I've just been perusing the inaugural deathlist from 1987.

Some interesting selections were made there. Obiously, you knew that Les Dawson (56) was not very well. But what was 28-year old racing driver Andrea de Cesaris doing there? He's still with us as far as I can tell. Did he have a reputation for dangerous driving or something?

Anyway, there are four other survivors that I know of:

Ozzy Osbourne
Sir Jimmy Saville
Anna Wing
Cive Dunn

18 years on, some of them still seem to have some gas in the tank.