Steve 599 Posted January 4, 2023 James Whale should definitely been retained, Roberta Flack should have been added and a better punt for a A-lister Hollywood actor would have been Clint Eastwood and/or Val Kilmer. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Book 3,556 Posted January 5, 2023 Let's celebrate the DL birthdays, not only the deaths 05.01.1931 Robert Duvall 17.01.1952 Ryuichi Sakamoto 24.01.1928 Desmond Morris 27.01.1929 Mohamed Al-Fayed 28.01.1936 Alan Alda 30.01.1941 Dick Cheney 10.02.1930 Robert Wagner 11.02.1932 Dennis Skinner 16.02.1961 Andy Taylor 18.02.1933 Yoko Ono 23.02.1959 Linda Nolan 27.02.1930 Joanne Woodward 29.02.1928 Joss Ackland 01.03.1927 Harry Belafonte 06.03.1926 Alan Greenspan 11.03.1932 Nigel Lawson 20.03.1931 Hal Linden 28.03.1935 Michael Parkinson 29.03.1931 Norman Tebbit 30.03.1930 Rolf Harris 01.04.1929 Milan Kundera 11.04.1928 Ethel Kennedy 19.04.1939 Ayatollah Ali Kamenei 29.04.1933 Willie Nelson 12.05.1928 Burt Bacharach 24.05.1926 Stanley Baxter 27.05.1923 Henry Kissinger 20.06.1928 Jean-Marie Le Pen 22.06.1932 Prunella Scales 28.06.1926 Mel Brooks 02.07.1929 Imelda Marcos 20.07.1925 Jacques Delors 27.07.1922 Norman Lear 03.08.1926 Tony Bennett 11.08.1943 Pervez Musharraf 18.08.1927 Rosalynn Carter 05.09.1929 Bob Newhart 07.09.1930 Sonny Rollins 19.09.1925 Pete Murray 30.09.1931 Angie Dickinson 01.10.1924 Jimmy Carter 01.10.1927 Sandy Gall 11.10.1937 Bobby Charlton 28.10.1927 Cleo Laine 26.11.1939 Tina Turner 12.12.1923 Bob Barker 13.12.1925 Dick van Dyke 25.12.1944 Nigel Starmer-Smith 25.12.1957 Shane MacGowan 29.12.1946 Marianne Faithfull What a coincidence that almost half (24) of the DL candidates have their birthdays in the first third (until the end of April) of the year. Looking at the list from the oldest to the youngest candidate, 24 again stands out: this number was born in the 20s: 27.07.1922 Norman Lear 27.05.1923 Henry Kissinger 12.12.1923 Bob Barker 01.10.1924 Jimmy Carter 20.07.1925 Jacques Delors 19.09.1925 Pete Murray 13.12.1925 Dick van Dyke 06.03.1926 Alan Greenspan 24.05.1926 Stanley Baxter 28.06.1926 Mel Brooks 03.08.1926 Tony Bennett 01.03.1927 - 25.04.2023 Harry Belafonte No. 5 18.08.1927 Rosalynn Carter 01.10.1927 Sandy Gall 28.10.1927 Cleo Laine 24.01.1928 Desmond Morris 29.02.1928 Joss Ackland 11.04.1928 Ethel Kennedy 12.05.1928 - 08.02.2023 Burt Bacharach No.2 20.06.1928 Jean-Marie Le Pen 27.01.1929 Mohamed Al-Fayed 01.04.1929 Milan Kundera 02.07.1929 Imelda Marcos 05.09.1929 Bob Newhart 10.02.1930 Robert Wagner 27.02.1930 Joanne Woodward 30.03.1930 - 10.05.2023 Rolf Harris Nr. 6 07.09.1930 Sonny Rollins 05.01.1931 Robert Duvall 20.03.1931 Hal Linden 29.03.1931 Norman Tebbit 30.09.1931 Angie Dickinson 11.02.1932 Dennis Skinner 11.03.1932 - 03.04.2023 Nigel Lawson Nr. 4 22.06.1932 Prunella Scales 18.02.1933 Yoko Ono 29.04.1933 Willie Nelson 28.03.1935 Michael Parkinson 28.01.1936 Alan Alda 11.10.1937 Bobby Charlton 19.04.1939 Ayatollah Ali Kamenei 26.11.1939 Tina Turner 30.01.1941 Dick Cheney 11.08.1943 - 05.02.2023 Pervez Musharraf No.1 25.12.1944 Nigel Starmer-Smith 29.12.1946 Marianne Faithfull 17.01.1952 - 28.03.2023 Ryuichi Sakamoto Nr. 3 25.12.1957 Shane MacGowan 23.02.1959 Linda Nolan 16.02.1961 Andy Taylor 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,189 Posted January 11, 2023 Well, it has already missed some golden opportunities (Vialli, Constantine) and James Whale's and Frank Field's omissions cannot be helping at this stage. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,315 Posted January 11, 2023 1 minute ago, The Daredevil said: Well, it has already missed some golden opportunities (Vialli, Constantine) and James Whale's and Frank Field's omissions cannot be helping at this stage. Constantine although a miss isn't that great a miss as he was only known to be in poor health and in his 80s rather than being ancient or known to be terminally ill. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,046 Posted January 11, 2023 11 minutes ago, Sean said: Constantine although a miss isn't that great a miss as he was only known to be in poor health and in his 80s rather than being ancient or known to be terminally ill. Well… still a better pick that some octogenarian on the list (Dick Cheney or Parkinson for example) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,189 Posted January 11, 2023 3 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said: Well… still a better pick that some octogenarian on the list (Dick Cheney or Parkinson for example) Exactly. Who do we think replaced likely inclusions Barbara Walters and Pope Benedict at the last minute? Pete Murray and Andy Taylor? I also think Marianne Faithfull stood in for Pelé's last minute dropout. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,315 Posted January 11, 2023 36 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said: Well… still a better pick that some octogenarian on the list (Dick Cheney or Parkinson for example) Oh absolutely.Alan Alda too but it isn't a big embarrassing miss like Vialli. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,046 Posted January 11, 2023 22 minutes ago, Sean said: Oh absolutely.Alan Alda too but it isn't a big embarrassing miss like Vialli. Agree yes. Could have lasted longer if he hadn’t had this stroke Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,584 Posted January 11, 2023 2 hours ago, The Daredevil said: Exactly. Who do we think replaced likely inclusions Barbara Walters and Pope Benedict at the last minute? Pete Murray and Andy Taylor? I also think Marianne Faithfull stood in for Pelé's last minute dropout. I’m not sure Barbara Walters wouid have been recalled. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,189 Posted January 11, 2023 2 minutes ago, The Old Crem said: I’m not sure Barbara Walters wouid have been recalled. I am, she was becoming a regular addition in the same way as Imelda Marcos is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,189 Posted January 14, 2023 Potentially Worst Omissions James Whale Frank Field George Alagiah Roberta Flack June Spencer Glynis Johns Giorgio Napolitano James Watson Ted Kaczynski Sandra Day O'Connor Chaim Topol Douglas Hurd 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,315 Posted January 14, 2023 52 minutes ago, The Daredevil said: Potentially Worst Omissions James Whale Frank Field George Alagiah Roberta Flack June Spencer Glynis Johns Giorgio Napolitano James Watson Ted Kaczynski Sandra Day O'Connor Chaim Topol Douglas Hurd Vialli is the worst omission. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldhollywood 87 Posted January 14, 2023 Eva Marie Saint is another glaring omission. She’ll be 99 this year 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,189 Posted January 15, 2023 Sidney Cooke is another glaring omission; exactly The DL Committee’s sort of pick (like Brady and Sutcliffe). How has Cooke managed to evade The DeathList all his life? He is definitely famous enough, The Guardian called him “Britain’s most notorious paedophile.” 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,189 Posted January 20, 2023 Well, it hasn't been a great start for the 2023 DL, it's currently feeling like a list of missed opportunities. Fay Weldon, Gianluca Vialli, King Constantine II, Gina Lollobrigida, David Crosby; not even one of them on the list. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,189 Posted January 26, 2023 Behind the 2022 DL, the 2020 DL, the 2018 DL, the 2017 DL and now the 2016 DL. Even if we get a hit tomorrow, it has been a slow start for the 2023 DL, one of the worst in recent years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Hemlock 742 Posted January 27, 2023 Interestingly, Crosby had been on the list the past couple of years but was dropped this time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,945 Posted January 28, 2023 A month without hit and no dead certs among all 50. Will be an extremely lame year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windsor 2,233 Posted January 28, 2023 53 minutes ago, drol said: A month without hit and no dead certs among all 50. Will be an extremely lame year. How can you tell. It’s January. Start to worry if there are no hits by June. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 3,887 Posted January 28, 2023 1 hour ago, drol said: A month without hit and no dead certs among all 50. Will be an extremely lame year. We had what 4/5 up until was it August (which included a gap of 3 months since a hit )I think last year and then Kaboom. Patience my good man 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,046 Posted January 28, 2023 The latest first hit is 20th of march 2004 : queen Juliana then 7th of march 2007 : Ernest Gallo 5th of march 2003 : Hardy Amies 27th of february 2015 : Léonard Nimoy 23rd of february 2002 : Chuck Jones 12th of february 2014 : sid caesar 4th of february 2005 : Max Schmeling will 2023 break the record of the latest 1st hit of the XXIth century ? i don’t think so, there is still a long way to go, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t have a february hit 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,189 Posted February 2, 2023 Has now fallen behind the 2019 DL’s opening. If a hit does come this year, a game I sometimes do is I check the list first, so I don’t know who has died, only that there has been a hit. Then I write up the 50 candidates in order from least likely to most likely, put on some suspenseful music and do a Google Search of all candidates from least to most likely until I find the one who died. Usually, I make it to the 10 most likely before the dead candidate is revealed. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,189 Posted February 2, 2023 On 29/01/2023 at 06:57, Lafaucheuse said: The latest first hit is 20th of march 2004 : queen Juliana then 7th of march 2007 : Ernest Gallo 5th of march 2003 : Hardy Amies 27th of february 2015 : Léonard Nimoy 23rd of february 2002 : Chuck Jones 12th of february 2014 : sid caesar 4th of february 2005 : Max Schmeling will 2023 break the record of the latest 1st hit of the XXIth century ? i don’t think so, there is still a long way to go, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t have a february hit There’s also 12th February 2019 : Gordon Banks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,046 Posted February 2, 2023 4 minutes ago, The Daredevil said: Has now fallen behind the 2019 DL’s opening. if a hit does come this year, a game I sometimes do is I check the list first, so I don’t know who has died, only that there has been a hit. Then I write up the 50 candidates in order from least likely to most likely, put on some suspenseful music and do a Google Search of all candidates from least to most likely until I find the one who died. Usually, I make it to the 10 most likely before the dead candidate is revealed. Interesting, I may well make the Same thing ! But then, you have to 1) remember every candidate in the list 2) open the deathlist site and not the forum first everytime you’re coming here 3) not see the first couple of picks of the list, something impossible When I open the list with my laptop fe, I can see the top 5 till the bottom of my screen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Perhaps 1,423 Posted February 2, 2023 5 minutes ago, The Daredevil said: if a hit does come this year, a game I sometimes do is I check the list first, so I don’t know who has died, only that there has been a hit. Then I write up the 50 candidates in order from least likely to most likely, put on some suspenseful music and do a Google Search of all candidates from least to most likely until I find the one who died. Usually, I make it to the 10 most likely before the dead candidate is revealed. Jesus Christ. I hope you never answer honestly in a job interview when they ask what you do in your spare time. 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
