Who Should Be On The 2024 Deathlist

[polar duck 775]

Borrowing @Hartnell 1999's format. Using spoilers to save space.

 

Keeps

Spoiler

Dick van Dyke

Henry Kissinger

Alan Greenspan

Nigel Starmer-Smith

Jimmy Carter

Mel Brooks

Jacques Delors

Norman Tebbit

Joanne Woodward

Ethel Kennedy

Desmond Morris

Stanley Baxter

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Cleo Laine

Yoko Ono

Norman Lear

Imelda Marcos

Pete Murray

Bob Newhart

Dennis Skinner

Sonny Rollins

Linda Nolan

Shane MacGowan

 

Returnees

Spoiler

David Attenborough

James Whale

Denis Law

Noam Chomsky

Vanessa Redgrave

Shannen Doherty

 

Newcomers for 2024 (previously suggested)

Spoiler

Amartya Sen

Bruce Willis

Clint Eastwood

Esther Rantzen

Eva Marie Saint

Gene Shalit

Glynis Johns

Gudrun Ure 

James Earl Jones

Jim Lovell

Joyce Randolph

June Lockhart

Rupert Murdoch

Sandra Day O'Connor

Ted Turner

Tippi Hedren

William Russell

 

Newcomers for 2024 (not mentioned yet)

Charlie Munger

Doc Severinsen

Nikolai Ryzhkov 

Willie Mays

 

Drops

Spoiler

Dick Cheney

Robert Wagner

Sandy Gall

Alan Alda

Prunella Scales

Marianne Faithfull

Angie Dickinson

Robert Duvall

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Willie Nelson

Hal Linden

Andy Taylor

 

Edited December 28, 2023 by polar duck
No need for Delors

[Toast 16,063]

Can't we just stick to suggesting names, preferably new names, rather than posting complete shadow lists? 

There will be a dedicated thread for shadow lists.  Probably multiple threads for variations on the theme.

[dimreaper 669]

Michael Caine, Bruce Willis, Sam Neill, and Sandra Day O'Connor. Also move Dick van Dyke out of the top 10, but keep him on the list.

[CastAway 488]

5 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

I definitely think Psychedelic Furs guitarist John Ashton would make an excellent pick for the Deathlist. Stage 4 cancer since 2021 and he’s the exact type of cult music name that the committee loves to pick. Honestly feels like a match made in heaven

Apropos of this, Psychedelic Furs member Mark Williams has just died of cancer at 68:

 

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-saxophonist-mars-williams-dies-20231120-sp3llpj37rbg3hyyeex4prwoi4-story.html

[Deathrace 1,161]

4 hours ago, Death Impends said:

 

Seconding Lovell, DL still needs an astronaut and him and Buzz are probably the last from that generation to be well known enough for the front page

Is Fred Haise famous enough? I'd say so given the Apollo 13 film. 

[lay_kulast95 129]

Jimmy Carter, Sidney Kibrick, Rob Halford

[lay_kulast95 129]

Zhang Lixiong as well

[Deathrace 1,161]

4 hours ago, Bentrovato said:

Alex Ferguson, Pat Jennings, Harry Redknapp, Alan Brazil. Needs someone football related. 

Not sure about Fergie. I know he had a brush with death a few years ago but he appears to have recovered well and is still pretty active despite his wife recently dying. Redknapp doesn't feel ready yet either. Brazil could easily spontaneously combust at any time. 

[Deathrace 1,161]

Would like to see at least one cricketer included. Gary Sobers, Geoff Boycott, Dickie Bird and Neil Harvey are all good candidates. 

 

Not a cricketer but I'd like to see Colin Jeavons included if he makes the starting line. 

[The Daredevil 1,186]

Alain Delon, Ryan O'Neal, Leontyne Price, Joan Plowright, Joe Don Baker, Michael Schumacher, Val Kilmer, Richard Wilson, Donald P. Bellisario, Michael York, Shirley Eaton and Brian Blessed.

[The Old Crem 3,576]

28 minutes ago, Deathrace said:

Not sure about Fergie. I know he had a brush with death a few years ago but he appears to have recovered well and is still pretty active despite his wife recently dying. Redknapp doesn't feel ready yet either. Brazil could easily spontaneously combust at any time. 

He looked pretty well at Charlton’s funeral. Don’t think he is likely to go in 2024.. 

[ladyfiona 2,558]

June Spencer for sure. She will be 105 next year and hasn't done any work for at least a year to 18 months.

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,870]

23 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

He looked pretty well at Charlton’s funeral. Don’t think he is likely to go in 2024.. 

Yep. Was in Bahrain at the weekend watching one of his horses as well. He'll be ok for another few years. 

[Deathrace 1,161]

26 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

He looked pretty well at Charlton’s funeral. Don’t think he is likely to go in 2024.. 

Agreed 

[diana rots 24]

2 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

Yep. Was in Bahrain at the weekend watching one of his horses as well. He'll be ok for another few years. 

 

He may fall foul of the snuff it within 18 months of a spouse curse. 

[RetroGamer47 418]

Hollywood Squares Host Peter Marshall and Today Show Film Critic Gene Shalit both seem like easy picks too. Doubt they are famous enough though.

[Philip 121]

Brian blessed should be on the list.

[Fantomasss 206]

I would make Come back Louis Farrakhan too, not only because of his son's death

[Comped 521]

22 minutes ago, RetroGamer47 said:

Hollywood Squares Host Peter Marshall and Today Show Film Critic Gene Shalit both seem like easy picks too. Doubt they are famous enough though.

Both would get obituaries in the AP and probably Reuters, so they would at least count for ddp purposes.

[CaptainChorizo 1,969]

Mario Zagallo-One of the last living players who won with Brazil in 58,62 World Cup. Has been in and out of the hospital last few years

 

Eva Marie Saint-Bafta/Oscar Winning Golden Age Star who turns 100 next year

 

Glynis Johns- Centurion Hollywood Actress who starred alongside Deathlist staple Dick Van Dkye in Mary Poppins

 

Violeta Chamorro-Former President of Nicuaraga who has advanced Dementia and is under 24/7 care and bedridden now

 

Joan Plowright-Turns 95,and probably a big enough name to where she should be a bedblocker for the list going forward

[jd24fan 78]

Peter Marshall nearly died of COVID-19 in early 2021. His condition was so dire that he was nearly put into hospice care, but he bounced back and recovered. He had a 95th birthday party months later virtually. That had to take a toll on his body. Might not be a bad choice. Losing both Alex Trebek and Bob Barker within 3 years was tough, so it'd be sad to see another game show legend gone.

[dimreaper 669]

Jesse Jackson.

[sodoffbaldrick 35]

Given the violent rhetoric involved with the current U.S election cycle I suspect we will see some assassinations within the next year. On that basis  Joe Biden, Donald Trump,   judge Arthur Ergoran, Kamala Harris, judge Tanya Chutkin, Georgia prosecuter Fani Willis. I don't know if expected murder victims tend to make the list, but all of these seem like plausible choices whether or not they have any actual health issues. Especially if violence explodes if/when Trump is convicted or claims the election is stolen from him. 

 

 

[Perhaps 1,422]

1 minute ago, sodoffbaldrick said:

Given the violent rhetoric involved with the current U.S election cycle I suspect we will see some assassinations within the next year. On that basis  Joe Biden, Donald Trump,   judge Arthur Ergoran, Kamala Harris, judge Tanya Chutkin, Georgia prosecuter Fani Willis. I don't know if expected murder victims tend to make the list, but all of these seem like plausible choices whether or not they have any actual health issues. Especially if violence explodes if/when Trump is convicted or claims the election is stolen from him. 

 

 

 

You fuckers will take any thread and make it about US politics. Why can't you be normal and suggest some random 90 year-old?

[Drewsky1211 4,691]

8 minutes ago, Perhaps said:

 

You fuckers will take any thread and make it about US politics. Why can't you be normal and suggest some random 90 year-old?

Why not both?

 

Considering past presidential runner-up picks like Bob Dole and John McCain, I suggest Michael Dukakis (both 90 years old and a US politician).