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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. 

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Let's celebrate the DL birthdays, not only the deaths :birthday:

 

05.01.1931 Robert Duvall :birthday2:

17.01.1952 Ryuichi Sakamoto :birthday2: :skill2:

24.01.1928 Desmond Morris :birthday2:

27.01.1929 Mohamed Al-Fayed :birthday2:

28.01.1936 Alan Alda :birthday2:

30.01.1941 Dick Cheney :birthday2:

10.02.1930 Robert Wagner :birthday2:

11.02.1932 Dennis Skinner :birthday2:

16.02.1961 Andy Taylor :birthday2:

18.02.1933 Yoko Ono :birthday2:

23.02.1959 Linda Nolan :birthday2:

27.02.1930 Joanne Woodward :birthday2:

29.02.1928 Joss Ackland :birthday2:

01.03.1927 Harry Belafonte :birthday2: :skill2:

06.03.1926 Alan Greenspan :birthday2:

11.03.1932 Nigel Lawson :birthday2: :skill2:

20.03.1931 Hal Linden :birthday2:

28.03.1935 Michael Parkinson :birthday2:

29.03.1931 Norman Tebbit :birthday2:

30.03.1930 Rolf Harris :birthday2: :skill2:

01.04.1929 Milan Kundera :birthday2:

11.04.1928 Ethel Kennedy :birthday2:

19.04.1939 Ayatollah Ali Kamenei :birthday2:

29.04.1933 Willie Nelson :birthday2:

12.05.1928 Burt Bacharach :skill2:

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  :skill2:

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

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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.

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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.

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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) 

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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.

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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.

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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 

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.”

 

 

 

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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.

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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.

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Interestingly, Crosby had been on the list the past couple of years but was dropped this time.

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A month without hit and no dead certs among all 50. 

 

Will be an extremely lame year.

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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.

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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

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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 

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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