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That is a pretty sound analysis. Can't fault you for any of those picks at all. Question is, if that's your 25 from the 2016 list, who would you choose as your other 25? This is much harder then the 25 to from 2016, but, as it has been requested, here we go. 1. Leah Bracknell 2. Robert Mugabe 3. AA Gill 4. King Michael of Romania 5. Helmut Kohl 6. Sidney Poitier 7. John Wetton 8. Ian Brady 9. John Glenn 10. Former Pope Benedict 11. Ian St. John 12. Queen Elizabeth 13. Colin Meads 14. Sean Connery 15. Tony Booth 16. Mel Brooks 17. David Attenborough 18. Valerie Harper 19. Nicholas Parsons 20. Doris Day 21. Pierre Cardin 22. Chuck Berry 23. Norman Lloyd 24. Donald Trump 25. Ozzy Osbourne I kept the terminally ill picks to that I can guarantee will get BBC obits, and I selected everyone else by how interesting they are and how big of a miss they are. Pretty decent list. Not too sure about Donald Trump or Ozzy Osbourne being on, though. Yes, Trump could be assassinated but he must have a hell of a lot of security - people thought Obama was going to get assassinated for being the first African-American president but that never happened... hell, even Trump's best mate Nigel Farage has said recently that he can't go out of the house without security so imagine the amount that Trump has? Anyway, if I was going to make my own list for 2017, here's how it would stand at this point: 1. Zsa Zsa Gabor 2. Leah Bracknell 3. Billy Graham 4. AA Gill 5. John Wetton 6. Olivia de Haviland 7. Jacque Fresco 8. Vera Lynn 9. Raymond Smullyan 10. Clare Hollingworth 11. Peter Sallis 12. Zhou Youguang 13. Prince Philip 14. Kirk Douglas 15. Michael of Romania 16. Richard Adams 17. Helmut Kohl 18. Herman Wouk 19. Fats Domino 20. Dick Van Dyke 21. Benedict XVI 22. Pierre Cardin 23. Stan Lee 24. Mikhail Gorbachev 25. Jean-Marie Le Pen 26. Javier Perez de Cuellar 27. Chuck Berry 28. Robert Mugabe 29. Hosni Mubarak 30. Jimmy Carter 31. George Bush Sr. 32. Desmond Morris 33. I. M. Pei 34. Peter Carrington 35. Manuel Noriega 36. Norman Tebbit 37. Timothy Dudley-Smith 38. Hugh Hefner 39. Jake Lamotta 40. Alan Greenspan 41. Jacques Delors 42. Gaston Glock 43. Tony Bennett 44. Nicholas Parsons 45. Desmond Tutu 46. Doris Day 47. Bruce Forsyth 48. Rolf Harris 49. Josef Fritzl 50. Richard Wilson Joker (substitute for if one of these names dies between now and 1st Jan 2017): Noam Chomsky EDIT: Comments on how good (or bad) this list is perceived to be would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! 2ND EDIT: Out of the names on that list, which ones would you say are the least likely to UK obit?

I think the point is, there are so so many good picks and it's so easy to miss even good picks. I'll probably forget about people like Jacques Delors and Gaston Glock and Ross Perot who are all Deathlist-able types when making my list. I think it's important to concentrate on the good picks: the obviously ill, the obviously old and frail, and drop the picks that are not that good (Lester Piggott type picks). Anyway, that's enough Deathlist forum for me for today folks! Oh and one last thought for the day: would King Michael of Romania, being a pretender to the throne of his country but an actual head of state during World War II, get a UK obit?

If you read it a bit more carefully, about a third of those scum were jailed for "life", released on licence and then murdered some more people. I don't think "we" have enough balls. Very well observed

You don't seriously think Justin Bieber is serious Deathlist material, do you?

Wow, she's quite something! Not saying I would like

Scary looking - looks like she's had plastic surgery done to her face so it kinda looks younger but the rest of her looks as old as she actually is

If he gets picked for the main DeathList and does indeed pass away in 2017, the title headline should be "The Smile Has Left His Eyes" referring to the Asia song "The Smile Has Left Your Eyes". Also, I'm presuming you meant to write "only time will tell" instead of "only time will time"? Because "Only Time Will Tell" is also a song by Asia, from their debut album.

Just read that full list again of the 70 prisoners serving whole life sentences... What a bunch of sick bastards. Britain may be a soft touch but at least we still have the balls to lock up scum like that for life and keep the public safe from them

That is a pretty sound analysis. Can't fault you for any of those picks at all. Question is, if that's your 25 from the 2016 list, who would you choose as your other 25?

Love it! It's got everyone from Dennis Nilsen to Michael Adebolajo - it literally reads like a Who's Who of the sickest evil bastards in Britain!

No idea if Fritzl's wife is still about, would assume she would be. Was like the time I asked if the Edgar Griffin (b. 1921) father of Nick Griffin (from the British National Party, not to be confused with Peter Griffin from Family Guy) was still alive. He was as of 2009 but that was a long time ago.

Of course he is. Actually, many people less famous than him are still very much deathlist-worthy. I think someone said it before that Fidel Castro really had a lot in common with Jimmy Saville in terms of his fashion style - both were old men who wore tracksuits and smoked cigars...

Exactly, I'm with you 100% on this one.

International level? Sure. Personal level? I still think Bowie. Bowie, Muhammad Ali and Castro have got to be the three biggest contenders for this year's most iconic death in a year of many celebrity deaths

There have been lots of big name deaths in 2016... Is Castro really the biggest name out of the lot? For a certain amount of time in history especially during the Cold War, Castro was a highly significant figure and particularly in the 1960s, but Cuba is a small nation and there have been many other contenders this year.

At long last. Finally. He lasted about 10 years longer than everyone thought he would...

You can say that about anyone at 90 and they're dead the next minute. I still think he'd be a reasonable pick.

Glad to see others are rooting for John Wetton - honestly I'm amazed he's made it this long already with metastatic cancer, recent bouts of sepsis, a history of heart disease, diabetes and alcoholism. Let's put it this way: if Wetton is still alive on January 1st, 2018 I will be shocked. In fact, I am so convinced that Wetton is on the way out, I would put him up there in the top 5 with Zsa Zsa et al. Apart from him though... AA Gill - the "full English of cancer" - sounds like a dead cert Leah Bracknell - terminal lung cancer - obviously a very good pick There are countless other names - but it's a question of picking the good ones. Hopefully the Committee will pick names like Wetton, Gill and Bracknell who are obviously seriously ill and highly likely to die as well as the old and frail like Peter Sallis, and all the other ones we already know about, and those that we don't. The Deathlist this year was poor - in a year of many celebrity deaths - because the Committee didn't go for the obviously ill and the obviously old and frail - they went for a lot of names who were in their late 70s and early 80s and not really in such a poor state of health to be prime Deathlist material. There have been some really bad misses in recent years. For example: 2016 - Howard Marks 2015 - Sir Nicholas Winton 2014 - Ariel Sharon Hopefully the Committee will learn to avoid missing obvious picks like these...

Leah Bracknell Why do I always keep thinking she's called Zoe something?

I personally wouldn't bother with him right now. It is prostate cancer, which is more often curable than not. Prostate cancer is one of the most treatable cancers isn't it? Especially if caught early. One of the most difficult cancers to treat would surely have to be pancreatic cancer. Other cancers vary as far as I'm aware, but a lot depends on how early it is caught and whether it's spread or any number of other factors. One thing's for sure, cancer sure is a horrible illness. I'm not an expert on cancer or anything but I do have some basic knowledge about it.

Does he owe it to us to suggest when that life might end. Given the performance of penitence he's staging here he might just be prevailed upon to help us hit the mark for once. If any information does come up, he's worth keeping an eye on. He's in his seventies now and in prison, can't be great. Infamous Austrian dungeon incest dad and rapist Josef Fritzl is 82 next year - and he will probably be on my own personal list for 2017. Talking of older people that are in prison, how's Rolf Harris doing? He's 87 in 2017 and is set to go on trial again in January for further sexual assault charges.

82 and cancer, yet another good potential pick for 2017... A lot of famous people keep it quiet when they are ill. It's our duty as deadpoolers to take note of those that go public about it, and take each person on a case by case basis.

If you read his Wikipedia biography all he does is slag off different peoples and places like the Welsh and the Manx people and generally get himself into trouble by being politically incorrect and pissing people off. Personally I think he'd be a good pick for 2017 - hope that the committee doesn't do a Howard Marks again and makes the sensible choice. That soap actress whose name I keep forgetting who has lung cancer, AA Gill and prog rock musician John Wetton are three absolute musts for 2017. Why the committee leaves good picks off I'll never know...

https://twitter.com/pressjournal/status/798675737586925569/photo/1 Dennis Nilsen says that he owes it to his victims to spend the rest of his life in jail, according to the Aberdeen P & J.

I can. It would be too obvious. Is the old ass meme even still alive or should we put it on the list too? Rickrolling will never die as long as the internet exists. It never really gets old, because once you've forgotten about it for a while every now and then it comes back, fresh as a daisy. And since "Never Gonna Give You Up" is such a cheery, happy song, it never fails to put you in a good mood. Or maybe that's just me