Joey Russ

Rocky director John G Avildsen for the list of the miss.

Ah, I really enjoyed the original Rocky film. Great film.

That's got to be one of the worst jokes you've made on this entire forum.

I'm really struggling with 3 and 4.

You should go here.

I think Helmut Kohl is the biggest miss by the committee, he was both on the list and was known to be ill. Whereas Chuck Berry and Manuel Noriega were famous and on the list, but they weren't known to be that ill at the time (though Noriega was known to be ill later in March).

Yeah, but Michael Jackson was murdered, wasn't he?

It's probably the most important to DDT though...

Right now, Russia is trying to confirm. Once they know for sure, they'll announce it. The US doesn't always win by the way.

His mind.

Curently at 7. Well, that's what you get when you don't consider people such as Errol Christie or Mr Rockefeller. I need to be smarter about the committee next year...

Wow! only 7 months in (for me) and already 1/4 of my list has died. Impressive, wonder if it'll at some point run ahead of gcreptile's list. This is only a suggestion, but what if, at the 1 year mark, on July 30th, we switch names of, I don't know, 2 - 3 people that we think are bad picks and replace them with 2 - 3 better people that we think are more likely, and do this every year at the yearly mark. This'll ensure that the game will go slightly faster, but not too fast, if you know what I mean. Again, it's only a suggestion from me, but just a thought...

I don't think I was referring to the death of Peter Sallis or Errol Christie now, did I?

Hopefully they bring back Chirac for 2018 so they don't have to deal with potentially another miss.

I think the question should be wondering is how much will this list beat the deathlist record by. 13/50, and we're not even halfway done.

1987: Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Bruno, Ditka, Osbourne, Brian Wilson, Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Aznavour, Queen Elizabeth II, Alliss, Ditka, Williams, Winfrey, Waite (7/42) 1991: Beenhakker (1/40) 1992: Ryder (1/37) 1993: Bennett, Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (5/56) 1994: White, Holly Johnson, Shilton (3/50) 1995: Holly Johnson, Forsyth, Connery (3/50) 1996: Mr T, Domino (2/50) 1997: Domino, Kirk Douglas (2/50) 1998: (0/50) 1999: Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50) 2000: Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Tutu, Minelli, Wouk (3/50) 2002: Kirk Douglas (1/50) 2003: (0/50) 2004: Musharraf, Kirk Douglas, Mugabe (3/50) 2005: Karzai, Maradona, LaMotta, de Havilland, Jerry Lewis (5/50) 2006: Kirk Douglas, Lynn, Bouteflika, Graham, LaMotta (5/50) 2007: Graham, Tim Johnson, Kirk Douglas, de Havilland, Lynn, LaMotta, Jerry Lewis, Farrakhan (8/50) 2008: Kirk Douglas, Domino, Lynn, Graham, Watson, LaMotta, Karzai, Charles Taylor (8/50) 2009: Kirk Douglas, Graham, LaMotta, Cardin (4/50) 2010: Kirk Douglas, Wouk, de Havilland, Tork, Edrich, Graham, Bough, LaMotta, Norden, Lansbury, Jerry Lewis, Domino (13/50) 2011: Kirk Douglas, de Havilland, Edrich, LaMotta, Khamenei, Jerry Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Dole, Cheney, Ellison, Cardin, Lynn, Michael Douglas, (13/50) 2012: Kirk Douglas, Graham, Wouk, de Havilland, Mubarak, Lawson, LaMotta, Kissinger, Mugabe, Van Dyke, Randi, Domino, Gaddafi, Hawking (14/50) 2013: Clive James, Bush, Prince Philip, Mubarak, Kirk Douglas, de Havilland, Lynn, Dole, Graham, LaMotta, Day, Stan Lee, Kissinger, Parsons, Domino (15/50) 2014: Wilko Johnson, Graham, de Havilland, Harper, Clive James, Prince Philip, Lynn, Kirk Douglas, Carrington, LaMotta, Perez de Cuellar, Hawking, Stan Lee, Norden, Randi, Bush, Aznavour, Van Dyke, Jerry Lewis, Bennett, Domino, Asner (22/50) 2015: Wouk, Graham, de Havilland, Perez de Cuellar, Bush, Prince Philip, Douglas, James, Valerie Harper, Phillips, Kercheval, Dole, Day, Norden, Kissinger, LaMotta, Mubarak, Mugabe, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Lynn, Large, Maynard (22/50) 2016: de Havilland, Graham, Wouk, Perez de Cuellar, Kirk Douglas, Prince Phillip, Randi, Carrington, Clive James, Dole, Scales, Carter, Kissinger, Chong, Ellis, Bush, Phillips, Lynn, Gall, Domino, Tutu, Piggott, Campbell, Stan Lee, LaMotta, Norden, Walker, Greaves, Banks, Chirac, Hawking, Gascoigne, Forsyth (33/50) Updated for Helmut Kohl.

Oh well, they miss some.

Ah, I know #1 now.

That's what I got for 7 as well.

Actually, I think I know 7, but won't reveal for people who want to guess for themselves.

Nope. Adnan Khashoggi, Countess Mountbatten, Adam West, Kailash Puri, Vin Garbutt, Helen Dunmore.

Hey, we found something in common finally. Wondered how long that was going to take...

Oh. I know exactly what 2 and 5 are now. Don't know the rest.

5 seems familiar, but I can't think of a title right now.

The top middle is either Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. I know fuck all about the rest.