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1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32)  1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, George Lineker (3/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50)  2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (0/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: (0/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50)  2014: Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (2/50)   2015: Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (2/50)  2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (6/50)  2017: Jimmy Carter, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Emperor Akihito (4/50)  2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (12/50)  2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (12/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (17/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, Prunella Scales, Tony Bennett, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Harry Belafonte, Bob Newhart, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Betty Boothroyd, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (28/50)  2022: Dick Van Dyke, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Jimmy Carter, Tony Bennett, Dick Cheney, Harry Belafonte, Mel Brooks, Bobby Charlton, David Attenborough, Emperor Akihito, Rosalynn Carter, Sandy Gall, Desmond Morris, Ted Kaczynski, Jean-Marie Le Pen, James Whale, Cleo Laine, Jacques Delors, Denis Law, Prunella Scales, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Noam Chomsky, Norman Tebbit, Michael Gambon, Douglas Hurd, Silvio Berlusconi, Marianne Faithfull, Milan Kundera, Linda Ronstadt, Joss Ackland, Shane MacGowan (35/50) Updated for Pervez Musharraf. The 2004 list is now extinct.

Dead: https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/05-Feb-2023/former-pakistan-president-pervez-musharraf-passes-away

From where Liz Truss stands everyone looks Left Wing and 'The Establishment' are those checks and balances that Stop a work experience girl's idiotic dogma from ruining the countries finances. She is dog whistling to conspiracy theorists and other right wing nut jobs

Pervez Musharraf is a hit for several of us here.

Yes those well known Left Wingers/ Marxists *checks notes* The Bank of England

Congratulations @BeretBleu @deadsox @arrowsmith and @Newjack for correctly voting for the General.

Another big name but one that raises a possibility of a quick one in each category win? @MariNisia @Perhaps @Spade_Cooley All have both hits so far

Corruption and controversy?? In Pakistan?? Surely some mistake

A death I feel literally no emotion over. Glad the DL got a hit? Meh. Any reason I should celebrate and/or mourn this guy?

Pervez Musharraf is an exception to the observation that almost all Deathlist names found fame before the 90s. He barely even counts as a 90s name, as he couped his way to power in 1999 but only really got notable in the aftermath of 9/11.

Barbara Hershey, the attractive and brilliant American actress, who started her acting career with a recurring role on the television comedy "Gidget" in 1965, whose first film was the romantic comedy "With Six You Get Eggroll" (1968), and winner of an Emmy, a Golden Globe and two Cannes Film Festival Awards for Best Actress, is 75 today. David Selby, American film, stage, and television character actor, widely known for playing his television roles of Quentin Collins on the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows", and Richard Channing, the manipulator and ruthless businessman who's tortured by a secret: he's the oldest child of Angela Channing who was reported to have died as a newborn infant by doctors, on the soap opera "Falcon Crest", is 82 today.

53 A-ha – The Sun Always Shines On TV 44 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin 36 Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) 35 Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You Up 27 Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls +4 26 Madonna – La Isla Bonita 26 Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 25 Bee Gees – You Win Again 25 Mel & Kim – Respectable 24 M/A/R/R/S – Pump Up The Volume 22 Berlin – Take My Breath Away 22 Falco – Rock Me Amadeus -6 21 George Michael & Aretha Franklin – I Knew You Were Waiting For Me 19 Starship – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now 18 T’Pau – China In Your Hand 17 Wham – Edge of Heaven 14 Jackie Wilson – Reet Petite 14 Ben E. King – Stand By Me 15 Madonna – Papa Don’t Preach 14 George Michael – A Different Corner 14 Los Lobos – La Bamba 7 Diana Ross – Chain Reaction

Sticking on track. Kit Harington and Rose Leslie expecting their second child.

Isabel Perón is 92 today.

I guess you deserve an update... Sorry for taking such a long time, but these few weeks were a battle between exhaustion and doing DDP work. However, I'd say the latter is almost done now. Collecting the new photos is almost complete (announcement in a few days). So, I hope I get most of the hits in. Forgive me, if I miss someone. Missing names will be found though, as I will go through all the new names of this year and add the data necessary for this game. But first things first - the technical: The formula for the score has been corrected. Everyone should have their points for Frank McGarvey now. Two deaths that didn't deliver points were Christina Strutt and Mark Stokes. Christina Strutt's premature death in 2022 means that a sub gets used. She was on my team, so I actually had to make use of my ... fifth (?) sub. The teams who picked Mark Stokes might have wished that he had died prematurely, seeing that he has received no obits so far. The year is still very young though, but I do wonder where such an obit could still appear. Let's wait and see. As far as the hits go, well, January wasn't exactly the busiest month, but Roberto Dinamite is a differential here as well as in the DDP and keeps Banana in the lead. He also had Randy Gonzalez, but is not alone in this as RadGuy had him, too and follows him with a yet unused younger joker back in hand. RadGuy would also benefit immensely from a late Mark Stokes obit. But well, for now it doesn't really matter that much yet who's in the lead. Other hits were, as mentioned above, Jean-Pierre Jabouille for three teams, Sylvia Sims, the former "Grande Dame of British cinema (wikipedia)" a unique hit for Gooseberry Crumble, then lots of points across the board for those who picked King Constantine II of Greece. Lucile Randon was a hit for four teams and delivers four points each. Maybe that one is going to make the difference? Similarly, the old Canadian mayor Hazel McCallion delivers 21 points for three teams. Italian A-list hit Gina Lollobrigida scores for two teams, Thatcher and chilean way. David Crosby was also a hit for two people, Mortal Caso and BuffaloPhil. Maybe one might have expected him on more teams? Finally, Yoon Yeong-Hee was unique hit for Cpt Chorizo who went all in on this name, and it pays off. If those are all the hits, then this is the result.... if a name is missing, tell me, but I'll definitely check a couple more times before the next update: Rank Team Score 1 Banana 326 2 RadGuy 248 3 Perhaps 224 4 The Spinosaurus 210 5 Cpt. Chorizo 204 6 msc 202 7 ThereWillBeDeaths7 184 8 Toast 175 9 JoeyRuss 168 10 Funeralopolis 160 10 wannamaker 160 10 Grim Up North 160 13 Thatcher 155 14 DevonDeathTrip 151 15 TheUnknownMan 128 15 Wormfarmer 128 17 GuyFromFuture 127 18 Diego 125 18 Summer in Transylvania 125 20 gcreptile 120 20 Famous6Eva 120 20 Etushipushingupdaisies 120 20 Death Impends 120 20 Drol 120 20 Predictor 120 20 Book 120 20 Salmon Mousse 120 20 An Fear Beag 120 29 Buffalo Phil 105 30 DeathBecomesThem 104 30 Joltin Joe 104 30 Nick 104 30 The Old Crem 104 30 The Daredevil 104 35 TheOldLady 99 36 chilean way 95 36 Torva Messor 95 36 Sean 95 39 Annami 68 40 Gooseberry Crumble 65 41 CalebH 64 41 TheQuimReaper 64 41 YoungWillz 64 41 tracy 64 41 Mr. Wonderful 64 41 MariNisia 64 41 etib80 64 41 Hell 64 41 Pedro67 64 41 Mr. Custard 64 51 MortalCaso 45 52 John Key 40 52 Charles De Gaulle 40 54 JoeMoneypenny 0 54 Liz Lemon 0 54 Bibliogryphon 0 54 Cpt. Hemlock 0 54 Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 54 Ghostofchristmaspast 0 54 sam081 0 54 Lady Fiona 0

A few quick bits of housekeeping, before I get around to a score update. For anyone who is interested, ZZZ- Boring Predicable Team, the team of most popular picks (and last years honorary winner) is as follows: Andy Taylor (22 Picks) Bob Barker (13 Picks) Francoise Hardy (11 Picks) Frank Field (17 Picks) George Alagiah (25 Picks) Gianluca Vialli (17 Picks) Henry Kissinger (11 Picks) James Whale (13 Picks) Janey Godley (9 Picks) Jimmy Carter (27 Picks) Joanne Woodward (10 Picks) Johnny Ruffo (9 Picks) Jonnie Irwin (23 Picks) June Spencer (10 Picks) Kate Keltie (10 Picks) Linda Nolan (12 Picks) Nigel Starmer-Smith (10 Picks) Randy Jackson (11 Picks) Rhod Gilbert (11 Picks) Rob Burrow (16 Picks) Roberta Flack (JOKER) (28 Picks) RoIf Harris (17 Picks) Shannen Doherty (9 Picks) Steve McMichael (13 Picks) Tony Bennett (10 Picks) Of absolutely no interest to anyone is the fact that after noticing a few duplicates in the masterlist, the number of different picks is reduced down to 714, of which 528 are unique picks! And finally, I note that @WhoamI selected Aussie cricketer Thelma McKenzie. General consensus is that she is long dead, and as there is no statute of limitations in this game, a sub should move up. However as WhoamI only submitted 20 names and used all 5 subs to make a team, they effectively start with 24 players.

Why does the list say 81 ? Wasn’t he 79 ?

Maintaining my 2 point lead over the DL with the General's expected death.

Corrected all the punctuation and capitalisation too and deleted unnecessary spaces. Looks tidy. See how long that lasts.

Dan Quayle is 76.

Sally Perel, Holocaust survivor / jewish Hitler youth, has died at 97: https://globeecho.com/news/europe/germany/hitler-youth-salomon-sally-perel-died-at-the-age-of-97/ That's popular DDP pick Solomon Perel.

The final team, Il Magneto, did submit a team, but 56 minutes past the deadline, so I'm going to have to reluctantly disqualify them and award CalebH a walkover win in their first round match. These are the ties for the first round Great Uncle Bulgaria (GUB) (Dave Marsh, Frank Field, Ethel Caterham, Jonnie Irwin, Maria Branyas, Nick Anderton, Nigel Starmer-Smith*, Rob Burrow, Rolf Harris, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sonny Rollins) vs Ladyfiona (FIO) (Colette Maze, Dai Henwood, Frank Field, James Whale, Janis Paige, Jimmy Carter, Julian Sands, June Spencer, Kenneth McAlpine, Rolf Harris*, Virginia Halas McCaskey) wannamaker (WAN) (Christy Dignam, DJ Bubba Bo, Jesse C. Navarro, Jonnie Irwin, James Whale, Lautaro Ronchi , Nanjil Sampath, Princess Bajrakitiyabha*, Roberto Chale, Rolf Harris, Tongo) vs Sean (SEA) (Carolyn Bryant Donham, Christy Dignam*, George Alagiah, Malachy McCourt, Mark Patton, Michael Flately, Mike Peters, Rolf Harris, Ruth Buzzi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Teresa Taylor) Famous6Eva (F6E) (Bernardo Ruiz, Brenda Milner, Dries van Agt, Honor McKellar, Humberto Maschio, John Capodice, Kurt Hamrin, Mario Zagallo, Nathalia Timberg, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici*) vs TheKillingTime (TKT) (Barbara Barrie*, Břetislav Staš, Doreen Mantle, Garth Manton, Jonnie Irwin, Josef Fritzl, Ole Anderson, Oleg Protopopov, Ruth Buzzi, Silvana Lattmann, Zhu Rongji) Hell (HEL) (Carolyn Bryant Donham, Frank Field, James Whale, Jonnie Irwin, Princess Bajrakitiyabha, Rhod Gilbert, Rolf Harris*, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Simon Cowell (Wildlife), Steve McMichael, Ted Kaczynski) vs MortalCaso (MOR) (Carolyn Bryant Donham, Esther Rantzen, Frank Field, Jango Edwards, Jimmy Carter, Jonnie Irwin, Mike Swick*, Rhod Gilbert, Rolf Harris, Simon Cowell (Wildlife), Steve McMichael) Il Magento - DNS vs CalebH (CAL) (Bas de Gaay Fortman, Hazel Plummer, Jiřina Bohdalová, Jose Mujica, Larry Garza, Mark Pilgrim, Marthe Cohn, Rachel Dror, Steve McMichael*, Tim Lobinger, Wang Huo) JoeMoneypenny (JMP) (Alma Adamkiene, Amanda Bynes, Carmen Sevilla, Denny Crum, Frank Field, Hsing Yun, jayanta Mahapatra, Joseph Zen, Law Lan, Rebecca Pan, Steve McMichael*) vs Dying Probably (DYP) (Alan Greenspan*, Caren Marsh Doll, Dick Van Dyke, Elizabeth Dole, Henry Kissinger, James L. Buckley, Jimmy Carter, Josip Manolic, Norman Tebbit, Rosalynn Carter, Sandra Day O'Connor) theoldlady (OLD) (Andy Taylor, Frank Field, Jonnie Irwin, Katie Keltie, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Rolf Harris, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sonny Rollins, Steve McMichael*, Tim Lobinger, Tina Turner) vs deadsox (DSX) (Caren Marsh Doll, James Whale, Jonnie Irwin, Juan Vicente Perez Mora, Maria Branyas, Otis Taylor, Pervez Musharraf, Rolf Harris, Simon Cowell (wildlife), Steve McMichael*, Tim Loblinger) Wormfarmer (WOR) (Anne Baker, Ethel Caterham, Frank Field, George Alagiah, J. Christopher Flowers, James C Floyd, James Whale, Khaleda Zia, Linda Nolan, Marita Comacho Quiros*, Mark Pilgrim) vs Diego (DIE) ("Superstar" Billy Graham, Dikembe Mutombo, Dom Geraldo Majella Agnelo*, Dov Lando, Nick Anderton, Nigel Starmer Smith, Princesa Bajrakitiyabha, Rolf Schimpf, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sebastian Brodrick, Vic Seixas) Gooseberry Crumble (GOO) (Dickie Bird*, Duane Eddy, Frank Field, Frank Sedgman, Harry Greenway, ian Callaghan, Joanne Woodward, Leslie Caron, Norman Bowler, Philippe De Gaulle , Stanley Baxter) vs ThereWillBeDeaths7 (TWB) (Bobby Charlton, Esther Rantzen, George Alagiah, James Whale, Jonnie Irwin, Larry Pressler, Roberta Flack, Rolf Harris, Ryuichi Sakamoto*, Steve McMichael, Tony Bennett) Liz Lemon (LIZ) (Princess Bajrakitiyabha, Dick Button, Frank Field, Frederic Forrest, James Whale, Joanne Wooodward, Maria Branyas, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Rolf Harris, Ruth Buzzi, Steve McMichael*) vs TheSpinosaurus (SPI) (Aaron Ramsey, Enock Mwepu, Eric Bailly, Franz Beckenbauer, Graham Cross, Horst-Dieter Hottges*, Mario Zagallo, Paul Gascoigne, Rivellino, Ron Yeats, Bobby Charlton) Pop_Zeus (POP) (Andy Taylor, Bob Barker, Burt Bacharach, George Alagiah, Jane Fonda, Linda Nolan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Paul Hogan, Randy Jackson, Roberta Flack, Rolf Harris*) vs Bibliogryphon (BIB) (Agnes Keleti*, Bob Barker, Frank Field, Glynis Johns, James Whale, John Woodvine, Kat Bjelland, Katherine, Duchess of Kent, Linda Nolan, Margaret Stuart Barry, William Russell)  justonecornetto (JOC) (Anne Baker*, Caren Marsh Doll, Edie Ceccarelli, Ethel Caterham, James Whale, John Tinniswood, Jonnie Irwin, Lloyd Geering, Princess Bajrakitiyabha, Ruth Buzzi, Ryuichi Sakamoto) vs Arghton (ARG) (Andres Garcia, Enilce Lopez, Frank Field, KH Ali Yafie*, Khamtai Siphandone, Mohamed Bensaid Ait Idder, Otis Taylor, Roberta Flack, Sebastian Brodrick, Steve McMichael, Tongo) GuyFromFuture (GFF) (Chris Snow*, Edith Ballantyne, Eleanor Collins, Giorgio Napolitano, Harriet Andersson, Frank Field, Irene Camber, Richard Rohmer, Simon Cowell (wildlife), Simone Segouin, Steve McMichael) vs DeathByArsenic (DBA) (Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Brian O'Donovan , Claire Maurier, Eric Lamaze, Fernanda Montenegro, Geneviève Callerot, Joss Ackland, Kate Keltie*, Larisa Latynina, Princess Mikasa, Roland Bertin)

Hits : Feb.11th 2023 : Robert Hebras - Toast March 6th 2023 : Traute Lafrenz Page - Book March 24th 2023 : Gordon Moore - BuffaloPhil April 7th 2023 : Benjamin Ferencz - Hell May 9th 2023 : Moon Fun Chin - BuffaloPhil May 16th 2023 : Marlene Hagg - miss June 28th 2023 : Lowell Weicker - Chilean Way July 3rd 2023 : Léon Gautier - Toast August 19th 2023 : Vasiliy Dobritsa - BuffaloPhil Feb. 28th 2024 : Nikolai Ryzkhov - Chilean Way April 1st 2024 : Lou Conter - Mortal Caso April 29th 2024 : Fernando Suarez Gonzalez - miss July 10th 2024 : Joe Engle - miss August 15th 2024 : Galina Brok-Beltsova - diego

Lol @ actually quite amusing thread reboot.