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He is actually 72 years old and not 71. Happy Birthday, dear Eric! One of the greatest guitarist.

Ingeborg Rapoport died, 104 years old. DailyMail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4353568/Germany-Doctorate-recipient-defied-Nazis-dies-104.html

German Actress, Christine Kaufmann, 72 years old, is suffering from leukemia. This week she collapsed and was finally put into a coma. Christine Kaufmann is one of the most famous german actress and she was the first german that won the golden globe Award. She starred beside Kirk Douglas and Steve Reeves and she was married with Tony Curtis.

She is still alive according to wiki........?

Sad to hear that. He is well known for several movies beside Bud Spencer

Hosni Mubarak will be next

Wow, the last Tycoon is finally dead. Already my 6th hit this year, until now a strong first quarter!

R.I.P. Chuck Berry. Probably biggest death of March. Shame on DL Comittee. But fortunately I have him on my shadow list. Already my 5th hit

January: John Hurt February: Bill Paxton

Prinz Frederic rushed to Hospital. condition alleged serious. http://www.gala.de/stars/news/frédéric-von-anhalt---nach-kollaps-im-krankenhaus---lebensgefahr--21324754.html

R.I.P. to Al Jarreau, a legend of Jazz

be more realistic, Its absolute impossible that this will happen

Jazz-legend Svend Asmussen died, 100 years old. http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/jazzlegenden-svend-asmussen-er-doed-100-aar-gammel

His best friend actor Larry Storch confirmed the dead. https://www.facebook.com/lARRYSTORCHSPAGE/ Video of his 100th birthday is uploaded in Memoriam some minutes ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e61XsU7zAEs

R.I.P.

John Wetton is dead http://teamrock.com/news/2017-01-31/john-wetton-dies-aged-67

Javier Perez !

3rd week of the year and my 3rd hit. R.I.P:

wow, second week and my second hit. R.I.P.

Well, to be honest I didnt really expect an OBIT for Zhou Youguang and thats how I didnt consider him in my personnel DL. Maybe thats the same reason why the comittee did never consider him? It`s bloody difficult, like a bet you have to place, cause you never know before if People like Zhou Youguang are really obitable.

I could be wrong but I'm sure someone said on the forums years ago the deathlist committee limit the amount of people over a 100 on the list. Yes, that could be right. I have analyzed the average Age of all 50 People in official deathlist in the past years. The average is constant at about 88 years. By the way, I follow the same approach regarding my own shadow list. Of course I could reach a lot more hits if I would adjust the year-average upwards and put some more centenarians in my list. but this is not particularly challenging in my point of view.

The new Number One is now Zoltan Sarosy, a hungarian chess master. He is 110 years old

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Soares is without a doubt biggest miss by committee. Beside of Barroso he was the most important politician in Portugal, well known all over the world. He implements democracy and brought Portugal in the EU. Claire Hollingworth is for my taste not a big miss, pure national personality, not important enough on a worldwide-viéw. If you would ask coincidentally ten people outside UK, for example in Germany, Italy, France or somewhere else I would be sure nobody would know her. Not sure regarding Peter Sarstedt or John Berger, both were definitely better known than Hollingworth

German Physicist and Computer scientist Heinz Billing is dead. He was 102 years old.