. Ake Hellman, Finnish artist/academic, died aged 102, on 18th December 2017. (link in Finnish) Perhaps not exciting names to know, but if I'd noted them down at some point, only fair to mention them here now they've gone.

Weather was about 3 degrees at night most this week, but expected to become Four, Tops, by weekend.

I know her best from this forum. I assume she's sort of an American Patricia Routledge? Aged sitcom star recognisable to most folk in her homeland, say... 25 and over?

The current Duke of Richmond writes about Stirling Moss. Pivotal bit: There's also a "we wish a speedy recovery" bit tagged on at the end of this rather obituary-esque piece. Wont be long now, imo.

Nice work DI. There usually is the odd "blimey" pick you'd assume would have got on their list before if they were going to (Giscard d'estaing, Rockefeller, Rainer), but I guess from 1930 and earlier, you can limit the Deathlist likely candidates to: 1916 –Beverly Cleary 1917 - IM Pei, Diana Athill 1919 – James Lovelock,Sheila Mercier 1920 – John Paul Stevens 1921 – Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, Carol Channing 1922 –Lyndon LaRouche, Dilip Kumar, Ivor Broadis 1923 –Glynis Johns, Franco Zeffirelli, Gen. Chuck Yeager, Judith Kerr, Freeman Dyson, Edwin Bramall, Sumner Redstone, Peregrine Worsthorne 1924 –Eve Marie Saint, Christopher Tolkein 1925–David Graham, June Whitfield, George A Cooper, Jacques Delors,Bernard Hepton, Mikis Theodorakis, Richard Baker, June Lockhart 1926 –David Attenborough, Roger Corman, Norman Jewison, Alan Greenspan, Leonard Fenton, Charlotte Rae 1927 – Sidney Poitier, Hubert de Givenchy, Harry Belafonte, Rosalyn Carter, Albert Uderzo,Steve Ditko, Fenella Fielding, Mary Higgins Clark, Geoffrey Palmer, Ken Dodd, Freddie Jones 1928 – Walter Mondale, Tom Lehrer, Burt Bacharach,, Hans Blix, Nicolas Roeg, Ennio Morricone, Noam Chomsky, Mark Eden, Bernard Cribbins, Tommy Docherty, James Watson, Peter Firmin, Jean-Marie le Pen Pete Murray, Berry gordy, Monty Norman 1929 – Patricia Routledge, Len Deighton, Sir Roger Bannister, Max von Sydow, Joseph Jackson,Bob Newhart, Barbara Walters, Bob Hawke, Imelda Marcos, Winnie Ewing, Christopher Plummer, Mohammed Al-Fayed, Thelma Barlow, Betty Boothroyd, Stuart Hall, Gerald Harper, Jack Higgins, Peter Higgs, John Nettleton, Joan Plowright, Whitey Bulger, Vera Miles And even a bunch of them are border line or we have Cmme word they wont consider them.

What's left of 1918 in my notes: 1918 –Shinobu Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Martin Pope, Guje Lagerwall, Hutton Gibson, Jens Skou, Rene de Obaldia, Paul D Boyer, Fay McKenzie, Katherine Johnson, Lloyd Geering, Ivy Bethune, Brenda Milner, Henri Vernes, Louise Tobin, T. Berry Brazelton, Josephine Webb, Francis Nye, Chuck Stevens, Frank Lambert, Doris Grumbach, Paul Farnes, Diana Serra Cary, Arthur Brauner Fascinating figures, all, yes, but none of them really jump out as massively exciting potential centenarians. 1919 currently has a Beat poet, a Twilight Zone alumnus, Lord Carrington, James Lovelock, Spencer/Mercier and Mad Mike Hoare as it stands.

Cmme forgot to put him on the 2016 list (which this thread was based on), if you can believe such an oversight.

Word on the tweet has John Pitman, former BBC reporter/journalist, gone aged 78.