CastAway

You need a DDP equivalent qualifying obit - should come, but doesn't count as yet. Oh and she died on 27th January - before the deadline! What does Joey say about that? I just checked - the WaPo article I linked hasn't been up for an hour, so I'm hopeful a couple of DDP QO will show up within the next few hours. I didn't notice the dating of her death though! That does create a question!

Brunhilde Pomsel has died at 106, and I'm guessing she functions as a hit for a couple of teams (including mine!). I wonder if anyone else had her as a joker as well?

William Lacy Carter, two time Republican member of the Tennessee House of representatives, has died at 91. Robert Garcia, six time Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from New York, has died at 84. Cause of death was stated to be bacterial infection related to emphysema.

My list: Allen, Woody Bracknell, Leah (JOKER) Bush Sr, George H. W. (JOKER) Douglas, Kirk Corey, Professor Irwin De Havilland, Olivia Pomsel, Brunhilde (JOKER) Michael of Romania, King Mugabe, Robert Downie, Gord Van der Westhuizen, Joost (JOKER) Vervoort, Marieke Watson, Dr James Graham, Rev Billy Abdullah II of Jordan, King Aldrin, Buzz Stefansson, Stefan Karl Stiles, Nobby Kohl, Helmut Scales, Prunella Skou, Jens C. Tezuka, Katsumi Coward, Sara (JOKER) Averbakh, Yuri Carter, Jimmy Blackman, Honor Christie, Errol Essesbi, Beji Caid Fabray, Nanette Fakir, Abdul Duke Farmanfarmaian, Monir Shahroudy Lansbury, Angela Rockefeller, David Rapoport, Ingeborg Sallis, Peter Kissinger, Henry Kennedy, Ethel Lynn, Vera Loren, Sophia Brooks, Mel Echeverria Alvarez, Luis Coppola, Anton Day, Doris Fitzroy, Fortune Forsyth, Bruce Kamprad, Ingvar Lakovic, Sasha Skellern, Peter Nelson, Willie Matzka, Scott SUBS James, Clive Reiner, Carl Napolitano, Giorgio Allam, Assem Johns, Glynis

Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin dies at the age of 67. Official twitter of Russian Embassy in India confirms his death. No cause of death given, only said that he passed away after a brief illness.

Professor Sir Nigel Rodley, described by the BBC as one of the 'founding fathers' of the human rights movement has died at the age of 75.

Former Canadian senator and MP from Quebec, Marcel Prud'homme, has passed away at the age of 82.

I'll probably put in my team in another day or so - waiting to see if the list of possibilities is cut down even more over the next 24-30 hours.

I'm pretty sure (and if I'm right, kind of surprised!) that it hasn't been mentioned yet, but Ruth Samuelson, former Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly, died yesterday (Jan 23rd) of ovarian cancer. She revealed her diagnosis of the same publicly in June last year.

Hey! I'm (clearly) new here - was directed here by one of the many news articles on the website after the celebrity deaths of last year, and honestly I found this really interesting - much more healthy than the self-feeding cycle of grief that my social media sites were after the big names died last year. (I can't say much though - as a fan of both the Harry Potter and Star Wars series, I wasn't much better after Alan Rickman and Carrie Fisher) (That said, the constant cycle of grief for celebrities who most people on my social media didn't care about until the died was very annoying.) About me - I'm 22, female, and Indian. I like a weird and eclectic mix of books, and being non-British, a lot of the names on the main Death List, as well as those being discussed in the forums, are a bit unknown to me. I'm happy to Google them once I hear about them though!