Celebrity picks for Derby Dead Pool 2008: Y

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Yar'Adua, Umaru Born in Katsina State, Nigeria  (exact date unknown) Current President of Nigeria. Born in 1951. Calamity

Yeager, Chuck Born 13 February 1923  (Myra, West Virginia, USA) World War II flying ace, who later became a test pilot for the US Air Force and is credited with being the first person to break the sound barrier. Deadly As Sin Till You Win Redmyst XX Anyone Seen My Camel?

Yew, Lee Kuan Born 16 September 1923  (Singapore) Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959-90. David the Aspie

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh  Born 12 January 1917  (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India) Died 5 February 2008  (Vlodrop, Holland) Age at death: 91  (read death notice) Guru who popularized traditional Indian thought in the West and founded the Transcendental Meditation movement, which reached its height of popularity in the 1960s and '70s. There is some dispute over his date of birth, but popular consensus upon his death suggested he was 91 years of age. Annus Horribilis Dead Man Walking Blues The Dead Certs Tomb It May Concern

Youd, Samuel Born 16 April 1922  (Lancashire, England) Writer, mainly of science-fiction. Please Refrain From Testing

Young, Jimmy Born 21 September 1923  (Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England) Having been presenter of BBC Radio 2's lunchtime show for thirty years, he was acrimoniously sacked towards the end of 2002. Real name Leslie Ronald Young, he usually appears in the same sentence as the word "veteran", and was reportedly Margaret Thatcher's favourite broadcaster. Which probably makes him a marked man. Co-Op Funerals Evil Shape-Shifting Pixies MizzJackTheCat

Young, Neil Born 12 November 1945  (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Singer/songwriter, famous both as part of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and also in his own right. Survived a brain aneurysm in 2005, and is now back touring, his fifth decade of doing so. Nicole Kidman Is A Slag

Yow, Kay Born 14 March 1942  (Gibbonsville, North Carolina, USA) Female basketball coach at North Carolina State University. Not likely to get a UK obituary, one would've thought, but who knows? No Noose Is Good Noose

Yushchenko, Viktor Born 23 February 1954  (Khoruzhivka, Ukraine) Ukrainian politician who was elected President of his country in December 2004, but not before one election had been scrapped due to rampant vote-rigging and Yushchenko had been (allegedly) poisoned with high levels of dioxin, which left his skin startlingly discoloured and pockmarked. Bob Mugabe's Swingtime Band

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