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He was also present at the grand finale of the Stephen Colbert show (along with future Death List canddiate Willie Nelson). That's why I didn't pick him. http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/style/2014/12/19/colbert-exits-with-singalong-and-sleigh-ride/wlYCftwhQIrpfA5hriu0NO/story.html

Co-Founder of Krispy Kreme Donuts, Lewis Rudolph, is dead at 95: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30641026

Alright, 25 for 2015. I guess, since regional or national obituaries count, I can use all my german candidates here: 1. Egon Bahr (politician in the 60s/70s) 2. Johanna Quandt (matriarch of BMW) 3. Anneliese Uhlig (actress) 4. Horst Eckel (last (?) living football world champion of 1954) 5. Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (stalward of the dying german liberal party) 6. Elke Sommer (actress) 7. Wolfgang "Wölli" Rohde (drummer of the punk band Die Toten Hosen) [wildcard] 8. Heinrich Windelen (another ancient politician) 9. Guido Westerwelle (relatively young politician with cancer) 10. Ingeburg Herz (another rich german matriarch) 11. Michael Schumacher (racing driver) 12. Hans-Jochen Vogel (another german politician) 13. Benedikt XVI (former pope) and the non-germans: 14. Shimon Peres (Israeli president) 15. Sheldon Adelson (US casino magnate) 16. Donald Sterling (US sports team owner) 17. Scott Stapp (ex-frontman of Creed) 18. David Rockefeller (US business man) 19. David Prowse (Darth Vader) 20. Ian Holm (UK actor) 21. Harper Lee (US writer) 22. Olivia de Havilland (US actress) 23. Manoel de Oliveira (old director) 24. Alexej Nawalny (russian blogger/activist) 25. Jacques Delors (EU politician/economist) And the sub: Queen Elizabeth II

I was very close to choosing Putin critic Alexej Nawalny, but I decided that the gamble on Alexis Tsipras was enough. Edit: And I also forgot to include Jacques Delors...

Chillax man they're gonna do it, they are most likely just busy at work now! I would I would love to stick my spoon in her hot creamy drink too . Looks like this will end up being the last ever pic of The Latte Luise Rainer Even now, I still would.

My submissions: 1. Jin Youzhi (brother of the Last Emperor of China) 2. Irving Kahn (financial investor) 3. Ingrid Van Bergen (german actress) 4. Peter Vaughan 5. Phil Rudd (a drummer) 6. Prince Mikasa (Takahito) (uncle of currenct japanese emperor) 7. Robert Mugabe 8. Geordie Howe 9. Fidel Castro 10. Bernie Ecclestone Sub: Jerry Lewis

Let's see if I can do this right: 1. Abdelaziz Bouteflika (joker) 2. Ken Adam 3. Giorgio Napolitano 4. Ingvar Kamprad 5. Don King 6. Sir Nicholas Winton 7. Harry Leslie Smith 8. Barbara Walters 9. Zsazsa Gabor 10. Mary Wilson (PMs wife) 11. Robert Blake 12. Kirk Douglas 13. Imelda Marcos 14. Margot Honecker 15. Jorge Zorreguieta 16. Bruce Glover 17. Hans-Dietrich Genscher 18. Nuon Chea 19. Barbara Walters, duplicate, obviously I can't do this right. Replacement: Ilse Aichinger 20. Ornette Coleman

Oh no! Well, I hope she now gets some recognition. I think it came up in this thread that she really wasn't well-known in Germany. Oh well, and at least the Deathlist hits the double-digits.

Finally buried: http://www.tmz.com/2014/12/25/casey-kasem-grave-norway-buried/

I've read rumours that the cancellation of the show has brought back the old days for him, you know, hookers and blow. I have a feeling there is a sex accident or half-overdose/half-suicide coming.

Hip-Hop producer Larry Smith, dead at 63: http://pitchfork.com/news/57899-larry-smith-producer-for-run-dmc-and-kurtis-blow-has-died/ He produced albums for Run DMC and Kurtis Blow.

I just noticed that he's in the new 'Night at the museum' movie... But I don't know whether it's a big part, doesn't seem so...

I wonder if he is determined to see his son's presidential campaign in 2016...

Really quite shocking. He is apparently going to appear on a big TV show soon (the Helene Fischer show for anyone who cares), he was active until the last day. But of course, heart failure is just like that. He was one of the few 'classic' german-speaking pop stars I liked. Certainly the biggest death in the german-speaking part of the world this year.

Fitness guru Richard Simmons has been missing for almost a year now. Of course, he might already be dead, or he might be sick, overweight or whatever: http://www.tmz.com/2...ouse-depressed/

Castro has outlived the Cuban embargo! http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/17/politics/cuba-alan-gross-deal/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Now he can die in peace.

Hmm, it could threaten czar Vladimir. Edit: Eh, delete the post above...

So I saw 'Behind the Candelabra' yesterday, you know, the movie about Liberace with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, and Scott Thorson, the driver/boyfriend, is a good suggestion, drug addict, chronically broke, has hepatitis c and cancer, has legal problems, now in prison...

Probably Helmut Schmidt, then Stephen Hawking.

Longest-serving Congress member in US history, John Dingell, in hospital as a precuationary measure: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/john-dingell-hospitalized-precaution

Wow, that's the longest marriage by a five-year margin.

Fox News correspondent Dominic Di-Natale, 43 years old, dies of apparent suicide: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fox-news-correspondent-domenic-di-natale-dies

Castro wins Chinese peace prize: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/11/fidel-castro-wins-confucious-peace-prize Terrible picture included.

An article on the Bond girls: http://www.businessi...and-now-2014-12 In fact, the main Bond girls (the ones Bond ends up with during the closing credits), are all still alive. The oldest one is Honor Blackman (Pussy Galor from Goldfinger) at 89. Ursula Andress (78) from Dr. No looks a little scary. Among the 'lesser' girls in the movies, there is Eunice Gayson (86), who has been in retirement for 40+ years.

Haha, she says she has been absent from music because of her health, yet her spokesman doesn't say what it is. About two months ago, I read that she has marital problems because her career has tanked and her husband (Chad Kroeger of Nickelback) doesn't support her. My guess is that she has been 'absent' because nobody noticed her when she was there.