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Emile Zinsou, now 96, was hospitalised in June and the outlook doesn't look particularly promising... (article is in French) This could be a unique pick for my theme team (also the first of the year, bummer.

Robert Z'dar, B-movie legend and maybe the weirdest face to ever be caught on film died in Pensacola aged 64: http://www.pnj.com/story/entertainment/events/pensacon/2015/03/31/cult-actor-robert-zdar-dies-pensacola/70745990/

I'm not saying he's having a date with Death next year, but I'm sure he and Death are at least good pals. Michel Houellebecq, 2008: Michel Houellebecq, late 2014

I left out some of my classic argentinian picks like Carlos Menem and Hebe de Bonafini. Others that were shortlisted but I left out include: Malcolm Young Seijun Suzuki Monica Vitti Paul Gascoigne Benedict XVI Abdulla the Butcher Jake "The Snake" Roberts Leonard Nimoy Mary Tyler Moore Olivia de Havilland Octavio Lepage Noun Chea Helen Fawkes Kate Granger Glen Campbell Liz Dawn Alcides Ghiggia Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

You make it sound so easy! The thing with the other three candidates you mention is that they all have a chance while there's no way Simon is going to make it to 2016. Ford's chemo is reportedly working, we hadn't had any real news of Aherne for some time now which could mean anything and Berkowitz, well, he looks more promising.

Daisy Berkowitz back on chemo and cancelling shows. He said back in october that he was doing fine and the cancer was under control so something went clearly down south since then. https://www.facebook...875887759102572

The situation hasn't got much better for Malcolm. The band officially announced he won't be returning due to his condition: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29345368 One to keep an eye on for 2015?

I almost put him on my list this year and the previous year but I finally didn't because I knew nothing about his health. Should had went with my hunch.

I had Beecher in my shortlist for this year and i left him out I don't even know why. Fuck.

Well, he seems to be taking this whole hospitalization deal pretty good http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2555476/Wojciech-Jaruzelski-Ex-dictator-90-sex-nurse-Polish-general-threatened-divorce-caught-compromising-position-wife.html

When did Motley Crew become a company? Around the time they became an itinerant 80s nostalgia theme park.

My first hit of the year. I see in the DDP list of teams that it was only included in my team and in David Quantick's Showbiz Pals.

I still can't believe I didn't make Chávez my joker in the DDP.

English singer-songwriter Kevin Ayers, of Soft Machine fame, died in France a few days ago. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21517041

What the hell do you have to do to get expelled from school in a country run by your father?

His shows are really really huge in all Latin America so I guess he'd get an obit.

Hugo

I dropped Havelange, Gunter Grass, Kony, Muhammad Ali and Masao Yoshida. I can't believe I didn't pick Chavez as my joker.

Even though the Eritrean government denies it, there's rumors that president Isaias Aferwerki may step-down in 2013 and tahat his health is deteriorating. This comes months after he was rumoured dead after some time disappeared. http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article44809

He did finally get his uk obit http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10010725