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I passed it with Steve Sumner on the 8th. Evidence is it'd have been one of the fastest Deathraces on record even without the executions.

2 Goalkeepers Gordon Banks Antonio Carbajal 5 Midfielders Nobby Stiles Hans Schafer Horst Eckel Martin Peters Tostao 5 Defenders Franz Beckenbauer George Haigh George Cohen Carlos Puyol John Terry 3 Strikers Gerd Muller Jimmy Greaves Ian St John (captain)

I think the Droller Coaster will be contending for a top ten spot throughout the year, imo.

Some good lines in that one, TMIB. And Not The List of the Missed fulfills its remit! Is this the biggest deficit Spade's been from the top since he won in 2013? I can't recall.

I agree on Parfitt, but Adams did shitloads for BBC Radio, that an archive piece can be played any quiet week. There was a five month delay once, but I can't mind who off the top of my head.

My guess for this week Desmond Carrington, Hans Rosling, Alan Simpson, Joost van der Westhuizen, Gordon Aikman. With Sir Peter Mansfield as an archive one in the future. Richard Adams ought to get on the show but time is running out...

The new oldest living American is apparently Delphine Gibson! Well, according to Wiki anyhow...

Just to be awkward, it wouldn't have actually killed off Aikman as a pick, as he first came into public view in 2012-ish as part of the Better Together team (including TV coverage), a whole 2 years before the motor neuron diagnosis. But I like YW's general point about "their ball, their rules". The DDP has been blessed by two calm and decent minded showrunners in a row (I assume the Big Man and Rude Kid were too, but well before my time so can't comment!) in that regard. If someone like me were in charge, the whole thing would be a lot swearier and considerably more of a mess! So I've always aimed to accept the rules of the boss instead of moan about it not being how I want. Although, being in a reality show and not being ill? Oxymoron, surely? Ok, ok, no right in the head, but still... Elsewhere, Famous for being famous? That's everyone of note outside writers and journalists, surely?

Welcome half back!

Well, he might get local news after his funeral or this benefit do. On another note, no one did pick Pan Breed shortlister Dan13ll3 K3mp (the one even I didn't think I was enough of a cunt to pick)- her immunotherapy has resulted in extreme tumour necrosis, and it's stopped growing. She's not out of the woods by a long way, but I do genuinely wish her all the best.

Schieder was probably my greatest individual hit and 2008 my best year (although I finished in 6th, one place below my debut year in 2006). That was pure research snagging him. I was proud of the Rowan Ayers pick as I was a big fan of his son, Kevin...I never returned to that kind of form again. Quite embarrassingly, I've never twigged that family connection before! And yeah, you got a bit distracted by becoming The Keeper of Traken! Note for Non-Whovians: The Keeper of Traken dealt with all the mind numbing boring stuff and conflict on his aforementioned planet so everyone got to enjoy the prosperity and fun. Then the Master killed him, while also destroying the entire planet, and its solar system, which is where this analogy turns unintentionally dark...

Rarely heard of him, but this comes up on Wikiquote: That, I like.

Aye, but it could matter a great deal to the Rad One and Burgess Meredith (the penguin, rockhopperpenguin? Oh suit yourselves!)...

I'd be stunned if they didn't, between the more famous siblings (though Smith's not exactly unknown in his own right, wrestling wise), the family history of tragedies being a good press story, and Smith's own... eccentric life story making for a good obit.

Smith Hart is doing the old Dont Die Like Me public campaign in Calgary for prostate cancer.

Steve Sumner was one of my subs in this game, but I've no idea how their points work. Anyhow, mentioned here for Ali when he gets back.

Alan Aspin is dead. Grim Up North, Joey, Rad guy and Rockhopperpenguin are all reliant on any single obit in the world showing up. Somewhere. Anywhere. Where's that friendly Sun journalist who always trawls this site when you need them?

And many belated returns to him. Been listening to the Hip a lot lately. You can tell he's a parent of several kids when he comes up with a song called Tired As Fuck, really.

Never seen a round up with so many of my folk on it. 3 hits (1 theme team), 1 likely List of the Lost, and 1 person I am kicking myself at not picking (the 31 year old with ALS) from my shortlist.

Yep, that's the one. 1959 down to 12 Angry Men now.

Right, Joey was alluding about this a few days ago, asking if Joost van der Westhuizen was the youngest Deathlist hit. Which got me wondering. Deathlist hits (Segovia to van der Westhuizen) mapped out by age at death. 105 – Brooke Astor 104 – Rose Kennedy, Oscar Niemeyer, Luise Rainer 102 – Dame Ninette de Valois, Princess Alice, Charles Lane, Albert Hofmann 101 – Queen Mother, Leni Riefenstahl 100 – George Burns, Lord Denning, W Clement Stone, Bob Hope, Strom Thurmond, Stanley Kunitz, Claude Levi-Strauss, Erich Priebke, Chapman Pincher, Joao Havelange 99 – Dr Hastings Banda, Max Schmeling, Zsa Zsa Gabor 98 – Barbara Cartland, Tony Martin, Anna Wing, Eli Wallach, Gough Whitlam, Denis Healey, Kirk Kerkorian 97 – Gene Sarazen, Joseph Bonanno, Estee Lauder, Sister Lucia, Sir John Mills, Ernest Gallo, Karl Malden, Peter O’Sullevan 96 – Kitty Godfree, John Gielgud, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Wray, Simon Wiesenthal, Michael Foot, Harry Morgan, Yitzhak Shamir, Helmut Schmidt, Al Molinaro, Richard Adams, Cliff Michelmore 95 – Lord Longford, Billy Wilder, Edward Teller, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alistair Cooke, Joseph Barbera, Mark Felt, Norman Wisdom, Michael Gough, Herbert Lom, Nelson Mandela, Maureen O’Hara, Liz Smith 94 – Andres Segovia, Bunny Austin, Brother Theodore, Lord Hailsham, Lionel Hampton, Elia Kazan, Artie Shaw, Queen Juliana, Gretchen Franklin, Milton Freidman, Byron Nelson, Lady Bird Johnson, Bill Deedes, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Patty Andrews, PD James, Abe Vigoda, Nancy Reagan 93 – Dilys Powell, Milton Berle, Hardy Amies, Ronald Reagan, Lord Scarman, Gerald Ford, Richard Widmark, Betty Ford, Mickey Rooney, Patrick Macnee, Sir Christopher Lee, Boutros Boutros-Ghali 92 – Alec Douglas-Home, Deng Xiaoping, Helen Wills Moody, Joan Hickson, EW Swanton, Don Bradman, Jim Callaghan, Rosa Parks, Walter Cronkite, Vincent O’Brien, Clive Dunn 91 – Catherine Cookson, Lew Grade, Mary Whitehouse, Dame Thora Hird, John Profumo, Augusto Pinochet, Dino de Laurentiis, JD Salinger, Ray Bradbury, John Demjanjuk, Sid Caesar 90 – Marlene Dietrich, Harold Larwood, Quentin Crisp, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, William Hanna, PW Botha, Arthur C Clarke, George Cole, Fidel Castro 89 – Jimmy Stewart, Burgess Meredith, Chuck Jones, Sam Snead, Red Adair, Sir Ted Heath, Ingmar Bergman, Aleksandr Solzhenitysn, Ludovic Kennedy, Eric Sykes, Lauren Bacall, BB King 88 – Denis Thatcher, Caspar Weinberger, Ian Smith, Kurt Waldheim, Sir Edmund Hillary, Blake Edwards, Ian Paisley, Bhumibol Adulyadej 87 – Mother Theresa, Jacques Cousteau, Stanley Kramer, Gregory Peck, Margaret Thatcher 86 – Roy Rogers, Victor Mature, Jesse Helms, Suharto, Francis Pym, John Forbes Nash 85 – Deryck Guyler, Stanley Matthews, James Doohan 84 – Salvador Dali, Greta Garbo, Dan Maskell, Joe DiMaggio, Don Budge, Pope John Paul II, Charlton Heston, Ronnie Biggs 83 – Ginger Rogers, William Buroughs, Spike Milligan, Aaron Spelling, Leonard Nimoy 82 – Kim Il-Sung, Frank Sinatra, Rodney Dangerfield, Peter Ustinov, Al Lewis, Cyril Smith, Casey Kasem 81 – Erich Honecker, Brian Johnston, Richard Nixon, Jackie Mann, Peter O’Toole 80 – Burt Lancaster, Idi Amin, William Rehnquist, Charles Haughey, George Melly, Mary Tyler Moore 79 – Francois Mitterand, Sir Alf Ramsey, Walter Matthau, Sir Harry Secombe, Bo Diddley, Elizabeth Taylor 78 – Terry-Thomas, Dean Martin, Harold Pinter, Robert Novak 77 – Andreas Papandreou, Charles Schulz, Ted Kennedy, Michael Winner 76 – Sir Bobby Robson, Diana Wynne Jones 75 – Timothy Leary 74 – Dennis Hopper, Muhammad Ali 73 – Ernie Wise, Sydney Pollack, Etta James 72 – Telly Savalas, Pol Pot, Lou Rawls, Levi Stubbs 71 – Johnny Cash, Bill Tarmey, Reg Presley 70 – James Earl Ray, Kim Jong-il, Sir Henry Cecil 69 – Sir Michael Havers 68 – Paul Eddington, Chris Woodhead 67 – Sugar Ray Robinson 66 – Mobutu Sese Seko, Dudley Moore 65 – Jeffrey Bernard, Richard Pryor, Tammy Faye Messner, Wendy Richard 63 – Audrey Hepburn, King Hussein of Jordan, Gerry Rafferty 62 – Les Dawson, Roy Castle, Dai Llewellyn, Robin Gibb 61 – Susan Atkins 60 – Abdelbaset al-Megrahi 59 – Bill Bixby, Sam Simon 58 – Simon MacCorkindale, Hugo Chavez 57 – Glyn Worsnip, Ian Dury, Patrick Swayze 56 – Warren Zevon 54 – Jill Ireland, Rudolf Nureyev 53 – Martin Crowe 52 – Derek Jarman, Barry Sheene, Bernie Nolan 50 – Kenny Everett, Laurent Fignon 49 – Arthur Ashe 47 – Ray Moore, John Diamond 45 – Simon Cadell, Joost van der Westhuizen 44 – John Curry, Tim Gullikson 43 – Helen Rollason

Sir John Wells, a long term former Tory MP for Maidstone from 1959 to 87, has died aged 91.

Well, he's not on for dementia. He's on for third year Stage IV bowel cancer. He may live, and he seems cheery, but the stats (especially for his age) are not in his favour.

It seems Alan Aspin has died off the radar, possibly?

All I'll add is that when people start naming writers I've known about for years (long before they were ill) as "obvious Vault candidates", and title winners in one of the most watched sports in the UK, then clearly the idea of what constitutes fame and being "famous for being ill" is too varied per person for any basic rules to be put in place, beyond what has already been done.