Joey Russ

The deadline has always been the same every single year. If you miss out because it’s not advent yet, that’s on you.

Alright, masterlist is up. Obviously game doesn’t start until midnight in the UK, so if any of these end up being DNS you guys can definitely replace names.

Unfortunately it looks like you two were a bit too late. Apologies for that.

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Queen Elizabeth II, Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (5/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (4/56)  1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50) 1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Desmond Tutu, Liza Minnelli (2/50)  2002: (0/50) 2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: Angela Lansbury (1/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (4/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger (2/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (3/50)  2015: Leslie Phillips, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (4/50)  2016: Bob Dole, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Desmond Tutu, Lester Piggott, Paul Gascoigne (10/50)  2017: Bob Dole, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Betty White, Queen Elizabeth ll, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Desmond Tutu, Emperor Akihito (10/50)  2018: Betty White, Linda Nolan, Bob Dole, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, June Brown, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (18/50)  2019: Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Betty White, June Brown, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Desmond Tutu, Vanessa Redgrave, Sidney Poitier, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (20/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Dole, Betty White, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Desmond Tutu, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Lester Piggott, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Tom Smith, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (26/50) Updated for Ray Kennedy.

By my count we only need 2 more entries before I get to choose my own pick

Think we’re done for the year. Disappointing, I know

Yeah, he was an alt obits reject pick for me but I too thought he was a no chance of getting an obit

Just bringing it up that hosting position is still open. I know someone said they were willing to do it, but still need an official confirmation from them…

I see Bob Fass still hasn’t been noted as LOTL

Weirdly my joke Bobby Caldwell suggestion from last year might end up being fruitful after all.

Do you have a Floyd Little shaped hole in your shortlist you want to fill? Then don’t fear, Curley Culp can fit as he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer

Weirdly the New York Times got an obit out for Eden before the BBC did.

I believe this was one of those survival games, which means book would be out.

Ah darn, I was hoping she’d be a unique DDP pick for me.

Probably a smart choice, otherwise he would face the reality of losing his brain like what happened to Chuck Grassley and Diane Feinstein…