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Ivan Koloff dead at 74, not a good week to be a wrestler. http://www.topropepress.com/news/42610/russian-bear-ivan-koloff-passes-away-74/

Skellern makes it 9/50 for me and we're only seven weeks in this year.

Terry Jones announced he can no longer write as he helped publicise the issue of dementia, he's got to be in the 2018 list if he survives this year. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/terry-jones-reveals-he-can-no-longer-write-at-dementia-awareness-event-35451166.html

Sara is my eighth success this year.

My verdict for the 2017 list. Almost certain: Billy Graham, Tony Booth, Leah Bracknell, Gord Downie, King Michael of Romania, Nobby Stiles, Jill Gascoine, George Bush senior, Glen Campbell and Errol Christie. In real danger but may make to 2018: Kirk Douglas, Vera Lynn, Peter Sallis, Duke of Edinburgh, Olivia De Haviland, Herman Wouk, Leslie Phillips, Ian St John, David Rockefeller, Bruce Forsyth, Hosni Mubarak, Desmond Tutu, Liz Dawn, John Noakes, Valerie Harper, Emperor Akhito Will they won't they?: Lord Carrington, Denis Norden, Pierre Cardin, Bob Dole, Jimmy Carter, Robert Mugabe, Javier Perez De Cueller, Jake Lamotta, Doug Ellis, Hugh Hefner, David Prowse, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict, Fats Domino, Gay Byrne, Ian Brady Little chance: Stan Lee, Betty White, Honor Blackman, Queen Elizabeth II, Jerry Lewis, Bob Barker

Steve Sumner, captain of New Zealand in the 1982 World Cup, dead at 61. Three 1982 squad members dead already this year. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11796536

Glen Campbell again.

Former Radio Luxembourg, Capital and Atlantic 252 DJ Jeff Graham has died. http://radiotoday.co.uk/2017/02/tributes-paid-to-radio-presenter-jeff-graham/

It was shown on the night of the day Floyd died although his death wasn't announced until the next morning.

Desmond Carrington without a doubt is a huge miss, certainly famous enough after a 70 year association on national radio and having had a long battle with alzheimer's. Already six of my fifty death predictions have rang true.

Wetton makes it five death predictions right for me from my fifty so far before we got to the end of January.

Lorimer with a poppy on suggests this photo is not from today.

Bush senior

I would say that was Gorden Kaye or Anthony Armstrong Jones. Graham Taylor I would say, at least in a UK slant.

January not even finished and already I have four right.

Jimmy Snuka was without a doubt famous enough to be deathlist material backed up by Jake 'The Snake' Roberts being a former entrant. 15 days in and three of my fifty have already gone. Sarstedt and Hollingworth the other two.

Hollingworth and Sarstedt big misses. Soares although on the brink was not that well known in Britain so I agree with his non-entry.

Peter Sarstedt is another one who would have been a obvious pick.

First of my fifty to go in 2017.

Ezio Pascutti who represented Italy in the 1962 and 1966 tournaments has died aged 79.

Jim Bowen is another 1937 birth not included in the poll.

Viktor Tsarev who played for the Soviet Union in the 1958 World Cup has died leaving Apukhtin and Simonyan the country's final two survivors of that tournament. http://m.nv.ua/world/countries/ushel-iz-zhizni-sovetskij-futbolist-chempion-sssr-viktor-tsarev-404746.html

Brian Cant and Prunella Scales the first names on my 2018 list.

My final 2017 list after making far too many late changes. Stayers Olivia De Havilland Billy Graham Herman Wouk Javier Perez De Cueller Kirk Douglas Mary Tyler Moore Peter Sallis Duke Of Edinburgh Lord Carrington Clive James Joost Van Der Westhuizen Jimmy Carter George Bush sr Vera Lynn Leslie Phillips Fats Domino Desmond Tutu Glen Campbell Jake Lamotta Denis Norden Jimmy Greaves Jacques Chirac Paul Gascoigne John Noakes Bruce Forsyth Returnees Jerry Lewis Newcomers Tony Booth Leah Bracknell John Wetton King Michael Of Romania Peter Sarstedt Freddie Starr Nobby Stiles Martin Peters Ray Wilson (footballer) Sara Coward Gord Downie Jimmy Snuka Sheila Mercier Colin Meads David Rockefeller Gerald Kaufman Desmond Carrington Peter Skellern Mario Soares Claire Hollingworth Monica Vitti Jill Gascoine Norman Lloyd Gerd Muller If Soares does not make to tomorrow then Gregg Allman comes in.

A late dead cert for 2017 then?