Joey Russ

Yeah, congratulations to PDF. Will admit I was a little bit dissapointed to fall out of the top 5 in the last week of the year, but that’s life. Am definitely proud of my performance overall though...

Disappointed you didn’t nominate Zsa Zsa Legs

Plus, he got married very recently, and we know what happens to a lot of people after they married while very ill...

Er, Steffan Lewis isn’t dead DR EDIT: Oh wait, I think you meant Charles K Kao

Not really sure if that’s fair though. What’s the problem with people not being able to guess the same number twice?

Well, there isn’t any rule about not being able to repeat guesses, so if you want to guess something higher, go for it. Oh, and welcome to the forums.

Well, we can't get all of our predictions right...

There was a second hit with Sir Creep's Patti Goyette

John Andretti - have no idea what the scan results turned out to be for him, which could either tell that he’s fucked or safe for a while. Knowing my luck, he’ll be fucked so those of you who picked him can thank me later Leah Bracknell - I’m starting to have some mistrust in her. Think she is legitimately ill, but maybe not as ill as she claims Bruce Anstey - Think the cancer is worse than expected (or if he did recover, it’ll come back aggressively), but couldn’t find enough to convince me to pick him Jeff Blackshear, Fred Rister, Kevin McIntyre - all cut on obit concerns, though I think they are all going this year Dewayne Lee Johnson/Vicky Phelan - like DI, I believe there’s enough solid picks out there where you don’t have to pick them to win Clive James - Really do think he’s on the way out, but a part of me wonders if he can see 2020 Bill Freehan - had him on my team for a while, but then I realized that someone in hospice for stroke or dementia could last a while like Bruce Langhorne. As such, another 7 pointer who probably is dying this year took his place, Edmund Capon CJ Samson - Had him under consideration for a while. But that last times article kind of confused me a bit to the point where I wasn’t sure if he was even that great of a pick anymore Kerri Parker - sees 2020 imo Also didn’t pick Billy Clayton on seeming a bit too fringey for me, but I think I’m going to regret that decision

I would argue that Jimmy Spicer (hip hop pioneer who also rejected for me) is definitely arguable as a name that could be accepted.

Obit chances are slim indeed, as I picked him for 2017 and he died then without any obit. Sorry to inform you on that.

Norm Coleman George Alagiah, though I realized that he takes Twitter hiatuses regularly, so he went off my team a bit later Edmund Capon - though I did end up picking him in my main team in the end First one is John Andretti, who became my first sub. Second one is Bruce Anstey, who I couldn’t rely on by a forum post on here alone (although I do have a feeling it’s worse than reported)

Yep, the best that I can ever really do here is get a participation trophy. Oh well. Congrats to Vaagheid anyhow. It’s great to see you do an OoO.

Well, I said that I wasn’t going to reveal my main team, but here is all 22 people that were rejected from Alt Obits by me: Fatima Ali Gerard Basset Susan Bayh Gary Bigeni Spencer Bohren Edmund Capon Paul Cosford Andrew Fairlie Mike Gasparato Paul Jack Melanie Krahmer Larry Langford Emily Levine Derek Maitland Michael Murphy Sutopo Purwo Nugroho Billy Pon Dennis Richardson Nanci Ryder Arash Sadeghi Jimmy Spicer Thuy Thanh Truong

Herman Wouk is older

Here’s Day In The Death 2019. All of my survivors have been sacked apart from Ricksen, who I promoted to joker: 1. Fernando Ricksen (joker) 2. Fatima Ali 3. Samu Anoa'i 4. Gerard Basset 5. Susan Bayh 6. Kathleen Blanco 7. Edmund Capon 8. Johnny Clegg 9. Tim Conway 10. Barry Du Bois 11. Andrew Fairlie 12. Bob Hawke 13. Lee Kerslake 14. Andrew McGahan 15. Michael Murphy 16. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho 17. Genesis P-Orridge 18. Arash Sadeghi 19. Jimmy Spicer 20. Jean-Louis Trintignant

Happy New Years everyone from Oklahoma.

6 of your picks were also rejected for me. Will reveal full list of rejects tomorrow...

So here’s the thing. The number 50 spot was tied with both Cleary and Vitti in that exact place. I could only allow one of them on the list, but the main tiebreaker (number of lists) couldn’t be used as they were on the exact same number of lists. So it was practically a coin toss. After going through debates in my head, I decided that since another well known Italian actress did make the list (Lollobrigida), I decided to cut her to diversify the list. Whether that is the right choice remains to be seen, but I’m standing by my decision here.

With the crowdsource list done, here is my shadow list now, which is exactly the same as my crowdsource submission and my DL prediction submission: 01. Clive James 02. Kirk Douglas 03. Tim Conway 04. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh 05. Robert Mugabe 06. Fernando Ricksen 07. Vera Lynn 08. Herman Wouk 09. Jacques Chirac 10. Bob Dole 11. Stirling Moss 12. Jill Gascoine 13. Betty White 14. Olivia de Havilland 15. Nobby Stiles 16. Pope Benedict XVI 17. Bob Barker 18. Mikhail Gorbachev 19. Ozzy Osbourne 20. Leslie Phillips 21. Doris Day 22. Sidney Poitier 23. Sumner Redstone 24. Le Duc Anh 25. John McCririck 26. Bernard Tapie 27. Olivia Newton-John 28. John Hume 29. Jimmy Carter 30. Glynis Johns 31. Hosni Mubarak 32. Dilip Kumar 33. Franco Zeffirelli 34. Johnny Clegg 35. Genesis P-Orridge 36. Sean Connery 37. I.M. Pei 38. Willie Nelson 39. Henry Kissinger 40. Javier Perez de Cuellar 41. Joanne Woodward 42. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 43. Tony Bennett 44. Mel Brooks 45. Harry Belafonte 46. Joni Mitchell 47. Queen Elizabeth II 48. Jean-Louis Trintignant 49. Terry Jones 50. Lee Kerslake

Any great musician. Clegg, MacGowan, and Ginger Baker

Ginger Baker

I won’t reveal my main team till after the final deadline, but as a treat, here’s my B Team, The Whipping Posts: John “Cocksy” Cocks (joker) Gary Bigeni Spencer Bohren Christy Dignam John Dugan Bill Freehan Jorie Graham Larry Langford Emily Levine Shane MacGowan Marijane Meaker Walter Mzembi Willie Nelson T Boone Pickens Ayatollah Isa Qassim Harry Reid Doug Sandom Candi Staton Chuck Wepner Chris Wilson

Well, she did make the crowdsource list this year, so at least we can brag if they miss her.

Chris Bradley died back in December DR.