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This poll is missing Hosni Mubarak.

Death is a Lonely Business A Graveyard for Lunatics Surely a worthy obit titlle can be made from those. RIP anyway, I used Farenheit 451 as the subject of my Junior AP Literature exam.

Sheryl Crow has a benign brain tumour.

US officials have apparently confirmed al-Libi is dead. A unique hit for Clathrate Gun.

Abu Yahya al-Libi, Al-Queda's most recent in a long line of second-in-commands, may be dead after a recent drone strike.

Dead. And a Daily Mail obit means 2 teams on the DDP get points. RIP to her.

Turns out Loretta Lynn, country singer and minor DDP popular pick, was actually born in 1932, not 1935. Meaning she's worth one less DDP point if she goes.

I think it's high time we update that list: Physics: when will they quark it? Charles Townes, 96. Nicolaas Bloembergen, 92 Jack Steinberger, 91. Yoichiro Nambu, 91. Chen Ning Yang, 89. Leon Lederman, 89. Hans Dehmelt, 89 Val Logsdon Fitch, 89 Philip Warren Anderson, 88 Anthony Hewish, 88 Roy J. Glauber, 86 Masatoshi Koshiba, 86 Ben Roy Mottelson, 85 Tsung-Dao Lee, 85 Charles K. Kao, 78* * = Not old, but has suffered from Alzheimer's Disease since 2004 Chemistry: soon to be inert? John Cornforth, 94. Frederick Sanger, 93. Jerome Karle, 93. Paul Boyer, 93. Jens Skou, 93. Walter Kohn, 89 Torsten Wiesel, 87 Rudolph A. Marcus, 88. David H. Hubel, 86 Irwin Rose, 85 George Olah, 85 Literature: the final chapter? Doris Lessing, 92 Nadine Gordimer, 88 Dario Fo, 86. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 85 Peace: RIP? (hell, this stuff writes itself) Nelson Mandela, 94. Henry Kissinger, 89 Shimon Peres, 88. Jimmy Carter, 87. Medicine: Nurse, the screens!! Christian de Duve, 94. Edmond Fischer, 92. Francois Jacob, 91. Arvid Carlsson, 89. Paul Greengard, 86. Oliver Smithies, 86. Sydney Brenner, 85 Andrew Schally, 85 Economics: cashing their final cheque? Ronald Coase, 101. (oldest living laureate ) Douglass North, 91 Thomas Schelling, 91 Lawrence Klein, 91. Ken Arrow, 91 Robert Solow, 87 Vernon L. Smith, 85 Robert Fogel, 85

Croke clubs? New one on me... Reading that old news report is a walk down memory lane. "And if you hear the news Whitney Houston has died, you can be sure they'll be at least one person raising a glass for all the wrong reasons." Try 16.

I think I calculated this right: Bert Trautmann – 0 CaptainChorizo – 0 Esturian Float – 0 Garn2 – 0 our Sydney – 0 Rotten Ali – 0 Spade_Cooley – 0 Toast – 0 Maryportfuncity – 1 (Gibb) angryGreatness – 5 (Gibb) msc – 8 (Al-Megrahi) sympathyforthedevil – 9 (Stynes) Tick Tock – 18 (Gibb) The Unknown Man – 40 (Stynes, Al-Megrahi, Gibb)

Do you have anything to add Robin? No. No I don't.

What'd you reckon his chances of an obituary are? Pretty low, even in an American dead pool. Only Supreme Court judges get obits, and Reichbach would probably only get an obituary in local New York papers.

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Princess Sattareh Farmanfarmaian of Persia has died aged 91. A unique hit for theme team Her Dead Highness, but so far not a single obituary in English let alone a major newspaper.

"He's dead, Jim." By the way, this is off-topic but there is a minor scandal brewing in the Star Trek camp because of the casting in the new film (currently in post-production). The film marks the return of Kirk's arch-nemesis, Khan Singh, who is meant to be an Indian/Asiatic genetically engineered superhuman. However, they have cast the very, very white English actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the role, so they are facing accusations of racism (so far confined to the web)... Examples: http://zoedangerawes...casting-as-khan http://www.thestuden...d.php?t=1987270 LOL - so Hollywood is less progressive now then it was in the 1960s. I wonder if they will just leave him white or try to tint his skin somehow with CGI? The latter has strong echoes of the old blackface minstrel shows, so they are damned either way. It will be interesting to see the reaction when this reaches the mainstream media. I don't think Ricardo Montalban was Asian or Indian either, so you can't argue a lack of progress here

You've all read the reports. Our number 2 and 3 picks for the 2012 Deathlist are circling the drain and are in all likelihood mere hours from death and unless one of the 90+ picks decides to give up the ghost in the next few ours it's looking like they will be the 3rd and 4th hits. Question is: Who will kick the bucket first? Will it be Gibb, whose multiple cancers and pneumonia have put him in a coma? Or will it be Megrahi, "breathing his last breath" and rapidly deteriorating?

I can never find those pesky AP/Guardian obits. I search in the Guardian and there's nothing there. What's the secret? I literally just searched "Peter Breck the guardian". I thought it was weird he didn't get a obit.

http://www.guardian....rticle/10087729 Obit for Peter Breck, courtesy of the Guardian. Also; here's a picture of Ronald Washington to use, if you can.

Seems to think he'll make it to 100. Given some of the things said in the interview, I believe him.

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1vRGVMiZC That article was published in 2002! You're off by a decade.

I've reached the dizzy heights of 13th place shared. Now begins the descent... Same here friend.

1987: Dunn, de Cesaris, Wing, Osbourne (4/31) 1989: Bruno, Mandela, Ditka, Paisley, Kendall, Osbourne, Wilson, Dunn, Jenkins, Cole (10/32) 1990: Dunn, Noriega, Aznavour, Alliss, Ditka, Rex Williams, Winfrey, Waite, Queen (9/42) 1991: Willis, Moore, Mandela, Dunn, Gabor, Beenhaaker (6/40) 1992: Finney, Ryder (2/37) 1993: Dunn, Bennett, I Paisley, Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, Moore, Lineker, Sykes, Lewis (9/56) 1994: Castro, Kirkbride, White, Shamir, Dunn, Thorpe, Shilton, Johnson (7/50) 1995: Castro, Moore, Forsyth, Connery, Johnson (5/50) 1996: Hagman, Mr T, Thorpe, Domino, Castro (5/50) 1997: Rooney, Domino, Douglas, Dunn (4/50) 1998: Rooney, Jaruzelski, Sykes (3/50) 1999: Leeson, Simon (2/50) 2000: Farrakan, Dunn, Jaruzelski, Biggs, (4/50) 2001: Tutu, Minelli, Pincher, Wallach, Wouk, Rooney (6/50) 2002: Biggs, Brady, Douglas, Kendall, Niemeyer (5/50) 2003: Biggs, Shamir, Rooney, Gabor, Sykes,(5/50) 2004: Biggs, Brady, Shamir, Musharraf, Wallach, Mintoff, Douglas, Michelmore, Rooney, Mugabe, Dunn (11/50) 2005: Biggs, Moore, Niemayer, Maradona, LaMotta, Martin, Wallach, de Havilland, O'Sullevan, Castro, Lewis (12/50) 2006: di Stefano, Biggs, Niemayer, Moore,Wallach, Douglas, Mintoff, Lynn, Bouteflika, Graham, Thatcher, Ali, LaMotta, Rooney, Mandela, Dunn (16/50) 2007: Castro, Sharon, Niemeyer, Bourgnine, Graham, Biggs, Senator Johnston, Piper, Wallach, Shamir, Mintoff, Douglas, de Havilland,Lom, Lynn, Lamotta, Molinaro, Vigoda, Moore, Vidal, Lewis, Farrakhan, Dunn. (23/50) 2008: Biggs, Niemeyer, Castro, Pincher, Wallach, Shamir, Douglas, Domino, Lom, Gabor, Lynn, Sharon, Graham, Watson, Lamotta, Karzai, Klugman, Sykes, Moore, Taylor, Dunn (21/50) 2009: Biggs, Niemeyer, Havelange, Pincher, Wallach, Castro, Shamir, Douglas, Lom, Graham, Mandela, Shankar, Lamotta, Rooney, Reagan, Lee, Klugman, Cardin, Moore, King, Thatcher, Dunn, Sharon. (23/50) 2010:, Biggs, Wing, Gabor, Niemeyer, Pincher, Wallach, Castro, K.Douglas, Shamir, Wouk, de Havilland, Priebke, Mintoff, Lom, Healey, Tork, Edrich, Graham, Mandela, Bradbury, Bough, O’Sullevan, Thatcher, Molinaro, Lamotta, Thornton, Klugman, Norden, Sykes, R. Attenborough, King, Lansbury, Lewis, Domino, Garner, Sharon, Dunn. (37/50) 2011: Biggs, Gabor, Niemeyer, K. Douglas, Shamir, De Havilland, Healey, Edrich, Bradbury, Thatcher, Hughes, LaMotta, Thorton, Khamenei, Klugman, Lewis, Franklin, Godfrey, Dole, Cheney, Wing, Pincher, Wallach, Ellison, Mandela, Shankar, Tarmey, Schmidt, Martin, Mintoff, Molinaro, Brady, Priebke, Lom, Andrews, Sharon, Cardin, Lynn, Borgnine, M. Douglas, Reagan, Frederiksen, Dunn (43/50)

Two tiny things to fix: 1) A while back I complained that my theme team featured the killer of Jam Master Jay, not the baseball player Ronald Washington. You fixed that, but now the picture is of the wrong Ronald Washington. 2) The most recent update says Gibb is worth 6 pts. (12 for jokers). Gibb should be worth the same amount as al-Megrahi, as he was 62 not 82. As far as I can tell the scores are all right though, so it's only on the front page that's wrong. Glad to see I'm now in the Top 20 .

Also, while I recognize the obviousness of a Staying Alive pun, I think "Gibbing up the Ghost" or "Robin the Grave" would be much more original.

I'd argue Whitney Houston or Davy Jones are bigger deaths. Dick Clark was also pretty big, but not in the UK I believe.