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Nah, Havelange is a nailed on BBC obit. Major figure in Olympic Games and FIFA.

My only unique was Chris Moncrieff. Amusingly, I appear to have shared many picks with the Octopus and Cooley this time out, purely by picking ill folk. (Not by design either, though I guess there's somewhat of a shared resource!) So either I improve drastically on 2013, or my luck for keeping people alive on these things nobbles a bunch of the heavyweights.

Don't worry - I'm sure the tortoise did ok last time I heard this story.

Run Run Shaw has died, which mean I've extremely uncharacteristically scored some points in this game.

Of the fifty, only Shaw Taylor and Ed Asner were names I didn't know. Taylor was a character well before my time, but Asner was certainly a 'knew the voice if not the name' actor. I like the quasi-educational remit of Deathlist though. Sometimes it brings monsters like Priebke to your attention, but there's many others I'd have completely missed out on through gaps in my knowledge if not for this site. (George Melly springs to mind from years ago.)

The interview is from 30 December 2012. Aye, though in fairness the BBC obit mentions an interview she did for them last month.

If actually 99, she didn't half knock a few years off her stage age - given how most thing had her DOB as 1922!

Both of her Oscar films. The Good Earth is slow and dated in every means. The Great Ziegfeld fair zips along though like all good melodrama, and she is quite good in it as the put upon wife.

By my estimations, folk dropped from 2013. 15 25 2 Hosni Mubarak 85 Former Egyptian President 245 posts 25 5 2 Harper Lee 87 Author 27 posts 26 2 Bob Dole 90 Politican 46 posts 34 2 Richard Attenborough 90 Film director 95 posts 36 Richard Adams 93 Watership Down author 9 posts 38 3 Nancy Reagan 92 Actress 169 posts 40 Doris Day 91 Actress 36 posts 42 23 4 General Jaruzelski 90 ex Polish PM 54 posts 43 36 3 Henry Kissinger 90 Diplomat 47 posts 44 Pete Seeger 94 Protest singer 20 posts 45 Nicholas Parsons 90 TV quiz show host 41 posts 46 Elaine Stritch 88 Actress 27 posts 48 2 James Garner 85 Jim Rockford 35 posts Most of which seems fairly sensible - minus the General.

(Checks PMs to remember team) 1. Brian Clemens 2. Kenan Evren 3. Ronald King Murray (old politico) 4. Mario Soares (Portugal president) 5. Peter Vaughan 6. Richard Baker (BBC chap) 7. Pat Lally 8. Liz Smith (actress) 9. Adolfo Suarez 10. Peter Robbins (actor) subs 11. Irving Kanarek 12. I.M. Pei

From the DDP team, at the last minute, I dropped Stuart Hall. I was going to go with him right until just before I hit send, and swapped him out for the other complete bastard Ian Watkins.

DDP 2014 Pan Breed Sam Simon (joker), Sally Farmiloe, Wilko Johnson, Casey Kasem, Valerie Harper, George Cole, G Garcia Marquez, Pat Rice, Jimmy Hill, Liz Dawn, Asa Briggs, Joost vd Westhuizen, Chris Woodhead, Chris Moncrieff, Tony Benn, Ryan Buell, Ian Watkins, Helen Fawkes, Albert Reynolds, Joe McGinniss The defence of that pivotal 188th place starts here.

All of the numbers are the same from last year. I was hoping we'd get an appearance from "72" this year, as I suggested in the Ideas thread, but it seems the committee have gone for the numbers one to fifty yet again.

Avoided posting in this and the opposite thread (till now) because I have a habit of mistaking opposites, and knowing me I'd have said "the three Nazis come to mind" in this one by accident. So I'll say most of the writers. Been a bit of a crap year for lit.

A wrestler, likely to get an obit, who is ill? Colour me intrigued.

Clearly read too many of your posts in the last however many years. When I saw the headline on the BBC, my first thoughts were "Oh is that Lianne Smith?"

No Schumacher for me either, though I did enter my team in on the 20th.

Could be a possibility if its spread to the bones from somewhere else. But if its primary bone cancer ,leukemia or lymphoma and hasn't spread from elsewhere then I think it would take him over a year to die. Then again there might be nothing wrong with him lol . It strikes me as an all or nothing punt - if its bone cancer, he's fecked. If he's OK, he's ok and its a wasted pick. But like Sally Becker, it is curious to see which teams - and someone will - pick either on the off-chance its an inspired pick.

Will be interesting to see how many late entries take a punt on Brian May now.

I'm officially in now - thanks TMIB. Decided to be iconoclastic this year, and went for folk who were actually ill instead of random old people. I know, not really in the spirit.

Decided to drop Sandy Jardine, Judy Blume, Nicholas Edwards, Roy Mason, Danny Kirwan, Bob Dole, Ali, Michael Jopling, Mark Eden, Derek Martinus and Freddie Starr. Most of them either seem on the mend, better than expected or just likely to live into 2015. Of those, Martinus might be worth a punt for a dithering late DDP team, as he remains quite seriously ill and obit assured due to his TV work. (Now watch them all die in 2014 out of spite.)

*thread necromancy alert* I quite liked this game. It's a shame it never took off as a permanent fixture like the Deathrace.

92 points and 11 hits is still quite good going, Bert - last two years that'd have seen you comfortably 2nd. I mean, you could be in joint 188th place. Sobering to think Odstock's winning point tally from 2010 would have earned him 31st place this year. EDIT - I was sure I'd passed on congratulations to Spade before, but apparently not. He's quite good at the putting the names of folk who will die on a list thing. I only recently got the Quantick thing, having missed his "poncing about" in 2010.

Pan Breed did so badly in 2013, most of the current lot have been axed and a less esoteric policy undertaken. Only one survived into the 2014 list in fact, iirc. One or two others did make into other pools like the Hartlepool Deadlypool or MPFC's Deathrace though.

Oh why not? 1.Sandy Gall 2 Alcides Ghiggia 3 Clifford Irving 4 Former Grand Duke Jean 5 Harry Gregg 6 Fats Domino 7 Bill Kerr 8 Patrick MacNee 9 Chuck Yeager 10 Ron Suart 11 Peter Maxwell Davies 12 Joao Havelange 13 Javier perez de Cuellar 14 Peter Dimmock 15 Gundrun Ure 16 Cliff Mitchelmore 17 John Nott 18 Herman Wouk 19 John Freeman 20 Mary Wilson 21 Tommy Docherty 22 Sir Paul Fox 23 Geoffrey Howe 24 Liam Cosgrave 25 Nigel Lawson