You are probably more qualified than most.Due to some kind of morbid curiousity I'm a frequent visitor to the the Recent Deaths page on wikipedia and am more than happy to become NSC's unoffical RIP monitor for the next 12 months.
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[Misc] Obscure R.I.P. Threads.
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Some of the entries in "description" are fantasticWe really should just be working our way through this. A fair few on there that I thought had already gone to be honest!
The DeathList 2024
DeathList is a carefully selected list of 50 celebrities chosen by the DL Committee each calendar year for their likelihood to die during that year.deathlist.net
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Rank Prev Year Appear Name Age Description Discuss 1 1 8 Dick van Dyke 98 Actor 2 2 11 Henry Kissinger 100 Diplomat 3 4 7 Bob Barker 100 The Price is Right 4 5 5 Alan Greenspan 97 Economist 5 6 2 Nigel Starmer-Smith 79 Rugby Commentator 6 9 8 Jimmy Carter 99 Ex US President 7 10 6 Tony Bennett 97 Crooner 8 11 5 Dick Cheney 82 Politician 9 13 5 Harry Belafonte 96 Singer 10 14 4 Mel Brooks 97 Comedian / Director 11 30 4 Jacques Delors 98 French Politician 12 16 2 Sir Bobby Charlton 86 Footballer 13 1 Robert Wagner 93 Actor 14 39 2 Norman Tebbit 92 Politician 15 20 3 Rosalynn Carter 96 Ex- FLOTUS 16 21 4 Sandy Gall 96 TV news reporter 17 3 Joanne Woodward 93 Actress 18 1 Ethel Kennedy 95 Kennedy Family 19 22 2 Desmond Morris 95 Zoologist 20 35 4 Stanley Baxter 97 Comedian 21 49 2 Joss Ackland 95 Actor 22 24 4 Jean-Marie Le Pen 95 French Neo-Nazi 23 46 2 Milan Kundera 94 Author 24 27 3 Cleo Laine 96 Jazz Singer 25 1 Alan Alda 87 M*A*S*H 26 32 7 Prunella Scales 91 Sybil Fawlty 27 2 Yoko Ono 90 Mrs Lennon 28 1 Norman Lear 101 TV Producer 29 34 3 Burt Bacharach 95 Singer Songwriter 30 45 2 Marianne Faithfull 77 Singer 31 1 Angie Dickinson 92 Actress 32 1 Robert Duvall 92 Actor 33 3 Imelda Marcos 94 Former First Lady of the Philippines 34 3 General Pervez Musharraf 81 Former Pakistani President / Moving target 35 3 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 84 Iranian Ayatollah 36 1 Pete Murray 98 British radio presenter 37 2 Bob Newhart 94 Comedian 38 1 Rolf Harris 93 Paedophile 39 1 Ryuichi Sakamoto 71 Musician 40 3 Willie Nelson 90 Country Singer 41 1 Dennis Skinner 91 Politician 42 2 Nigel Lawson 91 UK Politican 43 1 Michael Parkinson 88 Broadcaster 44 1 Sonny Rollins 93 Jazz Musician 45 1 Mohamed Al-Fayed 94 Businessman 46 1 Hal Linden 92 Barney Miller 47 3 Linda Nolan 64 Nolan Sister 48 2 Tina Turner 84 Singer 49 1 Andy Taylor 63 Duran Duraner 50 50 5 Shane MacGowan 66 Pogue
I made the mistake of having a mouthful of food when I read Rolf HarrisSome of the entries in "description" are fantastic
thedonkeycentrehalf
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No thread for Kelly Monteith who had a couple of BBC TV series back in the eighties.
Horses Arse
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Milan Kundera - fantastic author. Loved his writing when I was younger and had more time to read
On Rolf Harris : In the later parts of his career, rumours had started to spread that Harris had a dark secret. It started to become clear that the clues had been there for years and then people started to come forward to substantiate the claims. Finally, it was revealed that Harris was indeed an Australian.Some of the entries in "description" are fantastic
Worried Man Blues
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RIP Jude