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Cancer Expert Professor Martin Gore dies. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46836877 For a moment I feared it was Martin Gore from Depeche Mode.

Then how come he's only being added now? He's always looked dreadful but presumably there's some reason the committee put him on the list for the first time this year when they've always held back beforehand?

You could say the same about Bob Barker, Ed Asner and Valerie Harper, big names on US TV but barely known in the UK.

Any particular reason he's been added this year?

It was Naz Shah. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/20/ailing-mp-wheeled-into-commons-in-pyjamas-criticises-tory-whips

Why didn't they like him?

Strange how the committee were almost alone in correctly calling Mark E Smith yet left such an obvious candidate off the list.

Has a No.50 ever been the first of the year to go?

I still think we might get no.18 before the year is out, remember Luise Rainer in 2014?

I think she's left the band.

Sounds like he'll be with us for a while yet. https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2017/1022/914383-miriam-meets-larry-gogan-gay-byrne/

Martin Peters' Alzheimer's sounds quite advanced now. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/10/02/sir-geoff-hurst-fears-world-cup-winning-team-mate-martin-peters/

Has this ever happened before?

Leslie Crowther was a man.

That was a good call, albeit it took quite a few years to happen.