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https://m.lenta.ru/news/2019/12/18/alimov/amp/. Soviet animator, production designer and the creator of Boniface the Lion , Sergey Alimov, is dead at 81. (Russian language obit).

Ukrainian vlogger and ex-convict Serhiy Novik aka Mops Dyadya Pyos (Pug Uncle Dog) dies of pneumonia and alcoholism at age of 46 (Russian language obit)

https://iz.ru/export/google/amp/954417. Soviet footballer and 1956 Olympics winner Yuri Belyaev is dead at 85.

I understand. Added him as the 6th sub.

You've beat me to it. I'll have to edit my teams everywhere.

https://amp.rbc.ru/rbcnews/rbcfreenews/5df351c19a7947381a3d0801. Russian actress Yekaterina Durova (Lev Durov's daughter) dies after a long illness at 60.

A Q.O. RIP

I've sent you my team. It's in your DM's

I did not expect that, TBH. RIP.

Happy 90th Birthday!

1. Alex Trebek (Joker) 2. Kirk Douglas 3. Michael York. 4. Terry Jones 5. Roger Scruton 6. Frankie Banali 7. George Alagiah 8. Bill Turnbull 9. John Andretti 10. Dominic Matteo 11. Pat Smullen 12. Tom Smith (the rugby player) 13. Tabare Vazquez 14. Genesis P-Orridge 15. Lee Kerslake 16. Gianluca Vialli 17. Bob Gibson 18. Jimmy Carter 19. Dave Mustaine 20. Margarita Terekhova 21. Doddie Weir 22. Daniel Arap-Moi 23. Vasily Kulkov (Russian footballer with esophageal cancer) 24. Anastasia Zavorotniuk (Russian soap actress who may have brain cancer) 25. Armen Dzhigarkhanian (Frail 84-year-old Russian actor) Subs: 1. Ruth Bader Ginsberg 2. Alcee Hastings 3. Vera Lynn 4. Olivia Newton-John.

I'm deeply saddened by this. I've first heard her music in a Russian mobile network provider commercial and then in an old Efes Pilsner beer ad. Rest in peace.

RIP. He was quite a hilarious mayor, he was way better than Sobyanin.

It was a sudden heart attack, not cancer.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/zaza-urushadze-dead-director-tangerines-dies-at-53-1260569. Zaza Urushadze, Georgian director of an Oscar-nominated anti-war drama "The Tangerines"(It's about the 1992 war, not the 2008 one), is dead just at 54.

I've sent my entry.

My entry 1. Kirk Douglas 2. Brandon Sorensen (An Iowan wrestler with leukemia) 3. Jay Allen (59, Detroit Tigers announcer with bile duct cancer) 4. Cullan Brown (Kentucky golfer with bone cancer) 5. Armen Dzhigarkhanian (84, Armenian Russian actor with heart problems, unlikely to obit in UK) 6. Vasily Kulkov (53, Russian footballer with esophageal cancer, will only obit in my country) 7. Alex Trebek (JOKER) 8. Roger Scruton 9. Jimmy Carter 10. Jean Louis Trintignant 11. Bob Gibson 12. Alcee Hastings 13. John Andretti 14. David Gulpilil 15. Tom Smith (the rugby player) 16. Lee Kerslake 17. Tabare Vazquez 18. Gianluca Vialli 19. Doddie Weir 20. George Alagiah Subs 1. Genesis P-Orridge 2. Peter Sutcliffe 3. Anastasia Zavorotniuk (48, Russian soap actress, who may have brain cancer

https://www.thegazette.com/subject/sports/hawkeyes/brandon-sorensen-former-iowa-wrestler-leukemia-20191203?template=amphtml. Brandon Sorensen (a little-known wrestler) is battling leukemia.

Went for Kirk.

https://m.sport-express.ru/football/rfpl/news/vasiliy-kulkov-perenes-operaciyu-dlivshuyusya-14-chasov-1613031/amp/. Vasily Kulkov has undergone a 14-hour surgery to remove the tumour.

My suggestion 1. Kirk Douglas (Retain) 2. Vera Lynn (Retain) 3. Olivia De Havilland. (Retain) 4. Alex Trebek 5. Lee Kerslake 6. Javier Perez De Cuellar (Retain) 7. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, a casual racist (Retain) 8. Beverly Cleary 9. Pierre Cardin (Retain) 10. Carl Reiner 11. Norman Lear 12. Betty White (Retain) 13. Chuck Yeager 14. Bob Dole. (Retain) 15. Bob Barker (Retain) 16. Henry Kissinger (Retain) 17. Eva Marie Saint 18. Jimmy Carter (Retain) 19. Leslie Phillips 20. Tony Britton (Retain) 21. Dick Van Dyke (Retain) 22. Angela Lansbury 23. Honor Blackman (Retain) 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 (Retain) 34. Jimmy Greaves (Retain) 35. Sidney Poitier (Retain) 36. Harry Belafonte (Retain) 37. Ennio Morricone 38. Hosni Mubarak (Retain) 39. Mikhail Gorbachev (Retain) 40. Burt Bacharach 41. Terry Jones 42. Michael York 43. Desmond Tutu (Retain) 44. Little Richard (Retain) 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 (Retain)) 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 (Retain))

https://m.gazeta.ru/amp/culture/news/2019/10/24/n_13616246.shtml. Russian composer Konstantin Titar dies at 80.

https://www.newsday.com/amp/entertainment/tv/carol-silva-news-12-cancer-1.37397729. Carol Silva has stage 4 cancer. Another possible DDP or Deathrace pick.

13-15, I think. The next are Jimmy Greaves, Kirk and Bon Dole, and possibly Prunella Scales and Nobby Stiles.

https://www.vedomosti.ru/amp/b706418c38/politics/articles/2019/10/06/812946-umer-bushmin. Deputy Speaker of Russia's Federation Council, Senator Yevgeny Bushmin dies after a long illness at 61.