The following ‘celebrities’ have died this year, but haven’t got the required UK obituary as far as we can see, so no points have been awarded as yet.
Please let us know if you spot an obit for one of these people (or even just a passing mention of their death) in a British national news source as accepted below.
- BBC*:
bbc.co.uk/news (and all subsections, including the previously banned local news pages)
bbc.co.uk/sport - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpmv (Last Word, the death must be written down)
bbc.co.uk/newsbeat - And from the UK versions of the following:
- telegraph.co.uk
- thetimes.co.uk
- ft.com
- theguardian.com
- dailymail.co.uk
- express.co.uk
- dailystar.co.uk
- thesun.co.uk
- mirror.co.uk
- morningstaronline.co.uk
- inews.co.uk
- heraldscotland.com
- dailyrecord.co.uk
- metro.co.uk
- This includes the Sunday and Scottish editions of all of the above ie The Scottish Sun, Mail on Sunday, etc.
- uk.reuters.com
- news.sky.com/uk
- skysports.com
- itv.com/news (this includes local news pages, and STV/UTV)
- channel4.com/news
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www.pressreader.com/uk if it can be used to prove the existence of a print obituary in any of the sources mentioned above.
The notice of death must be in written English. Video links are only accepted if the strapline mentions the celeb’s passing.
| Name | Date of Death |
| Andrzej Bogusławski | January 6 2026 |
| Hifumi Kato | January 22 2026 |
| Jadwiga Zak-Stewart | January 26 2026 |
| Akira Iriye | January 27 2026 |
| Jon Absey | January 31 2026 |
| Marie-Rose Tessier | February 10 2026 |
| Helene Ahrweiler | February 16 2026 |
| Ludwig Scotty | February 26 2026 |
| Kathe Menzel-Jordan | March 1 2026 |
In addition, the following picks died in a previous year, but news of their death came too late to be substituted:
| Name | Date of Death |
| Tom Copeland | December 8 2025 |
| Elizabeth Kelly | December 31 2025 |