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I believe you put Lady Mary Wilson at the bottom of your list after forgetting a 21st name at first.

Okay it's May 5th and I've not had a hit since late January... this is my slowest DDP start ever. Will this year be a dud for me, or can I still catch up? Here's some self-analysis. John Andretti: The cancer has returned... again... and I doubt he'll be able to shake it off again. But he may still sneak into the new year. 60% Samu Anoa'i: Advanced liver cancer, needs transplant, etc. Benefit event will be held for him later this month. Tough one to judge. 50% Susan Bayh: Looked okay at her father-in-law's memorial and is still responding well to treatment. But 8 more months with glio is a tough ask. 70% Kathleen Blanco: Been in hospice for three weeks now. My only dead-cert. 100% Johnny Clegg: According to South African Twitter he's been unable to attend events and is more seriously ill. He's a goner, I think. 95% Tim Conway: Old and demented... but so was Nobby last year, and he's still with us. 50% Jason deLisle: No updates that I could find since early last year. Last we know he has stage 3 colon cancer, which may have advanced by now, but probably still treatable. 20% Barry du Bois: Cancer slowly progressing, but he still looks fine. More next year than this year, imho. 40% Bill Freehan: See Tim Conway. 50% Clive James: Recently had emergency surgery on fast-progressing tumors. Frail and nearing 80. This could finally be his time, but I'm not getting my hopes up. 50% Lee Kerslake: Supposed to be dead by the autumn, but you never know, prostate cancer isn't that bad compared to most cancers. 65% Karen Lewis: Still tweeting away, mostly coherently. No longer makes public appearances. Stroke complications and glioblastoma. 70% Sacheen Littlefeather: Looked good in a recent photo. 30% Fernando Ricksen (JOKER): ALS hospice, getting worse and worse, looking worse and worse. Decently high chance at a joker score. 80% Fred Rister: Apparently not as bad shape as we thought. The cancer isn't very advanced. So more Philomena Lynott treatment-refusal than John McCain treatment-refusal-and-dies-the-next-day. 40% Jean Louis Trintignant: Another treatment-refuser who keeps on living. Although he is older than Rister and his cancer seems more advanced. But could still pull a Lynott. Who knows. 70%

Herald Obit: https://www.heraldscotland.com/announcements/deaths/deaths/17606183.David_B__Mc_Nee/

Dom DeLuise stopped acting on this day 10 years ago, aged 75.

Mary Wilson died in June 2018. Cheers CC for running, well done DI and hopefully I'll be slightly less shit in 19-20.

Again, I refer to this point.

June Brown for example. NO!

Site of John - Elephant Man - Merrick's burial identified. Obviously his skeleton is preserved but the stuff they scraped off it was buried in a London cemetary and the location forgotton - until someone spotted a badly misshapen tree! (Maybe I made the last bit up) Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-48149855

Article on (prospective future deathlist member) Werner Herzog's interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev. Health news in the final bit - a suspicious health decline that prevented him (Gorbachev, not Herzog) from attendinh the premiere: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/01/werner-herzog-im-not-a-pundit-dont-push-me-into-that-corner

LOL I was JUST going to do that! Well done!

MMMDP Form Guide #22 Olivia de Havilland Whereas all your opponents are looking for one good reason to pick their entry, you'll have 102 good reasons for choosing Olivia.

This pink coffin pool float (complete with lid) was created by Canadian designers Andrew Greenbaum and Ian Felton and launched by Pom Pom Floats. SC

He'd better Weiss up...Barry Weiss....

Perhaps now Banks is up there he's such a good keeper we'll never score again?

He's currently in bed and in pain: https://www.newsbytesapp.com/timeline/Entertainment/45724/206414/amitabh-bachchan-cancels-sunday-darshan-due-to-health

That's the first one off the list.

Dutch WW2 veteran Jan Linzel dies aged 103. The last surviving Dutch WW2 veteran why flew missions in early May 1940 against the invading Luftwaffe died at the age of 103. After the Dutch surrender he managed to escape to England where he flew the Spitfire and the Hawker Tempest. He flew over 150 missions against Nazi Germany. After the war he was the chief commander of the Vliehors shooting range on the island of Vlieland.