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20th to 11th. 20. Rob Ford, tee-totaler, 301 points 19. Vera Lynn, Nation's sweetheart, 303 points 18. Fidel Castro, cigar smoker, 311 points 17. Tony Booth, Blair's father in law, 314 points 16. George Bush Sr, President, 319 points 15. Howard Marks, nice guy, 321 points 14. Peter Sallis, cheese lover, 324 points 13. Helmut Kohl, chancellor, 355 points 12. Muhammad Ali, the greatest, 367 points 11. Nancy Reagan, GOP boss, 372 points The folk who were never in any doubt.

30th to 21st place 30. Mary Tyler Moore, forum favourite, 175 points 29. Glen Campbell, Rhinestone cowboy, 183 points 28. Ian Brady, 190 points 27. Sumner Redstone, steak lover, 193 points 26.. Stephen Hawking, 195 points 25. Joost van der Westhuizen, rugby player, 209 points 24. Leslie Philips, cad, 215 points 23. Valerie Harper, 217 points 22. Denis Norden, my word, 226 points 21. Herman Wouk, writer, 256 points Deathlist forumites keep faith with Valerie even if the main site doesn't. Joost got on the list, seemingly begrudgingly, few folk had him in their top tens, and he slowly crept up the list. Sumner Redstone had an early flourish to rise this high, and then a strong finish.

40th to 31st place 40. Ian St John, footballer, 125 points 39. The Former Pope Benedict XVI, retired God man, 126 points 38. Sinead O'Connor, singer, 129 points 37. Desmond Tutu, apartheid activist, 135 points 36. Joey Feek, cancer singer, 136 points 35. Jenny Diski, Child of Lessing, 140 points 34. Johan Cruyff, turn, 152 points 33. Mikhail Gorbachev, 158 points 32. Liliane Bettencourt, lotsa money, 165 points 31. Robert Mugabe, dictator, 173 points Sinead O'Connor, really? Still, thats democracy for you. Feek and Diski didn't feel Deathlisty, but the voters pushed them up - they're certainly ill enough. Gorbachev was top 10 after the early votes, then his votes dried up entirely, and he nearly crashed out entirely.

50-41 50. Nobby Stiles, World Cup winner, 109 points 49. Fernando Ricksen, Rangers player, 111 points 48. Bob Dole, Bob Dole, 113 points 47. Prunella Scales, Sybil Fawlty, 113 points 46. John Noakes, Shep's pet, 113 points 45. Vera Caslavska, Gymnast, 115 points 44. Cliff Michelmore, Man on the Telly, 117 points 43. Jake Lamotta, Raging Bull, 118 points 42. Bruce Forsyth, Nice to see you, 120 points 41. Liz Dawn, Corrie, 123 points Nobby Stiles started a sporting trend to the list. Pancreatic cancer sufferer Caslavska a brave choice with multiple supporters going big on the points for her. Some old Deathlist favourites and some interesting new comers.

Voting has now closed, and the votes have been tallied up. I can confirm the following people just missed out: Lupita Tovar, Ayatollah Khamenei, Lys Assia, Peter Vaughan, Paul Gascoigne, June Brown, William Russell, Jimmy Greaves, Peter Maxwell-Davies, Caroline Aherne. There was nearly 400 picks in all, but those were the ones that came within 10 points of a spot at the end. Edited as Handrejka pointed out a duplicate Ian St John.

Welcome to the Deathrace, Sir Creep - best wishes from the 2015 Champion.

I said congrates in the chat, but I'll repeat it here for a sense of permanence. Three in a row, its a no mean feat!

Two theme teams then: The Honourable Member for DDP North THEME - oldest living parliamentarians (Ronald Atkins, Sir Clive Bossom, Albert McQuarrie, Lord Carrington, Lord Chalfont, Sir Patrick Duffy, Sir Michael Shaw, Jack Dunnett, Ronald Murray, Baroness Trumpington, Ronald Buxton, Mildred Gordon, Jill Knight, James Ramsden, Robert Sheldon, Lord Strathcona, Eric Cockeram, Sir Edward du Cann, Sir Reginald Eyre, Mary Holt) The Gallifrey Regeneration Game THEME - oldest living Dr Who folk (Earl Cameron, Arnold Yarrow, Peter Sallis, Dudley Simpson, Gordon Sterne, Nicholas Parsons, William Russell, Donald Pelmear, Geoffrey Bayldon, David Graham, Bill Sellars, George A Cooper, Morris Perry, Ysanne Churchman, James Garbutt, Laurie Webb, William Lucas, Andre Marrane, Glyn Houston, Geoffrey Palmer)

Here's a list then, never deadpooled before by Pan Breed. 1. Diana Athill 2. Hutton Gibson 3. Mad Mike Hoare 4. Teddy Johnson 5. Michael Epstein 6. George Blake 7. Edwin Bramall 8. Christopher Tolkein 9. David Kenneth Fieldhouse 10. Angus Scrimm 11. Freddie Jones 12. Eunice Grayson 13. Eric Moonman 14. Sandra Day O'Connor 15. Beryl Vertue 16. Kenyon Wright 17. Montserrat Caballe 18. David Marquand 19. Kurt Westergaard 20. Ken Loach 21. Leila Williams 22. Larry Niven 23. Brian Mulroney 24. Frank Dobson 25. Dave Swarbick 26. Syd Little 27. Jimmy Snuka 28. Chris Patten 29. Jupp Heynckes 30. Charlotte Rampling 31. Sandie Shaw 32. Alice Cooper 33. Ric Flair 34. Bobby McFerrin 35. Chris Rea 36. Morgan Tsvangarai 37. David Threlfall 38. Jerry Seinfeld 39. Val Halen 40. David Caruso 41. Jo Brand 42. Elaine C Smith 43. Pete Burns 44. Michael Stipe 45. Boy George 46. Wesley Snipes 47. Garry Kasparov 48. Andy Bell 49. Vinnie Jones 50. Mike Tyson To make it harder, I decided to only accept one person per year of birth, so I'm expecting sod all from this.

1. Susannah Mushatt Jones (joker) 2. Emma Morano 3. Douglas Slocombe 4. Mary Wilson, (Harold's widow) 5. Clare Hollingworth 6. Robert F Dorr 7. Monty Brinson 8. Vera Caslavska 9. Peter Esterhazy 10. Ian St John 11. Randy Romero 12. Juliet Ace 13. Peter Maxwell-Davies 14. Mark Czarnecki Colin Smith 15. Herman Wou 16. Douglas Wilmer 17. Vera Lynn 18. Peter Sallis 19. Guy Hamilton 20. ER Braithwaite 21. Liliane Bettencourt 22. Michael Anderson 23. Richard Adams 24. Michael, former King of Romania 25. Aki Hintsa (Subbed 30/6) Rowena Kincaid 26. Sumner Redstone 27. Joanne Woodward 28. Glen Campbell 29. Jimmy Carter 30. Gordon Banks 31. Kris Travis 32. Richard Smith (former BMJ editor) Dr Kate Granger 33. Fernando Ricksen 34. Ronald Atkins 35. Albert McQuarrie 36. Lord Carrington 37. Jill Knight 38. Sir Edward du Cann 39. Earl Cameron 40. George A Cooper 41. Ysanne Churchman 42. James Garbutt Craig Sager 43. Geoffrey Palmer 44. Arnold Yarrow Piers Sellers 45. James Lovelock 46. Prince Philip 47. Zsa Zsa Gabor 48. Roy Dotrice 49. Deadly Doug Ellis 50. Bruce Forsyth Now I've sent off my DDP team, here's the Death by Numbers lot. No one from my DDP (there are a few from the theme teams though) so no issues in posting it here. Plus Hartlepool, Deathrace and Rotten deadpool folk to round up to 50. This includes my DDP rejects, and at least one person who was originally going to be my DDP joker! Good luck with the competition.

The list of the "couldn't wait a few more weeks"... 14.11.2015: Nick Bockwinkel 6.12.2015: Holly Woodlawn 17.12.2015: Jimmy Hill 17.12.2015: Greville Janner 26.12.2015: Darren Tandy 29.12.2015: Pavel Srnicek 31.12.2015: Howard Davis Jr Plus people like Brian Sewell, Mankell etc but they were always touch and go.

Don't worry, it counts as a 2015 death, and the first substitute you list will go onto your team as a replacement. Speaking from experience!

Will Howard Davis Jr obit in 2016? I'll say no. Makes it fourteen DDP squad candidates to have died early now.

Team sent in. Luckily, I checked each name from google as I was typing, as someone died during the night. This brings Dr Granger back into the Pan Breed line up, after originally being dropped.

One to watch, or listen to: the increasingly frail Baroness Campbell of Surbiton (who has outlived her life expectancy with a nasty form of spinal muscular atrophy by nearly sixty years now) is guest hosting the Today programme on Radio 1 on January 1st. She'll be debating Matthew Parris on the right to die.

Nah, 2 months life expectancy feels more like an announcement this week, and him using the January gigs, if he could make them, as a sort of George Melly-esque last stand. It's just one of those things.

The only precedent I can think of is Steve Fossett, who went missing in 2007, and was found in 2008. It was clear he'd died as soon as his plane crashed, so those who picked him in 2008 were shit out of luck. So close to the new year, its hard to say, but precedent would suggest not to pick them.

Didn't the fireman version die a few months ago? There might be two entirely different DDP candidates who also have namesake American fireman, of course.

Compared to some of the more eclectic choices nominated so far...

Bloody hell. He always seemed like the type of person to have the Reaper on a restraining order. Remember his immortal life lessons: "The secret to not dying is to keep breathing." Might have forgotten that one at the crucial moment there, Lem.

1. Clare Hollingworth 2. Mary Wilson 3. Douglas Slocombe 4. Liliane Bettencourt 5. ER Braithwaite 6. Peter Sallis 7. Vera Lynn 8. Herman Wouk 9. Joanne Woodward 10. Jimmy Carter 11. Kris Travis 12. Richard Smith (BMJ editor) 13. Fernando Ricksen 14. Robert F Dorr 15. Monty Brinson 16. Vera Caslavska 17. Nicholas Parsons 18. William Russell 19. Earl Cameron 20. Donald Pelmear 21. James Garbutt 22. Ronald Atkins 23. Albert McQuarrie 24. Mildred Gordon 25. Jill Knight subs 1. Douglas Wilmer 2. Johan Cruyff

In case I forget later in the week. (After all, tradition here, the Hartlepool Deadlypool was the first deadpool I ever took part in...) Pan Breed's team 1. Joanne Woodward 2. Glen Campbell 3. Jimmy Carter 4. Johan Cruyff 5. Fernando Ricksen 6. Aki Hintsa 7. Richard Smith (former BMJ editor) 8. Kris Travis 9. Sumner Redstone 10. Gordon Banks subs 1. Nobby Stiles 2. Douglas Slocombe

I've got 17 locked in, about 7 on a standby list, and am waiting till the 30th to see if anyone announces ill health as I missed Mr Dickens (Little) and Mr Goggins (MP) in recent years. There's also Mary Wilson and Clare Hollingworth on a standby to the standby list, in case, you know, half the team decide to take method acting in a Titanic revival too far tomorrow...

The 2015 Drop Forty looking into 2016: the Play Your Cards Right attempt. (By higher, I expect more teams to have the person. By lower, fewer...) 1 Zsa Zsa Gabor 195. HIGHER 3 Muhammad Ali 152 HIGHER 4 Rev Billy Graham 147 HIGHER 5 Kirk Douglas 146 HIGHER 6 George H. W. Bush, Sr 139 HIGHER 7 Clive James 134 LOWER 8 Fidel Castro 127 HIGHER 9 Valerie Harper 118 LOWER 10 Prince Philip 113 HIGHER =11 Nancy Reagan 82 HIGHER =11 Olivia de Havilland 82 HIGHER 13 Joost van der Westhuizen 80 HIGHER, CONSIDERABLY 14 Kate Granger 71 LOWER 15 Helen Fawkes 66 GONE =16 Paul Gascoigne 64 LOWER =16 Vera Lynn 64 HIGHER 18 Caroline Aherne 61 GONE 20 Daisy Berkowitz 55 GONE 21 King Bhumibol Adulyadej 54 LOWER 22 Doris Day 51 HIGHER 23 Ian Brady 50 HIGHER 24 Liz Dawn 49 GONE 26 Mary Tyler Moore 46 SAME 27 Wilko Johnson 45 GONE =28 Rob Ford 43 MUCH HIGHER =28 Jerry Lewis 43 LOWER =28 Peter Sallis 43 HIGHER 31 João Havelange 40 HIGHER =32 Robert Mugabe 38 HIGHER =32 Glen Campbell 38 HIGHER =34 Bruce Forsyth 37 HIGHER =34 Martin Crowe 37 HIGHER (by about 100 teams) 37 Lynne Stewart 35 GONE 38 Stephen Hawking 35 HIGHER =39 Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI 33 HIGHER =39 Hosni Mubarak 33 hIGHER Which would give me ten new names. I'd guess at them being: Rene Angelil (around 40th), Jimmy Carter, Joey Feek, Howard Marks, Johan Cruyff, Vanessa Redgrave, Desmond Tutu, Sepp Blatter, Stuart hall and Dick Van Dyke.

The arrival of three ballots in my inbox today reminds me to the give the 4 day warning for anyone still wanting to send in a team of 50 contenders.