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There was no other person I shifted more often from team to team than him. I think he's getting very frail and he's slowly retreating from public. I say, he definitely won't see 2018...but he's not a lock this year.

Gunther von Hagens. My partner just recently "donated" his body to their project. Von Hagens himself didn't sign the contract, in fact, his field (?) was left empty and only his assistant signed.

In October he said that some new drug gives him a 50% chance of living for another year, so apparently, the chance to see 2017 is lower than 50%. So it's a big miss, I can't understand the omission.

^^ Yeah, complicated question. I have no idea...

Damn! I just realized I put Susannah Mushatt Jones and Emma Morano in two of my teams, here and in Shaun's Pool. I'd like to replace them in this competition with my first two subs MN Sharma and Heinrich List. Is that ok? I have a weird fixation on not using any name twice.

Wow, Alan Moore, a war photograph who made pictures of Bergen-Belsen already died in Septemer, but I declined to post it because he didn't seem important enough. But now, more than 3 months later, a Telegraph obit appears: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12076325/Alan-Moore-war-artist-obituary.html A record?

They usually do it a couple of minutes before midnight GMT. So about 5 hours from now. There is a dateline issue here that the committee perhaps does need to think about .... in this particular .. the 'Martin Crowe question'. He is there in the 2015 list ... and will no doubt be in the 2016 list .... but if he goes west before midnight GMT and the lists publication he can't score in either '15 or '16. Death List is not simply a UK phenomenon .... it's global ..... and should reflect that. Publishing the list as the globe crosses into the New Year would maximise potential. Haha, interesting thought. An empty front page, all 50 places still void. Then Martin Crowe appears on, say, 7th place. Then an hour later, an Australian or a Japanese Person appears, and bit by bit all 50 places are filled. With the Americans however not appearing until 6 o'clock GMT or something like that.

Just in... a burning hotel in Dubai, in proximity to the Burj al-Arab. A strike at christmas tourists?

I think I made the first version of my 2016 DDP team around August or September or so, wait...I'm pretty sure, it was the beginning of August, because the first person on it to die was Buddy Baker. Let me see if I can think of all the others on my three prospective DDP teams who didn't make it: Oliver Sacks (who died really quick), Phyllis Tickle (blessing in disguise, no obit), Liz Monks (ditto), Brian Sewell, Henning Mankell, Mary Burrows (disappointed for losing a likely unique), Michael C. Gross, Flip Saunders (didn't take long from treatment not working, to being dead), Carey Lander (a joker), Holly Woodlawn, Adele Horin, John Trudell (replacement for Woodlawn who lasted 3 days on my team), Ken McHugh (cancer dad), Heather McManamy (cancer mum), Daniel Fleetwood (the Star Wars fan), Elizabeth Laird aka the "Hug Lady", Lorraine Marsh (cancer bride), Courtney Terry (another cancer mum) and maybe William McIllvaney who was a sub at one point. That's 20 people, hmm, enough for a team. Let's see, 10 of them were on my main team, 5 on my second main team, and 5 on my theme team.

Ok, here's my team: 1. Donald Ethell 2. Ian St. John 3. Piers Sellers 4. Joseph Kony 5. Andrew Smith (basketballer) 6. Rowena Kincaid 7. Bob "Blackjack" Mulligan 8. Susannah Mushatt Jones (Joker) 9. Peter Sallis 10. John Rigas 11. Cliff Michelmore 12. Big Ang (reality TV star) 13. Kim Kyong-Hui 14. Steve LaTourette (US rep) 15. Sally Anne Jones (UK jihadi) 16. Dick Dale 17. Glen Campbell 18. Christiane F. 19. Bunny Matthews 20. Jorge Zorreguieta 21. Don Newcombe 22. John Dingell Jr. 23. Bill Longmore (West Mercia police guy) 24. Prince Buster 25. Phil Leadbetter 26. Kate Granger 27. Jimmy Borges (no obit) 28. Rob Ford 29. Judy Martz 30. Raif Badawi 31. Tom Leppard (leopard man of skye) 32. Jimmy Greaves 33. TotalBiscuit 34. Robert "Bob" Dorr 35. DJ Casper 36. Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros 37. John Huntsman Sr. 38. Mighty Sparrow 39. John Noakes 40. Jenny Diski 41. Nanci Griffiths 42. Paul Gascoigne 43. Emma Morano 44. Sharon Jones 45. Marin Mazzie 46. Bobby "The Brain" Heenan 47. Willie Thorne 48. Pearl Washington 49. Randy Romero 50. Errol Christie Subs: Comical Ali, Lizzie Velasquez, Mary Tyler Moore Good luck everyone!

Marin Mazzie talks about her ovarian cancer: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/theater/marin-mazzie-on-cancer-and-songs-in-the-key-of-life.html?_r=0 There were complications, but for the moment, she feels "normal".

Ron Ford, "Prophet" of Parliament Funkadelic, is dead at 67: http://www.app.com/story/entertainment/2015/12/31/ron-ford-prophet-parliament-funkadelic-has-died/78120578/

And he isn't even Deathrace point-worthy, because he isn't "widely believed to be alive at January 1st". And according to the english Wikipedia-page, he died on the 30th.

Yeez, luckily he was only on my preliminary Shaun's Deadpool team which is the only team I haven't submitted yet. He was too risky obit-wise for me, let's see if that opinion turns out to be correct.

He will be interesting to watch. I think a nerd's diet does not go well with cancer, so I guess there's an outside chance he'll die this year already. He's also so visible on the web that one can watch his progress/decline.

Teams submitted (will be posted here soon), good luck everyone!

Ok, here's my list for a game starting at January 1st: 1 Hugh Hefner 2 Gudrun Burwitz 3 Vera Putina 4 Lewis Gilbert 5 Bob Barker 6 Efren Rios Montt 7 Egidius Braun 8 Harriet Frank Jr. 9 Mikis Theodorakis 10 Leslie Phillips 11 Shep Houghton 12 Diana Uribe 13 Lynne Stewart 14 Martin Foran 15 Roger Mayweather 16 Herman Wouk 17 Gudrun Ure 18 William (Bill) Frankland 19 Norman Tebbitt 20 Dick Churchill 21 Peter Sarstedt 22 I. M. Pei 23 Jeanne Little 24 Stylianos Pattakos 25 Blanche Marvin 26 Toots Thielemanns 27 Murray Walker 28 Michael Heseltine 29 Muhammad Ali 30 Jerry Stiller 31 Javier Perez De Cuellar 32 Maria Riva 33 Denis Norden 34 Lewis Feild 35 Jim Leavelle 36 Jimmie Nicol 37 Liz Smith (UK actress) 38 Claire Hollingworth 39 Sir Michael Howard 40 Patricia Robins 41 Seijun Suzuki 42 Roy Dotrice 43 Ray Lawler 44 Little Richard 45 Birch Bayh 46 Bobby Doerr 47 Lassie Lou Ahern 48 Alan Young 49 Lee Teng-Hui 50 Lord Carrington I have picked none of them ever before which, admittedly, is not hard to do in my second year of deadpooling. Ah, and that also implies that none of these people are on my yet unposted DDP and Shaun's Deadpool teams.

Not only that but..... Much more importantly, surely a key rule is being forgotten here. I thought this pool was supposed to be free of famous-for-being-ills. Or at least the young ones anyway. That's a reason why I entered. She was 28 or 29 when she died and was described as a "young mum" I think that's tender enough? If anything he should lose points. Hm, indeed I thought that this one and the Deathrace prohibited cancer fame types. At least Captain Chorizo would have won without her anyway.

My team: 1. Pat Harrington Jr. 2. Rose Marie 3. Hendrijke Fitz (german soap star) 4. Joao Havelange 5. Atal Bihari Vajpayee 6. Adam Busby 7. Lloyd Shapley 8. Jean Pierre Coffe (french TV personality) 9. Kirk Douglas 10. Howard Marks Subs: Nancy Reagan, Zsa Zsa Gabor Good luck everyone!

My team: 1. Michael Karkoc 2. Tariq Ba Odah 3. Tony Adamowicz too late! 4. Anker Jorgensen too late! 5. Rose Pak (San Francisco veteran politician) too late! 6. Alice Barker too late! 7. Michael Forgey (video game producer) too late! 8. John Jay Hooker Jr. (24th of January 2016) 9. Daniel Buechlein (US archbishop) 10. Geoffrey Bayldon 11. Helmut Kohl 12. Helen Kelly too late! 13. Alfred "Al" Mann (US businessman) too late! 14. Richard Overton (oldest US veteran) 15. A B Bardhan (indian politician) (2nd of January 2016) 16. Suzanne Wright (of Autism Speaks) 17. Huston Smith - Joker 18. Russell Dunkeld (UK veteran who waited very long to get a medal) 19. Ilse Aichinger 20. Ken Hechler Subs: 1. Denzel Nkemdiche 2. Emile Derlin Zinsou 3. David Mwiraria Good luck everyone!

My team: 1. Billy Graham - Wildcard/joker 2. Tom Sinkovitz (US weatherman) 3. Renée Simonot 4. Karam Chand 5. Joachim Kaiser (german academic/intellectual/journalist) 6. Wolfgang Schnur (former East German politican/STASI member, shortly a mentor of Angela Merkel) (16 pts) 7. Jürgen Schneider (former german construction tycoon, now disgraced) 8. Zhou Youguang 9. Fernando Soto Aparicio (columbian writer) (123 pts) 10. Jay Kallio (transgender activist) 11. Roger Willemsen (german intellectual/critic) (38 pts) 12. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (47 pts) 13. Yasutaro Koide (19 pts) 14. MN Sharma 15. Heinrich List 16. Ron Anderson (American singer) 17. Barys Kit 18. Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (german politician) 19. Jakucho Setouchi 20. Ray Blacklock (forgotten Australian Rugby star) 21. Walter Scheel 22. Tankred Dorst (german playwright) 23. David Rockefeller 24. Bill Del Monte (San Francisco earthquake survivor) (11 pts) 25. Lupita Tovar Replacements: 1. MN Sharma (indian arcitect) 2. Heinrich List (german bureaucrat) 3. Joe Jackson Good luck everyone!

I missed it back then, but a week ago, Kohl left home for a trip the first time after his health crisis.: http://www.bild.de/politik/inland/helmut-kohl/besucht-dom-43873634.bild.html(german link) The photo is ...inconclusive: (the hands don't look too well, I guess?)

Charaffe al-Mouadan, ISIS fighter with direct link to the Paris attacks mastermind, dead at 27: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/29/isis-jihadi-linked-to-paris-terror-attacks-killed-by-us-led-airstrikes-pentagon

Hm, could be a wasted pick as the 20 members of your team have to be "alive as at 1st January 2016". I guess he's either dead now or on the run or something like that. I think the Deathrace has the rule that the celebrity needs to be "generally believed to be alive", though I guess that Strickland wouldn't fall under that definition either.

Nooooooooooooo! FFS, as if taking Lemmy wasn't enough The 2015 fire sale...