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Was hoping for a nice minor death to round of the current update, but now Stephy H has carked it so I have to make him the lead. The caption for Ken Dodd's picture was going to be "Two things in life are certain: death and... One thing in life is certain."

And to die on International Pi Day... what are the odds...365.25 :1

Bam. We've had our first land mine. 27 teams picked Stephen Hawking, who theoretically seemed a reasonable bet to survive the year. Instead, he's become history in a brief time, with only four teams continuing to evade the black hole that is an Inverse Dead Pool score. =1. CastAway 0 =1. John Key 0 =1. theoldlady 0 =1. YoungWillz 0 =5. Grim Up North 4 =5. Mercarte 4 =7. drol 5 =7. Torva Messor 5 =9. deadsox 6 =9. machotrouts 6 11. CharonsCrew 7 =12. Dr_T 9 =12. Wormfarmer 9 14. gcreptile 10 =15. Death Impends 11 =15. Deathray 11 17. Bentrovato 12 18. time 13 =19. Bibliogryphon 14 =19. Pedro67 14 =19. Spade_Cooley 14 22. Garn2 15 =23. msc 19 =23. The Dead Cow 19 =25. CaptainChorizo 20 =25. FixedBusiness 20 =25. Joey Russ 20 28. Toast 22 29. paddyfool 24 30. Sir Creep 29 31. Book 30 32. Phantom of the Midway 34 33. The Unknown Man 35 34. Dead Wait 37 35. GraveDanger 38 36. Sean 40

He is one of the most successful British actors of all time, two-time Oscar winner and was knighted by the Queen in 2000. Sir Michael Caine, has achieved everything in his over 60-year film career. Reason enough today, on his 85th birthday, to dedicate him his own thread on this page. Happy Birthday, Sir Michael Caine

Somehow I've managed to avoid it, despite my reaction to shiny buttons you're not meant to press being like this:

Nope it will be hawking without a shadow of a doubt

This description suggests it is. (Note to self, think! before googling images).

Louis Farhakan. Historically I've picked Mugabe but can't bring myself to do so since he started posting here. I mean, he posted this: Can't do it. Farhakan has apparently stated that 'Hitler was a very great man'. So until he starts posting here....

That means that I am going to have to resort to bombarding the Guardian obits twitter feed with covers of her books. I might add in Julian May and David Fisher just to make a point about anti SF snobbery.

I like that I've gone from =1st to 18th, yet still maintain the same position on the list. (Yes I'm easily amused).

One of my favourite actors (he was snubbed for an Oscar for Sleuth the year that hack Brando got it for mumbling through 30 minutes of The Godfather imo) fwiw. Will be a sad day when folk earn points off him. And like Duvall, Eastwood and Hackman, obviously Deathlisty names. Dunno about his current health though.

I wonder if his most famous hit will chart this weekend...?

Have they tried ctrl alt delete?

Despite being so ill he kind of seemed like he was semi immortal. A super brilliant mind and contribution to humanity. A truly big name. Very sad news.

Tits, bugger and shit! Can't believe I was stupid enough to miss him off my list. Oh, and rest in peace too.

Last night my husband asked me if I have Stan Lee on my dead pool, mentioned Lee's pneumonia and the magic words "Sad Last Days" in a Montreal Gazette headline.

Maybe the biggest scientific genius since Einstein.The world cannot afford to lose such a brilliant mind.Still we had him in the world far longer than he was meant to be

I really am dreading the days the Queen and DofE die.The press coverage will be insanely sycophantic and over the top and I say that as a royalist.

Again, I don’t think they were mentioned at all on the who should be on deathlist thread (or if they were, I don’t remember it), so they definitely don’t count as a miss imo.

A timely reminder that Tom Lehrer - who wrote "We'll all go Together" - turns 90 in about three weeks. Highly obitable.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43401674 Unsurprisingly, Toys r Us could not be saved by the administrators and ALL UK stores will close in the next 6 weeks.....

No.

HW for SC btw who shut down the previous poll? The only bit of fun around here is everyone changing their vote to the dead person, and now the Nazis won’t even let us have THAT.

Very good read. Spoiler alert, here's a seminal quote from Chapter 7: The Post Africa Years: