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Given I had Prudhomme done as a "Day of No Death record breaker" that's just forgetting to tick it off despite that. Edited.

Most years in competition (correct to 2016) Mr C 18 Drunkasaskunk 18 Jesus Jones 18 Finbarr Returns from the Dead 16 JoeRam 16 Juicy Janny 16 Dates of No Death 29th Feb, 26th Oct, Days Previous Ones Were Shattered 30th October 2014 – Renee Asherson 21st December 2014 – Billie Whitelaw 28th December 2015 – Lemmy 8th October 2015 – Paul Prudhomme The other ones will take rather more work. I'm not even going to try the "average age of hit" though.

A few more Most hits in a month 1. January 2014 (35) 2. January 2015 (32) 3. March 2014 (30) 4. April 2015 (28) 5. July 2014 (26) Which blows out all previous records. Most Hits on one Day FOUR 10th April 2015 – Lauren Hill, Judith Malina, Jin Youzhi, Richie Benaud 14th February 2015 – Michele Ferrero, Louis Jourdan, Wim Ruska, Pamela Cundell 6th May 2014 – Cornelius Gurlitt, Maria Lassnig, Farley Mowat, Roger Dimmock FIVE (!) 7th July 2014 – Alfredo di Stefano, Dickie Jones, Anthony Smith, Michael Scuadmore, Eduard Shevardnadze 16th January 2014 – Dave Madden, Ruth Duccini, Steve Evans, Hiroo Onoda, Russell Johnson Number of hits, all time (to 31 Dec 2015) - 2010

I didn't count 2016 as it's still ongoing. It would be a pain with remembering the cut off point for, say, the points totals, otherwise.

First stats update (to 31 December 2015) 2014 Winner - David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals Points – 108 Hits – 11 Total Teams – 575 Total Hits - 247 Most Popular Pick – Zsa Zsa Gabor Most Popular Hit – General Jaruzelski 2015 Winner – David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals Points – 98 Hits – 10 Total Teams – 501 Total Hits – 239 Most Popular Pick – Zsa Zsa Gabor Most Popular Hit – Sam Simon Most Points (New System since 2007) The Living End 779 Master Mind 605 Wormer, He’s a Dead Man! Niedermeir Dead! Marmalard Dead! 551 Deceased Hose 545 Octopus of Odstock 527 Misers 523 Stab in the Dark 515 Waiting List 493 David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals 457 Ethnic Cleansing 446 Going Underground 445 Carkers Convention 439 =This Mortal Coil 439 Eejit 425 Dead Ends 425 Drunkasaskunk 419 They’re Dead Y’Know! 409 Poochie Died on the Way Back to his Home Planet 407 Windsor the Troll 402 The Newstreet Boys Death Squad 402 The Beatles Are Dying in the Wrong Order 402 I’m Sorry for Your Trouble/If I’m Spared Myself 398 Stiff and the Tears 396 Star Dust 384 Shovelful of Dirt 376 Madonna’s Hand of Bod 368 The Endo f the World as We Know It 350 Groblers Still Ones 346 Golden Slumbers 342 CrazyCarl 340 Canadian Paul 336 Inquilinekea/Simfish 328 JoeRam 321 Going Green 313 Eternity Tours 310 People I think Might Die in (year) United 308 Lard Bazaar 306 Guild of Master Reapers 303 It’s Grim Up North 302 Deathlist.net 301 Tomb It May Concern 301 Teams on the Up Conqueror Worm 281 Dead Certs 257 Very Ill Turned Very Dead 278 Norfolk and Good – 283 Mr C 255 Bazziliant 289 Biologically Dead 268 Crossing the Styx 250 Die now...die now...show us you’ve pegged 257 Thomas Jefferson Survives 249 Inigo, I Hope We Win 291 I took every team who'd been in 5 years or more and did a quick count up of their tallies. Could have missed someone out in 500 but that's in the ball park. Most Points in a Year (since 2007) David Quantick Showbiz Pals (2014) 108 slips into the list Most Popular Pick to Not Die Zsa Zsa Gabor (2015) - 195 Latest Deaths 31st December 2014 - Duke of Wellington 31st December 2014 - Michael Kennedy 31st December 2015 - Wayne Rogers Earliest Deaths 1st January 2014 - Juanita Moore 1st January 2014 - Dorothy Baldwin 1st January 2015 - Mario Cuomo Christmas Day 2015 - Sadhana Shivdasani 2014 - Kate Gross, Alberta Adams Unnatural Causes Ann B Davis Fall (2014) Debbie Purdy Suicide (2014) James Brady Homicide (2014) Christopher Barry Fall (2014) Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah Killed (2014) Philip Seymour Hoffman Overdose (2014) Robin Williams Suicide (2014) Assad Uzzaman Killed (2015) John F Nash Car Crash (2015) Alicia Nash Car Crash (2015) Adam Yahiye Gadahn Killed (2015) Scott Weiland Overdose (2015) Cilla Black Fall (2015) Milestones 1600th - Adolfo Suarez, 23 March 2014 1700th - Kathy Craven, 18th August 2014 1800th - Kel Nagle, 29th January 2015 1900th - Marguerite Patten, 4 June 2015 2000th - Nicholas Smih, 6 December 2015 (Though given my maths issues, someone might want to double check that one...) Youngest Deaths Lauren Hill (2015, 19) Well, there's a start on them anyhow.

Allegedly, it'll be the Dimblebot. Which would be good, as Huw Edwards just lacks that x factor in his presenting.

Tie breaker - George Galloway is a cunt and wants to get out.

On less obsessive compulsive territory, 5th place, 5 hits and 10 points off Spade in February? I'm going to pretend I'm in a title race here.. while I can.

If my maths is correct, Lord Avebury is 99th, not 100. I did a count up of 2006-2013 to make sure it hit 79, which it did. He's then had 20 hits since January 1st 2014 Which takes him to 99.

In DDP terms, you'll like this. Not a lot, but you'll like this.

Pierre Boulez, Alan Rickman, Frank Finlay and, I suppose, Cecil Parkinson (despite his outright git nature) would add to your list too, certainly.

That's always been my view. Someone, say Bibliogryphon or RadGuy or a guest, will post it one sleepy Thursday afternoon, and it'll take people entirely by surprise. There will be the usual "its a hoax", links to fecking Mediamass, and then the old "end of an deadpooling era" posts.

Not enough votes. She finished in 136th place.

A good writer. RIP to her.

There's a difference between wishing you could still do something and thinking you could, which is, I guess, the difference between a Katie Adie or a Clare Hollingworth and a... Kurt Angle. Well, that's the first time in history that comparison has ever been made.

Well, in her autobiography, she admits she's looking forward to retirement and that she wasn't as quick as she once was. It was published in 1988!

Her obit would have been prepared a while back. All they need to do is make additions with anything she may have been involved in recently then add the date she died. From what I hear, recent events involve her mostly drinking in Hong Kong at the Press club, and bemoaning the fact that age means she can't report on, say, Afghanistan from the front line. Or three miles into enemy territory looking for scoops!

There's remarkably little chatter about it in the usual channels, but from Twitter chatter, I see that he's had some kind of complication on top of the stomach cancer.

I love how you manage to slip a reference to that in at any connection to the darts player. Especially as I first heard of it via this forum, as Sky coverage had mysteriously whitewashed it from their 24/7 darts coverage. Mind you, last I ever saw darts, Sid Waddell wasn't dead yet.

Front line reporter during WW2, got the scoop on the Germans invading Poland, front line reporter (one of the only Western ones too) during the Algerian war, uncovered Kim Philby as the third man, was at the scene for Tianneman, and one of the great female trailblazers. I'd definetly say she was, if Chapman Pincher was.

The oldest celebs in my database are Zoltan Sarosy (chess player) and Zhou Youguang (father of Pinyin), both born 1906. Other exciting centenarians include Bobbie Heine Miller (Wimbledon quarterfinalist in 1929), Tyrus Wong (one of the Bambi animators), Robert McCain (John's mum), and Jeremy Hutchison. And there's the legendary Clare Hollingworth, of course.

A big one for Captain Chorizo, who has now become a top title candidate for the DDP. Maybe even THE top candidate as long as Michel Delpech doesn't receive an obit. Unfortunately for me, I thought she would have until 2017. My glance over forum members teams in early January did suggest Chorizo had a team to look out for. They certainly have a team to target 100 points with.

I've heard nothing, but you'd think if there had been an improvement the papers would crow about it along the lines of "English Hero Recovering from Grave Illness" or something like that. There's only two English footballers in history to have won both the European Cup and World Cup, after all. I went for three football punts on the DDP this year based on newspaper coverage using "gravely ill" to describe them. Two of them are now dead. Time will tell, as I always say!

Six to eight months was the estimate life expectancy I read last year. Which would put her in line from March/April onwards. Keep in mind some folk (Martin Crowe) outlive their prognosis, but the year is young.

Ah, I wouldn't worry, when we went down... actually, we wound up in the second division, and took a decade to get back up. But the time before that, actually we wound up in the second division (nearly the bloody third) and nearly did a Rangers 2012 but for Forfar. Thistle are a bad example here, really. Other clubs bounce right back.