Bibliogryphon

Newman is a possibility.

Hewlett got a whole Media show special yesterday. It was very good but that might mean they leave him out. Probably won't get to listen as picking my daughter up late.

Honor Blackman

Peter Gabriel is on the record saying he always used to try to lip read the fans in the front row to remember the words. That was in his twenties.

Fernando Ricksen

Baron Dixon was better known in these parts as Over-The-Wall Dixon because he had a wonderful knack of clocking into the shipyard and then proceeding to climb over the wall around the back and never be seen again until he needed to clock out. Sounds like perfect preparation for the House of Lords.

I had Joost!

Going to meet his maker? Oh wait...

DBAD

1920 Fanny Waterman/Michael Anderson 1921 Jane Freeman/Jean I of Luxembourg 1922 Jean Barker/Rex Richards 1923 Dina Merill/ Franco Zeffarelli 1924 Rosamunde Pilcher/Clive King 1925 Ysanne Churchman/Richard Baker 1926 Cicely Berry/Leonard Fenton 1927 Babs Chinnery/Frank Windsor 1928 Kate Wilhelm/Peter Firmin 1929 Patricia Routledge/David Fisher

At the BBC now http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39007462

Unique DDP pick for me.

Dick Bruna for me. Daily Mirror has it is being reported by Daily Mirror. I hope no-one is too Miffed.

Dick Bruna for my theme team.

Charles Collingwood sounding healthy on the Today programme this morning and Terry Molloy liked one of my tweets the other week. I think we should be looking at the top of the list.

Damn I missed that draw. Rad or SotD. Doesn't look like I will be troubling Round 3.

That is in addition to my main game list which contains nearly 500 names.

I did this last year and have done it again. I have cross referenced my 1000 name long list against the DDP picks for the last 4 years and here is a list of the top 20 oldest people who have not been selected on the DDP in the past 4 years. Those with a * were on the top 20 last year. 1. Peter Brook - Theatre director b.1925* 2. William McPherson - Judge b.1926* 3. Margaret Stuart-Barry - Writer b.1927* 4. Babs Chinnery Beverly Sister b. 1927* 5. Teddie Chinnery Beverly Sister b.1927* 6. Jeanette Charles Actress b.1927* 7. Kate Wilhelm Writer b.1928* 8. Nicolas Roeg Director b.1928* 9. C W McCall Singer b.1928 10. John Barton. Theatre Director b.1928* 11. Tony Soper. Naturalist b.1929* 12. Lynne Reid-Banks Writer b.1929* 13. Jack Higgins Writer b.1929 14. Derek Walcott Poet b.1930 15. Les Vandyke Songwriter b.1931 16. Mona Hammond Actress b.1931 17. Clive Cussler Writer b.1931 18. Brian Trueman Presenter b.1932 19. Antonia Fraser Writer b.1932 20. Jean Boht.Actress b.1932 To be fair none died in my top list last year.

My dad watches this on one of his channels every day at 7 pm. Even I wouldn't want to make a list based on this show. I'll expect one next week then.

I was at least expecting a list of surviving cast members or murderers, like someone did for Columbo.

I didn't realise she was dead.

I think there is capacity in the list to get to 15. Let us speculate how far we can go once the record is in the rear view mirror.

Stage name? Simon Honey but will be well covered (for once) because of his offspring Tyger Drew-Honey.

I am not a fan of ffbi picks but defining famous can be hard. As an example only I am going to talk about Doctor Who. The lead actors and in more recent years the Showrunners are proper famous and would good to grace the DL proper but if you look at the list of people picked in Scavenger Hunt Bingo there are people even I had to look up. Will the population in general know who David Gooderson or Damaris Hayman are? However they will receive a modicum of publicity on death thanks to the dedication of some die-hard obsessive (Toby Hadoke).

Raymond Briggs receives Lifetime Achievment award from the Books Trust. Looks terrible unlike my DDP pick, the much older Shirley Hughes who seems positively beaming