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In 2012, it was the 45th anniversary of Just A Minute, and the BBC made a big fuss about it as "people were worried Nicholas wouldn't live to see the 50th". Due to old age rather than pressing medical issues, of course. He's 12 months off making it now.

I can't get tweet embed to work, but anyhow: Jenny Diski ‎@diski @corrinacellist some benign tumour spelling bee part of brain. Just try to keep up .Remember it was 'cucumber' wot got me out of hospotsl 5:18 PM - 15 Jan 2016 As suspected given some of her more out there writings in recent times.

Ideas and possibilities for June in that case, rather than 2017.

All we need is Joey Feek to head to Jesus, and a Delpech obit, and Spade will have 62 points in January. I'd just like to point out that Pan Breed has had its greatest ever start (19 points with Angelil and Smith), as both hits have come faster than my previous fastest ever success, Etta James in 2012. (Not counting Rafferty and Lubbock in 2011, as they were ineligible...)

Zsa Zsa Gabor Kirk Douglas Rev Billy Graham Robert Mugabe Hosni Mubarak Joao Havelange Fidel Castro George Bush Sr Ian Brady Chuck Berry Doris Day Stephen Hawking Caroline Aherne Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Muhammad Ali Glen Campbell Liz Dawn Helen Fawkes Paul Gascoigne Rolf Harris Clive James Val Kilmer Denis Norden Prince Philip Nancy Reagan

I can't help but notice six teams have Ed Drummond this year. Time for DDT to reveal his dastardly plan and revel in the greatest long con of all time?

Great work, TMIB! Many thanks. And nice to see Big Iain and Matthew back too.

Back in November plans were to release it on Valentine's Day. We're talking the same album right? Obviously bumped up a month 'for some reason' SC http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8663&p=242518 "For some reason"... *checks DDP joker Nope, news to me. Mind you, some still aren't lucky. They rushed forward the publication of Iain Banks' last novel so he could see it, and cancer still took him a week early.

Ironically there will be a whole team of "Blacks" but no Robert... A whole team of Blacks? You can't be Sirius. I'm so sorry.

Also, child murderer Robert Black was on a team in 2012, might be for the list of the missed unless someone took a punt this year.

The Cuban chap Death Impends took a risk for, Mr Chocolate, has his Daily Mail obit here.

Actually, I'm not a fan of Eurodance in general. Berri's Sunshine After The Rain was the worst thing to happen to Ellie Greenwich since Phil Spector.

Doop. It's a techno dance type version of the Charleston. It got to number 1 in the UK charts in 1994. Bloody awful.

Not sure. As a chronically ill person who might be carrying a heart defect (they'll test when I'm older - it runs in the family, snuffed out several members before 50, a few before 35...), I think you can go mad if you think too long about "what might be". After all, you think about death too much, then one day you're 100, with cancer, and where did yer bloody life go to? Mind you, after a few lucky escapes to ill health and idiocy in the past, I'm more often hit with "Blimey, still here!" more.

Winton was all about the immigration to the UK of refugees on humanitarian grounds. He died whilst David Cameron's government was trying to take a tough stance on the immigration to the UK of refugees on humanitarian grounds. Regardless of the situations, comparisons would certainly be made.

No, because it would embarrass the PM.

None of those are real misses: 2 were private about their ill health, and the third wasn't famous enough for the list.

I didn't consider either of the Haggartys - the other guy will be dead by Valentines Day now. The question which now rises is of course: can anyone stop Spade in the DDP this year? That's nearly a quarter of his team gone in the first fortnight. Even The Living End's 2011 waited until February to do that. I feel a bit like an average top 100 ranked tennis player in 2005 when Roger Federer suddenly became unplayable!

I have had a long standing hatred of Doop by Doop ever since it was released. I don't think many people remember it, but I bloody hate it. That, and Coldplay.

Saint, since he apparently has a nasty form of cancer which spread, whereas Greaves is just poorly after a stroke (and therefore might linger on for years in a diminished capacity).

Hunting lodge newsletters? Taking dedication to a whole new level there!

He was clearer more ill than I gave him credit for. So does Spade get a prize if his shadow team beat everyone? Other than full gloating rights, of course.

Ailing writers who start new novels but never finish them due to a terminal case of permanent writer's block (in a manner of speaking) happen so often it could classify as a real life trope.

When I go away to check on something for my daughter, and came back to find 4 notifications in the box above, my immediate thought is: "What have I done now?" The chap who played the driver of the ghost bus is dead too. He was in Doctor Who. Marco Polo. And 10 Rillington Place, and, incidentally, the Robin Hood film with Alan Rickman. Jimmy Gardner, Google tells me his name was.

Roger Lloyd-Pack, Timothy Bateson, David Ryall and Rob Knox to name a few others. I have no issues with the Potter films though: better to fill kids films with the cream of British acting, than Timmy bloody Mallet and the latest X-Factor stars trying panto.