DDP 2026: List of the Lost

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
• independent.co.uk
• cityam.com
• radiotimes.com
• economist.com
• www.pressreader.com/uk if it can be used to prove the existence of a print obituary in any of the sources mentioned above.

In addition, the following picks died in a previous year, but news of their death came too late to be substituted: