Who Should Be On The 2020 Deathlist?

[Steve 601]

Other potentials could include Geoffrey Palmer, Mark Eden, Leonard Fenton, Bill Treacher, Thelma Barlow, Michael Aspel, Jean Marsh, Ann Reid, Jack Smethurst, James Bolam, Shirley Bassey, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Ricky Tomlinson 

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,344]

Last of the summer wine veteran Robert Fyfe.

 

Also I think these three soap icons should be included  ,all in poor health of varying degrees or very old .Julie Goodyear who was clearly having trouble breathing after years of smoking when she was assisted onto a tv show in 2017, Barbara Windsor who is sadly in rapid decline with alzheimers disease and 100 year old Emmerdale matriarch Sheila Mercier. It would probably be the first time the three major soaps were all represented on the list in the same year?

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-Tony Bennett (1926)

-Leontyne Price (1927)

-Juliette Gréco (1927)

-Gina Lollobrigida (1927)

-Noam Chomsky (1928)

-Gena Rowlands (1930)

-Jasper Johns (1930)

-Robert Wagner (1930)

-Lalo Schifrin (1932)

-Yoko Ono (1933)

 

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

What about iris apfel ?

[Putin 423]

Rosalynn Carter (1927)

Marsha Hunt (1917)

Hal Holbrook (1925)

Christopher Tolkien (1924)

Willie Nelson (1933)

Philip Baker Hall (1931)

Rosemary Harris (1927)

David Attenborough (1926)

Kris Kristofferson (1936)

 

 

[RIP Wee Jum 1,559]

Sean Connery and Tony Bennett

[Deathrace 1,171]

19 hours ago, Drewsky1211 said:

My opinion:

 

Keep:

1. Kirk Douglas

2. Olivia de Havilland

3. Prince Philip

4. Vera Lynn

5. Jimmy Carter

6. Pierre Cardin

7. Bob Dole

8. Henry Kissinger

9. Jerry Stiller

10. Javier Perez de Cuellar

11. Bob Barker

12. Emperor Akihito

13. Betty White

14. June Brown

15. Stirling Moss

16. Nobby Stiles

17. Barbara Walters

18. Desmond Tutu

19. Jimmy Greaves

20. Sidney Poitier

21. Mikhail Gorbachev

22. Tony Britton

23. Prunella Scales

24. Little Richard

25. Larry King

 

Return:

26. Queen Elizabeth II

27. Peter Alliss

28. Tony Bennett

29. Jerry Lee Lewis

30. Frank Bough

31. Angela Lansbury

32. Nigel Lawson

33. James Randi

34. Nicholas Parsons

35. Leslie Phillips

36. Jill Gascoine

37. David Prowse

38. Stanley Baxter

39. Pope Benedict XVI

 

Debut:

40. Alex Trebek

41. Terry Jones

42. Sheila Mercier

43. Clarissa Eden

44. June Spencer

45. James Watson

46. Glynis Johns

47. John Hume

48. Norman Tebbit

49. David Attenborough

50. Clint Eastwood

Not sure about Tebbitt this time. Granted he's frail but he was well enough to campaign for Iain Duncan Smith in Chingford this week and walk around. I think he may have 2-3 years left. 

[Octopus of Odstock 2,197]

Not often mentioned here is Nehemiah Persoff. 

Now 100 years of age, he's certainly famous enough. But his thread - like so many mentioned here isn't likely to be very exciting with just birthdays and his death to enliven it. 

But then Perez de Cuellar and Cardin and others are like that. Depends whether stimulating threads are important or hitting a record. 

 

I certainly think Everton Weekes should be on. Tom Smith has to go on. Both are good enough for DL. 

[Skinny kiltrunner 553]

5 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

Last of the summer wine veteran Robert Fyfe.

 

Also I think these three soap icons should be included  ,all in poor health of varying degrees or very old .Julie Goodyear who was clearly having trouble breathing after years of smoking when she was assisted onto a tv show in 2017, Barbara Windsor who is sadly in rapid decline with alzheimers disease and 100 year old Emmerdale matriarch Sheila Mercier. It would probably be the first time the three major soaps were all represented on the list in the same year?

Don't hold your breath for Barbara Windsor.  This is her from this September. That is not a lady who is going to die from her dementia next year. Given that level of physical ability, another decade is quite possible. Of course, something else could get her, but it won't be dementia.

 

[The Watcher 317]

Eileen Whelan (108 year old test cricketer), Roberta McCain (107), John Manners (105 - only surviving player to play first class cricket before WW2), Pearl Carr (96), Murray Walker (96), Glynis Johns (95), Tony Britton (95), Peregrine Worsthorne (96 next month), Henry Kissinger (96),Michael Medwin (96), Wally Fawkes (95), James Garbutt (94), Christopher Tolkein (94), Sidney Poitier (92), David Attenborough (93), Mel Brooks (93),  Doreen Mantle (93),Desmond Morris (91), Lionel Blair (90), Christopher Plummer (90 next month), Frank Williams (88), Eileen Derbyshire (88), Virginia McKenna (88), Patricia Greene (88), Josephine Tewson (88), Trevor Peacock (88), Brian Murphy (87), 

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

are Boris Pahor (to replace Wouk), Lee Kerslake, Dilip Kumar, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Roberta McCain, Jackie Stallone, Violeta Chamorro and Rhonda Flemming deathlist material ? 

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5 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

are Boris Pahor (to replace Wouk), Lee Kerslake, Dilip Kumar, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Roberta McCain, Jackie Stallone, Violeta Chamorro and Rhonda Flemming deathlist material ? 

 

I'd say the bold ones may be. The others are a bit of a stretch. 

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39 minutes ago, The Quim Reaper said:

 

I'd say the bold ones may be. The others are a bit of a stretch. 

 

Ferlinghetti definitely.

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1 minute ago, Toast said:

 

Ferlinghetti definitely.

I tought Boris Pahor was a good choice too but...

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25 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

Ferlinghetti definitely.

 

23 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

I tought Boris Pahor was a good choice too but...

 

Yeah, see this kind of proves that it's a subjective thing...who knows what the powers that be think?

[Joey Russ 7,227]

I mean, I don't think anybody would've guessed that Errol Christie would actually have been deathlisty...

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19 hours ago, Skinny kiltrunner said:

Don't hold your breath for Barbara Windsor.  This is her from this September. That is not a lady who is going to die from her dementia next year. Given that level of physical ability, another decade is quite possible. Of course, something else could get her, but it won't be dementia.

 

I dont think it's that clear cut. The pathology of alzheimer's and dementia is not the same in everyone. My great aunt who suffered from dementia was very physically active up until about 3 months until she died.They are not all physically inactive for years before they pass away. 

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11 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

I mean, I don't think anybody would've guessed that Errol Christie would actually have been deathlisty...

 

Ye of little faith, Joey!

 

 

[Joey Russ 7,227]

5 minutes ago, msc said:

 

Ye of little faith, Joey!

 

 

Okay. Only one person actually though Errol Christie was deathlisty. Better?  

[Sean 6,327]

57 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

Ferlinghetti definitely.

Ferlinghetti was on my GCSE English anthology.I think there were about three or four of his poems in there.Two scavengers in a truck we spent about 5 lessons on.

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7 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

Okay. Only one person actually though Errol Christie was deathlisty. Better?  

 

Hah. If you can't be a smug sod on Deathlist Forums, where can you?

[MrWonderful 481]

Some names I'm looking at, leaving out what I consider to be some of the very obvious ones...

 

American sports/wrestling figures

Bob Gibson (pancreatic cancer as of July 2019)

Jerry Sloan (advanced dementia/Parkinson's)

Fay Vincent (former MLB commissioner wrote in July 2019 op-ed that he's dying of leukemia)

Mark Gastineau (diagnosed with dementia/Parkinson's/Alzheimer's in 2016, stage 3 colon cancer battle in '19)

Superstar Billy Graham

Lux Luger

Samu

Howard Finkel

Gale Sayers

Chris Doleman (would be going on 24 months with a glioblastoma if he makes it to Jan. 2020)

Mike Ditka

Don Shula

William "The Refrigerator" Perry

Bobby Bowden

Jim Brown

Steve Gleason

Bob Cousy

John Madden 

 

Music/Movies/TV/Entertainers

Teri Garr (thinks her MS symptoms may have started as early as 1982)

Ryan O'Neal (substance abuse and erratic behavior for virtually his entire adult life, cancer battle in recent years)

Jackie Stallone

Honor Blackman

Norm MacDonald

David Crosby

Meat Loaf

 

Politics/Royalty/Clergy

Dick Cheney (nearing the end of his heart transplant doctor's estimate for how long he could survive)

Alan Greenspan

Harry Reid (didn't think he would make 2020; should be a near-lock for 2020 lists if he does make it that far)

Alberto Fujimori

King Juan Carlos of Spain

Daniel arap Moi

Pope Benedict

 

Miscellaneous

Sheldon Adelson 

 

 

 

 

 

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Michael Lonsdale
Jean-Luc Godard
Juliette Greco

[The Old Crem 3,605]

19 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

I dont think it's that clear cut. The pathology of alzheimer's and dementia is not the same in everyone. My great aunt who suffered from dementia was very physically active up until about 3 months until she died.They are not all physically inactive for years before they pass away. 

Also has a heart condition as reported last year,

 

Rolf Harris. Diabetic and I think wont last long once his wife goes.

[ladyfiona 2,585]

Terry Jones - Has late stage dementia and Michael Palin says it is only a matter of time.