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@Predictor asked a while back who had received the most votes across all the "nth death of 20xx" polls. Well, here's the answer. Brackers is our strongest survivor, and with a bit of luck she could be the GOAT. She's beaten Kirk in under 3 years!

 

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  1. 471 Zsa Zsa Gabor
  2. 459 Billy Graham
  3. 364 Kirk Douglas
  4. 363 Leah Bracknell
  5. 345 NO MORE HITS
  6. 261 Herman Wouk
  7. 242 Prince Philip*
  8. 219 George Bush Sr
  9. 207 Vera Lynn*
  10. 191 Clive Dunn
  11. 184 Bob Dole*
  12. 179 Ronnie Biggs
  13. 184 Javier Perez de Cuellar
  14. 176 Olivia de Havilland*
  15. 136 King Michael of Romania
  16. 131 Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
  17. 131 Leslie Phillips*
  18. 118 Nobby Stiles*
  19. 117 Clive James
  20. 115 Oscar Niemeyer
  21. 113 Bhumibol Adulyadej
  22. 113 Martin Crowe
  23. 113 Robert Mugabe
  24. 111 Stirling Moss*
  25. 107 Nelson Mandela
  26. 107 Margaret Thatcher
  27. 104 Peter Sallis
  28. 98 Sam Simon
  29. 92 Bruce Forsyth
  30. 87 Joāo Havelange
  31. 86 Denis Norden
  32. 80 Claude Levi-Strauss
  33. 75 General Jaruzelski
  34. 73 Jimmy Carter*
  35. 72 Tom Smith*
  36. 72 Norman Wisdom
  37. 70 Al Molinaro
  38. 70 Ariel Sharon
  39. 68 Valerie Harper
  40. 66 Ginger Baker
  41. 66 Jake LaMotta
  42. 65 Errol Christie
  43. 64 Pierre Cardin*
  44. 64 Fidel Castro
  45. 63 Hosni Mubarak
  46. 62 Fats Domino
  47. 61 Glen Campbell
  48. 61 Joost van der Westhuizen
  49. 60 Bob Barker*
  50. 60 John McCain
  51. 60 Daniel arap Moi
  52. 59 Genesis P-Orridge
  53. 57 Chapman Pincher
  54. 52 Henry Kissinger*
  55. 51 Stan Lee
  56. 51 Patrick Swayze
  57. 50 Pope Benedict XVI
  58. 50 Tammy Faye Messner
  59. 49 Jill Gascoine
  60. 48 Yitzhak Shamir
  61. 47 Peter Carrington
  62. 46 Nancy Reagan
  63. 45 Richard Adams
  64. 45 Brooke Astor
  65. 44 Gerald Ford
  66. 41 Hugo Chavez
  67. 40 Susan Atkins
  68. 40 Jimmy Greaves
  69. 40 Helmut Kohl
  70. 40 Suharto
  71. 37 Tessa Jowell
  72. 36 Sydney Pollack
  73. 35 Michael Foot
  74. 35 Harold Pinter
  75. 35 Murray Walker*
  76. 34 Jerry Lewis
  77. 34 Desmond Tutu*
  78. 33 Tony Booth
  79. 33 Betty Ford
  80. 33 Bernie Nolan
  81. 33 Erich Priebke
  82. 33 Prunella Scales*
  83. 32 Peter O'Sullevan
  84. 32 Eli Wallach
  85. 31 Valery Giscard d'Estaing*
  86. 31 Hugh Hefner
  87. 31 Mikhail Kalashnikov
  88. 30 Ian Brady
  89. 30 Denis Healey
  90. 29 Jacques Chirac
  91. 29 Liz Dawn
  92. 29 Stephen Hawking
  93. 29 Lady Bird Johnson
  94. 28 Anna Wing
  95. 27 Johnny Clegg
  96. 27 Mikhail Gorbachev
  97. 27 Dom Mintoff
  98. 27 Liz Smith
  99. 26 Gord Downie
  100. 26 Mark Felt
  101. 26 Charlton Heston
  102. 26 Dino de Laurentiis
  103. 26 Bobby Robson
  104. 26 Helmut Schmidt
  105. 26 Elizabeth Taylor
  106. 25 Honor Blackman*
  107. 25 Etta James
  108. 25 Jerry Stiller*
  109. 24 Stanley Baxter
  110. 23 John Demjanjuk
  111. 22 Sandy Gall
  112. 22 Robin Gibb
  113. 22 Patrick Moore
  114. 21 Queen Elizabeth II
  115. 21 Dennis Hopper
  116. 21 Little Richard
  117. 21 Alex Trebek*
  118. 21 Betty White*
  119. 20 Paul Gascoigne
  120. 20 Herbert Lom
  121. 20 Gough Whitlam
  122. 19 Tony Britton
  123. 19 Doris Day
  124. 19 Luise Rainer
  125. 19 Peter Sutcliffe*
  126. 18 John McCririck
  127. 18 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  128. 18 Dick Van Dyke*
  129. 17 Joseph Barbera
  130. 17 Charles Haughey
  131. 17 Leon Spinks*
  132. 16 Patty Andrews
  133. 16 Albert Hofmann
  134. 16 Christopher Lee
  135. 16 Cliff Michelmore
  136. 16 John Noakes
  137. 15 Chuck Berry
  138. 15 Henry Cecil
  139. 15 P. D. James
  140. 15 Kim Jong-il
  141. 15 B.B. King
  142. 15 Patrick Macnee
  143. 15 Maureen O'Hara
  144. 15 Sidney Poitier
  145. 15 Neil Simon
  146. 15 Chris Woodhead
  147. 14 James Garner
  148. 14 Cleo Laine
  149. 14 Harper Lee
  150. 14 Tony Martin
  151. 14 Ian Paisley
  152. 14 David Prowse
  153. 14 Cyril Smith
  154. 13 Muhammad Ali
  155. 13 Abdelaziz Bouteflika*
  156. 13 Ray Bradbury
  157. 13 Wilko Johnson
  158. 13 Larry King
  159. 13 Jack Klugman
  160. 13 Shane MacGowan*
  161. 13 Barbara Walters
  162. 12 Doug Ellis
  163. 12 Alan Greenspan*
  164. 12 George Melly
  165. 12 Mary Tyler Moore
  166. 12 James Randi
  167. 12 Mickey Rooney
  168. 12 Ravi Shankar
  169. 11 Emperor Akihito*
  170. 11 Richard Attenborough
  171. 11 Gordon Banks
  172. 11 Ken Kercheval
  173. 11 Charles Lane
  174. 11 Eddie Large
  175. 11 Loretta Lynn
  176. 11 Harry Morgan
  177. 11 Robert Novak
  178. 11 J. D. Salinger
  179. 10 Ed Asner
  180. 10 Harry Belafonte*
  181. 10 June Brown
  182. 10 Gay Byrne
  183. 10 Blake Edwards
  184. 10 Laurent Fignon
  185. 10 Jean-Marie Le Pen*
  186. 10 Simon MacCorkindale
  187. 10 Bill Maynard
  188. 10 General Pinochet
  189. 10 Levi Stubbs
  190. 9 Basil D'Oliveira
  191. 9 Fergie Frederiksen
  192. 9 Bob Godfrey
  193. 9 Edward Kennedy
  194. 8 Angela Lansbury*
  195. 9 Peter O'Toole
  196. 8 Walter Cronkite
  197. 8 John Kenneth Galbraith
  198. 8 Ernest Gallo
  199. 8 Bob Hawke
  200. 7 Charles Aznavour
  201. 7 Lauren Bacall
  202. 7 Ingmar Bergman
  203. 7 George Cole
  204. 7 Jacques Delors*
  205. 7 Louis Farrakhan
  206. 7 Joni Mitchell
  207. 7 Linda Nolan
  208. 7 Robert M. Pirsig
  209. 7 David Rockefeller
  210. 7 Ian St John
  211. 7 Eric Sykes
  212. 7 Shaw Taylor
  213. 7 Simon Wiesenthal
  214. 7 Joanne Woodward*
  215. 6 Captain Beefheart
  216. 6 Barbara Bush
  217. 6 David Crosby*
  218. 6 John Edrich*
  219. 6 Vaclav Havel
  220. 6 Pervez Musharraf*
  221. 6 Olivia Newton-John
  222. 6 Carl Reiner*
  223. 6 Oral Roberts
  224. 6 George Steinbrenner
  225. 6 Bill Tarmey
  226. 6 Abe Vigoda
  227. 5 Ernest Borgnine
  228. 5 Sean Connery
  229. 5 William H Gates*
  230. 5 Jesse Helms
  231. 5 Geoffrey Hughes
  232. 5 Casey Kasem
  233. 5 Al Lewis
  234. 5 Dai Llewellyn
  235. 5 Imelda Marcos*
  236. 5 Willie Nelson*
  237. 5 Lester Piggott*
  238. 5 Francis Pym
  239. 5 Gerry Rafferty
  240. 5 Alfredo di Stefano
  241. 5 Frank Thornton
  242. 5 Tina Turner
  243. 4 Tariq Aziz
  244. 4 Frank Bough
  245. 4 Mel Brooks
  246. 4 Tommy Chong
  247. 4 Bill Deedes
  248. 4 Michael Douglas
  249. 4 Harlan Ellison
  250. 4 Aretha Franklin
  251. 4 Milton Friedman
  252. 4 Michael Gough
  253. 4 Terry Jones
  254. 4 Hamid Karzai
  255. 4 Ludovic Kennedy
  256. 4 Karl Malden
  257. 4 Les Paul
  258. 4 Jake "The Snake" Roberts
  259. 4 Pete Seeger
  260. 4 Elaine Stritch
  261. 3 Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  262. 3 Bo Diddley
  263. 3 John Forsythe
  264. 3 Diana Wynne Jones
  265. 3 Kirk Kerkorian
  266. 3 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
  267. 3 Byron Nelson
  268. 3 Nicholas Parsons
  269. 3 Terry Pratchett
  270. 3 Reg Presley
  271. 3 Vanessa Redgrave
  272. 3 William Rehnquist
  273. 3 Richard Widmark
  274. 3 Michael Winner
  275. 2 Ruth Bader Ginsburg*
  276. 2 P. W. Botha
  277. 2 Arthur C. Clarke
  278. 2 Tony Curtis
  279. 2 Nigel Lawson
  280. 2 Vincent O'Brien
  281. 2 Rosa Parks
  282. 2 Rowdy Roddy Piper
  283. 2 Lou Rawls
  284. 2 Claire Rayner
  285. 2 Wendy Richard
  286. 2 Mark E. Smith
  287. 2 Aaron Spelling
  288. 2 Charles Taylor
  289. 2 Kurt Waldheim
  290. 2 Russell Watson
  291. 2 Ronnie Wood
  292. 2 Jane Wyman
  293. 2 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  294. 1 David Attenborough*
  295. 1 Seve Ballesteros
  296. 1 Tony Bennett*
  297. 1 Dick Cheney*
  298. 1 Elizabeth Edwards
  299. 1 Tim Johnson
  300. 1 Jack Kevorkian
  301. 1 Stanley Kunitz
  302. 1 Ruby Muhammad
  303. 1 John Nash
  304. 1 Leonard Nimoy
  305. 1 Gore Vidal
  306. 1 Caspar Weinberger
  307. 1 Harry Belafonte*
  308. 0 Sid Caesar
  309. 0 Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
  310. 0 Edmund Hillary
  311. 0 Frankie Laine
  312. 0 Diego Maradona
  313. 0 John Profumo
  314. 0 Richard Pryor
  315. 0 Ian Smith
  316. 0 Peter Tork

 

 

174 188 poll results went into this. This is the very first one, which Ronnie Biggs won easily. In 2005.

 

 

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Last but not least, I updated the list of longest surviving picks on Page 6. There are 18 fresh cadavers and a title change - Charles Aznavour, originally a 1990 alumnus, was the 10th hit of 2018.

 

All three threads are rolling from now on.

 

Promise I won't bump this thread for a wee while :lol:

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21 hours ago, Clorox Bleachman said:

@Predictor asked a while back who had received the most votes across all the "nth death of 20xx" polls. Well, here's the answer. Brackers is our strongest survivor, and with a bit of luck she could be the GOAT. She's beaten Kirk in under 3 years!

 

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  1. 471 Zsa Zsa Gabor
  2. 459 Billy Graham
  3. 341 Leah Bracknell*
  4. 283 NO MORE HITS
  5. 275 Kirk Douglas*
  6. 261 Herman Wouk
  7. 219 George Bush Sr
  8. 191 Clive Dunn
  9. 179 Ronnie Biggs
  10. 138 Olivia de Havilland*
  11. 136 King Michael of Romania
  12. 131 Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
  13. 123 Vera Lynn*
  14. 115 Oscar Niemeyer
  15. 114 Leslie Phillips
  16. 113 Bhumibol Adulyadej
  17. 113 Martin Crowe
  18. 112 Javier Perez de Cuellar*
  19. 111 Prince Philip*
  20. 108 Bob Dole*
  21. 107 Nelson Mandela
  22. 107 Margaret Thatcher
  23. 104 Peter Sallis
  24. 103 Robert Mugabe*
  25. 98 Clive James*
  26. 98 Sam Simon
  27. 92 Bruce Forsyth
  28. 87 Joāo Havelange
  29. 86 Denis Norden
  30. 80 Claude Levi-Strauss
  31. 75 General Jaruzelski
  32. 72 Norman Wisdom
  33. 70 Al Molinaro
  34. 70 Ariel Sharon
  35. 68 Stirling Moss*
  36. 66 Jake LaMotta
  37. 65 Errol Christie
  38. 64 Fidel Castro
  39. 62 Fats Domino
  40. 61 Glen Campbell
  41. 61 Valerie Harper*
  42. 61 Joost van der Westhuizen
  43. 60 John McCain
  44. 60 Nobby Stiles*
  45. 57 Chapman Pincher
  46. 56 Hosni Mubarak*
  47. 51 Stan Lee
  48. 51 Patrick Swayze
  49. 50 Pope Benedict XVI
  50. 50 Tammy Faye Messner
  51. 49 Jill Gascoine
  52. 48 Yitzhak Shamir
  53. 47 Peter Carrington
  54. 46 Nancy Reagan
  55. 45 Richard Adams
  56. 45 Brooke Astor
  57. 45 Pierre Cardin*
  58. 44 Gerald Ford
  59. 43 Bob Barker*
  60. 41 Hugo Chavez
  61. 40 Susan Atkins
  62. 40 Helmut Kohl
  63. 40 Suharto
  64. 39 Henry Kissinger*
  65. 37 Tessa Jowell
  66. 36 Jimmy Carter*
  67. 36 Sydney Pollack
  68. 35 Michael Foot
  69. 35 Harold Pinter
  70. 34 Jerry Lewis
  71. 33 Tony Booth
  72. 33 Betty Ford
  73. 33 Bernie Nolan
  74. 33 Erich Priebke
  75. 32 Peter O'Sullevan
  76. 32 Eli Wallach
  77. 31 Hugh Hefner
  78. 31 Mikhail Kalashnikov
  79. 30 Ian Brady
  80. 30 Denis Healey
  81. 29 Liz Dawn
  82. 29 Stephen Hawking
  83. 29 Lady Bird Johnson
  84. 28 Anna Wing
  85. 27 Johnny Clegg
  86. 27 Dom Mintoff
  87. 27 Liz Smith
  88. 26 Gord Downie
  89. 26 Mark Felt
  90. 26 Charlton Heston
  91. 26 Dino de Laurentiis
  92. 26 Bobby Robson
  93. 26 Helmut Schmidt
  94. 26 Elizabeth Taylor
  95. 26 Desmond Tutu*
  96. 25 Etta James
  97. 24 Stanley Baxter
  98. 24 Jimmy Greaves*
  99. 23 Jacques Chirac*
  100. 23 John Demjanjuk
  101. 22 Sandy Gall
  102. 22 Robin Gibb
  103. 22 Patrick Moore
  104. 21 Queen Elizabeth II
  105. 21 Dennis Hopper
  106. 21 Prunella Scales*
  107. 20 Paul Gascoigne
  108. 20 Herbert Lom
  109. 20 Gough Whitlam
  110. 19 Doris Day
  111. 19 Luise Rainer
  112. 18 John McCririck
  113. 18 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  114. 17 Joseph Barbera
  115. 17 Charles Haughey
  116. 17 Murray Walker*
  117. 16 Patty Andrews
  118. 16 Albert Hofmann
  119. 16 Christopher Lee
  120. 16 Cliff Michelmore
  121. 16 John Noakes
  122. 15 Chuck Berry
  123. 15 Honor Blackman*
  124. 15 Henry Cecil
  125. 15 P. D. James
  126. 15 Kim Jong-il
  127. 15 B.B. King
  128. 15 Patrick Macnee
  129. 15 Maureen O'Hara
  130. 15 Neil Simon
  131. 15 Chris Woodhead
  132. 14 Dick Van Dyke*
  133. 14 James Garner
  134. 14 Valery Giscard d'Estaing*
  135. 14 Harper Lee
  136. 14 Tony Martin
  137. 14 Ian Paisley
  138. 14 David Prowse
  139. 14 Cyril Smith
  140. 14 Betty White*
  141. 13 Muhammad Ali
  142. 13 Ray Bradbury
  143. 13 Wilko Johnson
  144. 13 Jack Klugman
  145. 12 Doug Ellis
  146. 12 George Melly
  147. 12 Mary Tyler Moore
  148. 12 James Randi
  149. 12 Mickey Rooney
  150. 12 Ravi Shankar
  151. 11 Richard Attenborough
  152. 11 Gordon Banks
  153. 11 Ken Kercheval
  154. 11 Charles Lane
  155. 11 Eddie Large
  156. 11 Harry Morgan
  157. 11 Robert Novak
  158. 11 J. D. Salinger
  159. 11 Jerry Stiller*
  160. 10 Gay Byrne
  161. 10 Blake Edwards
  162. 10 Laurent Fignon
  163. 10 Simon MacCorkindale
  164. 10 Bill Maynard
  165. 10 General Pinochet
  166. 10 Levi Stubbs
  167. 9 Tony Britton*
  168. 9 Basil D'Oliveira
  169. 9 Fergie Frederiksen
  170. 9 Bob Godfrey
  171. 9 Mikhail Gorbachev*
  172. 9 Edward Kennedy
  173. 9 Cleo Laine*
  174. 9 Peter O'Toole
  175. 8 Walter Cronkite
  176. 8 John Kenneth Galbraith
  177. 8 Ernest Gallo
  178. 8 Bob Hawke
  179. 7 Emperor Akihito*
  180. 7 Charles Aznavour
  181. 7 Lauren Bacall
  182. 7 Ingmar Bergman
  183. 7 June Brown*
  184. 7 George Cole
  185. 7 Louis Farrakhan
  186. 7 Joni Mitchell
  187. 7 Linda Nolan
  188. 7 Robert M. Pirsig
  189. 7 David Rockefeller
  190. 7 Ian St John
  191. 7 Eric Sykes
  192. 7 Shaw Taylor
  193. 7 Barbara Walters*
  194. 7 Simon Wiesenthal
  195. 6 Captain Beefheart
  196. 6 Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  197. 6 Barbara Bush
  198. 6 Vaclav Havel
  199. 6 Olivia Newton-John
  200. 6 Little Richard*
  201. 6 Oral Roberts
  202. 6 George Steinbrenner
  203. 6 Bill Tarmey
  204. 6 Abe Vigoda
  205. 5 Ernest Borgnine
  206. 5 Sean Connery
  207. 5 Jesse Helms
  208. 5 Geoffrey Hughes
  209. 5 Casey Kasem
  210. 5 Al Lewis
  211. 5 Dai Llewellyn
  212. 5 Loretta Lynn*
  213. 5 Shane MacGowan*
  214. 5 Sidney Poitier*
  215. 5 Francis Pym
  216. 5 Gerry Rafferty
  217. 5 Alfredo di Stefano
  218. 5 Frank Thornton
  219. 4 Ed Asner*
  220. 4 Tariq Aziz
  221. 4 Harry Belafonte*
  222. 4 Frank Bough
  223. 4 Mel Brooks
  224. 4 Tommy Chong
  225. 4 Bill Deedes
  226. 4 Michael Douglas
  227. 4 John Edrich
  228. 4 Harlan Ellison
  229. 4 Aretha Franklin
  230. 4 Milton Friedman
  231. 4 Michael Gough
  232. 4 Alan Greenspan*
  233. 4 Hamid Karzai
  234. 4 Ludovic Kennedy
  235. 4 Larry King*
  236. 4 Angela Lansbury
  237. 4 Karl Malden
  238. 4 Les Paul
  239. 4 Jake "The Snake" Roberts
  240. 4 Pete Seeger
  241. 4 Elaine Stritch
  242. 3 Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  243. 3 Bo Diddley
  244. 3 John Forsythe
  245. 3 Diana Wynne Jones
  246. 3 Kirk Kerkorian
  247. 3 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
  248. 3 Byron Nelson
  249. 3 Nicholas Parsons
  250. 3 Lester Piggott
  251. 3 Terry Pratchett
  252. 3 Reg Presley
  253. 3 Vanessa Redgrave*
  254. 3 William Rehnquist
  255. 3 Tina Turner*
  256. 3 Richard Widmark
  257. 3 Michael Winner
  258. 2 Ginger Baker*
  259. 2 P. W. Botha
  260. 2 Arthur C. Clarke
  261. 2 Tony Curtis
  262. 2 Nigel Lawson
  263. 2 Vincent O'Brien
  264. 2 Rosa Parks
  265. 2 Rowdy Roddy Piper
  266. 2 Lou Rawls
  267. 2 Claire Rayner
  268. 2 Wendy Richard
  269. 2 Mark E. Smith
  270. 2 Aaron Spelling
  271. 2 Charles Taylor
  272. 2 Kurt Waldheim
  273. 2 Russell Watson
  274. 2 Ronnie Wood
  275. 2 Jane Wyman
  276. 2 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  277. 1 Seve Ballesteros
  278. 1 Tony Bennett
  279. 1 Dick Cheney
  280. 1 Elizabeth Edwards
  281. 1 Tim Johnson
  282. 1 Jack Kevorkian
  283. 1 Stanley Kunitz
  284. 1 Ruby Muhammad
  285. 1 John Nash
  286. 1 Leonard Nimoy
  287. 1 Gore Vidal
  288. 1 Caspar Weinberger
  289. 0 Sid Caesar
  290. 0 Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
  291. 0 Edmund Hillary
  292. 0 Frankie Laine
  293. 0 Diego Maradona
  294. 0 John Profumo
  295. 0 Richard Pryor
  296. 0 Ian Smith
  297. 0 Peter Tork

 

 

174 poll results went into this. This is the very first one, which Ronnie Biggs won easily. In 2005.

 

 

Brilliant work, Clorox. Must've taken a lot of time and effort to make this. Leah's points is higher than I had expected, although her debut year (2017) had a record of 17 different polls.

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Joey's subtle brag other day in the DDP got me thinking of how long folk have spent (cumulatively) in days at top of the DDP.  Best, I can tell, it's something like this:

 

1.      DDT -1204 days

2.      Drunkasaskunk –844 

3. TJS 660

3.      Nick J  - 579 (circa - 1996 records lost)

5.      Otis – 544

6.      Spade -504

7.      OoO – 357

8.      Golden Slumbers - 328

9.      Go Fish - 277

10.   Joe Ram - 255

11.   Whittakers Choice – 237

12.   Fallen Sparrow – 230

13.   Heaven Knows They’re Miserable Now - 226

14.   Meet your maker – 207

15.   MT Graves -206

16. JoeyRuss 157

17.   Groblers  - 151

18.   Ed K – 143

19. Rad Guy 139

20. Love Boat 136

21.   Tonight Matthew - 135

22.   One Foot in the Grave - 127

23.   Tim R – 120

24.   I Smell Dead People – 118

25.   Drol – 108

26. Chorizo 106

27.   Deathlist.net 92

28.   Going Underground - 78

29.   No Noose is Good Noose - 74

30.   Hoppo – 68

31.   Godot – 67

32 Pan Breed - 64

33.   GUN Away - 59

34.   Crazycarl -58

35.   Dead Men Walking, Eejit – 57

36.   Finnbarr - 55

37.   Rude Kid,  – 48

38.   TMIB -47

39.   Stab in the Dark 45

40.   Pity Da Foolz - 40

41.   Steve L – 39

42.   Ghoulish Guesses – 36

43.   Toast – 35

44.   Rot in Hell John - 34

45.   Mortal Wombat, Only Fools and Corpses, Caulkhead - 28

46.   Death from Above, Taking the Michael, Ethnic Cleansing - 27

47.   Dave J, Big Iain 26

48.    ‘arry-kiri, Gawn – 23

49.   Shameless - 21

50.   Faster Pussycat – 20

51.   Final Showdown – 19

52.   This Mortal Coil - 15

53.   Better you than me, The don, George lass, Girlfriend in a coma, Romancing the headstone, Umish, Unspiritualist, You Could be a Little Street Sweeper – 14

54.   Doffin Codgers, Romancing the Headstone – 12

55.   Puzlman’s, Noz4news, Already Dead, Shake Rattle Roll Over – 8

56.   Canadian Paul, Destination Eschaton, Maryport - 7

57.   Misers, Daniel Faradays Notebook – 6

58.   Miss Chief, Juicy Janny, Inigo, Stardust, Stardust, Chemo Sabee, Loving Angels Instead – 5

59.   Captain Hemlock, Dead last, Eternity Tours, Francis of Arse-Easy, Grim McGraw, Last of the Summer Winos - 4

60.   Sumo, Jesus Jones, Robbinsdale High School Memorial, YOUREOUT, House of Soon to be with the Lord, Roasting Bodies in Redcar- 2

61.   They Died.., Good Bad and Cliff Richard, Researched to Death, I’m a Celeb, Toast of the Turf, Paint the Town Dead, Tentoesup– 1

Last updated - 27th November 2020

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I notice that with Jacques Chirac's death, there's now a 26-year-gap in between the tenures of living French presidents (Giscard D'Estaing to Sarkozy). Definitely the longest gap for French presidents, but that begs the question of what the longest gap is, past or present, worldwide?

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6 hours ago, Death Impends said:

I notice that with Jacques Chirac's death, there's now a 26-year-gap in between the tenures of living French presidents (Giscard D'Estaing to Sarkozy). Definitely the longest gap for French presidents, but that begs the question of what the longest gap is, past or present, worldwide?

 

38 years between Carter and Obama

 

48 ( 49 soon) years seems to be the best I can find.  That's is ex Chancellor's of Austria.  Sebastian kurz  33 and franz vranitzky 81 soon to be 82. 

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11 minutes ago, the_engineer said:

 

38 years between Carter and Obama

 

48 ( 49 soon) years seems to be the best I can find.  That's is ex Chancellor's of Austria.  Sebastian kurz  33 and franz vranitzky 81 soon to be 82. 

I think DI is talking about the gap between the tenures of living presidents, not their overall ages

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Yeah, for instance there's currently a gap of 12 years in the US since Carter is alive but Reagan and Bush Sr immediately after him are dead.

 

The US record seems to be about 12 years and a month, as Millard Fillmore outlived Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln. Herbert Hoover, who outlived FDR, held a shorter gap than Fillmore by mere days.

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1 hour ago, Joey Russ said:

I think DI is talking about the gap between the tenures of living presidents, not their overall ages

 

Ahh right.  Completely skipped over the word tenures  and just saw 'gap' and 'living'. 

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On 12/03/2018 at 07:29, Dead Wait said:

Surely one of the shortest periods between Knighthood and death.......!

 

 

So, when I was doing some work research I found a strong contender for this in the Herald archives. Sir Tam Galbraith, former Glasgow Tory MP (my family MP at one point in fact before my birth) was knighted 31st December 1981 when known to be gravely ill, and died 48 hours later. (Willz might recall this - Glasgow had 3 by-elections due to death in about 2 years!)

 

Decided the Doddy thread was too dead to resurrect, but that this factoid was interesting enough to bring up on forum. So here it is.

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27 minutes ago, msc said:

 

 

So, when I was doing some work research I found a strong contender for this in the Herald archives. Sir Tam Galbraith, former Glasgow Tory MP (my family MP at one point in fact before my birth) was knighted 31st December 1981 when known to be gravely ill, and died 48 hours later. (Willz might recall this - Glasgow had 3 by-elections due to death in about 2 years!)

 

Decided the Doddy thread was too dead to resurrect, but that this factoid was interesting enough to bring up on forum. So here it is.

Not sure, around those couple of years it really was head down in the books, then heading to Strathclyde Uni during that period. Remember Jenkins getting elected though.

 

Was more worried about being conscripted for the Falklands if it got out of hand. No way was I fighting for Thatcher's war! :lol:

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Interesting teaser about 5 year survival rates, although they are from people diagnosed in 2010 and 2011.  Prostate cancer almost at 99% after 5 years!  That's good news if you are a dude.

https://www.ksby.com/news/national-news/national-cancer-center-researchers-find-survival-rates-for-different-types-of-cancer

An interesting side note- I tried to find the original research article for more details,  but the only National Cancer Centre I could find is in Singapore. There is a National Cancer Institute,  but I couldn't find the article there.  A more suspicious person might think this is Fake News. Can't believe I just said that.:facepalm:

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1 hour ago, Skinny kiltrunner said:

Interesting teaser about 5 year survival rates, although they are from people diagnosed in 2010 and 2011.  Prostate cancer almost at 99% after 5 years!  That's good news if you are a dude.

https://www.ksby.com/news/national-news/national-cancer-center-researchers-find-survival-rates-for-different-types-of-cancer

An interesting side note- I tried to find the original research article for more details,  but the only National Cancer Centre I could find is in Singapore. There is a National Cancer Institute,  but I couldn't find the article there.  A more suspicious person might think this is Fake News. Can't believe I just said that.:facepalm:

 

Not such good news if you are my old school friend who's just been given an incurable stage 4 bladder cancer diagnosis where I think the 5 year survival rate is about 5%.

 

I think the other thing that survival rates hide is the change in quality of life that cancer can bring whether you survive or not.

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35 minutes ago, Grim Up North said:

 

Not such good news if you are my old school friend who's just been given an incurable stage 4 bladder cancer diagnosis where I think the 5 year survival rate is about 5%.

 

I think the other thing that survival rates hide is the change in quality of life that cancer can bring whether you survive or not.

 

Also we're getting better at finding cancers earlier, there's no evidence anybody actually lives any longer - just that they live longer after being diagnosed.

 

Let that sink in.

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2 hours ago, Kinnock said:

 

Also we're getting better at finding cancers earlier, there's no evidence anybody actually lives any longer - just that they live longer after being diagnosed.

 

Let that sink in.

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Hohoho, Merry Christmas. Here's the DL picks list from 2016 of types of pick, survival rates, likely future contenders, DL longevity, etc all updated to 24th December 2019.

 

Spoiler tagged due to length...

 

Spoiler


 "Each year we hear people say "Oh so and so should be on the list" and it made me wonder if we took the years and ages of every person in a profession to be on the Deathlist itself, could we then extrapolate the type of people who might be considered in 2017 and beyond? Almost certainly not, but never mind. "

Answer in 2019 - it gave a ball park but not precision. Anyhow, on with the update...

 

So I collated a list of debuts on Deathlist, separated by professions, and with the age they were given on the front page for their debut.

 

ie:

 

 

Actors

 

 

  1. 1987 – Clive Dunn, 67

  2. 1987 – Kenneth Connor, 71

  3. 1987 – Stewart Granger, 74

  4. 1987 – Jimmy Stewart, 79

  5. 1987 – Beryl Reid, 67

  6. 1987 – John Gielgud, 79

  7. 1987 – Anna Wing, 73

  8. 1987 – Bette Davis, 79

  9. 1987 – Laurence Olivier, 80

  10. 1987 – Alec Guinness, 69

  11. 1989 – Wilfred Bramble, DEAD (77 if alive)

  12. 1989 – George Cole, 64

  13. 1989 – Jon Pertwee, 70

  14. 1989 – William Hartnell, DEAD (81 if alive)

  15. 1989 – Peter Cushing, 76

  16. 1990 – John Mills, 82

  17. 1990 – Terry-Thomas, 79

  18. 1990 – Peter Ustinov, 69

  19. 1990 – Jill Ireland, 54

  20. 1990 – Katharine Hepburn, 83

  21. 1990 – George Burns, 94

  22. 1990 – Greta Garbo, 85

  23. 1991 – Arthur Mullard, 79

  24. 1991 – Joan Sims, 61

  25. 1991 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, 74

  26. 1991 – Don Ameche, 83

  27. 1992 – Burt Lancaster, 79

  28. 1992 – Marlene Deitrich, 91

  29. 1993 – Doris Speed, 94

  30. 1993 – Audrey Hepburn, 64

  31. 1993 – Tony Curtis, 68

  32. 1993 – Bill Bixby, 59

  33. 1993 – Dean Martin, 76

  34. 1993 – Gretchen Franklin, 82

  35. 1994 – Simon Cadell, 44

  36. 1994 – Victor Mature, 81

  37. 1994 – Anne Kirkbride,40

  38. 1994 – Telly Savalas, 70

  39. 1995 – Ginger Rogers, 84

  40. 1995 – Paul Eddington, 68

  41. 1995 – Sean Connery, 65

  42. 1996 – Larry Hagman, 65

  43. 1996 – Mr T, 44

  44. 1996 – Marlon Brando, 72

  45. 1997 – Anthony Quinn, 78

  46. 1997 – Norman Wisdom, 82

  47. 1997 – Mickey Rooney, 77

  48. 1997 – Burgess Meredith, 89

  49. 1997 – Gregory Peck, 81

  50. 1997 – Kirk Douglas, 81

  51. 1997 – Thora Hird, 86

  52. 1998 – Joan Hickson, 88

  53. 1998 – Fay Wray, 91

  54. 1998 – Roy Rogers, 82

  55. 1998 – Anne Haddy, 68

  56. 1999 – Deryck Guyler, 81

  57. 1999 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr, 90

  58. 2000 – Dudley Moore, 65

  59. 2000 – Walter Matthau, 76

  60. 2000 – Karl Malden, 88

  61. 2001 – Liza Minelli, 55

  62. 2001 – Eli Wallach, 86

  63. 2002 – Buddy Ebson, 94

  64. 2003 – Harry Morgan, 88

  65. 2003 – Jack Palance, 83

  66. 2004 – Herbert Lom, 87

  67. 2005 – Al Lewis, 95

  68. 2005 – Elizabeth Taylor, 73

  69. 2005 – Jane Wyman, 91

  70. 2005 – James Dooham, 85

  71. 2005 – Olivia de Havilland, 89 (5266)

  72. 2006 – Charles Lane, 101

  73. 2006 – Charlton Heston, 82

  74. 2007 - Ernest Borgnine, 90

  75. 2007 – John Forsythe, 89

  76. 2007 – Al Molinaro, 88

  77. 2007 – Abe Vigoda, 86

  78. 2008 – Richard Widmark, 94

  79. 2008 – Jack Klugman, 86

  80. 2009 – Patrick Swayze, 57

  81. 2009 – Wendy Richard, 66

  82. 2009 – Christopher Lee, 87

  83. 2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, 58

  84. 2010 – Dennis Hopper, 74

  85. 2010 – Frank Thornton, 89

  86. 2010 – Richard Attenborough, 87

  87. 2010 – Angela Lansbury, 75

  88. 2010 – James Garner, 82

  89. 2011 – Geoffrey Hughes, 67

  90. 2011 – Bill Tarmey, 70

  91. 2011 – Michael Douglas, 67

  92. 2011 – Michael Gough, 95

  93. 2012 – Patrick Macnee, 90

  94. 2012 – Dick van Dyke, 87

  95. 2013 – Peter Sallis, 92

  96. 2013 – Doris Day, 91

  97. 2013 – Elaine Stritch, 88

  98. 2013 – Peter O’Toole, 81

  99. 2014 – Luise Rainer, 104

  100. 2014 – Valerie Harper, 75

  101. 2014 – Sid Caesar, 92

  102. 2014 – Lauren Bacall, 90

  103. 2014 – Ed Asner, 85

  104. 2015 – Maureen O’Hara, 95

  105. 2015 – Leslie Philips, 91

  106. 2015 – Ken Kercheval, 80

  107. 2015 – Leonard Nimoy, 84

  108. 2015 – Liz Smith, 94

  109. 2015 – Bill Maynard, 87

  110. 2016 – Mary Tyler Moore, 80

  111. 2016 – Prunella Scales, 84

  112. 2017 – Tony Booth, 86

  113. 2017 – Leah Bracknell, 53

  114. 2017 – Betty White, 95

  115. 2017 – Jill Gascoine, 80

  116. 2017 – Honor Blackman, 92

  117. 2017 – David Prowse, 82

  118. 2017 – Liz Dawn, 78

  119. 2018 – Mel Brooks, 92

  120. 2018 – June Brown, 91

  121. 2019 – Jerry Stiller, 92

  122. 2019 – Vanessa Redgrave, 82

  123. 2019 – Sidney Poitier, 92

  124. 2019 – Tony Britton, 95

Average – 1987-2019- 83.8%

Average – 2010-2019 -64.2% (down 20% on 2007-16)

 

Verdict: Modern Deathlist still tends to go for the older actor. Only 3 picks have been under the age of 80 since 2014, and all 3 died (although Harper and Bracknell lasted a while). A glance suggests that the age of 90 is the lower limit for Age Related Picks in recent years. Those under it tended to have dementia or cancer, or are Ed Asner. Otherwise, you are looking for people born 1930 and earlier for 2020.

 

Survival Rate – 12/42 for deadly debuts since 2009.

Five Year Survival Rate (not including 2016-19 debutants): 39%

 

Potential Deathlist future picks in next five years: Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood, Patricia Routledge, Mark Eden, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow, Geoffrey Palmer. The Tony Britton pick opens the door for John Nettleton.

 

Thoughts: The Deathlist committee had a nose for aged actresses about to snuff it. Maureen O'Hara, Lauren Bacall, Luise Rainer and Elaine Stitch all survived less than 20 months from their Deathlist debut. This was ominous news for Mary Tyler Moore and Liz Smith, but less so for canoe aficionado Prunella Scales. June Brown, Honor Blackman and Betty White have also put a spanner in this coincidence of late.  They like a thespian just turned 80 odd, with a history of ill health, demons or frailty. Looking at those potentials for 2020 include Christopher Timothy, Martin Sheen and aging David Jason, none of whom seem like jumping on the DL quite yet…

 

There's always been a heavy flow of new thespians so at least 2 new spots in 2020 will be taken by them.

 

 

Sports-related peoples

 

 

  1. 1987 - John Arlott, 73 (cricket)

  2. 1987 – Don Bradman, 75 (cricket)

  3. 1987 – Harold Larwood, 82 (cricket)

  4. 1987 – Fred Davis, 82 (snooker)

  5. 1987 – Andrea de Cesaris, 28, (F1)

  6. 1987 – Dan Maskell, 79 (tennis)

  7. 1987 – Fred Perry, 78 (tennis)

  8. 1989 – Frank Bruno, 28 (boxing)

  9. 1989 – Bobby Robson, 56 (football)

  10. 1989 – Mike Ditka, 50 (American football)

  11. 1989 – David Jenkins, 40 (athletics)

  12. 1989 – Jim Joel, 94 (horse owner)

  13. 1989 – Sugar Ray Robinson, 68 (boxer)

  14. 1990 – Peter Allis, 59 (cricket)

  15. 1990 – Rex Williams, 57 (snooker)

  16. 1991 – Brian Clough, 56 (football)

  17. 1991 – Denis Compton, 73 (cricket)

  18. 1991 – Leighton Rees, 50 (darts)

  19. 1991 – Bob Paisley, 72 (football)

  20. 1991 – Leo Beenhakker, 49 (football)

  21. 1991 – Stanley Matthews, 72 (football)

  22. 1992 – Peter West, 72 (cricket)

  23. 1992 – Kitty Godfree, 96 (tennis)

  24. 1992 – Joe Fagan, 71 (football)

  25. 1992 – Vincent O’Brien, 75 (horse trainer)

  26. 1992 – Tom Finney, 70 (football)

  27. 1993 – Arthur Ashe, 50 (tennis)

  28. 1993 – Ray Kennedy, 36 (football)

  29. 1993 – Alf Ramsey, 69 (football)

  30. 1994 – John Curry, 44 (ice skating)

  31. 1994 – Gene Sarazan, 88 (golf)

  32. 1994 – Red Auerbach, 77 (basketball)

  33. 1994 – Brian Johnston, 82 (cricket)

  34. 1994 – Helen Wills Moody, 84 (tennis)

  35. 1994 – Peter Shilton, 45 (football)

  36. 1995 – Joe DiMaggio, 77 (baseball)

  37. 1996 – Tim Gulliksson, 45 (tennis)

  38. 1996 – Wilf Mannion, 74 (football)

  39. 1998 – Bunny Austin, 88 (tennis)

  40. 1998 – Sam Snead, 86 (golf)

  41. 1999 – Max Schmeling, 94 (boxer)

  42. 2000 – Don Budge, 82, (tennis)

  43. 2001 – Byron Nelson, 89 (golf)

  44. 2002 – Alex Higgins, 54 (snooker)

  45. 2003 – Barry Sheene, 53 (motorcyclist)

  46. 2005 – Diego Maradona, 45 (football)

  47. 2005 – Jake Lamotta, 84 (boxer)

  48. 2005 – Peter O’Sullevan, 87 (horse racing) (3238)

  49. 2006 – Alfredo di Stefano, 80 (football)

  50. 2006 – Muhmmad Ali, 64 (boxer)

  51. 2008 – Basil D’Oliveira, 77 (cricket)

  52. 2009 – Seve Ballesteros, 52 (golf)

  53. 2010 – John Edrich, 73 (cricket)

  54. 2010 – Laurent Fignon, 50 (cyclist)

  55. 2013 – Henry Cecil, 70 (horse owner)

  56. 2014 – Joost van der Westhuizen, 43 (rugby)

  57. 2015 – Martin Crowe, 53 (cricket)

  58. 2016 – Lester Piggott, 81 (horse riding)

  59. 2016 – Murray Walker, 93 (motorsports)

  60. 2016 – Jimmy Greaves, 76 (football)

  61. 2016 – Gordon Banks, 79, (football)

  62. 2016 – Paul Gascoigne, 49 (football) (4178)

  63. 2017 – Nobby Stiles, 75 (football)

  64. 2017 – Ian St John, 79 (football)

  65. 2017 – Errol Christie, 54 (boxer)

  66. 2018 – Stirling Moss, 89 (motorsports)
    average age 1987-2016 – 67.3
    average age 2006-2016 – 72.3

 

 

Verdict: Deathlist has a strong streak in the last decade of picking out doomed sportsmen. The cancer riddden (or otherwise ailing) sportsperson has been a long standing vein of success for the Deathlist since its foundation. A mere 15%  of all sports people picked prior to 2016 are still with us, and that includes some duff picks like Peter Shilton and Leo Beenhakker making that survival stat look more impressive than it is.

 

Survival Rate (last decade) 8/14

Five Year Survival: 47.3%

 

Potential Future Picks: Well, the rest of the 1966 England squad have a decent shot, especially Geoff Hurst (least ill of the lot?) and the Charlton brothers. Jackie Stewart another shoo in but again, not quite his time yet. A lack of MND/ALS sufferers might see a route for a Doddie Weir, but new and depressingly younger sportsmen are coming down with that every month. We're still only just reaching the point where most of the name footballers of the 60s/70s are starting to reach old age. Pele and Franz Beckenbauer have potential. But then, so did Cruyff.

 

Thoughts: Golf and cricket seem on the wane here, and football is in. Although they do love their boxers, so watch out for the Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine to debut before long.

 

 

Royalty/World Leaders

 

 

  1. 1987 – Queen Mother, 87

  2. 1987 – Ayatollah Khomeini, 86

  3. 1987 – Harold Wilson, 71

  4. 1987 – Ronald Reagan, 76

  5. 1989 – Nelson Mandela, 71

  6. 1989 – Ian Paisley, 63

  7. 1989 – Andreas Papandreou, 70

  8. 1990 – Manuel Noriega, 56

  9. 1990 – Queen Elizabeth II, 64

  10. 1990 – Kurt Waldheim, 72

  11. 1990 – Alexander Dubcek, 69

  12. 1990 – Boris Yeltsin, 59

  13. 1990 – Corazin Aquino, 57

  14. 1990 – Richard Nixon, 77

  15. 1991 – Saddam Hussein, 54

  16. 1991 – Deng Xiaoping, 89

  17. 1992 – Augusto Pinochet, 77

  18. 1992 – PW Botha, 76

  19. 1993 – Kim il Sung, 81

  20. 1993 – Erich Honecker, 81

  21. 1993 – Jim Callaghan, 81

  22. 1994 – Dr Hastings Banda, 92

  23. 1994 – Fidel Castro, 68

  24. 1994 – Yitzhak Shamir, 79

  25. 1994 – Idi Amin, 68

  26. 1994 – Alec Douglas-Home, 91

  27. 1995 – Francois Mitterand, 79

  28. 1995 – Prince Ranier, 72

  29. 1995 – Princess Alice, 94

  30. 1996 – Yassir Arafat, 67

  31. 1997 – President Mobutu, 67

  32. 1997 – Ted Heath, 81

  33. 1997 – Gerald Ford, 84

  34. 1998 - King Fahd, 66

  35. 1998 – Gen Jaruzelski, 75

  36. 1998 – Pol Pot, 64

  37. 1999 – King Hussain, 64

  38. 1999 – Vaclav Havel, 63

  39. 2001 – Queen Juliana, 92

  40. 2001 – Princess Margaret, 70

  41. 2002 – Charles Haughey, 77

  42. 2002 – Suharto, 81

  43. 2003 – King Taufa-ahau Tupou, 84

  44. 2004 – General Musharraf, 62

  45. 2004 – Dom Mintoff, 88

  46. 2004 – Robert Mugabe, 80

  47. 2005 – Hamed Karzai, 48 (3482)

  48. 2006 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 69

  49. 2006 – Margaret Thatcher, 81

  50. 2007 – Ariel Sharon, 79

  51. 2007 – Ian Smith, 89

  52. 2008 – Charles Taylor, 60

  53. 2009 – Kim Jong Il, 68

  54. 2011 – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 72

  55. 2011 – Helmut Schmidt, 93

  56. 2012 – Bhumibol Adulyadej, 85

  57. 2012 – Hosni Mubarak, 84

  58. 2013 – Hugo Chavez, 59

  59. 2013 - George Bush Sr, 89

  60. 2013 – Gough Whitlam, 97

  61. 2015 – Helmut Kohl, 85

  62. 2016 – Jimmy Carter, 92

  63. 2016 – Jacques Chirac, 84 (4768)

  64. 2017 -  King Michael of Romania, 96

  65. 2017 – Akihito, 84

  66. 2018 – Valery Giscard d’Estaing, 92

  67. 2019 – Bob Hawke, 90

  68. 2019 – Mikhail Gorbachev 88

Verdict: Another steady line of Deathlist picks. It seems if you were in charge of a big enough country, and you live long enough, you'll find your spot at some time. Though out with the US/UK, it does help to be noteworthy. “Valery d'Estang is pushing 90, but who remembers him?” is what I said in 2016, and guess who did remember him, but the Deathlist Cmme! World Leaders tend to have staying power. Once they make the list, they tend to bed sit until they snuff it.

 

Survival rate (2010-19): 6/15

Five Year Survival rate (1987-2015) - 60%

 

Possible Future Picks: Most of these future picks are too young just now – the oldest living PM is John Major at 76. The oldest Presidents (after Jimmy) are that spate of 73 year olds, and you have to assume Billy wont make it to DL picking age. Crown Prince Salman and Mahmoud Abbas are maybes, and you never know when the Cmme will open drols big box of immortal dictators. Jean Chretien is mid-80s but very dull, and we’re still a while off the likes of John Howard and Gerhard Schroder being old or frail enough for contention.

 

 

Non-Statesman Politicos

 

 

  1. 1989 – Cyril Smith, 61 (then – affable fat man. Now –dead paedo)

  2. 1990 – Lord Denning, 87 (mad judge)

  3. 1991 – Sir Michael Havers, 68 (Attorney general)

  4. 1991 – Lord Hailsham 80 (former Tory leadership candidate)

  5. 1991 – Willie Whitelaw, 71 (former Deputy PM)

  6. 1991 – John Smith, 53 (then Shadow Chancellor)

  7. 1993 – Henry Kissinger, 70 (diplomat)

  8. 1993 – Michael Foot, 80 (former Labour leader)

  9. 1994 – Jeremy Thorpe, 65 (former Liberal leader)

  10. 1996 – Julian Critchley, 66 (former MP)

  11. 1996 – Barbara Castle, 86 (Labour big wig)

  12. 1999 – Lord Scarman, 88

  13. 2003 – Strom Thurmond, 101

  14. 2005 – William Rehnquist, 81

  15. 2005 – Betty Ford, 87

  16. 2006 – Lady Bird Johnson, 94

  17. 2006 – John Profumo, 91

  18. 2006 – Caspar Weinberger, 89

  19. 2007 – Tim Johnson, 61

  20. 2008 – Elizabeth Edwards, 59

  21. 2008 – Jesse Helms, 87

  22. 2008 – Francis Pym, 86

  23. 2009 – Edward Kennedy, 77

  24. 2009 – Nancy Reagan, 88

  25. 2010 – Denis Healey, 93

  26. 2011 – Bob Dole, 88

  27. 2011 – Dick Cheney, 70

  28. 2012 – Nigel Lawson, 80

  29. 2012 – Tariq Aziz, 76

  30. 2012 – Saif al-islam Gaddafi, 40

  31. 2013 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, 94

  32. 2013 – Prince Philip, 92

  33. 2014 – Chris Woodhead, 68

  34. 2014 – Lord Carrington, 95

  35. 2014 – Javier Perez de Cuellar, 94

  36. 2016 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 94

  37. 2018 – John McCain, 82

  38. 2018 – Tessa Jowell, 71

  39. 2018 – Barbara Bush, 93


     

 

Verdict: The politicos who weren't world leaders. Tends to start at 88 these days unless health conditions known. If you are a British Cabinet minister with known pancreatic cancer or glioblastoma like the late Tessa Jowell, welcome to the team.

 

Survival Rate (2010-19) - 40%   (same as in 2016, with 9 out of 15 dying over the decade…)

Five Year Survival: 48.5%

 

Possible future Picks: Betty Boothroyd, Walter Mondale, Douglas Hurd, John Hume, Shirley Williams. There's also Rosalynn Carter, who will be 93 next year.

 

 

Art

 

  1. 1987 – Salvador Dali, 83

  2. 1997 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, 90 (photography)

  3. 2000 – Charles Schultz, 78 (cartoonist)

  4. 2001 – William Hanna, 89 (cartoonist)

  5. 2002 – Chuck Jones, 90 (cartoonist)

  6. 2002 – Joseph Barbera, 91 (cartoonist)

  7. 2002 – Oscar Niemeyer, 95 (architect)

  8. 2009 – Pierre Cardin, 87

  9. 2011 – Bob Godfrey, 90 (cartoonist)

  10. 2013 – Stan Lee, 91 (comics)

 


 

Verdict: This is not my area of expertise.

Survival Rate: 10%

Five Year: 20%

 

Potential Future Picks: Err... Rolf Harris? I’ll get my coat.

 

 

TV personalities

 

  1. 1987 – Johnny Morris, 67 (kids entertainer)

  2. 1987 – Les Dawson, 56 (comic)

  3. 1987 – Bob Hope, 84 (comic)

  4. 1987 – Jimmy Saville, 61

  5. 1989 – Magnus Pyke, 81 (wacky scientist)

  6. 1989 – Jacques Costeau, 79 (marine)

  7. 1989 – Stanley Unwin, 78 (inventor of a nonsense language)

  8. 1989 – Malcolm Muggeridge, 86 (professional TV Devils Advocate)

  9. 1989 – Kenneth Kendall, 65 (newsreader)

  10. 1990 – Ronnie Barker, 61 (comic)

  11. 1990 – Oprah Winfrey, 36

  12. 1991 – Patrick Moore, 68 (astronomer)

  13. 1991 – Bernard Manning, 61 (fat comic)

  14. 1992 – Glyn Worsnip, 47 (tv presenter)

  15. 1992 – Arthur Marshall, 82

  16. 1992 – Jack Hargreaves, 81 (tv presenter)

  17. 1992 – Robert Dougall, 79 (newsreader)

  18. 1992 – Walter Cronkite, 76 (newsreader)

  19. 1993 – Victor Borge, 80 (comic)

  20. 1993 – Roy Castle, 61 (tv presenter)

  21. 1993 – Frank Muir, 73

  22. 1993 – Eric Sykes, 70 (comic)

  23. 1995 – Richard Pryor, 55 (comic)

  24. 1995 – Bruce Forsyth, 67 (presenter)

  25. 1998 – Spike Milligan, 80

  26. 1999 – Helen Rollasson, 40 (presenter)

  27. 1999 – Ernie Wise, 70 (comic)

  28. 2001 – Milton Berle, 93 (comic)

  29. 2001 – Harry Secombe, 76

  30. 2003 – Johnny Carson, 78

  31. 2004 – Rodney Dangerfield, 83 (comic)

  32. 2004 – Cliff Michelmore, 85 (tv presenter)

  33. 2005 – Jerry Lewis, 79 (comic)

  34. 2007 – Roddy Piper, 53 (wrestler)

  35. 2009 – Ludovic Kennedy, 90

  36. 2009 – Robert Novak, 78

  37. 2010 – Frank Bough, 77

  38. 2010 – Denis Norden, 88

  39. 2012 – James Randi, 84 (magician)

  40. 2013 – Clive James, 74

  41. 2014 – Sam Simon, 59

  42. 2014 – Casey Kasem, 82

  43. 2014 – Shaw Taylor, 90

  44. 2015 – Jake Roberts, 60

  45. 2015 – Eddie Large, 74

  46. 2016 – Tommy Chong, 78

  47. 2016 – Sandy Gall, 89

  48. 2016 – John Noakes, 82

  49. 2017 – Bob Barker, 94

  50. 2017 – Gay Byrne, 83

  51. 2018 – Stanley Baxter, 92

  52. 2019 – Barbara Walters, 90

  53. 2019 – John McCririck, 79

  54. 2019 – Larry King, 86

 

 

 

Thoughts: That's a right hodge podge of ages and reasons.

Survival: 20% (down from 50% in 2016)

Five Year: 53%

 

Potential Future Picks: Bernard Cribbins.

 

 

Writers

 

  1. 1987 – Barbara Cartland, 82

  2. 1993 – Charles Bukowski, 73

  3. 1993 – William Burroughs, 79

  4. 1994 – Catherine Cookson, 83

  5. 1994 – Hunter S Thompson, 57

  6. 1994 – Edmund White, 54

  7. 1995 – Geoffrey Dickens, 85

  8. 1995 – Arthur C Clarke, 78

  9. 1996 – Muriel Spark, 78

  10. 1996 – EW Swanton, 85

  11. 1996 – Bill Deedes, 83

  12. 1998 – Arthur Miller, 83

  13. 1998 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 80

  14. 2000 – John Diamond, 50

  15. 2001 – Brother Theodore, 93

  16. 2001 – Mary Wesley, 88

  17. 2001 – Chapman Pincher, 87

  18. 2001 – Herman Wouk, 86

  19. 2002 – Clement Stone, 100

  20. 2002 – Claude Levi-Strauss, 94

  21. 2006 – Stanley Kunitz, 101

  22. 2006 – Harold Pinter, 76

  23. 2006 – JD Salinger, 87

  24. 2007 – Gore Vidal, 82

  25. 2010 – Ray Bradbury, 90

  26. 2011 – Diana Wynne Jones, 77

  27. 2011 – Harlan Ellison, 77

  28. 2012 – Harper Lee, 86

  29. 2012 – PD James, 92

  30. 2013 – Richard Adams, 93

  31. 2014 – Terry Pratchett, 66

  32. 2016 – Robert M Pirsig, 88

  33. 2018 – Neil Simon, 91

 

Thoughts: Not enough of them. Although if they do get picked, best to read about them fast.

Survival: 0%  (0/33)

Five Year Survival: 33%

 

Future Picks: Short of Ill Health, Writers don't tend to show up until 90 or later, despite us apparently being doomed on the front page. Colin Dexter and Judith Kerr were never picked, but Len Deighton, John le Carre and if you like a ripping yarn, Clive Cussler and Jack Higgins are all still going.

 

 

Musicians/Singers

 

  1. 1987 – Andre Segovia, 93 (guitarist)

  2. 1987 – Yehudi Menuhin, 71 (violinist)

  3. 1987 – Ozzy Osbourne, 39, (Ozzy Osbourne)

  4. 1987 – Paul McCartney, 45 (any one Beatle)

  5. 1987 – George Harrison, 43 (any one Beatle)

  6. 1987 – Ringo Starr, 47 (any one Beatle)

  7. 1989 – George Melly, 63 (jazz)

  8. 1989 – Brian Wilson, 47 (Beach Boys)

  9. 1989 – Stefan Grappelli, 81 (jazz)

  10. 1989 – Marti Caine, 44

  11. 1990 – Charles Aznavour, 66

  12. 1990 – Frank Sinatra, 71

  13. 1992 – Perry Como, 76

  14. 1992 – Shaun Ryder, 30 (Happy Mondays)

  15. 1993 – Tony Bennett, 67

  16. 1993 – John Lee Hooker, 71

  17. 1993 – George Chisholm, 78

  18. 1993 – Jerry Garcia, 51

  19. 1993 – Jerry Lee Lewis, 58

  20. 1994 – Holly Johnson, 34 (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)

  21. 1996 – Fats Domino, 68

  22. 1999 – Ian Dury, 50

  23. 1999 – Frankie Laine, 87

  24. 1999 – Carly Simon, 54

  25. 2000 – Johnny Cash, 68

  26. 2000 – Artie Shaw, 90

  27. 2002 – Lionel Hampton, 93

  28. 2002 – Benny Carter, 95

  29. 2003 – Warren Zevon, 56

  30. 2005 – Tony Martin, 92

  31. 2005 – Les Paul, 90

  32. 2006 – Lou Rawls, 71

  33. 2006 – Vera Lynn, 89

  34. 2008 – Russel Watson, 42

  35. 2008- Bo Diddley, 80

  36. 2008 – Levi Stubbs, 72

  37. 2008 – Captain Beefheart, 67

  38. 2009 – Ravi Shankhar, 89

  39. 2009 – BB King, 84

  40. 2010 – Peter Tork, 68

  41. 2011 – Gerry Rafferty, 64

  42. 2011 – Aretha Franklin, 69

  43. 2011 – Patty Andrews, 93

  44. 2011 – Fergie Frederiksen, 60

  45. 2012 – Etta James, 74

  46. 2012 – Robin Gibb, 63

  47. 2012 – Chuck Berry, 86

  48. 2013 – Bernie Nolan, 53

  49. 2013 – Reg Presley, 72

  50. 2013 – Pete Seeger, 94

  51. 2014 – Wilko Johnson, 67

  52. 2016 – Glen Campbell, 80

  53. 2017 – Gord Downie, 53

  54. 2018 – Linda Nolan, 59

  55. 2018 – Ronnie Wood, 71

  56. 2018 – Olivia Newton John, 70

  57. 2018 – Joni Mitchell, 75

  58. 2018 – Mark E Smith, 61

  59. 2019 – Harry Belafonte, 92

  60. 2019 – Cleo Laine, 92

  61. 2019 – Loretta Lynn, 87

  62. 2019 – Little Richard, 87

  63. 2019 – Tina Turner, 80

  64. 2019 – Shane MacGowan, 62

  65. 2019 – Ginger Baker, 80

  66. 2019 – Johnny Clegg, 66

 


 

Thoughts: They tend to show up for health reasons. Harry Belafonte and Cleo Laine  are the only two in the last 5 years who debuted due to being ancient. Name music people or really ill relatively known ones, and if you can mix those two... In recent years, the 2016 effect has come into play, by which I mean the Cmme have overloaded with late 1930s to mid 1940s music A listers to try and catch those the encore runs out on. The success in this route has been shown by the fact that in the last three years, the debutant music hits have been the 3 young guys with cancer, and Ginger Baker.

 

Survival: 33%

Five Year Survival: 46% (rating improved by counting Any One Beatle as one...)

 

Potential Future Picks: Any medium star who gets terminal cancer given Clegg. Grace Slick, the Rolling Stones, Macca and Ringo, Tom Jones, Nancy Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkel, Dylan, the living Beach Boys, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Herb Alpert, Mikis Theodorakis, Burt Bacharach, Petula Clark, John Williams, Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Frankie Valli, Pat Boone, Shirley Bassey, Bill Withers, Cliff, Smokey Robinson, Crosby/Stills/Nash and Young, Chubby Checker, Carole King – not to be facetious, but the list of A list music people on that radar is bloody endless!

 

 

Smaller Pools of Picks


Spooks, Terrors and Other Suits

  1. 1989 – Peter Wright, 72 (Spycatcher)

  2. 2002 – Osama Bin Laden, 45

  3. 2002 – Joseph Bonanno, 97

  4. 2007 – Mark Felt, 94

  5. 2009 – Al Megrahi, 57

Radio folk

  1. 1989 – Ray Moore, 55 (presenter)

  2. 1991 – Alistair Cooke, 83

  3. 1995 – Kenny Everett, 50

  4. 2013 – Nicholas Parsons, 90

Business types

  1. 1989 – Lew Grade, 79 (TV big wig)

  2. 1992 – Bert Millichip, 78 (FA boss)

  3. 1995 – Fred Pontin, 89 (entrepreneur)

  4. 2000 – John Paul Getty Jr, 68

  5. 2001 – Estee Lauder, 95

  6. 2001 – Ernest Gallo, 92 (wine maker)

  7. 2005 – Brooke Astor, 103 (philanthropist)

  8. 2007 – Jack Kevorkian, 79 (euthanasia enthusiast)

  9. 2009 – Joao Havelange, 93 (IoC)

  10. 2009 – George Steinbrenner, 79 (NY Yankees owner)

  11. 2015 – Kirk Kerkorian, 98

  12. 2016 – Doug Ellis, 92

  13. 2017 – David Rockefeller, 102

Directors/Producers/Behind the Camera

  1. 1989 – Derek Jarman, 47 (director)

  2. 1997 – Billy Wilder, 91 (director)

  3. 2000 – Leni Riefenstahl, 98 (director)

  4. 2001 – Elia Kazan, 92

  5. 2001 – Stanley Kramer, 84

  6. 2006 – Ingmar Bergman, 88

  7. 2006 – Dino de Laurentiis, 88

  8. 2006 – Aaron Spelling, 83

  9. 2008 – Sydney Pollack, 74

  10. 2008 – Blake Edwards, 86

  11. 2013 – Michael Winner, 78

Future  - Francis Ford Coppola.

 

Religious Types

  1. 1990 – Mother Theresa, 80

  2. 1990 – Pope John Paul II, 70

  3. 2000 – Louis Farrakhan, 68

  4. 2001 – Desmond Tutu, 69

  5. 2002 – Maharishi Yogi, 91

  6. 2005 – Sister Lucia, 98

  7. 2006 – Billy Graham 88

  8. 2007 – Ruby Muhammad, 110

  9. 2007 – Tammy Faye Messner, 65

  10. 2007 – Oral Roberts, 89

  11. 2017 – Pope Benedict XVI, 90

Future – Pope Francis is getting up there for a TB survivor. Dalai Lama.

 

Others that don't really fit into any of the above

  1. 1990 – Mary Whitehouse, 76 (Outraged of Tunbridge Wells)

  2. 1990 – Terry Waite, 51, (hostage)

  3. 1991 – Norman Willis, 60 (trade unionist)

  4. 1991 – Len Murray, 71 (trade unionist)

  5. 1992 – Dilys Powell, 91 (film critic)

  6. 1992 – Red Rum, 27, (horse)

  7. 1992 – Red Adair, 77 (fireman)

  8. 1992 – Lord Goodman, 72 (lawyer)

  9. 1993 – Rudolph Nureyev, 55 (ballet)

  10. 1993 – John Demjanjuk, 73 (Nazi)

  11. 1993 – Rose Kennedy, 103 (matriarch)

  12. 1993 – George Lineker, unborn child

  13. 1993 – Quentin Crisp, 81 (naked civil servant)

  14. 1994 – Jackie Mann, 89 (hostage)

  15. 1994 – Denis Thatcher, 79 (spouse)

  16. 1994 – Jeffrey Bernard, 62 (professional drunk)

  17. 1995 – Edmund Hillary, 76 (mountaineer)

  18. 1995 – Stan Flashma, 55 (tout)

  19. 1996 – Timothy Leary, 76 (drugs)

  20. 1996 – Lord Longford, 91 (permissive society)

  21. 1997 – James Earl Ray, 68 (assassin)

  22. 1998 – Hardy Amies, 89 (dress maker)

  23. 1998 – Simon Wiesenthal, 90 (Nazi hunter)

  24. 1999 – Evel Knievel, 61 (stuntman)

  25. 1999 – Nick Leeson, 32 (jail)

  26. 1999 – Milton Freidman, 87 (economist)

  27. 1999 – Thor Heyerdahl, 85 (explorer)

  28. 2000 – Ninette de Valois, 98 (ballet)

  29. 2000 – Ronnie Biggs, 71 (Deathlist Ambassador)

  30. 2001 – Jack Jones, 88 (trade unionist)

  31. 2002 – Albert Hoffman, 96 (creator of LSD)

  32. 2002 – Ian Brady, 64 (child murderer)

  33. 2002 – Edward Teller, 94 (Atom Bomb inventor)

  34. 2002 – JK Galbraith, 94 (economist)

  35. 2005 – Rosa Parks, 92 (civil rights)

  36. 2005 – Claire Rayner, 75 (Agony Aunt)

  37. 2009 – Susan Atkins, 61 (murderer)

  38. 2009 – Dai Llewellyn, 63 (socialite)

  39. 2010 – Erich Priebke, 97 (Nazi)

  40. 2013 – Stephen Hawking, 70

  41. 2015 – John Forbes Nash, 87 (economist)

  42. 2017 – Hugh Hefner, 91 (playboy)

  43. 2019 – Alan Greenspan, 93 (economist)

 

People with 5 or more appearances on the Deathlist:

 

  1. 17 – Kirk Douglas

  2. 16 – Clive Dunn

  3. 14 –Ronald Reagan, Queen Mother

  4. 13 – Fidel Castro, Ronnie Biggs, Bob Hope, Jake Lamotta

  5. 12 –Eli Wallach, Pope John Paul II, Rev Billy Graham, Olivia de Havilland

  6. 11 – Michael Foot, Kurt Waldheim, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Cartland, Vera Lynn

  7. 10 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Gen. Pinochet, John Mills, Alistair Cooke, Don Bradman

  8. 9 –Oscar Niemeyer, Yitzhak Shamir, John Demjanjuk, Princess Alice, John Gielgud, Lord Denning, Fats Domino

  9. 8-, Chapman Pincher, Mickey Rooney, Nelson Mandela, Herbert Lom, Patrick Moore, Simon Wiesenthal, Jim Callaghan, Red Adair, Jacques Cousteau, Herman Wouk

  10. 7 – Bob Dole, Prince Philip, Henry Kissinger, Al Molinaro, Norman Wisdom, Claude Levi-Strauss, Karl Malden, Albert Hofmann, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Max Schmeling, Fay Wray, Boris Yeltsin, Alec Guinness, Deng Xiaoping, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns

  11. 6 – Denis Healey, Peter O’Sullevan, Margaret Thatcher, Eric Sykes, Ariel Sharon, Betty Ford, Ernest Gallo, Gerald Ford, PW Botha, Lord Longford, Frank Sinatra, Mother Theresa, Jerry Lewis, Ian Brady, George Bush Sr, Denis Norden, Robert Mugabe ,Javier Perez de Cuellar, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James

  12. 5 – Joao Havelange, Nancy Reagan, Helmut Schmidt, Anna Wing, Elizabeth Taylor, Dom Mintoff, Dino de Laurentiis, Cyril Smith, Suharto, Bill Deedes, Joseph Barbera, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lord Scarman, Hardy Amies, Thora Hird, Billy Wilder, Lord Hailsham, Gene Sarazan, Helen Wills Moody, Catherine Cookson, Glyn Worsnip, Harold Larwood, Derek Jarman, Peter Sallis, Stan Lee, Pierre Cardin, Valerie Harper

 

Biggest Misses

  1. Patrick Moore (8 appearances) d. 2012

  2. Boris Yeltsin (7 appearances) d. 2007

  3. Alec Guinness (7 appearances) d. 2000

  4. Ariel Sharon (6 appearances) d. 2014

  5. Dom Mintoff (5 appearances) d. 2012

(This is why we have "bedblockers")

 

Number of People with 5 or more appearances per year:

  1. 1993 – 2 (Dunn, Queen Mother)

  2. 1994 – 6 (Jarman, Burns, Queen Mother, Cartland, Cousteau, Dunn)

  3. 1995 - 12 (Xiaoping, Burns, Gielgud, Cartland, Larwood, M Theresa, Reagan, Queen Mother, J Stewart, Denning, Cousteau, Hope)

  4. 1996 – 11 (Xiaoping, Burns, Cartland, Denning, Queen Mother, Reagan, J Stewart, Worsnip, Bradman, Cousteau, Hope)

  5. 1997 – 17 (Xiaoping, M Theresa, Queen Mother, Sinatra, Reagan, Pinochet, Cousteau, J Stewart, Gielgud, Hope, Guiness, Cartland, Denning, Bradman, Hepburn, Dunn, Adair)

  6. 1998 – 16 (Pope, Yeltsin, Queen Mother, Sinatra, Reagan, Gielgud, Cartland, Denning, Hope, Moody, Cookson, Bradman, Guinness, Adair, Waldheim, Hepburn)

  7. 1999 - 14 (Pope, Yeltsin, Queen Mother, Reagan, Gielgud, Cartland, Denning, Hope, Bradman, Guinness, Sarazan, Cooke, Hepburn, Pinochet)

  8. 2000 – 15 (Queen Mother, Pope, Yeltsin, Reagan, Gieldgud, Cartland, Hope, Bradman, Longford, Cooke, Hepburn, Pinochet, Alice, Dunn, Mills)

  9. 2001 – 11 (Bradman, Queen Mother, Hope, Alice, Longford, Hepburn, Hailsham, Cooke, Mills, Pope, Reagan)

  10. 2002 – 13 (Queen Mother, Hope, Wilder, Alice, Hepburn, Wray, Cooke, Wiesenthal, Pope, Reagan, Mills, Callaghan, Waldheim)

  11. 2003 - 15 (Hope, Pope, Schmeling, Alice, Wray, Hepburn, Cooke, Mills, Wiesenthal, Amies, Reagan, Hird, Callaghan, Adair, Waldheim)

  12. 2004 – 17 (Pope, Wray, Schemling, Reagan, Wiesenthal, Foot, Alice, Mills, Cartier-Bresson, Cooke, Scarman, Callaghan, Adair, Pinochet, Waldheim, Rooney, Dunn)

  13. 2005 – 11 (Pope, Biggs, Schmeling, Wiesenthal, Mills, Callaghan, Ford, Foot, Pinochet, Botha, Waldheim)

  14. 2006 – 13 (Biggs, Hofmann, Gallo, Moore, Barbera, Ford, Foot, Botha, Waldheim, Solzhenitsyn, Rooney, Pinochet, Dunn)

  15. 2007 – 15 (Castro, Hofmann, Foot, Biggs, Levi-Strauss, Gallo, Deedes, Malden, Wallach, Douglas, Solzhenitsyn, Waldheim, Demjanjuk, Moore, Dunn)

  16. 2008 - 16 (Hofmann, Biggs, Niemeyer, Levi-Strauss, Wisdom, Foot, Castro, Malden, Wallach, Shamir, Solzhenitsyn, Douglas, Demjanjuk Suharto, Moore, Dunn)

  17. 2009 – 16 (Biggs, Niemeyer, Levi-Strauss, Foot, Malden, Wallach, Castro, Wisdom, Shamir, Douglas, Lom, Demjanjuk, Lamotta, Rooney, Moore, Dunn)

  18. 2010 – 18 (Biggs, Niemeyer, Foot, Wallach, Wisdom, Castro, Douglas, Shamir, Ford, Lom, Graham, de Laurentiis, Mandela, Demjanjuk, Lamotta, Sykes, Smith, Dunn)

  19. 2011 – 15 (Biggs, Gabor, Niemeyer, Douglas, Shamir, Ford, Lamotta, Taylor, Pincher, Wallach, Mandela, Mintoff, Lom, Sharon, Dunn)

  20. 2012 – 19 (Biggs, Niemeyer, Wallach, Douglas, Gabor, Graham, Pincher, Shamir, de Havilland, Lom, Thatcher, Castro, Mandela, Demjanjuk, Lamotta, Sykes, Domino, Sharon, Dunn)

  21. 2013 – 14 (Biggs, Pincher, Gabor, Wallach, Mandela, Douglas, de Havilland, Castro, Lynn, Thatcher, Graham, Molinaro, Lamotta, Domino)

  22. 2014 – 16 (Graham, Wallach, Gabor, Pincher, De Havilland, Healey, Castro, Lynn, O’Sullevan, Douglas, Molinaro, Rooney, Lamotta, Lewis, Domino, Brady)

  23. 2015 – 11 (Gabor, Graham, De Havilland, Healey, Schmidt, Castro, Douglas, Molinaro, O’Sullevan, Lamotta, Lynn)

  24. 2016 - 12 (Gabor, Havelange, de Havilland, Graham, Wouk, Douglas, Reagan, Kissinger, Lynn, Castro, Domino, lamotta)

  25. 2017 – 14 (Douglas, Lynn, Graham, Sallis, Philip, Norden, de Havilland, Wouk, Dole, Lamotta, Bush Sr, Lewis, Domino, Brady)

  26. 2018 – 15  (Douglas, Wouk, de Havilland, Philip, Graham, JPDC, Lee, Dole, V Lynn, Mugabe, Bush Sr, Kissinger, Mubarak, Norden, C James)

  27. 2019 -  13 (Douglas, Wouk, de Havilland, Philip, Lynn, Mugabe, Cardin, Dole, Kissinger, JPDC, Mubarak, Harper, James)

  28. 2020 potentially 13 (Douglas, de Havilland, Philip, Lynn Cardin, Dole, Kissinger, JPDC, Mubarak, Tutu, van Dyke, Carter, Leslie Philips

 

Deaths of People with 5 or more appearances on Deathlist per year:

 

  • 1994 - 1

  • 1995 - 1

  • 1996 - 2

  • 1997 - 4

  • 1998 - 3

  • 1999 - 2

  • 2000 - 2

  • 2001 - 3

  • 2002 - 2

  • 2003 - 4

  • 2004 - 7

  • 2005 - 5

  • 2006 - 4

  • 2007 - 3

  • 2008 - 3

  • 2009 - 2

  • 2010 - 4

  • 2011 - 2

  • 2012 - 6

  • 2013 - 4

  • 2014 - 3

  • 2015 - 4

  • 2016 – 4

  • 2017 – 5

  • 2018 – 4

  • 2019 – 4 (to 24th December)

 

2020 outlook (years on DL):

  1. 18 – Kirk Douglas

  2. 13 –, Olivia de Havilland

  3. 12 –Vera Lynn

  4. 8 – Bob Dole, Prince Philip, Henry Kissinger,

  5. 7 –,Javier Perez de Cuellar, Hosni Mubarak,

  6. 6 –Pierre Cardin,

  7. 5. Leslie Philips  (?), Dick Van Dyke (?), Jimmy Carter (?), Desmond Tutu (?)

 

 

 

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  1. 1987 – Salvador Dali, 83

     

  2. 1997 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, 90 (photography)

     

  3. 2000 – Charles Schultz, 78 (cartoonist)

     

  4. 2001 – William Hanna, 89 (cartoonist)

     

  5. 2002 – Chuck Jones, 90 (cartoonist)

     

  6. 2002 – Joseph Barbera, 91 (cartoonist)

     

  7. 2002 – Oscar Niemeyer, 95 (architect)

     

  8. 2009 – Pierre Cardin, 87

     

  9. 2011 – Bob Godfrey, 90 (cartoonist)

     

  10. 2013 – Stan Lee, 91 (comics)

 

Verdict: This is not my area of expertise.

Survival Rate: 10%

Five Year: 20%

 

Potential Future Picks: Err... Rolf Harris? I’ll get my coat.

 

Rolf Harris is a valid suggestion, but I'd add David Hockney.

 

 

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7 hours ago, Toast said:

 

Rolf Harris is a valid suggestion, but I'd add David Hockney.

 

 

Jasper Johns & Jack Vettriano

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Here's the stats for the 2020 names.

 

Age (Youngest to Oldest)

49- Tom Smith

63- Shane MacGowan

67- Leon Spinks

70- Genesis P-Orridge

74- Peter Sutcliffe

77- Pervez Musharraf

78- Nobby Stiles, Terry Jones

79- Dick Cheney, David Crosby

80- Alex Trebek

83- John Edrich, Abdelaziz Bouteflika

85- Lester Piggott

87- Emperor Akihito, Willie Nelson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

88- Prunella Scales

89- Desmond Tutu

90- Joanne Woodward

91- Stirling Moss, Imelda Marcos

92- Hosni Mubarak, Jean-Marie Le Pen

93- Harry Belafonte, Jerry Stiller

94- Alan Greenspan, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Tony Bennett, David Attenborough

95- Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury, Honor Blackman, Jacques Delors, Bill Gates Sr.

96- Daniel arap Moi, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips

97- Bob Dole, Murray Walker, Bob Barker, Henry Kissinger

98- Pierre Cardin, Betty White, Carl Reiner

99- Prince Philip

100- Javier Perez de Cuellar

103- Vera Lynn

104- Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Havilland

 

Most common age: 95 (5 names)

Number of appearances (Fewest to most)

1 (debuters)- Daniel arap Moi, Leon Spinks, Genesis P-Orridge, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Alex Trebek, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Imelda Marcos, Carl Reiner, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Tom Smith, Terry Jones, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Bill Gates Sr., David Attenborough, Peter Sutcliffe

2- Angela Lansbury, Alan Greenspan, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Stiller, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Lester Piggott, Pervez Musharraf

3- Emperor Akihito, Murray Walker, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Tony Bennett, Nobby Stiles, Stirling Moss, John Edrich

4- Betty White, Bob Barker, Honor Blackman, Prunella Scales

5- Dick Van Dyke, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Desmond Tutu

6- Pierre Cardin

7- Javier Perez de Cuellar, Hosni Mubarak

8- Prince Philip, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger

12- Vera Lynn

13- Olivia de Havilland

18 (widening record gap)- Kirk Douglas

 

Most common number of appearances: 1 (17 names)

Debut Year

2020: Daniel arap Moi, Leon Spinks, Genesis P-Orridge, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Alex Trebek, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Imelda Marcos, Carl Reiner, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Tom Smith, Terry Jones, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Bill Gates Sr., David Attenborough, Peter Sutcliffe

2019: Alan Greenspan, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Stiller, Shane MacGowan

2018: Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Stirling Moss

2017: Emperor Akihito, Betty White, Bob Barker, Honor Blackman, Nobby Stiles

2016: Murray Walker, Jimmy Carter, Prunella Scales, Lester Piggott

2015: Leslie Phillips

2014: Javier Perez de Cuellar

2013: Prince Philip

2012: Dick Van Dyke, Hosni Mubarak

2011: Bob Dole, Dick Cheney

2010: Angela Lansbury, John Edrich

2009: Pierre Cardin

2006: Vera Lynn, Abdelaziz Bouteflika

2005: Olivia de Havilland

2004: Pervez Musharraf

2001: Desmond Tutu

1997: Kirk Douglas

1993: Henry Kissinger, Tony Bennett

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So, I was a bit bored, and was trying to think of ideas. Then something popped into my head. Why not make a list of names that were picked by the winning team of each year. Doesn’t matter if they died that year, lived, didn’t get a QO, or (in one case) die before ddp action but wasn’t known until afterwards. As long as they appear on the winning team as mentioned on the ddp site (so no Mark Crispin, for example), they’re fine. So the list goes as follows...

 

1. John Andretti 

2. Frankie Banali 

 

Kidding. You mean, I can’t have a little bit of fun every now and then? Ah well, he’s the actual list compiled then, from 2000 to 2021:

 

 
  1. Claudio Abbado 

  2. Colette Adams

  3. George Alagiah 

  4. Awad Hamed al-Bandar

  5. Jose Alencar 

  6. Fatima Ali

  7. Princess Alice 

  8. Abdelbaset Al Megrahi 

  9. Henry Allingham 

  10. Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti 

  11. Baba Amte

  12. Savvas Andrea

  13. Guilio Andreotti 

  14. Mother Angelica 

  15. René Angelil

  16. Peter Angelos

  17. Hassan Asif 

  18. Brooke Astor

  19. Susan Atkins 

  20. Bunny Austin

  21. Cardinal Corrado Bafile

  22. John Bain

  23. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner

  24. Lesley Ball

  25. Seve Ballesteros

  26. Frankie Banali

  27. Hugo Banzer 

  28. Amiri Baraka 

  29. Ady Barkan

  30. Gerard Basset

  31. Susan Bayh

  32. Charlie Bell

  33. Yahweh Ben Yahweh 

  34. Bob Benmosche 

  35. Jana Bennett 

  36. Hans Bethe

  37. Ronnie Biggs 

  38. Tim Bilton 

  39. Osama Bin Laden

  40. Russell Bishop

  41. Steve Blackmore

  42. Kathleen Blanco

  43. Hugo Bleicher 

  44. Colin Bloomfield 

  45. Leah Bracknell

  46. Ian Brady

  47. Traci Braxton

  48. G Monty Brinson 

  49. Dora Bryan 

  50. Ryan Buell 

  51. Gary Burgess

  52. Mike Burney 

  53. Rob Burrow

  54. Colin Butts

  55. Sid Caesar 

  56. Menzies Campbell 

  57. Matt Cappotelli

  58. Rudi Carrell 

  59. Henri Cartier Bresson

  60. Barbara Castle

  61. Fidel Castro 

  62. Henry Cecil

  63. Julia Child 

  64. Errol Christie 

  65. Archbishop Christodoulos 

  66. Billy Clayton

  67. Johnny Clegg

  68. Van Cliburn 

  69. Kenny Collins

  70. Tim Conway

  71. Alistair Cooke 

  72. Sara Coward

  73. Simon Cowell (wildlife)

  74. Bettino Craxi

  75. Martin Crowe 

  76. Patrick Cryne 

  77. Hugues Cuenod 

  78. Right Reverend Ian Cundy 

  79. Paul Daisley

  80. Rodney Dangerfield 

  81. Dai Davies

  82. Ross Davidson

  83. Miguel de la Madrid

  84. Ninette de Valois

  85. Michel Delpech 

  86. Little Jimmy Dickens 

  87. Christy Dignam 

  88. Roberto Dinamite 

  89. Ronnie James Dio

  90. Jenny Diski 

  91. Larry Dobie

  92. Shannon Doherty

  93. Bob Dole 

  94. Chris Doleman

  95. Basil D’Oliveira 

  96. Sara Douglass 

  97. Gord Downie 

  98. Mikey Dread

  99. Ronnie Drew 

  100. Janez Drnovsek 

  101. Mickey Duff 

  102. Patricia C Dunn

  103. Ian Dury

  104. Bobby Eaton

  105. Bulent Ecevit 

  106. Gertrude Ederle 

  107. Abdul Sattar Edhi 

  108. Luis Echeverría Álvarez 

  109. Yosra El Essawy 

  110. Rayya Elias 

  111. Bob Ellis

  112. Peter Esterhazy 

  113. Steve Evans 

  114. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia

  115. Andrew Fairlie

  116. Jessica Falkholt 

  117. Sally Farmiloe 

  118. Danny Federici

  119. Joey Feek 

  120. Thomas Fekete

  121. W Mark Felt

  122. Pete Felton

  123. Major Ronald Ferguson 

  124. Geraldine Ferraro

  125. Kristina Fetters 

  126. Frank Field

  127. Laurent Fignon

  128. Tom Finney 

  129. Danny Fiszman 

  130. Brian Flowers

  131. Michael Foot 

  132. Betty Ford 

  133. Douglas Forewood

  134. Bruce Forsyth 

  135. Aretha Franklin 

  136. Bonnie Franklin 

  137. Pete Frates

  138. Marie Fredriksson 

  139. John Kenneth Galbraith 

  140. Ernest Gallo 

  141. Robin Gibb 

  142. Althea Gibson

  143. Ahmad “Real” Givens 

  144. John Glover 

  145. Jerome Golmard 

  146. Vanessa Goodwin

  147. Jade Goody 

  148. Elvis Gordon 

  149. John Gotti

  150. Reverend Billy Graham 

  151. Kate Granger 

  152. Josie Grove

  153. David Gulpilil

  154. Lachhiman Gurung 

  155. David Hagen 

  156. Dan Haggerty 

  157. Luke Halpin

  158. Anne Hamilton-Byrne 

  159. Mariam Hamza 

  160. Sarah Harding

  161. Valerie Harper 

  162. Pat Harrington Jr

  163. Rolf Harris 

  164. Ernie Harwell 

  165. Charles Haughey 

  166. Brian Haw 

  167. Lee Hazlewood

  168. Jeff Healey

  169. Brian Henderson

  170. Katherine Hepburn 

  171. Genaro Hernandez 

  172. Raymond Hewlett 

  173. Steve Hewlett 

  174. Alex Higgins

  175. John Higgins Sr 

  176. Lauren Hill 

  177. Edmund Hillary

  178. Christopher Hitchens 

  179. Jock Hobbs 

  180. Albert Hoffman 

  181. Claire Hollingworth 

  182. Bob Hope

  183. Dennis Hopper 

  184. Paul Hunter 

  185. Ratu Iloilo

  186. Johnnie Irwin 

  187. Clive James

  188. Deborah James 

  189. Etta James 

  190. Sandy Jardine 

  191. Roy Jenkins

  192. Kai Johansen 

  193. Pope John Paul II

  194. Wilko Johnson

  195. Winnie Johnson 

  196. Terry Jones 

  197. Phillip Jones Griffiths 

  198. Princess Juliana of the Netherlands 

  199. Mikhail Kalashnikov 

  200. Ritchii Kara 

  201. Mick Karn 

  202. Casey Kasem

  203. George Kennan

  204. Senator Edward Kennedy 

  205. Eunice Kennedy Shriver 

  206. Lee Kerslake 

  207. Dr Jack Kevorkian 

  208. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 

  209. Rowena Kincaid 

  210. Sonia Kinsella

  211. Joseph Kony 

  212. Lee Kreindler 

  213. Stanley Kunitz 

  214. Burt Kwouk 

  215. Frankie Laine 

  216. Tom Landry

  217. Eestee Lauder 

  218. Peggy Lee

  219. Grace Lee Boggs 

  220. Helen Legh

  221. Claude Levi-Strauss 

  222. Devin Lima 

  223. Rush Limbaugh

  224. Floyd Little 

  225. Sir Dai Llewellyn 

  226. Tony Lobinger 

  227. Jon Lord 

  228. Nat Lofthouse 

  229. Charlie Louvin

  230. Tom Lubbock 

  231. Lisa Lynch 

  232. Simon MacCorkindale 

  233. Charles Madden

  234. Lisa Magill 

  235. Nelson Mandela 

  236. Spanky Manikan 

  237. Diego Maradona

  238. Princess Margaret

  239. Howard Marks

  240. Penny Marshall 

  241. Pat Martino 

  242. Walter Matthau

  243. Ernst Mayr

  244. John McCain

  245. Andrew McGahan

  246. Frank McGarvey 

  247. Tracy McGiffin 

  248. Dr Anne McPherson 

  249. Steve McMichael 

  250. Victor Mears 

  251. Baitullah Mehsud 

  252. George Melly

  253. Carlos Menem

  254. Litsa Menounos 

  255. Bruno Metsu

  256. King Michael of Romania 

  257. Liam Miller

  258. Sir John Mills

  259. Andrew Millwall

  260. Shih Ming-Teh

  261. Ryan Minor

  262. Rochus Misch 

  263. Xolile Mngeni 

  264. Dudley Moore

  265. George Moore

  266. Edwin Morgan 

  267. Ruby Muhammad 

  268. Gerd Muller

  269. Faustino Sainz Munoz

  270. Marlise Munoz

  271. Alice Munro 

  272. Donald Neilson 

  273. Catherine Nevin 

  274. Nightbirde

  275. Lee Noble

  276. Linda Nolan 

  277. Robert Novak 

  278. Brian O’Connor

  279. Sir Angus Ogilvy 

  280. Kazuo Ohno

  281. Norm O’Neill

  282. Anthonia Onuoha

  283. Norman Painting 

  284. Frank Pakenham 

  285. Jack Pardee 

  286. Tom Parker

  287. Benny Parsons

  288. Patriarch Pavle 

  289. Luciano Pavarotti 

  290. Pelé

  291. George Perez

  292. Vicky Phelan

  293. Abbe Pierre

  294. Augusto Pinochet

  295. Harold Pinter 

  296. Rosemary Pitman

  297. Nigel Plews

  298. Sidney Pollack

  299. Genesis P-Orridge

  300. Reg Presley

  301. Ray Price 

  302. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho 

  303. Queen Mother

  304. Bhandari Ram

  305. Jack Ramsay 

  306. Lou Rawls 

  307. Ronald Reagan

  308. William Rehnquist 

  309. Julia Reichert

  310. Paul Revere 

  311. Wendy Richard

  312. Simon Ricketts 

  313. Fernando Ricksen

  314. Alain Robert 

  315. Oral Roberts 

  316. Sir Bobby Robson 

  317. Johnny Ruffo

  318. Ibrahim Rugova 

  319. Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman

  320. Yoo Sang-Chul 

  321. Malam Bacai Sanha

  322. Cicely Saunders 

  323. Maximillian Schell

  324. Joe Schlesinger 

  325. Max Schmelling 

  326. Charles Schulz 

  327. Jock Scot

  328. Stuart Scott

  329. Roger Scruton 

  330. Harry Secombe 

  331. Mike Sertich 

  332. Mutulu Shakur

  333. Yitzhak Shamir 

  334. Ariel Sharon 

  335. Artie Shaw

  336. Hartley Shawcross

  337. Barry Sheene 

  338. Carol Shields 

  339. Sadhana Shivdansi 

  340. Ronald J Shurer

  341. King Sihanouk 

  342. Pran Sikand

  343. Margaret Simey

  344. Roger Simon

  345. Sam Simon 

  346. Mark Sims

  347. Peter Skellern 

  348. Percy Sledge 

  349. Andrew Smith (Russell T Davies partner, not the young basketball player in 2016)

  350. Cyril Smith 

  351. Ian Smith

  352. Tom Smith

  353. Pat Smullen 

  354. Chris Snow

  355. Tony Snow

  356. Mario Soares

  357. John Spencer 

  358. Wendy Jo Sperber 

  359. Leon Spinks 

  360. Norman Spinrad

  361. Dr Willie Stanton

  362. Lee Starkey 

  363. Bill Steel

  364. Stefan Karl Stefansson

  365. Susie Steiner 

  366. Lynne Stewart 

  367. Nobby Stiles

  368. Mel Stottlemyre Sr

  369. Leslie Strathie

  370. Julie Strain

  371. Jim Stynes

  372. Bert Sugar

  373. Suharto 

  374. Steve Sumner 

  375. Patrick Swayze 

  376. Bill Tarmey 

  377. Teresa Taylor 

  378. Lord Norman Tebbit 

  379. Eddie Thompson 

  380. Jeremy Thorpe 

  381. Robert Tisch

  382. Jane Tomlinson 

  383. Isabel Torres

  384. Kris Travis

  385. Alex Trebek 

  386. Jean-Louis Trintignant 

  387. King Tupou V

  388. Sir Peter Ustinov 

  389. Mehmed Uzun 

  390. Hendrikje van Andel Schipper 

  391. Frank Van Den Bleeken 

  392. Joost van der Westhuizen 

  393. Paul Van Zandvliet 

  394. Jhon “Popeye” Velazquez 

  395. Gianluca Vialli 

  396. Dick Vitale

  397. Bill Walsh

  398. Wendy Wasserstein 

  399. Tom Weiskopf 

  400. Don West

  401. John Wetton

  402. James Whale

  403. Suzanne Whang

  404. Simon Wiesenthal 

  405. Mike Willesee 

  406. Alyson Williams

  407. Anne Williams 

  408. Ted Williams

  409. Sidney Noel Wiltshire

  410. Sir Norman Wisdom

  411. John Wodehouse 

  412. Sheb Wooley

  413. Fay Wray

  414. Sister Catherine Wybourne 

  415. David Wynne 

  416. Diana Wynne Jones 

  417. Masao Yoshida

  418. James R Young

  419. Warren Zevon

  420. Chen Ziming 

  421. Robert Zimmer

  422. Zhao Zhiyang

  423. Rachel Zoll

  424. Jorge Zorreguieta 

 

I wonder if anyone might make a theme team from the surviving members.

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On 29/12/2018 at 17:36, Joey Russ said:

An interesting thing that came in my head: how many countries have your DDP hits come from. So far, I have gotten 10 countries from my hits: UK, US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Iceland, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Syria. Wonder if I’ll get any new countries next year...

Since then France, Pakistan, Indonesia, and the Netherlands can be added to the list...

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(1996)

1.       Nick J in 1996 – all records lost

 


(1997)

2.       12th January 1997 – Nick J – Jill Summers

3.       10th February 1997 – Steve  L – Brian Connolly

4.       21st March 1997 – Nick J – Rev Awdrey - WINNER

 


(1998)

5.       21st January 1998 – Drunkasaskunk – Jack Lord

6.       6th February 1998 – Drunkasaskunk/Hoppo – Carl Wilson

7.       15th April 1998 – Drunkasaskunk – Pol Pot - WINNER

 


(1999)

8.       7th February 1999  – Dave J/Sumo/Jesus Jones  - King Hussein of Jordan

9.       9th February 1999 – Dave J/Drunkasaskunk – Bryan Mosley and Anne West

10.   24th February 1999 – Dave J – Derek Nimmo

11.   2nd March 1999 – Dave J/Drunkasaskunk – Dusty Springfield

12.   5th March 1999 – Drunkasaskunk – Lord Denning WINNER

 


(2000)

13.   19th January 2000 – MT Graves – Bettino Craxi

14.   21st May 2000 – Finnbarr – John Gielgud

15.   1st July 2000 – MT Graves – Walter Matthau WINNER

 


(2001)

16.   11th January 2001 – Miss Chief and Juicy Janny – Michael Williams

17.   16th January 2001 – Ed K – Auberon Waugh

18.   23rd April 2001 – Whittakers Choice – Charles Madden

19.   21st June 2001 – Joe Ram – Carrol O’Connor

20.   3rd August 2001 – Whittakers Choice – Lord Longford WINNER

 

 

(2002)

21.   3rd January 2002 – One Foot in the Grave – Antonio Todde

22.   31st January 2002 – Drunkasaskunk – Jonathan Wilson

23.   9th February 2002 – Tim R – Princess Margaret

24.   5th May 2002 – Tim R/Ghoulish Guesses – Hugo Banzer

25.   10th June 2002 – Joe Ram – John Gotti WINNER

 


(2003)

26.   3rd January 2003 – Ed K – Nap Botterell

27.   18th February 2003 – Otis you want a treat? – Lee Kriendler  WINNER

 


(2004)

28.   14th January 2004 – Otis You Want a Treat? – Tom Hurndall

29.   5th March 2004 – One Foot in the Grave – Joan Moll

30.   28th March 2004 – One Foot in the Grave/Whittakers Choice – Peter Ustinov

31.   30th March 2004 – OfitG/Whittakers/Big Iain/Deathlist.net – Alistair Cooke

32.   April 25th 2004 – Deathlist.net – Estee Lauder

33.   May 6th 2004 – Otis – Barney Kessel

34.   May 14th 2004 – One Foot in the Grave – Charlotte Benkner

35.   May 29th 2004 – Otis – Jack Rosenthal

36.   August 9th 2004 – Deathlist.net – Fay Wray

37.   September 24th 2004 – Otis – Francoise Sagan

38.   December 30th 2004 – Deathlist.net – Artie Shaw – WINNER

 


(2005)

39.   January 2nd 2005 – Rude Kid – Cyril Fletcher

40.   Juanuary 17th 2005 – Fallen Sparrow – Charlie Bell

41.   July 20th 2005 – I Smell Dead People – James Doohan

42.   November 15th 2005 – Fallen Sparrow – Robert Tisch WINNER

 


(2006)

43.   3rd January 2006 – Go Fish – William Skate

44.   6th January 2006 – 20 teams – Lou Rawls

45.   14th January 2006 – Faster Pussycat – Shelley Winters

46.   17th January 2006 – Doffin Codgers – Clarence Ray Allen

47.   21st January 2006 – faster Pussycat – Ibrahim Rugova

48.   30th January 2006 – Go Fish – Wendy Wasserstein

49.   17th October 2006 – Meet your Maker – Ross Davidson WINNER

 


(2007)

50.   2nd January 2007 - Death from Above/Go Fish - Charles Betty

51.   16th January 2007 – Godot/Mortal Wombat/Only Fools and Corpses/Caulkhead Coffin Kickers – tahe 2 dead Iraqis

52.   13th February 2007 – Death from Above – Ada Mason

53.   26th February 2007 - Dead Men Walkng/Eejit – Josie Grove

54.   24th April 2007 – No Noose is Good Noose – James Flliaggi

55.   7th July 2007 – Meet your maker – George fn Melly

56.   10th September 2007 – Stab in the Dark – Jane Wyman

57.   25th October 2007 – Meet your Maker – Mehmed Uzun WINNER

 


(2008)

58.   2nd January 2008 – One Foot in the Grave – Yo-Sam Choi

59.   27th January 2008 – They Died and Left me in Charge – Suharto

60.   28th January 2008 – they’re Dead, Y’Know – Archbishop Christodoulos

61.   2nd March 2008 – Godots Waiting List/They’re Dead Y’Know/The Living End – Jeff Healey/Norm O’neill

62.   7th March 2008 – Godots Waiting List/They’re Dead Y’Know – Francis Pym

63.   15th March 2008 – The Living End – Mikey Dread

64.   24th March 2008 – Godot’s Waiting List – Richard Widmark

65.   17th April 2008 – The Living End – Danny Federici WINNER

 


(2009)

66.   1st January 2009 – Going Underground – Claiborne Pell

67.   3rd January 2009 – Octopus of Odstock – Pat Hingle

68.   4th January 2009 – Heaven Knows Thy’re Miserable Now – Lei Clijsters

69.   18th August 2009 – Tonight matthew… - Robert Novak WINNER

 


(2010)

70.   4th January 2010 – Rude Kid – Tsutomu Yamaguchi

71.   18th January 2010 – The Living End – Kate McGarrigle

72.   21st January 2010 – Misers – Paul Quarrington

73.   27th January 2010 – rude Kid – Zelda Rubinstein

74.   7th February 2010 – Canadian Paul – Willam Tenn

75.   14th February 2010 – Groblers Stiff Ones – Dick Francis

76.   2nd March 2010 – If I’m Spared… - Winston Churchill

77.   6th April 2010 – Groblrs Stiff Ones – Corin Redgrave

78.   19th August 2010 – Octopus of Odstock – Edwin Morgan

79.   31st August 2010 – Octopus of Odstock/Rot in Hell John – Laurent Fignon

80.   4th October 2010 – Octopus of Odstock – Norman Wisdom WINNER

 

 


(2011)

81.   2nd January 2011 – Old Ma G’s Gravy Mix – Pete Postlethwaite

82.   4th January 2011 – Inigo I hope we win – Gerry Rafferty

83.   9th January 2011 – Daniel Faradays Notebook – Tom Lubbock

84.   15th January 2011 – The Final Showdown – Nat Lofthousee

85.   3rd February 2011 – The Living End – John Higgins Sr WINNER

 


(2012)

86.   1st January 2012 – Better You Than Me/The Don/Finbarr/Gawn/George Lass/Girlfriend in a Coma/Romancing the Headstone/Importance of Being Umish/Unspiritualist/This Mortal Coil – Gary Ablett

87.   14th  January 2012 – David QUantick’s Showbiz Pals/The Living End – Lesley Strathie

88.   20th January 2012 – Gawn dead Planted/David Quanticks Showbiz Pals/The Living End– Etta James

89.   22nd January 2012 – ‘arry kiri – Joe Paterno

90.   31st January 2012 – ‘arry kiri/Octopus of Odstock – Bevalicqua

91.   9th February 2012 – Gawn dead Planted – Gifford

92.   16th February 2012 – Stardust – Gary Carter

93.   21st February 2012 – David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals – Rosoman

94.   20th March 2012 – ‘arry Kiri/The Living End – Jim Stynes

95.   25th March 2012 – The Living End – Bert Sugar  WINNER

 


(2013)

96.   1st January 2013 – Octopus of Odstock – Christopher Martin-Jenkins 

97.   9th January 2013 – Romancing the Headstone – Owen Brennan

98.   21st January 2013 – Octopus of Odstock – Michael Winner

99.   11th March 2013 – The Living End – Lisa Lynch

100.                        8th April 2013 – Octopus of Odstock – Annette Funicello

101.                        4th July 2013 – Thomas Jefferson Survives – Bernie Nolan

102.                        21st September 2013 – Octopus of Odstock – Jack Pardee qualifying obit found down back of sofa

103.                        16th December 2013 – David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals – Ray Price WINNER

 


(2014)

104.                        1st January 2014 – The Good, the Bad and Cliff Richard – Dorothy Baldwin

105.                        2nd January 2014 – Researched to Death/I’m a Celeb/This Mortal Coil/Toast of the Turf – Terry Biddlecombe

106.                        3rd January 2014 –Shake, Rattle, Rll over – Phil Evrely

107.                        11th January 2014 – Star Dust/Chemo Sabee/They’re Loving Angels Instead – Felix Glenny

108.                        16th January 2014 – David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals- Steve Evans

109.                        7th May 2014 – Drunkasaskunk – Katherine Crowe

110.                        21st October 2014 – David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals – Chen Ziming WINNER

 

 


(2015)

111.                        1st January 2015 – Paint the Town Dead/Tentoesup – Mario Cuomo.

112.                        2nd January 2015 – The Living End – Anas al-Liby

113.                        4th January 2015 – Thomas Jefferson Survives/David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals – Stuart Scott

114.                        13th January 2015 – Taking the Michael – Mike Marqusee

115.                        9th February 2015 – Crazycarl – Ed Sabol

116.                        27th February 2015 – Crazycarl and Thomas Jefferson Survives – Bob Benmosche

117.                        8th April 2015 – Thomas Jefferson Survives – Ion Trewin

118.                        2nd September 2015 – The Living End – Denise Marshall obit

119.                        25th December 2015 – David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals – Sadhana Shivdasani WINNER

 

 


(2016)

120.                        1st January 2016 – Shameless – S@r@h J0ne5

121.                        15th January 2016 – David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals – Dan Haggry

122.                        25th February 2016 – Shameless – Ch@rl0tte3 E@de5

123.                        3rd March 2016 – Heading Nowhere – Martin Crowe

124.                        14th March 2016 – The Living End  - Peter Maxwell Davies

125.                        24th March 2016 -  Thomas Jefferson Survives – Johan Cruyff

126.                        4th April 2016 – The Living End – Ronald Mulkearns

127.                        8th July 2016 – David QUantick’s Showbiz Pal/The Living End – Abdul Sattar Edhi

128.                        16th July 2016 - -The Living End – Bonnie Brown

129.                        23rd July 2016 – David QUantick’s Showbiz Pals – Kate Granger

130.                        30th August 2016 – Heading Nowhere – Vera Caslavska

131.                        2nd September 2016 – David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals – Rowena Kincaid

 

 


(2017)

132.                        1st January 2017 – Destination Eschaton – Derek Parfitt

133.                        8th January 2017 – Carkers Convention – Peter Sarstedt

134.                        15th January 2017 – Captain Hemlock’20/Dead Last?/Eternity Tours/Francis of Arse-Easy/Grim McGraw – Jimmy Snuka

135.                        19th January 2017 – To Kill a Gabor Sister – Mark Sims

136.                        6th February 2017 – Golden Slumbers – Joost van der Westhuizen

137.                        17th October 2017 – Golden Slumbers and David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals – Gord Downie

138.                        5th December 2017 – Golden Slumbers – King Michael of Romania WINNER

 

 


(2018)

139.                        2nd January 2018 – Robbinsdale High School Memorial Deathsquad – Emily Dole

140.                        4th January 2018 – Heading Nowhere and Drollercoaster – Rayya elias

141.                        17th January 2018 – Drollercoaster – Jessica Falkholt

142.                        22nd April 2018 – Day in the Death -  Jacqui Forster

143.                        5th August 2018 – Thomas Jefferson Survives – Charlotte Rae

144. 21st November 2018 - Pity da Foolz - Devin Lima  WINNER

 

(2019)

145. 1st January 2019 - GUN Away - Tyler Trent

146. 25th January 2019 - Going Underground/Ethnic Cleansing - Fatima Ali

147. 1st February 2019 -  Ethnic Cleansing - Andrew McGahan

148. 21st February 2019 - The Living End - Peter Tork

149. 3rd April 2019 - Going Underground - Bill Heine

150. 11th June 2019 - Grim Up North - Gabriele Grunewald

151. 16th July 2019 - Thomas Jefferson Survives/Pan Breed - Johnny Clegg

152. 20th August 2019 - TJS/Pan Breed/Heading Nowhere - Fred Rister

153. 18th September 2019 - Thomas Jefferson Survives - Fernando Ricksen WINNER

 

(2020)

154. 1st January 2020 - YOUREOUT - Don Larsen

155. 3rd January 2020 - Last of the Summer Winos - Christopher Beeny

156. 7th January 2020 - You Could Be A King or a Little Street Sweeper - Elizabeth Wurtzel

157. 10th January 2002 - House of Soon to be with the Lord - Qaboos al Said

158. 12th January 2020 - You Could be A King or a Little Street Sweeper - Roger Scruton

159. 19th January 2020 - Roasting Bodies in Redcar - Shin Kyuk-ho

160. 21st January 2020 - You Could Be a King or a Little Street Sweeper - Terry Jones

161. 25th January 2020 - Love Boat - Sonia Kinsella

162. 30th January 2020 - Day in the Death/Heading Nowhere - John Andretti

163. 14th March 2020 - The Love Boat - Genesis Porridge

164. 18th March 2020 - To Kill a Gabor Sister

165. 17th July 2020 - Day in the Death - John Lewis

166. 24th  July 2020 - Love Boat - David Hagen WINNER

 

(2021)

167. 1st January 2021 - Deathray - Mark Eden

168. 1st January 2021 - Living End/Perhaps - Floyd Little

169. 2nd January 2021 - Prophets Prophecies - Paul Westphal

170. 5th February 2021 - Jackie Treehorn - Leon Spinks

171. 12th February 2021 - David Quantick's Showbiz pals - Milford Graves

 

Updated best as possible to the present day.

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On 29/12/2018 at 20:00, Death Impends said:

17 as far as I can tell, with Canada, Cuba, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Syria, UK, USA, South Africa, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe all delivering at least one hit. Astonishingly have yet to get a hit from Australia!

 

21 countries now. Pakistan, France, and Australia added to the tally last year, Oman this. There's also potential for Denmark and South Korea this year.

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14 hours ago, Death Impends said:

 

21 countries now. Pakistan, France, and Australia added to the tally last year, Oman this. There's also potential for Denmark and South Korea this year.

You telling me we've never had a Russian (white or black, a little alcohol humour there)??

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On 20/07/2019 at 18:13, Clorox Bleachman said:

Predictor asked a while back who had received the most votes across all the "nth death of 20xx" polls. Well, here's the answer. Brackers is our strongest survivor, and with a bit of luck she could be the GOAT. She's beaten Kirk in under 3 years!

 

In a twist no one saw coming, Kirk overtook Leah by one vote before proceeding to die the next day.

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