Thoughts and opinions on the death list 2019

[msc 18,437]

On 02/09/2019 at 10:26, Bibliogryphon said:

We are now level with 2011 the least successful recent year.

 

Looking at this point in previous years there have been between 2 & 6 hits after this date so predictiions could be anywhere between 9 ( disappointing) and 13 (not bad).

 

Six of the seven hits have come in a 110 day period and there is still over 110 day until the end of the year.

 

A hit before 14th October will take us ahead of 2016.

 

I concede my prediction on Page 3 might have been just a tad over optimistic. But in general, recent years tend to level out to circa 12, so I think we'll get there.

 

What the thread needs is Sean's list of teetering folk from 2017, but as he's busy

 

1. Larry King - severe heart issues, allegedly on road out. Nearly died due to major HA earlier this year.

2. Little Richard - frail with health issues, no longer able to read fan mail.

3. Clive James - Written his "last article", allegedly. Also possibly twinned with Valerie Harper.

4. Tony Britton - Really old and in a care home.

5. Gorbachev - Spent vast chunks of 2019 in hospital, ill and frail.

6. Jimmy Greaves - Been on bored time since 2015.

7. Honor Blackman - Rumblings on here about her health few weeks ago?

8. Leah Bracknell - tbh she has Stage IV lung cancer, and could go downhill overnight.

9. Vera Lynn - Increasingly frail and really, really old.

10. Robert Mugabe - Hospitalised in Singapore several times for health problems

11. Bob Dole - Old and looks like fucking shite in increasingly rarer public appearances.

12. Akihito - So frail, the Japanese let him abdicate.

13. Stirling Moss - Major health problems, backed up by his public retirement and the word of our man in the know.

14. Jacques Chirac - Frail and end stages of dementia, no longer recognises anyone.

15. Nobby Stiles - Seemingly on his last legs since 2014.

 

It wouldn't really surprise if any of them die between now and December 31st. Plus I think we're due one of the old timers going, just on law of averages.

[drol 11,922]

And here's those to drop next year:

 

1. Murray Walker. Yes, he is very old, but seems OK. Could risk a miss.

2. Betty White. Betty White theorem adfirms she can't die. But she will be there till she does.

3. Hosni Mubarak. Going strong. Too much.

4. June Brown. Still on TV, don't think she is going anywhere before 5-6 years.

5. Alan Greenspan. Horribly wasted new entry.

6. Dick Van Dyke. See Betty White.

7. Barbara Walters. Only rumours and hoaxes. Drop this Jew. 

8. Harry Belafonte. Still going strong.

9. Valery Giscard d'Estaing. He has no health issues despite his age.

10. Ed Asner. Very well.

11. Vanessa Redgrave. Wasted pick.

12. Cleo Laine . Wasted pick.

13. Tina Turner. See above.

14. Ginger Baker. Not going anywhere.

15. Shane MacGowan. Too young.

[Bibliogryphon 9,570]

4 minutes ago, drol said:

 

 

10. Ed Asner. 

 

Signed off his tribute to Valerie Harper with see you soon....

[Death Impends 7,956]

31 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

 

Signed off his tribute to Valerie Harper with see you soon....

 

Feels to me like it's more in the sense of "I'm old and won't be here for years and years" than "I'm close to death". We'll see.

[YoungWillz 21,026]

Recently lost MTM, his wife and now Valerie.

 

Confronting his mortality, may just give up, especially if Gavin MacLeod carks it.

[Bibliogryphon 9,570]

Next milestone. If we get a bit before 19th September we overtake 2018 & 2013

[CastAway 488]

3 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Next milestone. If we get a bit before 19th September we overtake 2018 & 2013

 

I don't know how likely that is - as ridiculous as it sounds, the 100+ crowd on the list seem to be perfectly happy to continue living, and I've always felt them to be the most likely to randomly pop off when a hit is desperately needed.

 

That said, if any hits are to happen, hoping for some of the perennial bedwarmers on the list to clear out so there's at least some talk as to who'll be brought over to next year.

[Bibliogryphon 9,570]

A hit within the next week (something I think we could drum up) will take us ahead of 2018

[ThereWillBeDeaths7 720]

18 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

A hit within the next week (something I think we could drum up) will take us ahead of 2018

Good pun, can't beat that 

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,337]

So that's three deaths in less than a month.Perhaps some of us wrote of this year way too prematurely?

[paddyfool 379]

21 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

So that's three deaths in less than a month.Perhaps some of us wrote of this year way too prematurely?

 

9 deaths from 9 months is pretty respectable, certainly. 

[CastAway 488]

I mean, I still think the list was way too conservative this year with nothing but the old ones/known terminally ill people (and even then pretty old terminally ill people).

 

Someone like Ricksen would have been a good punt for this year, or a couple of younger names. Make it a bit more of an intriguing list rather than one that's basically 'here's an old person who'll probably die soon.'

[ebless 203]

Here's who I would drop for 2020. 

 

Tina Turner 

Cleo Laine

Ed Asner

Shane McGowan 

Dick Van Dyke

Alan Greenspan

June Brown 

Vanessa Redgrave

 

[Joey Russ 7,220]

On 02/09/2019 at 08:53, drol said:

14. Ginger Baker. Not going anywhere.

You think so? 

[gcreptile 10,964]

Well, he certainly won't go anywhere now!

[ebless 203]

My current verdicts as we enter the final quarter of the year and with Ginger gone. 

 

Kirk Douglas -  Think he'll see his 103rd and 2020 now. 

Olivia De Haviland - Should be fine for the 2020 starting line. 

Duke of Edinburgh - Slowly deteriorating but should last a bit yet.

Leah Bracknell - Continues to defy the odds, could see 2021 let alone 2020. 

Vera Lynn - Accelerating health, don't think she'll survive the winter.

Jimmy Carter - Not going anywhere soon but too old to be dropped now.

Pierre Cardin - Quiet of late but his age makes him too risky to be dropped.

Bob Dole - Looks like he will get a really high position in the 2020 list if he makes it. 

Henry Kissinger - Still making public appearances despite being unable to walk. 

Jerry Stiller - Quiet of late but could be worth dropping next year. 

Javier Perez De Cueller - Could go any time.

Bob Barker - Somehow managing to cling on. 

Murray Walker - Still writing columns but too old to be dropped now. 

Emperor Akihito - Nothing new about his health, could be a risky drop for next year. 

Betty White - Could last a bit yet but too big to miss of course. 

Hosni Mubarak - Quiet of late but still young enough to take a DL sabbatical. 

June Brown - Still acting, worth dropping for 2020. 

Stirling Moss - Could go any time.

Alan Greenspan - Wasted pick

Dick Van Dyke - One of the most stupid picks ever, not going anywhere, must be dropped for 2020.

Nobby Stiles - Somehow still clinging on, must be at least top 10 for the 2020 list if he makes it. 

Barbara Walters - Worth bringing her back for the 2020 list. 

Honor Blackman - Not been seen in public for a few years now, think she's a lock until she goes. 

Harry Belafonte - Quiet of late but should stay on the list every year now. 

Desmond Tutu - Looked really well recently with Prince Harry and his entourage, a worthy drop next year. 

Valery Giscard d'Estaing - Now outlived two of his successors, stood unaided at Chirac's funeral recently, I'd drop him for 2020.

Ed Asner - Wasted pick. 

Vanessa Redgrave - Too early

Jimmy Greaves - Needs a lot of care now, think he's a goner for 2020. 

Sidney Poitier - Worth keeping for next year. 

Cleo Laine - Still performing regularly but an interesting pick. I'd bring her back for 2021. 

Loretta Lynn - Looked reasonably well at a recent awards ceremony. I'd drop her for 2020.

Michael Gorbechav - In and out of hospital lately, could well be a 2020 goner. 

Tony Britton - Quiet of late but too old to be dropped. 

Clive James - Should see out the year but must be at least top 15 for the 2020 list. 

Prunella Scales - Should last a bit yet.

Little Richard - Either this year or early next year.

Larry King - Could well be a 2020 goner.

Tina Turner - Wasted pick.

Shane McGowan - Had to be on the DL sometime but I'd bring him back for 2021.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bibliogryphon 9,570]

Another hit in the next couple of days would take us ahead of 2008 & 2015 both of which were 14 Death years

[msc 18,437]

4 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Another hit in the next couple of days would take us ahead of 2008 & 2015 both of which were 14 Death years

 

5 hits in 47 days. It's as if those of us who say wait and see tend to be vindicated more than not!

[ebless 203]

The seven most likely candidates to die before the end of the year in order to break the record. 

 

Nobby Stiles

Vera Lynn

Javier Perez De Cueller

Stirling Moss

Clive James

Bob Dole

Little Richard

 

[Grim Up North 3,725]

Since Charles Lane died in July 2007 the number 4 slot on the Death List has been a very safe place to be, at least for the next twelve months, with not a single hit.

 

Prince Phil currently keeping the sequence going.

 

For a place so high up on the list that is quite surprising however it is not the safest place to find yourself. That would be at number 32 where no-one has died whilst holding the slot since Lionel Hampton on 30th August 2002. This year (and last year) Valery Giscard D'Estaing has responsibility of keeping the sequence going.

[Grim Up North 3,725]

On ‎06‎/‎10‎/‎2019 at 17:36, ebless said:

My current verdicts as we enter the final quarter of the year and with Ginger gone. 

 

Leah Bracknell - Continues to defy the odds, could see 2021 let alone 2020. 

 

 

As she had already been dead for at least a week surely this has to have a claim for the worst DL prediction of all time?

[RIP Wee Jum 1,559]

2 hours ago, Grim Up North said:

Since Charles Lane died in July 2007 the number 4 slot on the Death List has been a very safe place to be, at least for the next twelve months, with not a single hit.

 

Prince Phil currently keeping the sequence going.

 

For a place so high up on the list that is quite surprising however it is not the safest place to find yourself. That would be at number 32 where no-one has died whilst holding the slot since Lionel Hampton on 30th August 2002. This year (and last year) Valery Giscard D'Estaing has responsibility of keeping the sequence going.

Any stats on the slot with the most deaths ?

[msc 18,437]

Did we note that Robert Mugabe was the 300th DL hit since the start?

 

Worth a mention anyhow.

[msc 18,437]

Updating some of the out of date DL stats...

 

Number of hits by month

1.      March 39

2.      June 30

3.      July and September and December 27

4.      August 26

5.      May 25

6.      January 23

7.      October 22

8.      February 21

9.      April 20

10.   November 16
(to Brackers)

List of Hits (to date)

 

Spoiler

 

                                                                       

 

1.      Andres Segovia (2^nd June 1987)

2.      Salvador Dali (23^rd Jan 1989)

3.      Sugar Ray Robinson (12^th April 1989)

4.      Ray Moore (1^st Dec 1989)

5.      Terry Thomas (8^th January 1990)

6.      Greta Garbo (15^th April 1990)

7.      Jill Ireland (18^th May 1990)

8.      Jim Joel (23^rd March 1992)

9.      Sir Michael havers (1^st April 1992)

10.   Marlene Dietrich (6^th May 1992)

11.   Kitty Godfree (19^th June 1992)

12.   Dan Maskell (10^th December 1992)

13.   Rudolph Nureyev (6^th January 1993)

14.   Audrey Hepburn (20^th January 1993)

15.   Arthur Ashe (6^th February 1993)

16.   Les Dawson (10^th June 1993)

17.   Bill Bixby (21^st November 1993)

18.   Brian Johnston (5^th January 1994)

19.   Telly Savalas (22^nd January 1994)

20.   Derek Jarman (19^th February 1994)

21.   John Curry (1^st April 1994)

22.   Richard Nixon (22^nd April 1994)

23.   Erich Honecker (30^th May 1994)

24.   Kim Il Sung (8^th July 1994)

25.   Roy Castle (2^nd September 1994)

26.   Burt Lancaster (20^th October 1994)

27.   Rose Kennedy (22^nd January 1995)

28.   Kenny Everett (4^th April 1995)

29.   Ginger Rogers (25^th April 1995)

30.   Dilys Powell (3^rd June 1995)

31.   Harold Larwood (22^nd July 1995)

32.   Alec Douglas Home (9^th October 1995)

33.   Paul Eddington (4^th November 1995)

34.   Jackie Mann (12^th November 1995)

35.   Dean Martin (25^th December 1995)

36.   Francois Mitterand (8^th January 1996)

37.   Simon Cadell (6^th March 1996)

38.   George Burns (9^th March 1996)

39.   Tim Gullikson (3^rd May 1996)

40.   Timothy Leary (31^st May 1996)

41.   Glynn Worsnip (6^th June 1996)

42.   Andreas Papandreou (23^rd June 1996)

43.   Den Xiao Ping (19^th February 1997)

44.   Jacques Costeau (25^th June 1997)

45.   Jimmy Stewart (2^nd July 1997)

46.   William Burroughs (3^rd August 1997)

47.   Mother Theresa (5^th September 1997)

48.   President Mobutu (6^th September 1997)

49.   Jeffrey Barnard (6^th September 1997)

50.   Burgess Meredith (11^th September 1997)

51.   Dr Hastings Banda (27^th November 1997)

52.   Helen Mills Moody (2^nd January 1998)

53.   Pol Pot (16^th April 1998)

54.   James Earl Ray (23^rd April 1998)

55.   Frank Sinatra (15^th May 1998)

56.   Catherine Cookson (11^th June 1998)

57.   Roy Rogers (9^th July 1998)

58.   Joan Hickson (18^th October 1998)

59.   Lew Grade (13^th December 1998)

60.   King Hussein of Jordan (8^th February 1999)

61.   Lord Denning (5^th March 1999)

62.   Joe DiMaggio (8^th March 1999)

63.   Ernie Wise (21^st March 1999)

64.   Alf Ramsey (30^th April 1999)

65.   Gene Sarazen (14^th May 1999)

66.   Victor Mature (4^th August 1999)

67.   Helen Rollason (9^th August 1999)

68.   Deryck Guyler (9^th October 1999)

69.   Quentin Crisp (21^st November 1999)

70.   E W Swanton (22^nd January 2000)

71.   Don Budge (27^th January 2000)

72.   Charlie Schulz (13^th February 2000)

73.   Stanley Matthews (23^rd February 2000)

74.   Ian Dury (27^th March 2000)

75.   Douglas Fairbanks Jr (7^th May 2000)

76.   John Geilgud (21^st May 2000)

77.   Barbara Cartland (21^st May 2000)

78.   Walter Matthau (1^st July 2000)

79.   Bunny Austin (28^th August 2000)

80.   Stanley Kramer (20^th February 2001)

81.   Don Bradman (25^th February 2001)

82.   John Diamond (2^nd March 2001)

83.   Ninette de Valois (8^th March 2001)

84.   William Hanna (22^nd March 2001)

85.   Brother Theodore Gottleib (5^th April 2001)

86.   Harry Secombe (11^th April 2001)

87.   Lord Longford (3^rd August 2001)

88.   Lord Hailsham (14^th October 2001)

89.   Mary Whitehouse (22^nd November 2001)

90.   Chuck Jones (23^rd February 2002)

91.   Spike Milligan (27^th February 2002)

92.   Milton Berle (27^th March 2002)

93.   Dudley Moore (27^th March 2002)

94.   Billy Wilder (28^th March 2002)

95.   Queen Mother (30^th March 2002)

96.   Joe Bonanno (12^th May 2002)

97.   Sam Snead (24^th May 2002)

98.   Lionel Hampton (31^st August 2002)

99.   Clement Stone (4^th September 2002)

100.         Sir Hardy Amies (5^th March 2003)

101.         Barry Sheene (10^th March 2003)

102.         Thora Hird (16^th March 2003)

103.         Gregory Peck (12^th June 2003)

104.         Denis Thatcher (26^th June 2003)

105.         Strom Thurmond (27^th June 2003)

106.         Kate Hepburn (30^th June 2003)

107.         Bob Hope (28^th July 2003)

108.         Idi Amin (16^th August 2003)

109.         Warren Zevon (8^th September 2003)

110.         Leni Riefenstahl (9^th September 2003)

111.         Edward Teller (10^th September 2003)

112.         Johnny Cash (12^th September 2003)

113.         Elia Kazan (28^th September 2003)

114.         Queen Juliana (20^th March 2004)

115.         Peter Ustinov (29^th March 2004)

116.         Alistair Cooke (30^th March 2004)

117.         Estee Lauder (25^th April 2004)

118.         Ronald Reagan (5^th June 2004)

119.         Henri Cartier-Bresson (4^th August 2004)

120.         Red Adair (8^th august 2004)

121.         Fay Wray (9^th August 2004)

122.         Rodney Dangerfield (5^th October 2004)

123.         Princess Alice (30^th October 2004)

124.         Lord Scarman (8^th December 2004)

125.         Artie Shaw (30^th December 2004)

126.         Max Schmelling (4^th February 2005)

127.         Sister Lucia (13^th February 2005)

128.         Jim Callaghan (26^th March 2005)

129.         Pope John Paul II (2^nd April 2005)

130.         John Mills (23^rd April 2005)

131.         Gretchen Franklin (12^th July 2005)

132.         Ted Heath (17^th July 2005)

133.         James Doohan (20^th July 2005)

134.         William Rehnquist (4^th September 2005)

135.         Simon Wiesenthal (20^th September 2005)

136.         Rosa Parks (25^th October 2005)

137.         Richard Pryor (11^th December 2005)

138.         Lou Rawls (6^th January 2006)

139.         Al Lewis (4^th February 2006)

140.         John Profumo (10^th March 2006)

141.         Caspar Weinberger (28^th March 2006)

142.         Stanley Kunitz (15^th May 2006)

143.         Charles Haughey (13^th June 2006)

144.         Aaron Spelling (24^th June 2006)

145.         Byron Nelson (26^th September 2006)

146.         PW Botha (31^st October 2006)

147.         Milton Friedman (16^th November 2006)

148.         Augusto Pinochet (10^th December 2006)

149.         Joseph Barbera (18^th December 2006)

150.         Gerald Ford (27^th December 2006)

151.         Ernest Gallo (7^th March 2007)

152.         Kurt Waldheim (14^th June 2007)

153.         George Melly (5^th July 2007)

154.         Charles Lane (10^th July 2007)

155.         Lady Bird Johnson (11^th July 2007)

156.         Tammy Faye Messner (22^nd July 2007)

157.         Ingmar Bergman (30^th July 2007)

158.         Brooke Astor (13^th August 2007)

159.         Bill Deedes (17^th August 2007)

160.         Ian Smith (20^th November 2007)

161.         Edmund Hillary (10^th January 2008)

162.         Suharto (27^th January 2008)

163.         Francis Pym (7^th March 2008)

164.         Arthur C Clarke (18^th March 2008)

165.         Richard Widmark (26^th March 2008)

166.         Charlton Heston (6^th April 2008)

167.         Albert Hoffman (29^th April 2008)

168.         Sydney Pollack (27^th May 2008)

169.         Bo Diddley (2^nd June 2008)

170.         Jesse Helms (5^th July 2008)

171.         Alexander Solzhenistsyn (3^rd August 2008)

172.         Levi Stubbs (17^th October 2008)

173.         W Mark Felt (18^th December 2008)

174.         Harold Pinter (24^th December 2008)

175.         Dai Llewellyn (14^th January 2009)

176.         Wendy Richard (26^th February 2009)

177.         Vincent O’Brien (1^st June 2009)

178.         Karl Malden (1^st July 2009)

179.         Walter Cronkite (17^th July 2009)

180.         Bobby Robson (31^st July 2009)

181.         Robert Novak (18^th August 2009)

182.         Ted Kennedy (26^th August 2009)

183.         Patrick Swayze (14^th September 2009)

184.         Susan Atkins (25^th September 2009)

185.         Ludovic Kennedy (19^th October 2009)

186.         Claude Levi-Strauss (3^rd November 2009)

187.         JD Salinger (28^th January 2010)

188.         Michael Foot (3^rd March 2010)

189.         Dennis Hopper (29^th May 2010)

190.         Laurent Fignon (31^st August 2010)

191.         Cyril Smith (3^rd September 2010)

192.         Norman Wisdom (4^th October 2010)

193.         Simon MacCorkindale (15^th October 2010)

194.         Dino De Laurentiis (11^th November 2010)

195.         Blake Edwards (16^th December 2010)

196.         Gerry Rafferty (4^th January 2011)

197.         Michael Gough (17^th March 2011)

198.         Elizabeth Taylor (23^rd March 2011)

199.         Diana Wynne Jones (26^th March 2011)

200.         Betty Ford (9^th July 2011)

201.         Harry Morgan (7^th December 2011)

202.         Kim Jong-il (19^th December 2011)

203.         Etta James (20^th January 2012)

204.         John Demjanjuk (17^th March 2012)

205.         Al Megrahi (20^th May 2012)

206.         Robin Gibb (20^th May 2012)

207.         Ray Bradbury (6^th June 2012)

208.         Yitzak Shamir (30^th June 2012)

209.         Eric Sykes (4^th July 2012)

210.         Tony Martin (30^th July 2012)

211.         Herbert Lom (27^th September 2012)

212.         Clive Dunn (7^th November 2012)

213.         Bill Tarmey (9^th November 2012)

214.         Oscar Niemeyer (6^th December 2012)

215.         Michael Winner (21^st January 2013)

216.         Patty Andrews (30^th January 2013)

217.         Reg Presley (4^th February 2013)

218.         Hugo Chavez (5^th March 2013)

219.         Margaret Thatcher (8^th April 2013)

220.         Henry Cecil (11^th June 2013)

221.         Bernie Nolan (4^th July 2013)

222.         Anna Wing (11^th July 2013)

223.         Erich Priebke (11^th October 2013)

224.         Nelson Mandela (5^th December 2013)

225.         Peter O’Toole (15^th December 2013)

226.         Ronnie Biggs (18^th December 2013)

227.         Mikhail Kalashnikov (23^rd December 2013)

228.         Sid Caesar (12^th February 2014)

229.         Mickey Rooney (7^th April 2014)

230.         Casey Kasem (15^th June 2014)

231.         Eli Wallach (24^th June 2014)

232.         Chapman Pincher (5^th August 2014)

233.         Lauren Bacall (13^th August 2014)

234.         Ian Paisley (12^th September 2014)

235.         Gough Whitlam (20^th October 2014)

236.         PD James (27^th November 2014)

237.         Luise Rainer (30^th December 2014)

238.         Leonard Nimoy (27^th February 2015)

239.         Sam Simon (8^th March 2015)

240.         BB King (14^th May 2015)

241.         John Forbes Nash (23^rd May 2015)

242.         Christopher Lee (11^th June 2015)

243.         Kirk Kerkorian (16^th June 2015)

244.         Chris Woodhead (23^rd June 2015)

245.         Patrick Macnee (25^th June 2015)

246.         Peter O’Sullevan (29^th July 2015)

247.         George Cole (6^th August 2015)

248.         Denis Healey (3^rd October 2015)

249.         Maureen O’Hara (24^th October 2015)

250.         Al Molinaro (30^th October 2015)

251.         Helmut Schmidt (10^th November 2015)

252.         Abe Vigoda (26^th January 2016)

253.         Boutros Boutros Ghali (16^th February 2016)

254.         Martin Crowe (3^rd March 2016)

255.         Nancy Reagan (6^th March 2016)

256.         Cliff Michelmore (17^th March 2016)

257.         Muhammad Ali (4^th June 2016)

258.         Joao Havelange (16^th August 2016)

259.         Bhumibol Adulyadej (13^th October 2016)

260.         Fidel Castro (26^th November 2016)

261.         Zsa Zsa Gabor (18^th December 2016)

262.         Liz Smith (24^th December 2016)

263.         Richard Adams (24^th December 2016)

264.         Mary Tyler Moore (25^th January 2017)

265.         Joost van der Westhuizen (6^th February 2017)

266.         David Rockefeller (20^th March 2017)

267.         Ian brady (15^th May 2017)

268.         John Noakes (29^th May 2017)

269.         Peter Sallis (5^th June 2017)

270.         Errol Christie (11^th June 2017)

271.         Glen Campbell (8^th August 2017)

272.         Bruce Forsyth (18^th August 2017)

273.         Jerry Lewis (21^st August 2017)

274.         Jake Lamotta (20^th September 2017)

275.         Liz Dawn (25^th September 2017)

276.         Tony Booth (26^th September 2017)

277.         Hugh Hefner (28^th September 2017)

278.         Gord Downie (18^th October 2017)

279.         Fats Domino (25^th October 2017)

280.         King Michael (5^th December 2017)

281.         Mark E Smith (24^th January 2018)

282.         Rev Billy Graham (21^st February 2018)

283.         Stephen Hawking (14^th March 2018)

284.         Barbara Bush (17^th April 2018)

285.         Tessa Jowell (13^th May 2018)

286.         Lord Carrington (10^th July 2018)

287.         John McCain (25^th August 2018)

288.         Neil Simon (26^th August 2018)

289.         Denis Norden (19^th September 2018)

290.         Charles Aznavour (1^st October 2018)

291.         Stan Lee (12^th November 2018)

292.         George Bush Sr (30^th November 2018)

293.         Gordon Banks (12^th February 2019)

294.         Doris Day (13^th May 2019)

295.         Bob Hawke (15^th May 2019)

296.         Herman Wouk (17^th May 2019)

297.         John McCririck (5^th July 2019)

298.         Johnny Clegg (16^th July 2019)

299.         Valerie Harper (30^th August 2019)

300.         Robert Mugabe (6^th September 2019)

301.         Jacques Chirac (26^th September 2019)

302.         Ginger Baker (6^th October 2019)

303.         Leah Bracknell (September 2019???)

 

 

 

 

 Hits Per Month in Names/Years

1.      January – Salvador Dali (1989), Terry Thomas (1990), Rudolph Nureyev (1993), Audrey Hepburn (1993), Brian Johnston (1994), Telly Savalas (1994), Rose Kennedy (1995), Francois Mitterand (1996), Helen Mills Moody (1998), EW Swanton (2000), Donald Budge (2000), Lou Rawls (2006), Edmund Hillary (2008), Suharto (2008), Dai Llewellyn (2009), JD Salinger (2010), Gerry Rafferty (2011), Etta James (2012), Michael Winner (2013), Patty Andrews (2013), Abe Vigoda (2016), Mary Tyler Moore (2017), Mark E Smith (2018)

2.      February – Arthur Ashe (1993), Derek Jarman (1994), Deng Xiao Ping (1997), King Hussein (1999), Charlie Schulz (2000), Stanley Matthews (2000), Stanley Kramer (2001), Don Bradman (2001), Chuck Jones (2002), Spike Milligan (2002), Max Schmeling (2005), Sister Lucia (2005), Al Lewis (2006), Wendy Richard (2009), Reg Presley (2013), Sid Caesar (2014), Leonard Nimoy (2015), Boutros Boutros Ghali (2016), Joost van der Westhuizen (2017), Rev Billy Graham (2018), Gordon Banks (2019)

3.      March – Jim Joel (1992), Simon Cadell (1996), George Burns (1996), Lord Denning (1999), Joe DiMaggio (1999), Ernie Wise (1999), Ian Dury (2000), John Diamond (2001), Ninette de Valois (2001), William Hanna (2001), Milton Berle (2002), Dudley Moore (2002), Billy Wilder (2002), Queen Mother (2002), Hardy Amies (2003), Barry Sheene (2003), Thora Hird (2003), Queen Juliana (2004), Peter Ustinov (2004), Alistair Cooke (2004), Jim Callaghan (2005), John Profumo (2006), Caspar Weinberger (2006), Ernest Gallo (2007), Francis Pym (2008), Arthur C Clarke (2008), Richard Widmark (2008), Michael Foot (2010), Michael Gough (2011) Elizabeth Taylor (2011), Diana Wynne Jones (2011), John Demjanjuk (2012), Hugo Chavez (2013), Sam Simon (2015), Martin Crowe (2016), Nancy Reagan (2016), Cliff Michelmore (2016), David Rockefeller (2017), Stephen Hawking (2018)

4.      April – Sugar Ray Robinson (1989), Greta Garbo (1990), Sir Michael Havers (1992), John Curry (1994), Richard Nixon (1994), Kenny Everett (1995), Ginger Rogers (1995), Pol Pot (1998), James Earl Ray (1998), Alf Ramsey (1999), Brother Theodore Gottlieb (2001), Harry Secombe (2001), Estee Lauder (2004), Pope John Paul II (2005), John Mills (2005), Charlton Heston (2008), Albert Hoffman (2008), Margaret Thatcher (2013), Mickey Rooney (2014), Barbara Bush (2018)

5.      May – Jill Ireland (1990), Marlene Deitrich (1992), Erich Honecker (1994), Tim Gullikson (1996), Timothy Leary (1996), Frank Sinatra (1998), Gene Sarazen (1999), Douglas Fairbanks Jr (2000), John Geilgud (2000), Barbara Cartland (2000), Joe Bonanno (2002), Sam Snead (2002), Stanley Kunitz (2006), Sydney Pollack (2008), Dennis Hopper (2010), Al Megrahi (2012), Robin Gibb (2012), BB King (2015), John Forbes Nash (2015), Ian Brady (2017), John Noakes (2017), Tessa Jowell (2018), Doris Day (2019), Bob Hawke (2019), Herman Wouk (2019)

6.      June – Andres Segovia (1987), Kitty Godfree (1992), Les Dawson (1993), Dilys Powell (1995), Glynn Worsnip (1996), Andreas Papandreou (1996), Jacques Costeau (1997), Catherine Cookson (1998), Gregory Peck (2003), Denis Thatcher (2003), Strom Thurmond (2003), Katharine Hepburn (2003), Ronald Reagan (2004), Charles Haughey (2006), Aaron Spelling (2006), Kurt Waldheim (2007), Bo Diddley (2008), Vincent O’Brien (2009), Ray Bradbury (2012), Yitzhak Shamir (2012), Henry Cecil (2013), Casey Kasem (2014), Eli Wallach (2014), Sir Christopher Lee (2015), Kirk Kerkorian (2015), Chris Woodhead (2015), Patrick Macnee (2015), Muhammad Ali (2016), Peter Sallis (2017), Errol Christie (2017)

7.      July – Jim Il Sung (1994), Harold Larwood (1995), Jimmy Stewart (1997), Roy Rogers (1998), Walter Matthau (2000), Bob Hope (2003), Gretchen Franklin (2005), Ted Heath (2005), James Doohan (2005), George Melly (2007), Charles Lane (2007), Lady Bird Johnson (2007), Tammy Faye Messner (2007), Ingmar Bergman (2007), Jesse Helms (2008), Karl Malden (2009), Walter Cronkite (2009), Bobby Robson (2009), Betty Ford (2011), Eric Sykes (2012), Tony Martin (2012), Bernie Nolan (2013), Anna Wing (2013), Peter O’Sullevan (2015), Lord Carrington (2018), John McCririck (2019), Johnny Clegg (2019)

8.      August – William Burroughs (1997), Victor Mature (1999), Helen Rollason (1999), Bunny Austin (2000), Lord Longford (2001), Lionel Hampton (2002), Idi Amin (2003), Henri Cartier-Bresson (2004), Red Adair (2004), Fay Wray (2004), Brooke Astor (2007), Bill Deedes (2007), Alexander Solzhenitsyn (2008), Robert Novak (2009), Ted Kennedy (2009), Laurent Fignon (2010), Chapman Pincher (2014), Lauren Bacall (2014), George Cole (2015), Joao Havelange (2016), Glen Campbell (2017), Bruce Forsyth (2017), Jerry Lewis (2017), John McCain (2018), Neil Simon (2018), Valerie Harper (2019)

9.      September – Roy Castle (1994), Mother Theresa (1997), Mobutu (1997), Jeffrey Bernard (1997), Burgess Meredith (1997), Clement Stone (2002), Warren Zevon (2003), Leni Riefenstahl (2003), Edward Teller (2003), Johnny Cash (2003), Elia Kazan (2003), William Rehnquist (2005), Simon Wisenthal (2005), Byron Nelson (2006), Patrick Swayze (2009), Susan Atkins (2009), Cyril Smith (2010), Herbert Lom (2012), Ian Paisley (2014), Jake LaMotta (2017), Liz Dawn (2017), Tony Booth (2017), Hugh Hefner (2017), Denis Norden (2018), Robert Mugabe (2019), Jacques Chirac (2019), Leah Bracknell (?2019)

10.   October – Burt Lancaster (1994), Alec Douglas-Home (1995), Joan Hickson (1998), Deryck Guyler (1999), Lord Hailsham (2001), Rodney Dangerfield (2004), Pricness Alice (2004), Rosa Parks (2005), PW Botha (2006), Levi Stubbs (2008), Ludovic Kennedy (2009), Norman Wisdom (2010), Simon MacCorkindale (2010), Erich Priebke (2013), Gough Whitlam (2014), Denis Healey, Maureen O’Hara, Al Molinaro (2015), Bhumibol Adulyadej (2016), Gord Downie (2017), Fats Domino (2017), Charles Aznavour (2018), Ginger Baker (2019)

11.   November – Bill Bixby (1993), Paul Eddington (1995), Jackie Mann (1995), Hastings Banda (1997), Quentin Crisp (1999), Mary Whitehouse (2001), Milton Freidman (2006), Ian Smith (2007), Dino De Laurentiis (2010), Clive Dunn (2012), Bill Tarmey (2012), PD James (2014), Helmut Schmidt (2015), Fidel Castro (2016), Stan Lee (2018), George Bush Sr (2018)

12.   December – Ray Moore (1989), Dan Maskell (1992), Dean Martin (1995), Lew Grade (1998), Lord Scarman (2004), Artie Shaw (2004), Richard Pryor (2005), Pinochet (2006), Joseph Barbara (2006), Gerald Ford (2006), MarkFelt (2008), Harold Pinter (2008), Claude Levi-Strauss (2009), Blake Edwards (2010), Harry Morgan (2011), Kim Jong Il (2011), Oscar Niemeyer (2012), Nelson Mandela (2013), Peter O’Toole (2013), Ronnie Bigg (2013), Mikhail Kalashnikov (2013), Luise Rainer (2014), Zsa Zsa Gabor (2016), Liz Smith (2016), Richard Adams (2016), King Michael (2017)

 

 

DL Years Ranked by Hits

1.      2017 (17/50)

2.      2015 (14/50), 2008 (14/50), 2003 (14/50)

3.      2013 (13/50), 2006 (13/50)

4.      2018 (12/50) 2016 (12/50), 2012 (12/50), 2009 (12/50), 2005 (12/50), 2004 (12/50)

5.      2019 (11/50)

6.      2014 (10/50), 2007 (10/50), 2002 (10/50), 2001 (10/50), 2000 (10/50), 1999 (10/50)

7.      2010 (9/50), 1997 (9/50), 1995 (9/50), 1994 (9/50)

8.      1998 (8/50),

9.      2011 (7/50), 1996 (7/50)

10.   1993 (5/56), 1992 (5/37)

11.   1990 (3/42), 1989 (3/32)

12.   1987 (1/31)

13.   1991 (0/40)

Digging out the slots, numbers stats to update them too.

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Haha - and to think I’d actually started going through the process to answer Wee Jum.