How about this? There'll always be quite a few surprises
New or re-entries:
1. Bill Clinton (really looked fragile during last campaign)
2. Bernie Ecclestone (he won’t be able to buy his way out of death eventually)
3. Ricky Martin (Theres always a reasonably young singer dying, isn’t there?)
4. Stirling Moss (yup F1 will get it this year)
5. Michael Schumacher (Like Dutch Prince Friso, this can’t go on forever)
6. Diego Maradona
7. Fernando Ricksen (tragic disease at young age)
8. Chuck Berry
9. Queen Elizabeth II
10. Tom Cruise (same reason as Ricky Martin, the surprising one...)
11. Doris Day
12. Louis van Gaal (Die-hard loonatic, can’t be good for someone’s heart)
13. Keith Richards (Surprised he’s still around)
14. Mikhail Gorbachov
15. Helmuth Kohl
16. Hosni Mubarak
17. Robert Mugabe
18. Ozzy Ossbourne
19. Charles Aznavour
20. Tony Bennett
21. Karl Lagerfeld
22. George Lucas
23. Nigel Farage
24. Clint Eastwood
25. George RR Martin
Same as 2016 list
26. Herman Wouk
27. Javier Perez de Cuellar
28. Kirk Douglas
29. Henry Kissinger
30. George Bush Sr.
31. Murray Walker
32. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh
33. Clive James
34. Bob Dole
35. Jimmy Carter
36. Vera Lynn
37. Fats Domino
38. Desmund Tutu
39. Stan Lee
40. Stephen Hawking
41. Jacques Chirac
42. Paul Gascoine
43. Olivia De Havilland
44. Billy Graham
45. Mary Tyler Moore
46. Peter Sallis
47. Lord (Peter) Carrington
48. Joost van der Westhuizen
49. Bruce Forsyth
50. Jake Lamotta
