Sean

Apologies I am going senile ha!

God I hate Laurie Penny!She is so condescending and petty and always talks garbage!Diski has`t got shit on David Starkey when it comes to owning Mssssssssssssssssssssssss Penny!

Do you reckon her odd tweets are the result of medication or has the cancer spread to the brain?Maybe it is infections doing it , they can screw your mind up.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/robert-stigwood-dies-aged-81-7117388

are you saying she was a Fawlty pick? Possibly but it would be remiss of us to omit such a towering figure in British acting when we know she is ill.Apparently she has had dementia for 15 years which I didn`t realise until recently.

OOH I know! (said in a Sybil style, obviously) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPtIHwbguO4

And now Parliament and Funkadelic keyboard player Bernie Worrell has been diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer...http://www.app.com/story/entertainment/2016/01/04/p-funk-legend-bernie-worrell-has-stage-4-cancer/78257920/ do you think he would obit? I reckon he would but he won`t see 2017.He may make the death by numbers transfer date on 1st July but I wouldn`t bank on it.

Crikey I forgot Tommy Chong!I would love to meet him and Cheech!I am not a big fan of pot but I would have to do it with them ha!

For 2017 I would recommend for consideration: Rolf Harris Stuart Hall Walter Mondale Jean Alexander Sidney Poitier Roger Bannister Eva Marie Saint Dorothy Malone Harry Belafonte Roger Moore Betty White John Glenn June Brown Stanley Baxter Brian Rix Sheila Mercier George P Schultz Freddie Starr Tim Curry Jill Gascoigne Sir Peter Hall Gene Hackman Stephen Sondheim Ronnie Corbett Cleo Laine Carl Reiner Mel Brooks Carol Channing Cloris Leachman Vanessa Redgrave Burt Reynolds Michael.Aspall Hugh Hefner Antony Armstrong Jones Joe Jackson ( manager) Bill Cosby Burt Bacharach Adam West Robert Wagner

If I could only have one it would be Hawking.

I would love to meet: Kirk Douglas Desmond Tutu Stan Lee Peter Carrington Peter Sallis Murray Walker Olivia de Havilland Stephen Hawking Muhammad Ali Abe Vigoda Vera Lynn Richard Adams I would also liked to have met Zsa Zsa Gabor Prunella Scales and John Noakes but not now for obvious reasons.

Yeah I used to live near Roy.He is doing great last I heard.He is still active and working!

I saw Roy Hudd back in September. He's in fine fettle and very spritely.

I did say the deadline had passed now but go on.Seeing as you only just lost the title of the Inaugural winner of Death by numbers by 13 points at the last minute I will let you off being late! If I ever have kids they will be as obese Oliver Hardy as I can`t say no

Yes no problem

Yes in answer to all the previous posts.I will allow all the teams submitted now but that really is it as of now.So if you have submitted a team on this post or by private message you are in and I have recorded all your picks.Good luck everyone!

92 Today

Ok everyone.Apologies for the delay just wanted to make sure I had everything in place to reveal the winner of the pool accurately.First of all some points.Please please make sure if you make a mistake by putting the same name in twice you let me know.It makes it so much easier and avoids me coming to the incorrect conclusion you are a cheat.Now please all check your entries to make sure I have counted up correctly before I give the full scoreboard in the coming days (I can`t say when as I am very very busy with work so bear with me please).I can however reveal that the winner is Sir Creep following the death of Howard Davis JR in the dying hours of 2015.http://www.fox5atlanta.com/sports/67599204-story.This fox News report gives him 56 points catapulting him him to 269 points beating his nearest rival Death Impends by 14 points .Here is the list of the top 3 contestants and their entries which I have added up and placed here for transparancy.Every hit on the list is displayed in points next to the pick alongside the total it gives them 1)Sir Creep :269 Points 2)Death Impends :255 Points 3)Shaun of the Dead :241 Points Sir Creep First, actual DL names I suspect are suspect: 1. Zsa Zsa Gabor -- I want the few points 2. Martin Crowe 3. Denis Healey -- see Zsa Zsa 17 4. Olivia De Havilland -- see Zsa Zsa Second, names from my DP teams: 5. Henry McCullough 6. "Superstar" Billy Graham 7. James R. Messenger -Norman Lear 8. Oliver Sacks 33 50 9. Bart Starr 10. Magomed Abdusalamov 10a. Gerald Kaufman (Don't want to forget a By-Election Bingo name!) Third, real fucking old people so I take advantage of scoring rules (hate the game not the playya): 11. Susannah Mushatt Jones (**JOKER**) playing the odds 12. Emma Moran **speaking of which, are people b.1900 worth zero or 100?? lol Fourth, people chosen by other teams in my DP that I didn't pick but like: 13. Steve Gleason 14. President James Earl Carter, Jr. 15. Dilip Kumar 16. Joe Jackson (father of the Jacksons) 17. Rob Ford 18. Carol Channing (I have it on Good Authority, and Good is one letter away from God) 19. Fats Domino Fifth, a bunch of folks you people (and I) have so graciously shared info on here on the DL site: (sadly I haven't been keeping track all along) 20. Howard Marks 21. Amy Watts -Muhammad Ali 22. John Schlegel 43 93 23. Bob Bennett 24. Keith Farnham 25. Mark Farren 26. Michel Delpech 27. Sumner Redstone 28. (See 10a above) 29. Nuon Chea 30. Grace Lee Boggs -- see Zsa Zsa 15 108 31. Khieu Samphan 32. Vladimir Bukovsky 33. Ray Columbus 34. Louis Stokes 25 133 35. Goran Hedzic 36. Governor Larry Hogan 37. Blackjack Mulligan 38. Vladimir Kara-Murza 39. Wesly Pipes 40. Vera Caslavska 41. Holly Woodlawn 46 179 42. Howard Davis, Jr. 56 235 43. Gaston Glock 44. Tony Adamowicz Sixth, and lastly, a few names from research, not cuz they'll die, but rather to justify my time spent haha: 45. Andre Guelfi 46. Ken Kavanagh 47. Kevin Turner (NFL) 48. Eileen Fenton 49. Phyllis Tickle (she may not obit, but she will die. Let's take a chance) 34 269 50. Jack Van Impe (wth I'll take another chance; his studio is in Sterling Heights, MI, a northern suburb of Detroit, so it's kismet). David Winnick SirC 6 Death Impends Here's my fifty, a few terminals but mostly names from my list of old people Fun fact this is the first time I have used Vera Lynn, IM Pei or Helmut Schmidt in a dead pool 1 Bhumibol Adulyadej 2 Hans Blix 3 Diana Serra Cary 4 Penny Chenery 5 Martin Crowe 6 Clive Derby-Lewis 7 Bob Dole 8 George Fernandes 9 June Foray 10 Zsa Zsa Gabor 11 John Glenn 12 Gaston Glock 13 Rev. Billy Graham 14 Superstar Billy Graham 15 Buddy Greco 16 Michael C. Gross 45 17 George S. Irving 18 Clive James 19 Susannah Mushatt Jones (JOKER) 20 Marvin Kaplan 21 Kenneth Kaunda 22 Ellsworth Kelly 23 68 23 Helmut Kohl 24 Tommy Lasorda 25 Jim Leavelle 26 Bernard Lown 27 Vera Lynn 28 Jerry Maren 29 Howard Marks 30 Nestor Mata 31 James McCord 32 Emma Morano 33 Masaya Nakamura 34 Ken Nordine 35 I. M. Pei 36 Leslie Phillips 37 Oliver Sacks 33 101 38 Peter Sallis 39 Helmut Schmidt 18 119 40 Brian Sewell 31 150 41 Morton Sobell 42 Louis Stokes 25 175 43 Phyllis Tickle 34 209 44 Charles Van Doren 45 Abe Vigoda 46 Louie L. Wainwright 47 James Watson 48 E. O. Wilson 49 Holly Woodlawn 46 255 50 Jiang Zemin Shaun of the Dead (Yes I am aware I miscounted my own score previously) Here`s my entry 1)John Hurt 2)Valerie Harper 3)Clive James 4)Howard Marks 5)Tim Curry 6)Liam Neeson 7)Jimmy Hill 28 8)Brian Sewell 31 59 9)Zsa Zsa Gabor 10)Peter Sallis 11)Muhammad Ali 12)Ian Brady 13)Carol Channing 14)Douglas Slocombe 15)George Alagiyah 16)Joost van der Westhuizen 17)Daisy Berkowitz 18)Leslie Phillips 19)Helen Fawkes 20)Paul Gascoigne 21)Freddie Starr 22)Kirk Douglas 23)Olivia de Havilland 24)Grace Lee Boggs 15 74 25)June Brown 26)Holly Woodlawn 46 120 27)Martin Crowe 28)Caroline Aherne 29)Dr Kate Granger 30)Liz Smith (actress) 31)Sheila Mercier 32)Dickie Moore 25 145 33)Sir Roger Bannister 34)Denis Healey 17 162 35)Oliver Sacks 33 195 36)Helmut Schmidt 18 213 37)Miley Cyrus 38)Justin Bieber 39)Lindsay Lohan 40)Amanda Bynes 41)Glen Campbell 42)Mary Tyler Moore 43)Stephanie Davis 44)Liz Dawn 45)Susannah Mushatt Jones (Joker ) 46)Emma Morano-Martinuzzi 47)Greville Janner 28 241 48)Rolf Harris 49)Stuart Hall 50)Chris Denning

Nah, chill out. The last team has a default joker so the random nature of Tony Booth's death puts some of your performance in the lap of the Grim Reaper, punishment enough I'd say. Hang on has Tony Booth died????/

I agree with most of your assessments except Gazza.This guy has been abusing alcohol for years as well as drugs.He looks dreadful and suffered a cardiac arrest when detoing in rehab.His hospital admissions are now semi regular.I reckon he is a good pick as his liver must be close to failing and he is also a suicide risk.Also can you elaborate about Prunella?I watched Timothy West on Piers Morgan yesterday and they said she was diagnosed 15 years ago which is a hell of a long time. I think this picture speaks volumes about poor Gazza.I would love to see him recover and beat his demons but judging on his record so far I don`t see it happening sadly !

I wouldn`t be surprised.After all although Tommy Chong looks in pretty bad shape and I have a gut feeling (no pun intended) that he is more seriously ill than he is letting on he did say in June that the cancer was only stage 1 in which case the chances of him recovering are pretty decent.Marks on the other hand is just biding his time with treatments and has admitted that as his cancer is stage 4 he can`t be cured and won`t be cured and that he is surprised he has lasted as long as he has.I reckon Marks is another Sam Simon.Will go on for a fair bit of time until the treatment stops working and then will die a couple of weeks later.

I saw the Documentary and gasped in shock.He looks virtually unrecognisable.I was going to mention it on here but forgot.

http://dpseggi.altervista.org/DeathList/X2016.html :Not very keen on our Italian neighbours list this year.

:One his most famous appearances on Blue Peter!

I always thought he came across really well in this interview!Didn`t take himself too seriously and was up for a laugh despite being a serious statesmen!