Who Should Be On The 2020 Deathlist?

[Deathtreat23 189]

If he hangs on long enough, get him on the list for next year asap!

[dean1991 116]

Ray Reardon seems like deathlist material. 

[Etushispushingupdaisies 136]

My suggestion

1. Kirk Douglas (Retain)

2. Vera Lynn (Retain)

3. Olivia De Havilland. (Retain)

4. Alex Trebek

5. Lee Kerslake 

6. Javier Perez De Cuellar  (Retain)

7. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, a casual racist  (Retain)

8. Beverly Cleary 

9. Pierre Cardin  (Retain)

10. Carl Reiner 

11. Norman Lear 

12. Betty White (Retain)

13. Chuck Yeager 

14. Bob Dole. (Retain)

15. Bob Barker (Retain)

16. Henry Kissinger (Retain)

17. Eva Marie Saint

18. Jimmy Carter (Retain)

19. Leslie Phillips

20.  Tony Britton (Retain)

21. Dick Van Dyke (Retain)

22. Angela Lansbury

23. Honor Blackman (Retain)

24.  Hal Holbrook

25. Norman Jewison

26. Mel Brooks

27. Roger Corman

28. David Attenborough

29. Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II

30. Tony Bennett

31. Stanley Baxter

32. Sean Connery

33. Nobby Stiles (Retain)

34. Jimmy Greaves (Retain)

35. Sidney Poitier (Retain)

36. Harry Belafonte (Retain)

37. Ennio Morricone

38. Hosni Mubarak (Retain)

39. Mikhail Gorbachev (Retain)

40. Burt Bacharach 

41. Terry Jones

42. Michael York

43. Desmond Tutu (Retain)

44.  Little Richard (Retain)

45. Johnny Depp (this year's Gazza, but way more famous)

46. Dave Mustaine

47. Paul McCartney (leap years are famous for loads of celebrity deaths, pick him on leap years only)(sub Prunella Scales (Retain))

48. Bob Dylan (the same thing) (sub Olivia Newton-John)

49. George Clooney (because of that Simpsons episode, where Homer kills Neil Armstrong (2012), Prince (2016) and George Clooney (2020?) (Sub Valery Giscard D'Estaing )

50. Madonna (the same thing with McCartney and Dylan) (sub Loretta Lynn (Retain))

 

[Book 3,556]

Great ideas, great lists! If you think you can type the DeathList correctly or maybe create a "more successful" DeathList than the Committee*, then come on and join the DeathList Prediction Game 2020!

 

https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/9839-dl-prediction-game-2020/

 

 

*Sorry dear Committee, I really admire your work! It's just for the little fun!

[roaming_comrade 471]

I think we should keep the Queen on the list from 2020 on until she dies. She could die shortly after Philip dies (which should be any minute now anyway) and she's too important to miss.

[Sean 6,327]

3 minutes ago, roaming_comrade said:

I think we should keep the Queen on the list from 2020 on until she dies. She could die shortly after Philip dies (which should be any minute now anyway) and she's too important to miss.

Yeah she is just too big to miss.

[Grim Up North 3,726]

22 minutes ago, Sean said:

Yeah she is just too big to miss.

 

https://www.quora.com/Were-there-any-queens-with-very-large-breasts

 

Far too big - some images in the attached Quora discussion.

[The Watcher 317]

Gudrun Zapf von Hesse, the world renowned calligrapher & typographer is 102 on 2 Jan, 2020. Surely worth a pick as her even more famous type-face creator husband Hermann Zapf (1918-2015) seemed to escape selection over the years.

Edited December 2, 2019 by The Watcher
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[Sean 6,327]

1 minute ago, The Watcher said:

Gudrun Zapf von Hesse, the world renowned calligrapher & typographer is 102 on 2 Jan, 2020. Surely worth a pick as her even more famous type-face creator husband Hermann Zapf (1918-2015) seemed to escape selection over the years.

Never heard of her.

[Bentrovato 1,088]

1 hour ago, Sean said:

Yeah she is just too big to miss.

Are you calling the Queen fat? That is treason. 

[Grim Up North 3,726]

6 minutes ago, Bentrovato said:

Are you calling the Queen fat? That is treason. 

 

Off with his head

[Putin 423]

1 hour ago, Bentrovato said:

Are you calling the Queen fat? That is treason. 

 

[Skinny kiltrunner 553]

2 hours ago, Sean said:

Never heard of her.

But you know her type.....

[Steve 601]

Top 25 certs for the 2020 list surely should be - 1) Kirk Douglas, 2) Dame Vera Lynn, 3) Terry Jones, 4) Alex Trebek, 5) Stirling Moss, 6) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 7) Leslie Phillips, 8) Lee Kerslake, 9) Jill Gascoine, 10) Bill Turnbull, 11) Larry King, 12) Bob Barker, 13) Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, 14) Nobby Stiles, 15) Olivia De Havilland, 16) George Alagiah, 17) Glynis Johns, 18) Javier Perez de Cueller, 19) Henry Kissinger, 20) Beverly Cleary, 21) Tony Britton, 22) Betty White, 23) Loretta Lynn, 24) Little Richard and 25) Pierre Cardin 

[The Watcher 317]

16 hours ago, Sean said:

Never heard of her.

The Zapf typeface is known worldwide.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

2 hours ago, The Watcher said:

18 hours ago, Sean said:

Never heard of her.

The Zapf typeface is known worldwide.

You didn't overcome Sean's point.  
Do you know who invented the bundt cake?  No -- but 'bundt cakes are known worldwide'.   Guy died over a decade ago, fwiw, I think he was from Minnesota.
So next time answer the man's point....not with what they did, but why we should KNOW them.

SirC

[MarcJWallace 270]

Perhaps Doddie Weir and Tom Smith of Rugby Union fame merit inclusion? Weir has MND and Smith has Stage 4 cancer.

[Sean 6,327]

1 hour ago, MarcJWallace said:

Perhaps Doddie Weir and Tom Smith of Rugby Union fame merit inclusion? Weir has MND and Smith has Stage 4 cancer.

Both are good calls especially Tom Smith.I somehow doubt either will get picked though.

[The Watcher 317]

1 hour ago, Sir Creep said:

You didn't overcome Sean's point.  
Do you know who invented the bundt cake?  No -- but 'bundt cakes are known worldwide'.   Guy died over a decade ago, fwiw, I think he was from Minnesota.
So next time answer the man's point....not with what they did, but why we should KNOW them.

SirC

We should know them because between them they created/patented/invented at least 4 typeface/fonts. Although Zapfino, Aldus and Optima may not be known to many, PALATINO is extremely well known. "Just My Type" by award-winning author Simon Garfield gives further information.

[Toast 16,140]

17 minutes ago, The Watcher said:

We should know them because between them they created/patented/invented at least 4 typeface/fonts. Although Zapfino, Aldus and Optima may not be known to many, PALATINO is extremely well known. "Just My Type" by award-winning author Simon Garfield gives further information.

 

I've never heard of him either 

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

Is Pierre Soulages deathlisty ?

[Sir Creep 7,070]

2 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Is Pierre Soulages deathlisty ?

Go look at the names presently.  Big generally international names.  

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

1 minute ago, Sir Creep said:

Go look at the names presently.  Big generally international names.  

Pierre Soulages is a well known artist, he is an international figure unlike some people on the list like Leah Bracknell or McCririck

[Bibliogryphon 9,582]

Nichelle Nicols?

[TQR 14,396]

17 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Pierre Soulages is a well known artist, he is an international figure unlike some people on the list like Leah Bracknell or McCririck

Is he well known enough in the UK though? Bracknell was generally watched by 5m+ people per day at the height of her career, and McCririck was a household name (for reasons largely bad). So internationally famous or nationally famous in Britain is the criteria.