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My main memory of Diana dying was being stuck on a motorway traffic jam on route to a holiday in Germany. Dad turned on the radio to find out about the traffic, got wall to wall Diana is dead coverage, and at one point, the announcer told us that there would be "no traffic reports" to focus on the important news story. But then, bar the whole "Queen is not mourning the way we want" outrage which got reported abroad too, and Mother Theresa carking it a few days later, the main thing I remember from the time was the German papers one day having the story in a sidebar, so they could focus on the big news story. A bullfighter had been gored to death by a bull in Spain, complete with big gory pictures, and the headline: "Finally the bull gets revenge"!

The 2020 general election? Yes, it would.

Seems funny to see a comment like this after he has been dead less than a week when last year we had to wait until late December for almost all of the obit write ups.....Other than this one, they've been rather speedy this year Well, I wasn't here last year, so I wouldn't know Either way, I'm not an expert, so maybe I'm wrong, but I don't reckon it's very hard to write an obit... so I expect them to be rather speedy. Well, to write a normal obit full of clichés, or just a dry description of who he was and what he did (copied from Wikipedia) is not hard but then people would complain that the obits became boring. In order to write a witty obit, you sometimes need a bit more time... Or just a kiss from a muse. I've borrowed the opening joke from the Jesse Helms obit on the main page (July 2008, for newcomers curious) many times since.

I'm sticking with the forum's new clairvoyant, and going for Nancy Reagan.

Bob Dole doesn't like this!

Random stat, years that Deathlist made the half dozen by June 2013, 11th June (Henry Cecil) - finished with 13/50 2012, 30th June (Shamir), finished with 12/50 2008, actually Bo Diddley was the 9th hit by 2nd June, 14/50 2006, 13th June (Charles Haughey), 13/50 2003, 27th June (Strom Thurmond), 14/50 2002, May (Sam Snead) was 8th hit, 10/50 2001 - Got 7 by April, 10/50 2000 - 8 by April, 10/50 ... you get the point Form since 2003 when the internet age really entered the spirit of things suggests bad omens for several names still on the 2015 list.

There are a few of the ill folk hanging on still, while the recent spate has been folk who just happened to be old and not wake up one day.

Ah, I missed this, sorry. He was on the Deathlist. [And, on a personal level, the most obscure hit I can ever recall them having.]

Seen elsewhere, he's apparently Dead.

Pancreatic. The reaction to which is basically "Oh fuck!".

What about the grandson Winston Churchill (very imaginative these nobs), MP for Davyhulme and Stretford, died in 2010 Indeed, he was a DDP score for me. Another of his grandsons, Nicholas Soames is or was an MP. Nicolas is still an MP for mid sussex . He's also fat as fuck, still partial to a snack and - arguably - a heart attack waiting to happen, just sayin', like. So your saying maryport he may be a good choice for a certain deadpool or bingo perhaps hmm? Maybe your hinting the rotund politician might not make it though the next 5 years ? You saying he might fall ill and trigger some kind of by election? Ok fuck it Nicolas soames is one of my picks for by election bingo !! Exactly, he isn't one of mine, but only because I've allocated my "fat as fuck" position to Eric Pickles. Given the way Jimmy Hood looks now (like he's having a heart attack let alone due one), you could say it was terribly unsporting of him to go and lose his seat to the SNP like that.

Services to being awesome, more like. I have a fgreat deal of respect for Mr Bond but the performance of my teams this year has been disappointing. He is just an easy target for my wrath. Not just Paddington but Olga da Polga. That's the trouble with a theme team though, no? Most of them are old but otherwise in decent health. Last I heard of Mr Bond, he was still quite active. Mind you, so was Ruth Rendell. Peter Dickinson (b 1927, writer of The Changes) might be a decent shot at a unique for 2016 if you still run that theme team, mind.

Services to being awesome, more like.

The big summer of famous deaths? B.B.King, John Nash, Christopher Lee and other people who were very good at what they did, and many people consider them to be famous, but aren't REALLY famous because 90% of today's uneducated society has never heard of them. I bet at least 90% of people know who he is! Dusty Rhodes and charles kennedy too. Though i guess charles kennedy would only be a big death in the UK. That's one hell of a list and the summer has only just started . Tariq Aziz and Ruth Rendell too within the last month. Of course, every year seems to have a large cull of big names as we get older. eg 2014 - Eusebio, Sharon, Schell, Aragones, Seeger, Hoffman, Temple, Rooney, Ramis, Benn, Marquez, Townsend, Hoskins, Giger, Mayall, Kasem, Wallach, Garner, Di Stefano, Williams, Bacall, Attenborough, Rivers, Kiel, Paisley, Whitlam, Bruce, Cocker, Rainer 2013 - Winner, Chavez, Achebe, Griffiths, Ebert, Thatcher, Andreotti, Harryhausen, Gandolfini, Banks, Matheson, Mel Smith, Heaney, Frost, Norton, Clancy, Metsu, Reed, Lessing, Mandela, O'Toole, Fontaine, Biggs 2012 - Etta James, Gazzara, Houston, Davy Jones, Sendak, Summer, Gibb, Megrahi, Ephron, Shamir, Bradbury, Borgnine, Lord, Ride, Binchy, Vidal, Diller, Armstrong, Hal David, Michael Clarke Duncan, Lom, Andy Williams, Hagman, Brubeck, Shankar, Patrick Moore, Klugman, Gerry Anderson. 2009 (a former posters "Summer of Death"), for perspective: McGoohan, Montalban, Updike, Silver, Richardson, Ballard, DeLuise, Eddings, Carradine, Fawcett, Jackson, Malden, Cronkite, McCourt, Robson, Aquino, John Hughes, Les Paul, Ted Kennedy, Swayze, Todd, Brittany Murphy (Just counting folk one would assume were world famous and not big names in their own country like Lloyd-Pack, Fred Phelps and Clive Dunn and so on, too...) The more things change...

They got Michael Jackson lucky. Their journalism has that throwing darts at pictures quality of accuracy. Still, Kilmer looks bad at the mo. I was only going to mention Perkins (someone from the hospital leaked his medical results to them before he even knew about them) but remember the Jackson one, though as you mention, it was more a case of broken clock being right.

Have they got any of these right, bar Anthony Perkins and Michael Jackson?

Mainly how utterly ridiculous some uk constituency names are!? As well as how thoroughly obnoxious some MPs are and a interesting conspiracy about the mysterious death of a former SNP MP. Ah, someone picked Tredinnick? I support that kind of forward thinking.

In a twist ending, I'll predict that I actually died three years ago, probably in shock at Clive Dunn dying.

Patrick Macnee will not die, only people who aren't Patrick Macnee.

Dusty Rhodes is this years big wrestling death. What a day.

That, and the fact the BBC don't have it yet (and even Sky delayed announcing it) is a bit suspicious. I don't mean its a hoax, its not, but in the breaking of the news. EDIT - BBC reported it as I was typing, the old sod's law of the Deathlist forum!

Well, Patrick Jenkin seemed fairly chipper at Christmas when speaking about his retirement, but is 89. The one to watch is Jim Prior, who always looked a bit out of sorts, and has been on near permanent leave of absence from the Lords since 2010. That, and Norman Tebbit is probably determined to outlive every last one of the Wets!

You evil person , he's one of my favourite actor and I thought he was dead for a second there.

Moments like that suggest that if there is a God, it has a wicked sense of schadenfreude.

Well, you never know, the DDP is meant to have had a fair few famous names play in it over the years. One of whom, I seem to recall, who found his own name in the game, and then submitted a team for the next year! All anonymous of course, and TMIB is far too gentlemanly to let us know Spade actually is Dave Quantick.