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OK list. It's a travesty that Loretta, Little Richard, Greaves, Walters and Gorby were dropped

After all, English is not my native language.

I wanted to say that he's the man, who created this bomber. He was an aviation engineer.

https://m.lenta.ru/news/2019/12/30/bluznuk/ Valentin Blizniuk, the man behind the Tu-160 bomber, is dead at 91.

I always write from the mobile.

I've not counted yet. This is my first year on Deathlist. So I've picked him for DDP and many other teams, including AO and Deathrace.

Quincy Jones the record producer, sure is.

1. Kirk Douglas 2. Vera Lynn 3. Olivia De Havilland 4. Alex Trebek 5. Lee Kerslake 6. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. 7. Javier Perez De Cuellar 8. Pierre Cardin 9. Betty White 10. Beverly Cleary 11. Norman Lear 12. Carl Reiner 13. Bob Dole 14. Bob Barker 15. Chuck Yeager 16. Henry Kissinger 17. Jimmy Carter 18. Eva Marie Saint 19. Cicely Tyson 20. Leslie Phillips 21. Tabare Vazquez (due to Britton's death) 22. Dick Van Dyke 23. Honor Blackman 24. Angela Lansbury 25. Hal Holbrook 26. Queen Elizabeth II 27. Valery Giscard D'Estaing 28. Stanley Baxter 29. Norman Jewison 30. Tony Bennett 31. Roger Corman 32. David Attenborough 33. Sidney Poitier 34. Terry Jones 35. Jerry Stiller 36. Ennio Morricone 37. Hosni Mubarak 38. Barbara Walters 39. Stirling Moss 40. Sean Connery 41. Mikhail Gorbachev 42. Desmond Tutu 43. Little Richard. 44. Nobby Stiles 45. Michael York 46. Dave Mustaine 47. Johnny Depp  48. Mel Brooks 49. Loretta Lynn 50. Gene Hackman

1. Kirk Douglas 2. Margarita Terekhova (77, Russian actress suffering from end-stages of Alzheimer's) 3. Michael York 4. Alex Trebek 5. Nobby Stiles. 6. Ian St John 7. Norman Jewison 8. Pierre Cardin 9. Holly Johnson 10. Andy Bell 11. Marc Almond 12. Armen Dzhigarkhanian (84-year-old Armenian-Russian actor suffering from heart disease) 13. Valentin Gaft (84-year-old frail Russian actor) 14. Jean Luc Godard 15. Anastasia Zavorotniuk (48, Russian soap actress with possible brain cancer) 16. Iggy Pop 17. Linda Ronstadt. 18. Tim Curry 19. Alexey Zolotnitsky (73, retired Russian voice actor) 20. Vasily Kulkov (Russian footballer riddled with esophageal cancer) 21. Brandon Sorensen (an Iowan wrestler suffering from Leukemia) 22. Jay Allen (Detroit Tigers announcer battling bile duct cancer) 23. Olivia Newton-John 24. Tina Turner 25. Joni Mitchell 26. Phil The Greek 27. Carl Reiner 28. Vera Lynn 29. Jimmy Greaves 30. Cullan Brown (Kentucky golfer battling bone cancer) 31. Tabare Vazquez 32. Bob Gibson 33. Alcee Hastings 34. Jean Louis Trintignant 35. George Alagiah 36. Lee Kerslake 37. Mark Gastineau 38. John Andretti 39. Gianluca Vialli 40. Pat Smullen 41. Frankie Banali 42. Terry Jones 43. Tom Smith (the rugby player) 44. Dominic Matteo 45. Genesis P-Orridge 46. Terry Jones 47. Doddie Weir 48. Arne Sorenson 49. Slick Woods 50. Sean Connery Subs: Ruth Bader Ginsberg Valentin Yudashkin Norm Coleman Joanne Woodward

Here's my team. Is it good enough? 1) Alain Delon 2) Alcee Hastings 3) Alex Trebek (JOKER) 4) Anastasia Zavorotniuk 5) Armen Dzhigarkhanian 6) Bernard Tapie 7) Bill Turnbull 8) Bob Gibson 9) Chris Rea 10) Daniel Arap Moi 11) Daniel Hernandez 12) Dave Mustaine 13) David Gulpilil 14) Doddie Weir 15) Fra McCann 16) Frankie Banali 17) George Alagiah 18) George Clooney (because of that Simpsons episode, where Homer kills Neil Armstrong, Prince and Clooney) 19) Genesis P-Orridge 20) Gianluca Vialli 21) Ian St John 22) Jean Louis Trintignant 23) Jimmy Carter 24) Jimmy Greaves 25) John Andretti 26) Johnny Depp 27) Kirk Douglas 28) Lee Kerslake 29) Margarita Terekhova 30) Mark Gastineau 31) Michael York 32) Mikhail Gorbachev 33) Nobby Stiles 34) Olivia Newton-John 35) Pete Davidson 36) Prunella Scales 37) Quincy Jones 38) Roger Scruton - DEAD 12.01.20 39) Ruth Bader Ginsberg 40) Sean Connery 41) Stirling Moss 42) Tabare Vazquez 43) Terry Jones 44) Tom Brokaw 45) Tom Smith (the rugby player) 46) Valentin Gaft 47) Vasili Kulkov 48) Vera Lynn 49) Wilko Johnson 50) Yoko Ono Subs 1. Bob Dole 2. Barbara Walters 3. Sheldon Adelson 4. Olivia De Havilland 5. Sumner Redstone. 6. Oskar Lindblom

1. Kirk Douglas 2. Vera Lynn 3. Olivia De Havilland 4. Beverly Cleary 5. Alex Trebek 6. Jimmy Carter 7. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, a casual racist 8. Javier Perez De Cuellar 9. Bob Dole 10. Bob Barker 11. Henry Kissinger 12. Leslie Philips 13. Chuck Yeager 14. Eva Marie Saint 15. Cicely Tyson 16. Honor Blackman 17. Dick Van Dyke 18. Angela Lansbury 19. Johnny Mandel (MASH composer) 20. Alan Bergman (Windmills of your mind lyricist) 21. Mikis Theodorakis (Composer) 22. Norman Jewison 23. Tony Bennett 24. Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II 25. Roger Corman 26. Mel Brooks 27. David Attenborough 28. Valery Giscard D'Estaing 29. Joe Turkel (Dr Tyrell and Lloyd the Bartender) 30. Jerry Stiller 31. Harry Belafonte 32. Sidney Poitier 33. Joss Ackland (Diplomatic Immunity guy) 34. Ennio Morricone 35. Hosni Mubarak 36. Joan Plowright 37. Hans Blix 38. Stirling Moss 39. Barbara Walters 40. Sean Connery 41. Mikhail Gorbachev 42. Desmond Tutu 43. Little Richard 44. Loretta Lynn 45. Tom Brokaw 46. Michael York 47. Terry Jones 48. Dave Mustaine 49. George Clooney (because of that Simpsons episode) 50. Johnny Depp

Since my year of birth. Worldwide: 2000: Sir Alex Guinness 2001: Jack Lemmon 2002: Queen Mother 2003: Johnny Cash 2004: Ronald Reagan/Marlon Brando 2005: Pope John Paul II 2006: Saddam Hussein 2007: Benazir Bhutto 2008: Paul Newman/Heath Ledger 2009: Michael Jackson/Brittany Murphy 2010: Dennis Hopper 2011: Amy Winehouse/Elizabeth Taylor 2012: Whitney Houston 2013: Margaret Thatcher/Paul Walker 2014: Robin Williams 2015: Christopher Lee 2016: David Bowie 2017: John Hurt 2018: Stan Lee 2019: Karl Lagerfeld In Russia: 2000: Yuri Klinskikh (the rock star) 2001: Georgy Vitsin (an actor) 2002: Sergey Bodrov Jr (a young and promising actor) 2003: Leonid Filatov (an actor) 2004: Klara Rumyanova (an actress) 2005: Georgy Zhzhonov (an actor) 2006: Lyubov Polishchuk (an actress) 2007: Boris Yeltsin (an alcoholic president) 2008: Alexander Abdulov (chainsmoking actor) 2009: Oleg Yankovsky (an actor) 2010: Vladislav Galkin (a young, but alcoholic actor) 2011: Lyudmila Gurchenko (an actress) 2012: Eduard Khil (Mr Trololo) 2013: Mikhail Kalashnikov 2014: Anatoly Kuznetsov ( an actor) 2015: Eldar Ryazanov(filmmaker)/Zhanna Friske(pop star) 2016: Vladimir Zeldin (an actor) 2017: Alexey Batalov (an actor) 2018: Oleg Tabakov (an actor) 2019: Alexei Leonov/Yulia Nachalova (pop star)

I picked him for my very first teams.

I'm Russian and here's my opinion January: Carol Channing/Kris Kelmi February: Karl Lagerfeld/Kirill Tolmatsky March: Dick Dale/Yulia Nachalova April: Jean Grand Duke of Luxembourg/Georgy Daneliya May: Doris Day/Sergey Dorenko June: Franco Zeffirelli July: Rutger Hauer August: Peter Fonda/Willie Tokarev September: Ric Ocasek/Mark Zakharov October: Alexey Leonov November: Clive James December: Marie Fredriksson/Galina Volchek

Worldwide: Karl Lagerfeld or Peter Fonda In Russia: Yuliya Nachalova (38-year-old pop singer, had gout, SLE and diabetes, died of a cerebral edema, has left a 12-year-old daughter behind).

2020 Kirk Douglas 2021 Richard Donner 2022 Dick Van Dyke 2023 Christopher Plummer 2024 Clint Eastwood 2025 John Williams 2026 Buzz Aldrin 2027 Queen Elizabeth II 2028 Al Pacino 2029 Judi Dench

Three of my picks (Brandon Sorensen, Jay Allen and Cullan Brown) were rejected and I had to replace them

English language Obituary. Are AP obits q/o, Drol?

https://ru.euronews.com/amp/2019/12/26/ru-galina-volchek-dies. Russian actress and theatre director, Galina Volchek, has died of pneumonia at 86.

Made my team public. 1) Alex Trebek 2) Jimmy Carter 3) Daniel Arap Moi 4) George Alagiah 5) Bernard Tapie 6) Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh 7) Iggy Pop 8) Johnny Mandel (Suicide is Painless singer) 9) Alan Bergman (Windmills of your mind lyricist) 10) Dave Mustaine Subs: Bill Turnbull Norman Jewison

https://m.lenta.ru/news/2019/12/25/umer/ Russian general, Chairman of Military Sciences' Academy and former Deputy Chief of Red Army Staff, Makhmut Gareev, is dead at 96

This is my first year here. I've picked Kirk and some terminally ill people for my first DDP team.

I think there'll be no more deaths this year. The next year could be a bloodbath, since it's a leap year.

My shadow-list. 1. Kirk Douglas 2. Vera Lynn 3. Olivia De Havilland. 4. Alex Trebek 5. Lee Kerslake 6. Javier Perez De Cuellar 7. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. 8. Beverly Cleary 9. Pierre Cardin 10. Carl Reiner 11. Norman Lear 12. Betty White 13. Chuck Yeager 14. Bob Dole. 15. Bob Barker 16. Henry Kissinger  17. Eva Marie Saint 18. Jimmy Carter 19. Leslie Phillips 20. Tony Britton 21. Dick Van Dyke 22. Angela Lansbury 23. Honor Blackman 24. Hal Holbrook 25. Norman Jewison 26. Mel Brooks 27. Roger Corman 28. David Attenborough 29. Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II 30. Tony Bennett 31. Stanley Baxter 32. Sean Connery 33. Nobby Stiles 34. Jimmy Greaves 35. Sidney Poitier 36. Harry Belafonte 37. Ennio Morricone 38. Hosni Mubarak 39. Mikhail Gorbachev 40. Burt Bacharach  41. Terry Jones 42. Michael York 43. Desmond Tutu 44. Little Richard 45. Johnny Depp (this year's Gazza, but way more famous) 46. Dave Mustaine 47. Paul McCartney (leap years are famous for loads of celebrity deaths, pick him on leap years only)(sub Prunella Scales) 48. Bob Dylan (the same thing) (sub Olivia Newton-John) 49. George Clooney (because of that Simpsons episode, where Homer kills Neil Armstrong (2012), Prince (2016) and George Clooney (2020?) (Sub Valery Giscard D'Estaing ) 50. Madonna (the same thing with McCartney and Dylan) (sub Loretta Lynn)

Another waste for me. I've entered all the pools long ago. And It's illegal to edit them.