Each year's most significant Deathlist miss

[SovietJohnny 95]

2 minutes ago, time said:

Why is one DL miss more significant than any other DL miss? I don't get it.

Just a bit of fun, mate….just like this entire site. You don’t take it all seriously.…do you?

[time 8,626]

Just now, SovietJohnny said:

Just a bit of fun, mate….just like this entire site. You don’t take it all seriously.…do you?

Of course.... doesn't everyone?

[Bibliogryphon 9,592]

I don't think Bernard Cribbins was a real miss. He was still filming at the time he died.

[Dead Wait 1,149]

1 hour ago, Bibliogryphon said:

I don't think Bernard Cribbins was a real miss. He was still filming at the time he died.

Tommy Cooper style…

[WinterCake 41]

On 30/10/2022 at 18:39, Hartnell 1999 said:

With the Deathlist rules only allowing 50 candidates per year, it is inevitable that each year will contain some sort of miss - or in other words the death of a celebrity who was not on that year's deathlist. The thing is though, that could be just about anyone bar 50 people, therefore criteria has to be defined as to what makes someone's death a Deathlist miss. The definition of "significant" in this context is rather subjective, but generally I would say that for a DL miss to be significant, it must meet either of the following criteria:

 

1: The candidate has made several consecutive appearances on previous Deathlists

2: The candidate is a very high-profile celebrity who is aged 90+ or has a known serious health condition

 

Working it out based on both of the above would take months, therefore I have compiled a rough list of who I believe was each year's most significant miss, based on the most DL appearances for the earlier years while moving towards the most high-profile of these for latter years

 

1987 - N/A

1988 - N/A

1989 - Bette Davis

1990 - Malcolm Muggeridge

1991 - John Arlott

1992 - Alexander Dubeck

1993 - Kenneth Connor

1994 - Doris Speed

1995 - Harold Wilson

1996 - Jon Pertwee

1997 - Stefan Grappelli

1998 - Fred Davis

1999 - Robert Dougall

2000 - Alec Guinness

2001 - Geoffrey Dickens

2002 - Princess Margaret

2003 - Paul Getty

2004 - Brian Clough

2005 - Prince Rainier

2006 - Saddam Hussein

2007 - Boris Yeltsin

2008 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

2009 - Corazon Aquino

2010 - Tony Curtis

2011 - Osama bin Laden

2012 - Patrick Moore

2013 - Bob Godfrey

2014 - Ariel Sharon

2015 - Terry Pratchett

2016 - Harper Lee

2017 - Chuck Berry

2018 - Aretha Franklin

2019 - Peter Tork

2020 - Sean Connery

2021 - Desmond Tutu

2022 - Bernard Cribbins

 

 

for 2022, i would say Pope Benedict XVI now. 

[Hartnell 1999 89]

1 hour ago, WinterCake said:

for 2022, i would say Pope Benedict XVI now. 

Yes that of course makes sense. Couldn’t change it yesterday due to starting work 5 minutes after the news broke.

[Hartnell 1999 89]

On 30/10/2022 at 18:39, Hartnell 1999 said:

1987 - N/A

1988 - N/A

1989 - Bette Davis

1990 - Malcolm Muggeridge

1991 - John Arlott

1992 - Alexander Dubeck

1993 - Kenneth Connor

1994 - Doris Speed

1995 - Harold Wilson

1996 - Jon Pertwee

1997 - Stefan Grappelli

1998 - Fred Davis

1999 - Robert Dougall

2000 - Alec Guinness

2001 - Geoffrey Dickens

2002 - Princess Margaret

2003 - Paul Getty

2004 - Brian Clough

2005 - Prince Rainier

2006 - Saddam Hussein

2007 - Boris Yeltsin

2008 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

2009 - Corazon Aquino

2010 - Tony Curtis

2011 - Osama bin Laden

2012 - Patrick Moore

2013 - Bob Godfrey

2014 - Ariel Sharon

2015 - Terry Pratchett

2016 - Harper Lee

2017 - Chuck Berry

2018 - Aretha Franklin

2019 - Peter Tork

2020 - Sean Connery

2021 - Desmond Tutu

2022 - Pope Benedict XVI

2023 - Gianluca Vialli

 

 

Well, looks like 2023 has got off to a good start.

[The Old Crem 3,608]

Maybe Dusty Springfield for 1999 as she was reported terminally Ill and the DDP records show that was known enough for several teams to pick her. 

[msc 18,485]

16 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

Maybe Dusty Springfield for 1999 as she was reported terminally Ill and the DDP records show that was known enough for several teams to pick her. 

From memory her illness and death got the coverage you'd expect of a legend but I can't mind if the shift from quite ill to dying happened in 98 or 99. I seem to recall it being quite quick. Like Brian Mosley from Corrie around the same time.

 

John Thaw was missed in 2002 but him dying so quickly was a huge shock at the time. Was talking years left weeks before.

 

 

[The Old Crem 3,608]

20 minutes ago, msc said:

From memory her illness and death got the coverage you'd expect of a legend but I can't mind if the shift from quite ill to dying happened in 98 or 99. I seem to recall it being quite quick. Like Brian Mosley from Corrie around the same time.

 

John Thaw was missed in 2002 but him dying so quickly was a huge shock at the time. Was talking years left weeks before.

 

 

On the DDP archive there is a link to a chat where someone says she announced it had spread to her bones( in other words terminal) in August 1998. I was only a toddler then so I can’t remember. The first death I remember is Princess Margaret. ( I did react as a baby to Princess Diana’s death but I don’t remember it.)

 

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.obituaries/c/Fbi6UIjLekM/m/UvFeNaEBnV8J

 

[msc 18,485]

17 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

On the DDP archive there is a link to a chat where someone says she announced a terminal diagnosis in August of 1998. I was only a toddler then so I can’t remember. The first death I remember is Princess Margaret. ( I did react as a baby to Princess Diana’s death but I don’t remember it.).

Keep in mind the DDP missed Roy Rogers death because Iain didn't see that nights BBC news. These things were more easily missed in the days before everyone had home internet.

 

 

[The Old Crem 3,608]

2 minutes ago, msc said:

Keep in mind the DDP missed Roy Rogers death because Iain didn't see that nights BBC news. These things were more easily missed in the days before everyone had home internet.

 

 

I managed to miss all news about the Cumbria shootings in 2009 until 9pm that evening despite being online most of the day. 
 

John Thaw was a DDP hit for a team full of punts and features the majority of their survivors still around today. 

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

Dubcek not Dubeck

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Since it’s impossible to beat Pat Robertson for 2023… I’ll drop this post.

[gcreptile 10,979]

Pope Francis, possibly?

[TQR 14,408]

45 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Pope Francis, possibly?

Who or what the FUCK is Pope? Y’all a bunch of Eurocentric cuntos 

[Charles De Gaulle 484]

1 hour ago, TQR said:

Who or what the FUCK is Pope? Y’all a bunch of Eurocentric cuntos 

Good. Every English speaking site on this planet ends up becoming Yank centric. It's a massive breath of fresh air having a English speaking site that is dominated by US politics.