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Saturnine English poet Ted Hughes died today in 1998...

Yes it's been a funny year. There'll almost certainly will be around 165-170 hits which would be a record and yet OoO sits proudly on top with 71 points, way down on the record of 109 from 2007. Not a lot of big scoring fish-in-a-barrel hits like in 2008 for example where we just filled our collective boots! The shadow of Al Megrahi hangs over this year's competiton, deadpoolings very own bogey man...

I have a sneaky feeling as to what headline Deathlist will use when the day comes...

Remarkably a miss. He was picked back in 2006 as part of a political theme team. Actually, some the misses of this month are better than the hits: Dame Joan Sutherland, Tom Bosley, Graham Crowden...

Steve Peregrin Took, who was part of Tyrannosaurus Rex with Marc Bolan, before being sacked in 1969, died today in 1980 after choking on a cherry...

The Enemy Within...

If he cops it before execution yes If he's executed no He'll easily get a mention in the UK press... Definite Deathlist candidate, unless the committee have their own position on executions...

Make no bones, it'll be a major cultural event knocking most of the 'signifificant deaths' Chicago and co blather on about into a cocked hat... Plus half of the DDP are wagering on this, and probably even more should she stagger on to 2011. I only hope me and the Deathlist don't come up with the same pun!

Not only Liverpool that are struggling then...

This is hilarious... So he's connecting a drug overdose in New York and a dude found hanging naked, upside down in a Bangkok hotel? That's one helluva globetrotting assassin. They should make a movie about it. Give Randy a cameo and bump him off. Then again... if you google David Carradine, Heath Ledger, Randy Quaid and DeathList ..............this forum probably comes up on page 12. Maybe he did that, doesn't get the irony and got paranoid. No I haven't tried googling it. DeathList the movie. Get John Landis on the line. This is going to blow up! Methinks Randy will get a few more nominations in next year's DDP...

Vidkun Quisling, the man who sold the Norwegians out to the Nazis, was executed by firing squad today in 1945, six months after the end of the war in Europe...

Nah, I think Alex Higgins now would look at lot worse, I'd imagine...

Portsmouth R.I.P?

Is it me or is Wayne Rooney a complete cunt? That picture is vomit-inducing...

17/20 Rabin, Versace and Keller were the ones that got away...

Is it me or is Murdoch looking a bit peaky? Some of you may vomit at what he has to say, but this isn't the issue. The issue is that he doesn't look a particularly well man to me...

John Lydon's step-daughter...

Not quite as old as me though...

Terrific actor. Was a barking mad Soldeed in the Doctor Who story "The Horns of Nimon" which was one of the first Dr Who stories I ever saw, way back in 1979. Surprisingly, nobody picked him for the DDP...

Elsie Steele 45 days to be precise, and in answer to the obvious question... "She is succeeded as Britain’s oldest person by Margaret Fish, of Wilstead, Befordshire, who was 111 years and 227 days old today — 60 days younger than Elsie". Can't be many left now who were born in the 19th Century...

Did you go backwards in time or something?

Paul Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of all time, died today in 1984...

And that's another near miss on the DDP this year. Yes, quite a surprise. When I first read about it, I immediately thought of a pun, but now it can't be used.

If Margaret Thacher dies just as those big cuts are being announced by the government, I'm going to fucking kill her!

2 Deathlist hits died on this date: In 1998 it was Miss Marple actress Joan Hickson... Ten years later it was the turn of Levi Stubbs to write himself into Deathlist lore...