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Yes, 2010 chenistry laureate Ei-ich Negishi from Japan has died: http://www.wbiw.com/2021/06/11/ei-ichi-negishi-one-of-two-nobel-prize-winners-from-purdue-university-dies/ Value 3.836 points. Congrats to @Salmon Mousse https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2010/negishi/facts/

FI NAL LY! https://www.ksta.de/koeln/viele-bauwerke-in-koeln-architekt-gottfried-boehm-stirbt-im-alter-von-101-jahren-38473146

Congrats bubblecop

Swiss Chemistry laureate Richard R. Ernst has died: https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/leben/nachruf-er-entwickelte-das-verfahren-das-uns-ins-innerste-sehen-laesst-ld.2147838 https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/richard-ernst-nobel-winning-mri-pioneer-dies-at-87-2459468 He is worth 3.634 points (as an octogenarian chemist, awarded alone in 1991). Congrats to @Bibliogryphon who now leads the scoreboard. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1991/ernst/facts/

I recommend Edith Kwoizalla in memory of William Shakespeare!

Never mind

And she worked with Ernst Jandl, one of the main experimental poets, for nearly a half-century until his death in 2000.

One of last years lesser dicussed centenarians seems never to have turned 100: French polynesian writer and journalist Ambroiese Yxemerry, born Jean Raymond Jacquette, has died in February 2013 according to some sources linked in wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise_Yxemerry He was also a post mortem DDP pick last year: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_Y.html#yxemea (In fact, he was picked six times but not in 2013.) Not to mention his appearence in the centenarians deadpool.

Former Prime Minister of Denmark, Poul Holmskov Schlüter, is dead at 92: https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/Poul-Schlueter-longtime-Danish-prime-minister-16209610.php http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2021/celebs_S.html#schlp0

Anna Halprin, American choreographer and dancer, has died aged 100: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/25/1000217732/remembering-anna-halprin-a-pioneering-choreographer?t=1622016612364 http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2021/celebs_H.html#halpra As mentioned by @chilean way in the Centenarians Pool, she was a solo there, as well as she would be in the DDP in case of a valid obit.

Anna Halprin, American choreographer and dancer, has died aged 100: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/25/1000217732/remembering-anna-halprin-a-pioneering-choreographer?t=1622016612364

One for the "List of the Missed": Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina, Spanish classical composer, designated the Generación del 51: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_J.html#jimenec020 https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20210523/muere-91-anos-compositor-director-orquesta-cristobal-halffter/2092480.shtml

Karl-Günther von Hase, former director of the "Second German Television" (ZDF), has finally died. He held that post from 1977 to 1982 as a result of a spontaneous candidacy. Before that, he was a military figure, diplomat and politician: During World War II, he was a General Staff Officer and spent some time captivity by the Soviets. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked in diplomacy. For seven years he was ambassador in London. Before that, he worked for the German Secretary of state, was Head of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government in the rank of State Secretary and switched to the minstry of defense. He was 103 years old. https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/zdfspezial/hase-spz-100.html http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_H.html#hase99k020

Let's give him a voice here!

You can keep them as they are. It is a hard job on research you all did, not just because of a few former death row inmates. I just realized the current status of these picks.

The best way to say thank you would probably be not to compete next year. For now, however, I express my heartfelt thanks to them.

First of all, thanks to @Ulitzer95, @msc , @gcreptile and others for all that research on my "List of obscure people", which is made of people who have done what picks are not supposed to do: Survive. All were on my Deadpool list between 2006 and 2012, which explains the odd composition. Their nomination seemed logical at the time, they were chosen. And yes: this leftover ramp won't score many points, as Christa Ludwig and Prince Philip prove. But now it's here, ashes on my head! Just to show, that they are not that useless, I have checked two of them a bit furter: Unsure whether it makes this guy more useful, but Boroujerdi is not on death row anymore, his sentence was transformed into an eleven-year prison sentence. He has abandoned his status as an Ayatollah and is now something like an anti-religion activist, who advocates against organized religion. Sounds like someone who couldn't really sleep well under the eyes of the ayatollahs. This woman has not to fear an execution anymore, which increases her chances for scoring. She was released in 2014 after serving nine years on death row and has disappeared from the public eye. This reduces her chances for a qualifying obit. OK, even if my attempt to make these picks more worthy for the DDP fizzles out, I would as, if the information can be added?

Sorry to sound pedantic, but Klosterneuburg is not in Germany, it is in Lower Austria. Thanks for the update anyway.

April 30th

Lesothian Roman Catholic cardinal, Sebastian Koto Khoarai, passed away yesterday at the age of 91. http://www.lena.org.ls/index.php?model=headline&function=display&text_id=75121 Was a DDP-pick some years ago. http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2017/celebs_K.html#khoas0

Was a DDP-pick some years ago. http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2017/celebs_K.html#khoas0

First miss of this pool: Robert A. Mundell has died! He was worth 4.634 points (laureate in economic sciences in 1999, aged 88, awarded alone), but since he was noch chosen by anyone, these points got lost. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1999/mundell/facts/ Mundell's death makes Gerardus 't Hooft the last living laureate of the year 1999. Maybe a pick for all who are interested to join this pool?

Congrats to @TomTomTelekom The first hit of he new pool occured on April first, and it was not a joke. Akasaki is worth 1.826 pioints: Physics-laureate (1.000) in 2014 (800) aged 92 (20) from Asia (6). An adequate inaugural first hit! https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2014/akasaki/facts/

I know how that feels. Even my current team of non-obscure choices seems to be immoral. Zero points in two years I receive postcards from all over the world from families, who want me to nominate their centenarian grandparent to keep them alive.

This will be my next dead pool idea!