Most Surprising DeathList Celebrity Omission

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

It's Howard Marks for me as well. For a deathlist formed in a student bar in the late 80s....

[polar duck 866]

I'll gradually add names to this when I remember the people this site forgot:

 

Early misses:

1987: Rita Hayworth (senile), John Huston (on oxygen)

1989: Emperor Hirohito (zombie), Irving Berlin (centenarian)

1990: Sammy Davis Jr. (throat cancer)

 

Obscure nonagenarians:

1991: Lazar Kaganovich (more frail than the Soviet Union)

1994: the Lubavitcher Rebbe (severe stroke)

 

Expiring Americans:

1991: Lee Atwater (horrific brain cancer; is also the namesake of the Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool)

1996: Barry Goldwater (recent stroke, Alzheimer's)

1998: George Wallace (had enough health issues to be considered an immortal)

2003: Lester Maddox (terminal cancer)

2004: Johnny Oates (incurable brain cancer)

2011: Sargent Shriver

2012: George McGovern

 

But the worst DL miss in recent memory is by far James Earl Jones. 

 

Last updated October 25 2024

Edited October 25 by polar duck
James Earl Jones

[Lewd_Squirrel 331]

Topol

Conrad Bain

Omar Sharif

 Those 3 are some of the surprise omissions, for me.

[Sean 6,313]

Also surprised June Spencer , Eva Marie Saint and Glynis Johns have never been included. Also surprised Sheila Mercier never made the list seeing as the committee like UK soap picks.

 

Sir Roger Bannister , Dora Bryan, John Bardon , Jeremy Thorpe , David Coleman, Alan Whicker, Sir Peter Hall , Tony Benn , Roger Ebert , Howard Marks , Geoffrey Howe , Jimmy Hill , Sister Wendy Beckett , James Lovelock , Peter Vaughan , John Glenn, Hugh Downs , John Paul Stevens , Nichelle Nicholls ,Trevor Peacock, Carlos Menem, Betty Driver, Doddie Weir ,Ray Wilson and Warren Mitchell all strike me as foreseeable omissions over the last few years.

[Sean 6,313]

4 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said:

It's Howard Marks for me as well. For a deathlist formed in a student bar in the late 80s....

That was a baffling omission for me too. A cult figure and looked like death warmed up in late 2015.

[Sean 6,313]

The other living names I am slightly surprised have not yet made an appearance on DL:

 

Charlie Munger 

William Russell

David Graham

June Lockhart

Gudrun Ure

Doreen Mantle

Teddie Beverley 

Leontyne Price

Estelle Parsons

James D Watson

Stuart Hall

Tippi Hedren

Kenneth Cope

Phyllida Law

Michael Aspel

Roberta Flack

Ted Turner

Dennis Hastert

Michael York

Superstar Billy Graham

Joe Kinnear

Stan Bowles

George Alagiah

Michael J Fox

Johnnie Irwin

 

 

 

[The Daredevil 1,189]

Amazed Randolph Scott and Fred Astaire cheated the 1987 DL.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Barbara Barrie should be on it right now.

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

Irving Berlin is an interesting one. Surely the most famous person to hit the 100 barrier since the DL began who was never included?

 

[prussianblue 1,027]

1 minute ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Irving Berlin is an interesting one. Surely the most famous person to hit the 100 barrier since the DL began who was never included?

 

 

Was Hal Roach ever on it? Died aged 100 in 1992.

[Handrejka 1,903]

Mary Quant.

[Lafaucheuse 4,045]

On 07/04/2023 at 18:06, Lewd_Squirrel said:

Omar Sharif

If I remember well, his son revealed his alzheimer in may and he died in July so not an omission per say

[Toast 16,130]

1 hour ago, Lafaucheuse said:

If I remember well, his son revealed his alzheimer in may and he died in July so not an omission per say

 

It's per se.  Latin.

[Youth in Asia 1,086]

As in Robin van 

[Toast 16,130]

2 hours ago, Youth in Asia said:

As in Robin van 

 

No, that's Persie.

[msc 18,437]

4 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

If I remember well, his son revealed his alzheimer in may and he died in July so not an omission per say

Yeah he went very quickly after diagnosis was revealed publicly.

 

And per say/per se frequently trips me up, though not as often for "taken for granted", for granted feeling like it should be one word. 

[Toast 16,130]

2 hours ago, msc said:

And per say/per se frequently trips me up, though not as often for "taken for granted", for granted feeling like it should be one word. 

 

I've just seen yet another case of internment when interment was meant.  Perhaps safer in future to use "burial".

(At least this was on topic for this forum)

[Lewd_Squirrel 331]

7 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

If I remember well, his son revealed his alzheimer in may and he died in July so not an omission per say

True, but still famous enough, and old enough to be tossed on, just cause. I had him on my list for a few years, prior.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

7 hours ago, Toast said:

8 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

If I remember well, his son revealed his alzheimer in may and he died in July so not an omission per say

 

It's per se.  Latin.

Sockray blue!

[arghton 6,697]

Of those never picked, Jiang Zemin's not been mentioned yet. Although not as notable as his predecessor (who was on DL seven times before dying) he was the former leader of the world's most populated country, was in failing health for his last ten years and was never picked. There were already strong health rumors in late 2011. 

 

Emperor Hirohito in 1989. He was gravely ill with internal bleeding and terminal cancer for months before dying at the start of January

[Superstar 295]

Tony Curtis was missing from the 2010 DL. Long time cocaine/alcohol addict, suffered heart attacks, survived cirrhosis, etc.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Willie Mays is of the age (92 in May) that he should be on the actual DL from 2024 on. Baseball players don’t seem to get a thread, I may have to change that soon, for once.

[Sly Ronnie 878]

What on Earth had gone on with the 1993 list? 56 names, 5 "hits" yet three more names are added for some reason.

I was checking whether Frank Zappa was picked and he wasn't..

[wannamaker 1,407]

2 hours ago, Sly Ronnie said:

What on Earth had gone on with the 1993 list? 56 names, 5 "hits" yet three more names are added for some reason.

 

I think that every list before 2000 included when a person that was in a previous year's list and wasn't picked that year died, so that's why there's 3 extra names in 1993.

[ThereWillBeDeaths7 720]

I did like these short obits for candidates who died off the list. These shouldn't be as long as a regular candidates' one, but I found them interesting as they contained additional data like the lists these previous candidates were on and how some years the list could have had a higher number of hits if other people were kept on it.