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He's a good bet for #15 after newcomers Stefan Karl, Colin Meads, Johnny Hallyday, Olivia Newton-John, Charlotte Rae, Barbara Bush, a handful of people who will announce their illness later this year, and a handful of potential survivors from this year's list who are very ill (Bracknell, Downie, King Michael, Booth, Campbell, Stiles, Gascoine, Dawn, H. W. Bush).

Shhh! Don't give Shaun any ideas!

He could be just getting into character for a movie about a retired actor.

Not to mention current deathlist favorite Kirk Douglas is still alive as well...

He just wants to get that 4th Oscar with his final film.

Oh god, now he'll be the next to suffer the curse of Joey's Jinx...

"Retirement for actors is spelt 'DEATH'." - Donald Sutherland a few years back.

Tezza on her feet in the Commons. Maintaining much of her rhetoric, despite not including her policies in the Queen's Speech. Gone in 4 months or less, I'd say.

Nah, Pollack died in 2008 and was mostly a director. DJL is still alive and was primarily an actor.

Aye, caught it half way through on Radio Four this morning and briefly thought him dead. They obviously have a pre-prepared obit and went with some of that. He's a complicated type more likely than not to decide to come back before too long. Not much hard evidence he's seriously ill

Technically that should be a bar chart rather than a line graph because that implies a continuum between the genres.

He was once (distantly) my boss. Not that I had much to do with him.

Holiday time, so plenty of reading to be done. Bought David Sterling (SAS) story, and Clarkson top gear years with me, but am currently going through Spike Milligan ' Man of Letters'. Spike is this old mans hero, so naturally really enjoying it. Guy was a genius.

Isn't that data heavily flawed though because the first "rappers" would only have been born, at the earliest, around 1949, and thus wouldn't have had the chance to die of old age yet? I mean the Sugarhill Gang aren't even 60.

A minutes silence every night during the call to prayer you say?

List delivered in PM. ETA: This is an online, anonymous source, so it's worth the paper it's printed on, but one MP probably on every By-Election Bingo player's list has been seriously ill. A doctor friend of the source who lives in the MP's constituency said he believes the illness is cancer and has seen the MP regularly at the hospital he works at. A Freebie if you trust online anonymous sources once in a while.

The OFFICIAL answer (and it makes sense when you see it ) to no 4 is FATAL ATTRACTION DOH !!!!!!!

http://theconversation.com/music-to-die-for-how-genre-affects-popular-musicians-life-expectancy-36660 Is this what you meant charon?

I don't care how influential these rappers are, they all still sound the same, absolute shit.

I have to disagree. He is well known and considered a villain in the U.S.

Just a reminder that entries need to be in by midnight BST on June 30. I see that I'm the only entrant so far not to use a sub! Shows how great I am at these games....

Time for her husband to now exit the stage.

Almost as if Star Wars was a bigger film than Dick Tracy or something.

a) Michael Baggott is a silver expert who occasionally appears on a daytime TV show when he appears on that show, people google his name, perhaps to go "wow, why has Frank Lampard grown a beard? He looks like he's lost some weight though" c) we are the #2 results on Google Image Search for Michael Baggott d) people click on that image, thus giving us a traffic boost. People do not stick around and visit the rest of the site afterwards though, as they presumably have little to add to the debate over whether Doyle Brunson is famous enough for the DL e) Roey Juss

They name a rapper called Ol' Dirty Bastard as one of the most famous people to die in 2004, but not that old, dirty bastard Ronald Reagan? Interesting... many Avril Lavigne fans were born after Ronald Reagan was president (if one assumes that her fan base after her breakthrough in 2002 consisted mostly of girls under the age of 13). And probably all of them can't remember the time he was president, so for them, Ronald Reagan was just some old (and demented) guy. Surely that is the same opinion of those who lived through his Presidency.