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Joint, I guess many "minor" teams might have picked him.

Only on my B-team... does not start well.

Jiao Ruoyu dead at 104 as reported elsewhere.

There won't be attacks in the US. Will be more actions against US/Israeli troops in MIddle East. Anyway it is impossible to justify these attacks. US treat a sovereign state (Iraq) as it was their backyard.

I don't think there will be a war. Iran knows they would be annihililated in no time. It is just an arrogant show of power from the US, relying on the fact there won't be actual reactions, which is probably right.

BLASPHEMY!

She is not aware of her surroundings and does not recognize anyone. It has been this way for over a year.

According to the doctor my mother has weeks to live.

Here are my teams. Drollercoaster 1)Tom Smith (Joker) 2)Frankie Banali 3)Lisa Griffiths (only FFBI, but a Daily Mail fav) 4)Chris Doleman 5)Susan Bayh 6)Bob Gibson 7)Greg Gilbert (finally his year, maybe... patience would have paid with José and Vervoort) 8)David Gulpilil 9)Sam Lloyd (I don't think he is cured. We'll see) 10)Sinisa MIhajlovic (don't realy think he'll die this year, but too big to miss) 11)David Hagen 12)Alex Trebek 13)Bernard Tapie 14)Roger Scruton 15)Qaboos of Oman 16)Genesis P-Orridge 17)Tracey Smothers 18)John Andretti 19)Pat Smullen (keep faith) 20)Gianluca Vialli Plan B from Outer Space: 1)Tom Smith (Joker) 2)Tom Long 3)Carel du Plessis 4)Kerri Parker 5)Lee Kerslake 6)Peter Frampton 7)Yoo Sang-chul (on obit grounds) 8)Kay Ivey 9)Leon Spinks 10)Tabare Vazquez 11)Dave Mustaine 12)Eddie Van Halen 13)Ged Stokes (wasted) 14)Chris Doleman 15)Bill Freehan 16)Nobby Stiles 17)Frankie Banali 18)Sam Lloyd 19)Pervez Musharraf 20)Bernard Tapie Complications from a fall (theme) 1)Qaboos of Oman (J) 2)Daniel arap Moi 3)Violeta Chamorro 4)Jiang Zemin 5)Kenneth Kaunda 6)Pervez Musharraf 7)Muhammad Rafiq Tarar 8)Giorgio Napolitano 9)Javier Perez de Cuellar 10)Francisco Morales Bermudez 11)Zhu Rongji 12)Mwai Kibaki 13)Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah 14)Milos Jakes 15)Lubomir Strougal 16)Jimmy Carter 17)Hosni Mubarak 18)Abdelaziz Bouteflika 19)Edouard Balladur 20)Tomiichi Murayama

An "A" extra in the title. Anyway: 1)John Lewis: announcement came too late or I would have picked him. 2)Bradley Murdoch: a dead cert, I think, relatively young and Daily Mail fodder. Don't undestand how I could forget. 3)Peter Tobin: Could be rumours, could be finally it. 4)Sheldon Adelson: I forgot, but at 87 he is not so worth, plus one of those immortal-tycoon types. 5)Bruno Covas: Fear he wouldn't obit. Picked him in AODP. 6)ATM Shamsuzzaman: Said to be recovering once again, only picked him in AODP.

David Hagen, Tom Belso and other two I can't remember now. Rodeo commentator Asa Branca made it through.

There are already D'Estaing, Cardin and Le Pen!

Nice pick, he has been very important for European history, and is now cranky old and very quiet.

For those who picked Balbir Singh bad news. He celebrated his 96th birthday yesterday and looks very good. Though he can not speak or hold a knife and had to go to bed immediately after. Video on his FB page.

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Daniel arap Moi, Leon Spinks, P-Orridge, Delors, Willie Nelson, Bouteflika, Imelda Marcos, RBG, Woodward, Crosby, Musharraf , Le Pen, Reiner, Tom Smith, Terry Jones are all welcomed new entries/returning names. Shane McGowan should have been easily dropped. Bill Gates Sr. is a Fringe of Fame pick, I'd rather have liked Peter Tobin instead of Sutcliffe, it is probably too early for Akihito, Lansbury, Greenspan (Why returning, the fucker?), Tony Bennett (he is still too unsinkable), Scales, Edrich (a normal 83 year old with no current issues...maybe), Piggott (this sucks), Cheney and Attenborough. Overall I pretty liked the list.

Thanks to all of you! And mostly to Bob Mugabe as I have not to pick him this year.

Hey, Bam Carney should survive a pancreatitis!

I regret not picking Sheldon Adelson, Bradley Murdoch and Peter Tobin (completely forgot them). Plus I would have picked John Lewis and Dermott O'Neill had I entered three days later.

Anyway I just noticed Mwai Kibaki's bio is wrong. His term ended in 2013.

One of my heroes who doesn't even get a QO!

It was dehydration, anyway, and she's going to be discharged today or tomorrow.

Died in 2014.

And I have proofs that if Iraqi Minister of Justice Malik Dohan al-Hassan (1919) and Former Interior Minister of Tunisia Driss Guiga (1924) don't die in 2020, 2021 will see a nuclear apocalypse and the end of the human race.