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One of the most famous and popular congressman, John Lewis, has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He is also a civil rights icon in America. I believe he is deserving to be on the list next year.

Sheesh. Full stop removed.

No point in having a 2020 thread now, so please put your possibilities up so we can study, discuss and ignore your picks.

Anyone who selects The Clone Wars needs a lobotomy..... EDIT: To clarify anyone who watches The Clone Wars needs a lobotomy too. It does not belong in a Star Wars marathon (I've walked out of an Star Wars marathon after someone informed me Clone Wars was up next...... just why...... can only assume it was designed as a break )

Never knowingly undersold.

Hmm, let me see. UK based deathlist picks John Lewis. 90 percent of the UK goes "Daft idiots, picking a department store to die!" Sadly, it's a fact....he isn't deathlisty for UK-ers. I appreciate the US side of the argument, take it to a US deathlist. (Whaur's my Union Flag to wave? )

Ah man. Biggest shame is that he didn't live long enough to dance on Eric Idle's grave.

Roey motherhumping Juss. 9,000 posts in 3 and a half years? Go out and find some gash/cock my son. But congratulations anyway geezer. And well done. If I may be so arrogant for one brief moment as to play a judge on post quality (i know, rich from me right), you've gone skyrocketing this year. And the work you do on dead pools, it doesn't go unnoticed. EDIT: This took a while to type out because all the letters are moving about for some reason so excuse if this doesn't make sense.

He might like that, though.

Max Von Sydow is 100 % a deathlist worthy name.

Grumpy Cat

I've got a very strong feeling and sense that 2020 is going to be a watershed, landmark end of an era kind of year as we embark upon a new decade. I think a lot of big or significant names will finally pass away next year. More so than in 2016 a year many highlight as being a big year for celebrity/famous deaths. Prince Philip, Vera Lynn, Kirk Douglas amongst the names I expect to fall next year as well as current and former world leaders like Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Sultan of Oman etc More of the winning England 1966 football team as well sadly are likely. Anybody else got the feeling that 2020 in terms of not just the official deathlist but wider deadpooling or famous deaths is going to be an unusually big momentous year? PS Hope the crude metaphor does not offend!

@Toast, I'm American and I know her. I had her husband on my list for last year.

1. Sir Peter Bottomley 2. Barry Sheerman 3. Harriet Harman 4. Sir Edward Leigh 5. Nick Brown 6. Jeremy Corbyn 7. Theresa May 8. David Amess 9. Sir Roger Gale 10. Margaret Beckett 11. George Howarth 12. Bill Cash 13. John Redwood 14. David Davis 15. Diane Abbott 16. Liam Fox 17. Neale Hanvey 18. Lindsay Hoyle 19. Mark Jenkinson 20. Stephen Kinnock 21. Wendy Morton 22. Graham Brady 23. Nigel Mills 24. Lee Anderson 25. Margaret Hodge 26. Dan Jarvis 27. Tracy Brabin 28. John Finucane 29. John Lamont 30. Jack Dromey 31. Jess Philips 32. Graham Stringer 33. Dehenna Davison 34. Ian Levy 35. Barry Gardiner 36. Lloyd Russell-Moyle 37. Sajid Javid 38. Simon Hart 39. Mel Stride 40. Greg Hands 41. Alex Chalk 42. Iain Duncan Smith 43. Theresa Villiers 44. Christopher Chope 45. Zarah Sultana 46. Jon Cruddas 47. Ed Miliband 48. Alister Jack 49. Virendra Sharma 50. Lisa Cameron 51. Kenny MacAskill 52. Kate Osamor 53. Dominic Raab 54. Sally Ann Hart 55. Alan Mak 56. Keir Starmer 57. Wes Streeting 58. Emily Thonberry 59. Felicity Buchan 60. Cat Smith 61. Rachel Reeves 62. John Cryer 63. Mims Davies 64. Desmond Swayne 65. Mark Francois Like I have a sodding clue with all these young MPs nowadays...

I have the theory that over time there are more and more famous people because of new media formats and their expansion, radio ,tv, the internet. Because of this statistically speaking over they years their should be more famous people dying every year as their are more famous people in general

Former german cabinet member and president of Brandenburg Manfred Stolpe is dead: https://m.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/manfred-stolpe-frueher-ministerpraesident-brandenburgs-gestorben-a-1303131.html I think he's a DDP pick.

Preparing to get my hopes and dreams shattered...

And here was me thinking that Amazon was the biggest threat to our department stores

That full stop in the title is very irritating. Please don't make me stare at it for a whole year

Yeah I would.

Mark Hollis for me. I know he's not as big a name as Doris Day, Carol Channing, Keith Flint, Peter Tork, Scott Walker, etc but his death is still a sad surprise. He seemed to me an active and healthy person.

The pool is open for picks until the 15th, then it locks down. I figured to wait until the rush of deadpool activity slows after the new year to put out a reminder for folks about this one. The yearly bonus category is currently being voted on, so that may influence some picks. It's now down to death by cancer, or death under 50. It's close, 52/48, so get your vote in before New Years. I never figured I would say these words, but GO CANCER!

Nah, I'm done for metaphors after Spade's "2019 deaths = tomato ketchup precum" one earlier this year. And yeah, given the way the dominoes are placed, 2020 feels like a big year in waiting...

Well, I guess you only live twice

Quim, late December 2019: LEAH FUCKING BRACKNELL EDIT: Quim, late December 2019: I miss Leah Bracknell