The 2025 Crowdsourced Deathlist

[Commtech Sio Bibble 2,215]

With 2024 heading into its final 2 months, in keeping with tradition, it seems about the right time to start making the preparations for next year's Crowdsourced Deathlist. Your 2024 list has, so far, absolutely smashed the official list out of the water, let's see if we can do it again. 

 

This is my first year fully hosting, the only change to the rules that I will be making is making entries close a few hours earlier. The rules are below, in case you need a refresher or want to check the new closing time. 

 

THE RULES

 

1. Please send a list of celebrities you wish to vote for to Commtech Sio Bibble (myself), before the deadline. The list must have a minimum of 12 names on it, and a maximum of 50. Yes, this means we are open now.

 

Please send them by either PM or via Shadow List thread, not by email, semaphore, Morse code, Deathlist live chat, animated corpses, text messages, or any other means of communication you can think of. And you may only submit via 1 of those two methods above, NOT BOTH METHODS! Private messaging is preferred. Any entry in the shadow list thread must have myself tagged in it so I know to include your entry.

 

2. Your 1st choice will gain 50 points, 2nd 49, etc etc to 50th which will gain 1 point. This is true even if you only send in 12 names, or 13 names, or 49 names. 

 

3. When the deadline passes, all of the points that an individual celebrity gain will be added together, and the top fifty celebrities with the most points overall will go on the Utterly Unofficial Forum List.

 

4. Feel free to add substitutes at the bottom of the list, which will only be counted if one of your fifty die before January 1st 2024. If for example your number one pick is such a smart one they die before January 1st, then I will give 50 points to your 2nd pick, and so on until 1 point is given to the first substitute.

 

4b) Anyone who wishes to avoid a Pope Benny the Fuckwit Meltdown and just says "oh put my subs in at the number of the person who died" gets 10 post quotes from Comped. 

 

5. Do try to make the picks as "Deathlisty" as possible. More Buffy Sainte-Marie, less Joan Langsford, if you know what I mean. Someone likely to score an obit with one of the major English language news outlets.

 

6. The deadline for sending in entries is 31st December 2024 at 4 pm GMT (or your equivalent local time) This earlier deadline is so everything can be organised and ready for January 1st and so I don't have to sort out submissions whilst drunk/hungover (it is new years eve after all).

 

7. This is essentially a forum game without a winner. It does however put the long held notion by some that the combined minds of the forum know better than the Committee to the test.

 

8. Who picked whom will remain anonymous. Unless the person announces it of course.

 

9. The paranoid probably shouldn't send in their DDP unique hopefuls. Although I have no intention of taking any of them. Plus if they're unique in the DDP they're hardly gonna score big here.

 

10. To keep to the Deathlist spirit, only the top 25 ranked celebrities from the current list of Crowdsourced Deathlist 2024 survivors will be used, this is something for me to worry about, not you...

 

10a) Our actual collated list will stick to the "25 from the previous year" rule.

10b) As a result, if our top fifty, after all votes have been counted, has more than twenty-five of the 2023 survivors, then the lowest ranked excess survivors will be axed from the list in favour of The Fifty-First ranked celebrity and so on...

10c) Since we don't know if that'll be an issue until I actually do the counting, voters don't need to worry about limiting their personal lists to 25 survivors. If you really want to you can include all of the survivors in your entry, it will just reflect poorly on you in my eyes.

 

 

11) Please pick living people. Folk do die before 1st January (that's what subs are for), but there were a few cases of people dead for a number of years chosen last time. Please do not pick animals, or ISIS prisoners, or kids, or any of the usual no go areas.

 

Thank you for participating.

 

Surely Ar Jimmy can't make it long enough to make his 10th appearance.

[Commtech Sio Bibble 2,215]

The List

 

1. Joanne Woodward 950 (8th, 2nd)
2. Ian Smith 908 (NEW)
3. Jean Marie le Pen 891 (3rd, 14th)
4. Noam Chomsky 884 (4th, 5th)
5. Esther Rantzen 836 (2nd, 4th)
6. Peter Yarrow 781 (NEW)
7. Eva Marie Saint 752 (5th, 11th)
8. Jose Mujica 726 (NEW)
9. Dick Van Dyke     669 (4th, 15th)
10. Yoko Ono 660 (6th, 22nd)
11. Roberta Flack 600 (3rd, 6th)
12. Steve McMichael 599 (2nd, 27th)
13. Sophie Kinsella 587 (NEW)
14. Tippi Hedren 567 (NEW)
15. Cleo Laine 565 (2nd, 38th)
16. Linda Nolan 561 (6th, 8th)
17. David Attenborough 559 (3rd, 17th)
18. Imelda Marcos 525 (3rd, 18th)
19. Nigel Starmer-Smith 502 (3rd, 16th)
20. Violeta Chamorro 492 (3rd, 36th)
21. Prunella Scales 453 (4th, -)
22. Joan Plowright 453 (NEW)
23. Julie Goodyear 422 (2nd, 49th)
24. Sonny Rollins    415 (3rd, 23rd)
25. Denis Law 412 (2nd, 45th)
26. Buzz Aldrin 406 (NEW)
27. Michael Tilson Thomas 404 (2nd, 48th)
28. James Watson 399 (3rd, -)
29. Frankie Valli 398 (NEW)
30. Mahathir Mohamad 375 (NEW)
31. Tom Brokaw 367 (NEW)
32. Isabel Peron 341 (2nd, 42nd)
33. Norman Tebbit 340 (4th, 32nd)
34. Mel Brooks 337 (3rd, 24th)
35. Alan Greenspan 335 (2nd, 20th)
36. Bruce Willis 329 (2nd, 26th)
37. Stanley Baxter     316 (3rd, 31st)
38. Gene Hackman 312 (NEW)
39. Pete Murray 293 (NEW)
40. Harvey Weinstein 292 (NEW)
41. Black Bart 291 (NEW)
42. David Irving 280 (NEW)
43. Jean Marsh 267 (2nd, -)
44. Hans Blix 264 (NEW)
45. Antonia Fraser 258 (NEW)
46. Sandy Gall 258 (NEW)
47. George Soros    254 (NEW)
48. Lee Meriwether 246 (NEW)
49. Theo Burrell 245 (NEW)
50. Don King 241 (NEW)

 

 

Dick has not been looking as immortal as of late, maybe his time has come.

[Drewsky1211 4,884]

Crowdsource Form Guide 1:

Tomasz Schafernaker

/annual j

As for the /srs...

 

Crowdsource Form Guide 2:

Chris Hoy

Diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer last year and recently stated it was terminal (2-4 years left to live, very sad that he's only 48).

[CaptainChorizo 2,013]

Crowdsource Form Guide 3:

 

Joan Plowright

 

 

Retired from acting in 2014,her fellow Dame the Late Maggie Smith in an interview several years ago said she was worried about Joan's health.

[Bibliogryphon 9,698]

Just remembered to send my entry for this as I was submitting my Hares and Numbers entry this one was missing

 

 

[arghton 7,037]

Crowdsource Form Guide 4: 

 

 

Violeta Chamorro

 

The perennial immortal, former Nicaraguan President and two-time Crowdsourced-ee (pictured laughing at deadpoolers with Juan Carlos I) has a health history of spinal infections, osteoporosis, injuries, brain tumors and a massive stroke. Now 95, bedbound and in incredibly delicate health for some years with advanced dementia, surely 2025 will be the year she finally dies? 

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,449]

Here is my list and the first public one on this thread 

1) Chris Evert 

2) John Kander 

3) Christina Crawford 

4) Princess Alexandra 

5) Aung  San Suu Kyi

6) Lord Jopling 

7) Vera Miles 

8) Sally Jesse Raphael

9) Joan Bennett Kennedy 

10) Shirley Maclaine 

11) Queen Margrethe 

12) Gerald Seymour 

13) Sidney Cooke 

14) Engelbert  Humperdinck 

15) Salman Rushdie 

16) Roman Polanski 

17) Lee Majors 

18) Ken Livingstone 

19) James D Watson 

20) King Juan Carlos 

21) Alexander  Lukashenko 

22) Bernadette Chirac 

23) Bruce Willis

24) Violeta Chamorro 

25) Marianne Faithfull 

26) Gerald Scarfe 

27)  John  Howard (aussie pm)

28) George Carey 

29) James Van Der Beek 

30) David Steel

31) Geoffrey Boycott 

32) Deirdre Sanders 

33) Alex Ferguson 

34) Fiona Phillips 

35)  Quentin Blake 

36)  Yoko Ono 

37) Imelda Marcos 

38) Denis Law 

39) Angie Dickinson 

40) Akihito (former Japan monarch)

41) Hans Blix 

42) Cleo Laine 

43) Eileen Derbyshire 

44) Douglas Hurd 

45) Julie Goodyear 

46) Sophia Loren 

47) Linda Ronstadt

48)  Ozzy Osborne 

49) Joanne Woodward 

50)  Rupert Murdoch 

 

Subs

 

Linda Nolan 

The Duchess of Kent 

Joan Bakewell 

 

Thank you for your efforts in organising this.  @Commtech Sio Bibble

 

[ladyfiona 2,730]

My team: (0/50)

 

1. Harvey Weinstein
2. James Butts (entrepreneur)
3. Linda Nolan
4. Esther Rantzen
5. Dick van Dyke
6. Nigel McCrery – Screenwriter
7. Peter Yarrow
8. Mary Schmucker
9. Ian Smith (Neighbours actor)
10. Eileen Derbyshire
11. Prunella Scales
12. Julie Goodyear
13. Jane Rossington
14. David Attenborough
15. Imelda Marcos
16. Tom Lehrer
17. Jean-Marie Le Pen
18. Yoko Ono
19. Patricia Greene – Archers actress
20. Theo Burrell
21. Joe Doering (WWE athlete)
22. Norman Tebbit
23. Frankie Vallie
24. Iain Liam Ward (The King Of Chemo) (Youtuber)
25. Virginia Halas McCaskey
26. Tom Baker
27. June Squibb
28. David Lynch
29. Marita Camacho Quirós (first lady)
30. Yang Chen Ning (scientist)
31. Rupert Murdoch
32. Denis Law
33. Billy Connolly
34. Lee Meriwether
35. Wendy Williams
36. Pope Francis
37. Elton John
38. Joan Plowright 
39. Chris Hoy
40. Princess Alexandra
41. Ozzy Osbourne
42. Phil Collins
43. Bruce Willis
44. Steve Gleason
45. Dalai Lama
46. Gene Hackman
47. Hans Herrmann (F1)
48. Stanley Baxter (actor)
49. Queen Ratna of Nepal
50. Eugenia Cooney

 

Subs

 

1. Harvey Weinstein (put in at number 1 as replacement for Jimmy Carter)
2. Isabel Peron

 

[theoldlady 2,380]

Sent a PM with my list. Thanks for doing this! 

[gcreptile 11,300]

I have submitted via PM - my shadow list will be different. Thank you for taking over!

[Commtech Sio Bibble 2,215]

This is your gentle reminder that you have 48 hours to get your picks in for next year's Crowdsourced Deathlist.

 

Thank you to everyone who has already entered a list of names for 2025.

 

I plan on publishing the list sometime around noon on Jan 1st as I will be away from my computer at midnight, and also probably quite drunk.

[livingbygrace 529]

1. Steve McMichael

2.Jean Marie LePen

3.Ian Smith

4.Kaiti Grey

5Harvey Weinstein

6.Cloe Laine

7.Eva Marie Saint

8.Caren Marsh Doll

9.Jack Hanna

10.Ray Anthony

11.David Attenborough

12. Frank Caprio

13. George Soros

14.Rupert Murdoch

15.Tom Troupe

16.John Astin

17.Ted Turner

18.June Lockhart

19.Liza Minnelli

20.Frankie Vallie

21.Rosemary Harris

22.Alan Greenspan

23.Joan Plowright

24.Patricia Routledge

25.Pricilla Pointer

26.Mel Brooks

27.William Daniels

28.Dick VanDyke

29.Angie Dickenson

30.Gene Hackman

31.Clint Eastwood

32.John Williams

33.Vera Miles

34.Tippi Hedren

35.Jim Lovell

36.Buzz Aldrin

37.Bruce Willis

38Shirley MacLaine

39.Dan Rather

40.Tom Brokhaw

41.Alan Oppenheimer

42.Patula Clark

43Don King

44.Chris Hoy

45Willie Nelson

46.Pope Frances

47Yoko Ono

48.Alan Alda

49.Joe Biden

50.Michael Bolton

[BuffaloPhil 974]

My list

 

1. Isabel Veloso

2. Georg Koch

3. Peter Yarrow

4. Marita Camacho Queiros

5. Ryne Sandberg

6. Linda Tirado

7. Esther Rantzen

8. Jimmy Carter

9. Richard "Black Bart" Harris

10. Ian Smith

11. Ludek Miklosko

12. Frank Caprio

13. John Hemingway

14. Agnes Keleti

15. Theo Burrell

16. Caron Marsh Doll

17. Noam Chomsky

18. Steve McMichael

19. Elizabeth Kelly

20. Diana Armfield

21. Linda Ronstadt

22. Frankie Valli

23. Anne Baker

24. Johnnie Walker

25. Pope Francis

26. Violeta Chamorro

27. David Irving

28. Patrick Murray

29. Jacqueline White

30. Dick van Dyke

31. Sidney Cooke

32. Nigel Starmer-Smith

33. Louis Farrakhan

34. Clint Hill

35. Stanley Baxter

36. Dave Blunts

37. James Whale

38. Brenda Milner

39. Kaiti Grey

40. Emily Willis

41. Sonny Rollins

42. Jean-Marie Le Pen

43. Eva Marie Saint

44. Joan Plowright

45. Bruce Willis

46. Prunella Scales

47. Norman Tebbit

48. Imelda Marcos

49.Colin Jeavons

50. Buzz Aldrin

 

Subs

Alix Princess Napoleon

David Attenborough

[Perhaps 1,488]

1. Jimmy Carter
2. Ray Anthony
3. Eva Marie Saint
4. Peter Yarrow
5. Ian Smith
6. Jean-Marie Le Pen
7. Nigel Starmer-Smith
8. Esther Rantzen
9. Joanne Woodward
10. Noam Chomsky
11. Linda Nolan
12. Mahathir Mohamad
13. Dennis Skinner
14. Yoko Ono
15. Jean Marsh
16. Tippi Hedren
17. Katherine Jackson
18. Cindy Birdsong
19. Julie Goodyear
20. Pope Francis
21. Frankie Valli
22. Antonia Fraser
23. Sophie Kinsella
24. Sidney Cooke
25. Roberta Flack
26. Sonny Rollins
27. Douglas Hurd
28. James Whale
29. Buzz Aldrin
30. Joan Plowright
31. Denis Law
32. June Lockhart
33. José Mujica
34. Mike Ditka
35. Len Deighton
36. Alan Greenspan
37. David Irving
38. Alan Oppenheimer
39. Leontyne Price
40. Prunella Scales
41. Harald V
42. Desmond Morris
43. John Williams
44. Tom Lehrer
45. Lee Meriwether
46. David Attenborough
47. Dick van Dyke
48. Brian Wilson
49. Bill Cosby
50. Harvey Weinstein

[Commtech Sio Bibble 2,215]

Well that's plans for this evening sorted.

[Charles De Gaulle 505]

1. Eugenia Cooney 

2. Prunella Scales 

3. Joanne Woodward 

4. Ruth Buzzi 

5. Edie McClurg

6. Valerie Perrine 

7. Jose Mujica 

8. Zhu Rhongi 

9. Mathair Muhammad 

10. Frank Valli 

11. Frank Caprio 

12. Sonny Rollins

13. Roberta Flack

14. Tippi Hedren 

15. Lee Meriweather 

16. Bruce Willis

17. David Lynch 

18. David Irving 

19. Gene Hackman

20. Michael Bolton 

21. Phill Collins 

22. Michael York

23. Ted Turner 

24. Brian Wilson

25. Eric Clapton

26. Chris Rea

27. Chevy Chase 

28. Vince McMahon 

29. Jesse Jackson 

30. Noam Chomsky 

31. Ion Illescu 

32. Nick Nolte 

33. Gary Busey

34. Brian Blessed

35. Jean Marie Le Pen

36. Song Ping

37. Michael Tilson Thomas

38. Ian Smith

39. Esther Rantzen

40. Sophie Kinsella 

41.  Queen Ratna

42. Joseph Estranda 

43. Paul Hogan

44. Lindsay Buckingham 

45. Dick Button

46. Clint Hill

47. Jane Fonda 

48. Dick Van Dyke

49. Ozzy Osborne 

50. Mitch McConnell 

[Sean 6,562]

1)Peter Yarrow

2)Ian Smith

3)Esther Rantzen

4)Jean Marie Le Pen

5)Noam Chomsky

6)Joanne Woodward

7)Roberta Flack

8)Agnes Keleti

9)Prunella Scales 

10)Cleo Laine

11)Nigel Starmer Smith

12)Stanley Baxter

13)Eva Marie Saint

14)Dick Van Dyke

15)Pete Murray

16)Buzz Aldrin

17)David Attenborough

18)Sandy Gall

19)Yoko Ono

20)David Irving

21)Geoffrey Boycott

22)Denis Law

23)Jose Mujica

24)Sonny Rollins

25)Ray Anthony

26)Mahatahir Mohamad

27)Gene Shalit

28)Julie Goodyear

29)Michael Tilson Thomas

30)Mel Brooks

31)Imelda Marcos 

32)Sophie Kinsella

33)William Daniels

34)Priscilla Pointer

35)James D Watson

36)Tippi Hedren

37)Teddie Beverley

38)Roy Clarke

39)Bruce Willis

40)Johnnie Walker

41)Ludek Miklosko

42)Harvey Weinstein

43)Gene Hackman

44)Clint Eastwood

45)Don King

46)John Williams

47)Ted Turner

48)Robert Wagner

49)Douglas Hurd

50)King Charles III

[Drewsky1211 4,884]

Time to reveal my 2025 list (for inclusion @Commtech Sio Bibble):

 

1. Noam Chomsky (97, Cunning linguist, 13)

2. Eva Marie Saint (101, Actress, 11)

3. Joanne Woodward (95, Actress, 8)

4. Jean-Marie Le Pen (97, Holocaust denier, 26)

5. Esther Rantzen (85, That's Life presenter, 10)

6. Mel Brooks (99, Comedy director, 7)

7. June Lockhart (100, Lost in Space/Lassie mom, 12)

8. Dick Van Dyke (100, Actor, 18)

9. Stanley Baxter (99, Actor, 15)

10. Gene Shalit (99, Critic, 14)

11. Tippi Hedren (95, Actress, NEW)

12. Alan Greenspan (99, Ex-Federal Reserve chairman, 6)

13. Cleo Laine (98, Jazz singer, 22)

14. David Attenborough (99, Nature's narrator, 16)

15. Yoko Ono (92, Beatle splitter, 24)

16. Leontyne Price (98, Opera singer, -)

17. Tom Lehrer (97, Musical comedian/Jello shot inventor, 23)

18. Roberta Flack (88, Singer, 17)

19. Frankie Valli (91, Four Season, -)

20. James Watson (97, Casual scientific racist, 21)

21. Joan Plowright (96, Actress, NEW)

22. Buzz Aldrin (95, Moonwalker, -)

23. Hans Blix (97, WMD inspector, -)

24. Peter Yarrow (87, Folk singer, NEW)

25. Antonia Fraser (93, Author, NEW)

26. Ted Turner (87, Captain Planet, 32)

27. Gene Hackman (95, Actor, 35)

28. George Soros (95, Conspiracy magnet, 38)

29. John Astin (95, Gomez Addams, -)

30. Don King (94, Wrestling announcer, -)

31. Norman Tebbit (94, Thatcherite politician, 31)

32. James Baker (95, Former Sec of State, NEW)

33. Linda Nolan (66, Singer, 25)

34. Sonny Rollins (95, Jazz Musician, NEW)

35. Phil Robertson (79, Duck Dynasty star, NEW)

36. Tom Brokaw (85, Newscaster, NEW)

37. Bruce Willis (70, Actor, 34)

38. James Van Der Beek (48, Dawson Leery, NEW)

39. Brian Wilson (83, Beach Boy, NEW)

40. David Lynch (79, Filmmaker, NEW)

41. Shirley MacLaine (91, Actress, NEW)

42. Harvey Weinstein (73, Sex Pest, -)

43. Wendy Williams (61, TV personality, NEW)

44. Rupert Murdoch (94, "News" magnate, 41)

45. Warren Buffett (95, Centibillionaire investor, NEW)

46. John Williams (93, Composer, -)

47. Randy Moss (48, Football player, NEW)

48. Harald V (88, King of Norway, NEW)

49. Clint Eastwood (95, Dirty Harry, 46)

50. Charles III (77, British king, NEW)

 

Subs:

Bob Cousy (97, Basketball legend)

Bobby Vinton (90, Mr. Lonely)

Alan Oppenheimer (95, Skeletor)

[The Old Crem 3,703]

Entry submitted via PM.

[Prophet 256]

My List:

1. Ian Smith (actor)

2. Georg Koch

3. Rick 'Black Bart' Harris

4. Sophie Kinsella

5. Steve McMichael

6. Wade MacLeod

7. Peter Yarrow

8. Nigel Latta

9. Marita Camacho Quiros

10. Ludek Miklosko

11. Khamtai Siphandone

12. György Kurtag

13. V. S. Achuthanandan

14. Noam Chomsky

15. Eleonora Giorgi

16. Linda Nolan

17. Esther Rantzen

18. Tippi Hedren

19. Joe Doering

20. Jose Mujica

21. Rolf Schimpf

22. Eva Marie Saint

23. Violeta Chamorro

24. James Whale

25. Miguel Pinera

26. Chuwit Kamolvisit

27. Jack Hanna

28. Roberta Flack

29. Michael Tilson Thomas

30. David H. Murdock

31. Joanne Woodward

32. Jean-Marie Le Pen

33. Rita Süssmuth

34. Wang Xiji

35. Dick Van Dyke

36. Alexander Mitta

37. Mahathir Mohamed

38. Ray Anthony

39. Cindy Birdsong

40. William Webster

41. John Cruickshank

42. Oscar Wyatt

43. Nigel Starmer-Smith

44. Eddie Jordan

45. Bill Dundee

46. Jack Thompson

47. Yoko Ono

48. Tom Brokaw

49. David Attenborough

50. Harvey Weinstein

Subs:

1. Buzz Aldrin

2. Katherine Karadordevic

3. Mel Brooks

4. Phil Robertson

5. Rosemary Harris

[Commtech Sio Bibble 2,215]

And.... we are now shut for entries...

[Commtech Sio Bibble 2,215]

DROPS (In order of most points received to least)

Patricia Routledge, Douglas Hurd, Vanessa Redgrave, Tom Lehrer, Tom Baker, Jim Lovell, Vera Miles, Patrick Murray

 

DQ’D (due to only 25 names from 2024 carrying over)
Dennis Skinner, Pope Francis, James Whale 

 

NEAR MISSES

Ted Turner, Ruth Buzzi, Ray Anthony, Geoffrey Boycott, Luděk Mikloško

 

Full list will be out around midday tomorrow
 

[CaptainChorizo 2,013]

Surprised Ludek was so close,looks like he would have made it if the news about him came 24-48 hours earlier

[msc 18,671]

Wow Patrick Murray cratered!

[Commtech Sio Bibble 2,215]

Earlier this evening I broke my nose whilst leaving the house, I will get the list out as soon as I can, but it is unlikely that it'll be when I previously suggested.