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Ian Richardson died of heart failure a week after an all clear health check on his heart (for insurance purposes prior to filming) - they need to get him into it somehow.

Same to both, though I'd thought she just needed a break!

Joey Styles called it a year and a half previously, during the One Night Stand PPV when he said "Mike Awesome with the suicide dive there. It's a pity he didn't succeed in taking his own life!" Arsehole that Styles is.

The comedy career is going well, MPFC. To answer in the vein, a UKIP/Tory coalition would probably bring the UK out of the EU long term, and therefore crashing the economy. So no money, lots of death from starving and the cold and the like, at a guess.

1. WIlko Johnson 2. Paul Gascoigne 3. Sam Simon 4. Michael Schumacher 5. George Bush Sr 6. Ian Brady 7. Chuck Berry 8. Benedict the ex-Pope 9. Glen Campbell 10. Doris Day 11. Clive James 12. Stephen Hawking 13. Christopher Lee 14. Robert Mugabe 15. Prince Philip 16. Bruce Forsyth 17. Kirk Douglas 18. Jimmy Carter 19. Fidel Castro 20. Vera Lynn 21. Denis Healey 22. Olivia de Havilland 23. Zsa Zsa Gabor 24. Mary Tyler Moore 25. Rob Ford

Well done TMIB - great work as always! I note Caroline Aherne is the highest new (well, not from last year) entry into the Drop Forty. Only one unique for the Pan Breed team, but I think the uniques are not as big a deal for the also runs as opposed to actually going for folk who might die. So less Michael Joplings and more Martin Crowes.

All good here, got it on the 2nd. Thanks.

Isabel Rosado died on the 13th, as per this brief mention in the New York Daily.

They aren't really holding tight, thats two of the five gone by the age of 70 now.

The early flurry does usually signify a winner by early March though, instead of... 2019. So on the right tracks.

Former ECW star Jason has advanced throat cancer. Then again, it could be a Billy Graham gambit.

Should be a proper obit online by morning, but Brian Clemens (The Avengers creator) has died, according to multiple reliable Twitters. EDIT - BBC obit.

Loved him in 'The Big Job'... The Weekend Murders, if you can find it, is much recommended. Italian Agatha Christie spoof in the vein of an Argento horror. Percival is the detective in it.

Spade Cooley your an annoying twat who can't read. The issue isn't 'what is celebrity, numbnuts, it's 'is the person a celebrity solely for the reason they'll soon die'. I used the infamous Sam Burns kid dying of old age at 17....he's same as Lauren Hill. She a nobody without brain cancer. Thanks for your disposition on rules that need amending you've never read. Sir Creep Another "SC" another obnoxious twat but without the intelligence and wit. Cool. Er, I best edit this, I was thinking of another SC not you Spadey................ You know I was wondering if the SC might not be a coincidence. I was thinking that too Handy Star Crossed? Like the Candyman, you called his name and he suddenly reappeared!

Agreed, though I am wary of the alleged Lana Wood style bombshell which might be allegedly unleashed as soon as he carks it.

Hell yeah, which is surely the point. He's famous enough to count for the qualifying obit of every dead pool going - even RDP which presumes to have its own list of notable people and restrict the picks to them - recognises Al Molinaro. A bit like Mary Wilson (PM's widow) he's simply lasted so long that only people approaching middle age and beyond can remember him doing anything high profile. I did hear that Mary Wilson had a visit to the Parliament buildings last year, in which many old Lords and journalists claimed that even in her advanced 90s, she was still able to terrify people with a single glare!

Hopefully.

Oh, to bring it back into conspiracy, there is a decent chance a massive shitstorm will come soon over the lorry crash. But, it won't involve the driver.

I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person, but that's bollocks. For one thing, governments do not hush up terrorist attacks, they publicize them to the nth degree, to increase fear in the common person and make it easier for said government to bring in their various draconian laws. The cover up would rely on Glasgow City Council being competent, which is a dangerous rumour to put about, completely unfounded by any facts. Also, the lorry didn't travel in a straight line. I had family it just missed, it careered off from Goma in a zig zagging way, straight onto George Square before coming off and hitting Queen Street station. It narrowly missed the carousel wheel full of kids on George Square, actually. Then you have the fact that whilst the victims were taken to the Royal, the nearest A&E resource, the driver was taken to the Western, the best cardiac and stroke unit in Glasgow. I'd suggest a deliberate attack would have gone in a straight line right for that playarea I mentioned above, instead of all the attempts to swerve people and avoid catastrophe. Most likely (going on the available facts and, you know, people who were there at the scene), the chap at the wheel had something suddenly (a heart attack or a stroke, if he was seen slumped at Goma by folk there, but sitting up by Queen St, that'd fit in with a stroke more, but that's conjecture), the two in the cabin with him were panicked and lacked experience on dealing with one of those machines (being bin men as opposed to lorry driver) and the resulting thing happened. And they aren't naming him because if he lives, he's already got the guilt of (probably) accidentally causing such a disaster, the last thing he needs is the Daily Mail/EDL/random idiots looking for retribution too.

Both the Dunn and the Biggs things came organically though. The Dunn one was before my time, but reading on here over the years, the committee thought he was ancient back in 1987, and things sort of fell into place from there by accident. (As noted by their ability to drop him from the list several times in the 90s!) As for Biggs, he was described as an Ambassador when they liked to give joke descriptions for folk (see Ronald Reagan, idiot). When Biggs saw the site (after he'd been on it for a number of years), he decided to run with the idea of being the Deathlists actually ambassador, as opposed to ambassador for running off to foreign countries and giving the police laldie. So to arbitrarily go "Oh, so and so is the new ambassador/Deathlist favourite" misses the point. There will be such folk in the future, but we'll know them when they appear, rather than try to coronate someone.

Useless trivia I just noticed. In 2010, there was 5 survivors (not getting into the Any One Beatle argument) of the original deathlist. In 2011, Jimmy Savile died. In 2012, Clive Dunn died. In 2013, Anna Wing died In 2014, Andrea de Cesaris died. If that trend continued... 2015...Ozzy Osbourne? Should have spotted that a week ago and snuck him on the DDP.

Nobody.

Hail Caesar, though it wasn't a vintage year for them. (The best, all time, to abuse the parameters of the thread for a moment, remains the Patrick Swayze one for me.)

I see your error, you expected Bobby "alleged nicest and most charitable guy in pro-wrestling" Eaton, and got Bobby "biggest heel move in 80s NWA" Eaton.

Just from the title, I assumed this would be a thread about liver cancer and cirrhosis.