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A member of Kiss is said to be seriously ill. I don't know which member or what's supposed to be wrong with him, hopefully we'll be informed at some point soon.

A "very ill" Stephen Hawking has been taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge...

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. It took me a bloody long time to finish, eleven years to be precise, but I got there in the end .

Former President of Bangledesh Hussain Muhammad Ershad is critically ill with "multiple ailments".

Former International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch is in "very serious condition'' at a hospital in Barcelona. He is suffering from "acute coronary insufficiency", which doesn't sound too good.

When was he said to have died? Recently I think, but I had him as a unique pick last year and decided to swap him for Hakimullah Mehsud, now both of them are (probably) dead and I haven't got any points. I picked a team of 20 for the DDP in good faith, 5 of them are dead and only 2 have got me points, that's why I reckon I'm having a torrid time of it... Not that I'm that worried about it, because I beat you all once Thanks for the counselling Banshees, your therapist has obviously taught you well. You're wrong about the tantrum, though. I am at peace and everything is beautiful.

Abu Hamza al-Muhajir is believed to have replaced the late and very dead Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as the new leader of Al- Qaeda in Iraq. If recent news reports are to be believed, he's hit the ground running and personally executed two American soldiers, throwing in a spot of torture before dispatch. It strikes me that he's chosen rather a dangerous career path. No doubt American forces will hound him for the rest of his days. If he's still undead at the close of 2006, I would wager he won't see the sun come up on 2008.

Dead. I'll spare you all my DDP sob story, but suffice to say I'm having a torrid time of it this year.

Speculation grows that Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak may be seriously ill. He'd be a good candidate for the 2011 DL, if he should make it that far.

Carl Gardner, lead singer and founder of American vocal group The Coasters, has Alzheimer's disease.

Luci Baines Johnson, 62, the youngest daughter of former American President Lyndon Johnson and former Deathlist favourite Lady Bird Johnson, has been airlifted to hospital after suffering "extreme weakness".

His liver seems to be taking rather a long time to give up the ghost. He's still active enough to have just broken his shoulder.

Edward Woodward was never knighted, but Sir Edward Woodward was and he's just died as well.

Front page of the latest issue of the National Enquirer. From a DL point of view, great 3 for 1 value, with info (or possibly just unfounded gossip) on Pamela Anderson and Whitney Houston as well.

First of all, she never had this lastname and is commonly known as Svetlana Alliluyeva or Lana Peters. In recent decades she was rarely in focus of media and in 2008 there were some unproven reports that she died. Although she has been living a hard life she will turn just 84 in 2010 and she's unlikely to die as no reports of her terminal diseases or sort of it were revealed. So I find this nomination is short of arguments. Svetlana Alliluyeva has been in the press recently, as a reporter tracked her down living in Wisconsin. However, she vanished again after she was located and hasn't been seen for three years. She also spent some time in the UK, living in Bristol and Cambridge.

Schapelle Corby is to apply for clemency on account of having gone as mad as a box of maced ferrets. She sounds like a perfect match for one of Deathlist's finest.

I thought you were taking the moral high ground until I checked out your team....

^ I can't help getting the impression that you're enjoying our suffering, Windsor! Anyway, moving on, I thought I'd nip in and beat our contingent of members from Holland (and Vinegar Tits) to announce that Dutch singer Teddy Scholten who won the 1959 Eurovision song contest, has died aged 83.

*Clutches at straws* The Daily Star - renowned for their accuracy and fine journalistic research - believed Raymond Hewlett to be still alive on January 28th.

American communist Morton Sobell, convicted of espionage charges in 1951, is 93 today. He was tried alongside Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were both executed for their crimes.

Dead. Well done to the teams who picked him on the DDP. Cutting it a bit fine to the wire. Is there an actual date of death yet? Wikipedia seems to think that it happened in December 2009. Take what you will from that. Oh dear. I would have thought it would have made the headlines sooner... I'm not sure how Wiki can conclude he died in 2009 when all they can provide as evidence of this is a link to an article which says he died four months ago. Edit - Actually, after sleeping on it, he probably did die in 2009. Bastard.

Cutting it a bit fine to the wire. Is there an actual date of death yet? I don't think there ever will be, to be honest. An unmarked grave, no family members, no press. I think - but only think - he would qualify for points as there was no evidence he was already dead when teams submitted their entries, but that's for TMIB to call, not me any more. He's certainly got a lot of deaths on his plate right now, but I'm better he's glad no-one picked a Polish statesman theme team on the DDP.... It's a difficult one. I'm stuck with a team of ninteen because Paul Vincenzi managed to cark it without telling anyone right at the end of December, but no online obituary appeared until 2010. Hopefully TMIB will give us the benefit of the doubt.