Guest BuriedInCarolina Posted January 5, 2015 I had fully intended as part of my 2015 DDP "TilDeathDoUsPart" submission to include former Senators and US Presidential Candidates Bob Dole and his wife Elizabeth Dole but totally forgot to do so as I worked so hard to find 10 "couples" that both were reasonable selections for my list. At 91, and with health problems he makes a great choice and she isn't too bad either at 78 and being tied to and dragged down by that old man she is married to! The list ended up as George H W Bush (joker), Barbara Bush,,Jimmy Carter, Rosalyn Carter, Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Ozzie Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Charles (Prince of Wales), Camilla (Duchess of Cornwall), Elton John, David Furnish, George Takei, and Brad Altman although I now have doubts about Altman and Furnish getting qualifying obits in the UK. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eesti 151 Posted January 6, 2015 List of the people who didn't make it to the top 20. In brackets years when I have included them to the DDP: 21. Jenny Diski 67 22. Bryan Murray (ice hockey) 72 23. Robert Mugabe 90 (2012-2014) __________________________________ 24. Jules Bianchi 25 25. Pope Benedict XVI 87 (2014) 26. Antony Booth 83 27. Chuck Berry 88 (2012) 28. Nancy Reagan 93 (2013) 29. Walter Scheel 95 30. Kirk Douglas 98 (2011-2012, 2014) 31. Prince Philip 93 (2011, 2014) 32. George H.W. Bush 90 (2013-2014) 33. Stephen Hawking 72 (2014) 34. Hosni Mubarak 85 (2013) 35. Bob Dole 91 (2013) 36. Bart Starr 80 37. Doyle Brunson 81 38. Merle Haggard 77 39. Ian Brady 76 (2013) 40. Penny Marshall 71 (2013) 41. Terry Pratchett 66 42. Sir Nicholas Winton 105 43. Lupita Tovar 104 44. Piet de Jong 99 45. David Rockefeller 99 46. Olivia De Havilland 98 47. Denis Healey 97 48. Helmut Schmidt 96 49. Little Jimmy Dickens 94 (DEAD) 50. George Alagiah 59 51. Maureen O'Hara 94 52. Helmut Kohl 84 53. Julius Darmaatmadja 80 54. Jim Bowen 77 55. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo 72 56. Richard von Weizsäcker 94 57. Margot Hielscher 95 58. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 95 59. Cliff Michelmore 95 60. James Molyneaux 94 61. Jake LaMotta 93 62. John Glenn 93 63. Patrick Macnee 92 64. Betty White 92 65. Doris Day 92/90 66. Christopher Lee 92 67. Lee Kuan Yew 91 68. Henry Kissinger 91 69. Chuck Yeager 91 70. BB King 89 71. George Cole 89 72. Dick Van Dyke 89 (2011) 73. Gudrun Ure 88 74. Harper Lee 88 75. Wendy Beckett 84 76. Mihhail Gorbatšov 83 77. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 81 78. Peter Maxwell Davies 80 79. Jack Nicholson 77 (2011) 80. Valerie Harper 75 (2014) 81. Norma Waterson 75 82. John McCririck 74 83. Brian Bennett 74 84. Dick Cheney 73 85. Bruce Welch 73 86. Hank Marvin 73 87. Ryan O'Neal 73 88. Guy Edwards 72 89. Kelvin MacKenzie 68 90. Edgar Savisaar 64 91. Leif Garrett 53 92. Eddie Large 73 93. Ryuichi Sakamoto 62 94. Ali Carter 35 95. Michael Schumacher 45 96. Bashar al-Assad 49 97. Misao Okawa 116 98. Aretha Franklin 72 (2011) 99. Michael Douglas 70 (2011) 100. Wilko Johnson 67 (2014) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,271 Posted January 6, 2015 I had a whole shadow list to my shadow list, another 50 with no room at the inn... Al Anderson, Michael Aspel, Tom Baker, Bob Barker, Pope Benedict XVI, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Jim Bowen, Lord Carrington, Julie Chang, George Cole, Judy Collins, Doug Ellis, Louis Farrakhan, Helen Fawkes, Aretha Franklin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Kate Granger, King Harald V of Norway, Alison Hartley (bbc Essex), Jenny Inman, Wilko Johnson, Louis Jourdan, Candye Kane, Henry Kissinger, Helmut Kohl, Phil Lesh, Jerry Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Teodoro Obiang Nquema Mbasogo, John McVie, Shih Ming-Teh, Tracy Morgan, Shelley Morrison, Hosni Mubarak, Jim Nabors, Manuel Noriega, Maureen O'Hara, Peter O'Sullevan, Seymour Papert, Nile Rodgers, William Russell, Robert Schuller, Vojislav Seselj, Micheal Schumacher, Lupita Tovar, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Murray Walker, Sir Nicholas Winton, Chris Woodhead & Malcolm Young. That's interesting RA. I was gonna put Carl Reiner on my list this year, however his films The Man With Two Brains and The Jerk are so brilliant, so even-funnier-than-most-of-Castro's-facial-expressions-in-his-recent-pics, y'know...., I just couldn't do the "crossing off" thingy.... oh and besides he's in really great shape apparently so I guess that's another good reason. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,538 Posted March 2, 2015 Dr Beverley Hall: Woman at the centre of the Atlanta school exam scandal a few years back when inner-city schools were found to be faking exam scores. Probably not notable enough for an obituary though, unless via nefarious Yahoo video means. Ah fuck off Reuters. At least nobody picked her on the DDP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,978 Posted March 3, 2015 I have some "regrets" about picking the wrong people out of very narrow categories. For my DDP, I picked Walter Scheel, a very old former German president, only to find out that another, less old former German president (Richard von Weizsäcker) died. For the Hare's Death Pool, I picked Alexej Nawalny because I thought that Putin might attempt to kill a prominent member of the opposition, but then a different guy died. Also, at the beginning of the year, two german football world championship winners of 1954 were still alive, I picked Horst Eckel, but then the other guy died. And finally, I chose cancer-stricken former drummer of the german punk band "Die Toten Hosen" Wolfgang Rohde, but then the band's manager Jochen Hülder died. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,058 Posted March 15, 2015 I left off Lauren Hill because I didn't think she will get the obit, but I have a feeling I'll be wrong now... I dropped Clive James and Valerie Harper but retained basically everyone else. Three I very strongly considered: Peter Brabeck-Letmathe - F1 Chairman, standing down due to "curable" ill health, but apparently still retaining some power so... Xu Caihou - Chinese general who escaped a corruption trial with apparent terminal cancer; got too many terminal criminals so he got left off. Miriam Defensor Santiago - former ICC judge, has lung cancer, but apparently doing well and running for President of the Philippines Xu Caihou dead. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-2995965/Disgraced-former-Chinese-officer-dies-cancer--Xinhua.html Edit: BBC Obit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-31901941 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,058 Posted March 18, 2015 Here are the people who just missed my DDP main team 21-40 Gino Odjick Bryan Wiedmeier*think these 2 will die also think less than 50% chance they get the req obit Francis George* Oj Brigance Rev Billy Graham Nurse Pauline Cafferkey George Coe "Voice of Woodhouse" Ritchii Kara Ian Brady Lynne Stewart Ib Melchior Rene Angelil Clive James Muhammad Ali Avdelaziz Bouteflika Desmond Tutu Valerie Harper Kirk Kerkorian Abdullah The Butcher Al Molinaro Ib Melchior dead. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ib-melchior-dead-robinson-crusoe-782749 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted October 21, 2015 List of the people who didn't make it to the top 20. In brackets years when I have included them to the DDP: 78. Peter Maxwell Davies 80 1. That's SIR Peter to you. 2. Now 81, his cancer has returned. SC http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3268848/Royal-composer-s-cancer-returns-Queen-s-former-Master-Music-reveals-needs-new-round-chemotherapy-leukaemia-comes-back.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,476 Posted October 21, 2015 List of the people who didn't make it to the top 20. In brackets years when I have included them to the DDP: 78. Peter Maxwell Davies 80 1. That's SIR Peter to you. 2. Now 81, his cancer has returned. SC http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3268848/Royal-composer-s-cancer-returns-Queen-s-former-Master-Music-reveals-needs-new-round-chemotherapy-leukaemia-comes-back.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 He's been on several shortlists for a while. Iirc, when he gained more time in 2013, he had to go on a cocktail of drugs that "held back" his cancer, and there was always the likelihood they would only keep the cancer (which is a particularly virulent strain of leukemia) at bay for so long. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,058 Posted October 21, 2015 Hey msc, in passing you might want to cross Grace Lee Boggs off for this year in your sig. Radguy normally notices these things, but hey. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,476 Posted October 21, 2015 Hey msc, in passing you might want to cross Grace Lee Boggs off for this year in your sig. Radguy normally notices these things, but hey. I forgot she was on it (via the Hares pool, I think). Mind you, I did immediately go to cross off Denis Healey a few weeks ago, only to find that he wasn't on any of my lists for the first year ever. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted December 14, 2015 Miriam Defensor Santiago - former ICC judge, has lung cancer, but apparently doing well and running for President of the Philippines Miriam Defensor Santiago has told people to "mind their own business" about her diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer, which she says shouldn't stop her from running for President. I'm giving some thought to sticking her on my DDP team, she's got a big Wiki page and was once listed as one of the hundred most powerful women in the world, so will surely get an obit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 22, 2016 I left off Lauren Hill because I didn't think she will get the obit, but I have a feeling I'll be wrong now... I dropped Clive James and Valerie Harper but retained basically everyone else.Three I very strongly considered:Peter Brabeck-Letmathe - F1 Chairman, standing down due to "curable" ill health, but apparently still retaining some power so...Xu Caihou - Chinese general who escaped a corruption trial with apparent terminal cancer; got too many terminal criminals so he got left off.Miriam Defensor Santiago - former ICC judge, has lung cancer, but apparently doing well and running for President of the Philippines I left off Lauren Hill because I didn't think she will get the obit, but I have a feeling I'll be wrong now... I dropped Clive James and Valerie Harper but retained basically everyone else.Three I very strongly considered:Peter Brabeck-Letmathe - F1 Chairman, standing down due to "curable" ill health, but apparently still retaining some power so...Xu Caihou - Chinese general who escaped a corruption trial with apparent terminal cancer; got too many terminal criminals so he got left off.Miriam Defensor Santiago - former ICC judge, has lung cancer, but apparently doing well and running for President of the Philippines And now Santiago has been appointed as something or other by Bill Gates. She's healthy as a horse (unless that horse is Affirmed). Lung C a thing of the past. Someone has her in DDP SC http://www.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2016/0122_santiago1.asp Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
