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  4. Posted

    An article on the Bond girls:

    http://www.businessi...and-now-2014-12

     

    In fact, the main Bond girls (the ones Bond ends up with during the closing credits), are all still alive. The oldest one is Honor Blackman (Pussy Galor from Goldfinger) at 89.

     

    Ursula Andress (78) from Dr. No looks a little scary.

     

    Among the 'lesser' girls in the movies, there is Eunice Gayson (86), who has been in retirement for 40+ years.

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    Avril Lavigne asks for her fans to pray for her due to "significant health issues".

     

    See ya later boi

     

    Haha, she says she has been absent from music because of her health, yet her spokesman doesn't say what it is. About two months ago, I read that she has marital problems because her career has tanked and her husband (Chad Kroeger of Nickelback) doesn't support her. My guess is that she has been 'absent' because nobody noticed her when she was there.

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    Rosamunde Pilcher is 90 now. I was reading a while ago that she has enormous following in Germany and that many Germans visit places mentioned in her books.

     

    Indeed, she is huge here, especially with the older crowd. Our public TV stations regularly turn her books into TV movies. I guess she's the german Barbara Cartland. Last month, she was in the news because of her 90th birthday which she wanted to celebrate with 100 guests. She also says that Scrabble keeps her fit.

     

    Another similar suggestion is Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger, 93 years old.

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  12. Posted

    David Prowse (Darth Vader of the original Star Wars movies) has dementia:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/darth-vader-actor-david-prowse-reveals-he-has-dementia-id-love-to-be-in-star-wars-7-but-would-probably-forget-my-lines-9893401.html

     

    Scott Stapp, former frontman of Creed, is broke and acting crazy:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2853574/Homeless-broke-Creed-frontman-placed-psych-hold-wife-told-police-fears-ISIS-kill-son-singer-insists-sober-be.html

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    1984.... Foucault or Indira Gandhi being the most significant death.... That's an interesting one to ponder.... They were both extremely influential up until their demises, unlike many on the "most significant deaths" lists. Foucault's thought is still having an enormous impact on the western world and Gandhi was the leader of a country of over a billion people. I'd have to call it a draw.

     

    Oh yeah whoops. Can't believe I forgot her. That's the last time her family hired anyone from Sikh Help.

    1971 is also an interesting clash between you and gcreptile, albeit the stakes are much less significant. Two musicians who were leaders in their respective fields, one elderly and one still young.

     

    Indeed. I gave it to Armstrong because he was the first African-American superstar. So beyond his musical importance, he was also socially significant. But on musical terms Haley is at least his equal, possibly even a little higher because there was no shortage of famous jazz musicians in Armstrong's time.

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    Hmm... Andrew Breitbart? Luckily, there is Wikipedia, so these lists are relatively easy to make:

     

    2014 (so far): Robin Williams

    2013: a tie between Mandela and Thatcher for karmic balance

    2012: Neil Armstrong

    2011: Osama bin Laden

    2010: Benoit Mandelbrot

    2009: Michael Jackson

    2008: Edmund Hillary

    2007: Boris Yeltsin

    2006: Milton Friedman (he made Pinochet)

    2005: John Paul II

    2004: Ronald Reagan

    2003: Johnny Cash

    2002: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

    2001: George Harrison

    2000: Pierre Trudeau

    1999: Stanley Kubrick

    1998: Pol Pot or Frank Sinatra... what a comparison...

    1997: Deng Xiaoping

    1996: Ella Fitzgerald

    1995: Konrad Zuse

    1994: Tough year... Karl Popper

    1993: Cesar Chavez

    1992: Willy Brandt

    1991: Miles Davis

    1990: Greta Garbo

    1989: Sergio Leone

    1988: Enzo Ferrari

    1987: Andy Warhol

    1986: Simone De Beauvoir

    1985: Orson Welles

    1984: Indira Gandhi

    1983: Tennessee Williams

    1982: Grace Kelly

    1981: Bob Marley

    1980: John Lennon

    1979: Jean Monnet

    1978: Kurt Gödel

    1977: Wernher von Braun or Elvis Presley or Charlie Chaplin

    1976: Mao Zedong

    1975: Umm Kulthum

    1974: Charles Lindbergh

    1973: Lyndon B. Johnson

    1972: Harry Truman

    1971: Louis Armstrong

    1970: Charles De Gaulle

    1969: Eisenhower or KIng Saud

    1968: Martin Luther King

    1967: Robert Oppenheimer

    1966: Walt Disney

    1965: Winston Churchill

    1964: Jawaharlal Nehru

    1963: Lee Harvey Oswald (heh, a joke)

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  19. Posted

    Helmut Schmidt is not going to die next year! Take Helmut Kohl instead. Or maybe Kohl's foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher (87) who was too ill to attend the 25-year jubilee of the Fall of the Wall. Also, a couple of Nobel Prize winning economists could be on the list, Robert Solow (90) or Kenneth Arrow (93), or Douglass North (94).

     

    I think Kohl could be a good pick but the rest of the names are DDP fodder, not instantly recognisable, unless of course you are an economist.

     

    Not quite yet, but I guess I told a little about myself there.

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    Heh, I confused her with Harper Lee. I thought it was her that sued her hometown for something I forgot about...

     

    Or we could bring back Richard Adams or Herman Wouk instead if we want an elderly author!

     

    How about Günter Grass, 87, Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature?

     

    I thought so as well for a while, but he made news today by suggesting that german citizens should be forced to shelter refugees for a while, just like after World War II. So at least he is paying attention to the news and wants to be heard.

  21. Posted

    Helmut Schmidt is not going to die next year! Take Helmut Kohl instead. Or maybe Kohl's foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher (87) who was too ill to attend the 25-year jubilee of the Fall of the Wall. Also, a couple of Nobel Prize winning economists could be on the list, Robert Solow (90) or Kenneth Arrow (93), or Douglass North (94).

  25. Posted

    His press secretary, Klaus Bölling, is dead at 87:

     

    http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ex-regierungssprecher-klaus-boelling-ist-tot-a-1000637.html (german link)

     

    The man himself is still in adequately good shape. Two weeks ago, he was talking about how the two major german parties are pretty much alike nowadays:

     

    http://www.bild.de/politik/inland/helmut-schmidt/ist-es-egal-wer-deutschland-regiert-38287944.bild.html (also a german link)

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