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Short of a rapid deluge in the next day or so, it looks like May 15 was the last day where our rate was at least one per day.

 

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4 hours ago, time said:

Right....

Signing off for my weekend away. Nobody die!

You just signed Dabney Coleman’s death warrant mate!

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Awaiting Qobits so far for Bud Anderson and Yael Dayan.

 

Ah, one long weekend and the bodies start to pile high.

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1/4 Contenders

 

I know these posts could very well go in the 2023 DDP thread, but the history is relevant and hopefully will be enjoyed.

 

It has been a year since Martin Amis died and claimed the title for the longest span from pick to List of the Missed, at 25 years (1998 to 2023).

 

When @YoungWillz pointed this out, I wondered if there were other contenders... and there are.  I also have it in my memory that @Gooseberry Crumble said something that instigated this research, so please take that credit too!

 

This is the TL;DR summary.  See spoilers for full analysis.  There will be a few posts!

 

  Beck
sarcoidosis Karen Duffy
  Melissa "Prom Mom" Drexler
  alaniss morisset
  ru paul
Saul Hudson Slash (Guns 'N Roses)
footballer; bomber one L? (2014) Terry Nicholls
  Carlos Sainz (Sr)

 

All of the above have not been picked since 1998 and would capture the title from Amis if they die before being picked in the DDP again.

 

Spoiler

As it is the one year mark since Martin Amis’ death, he still holds the title of longest span entry on the LotM.  It is 25 years, with his selection for the 1998 list to his death on 18 May 2023.

 

I was curious if there are other contenders for the title, so I looked into the picks of the 1998 list.  And there are contenders!

 

 

And oh my goodness, I have every respect for all the people who have run the DDP.  The spelling is atrocious and leads to some unclear names and judgment calls.  Please use the forms that have been brought in to submit your teams. I’ve left the spelling as they occur on the 1998 list and accept that any error on identification of the picks are mine.  The italics indicate a corrected spelling of a name.  

 

 

First, the 1998 list is a zeitgeist of the 90s.  The 8 contenders below do highlight this.  Please note there is a formatting issue with copy/paste from Google docs, hence the bold.

 

Beck

sarcoidosis

Karen Duffy

 

Melissa "Prom Mom" Drexler

 

alaniss morisset

 

ru paul

Saul Hudson

Slash (Guns 'N Roses)

footballer; bomber one L? (2014)

Terry Nicholls

 

Carlos Sainz (Sr)

 

All of the above have not been picked since 1998.  With three musicians (Beck, Morissette, Slash), actress Duffy with a long history of neurosarcoidosis diagnosed in 1995 (active interviews in 2022), American drag queen RuPaul on the heels of ‘90s exposure, Drexler after the previous year's notoriety and Sainz Sr a rally driver (more to follow on this!).

 

The name I’m nearly certain of is Terry Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombing.  His federal trial was in 1997 and since his trial was still ongoing in December 1997, I would imagine the punter was making a wager on a death sentence. Recall this is early DDP years before rule changes. 

If it is Nichols, then he does not come close to qualifying, as he was picked again for the DDP most recently in 2014.  

 

I’m not entirely sure as there is a Terry Nicholl (b 1952), an English footballer.  Footballers are popular picks in the DDP, hence my hedging.  

 

As I said above I’m nearly certain it is Terry Nichols (bomber), but open to and welcome the forum’s analysis.

 

 

 

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2/4 Statistics of the 1998 DDP

 

Total number of teams: 31

Potential number of picks (all unique): 620

Total number of picks: 268

Top picks: Pope John Paul II (21), Ronald Reagan (19), Boris Yeltsin (18), Bob Hope (13), Barbara Cartland (12), Spike Milligan (12), Nelson Mandela (10), Thora Hird (8), Elizabeth Taylor (7), Fidel Castro (6), Kirk Douglas (6), John Gielgud (6), Margaret Thatcher (6)

 

Number of picks dead up to Amis (18 May 2023): 176

Number of picks living after Amis (18 May 2023): 92

Number of picks living as of today (18 May 2024): 91, (dead - Jacob Rothschild)

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3/4 The Living from the 1998 DDP

 

Below is the list of the 92 picks that were living as of 18 May 2023.  The only death that has occurred since was Jacob Rothschild.  The sheer number of survivors from the 1998 DDP just shows how much the game has evolved from the early days.  I doubt that 34% (92/268) of the picks from a recent DDP year will have a third of the picks surviving 25 years later.

 

This is a who’s who of the ‘90s.  It is ranked by the years the picks have been in the DDP.  I started this back in May 2023, and updated it for 2024.  It has been on and off, but with the death of Rothschild and the one year anniversary, it was time to get it finished. I’ve left my notes on identification or correct spelling of picks names - ‘show your work’ as they say.  The colour code is a follows: pink - LotM, black -living, green - 1998 contenders

 

Enjoy!

Spoiler

@Octopus of Odstock - any particular reason why in the late 90s that rally/racing drivers were popular picks?  Check the names from 2007 and further back.

 

 

Pick

# picks

2024 update

Last DDP

         
 

Tom Baker

 

2024

2023

 

Jimmy Carter

 

2024

2023

 

THE EMPOROR OF JAPAN

 

2024

2023

 

Prince Andrew

 

2024

2023

 

Christopher Biggins

 

2024

2023

 

Dickie Bird

 

2024

2023

strongman

JEFF CAPES

(Geoff Capes)

 

2024

2023

 

Matthew Corbett

 

2024

2023

 

Paul Gascoigne

 

2024

2023

 

Arthur Scargill

 

2024

2023

 

BENJIMIN NETANYAHU

 

2024

2022

Sarah Ferguson

Duchess of Pork (sorry York)

 

2024

2012

 

Jacob Rothschild

 

-

2023

fraudster

Ernest Saunders

 

2024

2023

 

Clint Eastwood

 

2024

2023

 

Snoop Doggy Dogg

4

2024

2023

 

Rupert Murdoch

 

2024

2023

 

robert downey jr

4

-

2023

 

bob dylan

 

2024

2023

 

geraldo rivera

 

2024

2023

 

Dick van dyke

2

2024

2023

BBC journo

Kate Adie

 

2024

2023

 

Iggy Pop

 

2024

2023

 

Jimmy Page

 

2024

2023

 

Keith Richards

3

2024

2023

 

Gary Glitter

 

2024

2023

 

Woody Allen

 

2024

2023

 

Steven Tyler

2

2024

2023

 

Paul Simon

 

2024

2023

 

Barry Manilow

 

2024

2023

 

Michael Caine

 

2024

2023

 

Jack Nicholson

 

2024

2023

Gyatso

Dalai Lama

 

2024

2023

 

Richard Wilson (actor)

 

2024

2023

 

David Attenborough

 

2024

2023

 

Richard Branson

3

2024

2023

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger

2

2024

2023

 

Richard Simmons

 

2024

2023

 

John Travolta

 

-

2023

Tenor

Jose Carreras

 

2024

2023

snooker

Ray Reardon

 

2024

2023

 

Salman Rushdie

 

-

2023

 

Frank Ifield

 

2024

2023

 

Tatum O' Neal

 

2024

2023

Tureaud

Mr T.

2

2024

2023

@Hollywood

Holly Johnson

3

2024

2023

 

Michael Schumacher

3

2024

2023

 

Robbie Williams

 

-

2023

astrologer

Russell Grant

 

-

2023

 

Mike Tyson

 

2024

2023

 

Michael Barrymore

2

2024

2023

photographer

David Bailey

 

2024

2023

 

Al Pacino

 

2024

2023

jockey

Willie Carson

 

2024

2023

singer, Cobain

courtney love

 

-

2022

 

Drew Barrymore

 

-

2022

 

Trent Reznor

 

-

2022

Louganis

Greg Lugainis (diver) (sp)

 

2024

2022

 

Bill Gates

 

-

2022

Bonington

Chris Bonnington

 

-

2022

 

woopy golberg

 

-

2022

 

Liam Gallagher

3

-

2021

AIDS

Julian Clary

 

-

2021

 

Gerry Adams

7

2024

2020

 

Jo Brand

 

-

2020

 

Fiona Apple

 

-

2020

 

Kate Moss

2

-

2019

 

Kathy Lee Gifford

 

-

2019

 

John Goodman

2

-

2019

 

Earl Spencer

 

-

2018

 

Anne Robinson

 

-

2017

 

Demi Moore

 

-

2015

 

Julia Roberts

 

-

2014

 

Wesley Snipes

 

-

2013

 

Tori Spelling

 

-

2012

Prince' boxer

Naseem Hamed

2

-

2011

 

Eddie Izzard

 

-

2010

Sean Combs, P Diddy

Puff Daddy

 

-

2009

 

Noel Gallagher

 

-

2009

 

Jerry Kelley (Sinn Feinn)

(Gerry Kelly)

 

-

2008

 

Nic Cage

 

-

2007

Ralf

Ralph Schumacher

2

-

2007

Somerville

Jimmy Summerville (sp)

 

-

2001

 

Paul Tracy

(indy car driver)

 

-

2000

       

1999 list missing!

 

Beck

 

-

 

sarcoidosis

Karen Duffy

 

-

 
 

Melissa "Prom Mom" Drexler

 

-

 
 

alaniss morisset

 

-

 
 

ru paul

 

-

 

Saul Hudson

Slash (Guns 'N Roses)

 

-

 

footballer; bomber one L? (2014)

Terry Nicholls

 

-

 
 

Carlos Sainz (Sr)

 

-

 

 

 

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4/4 The Dead, the List of the Missed, Bad Choices & Research and the Unknowns

 

Again, this is a big list, so check the spoilers.

 

The Dead

 

You’ll see the usual suspects, with the late ‘90s and early ‘00 being products of their time.  

 

The List of the Missed 

 

The most recent is Jacob Rothschild.  These are again in pink.  DI has identified many of them as listed in the archive section.  The issue that I’ve seen is that without the 1999 DDP list, there could be more.  And there are several who appear to be new additions.  These are the red ones on the list.

 

footballer? rugby?

Eric Davis

2007

2007 or 2001

 

Note 22 August

Eric Hall (3)

2020

2000

 

 

Reginald Kray (RONNIE CRAY)

2000

2000, 1998?

 

 

Charles Bronson (2)

2003

2002 (5 teams)

 

 

John Sessions

2020

1998?

 

aka John Marshall

   
 

widely mentioned on Forums

   

 

 

Raine - Countess Spencer

2016

1998?

has Guardian QO

 

@Death Impends  mentioned Eric Hall before having found out his status when the early '00s lists came to light.  The one that shocked me was Charles Bronson - there is a ‘Death Wish’ joke there I am sure!  Countess Spencer seems out of place too, as it took no time to locate the QO.

 

Bad Choices & Research

 

These names were dead before the 1998 contest started.  George Burns is a bizarre choice as it was a hit two years previous.  Chris Farley is understandable as he died only two weeks before the start - a reason there are now subs? And how on earth did you not know Ed Sullivan was dead!?!?

 

Ed Sullivan

1974

 

Lorne Greene

1987

 

Doris Speed

1994

 

 

George Burns

1996

was a hit in '96

Chris Farley

1997

died 18/12/1997

 

The Unknowns

 

Ann West and some poor spelling/naming of her would have been listed here too, but as she was a hit in 1999 she appears there.  

 

The above name was a pick for @drunkasaskunk and I’m hoping that someone from the era can identify the following names.

Cheetah

Cheeta

Peter O' Sullivan

KEVIN CHIN

Janette Pink (mentioned in 2010)

 

The first two are probably the same person, again the spelling issue.  The next two are a generic nightmare.  I can find Janette Pink - she would be a FFBI pick these days.  The list has a few HIV/AIDS picks - little did they know about the era of antiretroviral drugs!

 

Okay, that's it.  Check the spoilers below for the full list of the Dead from the 1998 DDP.

Spoiler

Below is the list of the dead.  The colour coding stands as above.  The number next to a name is the number of picks.  My crude classification was to give some order during research.

 

Pick

Year of Death

Last DDP

       

religion

Immanuel Jakobovits

1999

1998?

 

Basil Hume

1999

1999

 

Robert Runcie

2000

2000

 

Pope JP II (21)

2005

2005

 

Oral Roberts

2009

2009

 

Billy Graham (3)

2018

2018

       
       

UK Monarchy

Princess Margaret

2002

2002

 

Queen Mother

2002

2002

 

Prince Philip

2021

2021

 

QE2

2022

2022

       

Monarchies

Rainer III, Monaco (1)

2005

2005

       

Sports

Jerry Quarry

1999

1998? died 3 Jan 1999

 

Dennis Viollet

1999

1998?

 

Stanley Matthews (4)

2000

2000

 

Brian Clough (4)

2004

2004

footballer? rugby?

Eric Davis

2007

2007 or 2001

 

Evil Kneivel

2007

2007

 

Edmund Hilliary

2008

2008

 

Nat Lofthouse

2011

2011

 

Tom Finney (2)

2014

2014

 

Muhammad Ali (5)

2016

2016

 

Johann Cruyff

2016

2016

Note 22 August

Eric Hall (3)

2020

2000

 

Peter Allis

2020

2020

       

Business

Reginald Kray (RONNIE CRAY)

2000

2000, 1998?

 

Steve Fossett

2007

2006

 

Peter Stringfellow

2018

2012

       

UK notable

Ann West

1999

1999

 

Mrs Anne Downeyie (Leslie's Mom)

   
 

confusion with Anne Downie (Scottish actress)

   

 

 

Pick

Year of Death

Last DDP

       

UK Politics

Lord Denning

1999

1999

 

Dennis Thatcher (2)

2003

2003

 

Edward Heath (3)

2005

2005

 

James Callaghan (2)

2005

2005

 

Mo Mowlam

2005

2000

 

Michael Foot (5)

2010

2010

 

Cyril Smith

2010

2010

 

Margaret Thatcher (6)

2013

2013

 

Ian Paisley (3)

2014

2014

 

Jeremy Thorpe

2014

2014

 

Martin McGuinness

2017

2017

       
       
       

US Politics

Harry Blackmun

1999

1999

 

Strom Thurmond (2)

2003

2003

 

Ronald Reagan (19)

2004

2004

 

Chief Justice Reinquist

2005

2005

 

Gerald Ford

2006

2006

 

Nancy Reagan (3)

2016

2016

 

George Bush Sr (2)

2018

2018

 

Rush Limbaugh

2021

2021

       
       
       

EU Politics

Helmut Kohl (2)

2017

2017

       
       

World Politics

Leni Refeilstain

2003

2003

 

Yasser Arafat (3)

2004

2004

 

Sheik Yasim (Hammas) (Ahmed Yassin)

2004

1998?

 

Saddam Hussein (5)

2006

2006

 

Boris Yeltsin (18)

2007

2007

 

Muammar Gaddafi (3)

2011

2011

 

Nelson Mandela (10)

2013

2013

 

Fidel Castro (6)

2016

2016

 

AYATOLLA Rafsanjani

2017

2017

 

Winnie Mandela

2018

2018

 

Desmond Tutu

2021

2021

 

Mikhail Gorbachev (4)

2022

2022

 

 

Pick

Year of Death

Last DDP

Actors

     
 

Ed Sullivan

1974

 
 

Lorne Greene

1987

 
 

Doris Speed

1994

 
 

Bryan Mosely (4)

1999

1999

 

Johnny Morris (prez,2)

1999

1999

 

DeForest Kelly

1999

1999

 

Dirk Bogarde

1999

1998?

 

Bill Owen (2)

1999

1999

 

Oliver Reed

1999

1999

 

Anne Haddy

1999

1998?

 

John Gielgud (6)

2000

2000

 

Alec Guiness (3)

2000

2000

 

Joan Sims

2001

2001, 2000,1998?

 

Peggy Mount (2)

2001

2001

 

John Thaw

2002

2002

 

Milton Berle (2)

2002

2002

 

Robert Ulrich

2002

2001

 

James Coburn

2002

2002

 

Thora Hird (8)

2003

2003

 

Buddy Ebsen

2003

2003

 

Katherine Hepburn (5)

2003

2003

 

Charles Bronson (2)

2003

2002 (5 teams)

 

Gregory Peck

2003

2003

 

Fay Wray

2004

2004

 

Bob Keeshan

2004

2003

 

Tony Randall

2004

2002

 

Marlon Brando (2)

2004

2004

 

Christopher Reeve

2004

2004

 

John Mills (2)

2005

2005

 

Raymond Baxter

2006

2006

 

Ronald Magill

2007

1998?

 

Charlton Heston (5)

2008

2008

 

Estelle Getty

2008

2008

 

Paul Newman

2008

2008

 

Brian Wilde

2008

2008

 

Mollie Sugden (2)

2009

2009

 

Wendy Richard

2009

2009

 

Beatrice Arthur

2009

2009

 

Dom DeLuise

2009

2009

 

Norman Wisdom (5)

2010

2010

 

Dennis Hopper

2010

2010

 

Art Linkletter

2010

2010

 

Elizabeth Taylor (7)

2011

2011

 

Jack Klugman (3)

2012

2012

 

Eric Sykes (3)

2012

2012

 

Clive Dunn

2012

2012

 

Annette Funicello (4)

2013

2013

 

Richard Griffiths

2013

2013

 

Jean Stapleton

2013

2013

 

Mickey Rooney

2014

2014

 

Leonard Nimoy (2)

2015

2015

 

Warren Mitchell

2015

2015

 

Jean Alexander

2016

2016

 

Zsa Zsa Gabor

2016

2016

 

Colin Dexter

2017

2017

 

Mary Tyler Moore (3)

2017

2017

 

Roger Moore

2017

2017

 

Peter Sallis

2017

2017

 

Sean Connery

2020

2020

 

Kirk Douglas (6)

2020

2020

 

Barbara Windsor (2)

2020

2020

 

John Sessions

2020

1998?

 

aka John Marshall

   
 

widely mentioned on Forums

   

 

 

Pick

Year of Death

Last DDP

       

Comedians

George Burns

1996

was a hit in '96

 

Chris Farley

1997

died 18/12/1997

 

Harry Secombe (3)

2001

2001

 

Spike Milligan (12)

2002

2002

 

Bob Hope (13)

2003

2003

 

Richard Pryor (3)

2005

2005

 

Ronnie Barker

2005

2005

 

Charlie Drake

2006

2006

 

Bernard Manning

2007

2007

 

Phyllis Diller

2012

2012

       
       

Musicians

Boxcar Willie

1999

1999

 

Yehudi Menuhin

1999

1998?

 

John Lee Hooker (2)

2001

2001

 

Lane Staley

2002

1998?

 

Sasha Distel

2004

1998?

 

Luther Vandross (1)

2005

2005

 

James Brown

2006

2006

 

Luciano Pavarotti (3)

2007

2007

 

George Melly

2007

2007

 

Michael Jackson (5)

2009

2009

 

Lena Horne (2)

2010

2010

 

Captain Beefheart

2010

2010

 

Scott Weiland

2015

2015

 

Chuck Berry (1)

2017

2017

 

Peter Tork

2019

2019

 

Vera Lynn (3)

2020

2020

 

Lisa Marie Presley

2023

2021

       
       

Writers

Barbara Cartland (12)

2000

2000

 

Eudora Welty

2001

2001, 2000 1998?

 

Alistair Cooke

2004

2004

 

Arthur Hailey

2004

1998?

 

Arthur Miller (2)

2005

2005

 

Hunter S Thompson

2005

1998?

 

Betty Friedan

2006

1998?

 

Arthur C Clarke

2008

2008

 

Martin Amis

2023

1998?

       
       

Social

Quentin Crisp (1)

1999

1998?

 

Paula Yates (3)

2000

2000

has Guardian QO

Raine - Countess Spencer

2016

1998?

       

Entertainment

Helen Rollason

1999

1999

 

Victor Borge

2000

2000, 1998?

 

Billy Wilder

2002

2002

 

Johnny Carson

2005

2005

 

Alan Fluff Freeman

2006

2006

 

Michaelangelo Antonioni

2007

2007

 

Ned Sherrin

2007

1998?

 

Tony Hart

2009

2009

 

Jimmy Saville (4)

2011

2011

 

Max Bygraves

2012

2012

 

David Coleman (2)

2013

2013

Antique Roadshow

Hugh Scully

2015

2008

 

Bruce Forsyth (2)

2017

2017

 

Barry Humphries

2023

2023

       

Science

Patrick Moore

2012

2012

 

Stephen Hawking (2)

2018

2018






 

 

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Honest answer? Racing drivers were still dying in the late 1990's.

Not in F1, but around that time, we lost Gonzalo Rodriguez, Greg Moore, Jeff Krosnoff in Indycar and an host of others in other racing.

Wasn't beyond the realms of possibility that the rather aggressive on-track Schumacher brothers might have had a similar fate (Of course Schumacher senior broke his leg in 1999)

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33 minutes ago, Evil Grimace said:

Peter O' Sullivan

KEVIN CHIN

Janette Pink (mentioned in 2010)

"Peter O'Sullivan" would be Sir Peter O'Sullevan (later a DL hit), would it not? That's how I interpreted it during my own trawl through the DDP archives not too long ago.

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On 18/05/2024 at 22:08, Summer in Transylvania said:

"Peter O'Sullivan" would be Sir Peter O'Sullevan (later a DL hit), would it not? That's how I interpreted it during my own trawl through the DDP archives not too long ago.

That's what I though too. 

 

Cheeta could be the chimp from the Tarzan films before it was known the whole thing was a hoax. Were animal picks allowed back then?

 

Cheeta - Wikipedia

 

The only Kevin Chin I can find is a pub/restaurant manager in North Wales so not sure what the story was there. 

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On 18/05/2024 at 21:25, YoungWillz said:

Add Ian Chico Hamilton QO: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/28012258/ian-chico-hamilton-dead-chelsea/

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On 18/05/2024 at 13:39, Evil Grimace said:

 

footballer? rugby?

Eric Davis

2007

2007 or 2001

 

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Below is the list of the dead.  The colour coding stands as above.  The number next to a name is the number of picks.  My crude classification was to give some order during research.

 

 

Pick

Year of Death

Last DDP

       

religion

Immanuel Jakobovits

1999

1998?

 

Basil Hume

1999

1999

 

Robert Runcie

2000

2000

 

Pope JP II (21)

2005

2005

 

Oral Roberts

2009

2009

 

Billy Graham (3)

2018

2018

       
       

UK Monarchy

Princess Margaret

2002

2002

 

Queen Mother

2002

2002

 

Prince Philip

2021

2021

 

QE2

2022

2022

       

Monarchies

Rainer III, Monaco (1)

2005

2005

       

Sports

Jerry Quarry

1999

1998? died 3 Jan 1999

 

Dennis Viollet

1999

1998?

 

Stanley Matthews (4)

2000

2000

 

Brian Clough (4)

2004

2004

footballer? rugby?

Eric Davis

2007

2007 or 2001

 

Evil Kneivel

2007

2007

 

Edmund Hilliary

2008

2008

 

Nat Lofthouse

2011

2011

 

Tom Finney (2)

2014

2014

 

Muhammad Ali (5)

2016

2016

 

Johann Cruyff

2016

2016

Note 22 August

Eric Hall (3)

2020

2000

 

Peter Allis

2020

2020

       

Business

Reginald Kray (RONNIE CRAY)

2000

2000, 1998?

 

Steve Fossett

2007

2006

 

Peter Stringfellow

2018

2012

       

UK notable

Ann West

1999

1999

 

Mrs Anne Downeyie (Leslie's Mom)

   
 

confusion with Anne Downie (Scottish actress)

   

 

 

Pick

Year of Death

Last DDP

       

UK Politics

Lord Denning

1999

1999

 

Dennis Thatcher (2)

2003

2003

 

Edward Heath (3)

2005

2005

 

James Callaghan (2)

2005

2005

 

Mo Mowlam

2005

2000

 

Michael Foot (5)

2010

2010

 

Cyril Smith

2010

2010

 

Margaret Thatcher (6)

2013

2013

 

Ian Paisley (3)

2014

2014

 

Jeremy Thorpe

2014

2014

 

Martin McGuinness

2017

2017

       
       
       

US Politics

Harry Blackmun

1999

1999

 

Strom Thurmond (2)

2003

2003

 

Ronald Reagan (19)

2004

2004

 

Chief Justice Reinquist

2005

2005

 

Gerald Ford

2006

2006

 

Nancy Reagan (3)

2016

2016

 

George Bush Sr (2)

2018

2018

 

Rush Limbaugh

2021

2021

       
       
       

EU Politics

Helmut Kohl (2)

2017

2017

       
       

World Politics

Leni Refeilstain

2003

2003

 

Yasser Arafat (3)

2004

2004

 

Sheik Yasim (Hammas) (Ahmed Yassin)

2004

1998?

 

Saddam Hussein (5)

2006

2006

 

Boris Yeltsin (18)

2007

2007

 

Muammar Gaddafi (3)

2011

2011

 

Nelson Mandela (10)

2013

2013

 

Fidel Castro (6)

2016

2016

 

AYATOLLA Rafsanjani

2017

2017

 

Winnie Mandela

2018

2018

 

Desmond Tutu

2021

2021

 

Mikhail Gorbachev (4)

2022

2022

 

 

Pick

Year of Death

Last DDP

Actors

     
 

Ed Sullivan

1974

 
 

Lorne Greene

1987

 
 

Doris Speed

1994

 
 

Bryan Mosely (4)

1999

1999

 

Johnny Morris (prez,2)

1999

1999

 

DeForest Kelly

1999

1999

 

Dirk Bogarde

1999

1998?

 

Bill Owen (2)

1999

1999

 

Oliver Reed

1999

1999

 

Anne Haddy

1999

1998?

 

John Gielgud (6)

2000

2000

 

Alec Guiness (3)

2000

2000

 

Joan Sims

2001

2001, 2000,1998?

 

Peggy Mount (2)

2001

2001

 

John Thaw

2002

2002

 

Milton Berle (2)

2002

2002

 

Robert Ulrich

2002

2001

 

James Coburn

2002

2002

 

Thora Hird (8)

2003

2003

 

Buddy Ebsen

2003

2003

 

Katherine Hepburn (5)

2003

2003

 

Charles Bronson (2)

2003

2002 (5 teams)

 

Gregory Peck

2003

2003

 

Fay Wray

2004

2004

 

Bob Keeshan

2004

2003

 

Tony Randall

2004

2002

 

Marlon Brando (2)

2004

2004

 

Christopher Reeve

2004

2004

 

John Mills (2)

2005

2005

 

Raymond Baxter

2006

2006

 

Ronald Magill

2007

1998?

 

Charlton Heston (5)

2008

2008

 

Estelle Getty

2008

2008

 

Paul Newman

2008

2008

 

Brian Wilde

2008

2008

 

Mollie Sugden (2)

2009

2009

 

Wendy Richard

2009

2009

 

Beatrice Arthur

2009

2009

 

Dom DeLuise

2009

2009

 

Norman Wisdom (5)

2010

2010

 

Dennis Hopper

2010

2010

 

Art Linkletter

2010

2010

 

Elizabeth Taylor (7)

2011

2011

 

Jack Klugman (3)

2012

2012

 

Eric Sykes (3)

2012

2012

 

Clive Dunn

2012

2012

 

Annette Funicello (4)

2013

2013

 

Richard Griffiths

2013

2013

 

Jean Stapleton

2013

2013

 

Mickey Rooney

2014

2014

 

Leonard Nimoy (2)

2015

2015

 

Warren Mitchell

2015

2015

 

Jean Alexander

2016

2016

 

Zsa Zsa Gabor

2016

2016

 

Colin Dexter

2017

2017

 

Mary Tyler Moore (3)

2017

2017

 

Roger Moore

2017

2017

 

Peter Sallis

2017

2017

 

Sean Connery

2020

2020

 

Kirk Douglas (6)

2020

2020

 

Barbara Windsor (2)

2020

2020

 

John Sessions

2020

1998?

 

aka John Marshall

   
 

widely mentioned on Forums

   

 

 

Pick

Year of Death

Last DDP

       

Comedians

George Burns

1996

was a hit in '96

 

Chris Farley

1997

died 18/12/1997

 

Harry Secombe (3)

2001

2001

 

Spike Milligan (12)

2002

2002

 

Bob Hope (13)

2003

2003

 

Richard Pryor (3)

2005

2005

 

Ronnie Barker

2005

2005

 

Charlie Drake

2006

2006

 

Bernard Manning

2007

2007

 

Phyllis Diller

2012

2012

       
       

Musicians

Boxcar Willie

1999

1999

 

Yehudi Menuhin

1999

1998?

 

John Lee Hooker (2)

2001

2001

 

Lane Staley

2002

1998?

 

Sasha Distel

2004

1998?

 

Luther Vandross (1)

2005

2005

 

James Brown

2006

2006

 

Luciano Pavarotti (3)

2007

2007

 

George Melly

2007

2007

 

Michael Jackson (5)

2009

2009

 

Lena Horne (2)

2010

2010

 

Captain Beefheart

2010

2010

 

Scott Weiland

2015

2015

 

Chuck Berry (1)

2017

2017

 

Peter Tork

2019

2019

 

Vera Lynn (3)

2020

2020

 

Lisa Marie Presley

2023

2021

       
       

Writers

Barbara Cartland (12)

2000

2000

 

Eudora Welty

2001

2001, 2000 1998?

 

Alistair Cooke

2004

2004

 

Arthur Hailey

2004

1998?

 

Arthur Miller (2)

2005

2005

 

Hunter S Thompson

2005

1998?

 

Betty Friedan

2006

1998?

 

Arthur C Clarke

2008

2008

 

Martin Amis

2023

1998?

       
       

Social

Quentin Crisp (1)

1999

1998?

 

Paula Yates (3)

2000

2000

has Guardian QO

Raine - Countess Spencer

2016

1998?

       

Entertainment

Helen Rollason

1999

1999

 

Victor Borge

2000

2000, 1998?

 

Billy Wilder

2002

2002

 

Johnny Carson

2005

2005

 

Alan Fluff Freeman

2006

2006

 

Michaelangelo Antonioni

2007

2007

 

Ned Sherrin

2007

1998?

 

Tony Hart

2009

2009

 

Jimmy Saville (4)

2011

2011

 

Max Bygraves

2012

2012

 

David Coleman (2)

2013

2013

Antique Roadshow

Hugh Scully

2015

2008

 

Bruce Forsyth (2)

2017

2017

 

Barry Humphries

2023

2023

       

Science

Patrick Moore

2012

2012

 

Stephen Hawking (2)

2018

2018






 

 

 

It is possible that this was the  Eric Davis picked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Davis_(baseball)

 

He was an MLB all star Baseball player who in 1997 was Diagnosed with Colon Cancer,definitely was one of the biggest news story in Us sport when he was diagnosed.

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On 17/05/2024 at 12:03, Death Impends said:

Short of a rapid deluge in the next day or so, it looks like May 15 was the last day where our rate was at least one per day.

 

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Quite the deluge over the weekend.

 

Now wait.

 

I'm player of the month for April? A first for me. I'll take it. I'd like to thank everybody who made this possible.

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I'm back.

 

Have I missed anything?

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