Celebrity picks for Derby Dead Pool 2019: V

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Valdez, Luis Born 26 June 1940  (Delano, California, USA) Godfather of Chicao theatre, also wrote the script for the movie "La Bamba". Not Of Rapist Ancestry

Valente, Caterina Born 14 January 1931  (Paris, France) Italian singer and guitar player. Deutschland Verabschiedet Sich!

Valentino, Val Born 14 June 1956  (Los Angeles, California, USA) The "Masked Magician" from the much-loved Magic Circle-infuriating TV specials of the late 90s. Predictor's Predictions

Valenzuela, Pablo DT Born 13 June 1941  (Santiago, Chile) Chilean biochemist, created the first recombinant vaccine against hepatitis B. The South Shall Rise Again

Valeri, Franca Born 21 July 1920  (Milan, Italy) Veteran Italian actress, also the face of Pandoro adverts in the country for years. Viva l'Italia, la morte

Valli, Frankie Born 3 May 1934  (Newark, New Jersy, USA) Singer with the Four Seasons, famous for his falsetto voice on hits such as 'Walk Like a Man' and 'December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)'. Great Gig in the Sky Music Deaths 2019 Rockers who Rolled to the Graveyard Shake, Rattle, Roll Over and Play Dead

van Bergen, Ingrid Born 15 June 1931  (Danzig, Germany) German actress, shot her boyfriend dead in 1977 and, 32 years later, won her country's version of "I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here". Deutschland Verabschiedet Sich!

Van Day, David Born 28 November 1956  (Brighton, East Sussex, England) Singer with 80s pop duo Dollar. Now hawks himself to any reality TV show that can be bothered to put up with him. 1982 was the best year for pop

Van Dyke, Dick Born 13 December 1925  (West Plains, Missouri, USA) Actor and TV presenter who is best known in America for 'The Dick Van Dyke Show', and on this side of the pond for his butt-clenchingly awful attempt at a Cockney accent in 'Mary Poppins'. Arthur's Theme: Are They Not Dead Yet? All Part Of The Show... Right? Black Penguins of Doom Bladerunner BLIMEY! BXBOY422 Colin H Spannerman Find Me A Hole To Bury My Stiff Comedy Cremations DDP Tofoa Former Picks in the Elderly Nursing Home Deadies 6 Dead Spotters Death Stinks Departures Board Die Now....Die Now....Show Us You've Pegged Falling Off The Perch Francis of Arse-Easy 2019 Great Gig in the Sky I Cannot Believe They're Not Deader Illinois Reaper Beater (Version 3.0) Death Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry in eternum+'s Wrinkly Dicks It was acceptable in the 20's Jellydead Simon Weston's Personal Beauty Treatment Centre Jumptheshark v.10.0 Just fade away Naked Florida Gravediggers No Weddings And Twenty Funerals One Bar Gas Fire And A Tin Of Dog Food Open The Pearly Gates Owt To Stop Me Coffin? Permanent Kip Fucked n' Dumped Pull my finger Riding The Jesus Train Say Hi To Uncle George Shame Thatcher Can't Die Twice Shorter Of Breath, One Day Closer To Death Stairway To Heaven Stiffer Steaks Survivors Syndication Zombies The FEDs Tiny and Ellie's Pick of the Drops Turn Off That Telly and Go to Bed! Vicky's Wish List Who Turned Out The Lights? Windsor the Troll Wot The Deuce You Ain't Seen Me, Right?

Van Gyseghem, Joanna Born 4 September 1941  (Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England) TV actress best known for her role as Linda Cochran in the 1980s sitcom 'Duty Free'. Fucked n' Dumped

Van Halen, Eddie Born 26 January 1955  (Nijmegen, Netherlands) Dutch guitarist, co-founder of the rock group Van Halen. Has suffered health problems in the last few years, which have affected his output somewhat. ShitLuck

van Hoogstraten, Nicholas Born 25 February 1945  (Shoreham, East Sussex, England) Property tycoon, absolute crook and once Britain's youngest millionaire. Considers Robert Mugabe as "100% decent and incorruptible", which says an awful lot about him... See You In Hell

van Pallandt, Nina Born 15 July 1932  (Denmark) One half of early 60s Danish calypso crossover act Nina & Frederik. Frederik was shot dead by Australian organised crime figures in 1994. Ikea Nokia Lego

Van Peebles, Melvin Born 21 August 1932  (Chicago, Illinois, USA) Filmmaker and actor, the Godfather of was to be known as "Blaxploitation" films starring African-American actors after the release of his independent film 'Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song' in 1971. Blackity Black and I'm Black Yall

van Weezel, Max Born 9 July 1951  (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Terminally ill Dutch journalist. Died April 2019 but no obit. Smart Beta List

Vanderbilt, Gloria  Born 20 February 1924  (New York, New York, USA) Died 17 June 2019  (New York City, New York, USA) Age at death: 95  (read death notice) Became a multi-millionaire heiress at just 15 months old, and later became an artist, actress & socialite. Dead Is Dead The Old Ones Are The Pests

Vandyke, Les Born 21 June 1931  (London, UK) Songwriter of the 1960s, perhaps most notably with Adam Faith's "What Do You Want?" Unusual Suspects

Vangelis, (musician) Born 29 March 1943  (Agrias, Greece) Greek electronic music composer, famed for his soundtracks to 1980s film classics 'Chariots of Fire' and 'Blade Runner'. 1982 was the best year for pop

Varda, Agnes  Born 30 May 1928  (Brussels, Belgium) Died 29 March 2019  (Paris, France) Age at death: 90  (read death notice) French film director. Perfect 10 Vive la France... et la mort

Vargas, Nicole Born 22 August 1990  (Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA) Oft-arrested star of American reality show "Bad Girls Club". The Deadest Of The Dead

Vaughn, Vince Born 28 March 1970  (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) Actor and director, rose to prominence as one of the early 2000s Hollywood "Frat Pack". His output since then has been, to be polite, fucking awful. Super Squirrels

Veber, Francis Born 28 July 1937  (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) Leading French director and screenwriter, including the original versions of "The Bird Cage" and "Dinner for Schmucks". Waiver Wire Rookie Roundup

Vega, Charlotte Born 10 February 1994  (Madrid, Spain) Anglo-Spanish actress. Team 25

Vega, Isela Born 5 November 1939  (Hermosillo, Mexico) Model-turned-actress, most famously in blood-splattered western "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia". American As Apple Pie

Vegas, Johnny Born 11 September 1971  (St Helens, Lancashire, England) Lardy, husky-voiced comedian and former potter. Real name Michael Joseph Pennington. The Honey Trap

Veloso, Caetano Born 7 August 1942  (Bahia, Brazil) Singer and political activist, at the forefront of the anti-junta Tropicalismo movement in the 60s. The Tour Never Ends

Venetiaan, Ronald Born 18 June 1936  (Paramaribo, Suriname) Twice President of Suriname. ...and Its Goodnight From Him

Vento, Joe Born 17 December 1917  (place of birth unknown) Musician, played piano for Sinatra during the Sands era. You'll Never Find Us in the Guardian Obits at Parties

Ventura, Jesse Born 15 July 1951  (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) Professional wrestler turned politician. Grappling with Mortality

Ventura, Viviane Born 5 December 1947  (London, England) Actress and socialite, born in London but brought up in Colombia. Arthur's Theme: Are They Not Dead Yet?

Venuti, Maria Born 7 March 1941  (Sydney, Australia) Australian entertainment veteran who had a stroke in 2016 after discovering an intruder in her house. The Deadest Of The Dead

Vera, Julia Born in Laredo, Texas, USA  (exact date unknown) Mexican-American character actress, the spiritual successor to the late great Lupe Ontiveros. Not Of Rapist Ancestry

Verhoeven, Michael Born 13 July 1938  (Berlin, Germany) German film director, son of Paul Verhoeven (the German one, not the Dutch one). Perhaps most famous for the 1982 film "Die Weiße Rose" about the White Rose anti-Nazi movement. Roasting Bodies In Redcar

Verhoeven, Paul Born 18 July 1938  (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Dutch film director, no relation to the German Paul Verhoeven. Known for blending social satire with Hollywood action, which sometimes goes a little over the average cinemagoer's heads (Robocop, Starship Troopers). Roasting Bodies In Redcar

Vernon, Anne Born 7 January 1924  (Saint-Denis, France) French film actress. Perfect 10

Versace, Allegra Born 30 June 1986  (Milan, Italy) Daughter of Donatella Versace, who has suffered from anorexia for many years & is often photographed at events looking painfully thin. The Family Tomb

Verstappen, Max Born 30 September 1997  (Hasselt, Belgium) Formula 1 racing driver, the youngest ever to compete and score points. Falling Off The Perch

Vertue, Beryl Born in Mitcham, Surrey, England  (exact date unknown) Television Producer responsible for many successful series such as 'Men Behaving Badly', 'Coupling' and 'Sherlock', the latter two created by her son-in-law Steven Moffat. Born 1931. Unusual Suspects

Vervoort, Marieke  Born 10 May 1979  (Diest, Belgium) Died 22 October 2019  (Diest, Belgium) Age at death: 40  (read death notice) Belgian Paralympic wheelchair athlete. 2020? - No Thank You! I'll Leave Before Alternatively in the News Amanita virosa Banana's Peel Slippers Beyond a Little Peaky  Aye, they're off the fags alright Carkers Convention 2019 Charon's Crew Compost Corner Crofty's Coffin Crew Poochie Died On The Way Back To His Home Planet DDP Tofoa Dead Ends Dead Wait Die Now....Die Now....Show Us You've Pegged Fade To Black Funeral Holmes  Girlfriend in a Coma Going Underground Grave Danger  Guild of Master Reapers GUN Fishing  His and Hearse And Now His Watch Is Ended Jimmy Savile's Paedo FunHouse and Grill  John Key's Choices Just fade away They're Loving Angels Instead Weakend At Bernies Nicked but not Dead Noah Reason and the Youth in Asia .....Norfolk & Good Old People Smell Of Piss Once You Go Black Open The Pearly Gates  P@F Deathlist People I Think Might Die In 2019 United P@F #metoo Pity Da Foolz Rhys' Rest in Peace's Sportspeople I Think Might Die in 2019 United Stone Dead Cert  Terror of the Vervoorts The Choir Invisibule Still Life The End of the World As We Know It The Team With No Name The Walking Dead  This Mortal Coil Tiny and Ellie's Pick of the Drops Tomb It May Concern Wormer, He's A Dead Man! Niedermier Dead! Marmalard Dead!

Vialli, Gianluca Born 9 July 1964  (Cremona, Italy) Italian footballer, a notorious underperformer at international level but beloved by fans of Chelsea and Sampdoria (where he and Roberto Mancini fired the club to their first scudetto). Was actually brought up in his family's 60-bedroom castle. Tentoesup

Vieira, Ketlen Born 26 August 1991  (Manaus, Brazil) UFC fighter in the bantamweight division, nicknamed "Fenômeno". 19 Women and The Man

Villeneuve Sr, Jacques Born 4 November 1953  (Berthierville, Canada) Canadian motor racer, whoses nephew Jacques won the F1 World Championship in 1997 and brother Gilles was killed racing in 1982. Aye, they're off the fags alright

Vincent, Jan-Michael  Born 15 July 1944  (Denver, Colorado, USA) Died 10 February 2019  (North Carolina, USA) Age at death: 74  (read death notice) Star of 1980s action series 'Airwolf'. Dead Spotters Jimmy Savile's Paedo FunHouse and Grill Let Us Embalm You Team Cat AIDS

Ving, Lee Born 10 April 1950  (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) Frontman of influential hardcore punk act Fear. And yes, that is a stage name. Get a Clue

Vinge, Joan D. Born 2 April 1948  (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) Sci-fi writer behind the "Snow Queen" series of books. Bibliogryphon's Bookworm Food

Vinton, Bobby Born 16 April 1935  (Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA) Early 60s pop star, of 'Blue Velvet' fame. Not to be confused with Bobby Vee of 'Rubber Ball' fame. 20 Crooners Croakin' The Show Can't Go On

Vitale, Ida Born 2 November 1923  (Montevideo, Uruguay) Uruguayan writer, living in exile for the past four decades. Winner of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 2018. The South Shall Rise Again

Vitti, Monica Born 3 November 1931  (Rome, Italy) Italian actress, associated with film director Michelangelo Antonioni. Are We Rolling? I Hope You Had The Time Of Your Life I'm Fed Up With This World Women's Deaths Matter Too

Vogel, Hans-Jochen Born 3 February 1926  (Gottingen, Germany) German politician. Leader of the SPD from 1987-91. Deutschland Verabschiedet Sich!

Vogts, Berti Born 30 December 1946  (Buttgen, Germany) Germany's manager for most of the 1990s, where he won the 1996 European Championship but also oversaw a stagnation of youth development that crippled the side at the start of the 21st century. Go on Be a Sport - Die in 2019

Volcker, Paul  Born 5 September 1927  (Cape May, New Jersey, USA) Died 8 December 2019  (New York City, New York, USA) Age at death: 92  (read death notice) Chairman of the US Federal Reserve from 1979-1987 under Presidents' Carter and Reagan. The Love Boat

Volpeliere-Pierrot, Ben Born 19 May 1965  (London, UK) Beret-sporting frontman of 80s sophistopop act Curiosity Killed the Cat. Angela of Death

von Daniken, Erich Born 14 April 1935  (Zofingen, Aargau, Switzerland) Author & UFO/alien fan. See You In Hell

von Dohnanyi, Christoph Born 8 September 1929  (Berlin, Germany) German conductor, spent over two decades with the Cleveland Orchestra. Coda 2

von Hagens, Gunther Born 10 January 1945  (Skalmierzyce, Kalisz, Poland) Controversial German anatomist, known for his plastination technique for preserving body parts. Famously performed autopsys on Channel 4 in the mid-noughties. Eddie's Parade Of Darkness And Despair Robbie's Rotting This Mortal Coil

von Sydow, Max Born 10 April 1929  (Lund, Skane, Sweden) Swedish actor, who has achieved fame both at home and abroad. Can't Sleep, Clown Will Eat Them Down Under the Daisies Lord Gravedigger Mr Whit's Wonders No Mr Bond Villain, I Expect You To Die!!! Stairway To Heaven The Douglas Bader Dance Troupe 2019 There Goes Another One! :) Wretched Hive of scum and villainy

Vorachith, Bounnhang Born 15 August 1938  (Savannakhet Province, Laos) President of Laos, having previously served as its vice president, prime minister and vice prime minister. DICKtators

Vowden, Geoff Born 27 April 1941  (Barnsley, UK) Footballer who was replaced as a striker for New York Cosmos by some Brazilian chancer called Pele. Waiting for Ugo

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