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December 1st again? Seems each year goes by faster and faster, doesn't it? Now time is flying so fast that a DDP co-host was born late enough to make SpongeBob references, but I digress... But yes, fear not, the North Star of the deadpooling world that we call the Derby Dead Pool continues to light up this morbid little pocket of our lives and has opened its doors for its 27th edition. As we enjoy @msc 's final month of DDP obits, I will be taking over the front page role starting next year, joining @Grim Up North and @gcreptile on the committee. THE RULES are unchanged from this year's ie the FFBI disqualifications, wider net of QOs, etc all remain instituted. IMPORTANT REMINDER: The spreadsheet method of entry that began last year remains in service. The 2022 spreadsheet, identical to the last one in all but filename, can be found here. It is heavily recommended to use the spreadsheet as means of entry to reduce Grim Up North's workload as much as possible. If you are absolutely unable to work with the Excel spreadsheet, still make sure to recheck GUN's DDP entry guide thread from last year to make the formatting of your email as smooth as possible.

Eva Marie Saint was bestowed a special award last night along with Pat Boone.

As last year, the scoring will appear on a four digit base. The first digit will represent the category, sorted from least living laureates to most: Literature (19): 6.000 points Peace (32): 5.000 points Economic Scienes (44): 4.000 points Chemistry (63): 3.000 points Medicine/Physiology (70): 2.000 points Physics (72): 1.000 points The second digit will honor the decade, the laureate was awarded: 2020s – 900 points 2010s – 800 points 2000s – 700 points 1990s – 600 points 1980s – 500 points 1970s – 400 points 1960s – 300 points 1950s – 200 points There were no laureates left from the decades before, so a sore of 100 points is not possible! The third digit will show the age of your laureate: < 30 – 90 points. 30-39 – 80 points 40-49 – 70 points 50-59 – 60 points 60-69 – 50 points 70-79 – 40 points 80-89 – 30 points 90-99 – 20 points 100-??? – 10 points The last digit gives a bonus score: Last survivor of his awarding year: 9 points bonus. Youngest death of the contest: 8 points (awarded in February 2023!) Represents an African country: 7 points Represents an Asian country: 6 points A female laureate: 5 points. Awarded alone (organizations excluded): 4 points Represents a South or Middle American country: 3 points Comes from Germany (born there or naturalized): 2 points Oldest death of the contest: 1 point (awarded in February 2023!) So for example: F. W. de Klerk, one of the last laureates to die, was worth 5.637 points. 5.000 as a Peace laureate, 600 for the decade (he was awarded in 1993), 30 for his age (85), and seven bonus points for a person of African origin.

Telegraph death notice for David Wadey, aged 103, a highly decorated Dunkirk and El Alamein veteran. 103rd birthday article from Aug. Local coverage of him in 2010.

Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas, so it has fucking started, you ignoramus.

Liza!

Sorry I'm absolutely garbage at Excel (which as we all know should be used for numbers and not words). However, I'm absolutely garbage at the game in general, so that compensates! I had no problems with my entry this year, a testament to getting in early and also Grim's superb transposition skills, Good luck to the Committee and thanks to msc for the last couple of years - it's been a blast. *now I have to decide if Liza Minnelli is going on my team or not....hmm...Frank Ifield still lives...hmm*

Well @YoungWillz breaks his duck with the fifth unique hit of the game with Don Demeter Three of the five players who have unique hits only have their unique hit - myself included There are currently four players who have yet to hit a home run in this game @arghton @MariNisia @DeathByArsenic @YorkshireBanker Hoping this game manages to last into the New Year because I think things will be busy until The New Year

Over the course of today I'll be sending out the emails to invite entry for 2022 - the people with email addresses beginning with As should already have theirs. Please look out for it in your spam folder too as there is nothing I can do on this side to avoid work filters thinking that my mail might be spam - I suppose it is about soon to be dead meat. If anybody doesn't receive the email all the information in it is actually contained in Death Impends post above. Enjoy your selection process. Cheers, GUN PS My entry will be finalised today and submitted before I receive all your wonderful picks (at which point normally at least one walking corpse will make themselves known to the world).

Dave Draper dead

Latvian women's football team died tonight. We beat them 20-0.

Indeedy. Still in remission so thankfully better than my team picks

Welcome to the first Deathlist-competition dedicated to Nobel laureates: The Nobel Prize Dead Pool Since the inaugural contest 2021 was a bit shorter, I will start this one early enough. The nomination period opens on December 1st, 2021 and ends on January 31st, 2022. The rules are still easy: Pick one living Nobel laureate by each category (Physics, Chemistry, Medicine/Physiology/Peace/Literature and Economic Sciences), who you think will die during the following next twelve months. This will make six nominated people. Send your list between December 1st and January 31st! My remaining rule: No laureate can be chosen twice, so check who was picked by other deadpoolers! Two New rules for this year: 1. In case, one of your laureates dies, replace him/her by a person from the same category. This will give you the chance to score twice in a category. 2. I will be the last to choose my picks – to avoid discrepancies for the other contestants! Every laureate who dies in December or January will be excluded automatically and should be replaced in case of being chosen. People, who accepted the award on behalf of someone or represent an organization are excluded from the contest, the 2022 laureates cannot be chosen since they are unknown until October! The Nobel Prize Dead Pool will start from February 1st, the day the nomination period for new laureates ends. The last day to score a hit will be January 31st, 2023! All main sources will be accepted as well as the official Nobel Prize website www.nobelprize.org. (The deaths will be mentioned there, so no lost hits to expect!) Since not so many Nobel laureates die during a year - 2017, 2019 and 2020 it had been 9 dead laureates per year, 2018 there were 18, in 2021 so far 11 (So do not expect a rushing contest!) – the scoring will honor every hit separately. So good luck and enjoy the contest.

Chemistry: 2019 John Bannister Goodenough b. 1922 1992 Rudolph Arthur Marcus b. 1923 1980 Paul Berg b. 1926 1990 Elias James Corey b. 1928 1986 John Charles Polanyi b. 1929 2010 Akira Suzuki b. 1930 2013 Martin Karplus b. 1930 1980 Walter Gilbert b. 1932 1986 Dudely Robert Hershbach b. 1932 1996 Robert Floyd Curl jr. b. 1933 1986 Yuan Tseh Lee b. 1936 2000 Alan Jay Heeger b. 1936 2000 Hideki Shirakawa b. 1936 2007 Gerhard Ertl b. 1936 1981 Roald Hoffman b. 1937 1988 Robert Huber b. 1937 2004 Avram Hershko b. 1937 2001 Ryoji Noyori b. 1938 2002 Kurt Wüthrich b. 1938 2015 Tomas Robert Lindahl b. 1938 1987 Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn b. 1939 1989 Sidney Altman b. 1939 2009 Ada E. Yonath b. 1939 2013 Arieh Warshel b. 1940 2017 Joachim Frank b. 1940 1997 John Ernest Walker b. 1941 2001 Karl Berry Sharpless b. 1941 2011 Daniel Shechtman b. 1941 2018 George Pearson Smith b. 1941 2019 Michael Stanley Whittingham b. 1941 2016 James Fraser Stoddart b. 1942 2017 Jacques Dubochet b. 1942 1988 Johann Deisenhofer b. 1943 2012 Robert Joseph Lefkowitz b. 1943 2016 Jean-Pierre Sauvage b. 1944 2005 Richard Royce Schrock b. 1945 2017 Richard Henderson b. 1945 2015 Aziz Sancar b. 1946 2015 Paul Lawrence Modrich b. 1946 1989 Thomas Robert Cech b. 1947 2004 Aaron Ciechanover b. 1947 2006 Roger David Kornberg b. 1947 2008 Martin Chalfie b. 1947 2013 Michael Levitt b. 1947 1988 Hartmut Michel b. 1948 2019 Akira Yoshino b. 1948 2003 Peter Courtland Agre b. 1949 2016 Bernard Lucas "Ben" Feringa b. 1951 2018 Gregory Paul Winter b. 1951 2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan b. 1952 2014 William Esco Moerner b. 1953 2012 Brian Kent Kobilka b. 1955 2003 Roderick MacKinnon b. 1956 2018 Frances Hamilton Arnold b. 1956 2002 Koichi Tanaka b. 1959 2014 Robert Eric Betzig b. 1960 2014 Stefan Walter Hell b. 1962 2020 Jennifer Anne Doudna Cate b. 1964 2020 Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier b. 1968 2021 Benjamin List b. 1968 2021 David William Cross MacMillan b. 1968 Peace: 1973 Henry Alfred Kissinger b. 1923 2002 James Earl Carter jr. b. 1924 1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel b. 1931 1990 Michail S. Gorbatschow b. 1931 1989 HRH, 14. Dalai Lama b. 1935 2008 Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari b. 1937 2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf b. 1938 2006 Muhammad Yunus b. 1940 1987 Oscar Arias Sánchez b. 1941 2005 Mohammed ElBaradei b. 1942 1983 Lech Wałęsa b. 1943 Last living laureate 1976 Mairead Corrigan b. 1944 1998 David Trimble b. 1944 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi b. 1945 2003 Schirin Ebadi b. 1947 1996 Carlos Felipe Belo b. 1948 2007 Albert Arnold Gore jr. b. 1948 1996 José Ramos-Horta b. 1949 1997 Jody Williams b. 1950 2016 Juan Manuel Santos Calderón b. 1951 2014 Kailash Satyarthi b. 1954 2018 Denis Mukengere Mukwege b. 1955 1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum b. 1959 2021 Dmitri Andrejewitsch Muratow b. 1961 2009 Barack Hussein Obama jr. b. 1961 2021 Maria Angelita Ressa b. 1963 2011 Leymah Roberta Gbowee b. 1972 2019 Abiy Ahmed Ali b. 1976 2011 Tawakkul Karman b. 1979 2018 Nadia Murad Basee Taha b. 1993 2014 Malala Yousafzai b. 1997 Literature: 2013 Alice Ann Munro b. 1931 1986 Wole Soyinka b. 1934 1994 Kenzaburō Ōe b. 1935 Last living laureate 2010 Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa b. 1936 2000 Gao Xingjian b. 1940 2003 John Maxwell Coetzee b. 1940 2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio b. 1940 2016 Bob Dylan b. 1941 2019 Peter Handke b. 1943 2020 Louise Elisabeth Glück b. 1943 2014 Jean Patrick Modiano b. 1945 2004 Elfriede Jelinek b. 1946 2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah b. 1948 2015 Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch b. 1948 2006 Orhan Pamuk b. 1952 2009 Herta Müller b. 1953 2017 Kazuo Ishiguro b. 1954 2012 Mò Yán b. 1955 2018 Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk b. 1962 Medicine/Pysiology: 1977 Roger Charles Guillemin b. 1924 1981 Torsten Nils Wiesel b. 1924 1977 Andew Victor Schally b. 1926 1962 James Dewey Watson b. 1928 Last living laureate 1978 Werner Arber b. 1929 2000 Eric Richard Kandel b. 1929 2015 Tu Youyou b. 1930 2015 William Cecil Campbell b. 1930 1978 Hamilton Othanel Smith b. 1931 2008 Luc Montagnier b. 1932 2012 John Bertrand Gurdon b. 1933 1982 Bengt I. Samuelsson b. 1934 Last living laureate 2015 Satoshi Ōmura b. 1935 2020 Harvey James Alter b. 1935 1989 Michael John Bishop b. 1936 1998 Ferid Murad b. 1936 2008 Harald zur Hausen b. 1936 2005 John Robin Warren b. 1937 2007 Mario Renato Capecchi b. 1937 1975 David Baltimore b. 1938 Last living laureate 1987 Susumu Tonegawa b. 1939 1989 Harold Eliot Varmus b. 1939 2001 Leland Harrison Hartwell b. 1939 2014 John Michael O'Keefe b. 1939 1985 Joseph Leonard Goldstein b. 1940 1996 Peter Charles Doherty b. 1940 1985 Michael Stuart Brown b. 1941 1998 Louis Joseph Ignarro b. 1941 2007 Martin John Evans b. 1941 2011 Jules Alphonse Hoffmann b. 1941 1991 Bert Sakmann b. 1942 1995 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard b. 1942 1997 Stanley Ben Prusiner b. 1942 2018 Tasuku Honjo b. 1942 1993 Richard John Roberts b. 1943 2001 Richard Timothy Hunt b. 1943 1991 Erwin Neher b. 1944 1993 Phillip Allen Sharp b. 1944 1996 Rolf Martin Zinkernagel b. 1944 2017 Michael Morris Rosbash b. 1944 2016 Yoshinori Ōsumi b. 1945 2017 Jeffrey Connor Hall b. 1945 2004 Richard Axel b. 1946 1995 Eric Frank Wieschaus b. 1947 2002 Howard Robert Horvitz b. 1947 2004 Linda B. Buck b. 1947 2008 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi b. 1947 2009 Elizabeth Helen Blackburn b. 1948 2013 Randy Wayne Schekman b. 1948 2018 James "Jim" Patrick Allison b. 1948 2001 Paul Maxime Nurse b. 1949 2017 Michael Warren Young b. 1949 2020 Michael A. Houghton b. 1949 2013 James Edward Rothman b. 1950 2005 Barry James Marshall b. 1951 2009 Jack William Szostak b. 1952 2020 Charles Moen Rice III. b. 1952 2019 Peter John Ratcliffe b. 1954 2013 Thomas Christian Südhof b. 1955 2021 David Jay Julius b. 1955 2019 Gregg Leonard Semenza b. 1956 2011 Bruce Alan Beutler b. 1957 2019 William George Kaelin jr. b. 1957 2006 Andrew Zachary Fire b. 1959 2006 Craig Cameron Mello b. 1960 2009 Carol Widney Greider b. 1961 2012 Shin'ya Yamanaka b. 1962 2014 Edvard Ingjald Moser b. 1962 2014 May-Britt Moser b. 1963 2021 Ardem Patapoutian b. 1967 Physics: 1957 Chen Ning Yang b. 1922 1973 Leo Esaki b. 1925 1957 Tsung Dao Lee b. 1926 1975 Benjamin Roy Mottelson b. 1926 1987 Karl Alexander Müller b. 1927 2000 Herbert Kroemer b. 1928 1973 Ivar Giaever b. 1929 2013 Peter Ware Higgs b. 1929 1972 Leon N Cooper b. 1930 Last living laureate 1990 Jerome Isaac Friedman b. 1930 2009 George Elwood Smith b. 1930 1996 David Morries Lee b. 1931 2020 Roger Penrose b. 1931 2021 Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann b. 1931 2021 Syukurō Manabe b. 1931 1979 Sheldon Lee Glashow b. 1932 Last living laureate 2013 François Englert, Baron Englert b. 1932 2017 Rainer Weiss b. 1932 1978 Arno Allen Penzias b. 1933 1997 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji b. 1933 1984 Carlo Rubbia b. 1934 Last living laureate 2005 John Lewis Hall b. 1934 2019 Philip James "Jim" Edwin Peebles b. 1935 1976 Samuel Chao Chung Ting b. 1936 1978 Robert Woodrow Wilson b. 1936 2017 Barry Clark Barish b. 1936 2003 Anthony James Leggett b. 1938 2007 Albert Louis François Fert b. 1938 1998 Daniel Chee Tsui b. 1939 1973 Brian David Josephson b. 1940 2017 Kip Stephen Thorne b. 1940 1993 Joseph Hooton Taylor b. 1941 2004 David Jonathan Gross b. 1941 2005 Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch b. 1941 2016 John Michael Kosterlitz b. 1942 2019 Michel Gustave Mayor b. 1942 1985 Klaus von Klitzing b. 1943 2015 Arthur Bruce McDonald b. 1943 2008 Makoto Kobayashi b. 1944 2012 David Jeffrey Wineland b. 1944 2012 Serge Haroche b. 1944 2018 Gérard Albert Mourou b. 1944 1996 Douglas Dean Osheroff b. 1945 2006 George Fitzgerald Smoot III b. 1945 1999 Gerardus 't Hooft b. 1946 Last living laureate 2006 John Cromwell Mather b. 1946 1986 Gerd Karl Binnig b. 1947 1997 Steven Chu b. 1948 1997 William Daniel Philips b. 1948 2021 Giorgio Parisi b. 1948 1998 Horst Ludwig Störmer b. 1949 2004 Hugh David Politzer b. 1949 1987 Johannes Georg Bednorz b. 1950 1993 Russel Alan Hulse b. 1950 1998 Robert Betts Laughlin b. 1950 2001 Carl Edwin Wieman b. 1951 2004 Frank Anthony Wilczek b. 1951 2016 Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane b. 1951 2020 Reinhard Genzel b. 1952 2014 Shūji Nakamura b. 1954 2001 Wolfgang Ketterle b. 1957 2010 Andre Konstantinowitsch Geim b. 1958 2011 Saul Perlmutter b. 1959 2015 Takaaki Kajita b. 1959 2018 Donna Theo Strickland b. 1959 2014 Hiroshi Amano b. 1960 2001 Eric Allin Cornell b. 1961 2020 Andrea Mia Ghez b. 1965 2019 Didier Patrick Queloz b. 1966 2011 Brian P. Schmidt b. 1967 2011 Adam Guy Riess b. 1969 2010 Konstantin Sergejewitsch Nowoselow b. 1974 Economic Sciences: 1987 Robert Merton Solow b. 1924 1990 Harry Max Markowitz b. 1927 2002 Vernon Lomax Smith b. 1927 2005 Israel Robert John Aumann b. 1930 1998 Amartya Kumar Sen b. 1933 2006 Edmund Strother Phelps b. 1933 1990 William Forsyth Sharpe b. 1934 2002 Daniel Kahneman b. 1936 1995 Robert Emerson Lucas b. 1937 2000 Daniel Leigh McFadden b. 1937 2020 Robert Butler Wilson b. 1937 2013 Eugene Francis Fama b. 1939 2001 George Arthur Akerlof b. 1940 2004 Edward Christian Prescott b. 1940 2010 Peter Arthur Diamond b. 1940 1997 Myron Samuel Scholes b. 1941 2018 William Dawbney Nordhaus b. 1941 2003 Robert Fry Engle III. b. 1942 2011 Christopher Albert Sims b. 1942 2001 Joseph Eugene Stiglitz b. 1943 2001 Michael Andrew Spence b. 1943 2004 Finn Erling Kydland b. 1943 2011 Thomas John Sargent b. 1943 1997 Robert Cox Merton b. 1944 2000 James Joseph Hackman b. 1944 2015 Angus Stewart Deaton b. 1945 2017 Richard H. Thaler b. 1945 2013 Robert James Shiller b. 1946 2010 Christopher Antoniou Pissarides b. 1948 2016 Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart b. 1948 2020 Paul Robert Milgrom b. 1948 2016 Bengt Robert Holmström b. 1949 2007 Eric Stark Maskin b. 1950 2007 Roger Bruce Myerson b. 1951 2012 Alwin Eliot Roth b. 1951 2013 Lars Peter Hansen b. 1952 2008 Paul Robin Krugman b. 1953 2014 Jean Marcel Tirole b. 1953 2018 Paul Michael Romer b. 1955 2021 David Edward Card b. 1956 2021 Joshua David Angrist b. 1960 2019 Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee b. 1961 2021 Guido Wilhelmus Imbens b. 1963 2019 Michael Robert Kremer b. 1964 2019 Esther Caroline Duflo b. 1972

Fuck it. That's me out already. Zoe Ball had the decency to sound a klaxon before she played it, so I changed channels only to be confronted after the commercial break by that fucking song. Can't we put in room 101?

Excellent. A subgroup that I keep track of is everyone in the 1955 World Series. At this point among the Dodgers is only Koufax, Erskine, and Craig.

Sir Creep come on the rules of this pool are as established as you and me on Death List forums.These have been the rule for years Was lucky to be available to compete but if not that is the way the cookie crumbles.

"Mr Cardiff City" and Welsh International Phil Dwyer being reported dead aged 68: Bit of drinker, seems to have blighted his later careers.

Philip Heymann (wiki), U.S. Deputy Attorney General under Clinton (1993–1994) and one of the Watergate prosecutors, dead at 89.

CJ Hunter, Oylmpian and World champ shot-putter in '99, dead at 52. Probably better remembered as the supplier of PEDs to his then wife Marion Jones.

As discussed when he died in 2013, bass singer Marshall Sewell of The Edsels was responsible for that. The credit for the bomp-a-bomp is less cut and dried, though I'd give it to Fred Johnson of the Marcels. This corpse-fucking cunt bennib has a lot of catching up to do, but I've saved him some time here.

Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?

Joan Holloway was 107 last month! She is the daughter of Stanley Holloway whose famous monologues included 'The Lion and Albert'. Her brother Julian (a fairly well-known actor) is 77 - he is the father of Sophie Dahl - the well-known former model & current author & wife of the famous Jamie Cullum.)

Heikki Mälkki, WWII veteran, sub-lieutenant, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Finland and former President of the Helsinki Court of Appeal mentioned in the spoiler dead at 97: https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000008424209.html

Deathrace Form Guide #18 P. J. Proby Fuck knows, I've posted this perennial pool teaser in form guides enough times. The hell raising former rock n roll singer turns 83 today, 53 years after his first bankruptcy, 48 years after being arrested for shooting an illegally possessed weapon at his other half (Dean Martin's daughter - so mebbe she had a thing for blokes who drank all day), and almost thirty years after his first heart attack. To be fair, he kicked the pop in the wake of that coronary but his chaotic personal life simply took new turns with ruinous financial management leading to him being resident in the arse end of Manchester, and being tried for benefit fraud involving over £47,000. The acquittal still dragged him into the tabloids again on the back of exposing a private life that'd leave yer average soap opera script editor chucking the story back on the basis that even Corrie regulars wouldn't wear it as credible. I'd mention his various relationships but that'd take another page of the thread. Happy birthday P .J.