More Ideas & Possibles for 2005

[Typhoid Harry 23]

Jimmy Carter is 79, his birthday is January 10th, will he survive to see his 80th?

I think Jimmy Carter will outlive the majority of us all. I'm constantly seeing him on the tube, building houses, gardening, etc...

[Guest Basil Bush]

How about George Best for the 2005 list? Reportedly started drinking again after his liver transplant and looked like, er, death. Shame - he had great talent as a player. Clearly his Best days are very much behind him. Think he'll be 59 next year, so it would make a change to introduce some younger blood (albeit with a higher than average alcohol content) alongside the ranks of all the nonagenarians. And can I suggest that nominations whose demise would be welcomed go to the top of the list, e.g. Mugabe at no.1, Ian Paisley certainly in the top 5, Pinochet ditto, etc.

[Guest Capital New York]

Has anyone any info on Ronnie Biggs? Is he about to rob St. Peter's train?

[Guest Hannah]

Not famous over here but Brigitte Mira, a German actress is 94 and has been overweight all her life.

 

Heard a rumour that Gwyneth Strong of Only Fools and Horses has a brain tumour

 

Michael Foot is looking doddery

 

Barry Took - is he still with us

 

Holly Johnson

 

Gunther Grass

 

Helmut Kohl

[Guest If I told you that...]

Molly Sugden anyone?

She's been reported as dead once already and has been in ill health.

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

Barry Took - is he still with us

 

Sadly, Barry popped his clogs the same week as the Queen Mum. Wasn't very well publicised as she popped before him and claimed the publicity.

[Guest Hannah]

I was living abroad at the time so wouldn't have picked up on that. Thanks for the info. It means I now have to tell my boyfriend he was right after all.

[Guest iamonodowahgah]

If it's not too early for 2005 list; I am picking, elizabeth taylor, the pope,

mickey rooney, gerald ford and michael j. fox....................

 

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

Wasn't Tony Booth ( Cherie Blairs dad) unwell recently? Or am I thinking about someone else?

[Guest If I told you that]

Hope so. He's on my livejournal death list

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

Raymond Baxter? I think he's 82. Would he be famous enough? I suppose to people around 35 - 50 would agree he would be.

[Guest Mr.]

Ideas, Death List 2005:

Nancy Reagan (The death of a soulmate usually shortens the surviving spouse's life)

Walter Mondale (VP 1977-1981, 1984 Pres. Candidate)

George McGovern (US Sen., 1972 US Pres. Candidate)

Eugene McCarthy (former Dem US Sen., primary Pres. Candidate)

Brooke Astor (A prominent New York socialite, will be 103 in March 2005)

Rosemary Kennedy (mentally retarded sister of President Kennedy, born 1918)

Sargent Shriver (Dem VP candidate 1972, suffers Alzheimer's)

Margaret Thatcher

Yassir Arafat (He will most certainly be dead by 2005)

Claiborne Pell (Former U.S. Senator, D-RI)

[VSBfromH 74]

How about Bill Maynard (a.k.a. Claude Greengrass, Selwyn Froggett). Only 76, but had to stop "Heartbeat" due to a "series of strokes" a few years back (stop, heartbeat, strokes - so many puns presenting themselves in that one sentence!).

 

Did the search thingy and can't believe he's not been considered before now!

[Magere Hein 1,400]

I did some research on living Nobel Prize winners, and found the following possible candidates for 2005, all 85+ years old:

 

Hans Bethe (Physics, 1967) born 1906

Joseph Rotblat (Peace, 1995) born 1908

Rita Levi-Montalcini (Medicine, 1986) born 1909

Ronald H. Coase (Economics, 1991) born 1910

Maurice Allais (Economics, 1988) born 1911

Naguib Mahfouz (Literature, 1988) born 1911

Julius Axelrod (Medicine, 1970) born 1912

George E. Palade (Medicine, 1974) born 1912

Milton Friedman (Economics, 1976) born 1912

Herbert C. Brown (Chemistry, 1979) born 1912

Willis Eugene Lamb (Physics, 1965) born 1913

Norman E. Borlaug (Peace, 1970) born 1914

Renato Dulbecco (Medicine, 1975) born 1914

Raymond Davis Jr. (Physics, 2002) born 1914

Thomas Huckle Weller (Medicine, 1954) born 1915

Charles Hard Townes (Physics, 1964) born 1915

Henry Taube (Chemistry, 1983) born 1915

Saul Bellow (Literature, 1976) born 1915

Paul A. Samuelson (Economics, 1970) born 1915

Norman F. Ramsey (Physics, 1989) born 1915

Jean Dausset (Medicine, 1980) born 1916

Robert F. Furchgott (Medicine, 1998) born 1916

Vitaly L. Ginzburg (Physics, 2003) born 1916

Andrew Fielding Huxley (Medicine, 1963) born 1917

Christian de Duve (Medicine, 1974) born 1917

John Warcup Cornforth (Chemistry, 1975) born 1917

Herbert A. Hauptman (Chemistry, 1985) born 1917

William S. Knowles (Chemistry, 2001) born 1917

John B. Fenn (Chemistry, 2002) born 1917

Frederick Sanger (Chemistry, 1958) born 1918

Arthur Kornberg (Medicine, 1959) born 1918

Ernst Otto Fischer (Chemistry, 1973) born 1918

Frederick Sanger (Chemistry, 1980) born 1918

Kai M. Siegbahn (Physics, 1981) born 1918

Jerome Karle (Chemistry, 1985) born 1918

Edwin G. Krebs (Medicine, 1992) born 1918

Nelson Mandela (Peace, 1993) born 1918

Paul D. Boyer (Chemistry, 1997) born 1918

Jens C. Skou (Chemistry, 1997) born 1918

William N. Lipscomb (Chemistry, 1976) born 1919

James M. Buchanan Jr. (Economics, 1986) born 1919

Joseph E. Murray (Medicine, 1990) born 1919

Owen Chamberlain (Physics, 1959) born 1920

François Jacob (Medicine, 1965) born 1920

Baruj Benacerraf (Medicine, 1980) born 1920

Lawrence R. Klein (Economics, 1980) born 1920

Nicolaas Bloembergen (Physics, 1981) born 1920

E. Donnall Thomas (Medicine, 1990) born 1920

Edmond H. Fischer (Medicine, 1992) born 1920

 

Note that I didn't check their health, so more research is needed.

 

Source: the website of Nobel Foundation.

 

regards,

Hein

[The Four Horsemen 26]

And who said this death prediction isn't an exact science!

[satboy 2]

Yup, David Lange is a dead cert.

 

Have you guys heard of him? He visited the UK on a few occassions.... smelt uranium on the breath etc...

[Grim Reaper 186]

Magere's list ends before we get to John Nash (the guy from "A Beautiful Mind" ) - 76 now - no particular news of ill-health - apart from being totally doolally for 30 years

 

Saw a documentary on him a little while ago and have since been thinking he might not be a bad prospect for 2005.

[Teddy 21]

Fido

 

Oh well, life's a bitch...

[Anubis the Jackal 77]

If not from the contract killers, then a tendency to talk nonsense about himself, weight loss and sudden heart attack.

See ODB

[Anubis the Jackal 77]

A Brief and highly unscientific perusal of the aged Nobel prize winners shows a high percentage of the contenders to have won prizes for medicine or physics and very few for peace.

 

It obviously pays to have mates who are doctors rather than Generals.

[Guest Guest_bobnudd]

David Coleman must be there or thereabouts by now.

 

And you don't see Arthur Scargill on telly much these days.

[VSBfromH 74]

I looked up David Coleman on IMDB. He's now 78. There are a few other David Coleman's to sift through. Ours is correctly identified as the host of QoS, etc. However, they also have him down as having played a character called "Jimmy" in the Gene Autry show in 1953...

 

Somehow, I think that was another David Coleman

 

(... or was it?... err... err... extraordinary!)

[Teddy 21]

However, they also have him down as having played a character called "Jimmy" in the Gene Autry show in 1953...

 

Somehow, I think that was another David Coleman

 

(... or was it?... err... err... extraordinary!)

According to the TV Tome website entry for the episode, 'Jimmy' is a young lad.

 

Given that 'our' David would have been 27 in 1953, I think it is a safe bet that IMDB have made a mistake. Unless he was a very young looking 27 year old

[Rude Kid 3]

There are so many bloody David Colemans (Colemen?) out there that I had trouble finding a good photo of him for the DDP site. A Google image search throws up a real motley array of them, including:

 

and

 

[football_fan 42]

Here's my list for 2005!

 

Rosa Parks

Senator Ted Kennedy

Henry Kissinger

Oral Roberts (evangelist)

Prince Phillip

Senator John Glenn

Neil Armstrong

Nelson Mandela

Andy Rooney

Jerry Lewis