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Health wise, sadly, he's not been too good. He had health issues towards the end of LOTSW too, and sight issues. He also stopped reply to fan mail two years ago on health grounds. Macular degeneration on its own isn't fatal, I don't think, so the continued concerned whispers suggest something other than age and going blind.

First journalist on the scene at the Aberfan disaster as he lived down the road. Actually, Cliff is a familiar face to any psephology nerds (yes they do exist) as he chairs the BBC coverage of the 1966 and 1970 general elections. He also hosted the BBC coverage of the moon landings, which we've lost. And which presumably hardly anyone saw, as on ITV, they had AJP Taylor and Sammy Davis Jr arguing over the moon landings being faked or not. With, incredibly, Taylor as the skeptic! (And they've lost that too.) A hat-trick of useless information.

I've heard lots of folk call her that, as Libby is a common Scottish shorthand for Elizabeth.

I think the Queen, no matter how well she seems just now, will go within a year of Philip going. She seems to rely on him a fair bit. So I'm guessing 2017 (96) for the Prince and early 2018 (91) for Libby.

Doesn't sound like Oliver will be troubling the 2016 DDP. Just 136 days to keep breathing!

There's a branch of that party that tried to get Alan Johnson to stand in 2009(ish, 2010, and again in 2014. He just doesn't want the job.

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Hoping about 5-6 more of those months and he makes the starting gate for 2016 teams He will easily stride into 2016. Of course I thought similarly of guitarist Jeff Golub, who's name I reluctantly used in one DP, and damned if he didn't die January 1st to kick off my year (and frankly his year) rightly.SC Out of interest, are you in the DDP? Apologies if thats been asked before, mind like a sieve. No I was new here. Definitely give her a go 2016. Assuming one of Givens or Scott was your joker on the team, that No Heartbeat Needed team would be about joint 10th currently.

I would advise against ever taking her off DL.We don`t want another Patrick Moore and beside when Priebke and Pincher turned 100 everyone went on about how great they look.Centenarians can deteriate rapidly. Plus if the committee left off a 100 year old double Oscar Winner it would look fairly foolish is she died.I think that any candidates born before 1920 should be on until they die. The tendency lately for notable Deathlist eligible centenarians appears to be...die within four months of the 100, or five months after. With a July 2016 birthday, both of those would fall within 2016 for de Havilland.

With Ali, there was wobbles with his health a few years back - he looked incredibly frail at his 70th birthday, and one of his friends actually said on BBC news that they didn't know if he'd see his seventy-first. I personally think he'll live now until he completes his unofficial task of outliving every single opponent of his. Mind you, I can see why people might fear he'd be a miss. And I'm starting to think the list should Queen Libby back, not because I think she's going to snuff it this decade, but she's too big a death to risk the outside chance of her potentially doing a Jimmy Carter one year.

Hoping about 5-6 more of those months and he makes the starting gate for 2016 teams He will easily stride into 2016. Of course I thought similarly of guitarist Jeff Golub, who's name I reluctantly used in one DP, and damned if he didn't die January 1st to kick off my year (and frankly his year) rightly. SC Out of interest, are you in the DDP? Apologies if thats been asked before, mind like a sieve.

I'd be surprised if Oliver Sacks made the Deathlist next year. He doesn't feel like the type they go for. Yes, we know he's on the road out, but they have their ways and means. (They skipped out on Ronnie Dio in 2010 and Christopher Hitchens in 2011, for example.) The various researches of folk on here are always useful to DDP regulars though. (Well, bar Spade, who is probably "in the know", and DDT, who as Grim Reaper foresees whom he is asked to reap the souls of, and then selects enough living people so as to evade suspicion.)

Depends how they pick them. If Number 1 is the first person the Committee agree is on the list, it'll probably be one of the long termers like Zsa Zsa or Rev Billy. Carter would be around Number 4, I'd guess.

Vice President of Lstar Capital. Not sure he's quite famous enough for DL purposes though. https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmseville He looks good for his age. Err, whatever age that is.

The Quatermass Experiment (and subsequent sequels, including a crap remake in 2005) were early Brit TV SF from the 1950s, highly pioneering TV which inspired most of British SF since. (Large chunks of Doctor Who rip the series off wholesale, as one example.) They were written by Nigel Kneale, long time grumpy sod, but he died in 2006. Judith Kerr, aforementioned children's writer, is his widow. I've never heard of the band. The writer was really good, even if he was a grumpy sod.

Huh? Judith's published lots of books since then. On a read of that article, its "first illustrated book" since 1978, and even then, I guess they don't count Mog. I dropped Judith from my theme team this year but think she will go on again next year. Her studio is in the attic and she can still get up there to work everyday. I'd think she has a bit to go yet - still quite active with signings and the like - but I'm reminded I was in contact with a [unique Pick on the 2014 DDP] last year and he seemed to be in fine health. Five months later he was dead! These things happen when folk get old.

Huh? Judith's published lots of books since then. On a read of that article, its "first illustrated book" since 1978, and even then, I guess they don't count Mog.

According to the BBC earlier, it was metastasized liver cancer. If so, he wont be troubling the Drop Forty next year, because he won't make the starting line.

So (so far) no one this year then? Thats always good. The year is the Deathlist they were on. So in 2015, there's been two so far. One thing I've noticed in recent years, is they are good at finding old folk people think must be long gone, then dropping then after a year, and then said person dies!

Deathlist picks from a year who died the next year when dropped from the list (from the last few years) 2014 - Pratchett, Shaw Taylor, 2013 - Attenborough, Jaruzelski, Seeger, Garner, Stritch 2012 - Godfrey, 2011 - Geoffrey Hughes, Klugman, Dom Mintoff, Ravi Shankar, Borgnine 2010 - no one 2009 - Steinbrenner, Captain Beefheart, John Forsythe

I think Slocombe probably would, as it'd allow them to dust off archive footage of The Titfield Thunderbolt. Oh, and WW2.

I think you'll find that it's Claudius as opposed to Calvdivs. It's an old joke. The most famous person I've seen in theatre was Sylvester McCoy.

Naked Civil Servant, Clavdivs, Who and Elephant Man, mostly. I doubt Heaven's Gate will get a look in.

I'd like him to do a Wilko, to be honest, not just because he's one of my favourite actors, but because if he does die now, it feels like we'd have been robbed of a decade or so of further performances.

Depends on the person, the job, and circumstances, really.