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Chess Records artiste and songwriter Bobby Charles is out aged 71. Tracks penned by him include "See You Later, Alligator", so you can do your own pun.

Well, if you didn't know him by now...

DJ Too Tuff. I went back and forth on whether to have him in my team as captain or not at all, but erred on the side of caution. If Roc Raida's death didn't even make the Guardian music section, then it's probably safe to say that the bar for UK obituaries for mid-range hip-hop DJs is pretty high.

Garage punk revivalist Jay Reatard kicks off what will hopefully be a year full of current NME favourites kicking the bucket, aged 29.

Marxist philosopher and leader of the 1968 Paris student revolt Daniel Bensaid has trotted off aged 63.

Miep Gies moves from out of the attic to under the stairs aged 100. 12 DDPers had her.

WWF wrestler, boxer, MMA fighter, politician, and full-time standby for Eurotrash and any other late 90s "look at these crazy foreigners" show Tony "Ludvig Borga" Halme has tapped out from liver failure aged 47.

Y'ello there. After winning pretty much any dead pool amongst friends or message boards I've played over the past four years, I decided to man up and join Derby Dead Pool this year, so I can get absolutely mullered and become disillusioned with the whole deadpool thing. My team are "Fuck A 40oz, You'll Be Dumping Out Whole Kegs Of Brew", which is probably the only team there named after a lyric by obscure rap act Boss Hog Barbarians. This is how they line up: 1) Abdelbaset Al Megrahi 2) Giulio Andreotti 3) Sanjaagiin Bayar 4) Stefano Borgonovo 5) Doyle F. Brunson 6) John Demjanjuk 7) Ronnie James Dio 8) Bobby Heenan 9) Dennis Hopper 10) Dawood Ibrahim 11) Peter Macbeth 12) Kaoru Matsumoto 13) Seaneen Molloy (JOKER) 14) Eleanor Mondale 15) Steve Prescott 16) Debbie Purdy 17) Mark Brandon Read 18) Salvatore Riina 19) Adolfo Suarez 20) Gore Vidal