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Really hope the committee includes the oldest living spouse of a British Prime minister in its 2020 list and does not repeat what happened with Mary Wilson by overlooking her .

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!

I thought HE had a spare....

As always there will be some left field deaths that come at us out of nowhere. Bowie wasn't picked in 2016 for the DDP. By anyone. Some folk this year have picked up unique hits either because they stuck with names they had been picking for years, or the stars aligned right for them. Whether it will be a huge year for deaths nobody really knows. I guess if we lost three or four Drop 40-ers in the first 3 months, it's going to look bad. But remember, 2016 stacked up corpses fairly consistently and didn't stop until just before year's end. Just a torrent, at points the Beeb's website looked like a solid obituary page. That was the shocking thing. Even more shocking was my performance in deadpools that year. 2018 been best so far, but we'll see. My main team is so far left field Jeremy Corbyn is standing for caretaker leader.

Yeah, I hear he can only walk as far as the local primary school these days.

First time I entered the DDP, I had journalist Sue Carroll set as my joker. I was secretly checking the news on my phone at the family Boxing Day dinner at grans when I saw that she'd died, and let out an involuntary "FUCKING DAMN IT!" in front of everyone. Managed to cover it by pretending I'd hit my knee against the table!

I think you could be right. 2020 does have a kind of end of an era feel to it. Hopefully the end of the Trump era !

A belated Happy Birthday to the brilliant Dame Maggie Smith who turned 85 yesterday.

Olivia De Havilland was 100 before finally being made a Dame and is with us yet.

I think as we enter the decade were Ethel would possibly reach her 100th birthday if she lived that long ,she is likely to be on more and more peoples radar. I will be interested to see how many select her for any of the pools/games that begin in the early new year.

No but I am expecting a lot of douches to die.....

Yeah but what Toast is saying is most of those big names such as Carrie Fisher Victoria Wood Prince David Bowie Alan Rickman Victoria Wood Debbie Reynolds Gene Wilder Terry Wogan Paul Daniels Denise Robertson Ronnie Corbett and George Michael were not names we expected to go when they did.I mean most of these names were not seriously on anyone's radar when they died.

Soon enough we’ll have 80 must haves

Sorry for the loss of your friend. Especially at this time of year when new hope is supposed to dawn. I guess it will, for those she will help with her donation. Thoughts with you, philheybrookbay.

It feels like every leap year the grim reaper is most active. 2016 and 2012 was big year for celebrity deaths.

Here is my list for 2020. Thank you! 22/50 Including my joker! Daniel arap-Moi (JOKER) Kirk Douglas Prince Philip Nobby Stiles Alex Trebek Olivia Newton-John Genesis P-Orridge Jimmy Carter Rosalynn Carter (Stevie Wonder) Tom Smith Barbara Walters Olivia de Havilland Bob Dole Roberta McCain Sidney Poitier David Prowse (Celine Dion) David Gulpilil Larry King John Hume (politician) Ruth Bader Ginsburg Anne Buyden Douglas (actress Married to Kirk Douglas) Jean Louis Trintignant Greg Gilbert Gina Lollobrigida Linda Nolan Willie Nelson Vera Lynn Loretta Lynn Jerry Stiller Noam Chomsky Peter Alliss (Yoko Ono) Peter Tobin Chris Rea Terry Jones George Alagiah Dilip Kumar Stirling Moss Sean Connery Little Richard Shane MacGowan Ennio Morricone Javier Perez de Cuellar Bob Barker Stanley Baxter Pope Benedict Henry Gray Samantha Last (Duane Chapman) Luis Echevarria Lee Kerslake (Ozzy Osbourne) Leon Spinks (Updated to show the 5 changes made on July 1st.)

Jacques Chirac un France definitely

A bit like how Dick Dale was in his final years. Had to be helped to the stage. once a guitar was placed in his hands, he was totally transformed

I too do think 2020 (or maybe 2021) will be poised to be a big year in terms of celebrity deaths. Although we did lose a lot of celebrities this year, most of them aren't really too high profile, and were more second tier. But we've got some big names down the pike that the Grim Reaper is anxious to claim their souls including Jimmy Carter, Prince Phillip, Alex Trebek, Larry King, Kirk Douglas, Olivia Newton-John, Sean Connery, and so forth. I also think we will have a truly shocking death of a young celebrity, and not an "up and comer" type, but an A-lister celebrity who will likely die by either suicide or drug overdose (think Robin Williams or Philip Seymour Hoffman level). I predict that we will see the death of one (or maybe even more) of the following in 2020 or 2021: Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears (she has been deteriorating mentally lately and sadly I think she could end up taking her own life or suffer a suicide by cop similar to Vanessa Marquez), Amanda Bynes, Demi Lovato (she will relapse and not survive this time around, she won't cheat death twice), Pete Davidson, Tekashi69, Lil' Wayne (or another high profile hip hop artist), and one or two big name celebrities connected to Jeffrey Epstein. I also await Bill Cosby to croak. He will die in disgrace like Joe Paterno.

Sorry for your loss Philhey.

1998 was Dermot Morgan and Ted Hughes. Big year! Ted Heath of course used to play the DDP... I made that up.

yes you will - back to it now but there’s a backlog . Lots of people spend Christmas Day thinking who might die in next 12 months obviously (ghosts of Christmas future). cheers, GUN

I’m in. And will probably do as poorly as I usually do.

Thanks to @Toast for the info -- on poor Mr. Martin Peters, who peters out at 76 years old. A letter M hit for Sean, and P for Toast, who along with the Duo and 1939 bonuses score 4 and 5 respectively. Scoreboard - 23 Dec 2019 JiroemonKimura - 33 Banana - 32 RadGuy - 28 theoldlady - 27 Clorox Bleachman - 27 CaptainChorizo - 27 Joey Russ - 24 msc - 24 Death Impends - 24 Sir Creep - 23 Book - 20 Toast - 19 Etushispushingupdasies - 14 gcreptile - 14 Sean - 14 Wormfarmer - 13 The Old Crem - 12 YorkshireBanker - 12 Philip - 11 Skinny kiltrunner - 10 Torva Messor - 10 Great Uncle Bulgaria - 8 YoungWillz - 7 Yvonne - 5 Bibliogryphon - 5 DeathByArsenic - 3