Piers Sellers, Craig Sager, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Gregorio Alvarez, Bruce DeHaven, Alphonze Mouzon, Rachel Owen, that Oxbridge student that wanted to go to Disneyland, the Man City fan guy, Barrelhouse Chuck, and AA GIll would have all featured heavily. I suspect Greg Lake would have appeared on one or two of the top contenders too as there were rumours about his health.
I'm forgetting loads. It is what it is. 2015 into 2016 and 2013 into 2014 were quite spectacularly bad for this sort of thing too, iirc. Contenders just pick the next hospice dweller, and the rest of us go....
wait for it....
"Oh well, Bernard Hepton's still alive, better pick him!"
And you know what? He is and all!