Age 66 – Celebrity Death Club

Rod Temperton, 66…. Dead!

Songwriter behind Michael Jackson’s hits Thriller, Off the Wall and Rock with You. As a member of the 1970s funk band Heatwave he also wrote Boogie Nights, Always and Forever and Ain’t no half steppin

Dead Poets Society 30th January 2026
X J Kennedy, American poet, reportedly dead aged 96. Occasionally picked in the ABC Pool.
Hollywood Possibilities 30th January 2026
And I remember thinking about their slept in scene just before I found out about John Heard in 2017! It was crazy envisioning Heard’s terrified face and then immediately hearing of his demise.
Hollywood Possibilities 30th January 2026
The first death in a while that has shocked me to a point of having to take a break from what I was doing just to process it. She was one a few actors who I genuinely couldn't pin point to a singular role as being most significant to me, I think I've seen most […]
Hollywood Possibilities 30th January 2026
Weird.Was just thinking of her in home alone earlier this afternoon.
Lucy Letby 30th January 2026
I don’t know if she is guilty or not but there should be a retrial
Inverse Dead Pool 2026 30th January 2026
Time to hear from one of our top seeds – here's my mother's 2026 team. Erratic decision-making as ever – Michael Caine was as high as #2 before she suddenly decided "no, he's a Tory, take him off", and she initially declined Michael Tilson Thomas because "I don't like the clothes that conductors wear", before […]
Lucy Letby 30th January 2026
I can see your point Fun fact, I once saw t-shirts selling at a festival with a mash up picture of an iconic de Niro film poster and Shipman, captain on said t-shirts being "The Old Dear Hunter" Classic!
Kill or Save: Best of the Rest Top 20 Hits of the 90s 30th January 2026
30/1/26 60 Travis - Driftwood +4 53 Weezer - Buddy Holly 48 Queen - No-One But You 46 The Cardigans - My Favourite Game 44 The Wannadies - You And Me Song 32 Mike & The Mechanics - Over My Shoulder 28 The Lightning Seeds - Sugar Coated Iceberg 27 Skunk Anansie - Charlie […]
Thoughts on the 2026 List 30th January 2026
Before you start trying to write the year off. I think that you at least need to leave it until the end of February (see the graph below) and I don't think we can really tell how the year is going until we get (or don't) the mid year spike This year the winds have […]
46. William Shatner 30th January 2026
Turning 95, survived stage IV melanoma, hospitalisation months ago, previous health history. I don't think he'll go in 2026, but it would be no suprise to me. Dench and Raul aren't going anywhere anytime soon.