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Was 50/50 on him at the start of the year, but I think he'll definitely get the Mail obit now.

Jim Lynskey, heart transplant "awareness" spokesperson who was the inspiration for the video for Lewis Capaldi's #1 single "Someone You Loved," dead at 23. Would surely have popped up on the DDP next year if he'd made it.

"Machines are now better at predicting death than humans" reads this headline. However, its 90% accuracy rate is still the same as David Quantick's Showbiz Pals' 2016 performance, and I did it first, so...

Clicked through a bunch at random, didn't drag anything conclusive up. There was always a kid or something in her movies that's still with us 70 years later.

Heartbeat increasing?

And every Russian who has ever been in Afghanistan.

Makes me so sad I'll never travel back in time, see Alec Guinness in the street and shout "hey! Obi! It's you innit?" at him.

Fucking hell finally.

The man was a smidge before my time, but his Times obit might be the best I've read this year. A many of many multitudes, few of them good.

Video of his final moments. This is perhaps the worst refereeing in wrestling history and probably a court case waiting to happen.

Gianni De Michelis, former deputy PM (under De Mita) and Mani Pulite crook, dead at 78. As with many Italian politicians, he enjoyed the "good life" and in 1988 (while in government) wrote a guide to Italy's best nightclubs, based on personal experience.

Wolverhampton.

This is her son, and he doesn't mention anything about a death in recent months....

For all the talk of Barker's genius as a comedy writer, you really could lose 85% of every episode of TTR and not be any the worse for it. Especially the interminable musical numbers. For instance:

Starr was never a A++ celebrity though, he wasn't Bruce Forsythe or Ronnie Corbett. He was in the "reduced to reality TV in later years" fame bracket with Chegwin and Davro.

Minnie Ripperton: goes on TV in 1976 and reveals she's had a mastectomy due to breast cancer, but doesn't tell anyone that it'd already spread to her lymphatic system. Continues touring over the next few years but gets visibly weaker and weaker on stage, to the point in her final TV appearances she clearly has an immobile arm. Dies 1979.

And that's his career dead.

Who here's up for some sponsored content on the DDP?

Overheard someone say "you know, Stuart Robson [or maybe Robinson] hasn't got long left" today at a train station. So if anyone wants to check into the health of Northern Irish radio DJ Stuart Robinson, wheelchair rugby competitor Stuart Robinson, the former bishop of Canberra, the speedway rider or the footballer, feel free. Or maybe it's a non-famous person. Or maybe they meant he hasn't got long left as he was retiring from a position or is coming out of prison. Still, could be a key tip.

Honestly thought he was faking it, just seemed like a great way for him to get media coverage and apologise for the immigration thing. Still, is that the only ever head of state who was formerly a bodybuilder before taking up politics?

And one who wasn't even worth pencilling in on your 2020 shortlists as he was clearly not going to make it that far, Canadian humanitarian, theologist and founder of international charity L'Arche, Jean Vanier, dead at 90.

Half of the teams left get a (proper, BBC obit as soon as he died) hit with Jean Vanier.

Why does Southwestern Trains block the DDP for being "tasteless" but not the Deathlist? Are we too real for them?

That's the first one off the list.