Canadian Paul

Well if there's a Star Trek version of that, then someone else is on the chopping block. First Pevney and now Emmy-award winning composer Alexander Courage.

Clive Hornby - Emmerdale actor who is currently on leave due to unspecified ill health. Still poorly according to this article. Peter Jackson - Not the filmmaker, but the footy boss. Currently receiving treatment for lung cancer. In pain but almost all clear. The list has been updated to today (May 28).

She's apparently beaten the cancer (this is her latest update, but the April one gave her a clean slate). Obviously a little biased, since it's coming from her herself, but looks positive anyhow.

The last surviving central powers WWI veteran, Franz Künstler, has died.

Returning to my guess of Levi Stubbs, since I don't have a strong feeling or prediction at the moment.

Site updated to reflect the death of Sydney Pollack - congrats to To Die For, who catches up to Football Fan in third place in the Ordinary Team category!

Television and film director Joseph Pevney has died. For those Star Trek: TOS fans out there, he directed the classic episodes "Amok Time," "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "The City on the Edge of Forever."

Chance well taken DL! This within the first 15 minutes means a UK obit is assured, not that there was much of a doubt.

Henry Allingham reaches symbolic 111 years, 11 months and 11 days. Seems to be doing okay, although certainly not as well as a year ago.

Charlie Booth, Aussie inventor of the starting block, has died at the age of 104.

No, sorry, since this thread is actually just the 2007 thread with a new title, which means that I've edited it mercilessly since then. The 2006 one, started by OoO, however, is somewhere still in its original form.

Finally updated: congrats to Football Fan and Never Came to Maryport. Haven't done this in a while, so please point it out if I made any mistakes in updating.

I've gotten rid of all the dead people (I think, it's been so damn long since I updated the list), so hopefully soon I can add all the names that have come across lately.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY NAP and OSP. You can both be sure that I celebrated your birthdays in style!

Here's my team: Vasily Aleksanyan Patty Andrews Lei Clijsters W. Mark Felt Joan Fontaine Mel Galley June Havoc Derryn Hinch Tyrone Jones (CFL player) Bernard Lewis Patricia Morison (actress b. 1915) Randy Pausch Sydney Pollack Sir Bobby Robson Ron Springs (NFL player) Tony Snow Patrick Swayze Eddie Thompson Charles H. Townes Erick Wujick My "any one" entry is "Any One Person Who Appeared In "Put Down The Duckie." Aleksanyan, Clijsters, Galley, Hinch, Pausch, Snow, Swayze, Thompson and Wujick were going to be 9 of my 10 WDP picks, with the late Colin Murdoch being the 10th.

UK obit for Willis Lamb.

Hey all - back from San Diego, but a little under the weather as I managed to get second-degree burns on both of my shoulders. In any case, I will update for the hits of Sendler and al-Sabah shortly, as well as the near misses of Hofmann and Lamb. I want to review all the messages that I've missed here first though.

Hey hey, don't get me involved in this. Vive le Quebec libre!!!!

Kiwi inventor Colin Murdoch has died. Woulda been my first WDP hit and was eight days short of being a hit on Handy's DP.

I love it! One quick question just to make sure I'm clear - a "consecutive" hit means like... Hofmann died, then the next person to die was Mamo and I got them both, right? So a "consecutive" hit would only count if the person scored points right? And is the tally the number of times these people have got consecutive hits, or the number of consecutive hits they got (ie 3 means you got a consecutive hit three times in your career vs. 3 means you got Hofmann, Mamo and Archard in a row)? Sorry if the question is dumb or confusing... I've been pouring thorough Olympic committee reports for my research all day...

How about here or here. Archard will certainly get a broadsheet obit, as should Mamo in the next week, but neither have a suitable obit at the moment. Those both popped up after I posted the message, in my defense.

Continuing today's trend of me posting unverifiable news (unless you can read this link), the last central powers WWI veteran, Franz Künstler is in hospital with a broken hip and an intestinal obstruction, neither of which is conducive to long life in a 107-year-old. Given how wide the international coverage was for Erich Kästner, I suspect that his status as the last Central Powers veteran will produce a (delayed) reaction good enough for most DPs, including Handy's upcoming one.

Two different people, which in my mind makes it worth mentioning, have mucked around with Bernard Archer's Wikipedia page, claiming that he died on May 1. While I cannot find a shred of evidence of this, usually when different people note the death of more marginal figures, my experience has been that it tends to be true and the people have some sort of privileged knowledge not available on the Internet. I'm not certain how famous he is, so I may just be spreading bollocks and apologies if I am, but if he is someone who might slip under the radar for a few days, it may be worth keeping an eye on. Also, it would be a unique-pick, joker hit for Obituarynotice on the DDP.

BS sez Google News French.

You might be interested in this OoO. I got this message after I tried to insert his date of death on his Wikipedia page: So it appears that there's another survivor.