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I'd forgotten about The Digger, haven't heard of it since I left Glasgow, you are right it is a grubby paper, mainly focussing on the criminal underworld of Glasgow, if memory serves correctly. I'm sure it's not of any interest to other DL'ers, but I wouldn't mind seeing their attempt at a Glasgow Deathlist if you have time to post it msc, although I think I can guess who might be on it. It's been binned now, the paper: rescued it from the bin to type up the quotes, but the bins gone out now. It was all members of the underworld, I believe. And the owner of a website about gangs. Can't remember names (one of them was a group of brothers).

The blurb is from Grim's front page intro, sadly not from an in-depth interview with the lad with the scythe. So it is. Didn't connect it seeing in the paper. Anyone could have written that up from the front page.

Please provide..... bottom of the page as it stands Since that's subscription, I'll quote the best bits from the print version. Grubby paper, but the wife loves it. It also has pictures of Megrahi, Ronnie Biggs and Thatcher to illustrate. And someone's attempt at a Deathlist of their own of local Glasgow folk.

Much to my surprise, I've just seen an article on The Deathlist dropping Megrahi in a local newspaper. It's recent, as it mentioned the first hit of the year being Gerry Rafferty, and includes quotes from a Deathlist insider...

Dead. That's DDP hit number 7... 2 hits in 10 days for my unofficial Shadow list. A bit new to this sort of thing, but that's a promising start.

Great actor, he's been in everything over the years. Used to be married to/date 60s Doctor Who assistant Anneke Wills, was villains in Doctor Who and The Avengers, and was in several Hammer and Amicus films, so he's well known to the average cult movie/tv fan. He was also a big fan of the LSD back in the day. No idea about his current health though.

About 50 wrestlers and you missed out the one dying of liver failure.

I'm thinking they'll get around ten this year. Hitch missing is a bit foolish as he looks like death warmed up lately, but hey, that's the short of it. Wasn't there someone everyone expected on the 2010 list who never showed up either?

One to watch would Nick Courtney, British cult TV actor - he was The Brigadier in Doctor Who for about 30 years - who, according to his friends on the convention circuit, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the Summer. And he's already had a stroke. Apart from Anne Feeney (lung cancer), my list would probably be sadly rather conservative, with a bunch of old Nobel laureates and that sort. I know Charles Townes (inventor of lasers) was a bit ill around September, but was in fine fettle by October last I heard, so should be around for a while. Now I've said that he'll be dead in January.

No idea why Day was on it twice, I've edited out the wrong one. I will have missed people through ignorance and forgetfulness, it's not a set in stone list as more a pooling of resources so far.

So if there was a hypothetical mirror DL that had the oldest people around on it, it would probably look something like this... 6th July 1900 – Frederica Sagor Maas 5th December 1903 – Johannes Heesters 30th April 1905 – Sergey Nikolsky 18th December 1905 – Irving Kahn 20th March 1906 – Ruby Muhammad 18th January 1907 – Lina Haag (WWII German resistance fighter) 25th February 1907 – Kathryn Wasserman Davis 1st April 1907 – Dr Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji 21st April 1907 – Wade Mainer (American singer) 3rd May 1907 – Dorothy Young (Houdini’s assistant) 24th August 1907 – Bruno Giacometti (architect) 2nd September 1907 – Miriam Seegar 23rd November 1907 – Run Run Shaw 12th December 1907 – Roy Douglas 15th December 1907 – Oscar Niemeyer 26th May 1908 – Nguyen Ngoc Tho (first PM of South Vietnam) 11th December 1908 – Elliot Carter 11th December 1908 – Manoel de Oliveira (film director) 11th December 1908 – Alfred Proksch (Austrian Olympian) 1st February 1909 – George Beverly Shea 22nd April 1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986 Nobel Medicine Prize) 19th May 1909 – Nicholas Winton 27th May 1909 – Dolores Hope 12th January 1910 – Luise Rainer 25th March 1910 – Magda Olivero (Italian soprano) 8th October 1910 – Paulette Dubost 7th December 1910 – Edmundo Ros 29th December 1910 – Ronald Coase (1991 Nobel Economics Prize) 1st January 1911 – Roman Totenberg (violinist) 25th January 1911 – Kurt Maetzig (German director) 28th January 1911 – Johan Van Hulst 28th February 1911 – Otakar Vavra 9th March 1911 – Ebby Halliday 18th April 1911 – Maurice Goldhaber 10th May 1911 – Bel Kaufman 20th June 1911 – Paul Pietsch (German racer) 24th June 1911 – Ernesto Sabato 1st July 1911 – Sergei Sokolov 18th August 1911 – Amelia Boynton Robinson (civil rights activist) 5th October 1911 – Pierre Dansereau (ecologist) 10th October 1911 – Clare Hollingworth (journalist) 3rd February 1912 – Mary Carlisle 1st March 1912 – Boris Chertok (Russian rocket designer) 17th April 1912 – Marta Eggerth 1st October 1912 – Kathleen Ollenrenshaw 1st November 1912 – Gunther Plaut 20th November 1912 – Otto Von Habsburg (Emperor of Austria/King of Hungary) 17th December 1912 – Edward Short 22nd January 1913 – Henry Bauchau 10th February 1913 – Douglas Slocombe Taking out a few people who were famous for who they were rather than what they were (John McCain's mum and the WW1 vets) gives us the Old Folks Shadow List. Not sure about the obits chances of said old folk, but about 30/50 would get obits at a low estimate. Also for those looking for last minute old people to add to their lists, here are notable (and slightly obscurer but still notable) people who will be 80 or over in 2011... 26th June 1913 – Maurice Wilkes 7th July 1913 – Pinetop Perkins 28th August 1913 – Boris Pahor 31st August 1913 – Bernard Lovell 24th September 1913 - Herb Jeffries 25th December 1913 – Tony Martin 22nd February 1914 – Renato Dulbecco (1975 Nobel Medicine Prize) 8th April 1914 – Claire Martin 28th April 1914 – Michel Mohrt 26th June 1914 – Doc Williams 29th July 1914 – Irwin Corey 11th August 1914 – Hugh Martin 26th September 1914 – Jack LaLanne 8th November 1914 – Norman Lloyd 15th December 1914 – Anatole Abragam 16th January 1915 – Leslie H. Martinson 18th January 1915 – Santiago Carrillo 1st February 1915 – Alicia Rhett (Gone with the Wind) 11th February 1915 – Patrick Leigh Fermor 19th February 1915 – John Freeman 19th March 1915 – Patricia Morison 10th April 1915 – Harry Morgan 19th May 1915 – Renee Asherson 27th May 1915 – Herman Wouk 12th June 1915 – David Rockefeller 17th June 1915 – Mario Echandi Jiminez (president of Costa Rica) 26th June 1915 – Charlotte Zolotow 27th June 1915 – Grace Lee Boggs (feminist author) 2nd July 1915 – Duke of Wellington 15th July 1915 – Ablert Ghiorso (nuclear scientist) 28th July 1915 – Charles Townes (invented lasers!) 27th August 1915 – Norman F Ramsey (1989 Nobel Physics Prize) 30th August 1915 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland 8th September 1915 – Frank Cady 15th October 1915 – Yitzak Shamir 7th December 1915 – Eli Wallach 17th December 1915 – Robert A. Dahl (political scientist) 8th May 1916 – Joao Havelange 20th May 1916 – Owen Chadwick 31st May 1916 – Bernard Lewis (historian) 1st July 1916 – Olivia de Havilland 4th July 1916 – Fernand Leduc 11th July 1916 – Gough Whitlam 6th August 1916 – Dom Mintoff 28th August 1916 – Jack Vance 1st September 1916 – Dorothy Cheney (tennis, 1938 Australian Open winner) 17th September 1916 – Mary Stewart 11th November 1916 – Bob Carr 9th December 1916 – Kirk Douglas 6th February 1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor 14th February 1917 – Herbert A Hauptman (1985 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 12th March 1917 – Googie Withers 20th March 1917 – Vera Lynn 7th April 1917 – RG Armstrong 26th April 1917 – I.M. Pei (Architect, Louvre Glass Pyramid, Rock n Roll Hall of Fame building) 29th April 1917 – Celeste Holm 1st June 1917 - William S. Knowles (2001 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 10th June 1917 – Eric Hobsbawm 17th July 1917 – Phyllis Diller 30th August 1917 – Denis Healey 7th September 1917 – John Cornforth (1975 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 11th September 1917 – Herbert Lom 2nd October 1917 – Christian de Duve (1974 Nobel Medicine Prize) 22nd October 1917 – Joan Fontaine 22nd November 1917 – Andrew Huxley (1963 Nobel Medicine Prize) 23rd November 1917 – Michael Gough 24th December 1917 – Ernest Borgnine 1st January 1918 – Frances Bay 15th February 1918 – Allan Arbus 16th February 1918 – Patty Andrews 22nd February 1918 – Don Pardo 4th March 1918 – Margaret DuPont (French Open 46, 49, Wimbledon 47, US Open 48, 49, 50 Winner) 8th April 1918 – Betty Ford 9th May 1918 – Mike Wallace 27th May 1918 – Yasuhiro Nakasone (Former Japanese PM) 18th June 1918 – Jerome Karle (1985 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 18th July 1918 – Nelson Mandela 31st July 1918 - Paul D. Boyer (1997 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 13th August 1918 – Frederick Sanger (1958/1980 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 8th October 1918 - Jens C. Skou (1997 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 7th November 1918 – Billy Graham 30th November 1918 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr 9th December 1918 – Joyce Redman 23rd December 1918 – Helmut Schimdt 14th January 1919 – Giulio Andreotti 23rd January 1919 – Hans Hass (Austrian environmentalist) 24th March 1919 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1st April 1919 – Joseph Murray (1990 Nobel Medicine Prize) 24th April 1919 – Glafcos Clerides (President of Cyprus) 1st May 1919 – Mohammed Karim Lamrani (3 time PM of Morocco) 3rd May 1919 – Peter Seeger 14th May 1919 – Denis Cannan 23rd May 1919 – Betty Garrett 6th June 1919 – Lord Carrington 19th June 1919 – Louis Jourdan 24th June 1919 – Al Molinaro 2nd August 1919 – Nehemiah Persoff 30th August 1919 – Kitty Wells 3rd October 1919 - James M. Buchanan (1986 Nobel Economics Prize) 9th October 1919 – Jason Wingreen (Boba Fett voice) 22nd October 1919 – Doris Lessing (2007 Nobel Lit Prize) 10th November 1919 – Mikhail Kalashnikov 19th November 1919 – Alan Young 26th November 1919 – Frederik Pohl 9th December 1919 – William Libscomb (1976 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 1st January 1920 – Heinz Zemanek (Austrian computer pioneer) 3rd January 1920 – Michael Anderson 9th January 1920 – Clive Dunn 16th January 1920 – Elliott Reid 19th January 1920 – Javier Perez de Cuellar (Secretary-General of the UN 1982-91) 24th January 1920 – Jerry Maren (munchkin) 3rd February 1920 – Henry Heimlich 3rd March 1920 – Ronald Searle 6th March 1920 – Lewis Gilbert 11th March 1920 – Niclaas Blumgergen ( Nobel Physics Prize) 15th March 1920 – Edward D Thomas (1990 Nobel Medicine Prize) 6th April 1920 –Edmond H Fischer (1992 Nobel Medicine Prize) 7th April 1920 – Ravi Shankar 13th April 1920 – Liam Cosgrave (Irish Taoisearch) 9th May 1920 – Richard Adams 17th June 1920 – Francois Jacob (1965 Nobel Medicine Prize) 28th June 1920 – Clarissa Eden 29th June 1920 – Ray Harryhausen 3rd August 1920 – PD James 4th August 1920 – Helen Thomas 17th August 1920 – Maureen O’Hara 22nd August 1920 – Ray Bradbury 14th September 1920 - Lawrence Klein (1980 Nobel Economics Prize) 23rd September 1920 – Mickey Rooney 27th September 1920 – Jayne Meadows 29th October 1920 – Baruj Benacerraf (1980 Nobel Medicine Prize) 2nd November 1920 – Ann Rutherford 5th November 1920 - Douglass North (1993 Nobel Economics Prize) 29th November 1920 – Yegor Ligachev 5th January 1921 – Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg 18th January 1921 – Yochiro Nambu (2008 Nobel Physics Prize) 31st January 1921 – Carol Channing 1st February 1921 – Peter Sallis 24th February 1921 – Abe Vigoda 1st March 1921 – Richard Wilbur 4th March 1921 – Halim El-Dabh (Egypitain composer/educator) 9th April 1921 – Yitzhak Navon (Israeli President) 14th April 1921 - Thomas Schelling (2005 Nobel Economics Prize) 16th May 1921 – Harry Carey Jr 25th May 1921 – Jack Steinberger (1988 Nobel Physics Prize) 25th May 1921 – Hal David 10th June 1921 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 21st June 1921 – Jane Russell 6th July 1921 – Nancy Reagan 10th July 1921 – Jake LaMotta 18th July 1921 – John Glenn 19th July 1921 – Rosalyn S Yallow (1977 Nobel Medicine Prize) 23rd August 1921 - Kenneth Arrow (1972 Nobel Economics Prize) 25th August 1921 – Monty Hall 28th August 1921 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada (Bolivian president) 25th October 1921 – Michael of Romania 5th November 1921 – Princess Fawzia of Egypt 8h November 1921 – Gene Saks (Tony award winning actor) 20th November 1921 – Dan Frazer 29th November 1921 – Jackie Stallone 4th December 1921 – Deanna Durbin (actress) 9th January 1922 – Har G Kharona (1968 Nobel Medicine Prize) 17th January 1922 – Betty White 6th February 1922 – Patrick Macnee 20th March 1922 – Carl Reiner 3rd April 1922 – Doris Day 27th April 1922 – Jack Klugman 27th May 1922 – Christopher Lee 11th June 1922 – Mihalis Kakogiannis 7th July 1922 – Pierre Cardin 15th July 1922 – Leon M Lederman (1988 Nobel Physics Prize) 19th July 1922 – George McGovern 8th September 1922 – Sid Caesar 9th September 1922 – Hans G Dehmelt (1989 Nobel Physics Prize) 15th September 1922 – Jackie Cooper 1st October 1922 – Chen-Ning Yang (1958 Nobel Physics Prize) 19th October 1922 – Juanita Moore 17th November 1922 – Stanley Cohen (1986 Nobel Medicine Prize) 28th December 1922 – Stan Lee 25th January 1923 – Arvid Carllson (2000 Nobel Medicine Prize) 2nd February 1923 – Liz SMith 12th February 1923 – Franco Zeffirelli 28th February 1923 – Charles Durning 9th March 1923 - Walter Kohn (1998 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 10th March 1923 – Val L Flitch (1980 Nobel Physics Prize) 26th May 1923 – Roy Dotrice 27th May 1923 – Henry Kissinger 2nd July 1923 – Wislawa Szymborska (1996 Nobel Lit Prize 16th May 1923 - Merton Miller (1990 Nobel Economics Prize) 6th July 1923 – Wojciech Jaruzelski 21st July 1923 - Rudolph A. Marcus (1991 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 22nd July 1923 – Bob Dole 26th July 1923 – Jan Berenstain 2nd August 1923 – Shimon Peres 29th August 1923 – Richard Attenborough 9th September 1923 – Cliff Robertson 20th November 1923 – Nadine Gordimer (1991 Nobel Lit Prize) 22nd November 1923 – Arthur Hiller 12th December 1923 – Bob Barker 13th December 1923 – Philip W Anderson (1977 Nobel Physics Prize) 7th January 1924 – Geoffrey Bayldon 8th January 1924 – Ron Moody 11th January 1924 – Roger Guillemin (1977 Nobel Medicine Prize) 21st February 1924 – Robert Mugabe 18th April 1924 – Roy Mason (Defence Sec) 2nd May 1924 – Theodore Bikel 11th May 1924 – Anthony Hewish (1974 Nobel Physics Prize) 3rd June 1924 – Torsten Wiesel (1981 Nobel Medicine Prize) 12th June 1924 – George HW Bush 25th June 1924 – Sidney Lumet 4th July 1924 – Eve Marie Saint 10th August 1924 – Martha Hyer 19th August 1924 – Willard Boyle (2009 Nobel Physics Prize) 23rd August 1924 - Robert Solow (1987 Nobel Economics Prize) 16th September 1924 – Lauren Bacall 1st October 1924 – Jimmy Carter 27th October 1924 – Ruby Dee 30th January 1925 – Dororthy Malone 18th February 1925 – George Kennedy 12th March 1925 – Leo Esaki (1973 Nobel Physics Prize) 3rd April 1925 – Tony Benn 29th April 1925 – Colette Marchand 8th June 1925 – Barbara Bush 23rd June 1925 – Oliver Smithies (2007 Nobel Medicine Prize) 29th June 1925 – Cara Williams 28th July 1925 – Baruch S Blumberg (1976 Nobel Medicine Prize) 1st September 1925 – Roy J Glauber (2005 Nobel Physics Prize) 16th September 1925 – BB King 3rd October 1925 – Gore Vidal 13th October 1925 – Margaret Thatcher 16th October 1925 – Angela Lansbury 11th November 1925 – June WHitfield 24th November 1925 – Simon Van der Meer (1984 Nobel Physics Prize) 27th November 1925 – Robert G Edwards (2010 Nobel Medicine Prize) 11th December 1925 – Paul Greengard (2000 Nobel Medicine Prize) 2nd December 1925 – Julie Harris 3rd December 1925 – Ferlin Husky 13th December 1925 – Dick Van Dyke 2nd February 1926 – Valery D’Estang 27th February 1926 – David H Hubel (1981 Nobel Medicine Prize) 24th March 1926 – Dario Fro (1997 Nobel Lit Prize) 5TH April 1926 – Roger Corman 17th April 1926 – Joan Lorring 21st April 1926 – Elizabeth II 30th June 1926 – Paul Berg (1980 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 1st July 1926 - Robert Fogel (1993 Nobel Economics Prize) 4th July 1926 – Alfredo di Stefano 9th July 1926 – Ben R Mottelson (1975 Nobel Physics Prize) 16th July 1926 - Irwin Rose (2004 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 21st July 1926 – Norman Jewison 6th August 1926 – Frank Finlay 11th August 1926 – Aaron Klug (1982 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 7th September 1926 – Patrick Jenkin (DWP Sec) 19th September 1926 – Masatoshi Koshiba (2002 Nobel Physics Prize) 21st September 1926 – Donald A Glaser (1960 Nobel Physics Prize) 24th November 1926 – Tsung-Dao Lee (1957 Nobel Physics Prize) 30th November 1926 – Andrew Schally (1977 Nobel Medicine Prize) 20th December 1926 – Sir Geoffrey Howe 1st January 1927 - Vernon L. Smith (2002 Nobel Economics Prize) 13th January 1927 – Sydney Brenner (2002 Nobel Medicine Prize) 20th February 1927 – Sidney Poitier 21st February 1927 – Hubert de Givenchy 6th March 1927 – Gabriel Garcia-Marquez 20th April 1927 - Karl A Muller (1987 Nobel Physics Prize) 9th May 1927 – Manfred Eigen (1967 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 22nd May 1927 - George A. Olah (1994 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 24th June 1927 – Martin L Perl (1995 Nobel Physics Prize) 28th June 1927 - Frank S. Rowland (1995 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 3rd July 1927 – Ken Russell 18th August 1927 – Rosalyn Carter 24th August 1927 - Harry Markowitz (1990 Nobel Economics Prize) 16th September 1927 – Peter Falk 6th October 1927 – Gunter Grass (1999 Nobel Lit Prize) 19th November 1927 – Rosemary Harris 20th November 1927 – Estelle Parsons 2nd December 1927 – Jimmy Stangster 5th January 1928 – Walter Mondale 17th January 1928 – Vidal Sassoon 1st February 1928 – Stuart Whitman (Australian actor) 14th March 1928 – Frank Borman (first man to circle the moon) 6th April 1928 – James D Watson (1962 Nobel Medicine Prize) 7th April 1928 – James Garner 26th May 1928 – Dr Jack Kevorkian 7th June 1928 – James Ivory 13th June 1928 - John F. Nash (1994 Nobel Economics Prize) 20th June 1928 – Martin Landau 25th June 1928 – Alexei A Abrikosov (2003 Nobel Physics Prize) 5th July 1928 – Pierre Mauroy (French PM) 12th July 1928 - Elias J. Corey (1990 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 14th July 1928 – Nancy Olson 16th August 1928 – Ann Blyth 25th August 1928 – Herbert Kroemer (2000 Nobel Physics Prize) 26th August 1928 – Ariel Sharon 27th August 1928 - Osamu Shimomura (2008 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 30th September 1928 – Elie Wiesel (1986 Nobel Peace Prize) 10th November 1928 – Ennio Morricone 7th December 1928 – Noam Chomsky 1929 – David Fisher 7th January 1929 – Terry Moore 23rd January 1929 - John C. Polanyi (1986 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 31st January 1929 – Rudolf Mossbauer (1961 Nobel Physics Prize) 5th April 1929 – Ivar Giaever (1973 Nobel Physics Prize) 10th April 1929 – Max von Sydow 22nd May 1929 – Edouard Ballader (French PM) 3rd June 1929 – Werner Arber (1978 Nobel Medicine Prize) 7th June 1929 – John Turner (Canadian PM) 1st July 1929 – Gerald Edelman (1972 Nobel Medicine Prize) 10th July 1929 – Winnie Ewing 21st July 1929 – Don Murray 24th July 1929 – Peter Yates 2nd August 1929 – David Waddington 8th August 1929 – Ronnie Biggs 15th September 1929 – Murray Gell-Mann (1969 Nobel Physics Prize) 25th September 1929 – Barbara Walters 28th October 1929 – Joan Plowright 2nd November 1929 – Richard E Taylor (1990 Nobel Physics Prize) 7th November 1929 – Eric Kandel (2000 Nobel Medicine Prize) 9th November 1929 – Imre Kertesz (2002 Nobel Lit Prize) 9th December 1929 – Bob Hawke 13th December 1929 – Christopher Plummer 20th January 1930 – Buzz Aldrin 23rd January 1930 – Derek Walcott (1992 Nobel Lit Prize) 30th January 1930 – Gene Hackman 25th February 1930 – Sister Wendy Beckett 27th February 1930 – Joanne Woodward 28th February 1930 – Leon Cooper (1972 Nobel Physics Prize) 8th March 1930 – Douglas Hurd 15th March 1930 –Z hores Alferov (2000 Nobel Physics Prize) 26th March 1930 – Sandra Day O’Connor 28th March 1930 – Jerome I Friedman (1990 Nobel Physics Prize) 30th March 1930 – John Astin 3rd April 1930 – Helmut Kohl 10th May 1930 – George E Smith (2009 Nobel Physics Prize) 21st May 1930 – Malcolm Fraser 31st May 1930 – Clint Eastwood 8th June 1930 - Robert Aumann (2005 Nobel Economics Prize) 19th July 1930 – Gena Rowlands 27th July 1930 – Shirley Williams 5th August 1930 – Neil Armstrong 23rd August 1930 – Michel Rocard (French PM) 25th August 1930 – Sean Connery 12th September 1930 - Akira Suzuki (2010 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 5th October 1930 - Reinhard Selten (1994 Nobel Economics Prize) 10th October 1930 - Yves Chauvin (2005 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 2nd December 1930 - Gary Becker (1992 Nobel Economics Prize) 3rd December 1930 – Jean-Luc Goddard 8th December 1930 – Maximillian Schell 5th January 1931 – Robert Duvall 17th January 1931 – James Earl Jones 20th January 1931 – David M Lee (1996 Nobel Physics Prize) 6th February 1931 – Rip Torn 9th February 1931 – Josef Masopust 18th February 1931 – Toni Morrison 2nd March 1931 – Michael Gorbachev 22nd March 1931 – Burton Richter (1976 Nobel Physics Prize) 23rd May 1931 – Barbara Barrie 28th May 1931 – Carroll Baker 31st May 1931 – John R. Schrieffer (1972 Nobel Physics Prize) 3rd June 1931 – Anthony Harvey 20th June 1931 – Olympia Dukakis 27th June 1931 – Martinus Veltman (1999 Nobel Physics Prize) 1st July 1931 – Leslie Caron 23rd July 1931 – Jan Troell 9th August 1931 – Mario Zagallo 15th August 1931 - Richard F. Heck (2010 Nobel Chemistry Prize) 23rd August 1931 – Hamilton O Smith (1978 Nobel Medicine Prize) 12th September 1931 – Ian Holm 29th September 1931 – James Cronin (1980 Nobel Physics Prize) 6th October 1931 – Riccardo Giaconni (2002 Nobel Physics Prize) 7th October 1931 – Desmond Tutu 31st October 1931 – Dan Rather 6th November 1931 – Mike Nichols 26th November 1931 – Adolfo P Esquivel (1980 Nobel Peace Price) Apologies for the long list. Spoiler tagging things for length doesn't seem to work. That concludes the post for "last minute add of old people who might be unique picks" selection. In passing, I suppose Patrick Macnee will be on a fair few lists this year. He had 2 strokes in 2010, and photos of him in the US looked very frail. Though I can't seem to find the photos online now 2 months later - very strange.

Not true. I seem to have joined. Of course, now I'm not a guest, the curse of my posts wont effect people. So I can mention John Demjanjuk here without him dying in the next 24 hours.