Celebrity picks for Derby Dead Pool 2006: Y

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Yarwood, Mike Born 14 March 1941  (Stockport, Cheshire, England) British impressionist, famed for his impression of Harold Wilson, not been on TV in ages. Pooil Vaaish

Yeager, Chuck Born 13 February 1923  (Myra, West Virginia, USA) World War II flying ace, who later became a test pilot for the US Air Force and is credited with being the first person to break the sound barrier. Redmyst XX Zaph's Snuffers

Yeltsin, Boris (Died in 2007) Born 1 February 1931  (Bukta, Sverdlovsk, Russia) The vodka-and-boogie-loving former Russian President, who managed to sack four prime ministers in the space of 17 months, has undergone quintuple heart-bypass surgery and various health scares including pneumonia. 1st Time And Every One A Winner Alison The Assassin A Shot In The Dark Bob Mugabe's Swingtime Band Close The Casket Killers of Hope Death Stalks United Digging The Grave Don't Fear (The Reaper) Down Under The Daisies Impaled on The Antlers of Doom Mr Yuck Rigor Mortis Makes Us Hard Sandals in the Bin: The Mother Teresa Tribute Band Team DJB Thanatopsis The Conqueror Worm The Long-Awaited Return of the Dorset Jury They Sure Look Like Plant Food To Me Toasted Brown Bread You Can Have Zsa Zsa Over My Dead Body!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh (Died in 2008) Born 18 October 1911  (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India) Guru who popularized traditional Indian thought in the West and founded the Transcendental Meditation Movement, which reached its height of popularity in the 1960s and '70s. There is some dispute over his date of birth, with some claiming he was born in 1918, but the popular consensus seems to be 1911. Bend The Bucket Like Beckham gdh200 Norfolk & Chance The Long-Awaited Return of the Dorset Jury The Pale Horseman's Bucket-Kickers Tomb It May Concern

Yorke, Thom Born 7 October 1968  (Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England) Lead singer of Radiohead and political activist. Lived So Let's Die

Young, Jimmy Born 21 September 1923  (Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England) Having been presenter of BBC Radio 2's lunchtime show for thirty years, he was acrimoniously sacked towards the end of 2002. Real name Leslie Ronald Young, he usually appears in the same sentence as the word "veteran", and was reportedly Margaret Thatcher's favourite broadcaster. Which probably makes him a marked man. AbraCadaver Dead And Buried Burke 'n' Hare Coffin It Up George Lass and the Gravelings MizzJackTheCat Norfolk & Chance

Yushchenko, Viktor Born 23 February 1954  (Khoruzhivka, Ukraine) Ukrainian politician who was elected President of his country in December 2004, but not before one election had been scrapped due to rampant vote-rigging and Yushchenko had been (allegedly) poisoned with high levels of dioxin, which left his skin startlingly discoloured and pockmarked. Bob Mugabe's Swingtime Band

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