Celebrity picks for Derby Dead Pool 2015: V

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Vajpayee, Atal Bihari Born 25 December 1924  (Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India) Prime Minister of India, first for a brief spell in 1996, and then again from 1998-2004. DeadHead The Newstreet Boys Death Squad

Valdez, Lupe Born 11 October 1947  (San Antonio, Texas, USA) Openly gay, Hispanic Sheriff of Dallas County, Texas. Coffinio De Lesbos

Valente, Caterina Born 14 January 1931  (Paris, France) Italian singer and guitar player. Deutschland Verabschiedet Sich!

Valli, Frankie Born 3 May 1934  (Newark, New Jersy, USA) Singer with the Four Seasons, famous for his falsetto voice on hits such as 'Walk Like a Man' and 'December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)'. Tonight Matthew, I'm Going To Be...Dead! Shake, Rattle, Roll Over And Play Dead

van Agt, Dries Born 2 February 1931  (Geldrop, Netherlands) Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1977-82. One Death to Rule Them All

Van Den Bleeken, Frank Date and place of birth unknown Serial rapist and murderer who is aiming to be euthanised despite no medical condition. Born 1964. David Quantick's Showbiz Pals The Living End

van der Kade-Koudijs, Gerda Born 29 October 1923  (Rotterdam, Netherlands) Dutch athlete who won 4x100m relay Olympic gold in 1948. Died in March 2015 but no obit. Minions Of Xuleneb

van der Westhuizen, Joost Born 20 February 1971  (Pretoria, South Africa) Former South Africa rugby international. Diagnosed with ALS in 2011. 50 Shades Of Grey Skinned Death Aardvark's Bupa Listing Ambledown  The Choir Invisibule 2015 Beyond A Little Peaky Biologically Dead Body Snatcher's Body-Count  Coffinitup Corpse, Like The Marines, Except Spelt Differently Couldn't even make 50, what lightweights Croaker D'Eath And The Prognosticators Crofty's Coffin Crew DAI YAB'STARDS Poochie Died On The Way Back To His Home Planet DDP Tofoa Dead And Dusted Dead Ends Dead Loss Warning: Dying Can Be Hazardous To Your Health Death Grips Await Deathray's Kevorkian Clinic Diana Rots Die Now....Die Now....Show Us You've Pegged Embalmy Army Ethnic Cleansing Faster Than A Dead Horse Feng Shui Pig Finbarr Returns From The Dead Funeral Holmes Going Underground Grendel's Graveyard H5N1 Brimful Of Asha I'm Sorry For Your Trouble I Shall Need To Get The Black Out I Told You I Was Ill I Will Not Die, It's The World That Will End! Jimmy Savile's Paedo FunHouse and Grill They're Loving Angels Instead Live Forever With Line 5 Weakend At Bernies Manuel's Stiffs The Hidden Persuader Mercarte Noah Reason And The Youth In Asia .....Norfolk & Good Only Fools and Corpses Pan Breed Pedro’s Catacomb Clique People I Think Might Die In 2015 United Pickton's Pork Pies Pity da Foolz Plowing The Deep I'm Fed Up With This World Seasideessexxile Shaun of the Dead 69 Shovelful Of Dirt Song To The Siren Stiff & the Tears Sweeney Todd's Nutritional Information Team Cat AIDS The Anfield Iron The Beatles Are Dying In The Wrong Order The Conqueror Worm The Dead Cows Sovereign-Reaper The Grey Horde The Importance Of Being Urn-ish The Newstreet Boys Death Squad There Or Thereabouts The Walking Dead  The Worm Your Honour They're Dead, Y'Know!  This Mortal Coil Today's The Day The Maggots Have Their Picnic Tomb It May Concern Valar Morghulis  Wall Street Massacre We're All Gonna Die! You Can't Die If You're Already Dead, Darling

Van Doren, Charles Born 12 February 1926  (New York City, New York, USA) American intellectual who was the centre of a TV scandal in the 1950s, when he was given the answers to the questions on the quiz show 'Twenty One' because the producers thought he was popular with viewers and wanted him to continue. Imgone, Solong

Van Dyke, Dick Born 13 December 1925  (West Plains, Missouri, USA) Actor and TV presenter who is best known in America for 'The Dick Van Dyke Show', and on this side of the pond for his butt-clenchingly awful attempt at a Cockney accent in 'Mary Poppins'. ..It's Better To Burn Out Than To Fade Away Antique Artistes Can You Tell What It Is Yet Catherine COrPSe & SLEUTHS Death On The Rocks Falling Off The Perch Funeral Holmes Gag Slow And Die GMC Ghost Town Imgone, Solong Toto, I've Got a Feeling We're Not Alive Anymore in eternum+'s Wrinkly Dicks Jellydead LastOrders Weakend At Bernies OldPolsEtc Oscar The Beast Powder's Picks Say Hi To Uncle George Sonnys Suicide Solutions The Funky Faz's Crypt Of Chortles The Walking Dead TilDeathDoUsPart Turn Off That Telly and Go to Bed! Zombie Nation

Van Gelder, Rudy Born 2 November 1924  (Jersey City, New Jersey, USA) Recording engineer, associated with Jazz and the Blue Note record label. Imgone, Solong See You In Heaven

Van Gyseghem, Joanna Born 4 September 1941  (Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England) TV actress best known for her role as Linda Cochran in the 1980s sitcom 'Duty Free'. Puke on My Grave

Van Halen, Eddie Born 26 January 1955  (Nijmegen, Netherlands) Dutch guitarist, co-founder of the rock group Van Halen. Has suffered health problems in the last few years, which have affected his output somewhat. Powder's Picks

Van Himst, Paul Born 2 October 1943  (Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium) Former Anderlecht and Belgium footballer. Won 8 Belgian league titles. Escape To Victory

van Hoogstraten, Nicholas Born 25 February 1945  (Shoreham, East Sussex, England) Property tycoon, absolute crook and once Britain's youngest millionaire. Considers Robert Mugabe as "100% decent and incorruptible", which says an awful lot about him... See You In Hell

van Leer, Thijs Born 31 March 1948  (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Lead singer of Dutch progressive rock band Focus. Died In The Wool

Van Patten, Dick  Born 9 December 1928  (New York, New York, USA) Died 23 June 2015  (Santa Monica, California, USA) Age at death: 86  (read death notice) US actor & dog food promoter. Suffered a major stroke in 2006. Buried By HHH

Van Roosbroeck, Eugène Born 13 May 1928  (Antwerp, Belgium) Olympic gold medal winning Belgian cyclist. Minions Of Xuleneb

Vanderbilt, Gloria Born 20 February 1924  (New York, New York, USA) Became a multi-millionaire heiress at just 15 months old, and later became an artist, actress & socialite. Dead Is Dead Goodbyladies The Empire State Strikes Back

Vanian, Dave Born 12 October 1956  (Hemel Hempstead, England) Lead singer of punk legends The Damned. Alright Dave

Varda, Agnès Born 30 May 1928  (Brussels, Belgium) French film director. Little Eadie's Euthanizers

Varda, James Born in Colchester, England  (exact date unknown) Folk musician. Released his debut album in 1988, his follow-up in 2003! Died in June 2015 and probably unlikely to get the requisite obit... A Pelican In The Wilderness

Vaudecrane, Jacqueline Born 22 November 1913  (Paris, France) Former French figure skating champion. One Century Is Enough, Madam!

Vaughan, Peter Born 4 April 1923  (Wem, Shropshire, England) TV actor - played Grouty, the Mr. Big of Slade prison in 'Porridge'. Final Curtain Clean Bill Of Health Oldham Scalphunters Phantom's Pick 'n' Mix Soylent Dreams The Reaper's Apprentice The Putrid Stench of Brit-Sitcom

Vaughn, Robert Born 22 November 1932  (New York, New York, USA) Actor, best known for either his role in 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E' or to British audiences nowadays in the TV show 'Hustle'. He is also the only surviving member of The Magnificent Seven. All Quiet on the Westerns Front Lord Gravedigger On The Box/In The Box Pearly Gates

Vee, Bobby Born 30 April 1943  (Fargo, North Dakota, USA) Early 60s pop star, of 'Rubber Ball' fame. Not to be confused with Bobby Vinton of 'Blue Velvet' fame. Tonight Matthew, I'm Going To Be...Dead!

Veil, Simone Born 13 July 1927  (Nice, France) Lawyer and politician. Served under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing before becoming President of the European Parliament in 1979. Dead And Dusted 2

Velazquez, Isidro Born in Ayapa, Mexico  (exact date unknown) One of the last known speakers of the ancient Mexican language of Ayapaneco. Born 1942. Not Sleeping Just Bloody Dead

VelJohnson, Reginald Born 16 August 1952  (New York City, New York, USA) Actor. Played Sgt Powell in the first two 'Die Hard' movies. Predictor's Predictions

Veronesi, Sandro Born 1 April 1959  (Florence, Italy) Italian novelist. Who?

Vertue, Beryl Born in Mitcham, Surrey, England  (exact date unknown) Television Producer responsible for many successful series such as 'Men Behaving Badly', 'Coupling' and 'Sherlock', the latter two created by her son-in-law Steven Moffat. Born 1931. Unusual Suspects

Vigoda, Abe Born 24 February 1921  (New York, New York, USA) Tall, well-built character actor, noted for his roles as mobster Sal Tessio in 'The Godfather' and Det. Sgt. Fish in 'Barney Miller'. Was erroneously declared dead in the early 1980s. AceDeathware Buzzards Drop Deadline Deadly As Sin Till You Win Death On The Rocks Death Stinks Dickys Dawn of the Dead Four Score Years And Ten Golden Oldies Grim McGraw Heads In A Bag IHNFC Jumptheshark 6.0 Moldy Oldies Noah Reason And The Youth In Asia Paint the town DEAD with the Rocket Man Say Hi To Uncle George Kicking Down Death's Door (Scarborough Style) The Empire State Strikes Back

Villeneuve, Sr., Jacques Born 4 November 1953  (Berthierville, Canada) Canadian motor racer, whoses nephew Jacques won the F1 World Championship in 1997 and brother Gilles was killed racing in 1982. Crossing The Styx I Shall Need To Get The Black Out Pan Breed The Living End

Vincent, Jan-Michael Born 15 July 1944  (Denver, Colorado, USA) Star of 1980s action series 'Airwolf'. Not At All Well Noz4news This Mortal Coil

Vinton, Bobby Born 16 April 1935  (Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA) Early 60s pop star, of 'Blue Velvet' fame. Not to be confused with Bobby Vee of 'Rubber Ball' fame. 16 Is The Number Tonight Matthew, I'm Going To Be...Dead! Right Dead Fred

Virgo, John Born 3 March 1946  (Salford, Lancashire, England) Snooker player, turned TV commentator & presenter. H5N1

Vithoulkas, George Born 25 July 1932  (Athens, Greece) Greek homeopathic practitioner and teacher. Alternative in Death - The Right Deadlihood Award

Vitti, Monica Born 3 November 1931  (Rome, Italy) Italian actress, associated with film director Michelangelo Antonioni. Dead Space 5000 Death Amore No Uggo's Allowed

Voight, Jon Born 29 December 1938  (Yonkers, New York, USA) Oscar-winning film actor who starred in the films 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Deliverance'. Father of Angelina Jolie. The Honey Trap

Volcker, Paul Born 5 September 1927  (Cape May, New Jersey, USA) Chairman of the US Federal Reserve from 1979-1987 under Presidents' Carter and Reagan. Dead And Deader II: Fidel's Fucking Finished Economics - The Fatal Science

von Anhalt, Frédéric Prinz Born 18 June 1943  (Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) The latest (possibly the last) of the many husbands of ailing filmstar Zsa Zsa Gabor. Rotting Kanzlerin

von Bargen, Daniel  Born 5 June 1950  (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) Died 1 March 2015  (Montgomery, Ohio, USA) Age at death: 64  (read death notice) Actor, best known for his roles in 'Seinfeld' and 'Malcolm in the Middle'. Remarkably, in a suspected suicide attempt in 2012, he shot himself in the temple and yet survived! Should have made Oscar Pistorius his hitman. Just sayin'... Insert Name Here

von Bülow, Claus Born 11 August 1926  (Copenhagen, Denmark) Wealthy British-based financier, who hit the headlines when he was convicted in 1982 of attempting to murder his wife, but later had his conviction quashed. Death At The Movies Hit Me With Your Best Shot Blue in Blood and in the Face

von Daniken, Erich Born 14 April 1935  (Zofingen, Aargau, Switzerland) Author & UFO/alien fan. Bibliogryphon’s Bookworm Food See You In Hell

von Falz-Fein, Eduard Born 14 September 1912  (Gavrilovka, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) Liechtensteinian businessman and public figure. Not Gone Yet, But Still Forgotten

von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Born 11 May 1921  (Wiesbaden, Germany) German SS officer and son of foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Predictor's Predictions

von Sydow, Max Born 10 April 1929  (Lund, Skane, Sweden) Swedish actor, who has achieved fame both at home and abroad. Dead, Dead & Never Called Me Mother Escape To Victory No Mr Bond Villain, I Expect You To Die!!! Oscar The Beast Toetag4U

von Weizsäcker, Richard  Born 15 April 1920  (Stuttgart, Germany) Died 31 January 2015  (Berlin, Germany) Age at death: 94  (read death notice) Former President of Germany. Deutschland Verabschiedet Sich! The Grey Horde Wep 2.0 - World's Eternity Prophet Reloaded

Vraciu, Alexander Born 2 November 1918  (East Chicago, Indiana, USA) World War II fighter pilot and US Medal of Honor winner. Died in January 2015 but no obit. Inquilinekea/Simfish

Vujanovic, Filip Born 1 September 1954  (Belgrade, Serbia) President of Montenegro since 2003. Pierre's List

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