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    William H Gates

    While I agree with the general point, Ged Stokes was actually a rugby (league) player of the 1970s and went to be the manager of international teams so has some notability. In rugby league. Apparently some folk prefer that to rugby union, but DJL isn't here anymore so we'll avoid a long book on the subject in the replies! Not DL level notability of course, but more than Bill Gate's dad - the lowest of low bars.
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    Eddie Kulukundis

    Ready, Eddie, dead.
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    Stairway To Heaven/ Highway To Hell

    Started with Peter Green in Fleetwood Mac as a sound engineer, worked on the mixes for every album of the Jon Lord era of Deep Purple, produced the first Ronnie Dio Black Sabbath albums and the various Deep Purple splinter groups, as well as being producer for all of Iron Maiden's great 80s albums and hits, right up to Fear of the Dark in 1992. Hell of a CV.
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    The 2020 Deathlist Cup

    Just saw the name on my Deathrace team checking my teams for the year and thought "he must have died by now, surely?" And he had.
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    The 2020 Deathlist Cup

    For lack of a better place to put it, according to the prosecuting lawyers, sea cadets paedophile scum Terrence Matthews died before any of the games he was picked in this year. No big loss to the world, though.
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    Wrestlers/actors

    Cauliflower Alley Club confirms it on twitter. He hung on a long time after his leg amputations.
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    Simon Cowell

    He also produced the WrestleMania album and I'm not really helping here...
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    Simon Cowell

    Agreed on general principle without seeing the news first.
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    Murray Walker

    Aye, if he's able to do two interviews in one week he's probably in better shape than some of us, let alone some of the list! I've no interest in cars (sorry) but could listen to Walker for hours - as you say, an absolute legend.
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    Peter Sutcliffe

    That's no surprise, mind. I've been rather skeptical of those reports suggesting he'd been cured of murderous schizophrenia.
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    Deathlisters who are dead

    A few years back when I was having a health scare, I mused aloud to Mrs Msc about the concept of dying and no one ever finding out, like we assumed had happened to Magere. Quick as a flash, she replied: "Don't worry, I'd let your fellow loonies know..."
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    DDP 2021 Town Hall

    At a very quick glance of the Who's Dead section - Leanne Barrett, Karl Butler, Gemma Sisson. Still alive - Debbie Winn, James Matthews, Lisa Fry etc. Think about 20-30 names in total out of 10, 000. Which just goes to show how unneeded they are.
  13. Ah, that I didn't know. Poor show. (But also ignore it, tbh, its like Bart Simpsons "everybody look at me, I am so great" moment - attention seeking.) And aye, its nearly as hot as Diana Rigg in her 30s! Ah... sorry what were we talking about again?
  14. Positively sedate by previous mass PMs.. Anyhow can either dwell on that or the whole other forum of folk who think yer a funny fucker. I don't think they want to ban him though, just stop the spam sessions three times a year. Compare to Zorders who is gone anytime he reveals himself - barring when he's pretending to be Kenny of course.
  15. 99% of the time he's better than certain other posters. Ok, 100% of the time, tbh. That said, I am Glaswegian - we use the word cunt about 5 times in a sentence just as a friendly greeting.
  16. Sir Creep probably meant this chap who was fairly popular in the 2016 DDP. A glance at his Wiki shows he was quite notable in the States, but I suspect a bit like a version of a Peter Barkworth, who won several BAFTAs and was one of those TV faces for years but likely never made a dent in popular culture outside of the UK. I was going to say Clive Swift but Keeping Up Appearances did sell to America and was quite popular, much to my surprise.
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    Ideas and Possibilities for 2021

    Another in the long line of "they're still alive??" names, former Guardian film critic and horse racing correspondent Derek Malcolm just showed up on a Sky Arts thing. Born in 1932 and looks like it, but still breathing. Apparently he wrote recently for the Huffington Post, but obviously no one read that...
  18. In other words the sort of person the economy can source afford to lose. No much I can say, Biblio, it's a shitter. Best of luck in finding a quick solution somehow.
  19. Hah, might have been too scary for them. Ever heard of Pastor Jack Glass? Scottish Protestant minister who came to fame for picketing Billy Connolly shows for being blasphemous. Ian Paisley said he was a bit of an extremist. I repeat. Ian Paisley thought that guy was a bit extreme.... Btw the Big Yin loved him. A Jack Glass appearance guaranteed a sell out crowd for him!
  20. Although the DDP did once solve an age old mystery for me. I have vivid memories of the BBC News obit for this demagogue type yelling about God from a park bench, and I had no idea who it was, if I'd made it up even. Then one day flicking through the DDP archives and there's that old guy staring right back at me. Lord Soper, apparently: pacifist, teetotaler, shouty God man...
  21. I had a great reference book, but it was printed in 1997 so that me that Alec Guinness, Yehudi Menuhin and Alf Ramsey were all still alive in 2000, and the latter of those I only knew for sure had died in 2002 when the BBC called him "the late, great..." Even having home internet didn't help at the very beginning. Despite being a massive childhood Hitchhikers Guide fan, missing the papers and TV at the time meant I only learned of Douglas Adams stupidly young death two months later. Even as recently as 2006, I managed to miss the news on Linda Smith dying (and I liked her, she was funny) until it showed up as a memorial article in the Radio Times about 3-4 weeks later.
  22. In the 90s I used to listen to the radio a lot and heard a number of death announcements that turned out to be wrong information, including Alec Guinness (he was ill, but lived until 2000), Verity Lambert (died in 2007) and of all things, Al Gore's death in 1998 in a helicopter crash. It turned out to be based on a misunderstanding of a phone call (Gore's flight delayed due to a crash became him in the crash iirc). None of this was trolling, just communication was a lot slower and easy to misconstrue in the days before widespread internet and mobile phones. The flipside to this is that when they announced the death of the great Dermot Morgan, I assumed it was one of these errors at first.
  23. There's bit in the DDP archives where Big Iain apologizes for needing to add extra points to teams from the previous year. This is because everyone involved in the game missed the death of Hollywood actor Roy Rogers and found out sometime the next year. Young ones don't realise how revolutionary the Deaths in (insert current year here) Wikipedia page was for deadpoolers.
  24. As a Who fan I love the idea of Billy Hartnell being bigger than Bette Davis.
  25. Yes but who hasn't sung the rewritten lyrics to the Kim Carnes classic since?
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