Canadian Paul

Álvaro Vicente died January 14, 2006 according to Valencia, Spain cemetery records.

My Google search to confirm this led me back here, if that's any indication. Anyone who took part in my childhood favourite The Raccoons would be a sad one for me.

Don't worry, it's in my will to let Deathlist know when I drop dead.

At least I got him on the list: https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/900189

Sorted. Thanks!

Saddos, the lot of them.

I am, just busy with a lot of projects, but thanks for the update!

We also had a French contact work on this and the 2014 Veste is a person with the same name who happened to be born near the same time.

I very briefly had a reference at Encyclopedia Dramatica that made this point and I've been trying to get rid of my internet nickname ever since. By the way, maybe I'm missing something that I'm not supposed to be sharing, but Anubis is definitely still alive as well.

Chatting with the person who helped resurrect me has brought back some good memories, but also drew my attention to this thread. Alphonsin and I communicated a few years back so probably safe to mark them as alive on the list.

At least when the traffic to the blog tells me that the largest referrer for the day is "deathlist.net".

Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani atomics expert, has prostate cancer. It is one of the more helpable forms of cancer, and supposedly he's getting the best medical treatment, but it's one to keep an eye on in the "Names" thread anyhow.

As far as Canadian picks, I only have brave ones (ie. ones that will never, ever get a UK obit). But if you're in some other pool, Morley Byron Bursey is 101 and Yves Fortier (the geoligist) is in a rest home at the age of 99.

Don't know if this is any good, but David Bond got an obituary here: http://www.thisisannouncements.co.uk/25343713?s_source=clsw_tiwk.

I used to be good at this, but now I'm utter shite. Whatever; I've thrown my hat in with Mubarak just because Egypt is my thing!

Thanks for the kind words everyone. On a whim, I opened my own CPDP email address and had a message from DDT pointing to me this thread, so I thought I'd pop my head in and let everyone know that I wasn't dead, physically at least. I haven't posted in a while due to real-life commitments but, rest assured, every time someone truly famous pops off, I think to myself "I bet the Deathlist got him" and stop by.

So I've been doing a lot of thinking on this whole "Deadpool" concept. I've been hearing a lot of complaints about how the sick and elderly are easy pickings, and about how there's little reward for style in Deadpools these days. Thus, I have come up with what I believe to be the solution: The Canadian Paul Deadpool First of all, I'll say excuse the mess, but for now the site is merely for functionality, not for looks. Once the contest is underway, I'll make it look a lot prettier. In particular, I'm more than aware that the front page is far too busy, but my graphics guy should hopefully be kind enough to fix all that up for me. Most importantly, if you want to skip the mess that is the front page, are the rules. I've tried to twist them to accomodate style in Deadpool picks, where a team with 6 out of 10 hits can be outscored by one with half as many or less given the right contestants. Most importantly, there's two important things to note: 1) The contest starts in late (and since it took me forever to get the site operational, very late) September to discourage people from choosing candidates that they're saving for the DDP. Since no one wants to give away their list early, hopefully we'll see some interesting candidates mixed in with people you'd expect to see. 2) There are two separate contests - one regular to choose any 10 candidates that you'd like and one "Theme Team," where teams can take a more unique and personalized approach to Deadpooling. Complete rules can be found on the rules page and, as I've mentioned on the main page, I'm extending the entry deadline to September 22 since it took me forever to get some bugs worked out with site (which as you'll be able to tell, is barely presentable as it is). If anyone thinks of a really good bonus or penalty to help aid the "style" aspect of the game, let me know before the 22nd and I may include it. Special thanks goes out to OoO, who reviewed the rules and site before I announced to everyone. I look forward to some interesting entries in the next fortnight.

John Demjanjuk is getting deported to the Ukraine or, if that fails, Poland/Germany. I hear that they're aren't so fond of Nazis in Europe...

That link did not work for me but I'm on the warpath to find a further source of this news. Miami Herald have it... San Francisco Chronicle have it... Bloomberg have it... And now AP... Slam dunk... Guardian has it.

Perry turned 100 the other day. Maybe this thread can be merged somewhere else, but I figured it might be the best place to mention it. By the way, that post was almost three years ago and, out of all of them, Eaton-Travis, Lane, Kent, Perry, Bartlam (at least according to IMDb), Allan (ditto), Rainer, Stuart, Laemmle, Page, and Ros are still alive. Claverling, Oldland, Baring, Boyd, and Grey were already dead at the time of the discussion too. I just happened to be thinking about this and it happens to be exactly one year since my last update (barring the leap year) so, out of all of them, Eaton-Travis, Kent, Bartlam (apparentely she was alive at least as recently as March 2007), Allan (same caveat as last time), Rainer, Stuart, Laemmle, Page, and Ross are still alive - we only lost Lane and Perry over the year, perhaps a good survival rate given their ages. One year later and there were even fewer casualties: in fact, only one: Anita Page. A bit late, but it doesn't matter - same story as above: only Eaton Travis died within the year, although I heard rumours that Bartlam is gone now as well. That leaves Kent, Bartlam (maybe), Allan (maybe again), Rainer, Stuart, Laemmle, Page, and Ros. Not bad considering they'll all be 100+ by the end of the year. Well shit, I had planned to come back to do this right on the day, but I messed that one up. Oh well. Anyways, Dorothy Bartlam died in 1991, Marguerite Allan may still be alive, Gloria Stewart carked it in 2010, which means that that Kent, Rainer, Laemmle, and Ros remain. Yippie. Back to my cave...

106 year-old Indian author K.D. Sethna has died at the age of 106

Bloody hell, they covered him every couple of months in all sorts of UK media, then he dies and nothing... hopefully his death will be mentioned in one of those semi-annual "Nazis still being hunted" pieces they do to draw in the excitable crowd.

With DDT at nearly twice the score of his nearest competitor and my own entry to the DDP looking as dismal as ever, I was wondering if maybe EST.1993 wanted to give us all another shot at a half-year go and give us a perhaps closer and more exhilarating race? Just a thought... I kind of liked the idea of having an urn filled with morbid memorabilia adorning my mantle...