Who Should Be On The 2019 Deathlist?

[CaptainChorizo 1,977]

On 26/12/2018 at 10:34, Sean said:

My last minute suggestions :

 

Michelle Nicholls 

 

 

I don't think the cousin of a Star Trek cast member is list worthy

[ebless 203]

My provisional final update 

 

1) Herman Wouk

2) Kirk Douglas

3) Nobby Stiles

4) Leah Bracknell

5) Duke of Edinburgh

6) Stirling Moss

7) Vera Lynn

8) Pope Benedict

9) Doddie Weir

10) Olivia De Havilland

11) Javier Perez De Cuellar

12) Terry Jones

13) Clive James

14) Pierre Cardin

15) Jill Gascoine

16) Leslie Phillips

17) George Alagiah

18) Bill Turnbull

19) John McCririck

20) Bob Dole

21) Bob Barker

22) Olivia Newton-John

23) I.M Pei

24) Sheila Mercier

25) Betty White

26) Doris Day

27) Robert Mugabe

28) Jacques Chirac

29) John Hume

30) Jimmy Greaves

31) Billy Connolly

32) Barbara Windsor

33) Emperor Akihito

34) Murray Walker

35) Rolf Harris

36) Shane McGowan

37) Willie Nelson

38) Peter Oosterhuis

39) Mikael Gorbechev

40) Ennio Morricone

41) Sidney Poitier

42) Nicholas Parsons

43) Hosni Mubarak

44) Valerie Harper

45) Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

46) Henry Kissinger

47) Harry Belafonte

48) Bill Treacher

49) Paul Gascoigne

50) Sean Connery

 

 

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

Urgent, late-breaking suggestion for the consideration of the DL Committee is Bob Hawke.  

 

Evidence:  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-29/bob-hawke-reveals-terrible-health-labor-to-win-federal-election/10673364

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6536857/Bob-Hawke-fears-time-health-continues-deteriorate.html

 

The election he fears he won't live to see is in only five months' time....

 

 

 

[dean1991 116]

Huge political figure. Be silly to miss him out. 

[the_engineer 1,415]

I'd get rid of gazza and June Brown and replace them with Billy Connolly and John Mccririck. I think Rolf Harris should be included too.

[dean1991 116]

Farakkhan, Scales and Brooks need to go too.

[msc 18,441]

Bob Hawke is certainly Deathlist material but may have left this information too late? Dunno when the Cmme meet.

 

If its bad as they say they've got 2019 or a miss by sounds of it.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

7 hours ago, Davey Jones' Locker said:

Urgent, late-breaking suggestion for the consideration of the DL Committee is Bob Hawke.  

 

Evidence:  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-29/bob-hawke-reveals-terrible-health-labor-to-win-federal-election/10673364

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6536857/Bob-Hawke-fears-time-health-continues-deteriorate.html

 

The election he fears he won't live to see is in only five months' time....

 

 

 

Mr Hawke and his wife both cherish the festival, saying that it gives thousands in the community an opportunity to enjoy high-quality and diverse talents.

'That's why I've kept coming back, and unfortunately it'll be my last visit I reckon,' he said.

Huh, the Aussies say 'reckon' too?!  We are like kindred spirits.

[Sean 6,315]

I wonder if the committee will pick. Blanco.A guaranteed hit and she was the Governor of Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina so will obit widely.

[msc 18,441]

Just now, Sean said:

I wonder if the committee will pick. Blanco.A guaranteed hit and she was the Governor of Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina so will obit widely.

 

Was listening to this interesting podcast about that period yesterday.

Complete with Blanco interview after she became terminal.

[drol 11,945]

I've picked Hawke in my theme team before reading the news. Committee will never pick Blanco.

[charon 4,943]

On 27/12/2018 at 20:03, Steve said:

Other names I am going to throw into the ring include Windsor Davies (It Ain't Half Hot Mom), Brian Murphy (Mr Roper in Man About The House and George & Mildred), Kenneth Cope, Jean Marsh (Upstairs Downstairs), Sheila Fearn (Audrey in The Likely Lads and Ann Fourmile in George & Mildred) and Christopher Beeny (Billy Henshaw in In Loving Memory)

 

 

As stated on here recently, Copes wife is in worse nick than him.

[msc 18,441]

13 minutes ago, charon said:

 

 

As stated on here recently, Copes wife is in worse nick than him.

 

 

Renny Lister, familiar TV face of the 1970s etc. And aye, when the guy with COPD is apparently looking after his missus...

[Joey Russ 7,223]

1 hour ago, drol said:

I've picked Hawke in my theme team before reading the news. Committee will never pick Blanco.

That’s what we thought about Gord Downie and Errol Christie though...

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

6 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

Mr Hawke and his wife both cherish the festival, saying that it gives thousands in the community an opportunity to enjoy high-quality and diverse talents.

'That's why I've kept coming back, and unfortunately it'll be my last visit I reckon,' he said.

Huh, the Aussies say 'reckon' too?!  We are like kindred spirits.

We have picked up your bad habits.

[drol 11,945]

If Whitfield is not dead she will surely be picked next year...

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

Blanche has been planning Bob's funeral...

 

https://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/culture/blanche-dalpuget-says-shes-planning-bob-hawkes-funeral-15887

 

[ImissMontpellier 73]

My first 2019 deathlist:

 

1) Pierre Soulages

2) Pierre Cardin

3) Jimmy Carter

4) Jacques Chirac

5) Bernadette Chirac (Jacques' wife)

6) Jacques Delors

7) Michael Palin

8) Jean-Marie Le Pen

9) Imelda Marcos

10) John Major

11) Michael Caine

12) King Juan Carlos

13) Grand-Duc Jean de Luxembourg

14) Ruth Bader Ginsburg

15) Anton Coppola

16) George Soros

17) Rupert Murdoch

18) Pelé

19) Alex Ferguson

20) Pope Francis

21) Pope Benedict XVI

22) Jean-Louis Trintignant

23) Michel Piccoli

24) Michel Sardou

25) Bill Clinton

26) Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

27) Woody Allen

28) Robert Redford

29) Queen Elizabeth II

30) Prince Philip of Edimburg

31) Tom Jones

32) Bernard Tapie

33) Thomas Markle Sr (is he deathlist worthy?)

34) Ernst-August of Hanover

35) Marianne Faithfull

36) David Bailey

37) Sean Connery

38) Kirk Douglas

39) Line Renaud (is she deathlist worthy?)

40) Morgan Freeman

41) Marilyn Manson

42) Bernard Arnault

43) Jérôme Seydoux (related to Léa and French billionaire)

44) Hosni Mubarak

45) Robert Mugabe

46) Ennio Morricone

47) Mikhail Gorbachev

48) Béji Caïd Essebsi

49) Sonia Gandhi

50) Abdelaziz Bouteflika

 

 

I guess the first man to go will be a politician and the first lady to leave us will be an artist... I can feel it but....

[Paul Bearer 6,101]

1 hour ago, drol said:

If Whitfield is not dead she will surely be picked next year...

Guess she won't be picked next year. 

[YoungWillz 21,044]

On ‎22‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 22:12, YoungWillz said:

Been thinking about who else should step forward? Anyone help? Ahhhh...

 

Jinxed her.....

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

 

Clarrisa Eden - Countess of Avon

 

So fucking old it's hard to tell if her face is all wrinkles or the surface on and old oil painting is cracking

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,341]

3 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

 

Clarrisa Eden - Countess of Avon

 

So fucking old it's hard to tell if her face is all wrinkles or the surface on and old oil painting is cracking

Excellent suggestion especially after the needless miss this year of 101 year old Mary Wilson!

[RolandDeschain 91]

Veteran producer/director Roger Corman will be 93 next year.

 

Actress and comedy legend Anna Karen will be 83. Hasn’t been in anything since Eastenders in January 2017.  The last of the regulars from one of the most classic, well-loved sitcoms of all time - On The Buses!  Will be a huge miss IMO 

 

A very offbeat pick might be an actor called Terry Kilburn. Born in 1926 he is probably best known for playing a pupil in British classic from 1939, ‘Goodbye Mr Chips’ - he plays the child who says goodbye to the main character at the end - he plays 2 pupils - the son and father who are taught at the school.  He also was Tiny Tim in the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol which starred Reginald Owen.

Also in films like Lolita, a 1940 version of Swiss Family Robinson and the 1939 version of Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone.

 

[Vinegar Tits 606]

My Melbourne-based sister mentioned Bob Hawke too so...

 

I'm thinking 2019 sadly may be Vera Lynn's year. She's been suspiciously quiet of late.

 

Looking at ImissMontpellier's list, is Michel Sardou ill?  Not heard anything other than he's currently in a wheelchair following an operation on his feet.

 

And while Line Renaud should get a UK obit, I'd be surprised if the powers-that-be pick her, plus, admittedly a year ago now but she looked more alive than practically the entire congregation at Hallyday's funeral and was spritely enough in 'La Ch'tite Famille' too - definitely less frail-looking than June Whitfield was in the Ab Fab movie.

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

4 hours ago, Vinegar Tits said:

My Melbourne-based sister mentioned Bob Hawke too so...

 

I just did some counting and... if Hawke does last until the next election and the Morrison government loses office (very likely at this stage), we the taxpayers will be funding the pensions of no fewer than eight surviving ex-prime ministers.

 

UPDATE: Here are some interesting stats on ages of PMs, retirement lengths and so on, for those interested in such things:

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Australia_by_age