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@Sean... Thanks for that, by the way. But Carl Weathers was a hit, too:

7/Feb/2024 40 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor 33 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 33 Daft Punk — One More Time 28 Gordon Haskell — How Wonderful You Are +4 27 The Supermen Lovers & Mani Hoffman — Starlight 26 S Club 7 — Reach 25 Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue — Kids 24 Sonique — Sky 24 Moloko — The Time Is Now 23 Blink-182 — All The Small Things 23 Zombie Nation — Kernkraft 400 23 iiO — Rapture 22 Samantha Mumba — Gotta Tell You 22 Sweet Female Attitude — Flowers 22 Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson — Movin’ Too Fast 21 Destiny’s Child — Bootylicious 20 Baha Men — Who Let The Dogs Out 20 Sash! — Adelante 20 Mis-Teeq — All I Want 20 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Take Me Home 19 Donell Jones — U Know What’s Up 18 Steps — Chain Reaction / One For Sorrow 18 Outkast — Ms. Jackson -6 17 U2 — Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of 16 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This

Times death notice for Ivo Mosley (wiki), aged 72. Potter, poet and writer, and the grandson of Sir Oswald Mosley.

Updated the list to reflect Luan Peters who died before the game started.

In 2015 I learnt the names and constituencies on all 650 MPs, which proved rather useful for my line of work. So short have the subsequent parliaments been and so great the turnover of old > new members that all that memorising became redundant quite quickly! I can't even begin to imagine learning the names of 780+ members of the House of Lords. Think I know about 300 or so, but not through trying!

A really controversial political figure and a totally unexpected death, personally I was expecting for former president Ricardo Lagos go first, because he retired from politics a week ago... one to see in the next years. https://chile.as.com/actualidad/que-paso-con-ricardo-lagos-esta-fue-la-drastica-decision-del-ex-presidente-de-chile-n/?outputType=amp

For me this is the biggest death of the year so far (the former president of your country dying in a helicopter crash will be something hard to top). He was like the Dubya of Chile, he was gaffe-prone and the word "piñericosa" was used every time he made a stupid comment or made something silly. He was a mediocre leader imo, his first term was decent but not that good, the rescue of the 33 miners was the highlight of those 4 years, and his second term started horribly with his terrible management of the protests in 2019, although I do think he was very good controlling covid in the country. I know a lot of people hate him, but I just couldn't. Here's a compilation of Piñericosas made in 2018. You probably won't find any of these to be funny unless you know spanish (except for 6:00-7:07 which are universally funny).

Got sent this by a friend an hour after the news broke.Terrible but I did chuckle.

If they choose North London it might finally give Spurs a chance

The most gravely ill on the list: 1)Josip Manolic: 104 in March, bedridden and received last rites in December, seemed an imminent death. However his family insists he is well, so ok. 2)Khamtai Siphandone: 100 in two days, unable to appear for his birthday, whose celebrations have been ongoing for six months. Likely bedridden or even on life support. 3)Jimmy Carter: 100 in October, almost a whole year in hospice care. 4)Ali Hassan Mwinyi: hospitalised and family asking for prayers. Still, it seems not too serious. 5)Violeta Chamorro: soon 95, airlifted to Costa Rica last year, recordwoman of dementia and brain tumors. One of those five is really really overdue.

Because in the last fifty years the helicopter crash rate in the UK is around 1 every three years, making your chances of dying in a helicopter less likely than being killed by a cow in mainland UK. Worldwide it's slightly higher than planes but again below deadly cows. I apologise for any new fear of mooing objects.

Mike Farrell is 85 today.

Former Taoiseach John Bruton reportedly dead: https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0206/1430700-john-bruton/ Never seemingly mentioned here, despite the long illness. Dead and never called me Mother.

Her recovery is pretty remarkable. Who could’ve imagined 9 years ago after her aneurysm that she’d be performing at the Grammys in 2024?

If he dies, I'm going to be annoyed that Huw Edwards won't be the one to tell me.

Not prostate but a separate type of csncer. Sounds like has started Chemo or Radiotherapy by talk of regular treatment starting today. Think they would say if he needed more surgery.

You and Arghton started making these names up ages ago and none of us noticed, right?

I dropped him when they said he was going for immunotherapy as that sounded like they expected he could last a bit longer. This says that, contrary to most experts opinions, the immunotherapy has worked on his glioblastoma. Time will tell but there is a slim chance this is an incredible breakthrough.

What a shitty day. RIP legend. I’m sitting in Macomb County (MC…5) as we speak.

Updated for Carl Weathers, who won't be making any more stews.

And also the most recent player to be on the bench against England in any match to die. Sad news.

It's time for the first update of the year. Let's start with the three DeathList hits, Glynis Johns, Franz Beckenbauer and Derek Draper. Obviously, Draper is a huge hit in this competition. Several players even score joker points. You might not have risked him in a Top 20 list, but most top 50 lists had space for him. Beckenbauer was almost as popular as Draper, though too old to be a joker. His quick death barely into 2024 was even surprising to me, even though I pretty definitely knew that 2024 was going to be his final year. Finally, Glynis Johns, a classic deadpooling pick who is a welcome score booster for a lot of teams who might not go for the usual ambulance chasing. Next hit, Brian Barzcyk, Reptile enthusiast. His decline almost seemed to be accelerating by the day. He was already a cult pick during the 2023 DeathList Cup, where he was picked regularly by DevonDeathTrip. He survived that season very well, and looked to be in good shape, judging from the lively videos throughout the year. But since November, he was definitely on the way out and just barely managed to reach 2024. Three teams score with previously immortal Mario Zagallo. He looked like death warmed up for years, but really managed to reach an age that footballers hardly do. Seriously, are there any other top football players in their 90s? Personally, I suspect that drugs, steroids, exercise, bad nutrition, and so on shorten the lives of top athletes. Franz Beckenbauer at 78 was also not that old, and still managed to die from Parkinson/heart problems/eye stroke/basically everything. Next hit is socialist director, and more importantly (...) Kate Beckinsale's step father, Roy Battersby. A hit for several teams. At least, he also got a few obits that pointed out his own achievements, not just his relation to Beckinsale. For example, a Guardian obit. Now, Joyce Randolph. We've sort of moved from "last famous people famous before WW2", via "last famous people during WW II", to "last famous people of the 50s". Being famous in the 50s already seems like an historical outlier, when it's now the 60s stars that appear on the Deathlist (like Eastwood or Hackman, the former had the breakthrough with Rawhide in 1959, the latter had a slow 60s until he got the Oscar nomination in 1967). Now, Joyce Randolph, last living star of The Honeymooners, dies and is a hit for two teams, Cpt. Hemlock and The Unknown Man. As far as I can tell, those are the hits. But if I missed anyone tell me. I haven't yet got the names of this competition memorized, so it's likely that a name slips through. Now, in other news: You saw the disqualifications from the DDP. As the rules state, the disqualifications of the DDP also apply here. Cricket player Jonathan Mills and Bruce Murray of Home and Away got disqualified, several players are victims, me (x2), Wannamaker, RadGuy, msc and Cpt. Chorizo. I have replaced them with your first subs in my excel file. I will adjust the masterlist shortly. My own two subs for Mills and Murray are astronaut Tom Stafford and ice hockey coach Mike Sertich. The resulting scoreboard sees Perhaps with a super-sprint out front. RadGuy and me a bit behind. Franz Beckenbauer was a valuable differential. Perhaps hit almost every target. Rank Team Score 1 Perhaps 271 2 gcreptile 217 2 RadGuy 217 4 Cpt. Chorizo 212 5 Caleb H 203 6 The Immortal 188 7 Mr. Wonderful 181 8 The Unknown Man 159 9 Yorkshire Banker 157 9 Book 157 11 Salmon Mousse 148 11 Funeralopolis 148 13 Baby Blue 136 13 msc 136 13 Banana 136 13 wannamaker 136 17 The old lady 134 17 Death Impends 134 19 DeathBecomesThem 112 19 Imelda 112 19 Toast 112 19 Pedro67 112 19 tracy 112 24 Cpt. Hemlock 93 25 Lady Fiona 90 25 Summer in Transilvania 90 27 An Fear Beag 69 28 The Old Crem 68 28 The Daredevil 68 30 ThereWillBeDeaths7 67 30 Diego 67 30 John Key 67 30 arghton 67 30 Thatcher 67 30 MariNisia 67 30 Buffalo Phil 67 30 Sean 67 30 Wormfarmer 67 39 Charles De Gaulle 45 39 Etushipushingupdaisies 45 41 Hell 23 41 TQR 23 41 Liz Lemon 23 41 chileanway 23 41 Annami 23 46 Bibliogryphon 0 46 Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 46 Gooseberry Crumble 0 46 Young Willz 0 46 Predictor 0 46 Sod's Law 0 46 Torva Messor 0

Comedy night at the London Palladium. Frank Skinner was compère, others were Pierre Novellie, Maisie Adam, Rob Beckett, Babatunde Aléshé, Sophie Duker and Jon Richardson. All were brilliant, particularly the three in the second half.