Octopus of Odstock

Critically ill now most people are saying - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/michael-schumacher/10541824/Michael-Schumacher-in-critical-condition-after-suffering-head-injury-while-skiing.html Losing Philippe Favre at the start of this month to a ski accident was bad enough, but Schumacher? I'm not going to comment or speculate any more because no-one really knows other than the family and the hospital but bringing specialists in and the fact that Olivier Panis was turned away when Schumi was "not seriously ill" does make you think it's not good.

I've decided to cut Jim Bamber from my team. Almost certainly he'll pass away in 2014, but I just don't think he'll get the obit, and by using the closest person similiar to him - Barry Foley who did the Catchpole cartoons as an example, he likely won't. I've no doubt I'll regret it when the Telegraph proves me wrong but to be honest, Jim has a niche part in a niche sport which doesn't normally get obituaries at the best of times.

Richard Briers

Blimey, I well remember Harrison. Such a talent unfufilled.

Correct.

It aint done yet... All i need is Porcaro to die on Christmas Day.... But failing that... Wow. Just Wow, Spade.

The chances of Frank Bough making it to January 1st 2014 must be slim based on the fact that the other three men with him in the photo have all died in 2013.

Bronzell Miller, NFL player, actor and OoO's risky-obit lock in for the DDP is dead. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home3/57294945-200/miller-oliver-utah-com.html.csp

Well done Spade - 14 hits, a record - and irrespective of anything else that might yet happen - 14 hits is a fabulous achievement. Much as I would like to win, II'd be happy to settle for the top three and my own personal record points and hits. If Dennis James and Chick WIllis get obits, then that'll change things again wouldn't it?

Inside Tip for those who want to take a gamble - I don't know exactly what's wrong with him but..... Brian Hart, former racing driver and engine builder extraordinare, is very, very poorly and increasingly frail these days. Hart is 77.

Any chance of adding Autosport to the list? Then victory WILL be mine.

I've been weighing this post up over the last few days because I find this "joke" absolutely disgusting and it's even made me decide whether I want to keep visiting Deathlist. Do I want, or can I justify being a member of a site where making jokes about raping babies is deemed acceptable? As my children get older and take interest in what Daddy's looking at on the laptop, can I really feel comfortable about some content of what I'm reading here? For now, I'll just register - publically, that for me, this is a joke too far even for this site.

Jozef Kowalski, arguably the last WWI-era veteran, survivor of the 1919-1921 Polish-Soviet War, has died - http://www.zachod.pl/radio-zachod/serwis-informacyjny/region/zmarl-najstarszy-lubuszanin-mial-113-lat/ - a grand old age of 113.

I've looked everywhere and no confirmation yet. It would be quite a triple whammy of deaths, I must admit. Not breaking headline news, stop all programming deaths, but all very notable in their field.

Huffington Post UK feed, I presume, not the US page?

I'd be impressed with a theme team of Black Gay Jewish picks.

The pilot of the crash that quite easily could've killed Nigel Farage on election day 2010, has died. Would appear, reading between the lines, it's a suicide - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25280591

Former F3 and F3000 driver Philippe Favre killed in a skiing accident - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111778 Sad news - had the ability to get to F1 and arguably should've done in the late 80's/early 90's.

BBC ticker - he's died

Umberto Panini, the last surviving brother of the trio that are.. well, legends - http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/pitchside-europe/final-panini-brother-died-creation-remains-immortal-151613040.html

Not a despot, but she might be seriously ill - or she might be fine - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, president of Liberia - http://allafrica.com/stories/201312020698.html

Maria Mambo Cafe - http://www.portalangop.co.ao/angola/en_us/noticias/politica/2013/11/49/Ruling-MPLA-party-Politburo-regrets-death-nationalist-Mambo-Cafe,b7695b2f-9c67-438a-8bb1-94d4f73127d6.html

Rocha has ruined 71st birthday celebrations by dying on the eve of his birthday. http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/murio-pedro-virgilio-rocha.html

Peter Graf, Steffi's dad and manager, coach and tax evader, dies after his cancer fight fails - http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/agencia-efe/131201/tennis-legend-steffi-grafs-father-dies

Not list of the lost any longer, thanks to the Telegraph; - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/10486778/Cardinal-Domenico-Bartolucci-obituary.html