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Conveniently turns out to be battling a "pre-cancerous throat condition" after his TV show gets cancelled.

You cracked out the Google Docs and been down the British Library to research it yet?

Clarke Carlisle in hospital with life-threatening injuries, read between the lines and you'd know it's a suicide attempt.

Happy bday to Alcides Ghiggia, the oldest living World Cup winner.

He was the last surviving member of the cast of "All Quiet On The Western Front", fact fans.

Crowe will be on at least 9 of the top 10 teams in the DDP next year, a lock.

Heard from a pretty reliable source that Gerald Sim, occasionally discussed in this thread, died last Sunday and the funeral was yesterday. I'm not sure if the family have requested no press coverage or if his star had fell that far that nobody could be bothered to knock up 250 words for the BBC online, but I'm pretty sure you can cross him off 2015.

Long-time rumoured cancer-sufferer Sonia Gandhi hospitalised with an "infection".

Well that's what you get for shagging a Tory.

Cross another one off the list of Ali's opponents: Ernie Terrell, who lost a World title clash to Muhammed back in 1967, dead at 75. His sister, Jean Terrell, was the replacement frontwoman for The Supremes after Diana Ross's departure.

or women's football or tiddlywinks Never heard of the guy. Yer da knows who he is

I bet you get the obituary but my guess is not before 2015 starts. If this had happened in March or something her campaign would have bashed a press release out asap. You might get lucky with BBC local news though...

TMIB: I may well have some free time in the first week of the new year, so if you need to dump any additional bio-writing/DOB-hunting duties on to me, lemme know.

Instead of relying on Jake LaMotta again, why not switch him out for Lou Duva? Turns 93 next year, haven't heard much out of him for ages, massive name in the boxing community and probably big enough to get the main BBC sport news story the day he dies assuming there's no football on.

Finally deciding if I can conjure 20 names for my long-desired theme team: What A Load of Cobblers (20 people from Northampton).

This is getting overlooked on the forum, it's proper Hollywood Babylon stuff. She was killed in a murder-suicide by her husband because she was cheating on him with Trey Songz (who will probably have to ditch the nickname "Mr Steal Ya Girl" now). Her husband allegedly committed both the murder and suicide while facetiming Floyd Mayweather.

I always said that the qualifying feature for DeathList picks is that they should all get their deaths mentioned on the 9 O'Clock News. It seems as useful a metric as any.

Avril Lavigne asks for her fans to pray for her due to "significant health issues". See ya later boi

Mr Fuji and Lord Littlebrook would get UK obits no problem. Les Thornton might as well. If Lance Russell died, he'd probably get a mention on a WWE broadcast so maybe he'd qualify for a SkySports obituary via that?

Yeah, I had Doyle Brunson on my longlist as well.

Green Day touring guitarist Jason White diagnosed with tonsil cancer.

The Daily Mail does have an Australia entertainment desk, so you'll probably do well in terms of Australian "stars" as well as reality show contestants. Probably wouldn't go betting too heavily on Oz members of parliament/AFL players though.

Any updates on George Alagiah?

The Living End will be back next year with a half decent team . When I finish outside the top ten ,I get all competitive again. I've said it before, it's what the fans want, a year where DQSP and The Living End go head to head fighting for the title. The modern legend and the GOAT going heads-up against each other, Michael van Gerwen vs Phil Taylor of deadpooling. Except I'm not autistic and you're not a convicted sex offender. I always like to have an Irishman (or woman), a folk/country musician, a religious leader and a criminal in my starting line up. Failure to stick to this policy in the past has led to poor results. Next year's team has all of the above, which gives me renewed optimism. However I am - genuinely - happy for others to win the competition, as I have nothing to prove in that respect. Even if I did dope for all three of my victories. Re Phil Taylor, was that a Freudian slip? You've been thinking about his mother, haven't you? That was never going to make it pass the Worlds, though. He'll be adding "me mum's in hospital so this is for her" to "me mate Ronnie O'Sullivan said to me" and "I'm 54-years-old you know?" to his post-match routine.