Death List names

[flick]

Oops: I forgot to do this!

Is anyone else playing? No cheating, if so!

Lists taken from here and here. Seems like quite a long tail, this year, although I've not actually checked:

Six: Fidel Castro, George H. W. Bush, Kirk Douglas, Nelson Mandela, Prince Philip
Five: Margaret Thatcher
Four: Hugo Chavez
Three: Christopher Lee, Steven Hawking
Two: Bashar al-Assad, Denis Healey, Hosni Mubarak, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mugabee, Roger Moore, Shane MacGowan, Vera Lynn, Zsa Zsa Gabor
One: Alan Garner, Alan Simpson, Alan Sugar, Ariel Sharon, Barack Obama, Barry Humphries, Bert Trautmann, Betty Ballentine, Billy Graham, Boris Johnson, Bruce Forsyth, Buddy Greco, Charlie Stross, Clint Eastwood, David Blaine, David Prowse, David Steel, Don Rickles, Doris Day, Doris Lessing, Eli Wallach, Empress Michiko, Freddie Starr, Gough Whitlam, Herman Wouk, Hillary Clinton, Ian Paisley, IM Pei, Jack Vance, Jimmy Carter, Joan Fontaine, John Mahoney, Jude Law, Julie Andrews, Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Ken Wallis, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Leonard Nimoy, Lindsay Lohan, Liz Smith, Martin Landau, Mel Brooks, Michael J Fox, Mickey Rooney, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nancy Regan, Nobby Stiles, Norman Tebbit, Peter O'Toole, Prince Charles, Prunella Scales, Ranulph Fiennes, Richard Attenborough, Ridley Scott, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewert, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Sean Connery, Sid Caesar, Slim Whitman, Stan Lee, Stephen Sondheim, The Pope, Tony Benn, Tony Benn, Verne Gagne, Viktor Korchnoi

Players are:
flickgc, dougs, purplecthulu, clanwilliam, hano, ang_rosin, rose_gialle, nils, vicarage, johnnyeponymous, darth_tigger, the_maenad, evil_mogwai


(No one had Michael Winner this year, although someone did at one time as he's on the master list.)

Comments

[dougs.livejournal.com]

Your first link is relative to the current page, I think it's missing the http:// at the front.

Also, I wonder how many of us have only names that no-one else has chosen?

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I think with Winner it might be that many of us had forgotten he was still alive?

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Ta, fixed it.

The other, I'll have a look tomorrow and let you know!

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Number of 1's:
flickgc - 4
dougs - 10
purplecthulu - 3
clanwilliam - 4
hano - 2
ang_rosin - 1
rose_gialle - 5
nils - 4
vicarage - 5
johnnyeponymous - 3
darth_tigger - 7
the_maenad - 10
evil_mogwai - 5
were_gopher - 3

So, just two of you.

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

Forgot to say I was in. Same list as last year except take out obama and al assad and add prince phillip and bush senior

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Ok:

Courtney Love
Fidel Castro
Ian Bradey
Lindsay Lohan
Margaret Thatcher
Mickey Rooney
Ronnie Biggs
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Prince Phillip
Bush Senior

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

You seem to have Tony Benn twice...

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

So I do! Ta.

[nils.livejournal.com]

I just thought of another name today, is it too late to change my list? ;-)

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

It's fine, as long as it's not someone who's just had a news story about being about to die!

[nils.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm not that sneaky! I'm not aware of any recent news concerning his health, but he is getting on a bit.

Noam Chomsky in, Barack Obama out.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Ok, done!

[nils.livejournal.com]

Thanks! (I guess now I'm more likely to not score points for my removed person than to score points for the new addition... ;-)

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

Hat doffed, and points claimed, for Slim Whitman.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22965155

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Taking you into the lead!

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

And now Bert Trautmann's gone. I'm doing a good Upas-tree impression this year, aren't I?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23375452

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

And now Bert Trautmann's gone. I'm doing a good Upas-tree impression this year, aren't I?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23375452

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Points for you indeed! I head the obits last week, but I didn't think to check if anyone had him!

(Sorry for the slow reply - I had see the comment, but see my latest post....)