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The Nobel Prize Dead Pool 2023/24 has now officially started. Good luck to all participants!

The Nobel Prize Dead Pool 2022/23 is now officially closed. The winner is @wannamaker who scored 5624 points, followed by @arghton with 4.738 points and @MortalCaso is third with 3.630 points. Congrats to you! Extra points have been awarded for @chilean way (plus one point for the oldest death of this years contest) and @arghton as well (plus 8 points for the oldest hit). Three other contestants have also scored: @Salmon Mousse has 2.730 points, @Book has 1.520 points and @chilean way finally 1.421 points. Despite the new possibility of replacing a deceased candidate by another laureate of the same category, no one scored more than once this year. The hits 2022/23 in detail: Two hits were physics laureates (Mottelson and Müller), the four other laureates came from different categories: Medicine/Physiology (Montagnier), Peace (Gorbachev), Chemistry (Curl) and Economic Sciences (Prescott). There occured no death of a Nobel laureate in literature the third year in a row. Two Nobel laureates (Altman and Trimble) did not score, since they were not chosen by anyone. To make it short: This was a silent year in this pool. Thanks to everyone for participating and all the best!

Whose first lady was Bob Dylan?

With Vialli, Constantine and Crosby it's WEP 3 - DL 0

Well, @Funeralopolishas McFadden and @wannamakerhas Aung San Suu Kyi. McFadden was listed as MacFadden... For next year, I think of crossing the picked candidates in my list to make it easier.

@ladyfiona Yes, and @MariNisiahas Esaki AND Marcus, @Hell has Carter and @arghtonhas Sharpe.

@Hell K. Alex Müller has died at 95 just before the new Nobel Pool has started. Please select a new physics laureate.

Swiss physicist and 1987 Nobel laureate in physixs, K. Alex Müller, has died aged 95: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1987/muller/facts/ https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/alle-news-in-kuerze/physik-nobelpreistraeger-karl-alex-mueller-stirbt-mit-95-jahren/48209386 He is worth 1.520 points as a nonagenarian physics laureate from the 1980s. Congrats @Book for the right prediction, just two weeks before this pool closes. (You can choose a new physics laureate, if you want...)

Gina Lolobrigida has died. https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/italian-actress-gina-lollobrigida-dies-95-ansa-2023-01-16/ Congrats @DoorSlammer 1923 - Henri Kissinger/Lily Ebert 1924 - Russel Nelson/Anne Vernon 1925 - Dick van Dyke/Carla Balenda 1926 - Emmanuel Kardinal Wamala/Betsy Jolas 1927 - Harry M. Markowitz/Rosalynn Carter 1928 - Frank Borman/Peggy Dow 1929 - Milan Kundera/Rebecca Schull 1930 - Warren Buffett/Joanne Woodward 1931 - Robert Duvall/Eve Queler 1932 - Gerhard Richter/Anouk Aimeé

I am not sure, which topic is for a pick from 2021, who died in 2022, but in some kind, she is a candidate for the List of the Missed, I think? https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2021/celebs_T.html#telandk021 Kajsa Telander, Swedish author, has died back in November 2022. https://www.dn.se/familj/dodsannonser/#/CaseInline/817524?query=Kajsa Telander

Minor Swedish royal, count Hans-Gabriel Trolle-Wachtmeister has turned 100 on January 9th. https://www.kristianstadsbladet.se/familj/greve-hans-gabriel-trolle-wachtmeister-fyller-100/ His family has German origins and immigrated to Sweden in the 16th century, his great-great-grandfather was Minister for Justice in the 19th century. Count Hans-Gabriel is the widower of former Swedish chief court mistress Countess Alice Viktoria Trolle-Wachtmeister, who died in 2017 aged 91.

Congrats @MariNisia and @tracy 1923 - David Oreck/Lily Ebert 1924 - Russell M. Nelson/Birte Christoffersen (later Hanson, then Ekberg) 1925 - Johnny Lujack/Carla Balenda 1926 - Emmanuel Kardinal Wamala/Betsy Jolas 1927 - Harry M. Markowitz/Rosalynn Carter 1928 - Frank Borman/Peggy Dow 1929 - Jules Feiffer/Rebecca Schull 1930 - Norman Podhoretz/Peggy King 1931 - Daniel Ellsberg/Eve Queler 1932 - Gerhard Richter/Anouk Aimeé

To be fair, I should choose one of the subs I sent. So Chinese actress Wei Wei will be in. Thank you very much.

According to this article, she has already died in 2021. Seems like I wasted a pick. Sorry for that.

Monsieur Dumas, s'il vous plaît.

Thank you very much! 1923 - James L. Buckley/Lily Ebert 1924 - Russell M. Nelson/Birte Christoffersen (later Hanson, then Ekberg) 1925 - Johnny Lujack/Carla Balenda 1926 - Emmanuel Kardinal Wamala/Betsy Jolas 1927 - Harry M. Markowitz/Rosalynn Carter 1928 - Zhu Rongji/Peggy Dow 1929 - Jules Feiffer/Rebecca Schull 1930 - Norman Podhoretz/Peggy King 1931 - Daniel Ellsberg/Eve Queler 1932 - Gerhard Richter/Anouk Aimeé

Dto.

Manolic please.

1923 - James L. Buckley/Ruth Adler Schnee 1924 - Russell M. Nelson/Marianne Bernadotte 1925 - Johnny Lujack/Carla Balenda 1926 - Emmanuel Kardinal Wamala/Betsy Jolas 1927 - Harry M. Markowitz/Rosalynn Carter 1928 - Hans Blix/Peggy Dow 1929 - Jules Feiffer/Rebecca Schull 1930 - Norman Podhoretz/Peggy King 1931 - Daniel Ellsberg/Eve Queler 1932 - Gerhard Richter/Anouk Aimeé

Russian comedian actor Alexandr Ponomarenko seems to have died on Christmas Eve: https://moslenta.ru/news/lyudi/aleksandr-ponomarenko-24-12-2022.htm He had stage IV cancer and was 55.

Congrats to @Hell for being the last one Having the Pope. It does not turn better.

Congrats @chilean way Tomiichi Murayama for me, please!

QO for Arata Isozaki: https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/arata-isozaki-death-age-cause-architect-b2253483.html And as I see, he is already added: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2022/celebs_I.html#isozaka022 My first hit for 2022!

Actor Hans-Peter Hallwachs has died at 84:https://www.tagesschau.de/kultur/peter-hallwachs-tod-101.html He was a well-known actor in television and on stage as well as a popular voice actor. Hallwachs appeared in the first episode of the still-on-air crime series "Tatort", "Taxi nach Leipzig", in 1970. His last tv appearence was a tv-series as well, "Letzte Spur Berlin".

He is a DDP pick: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2022/celebs_I.html#isozaka022