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
- This includes the Sunday and Scottish editions of all of the above ie The Scottish Sun, Mail on Sunday, etc.
(As of 1/1/2018, the death announcements section of broadsheet websites, which members of the general public can pay for listings, are excluded)
…and from these news sites:
- 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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uk.news.yahoo.com (must be a UK link)
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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 |
| Ernst Walder | 6 September 2021(!) |
| Leon Lissek | 2021/22 |
| Luis Pareto Gonzalez | 7 January 2022 |
| Everett Lee | 12 January 2022 |
| Fanita English | 20 January 2022 |
| Leonor Oyarzun | 21 January 2022 |
| Mary ‘Mollie’ Walker | 22 January 2022 |
| Lotfollah Safi Golpayegani | 1 February 2022 |
| Ronnie Hellstrom* | 6 February 2022 |
| Dan Lacey | 7 February 2022 |
| Saleh Ajeery | 10 February 2022 |
| Sandy Nelson | 14 February 2022 |
| Tomás Mac Síomóin | 17 February 2022 |
| Eleonore Schonborn | 25 February 2022 |
| Silas Alexander | 1 March 2022 |
| Rene Clemencic | 8 March 2022 |
| Egidius Braun* | 16 March 2022 |
| Glen Glenn | 18 March 2022 |
| Natty Wailer | 30 March 2022 |
| Stanislaw Kowalski | 5 April 2022 |
| Sonny Caldinez | 12 April 2022 |
| Hilda Bernard | 20 April 2022 |
| Arno | 23 April 2022 |
| Tracy Kashi | 28 April 2022 |
| Andra Martin | 3 May 2022 |
| Don McKellow | 4 May 2022 |
| Lisel Heise | 20 May 2022 |
| Luigi Ciriaco De Mita | 26 May 2022 |
| Walter Abish | 28 May 2022 |
| Sture Allén | 20 June 2022 |
| Thue Christiansen | 26 June 2022 |
| Jigme Gyatso | 2 July 2022 |
*Apparently, if my immediate reaction to a pick’s death is “man that’s a cool name”, I jinx them to List of the Lost…