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.
(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 |
| Louis Ricco | 22 May 2019(!) |
| Kirill Putyrsky | 8 July 2021(!) |
| Chris Haughey | 24 April 2022(!) |
| Chris Denning | 24 June 2022(!) |
| Margaret Stuart Barry | 23 September 2022(!) |
| Graham Ovenden | 9 December 2022(!) |
| Leo Nefiodow | 2022(!) |
| Abdelsalam Majali | 3 January 2023 |
| Ruth Adler Schnee | 5 January 2023 |
| Phyllis Applegate | 13 January 2023 |
| Mark Stokes | 13 January 2023 |
| Steve Woodmore | c. 14 January 2023 |
| Marcel Zanini | 18 January 2023 |
| Floyd Sneed | 27 January 2023 |
| Dieter Schaad | 4 February 2023 |
| Mordechai Bibi | 5 February 2023 |
| Ivan Silayev | 8 February 2023 |
| Larry Garza | 14 February 2023 |
| Tony Marshall | 16 February 2023 |
| Gil Trythall | 17 February 2023 |
| Ali Yafie | 25 February 2023 |
| Tom McLeish | 27 February 2023 |
| Tongo | 10 March 2023 |
| Heinz Baumann | 14 March 2023 |
| Helen Lindsay | 15 March 2023 |
| Jorge Edwards | 17 March 2023 |
| Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher | 20 March 2023 |
| Ese Gebelek | 28 March 2023 |
| Hannelore Bollmann | 7 April 2023 |
| Haidar Haidar | 5 May 2023 |
| Siiri Rantanen | 5 May 2023 |
| Guido Gorgatti | 11 May 2023 |
| Giuseppe Casale | 18 May 2023 |
| Claude Sarraute | 20 June 2023 |
| Daniel N. Paul | 27 June 2023 |
| Arnaldo Forlani | 6 July 2023 |
| Henry Kamm | 9 July 2023 |
| Carl-Erik Eriksson | 31 July 2023 |
| Melaku Worede | 31 July 2023 |
| Margit Saad | 7 August 2023 |
| Jorn Riel | 18 August 2023 |
| Jayanta Mahapatra | 27 August 2023 |
| Pepe Soriano | 13 September 2023 |
| Basil Van Rooyen | 14 September 2023 |
| Sandra Dorsey | 26 September 2023 |
| Stanislaw Szymecki | 26 September 2023 |
| Eve Bunting | 1 October 2023 |
| Henri Serre | 9 October 2023 |
| Eric Tweedale | 16 October 2023 |
| Hans Albert | 24 October 2023 |
| Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi | 26 October 2023 |
| Chris Stone | 24 November 2023 |
| Gerard Collomb | 25 November 2023 |
| Concha Velasco | 2 December 2023 |
| Melker Schorling | 10 December 2023 |
| Regine Lutz | 17 December 2023 |