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Bit of a shocker to put it mildly. Looking at his filmography I've the majority of his films- he was great in everything. A big untimely loss for French cinema.

Sad news. Breaking Glass is a huge favourite film of mine and Eighth Day in particular is amazing. I had the pleasure of meeting her in 2012 and she was lovely. *Really* tiny though; Jon Finch and Mark Wingett tower over her in BG, and even 5ft 3in me was taller. And if you've read 'Expensive Habits' by Simon Garfield and/or know anything about record contracts history you'll perhaps have a little sympathy re her money issues - her Albion contract is probably the worst example of getting f***ed there is. Hope she gets well soon.

I used to work with him occasionally and he was lovely - I was the first person outside of friends and family to congratulate him on his MBE in fact. It was a real bind for him to lose his sense of smell around 20 years ago. Sad news.

I knew dropping him from my teams would be the death knell. Bah. RIP.

Pretty decent list. Varied and interesting rather than just relying on very old people and obvious picks. There are a lot of very old people on the list but so many of the people who've we've grown up with and have always been around *are* getting old now. A bit sad that Linda Ronstadt has made the list; Marianne Faithfull more expected, sadly, though I still think she's as tough as old boots and will probably see out all of the Stones just by sheer bloody mindedness (see also: Yoko). Frank Field is an oversight to put it mildly but otherwise not bad at all.

My 2022 picks are in my signature

Really sad news, and such a shame she didn't quite make her ton. The WJM newsroom has really taken a battering this year. May have to go out and buy cheesecake in tribute.

What time does it have to be in by? I need to confer with my sister but she's in Australia and I've only just woken up...

Just noticed that we haven't had any points for Sarah Lillian Priest, oldest UK person who died in June this year.

Really sad news. Wasn't on my radar other than in a general '60s pop stars are all getting on a bit now' way. RIP. Looks like the Fabs will outlive the Prefabs.

Any excuse... I reckon she put her back out dancing to the new Abba album. And yes, I'll say "Dancing Queen" before anyone else does. Back pain at any age is often very painful. At 95 it's probably excruciatingly so.

RIP Arthur Sultan The Surrey Mystic. Yes, I was going to pick Henry Woolf for next year too...

Mrs Mack's hats... oh dear! Sad news. Always used to pop in at Luss whenever we were travelling in the area.

Sad news. I'd always thought she was born around 1941 too, especially as in the pictures of her with The Beatles she doesn't look like she's over 30 - and 30 was old back then. I was going to put her in my 2022 team. Anyone know if Joan Taylor (Derek's wife) is still alive? Never heard anything to the contrary so I presume she is.

Hmm. "The monarch has also continued to enjoy her late-night television pastime, particularly at the weekends, and reportedly stayed up to watch 18-year-old tennis star Emma Raducanu win the US Open. " The Queen famously certainly used to find tennis boring, the 1977 Wimbledon Championships were a particular chore of the Silver Jubilee engagements, so I'd take that with a pinch of salt. I think she'll see 100, but I'm probably going to be adding her to my teams from 2022 onwards. I have a funny feeling both her and David Attenborough will go around the same time, which will be a huge blow to public morale and everything we hold sacred.

I can't get over that Colin Powell was 84. 84!!! But, of course, 9/11 and the Bush administration was 20 years ago now, making Powell around 64 at the time which seems right.

Sad news. I liked Dr Dressler.

I didn't realise the members of Bogart Co. were that old! Or was he older than the rest of them? Sad news anyway - my sister had a Finnish penpal and I remember them sending a couple of tapes, amongst them Bogart Co., which was probably the best out of them.

Seems a bit obvious to say 'another part of my childhood gone' but... I loved Fingerbobs, it was such a simple premise but Yoffy/Rick Jones brought it to life. RIP.

That's sad news, though not a surprise. I used to post on a forum where one of The Delays was a regular - can't remember if it was Greg but whoever he was he was a nice chap.

John Challis has died. Sheila Ferguson has announced it on Twitter. Explains why he pulled out of public engagements the other week. Ah, didn't realise there was a dedicated OFAH thread. As you were.

If TOTP was good enough for Bowie and Bolan it was good enough for the Banshees was their reckoning. Which I thoroughly agree with. It was only the silly old Clash who purposely refused, the Sex Pistols weren't allowed on it.

Pffft. Siouxsie And The Banshees never sold out.

We haven't done this for a while so here's my picks for most significant deaths of 2021 so far: JANUARY - Phil Spector (honorable mention to Larry King) FEBRUARY - Captain Tom (yes, it really ought to be Christopher Plummer, but...) MARCH - Murray Walker (honorable mentions to Peter Lorimer/Bunny Wailer) APRIL - Prince Philip. Will probably be the most significant death of 2021 (honorable mentions to Shirley Williams/Michael Collins) MAY - Norman Lloyd (v tempted to put Freddy from Rod, Jane & Freddy to be honest) JUNE - Kenneth Kaunda (honorable mentions to Ned Beatty/Edward De Bono) JULY - Raffaella Carrà. Yes, I'm biased, but this was a seriously *huge* death (honorable mentions to Jackie Mason/Tom O'Connor/Andy Fordham) AUGUST - Charlie Watts (tough one as also Una Stubbs Don Everly, Gerd Müller, Nanci Griffith, Lee Scatch Perry, Ed Asner. Am v tempted to say Geronimo the alpaca too...) SEPTEMBER (so far) - Jean-Paul Belmondo (honorable mentions to Sarah Harding/Michael K Williams) OK argue, do your worst, maybe even agree!

Nancy Olsen looks to be the last remaing cast member of Sunset Boulevard, though there's a question mark over Gerry Ganzer (last credit 1952), Roy Thompson (says on IMDB he appeared in Neighbours in the 90s but I suspect it's a different actor) and Emmett Smith (last credit 1962).