Celebrity picks for Derby Dead Pool 2020: N

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Nader, Ralph Born 27 February 1934  (Winsted, Connecticut, USA) Independent Presidential candidate, runs on green issues. Also works as an attorney. (THEME) Peace, Drugs, and Death

Nadler, Jerry Born 13 June 1947  (New York, USA) New York Congressman since 1992 who isn't on Donald Trump's Christmas card list. Valar Morghulis

Nagasaki, Kendo Born 19 October 1946  (Stoke-on-Trent, England) Born Peter Thornley, was the mysterious, samurai-dressed wrestler usually on ITV's 'World of Sport' programme with Big Daddy and the like. Now there's a wrestler I have bloody well heard of! Blueberry Crumble The Forest Lawn Jockeys

Nagayo, Chigusa Born 8 December 1964  (Omura, Japan) Japanese female professional wrestler ,one half of The Crush Gals. Waiver Wire Rookie Roundup

Nakadai, Tatsuya Born 13 December 1932  (Tokyo, Japan) Japanese film actor wo collaborated with the likes of Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi. (THEME) Dead Continent

Nakamatsu, Yoshiro Born 26 June 1928  (Japan) AKA Dr. NakaMats. Japanese inventor with over 4000 patents. (THEME) DDP Tofoa Former Picks in the Elderly Nursing Home The One's That Won't Go Away

Nakamura, Iso Born 23 April 1903  (Ishikawa, Japan) Japan's fourth-oldest person as of the start of 2018. Dunno about the obituary odds here, lads. UPDATE: turns out she actually died off the radar in 2017. THE OLD ONES ARE THE PESTS

Naley, Mark Born 11 March 1961  (Adelaide, Australia) Australian rules footballer suffering from brain cancer. Died in July but did not recieve a qualifying obit. The House of Extravaganza

Napier-Bell, Simon Born 22 April 1939  (London, England) Producer and manager of The Yardbirds, Ultravox and Boney M among others. (THEME) Simply Simon

Napolitano, Giorgio Born 29 June 1925  (Naples, Italy) The current President of Italy. (THEME) Complications from a fall Mercarte The End of the World As We Know It

Nappi, Valentina Born 6 November 1990  (Salerno, Italy) Italian porn star, brought into the industry by the legendary Rocco Siffredi. (THEME) Scrubber Out

Nash, Graham Born 2 February 1942  (Blackpool, Lancashire, England) Singer and songwriter with the Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. (THEME) Peace, Drugs, and Death

Nassar, Larry Born 16 August 1963  (Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA) One of America's most prolific sex offenders, molesting at least 251 youngsters during his time as doctor for the US Gymnastics team and at Michigan University. 5 Feet and 1 to Go Say Hi To Uncle George

Nastase, Ille Born 19 July 1946  (Bucharest, Romania) One of Romania's most famous sports stars. US and French Open tennis champion in the 1970s. (THEME) GO ON BE A SPORT - DIE IN 2020

Neal, Phil Born 20 February 1951  (Irchester, UK) Liverpool captain of the 1980s and the most-decorated player in the club's history. (THEME) Welcome to heysHELL

Neary, Tony Born 25 November 1948  (Manchester, England) Former rugby union international. Represented England 43 times between 1971 and 1980. (THEME) Boddies... Manchester's Finest

Negus, George Born 13 March 1942  (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) Australian TV and radio journalist, also a writer on political matters (THEME) Dick Smith's OzEDeath List

Nelly, (Rapper) Born 2 November 1974  (Austin, Texas, USA) Rapper. Born Cornell Iral Haynes, Jr. Fireball

Nelson, Willie Born 30 April 1933  (Fort Worth, Texas, USA) Country & Western guitarist and singer-songwriter. Wrote 'Crazy', which was a hit for Patsy Cline and 'Always On My Mind', made famous by Elvis Presley and the Pet Shop Boys. Busted for cannabis possession in November 2010. (THEME) #1 Hits BALDY FOREVER (THEME) Can't Sleep, Clown Will Eat Them (THEME) CLOG POPPERS Crypts Suzette Crypts Suzette Dave's Dead, Aye Dead Drunk (THEME) Great gig in the sky Guild of Master Reapers (THEME) Hits of 36 years ago and hits today  It's A Grim World (After All) LL's Pool Permanent kip (THEME) POPPED THEIR CLOGS (THEME) Rockers who Rolled to the graveyard Soylent Green Is You Say hello to the angels (THEME) See You In Heaven Terror of the Vervoorts  The National Union of Coffin Polishers the old lady Valar Morghulis You Dirty Rotten Swine, You Deaded Them!

Nerdrotic, (vlogger) Born in San Diego, California, USA  (exact date unknown) Internet critic who goes under the name Nerdrotic. Death Nebula 3000

Ness, Jonathan Van Born 28 March 1987  (Quincy, Illinois, USA) One of the queer eyes for the straight guys, YAS queen! Finbarr Returns from the Dead

Netanyahu, Benjamin Born 21 October 1949  (Tel Aviv, Israel) Prominent & controversial politician in Israel, the current prime minister, his 2nd time in the job. Black Penguins of Doom

Nettles, John Born 11 October 1943  (St Austell, Cornwall, England) Actor, best known for his roles in 'Bergerac' and 'Midsomer Murders'. The Man In Black saw him as Octavius Caesar in 'Antony and Cleopatra' at the RSC don't you know! (THEME) in eternum+'s wrinkly dicks Lard Bazaar Say hello to the angels Stiffer Steaks

Nettleton, John Born 5 February 1929  (London, England) Veteran character actor, perhaps best known as the wise cabinet secretary Sir Arnold Robinson in 'Yes, Minister'. (THEME) The Retched pong of Brit sit-com

Newby, Phil Born in Rutland, England  (exact date unknown) Assisted dying campaigner. They're Loving Angels Instead P@F deathlist

Newcombe, John Born 23 May 1944  (Sydney, Australia) Former tennis world number one who won 7 Grand Slam titles in the 1960s and 1970s. (THEME) Gone in the land Down Under

Newhart, Bob Born 5 September 1929  (Oak Park, Illinois, USA) Stand-up comedian. Did a much talked-about (but rarely seen these days) routine called 'The Driving Instructor'. Bladerunner (THEME) Comedy Cremations (THEME) You Had My Curiosity, Now You Have To Die For My Attention (THEME) Laughter Kills LORD GRAVEDIGGER Weakend at Bernies Naked Florida Gravediggers Pearly Gates Say hello to the angels (THEME) Turn Off That Telly and Go to Bed!

Newman, Barry Born 7 November 1938  (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) American Actor with a breakthrough role as Kowalski in 'Vanishing Point'. Also the protagonist of 70s law series 'Petrocelli'. ZZ Topped: Heaven, Hell or Houston

Newmar, Julie Born 16 August 1933  (Los Angeles, California, USA) Actress, best remembered as Catwoman in the 1960s television version of Batman. Grey Gardens (THEME) Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel

Newton, Wayne Born 3 April 1942  (Roanoke, Virginia, USA) Singer & entertainer, almost exclusively based in Las Vegas. (THEME) 20 Crooners Croakin' (THEME) No Mr Bond Villain, I Expect You To Die!!! (THEME) POPPED THEIR CLOGS

Newton-John, Olivia Born 26 September 1948  (Cambridge, England) Successful singer who also had a big break as an actress in 1978, when she played the part of Sandy (can't you see...) in 'Grease'. (THEME) 1982 was the best year for pop (THEME) #1 Hits 2021? – No thank you! I’ll leave before (THEME) All Part Of The Show... Right? And they all died ARSE-IN-HOLE Bennington & Speight's Aerial Silk Workshop Beyond a Little Peaky Aye, they're off the fags alright Captain Hemlock's Twenty Charon's Crew C. A. Daver (THEME) CLOG POPPERS Crypts Suzette Poochie Died On The Way Back To His Home Planet Darling Did You Forget To Take A Breath? (THEME) DDP Tofoa Former Picks in the Elderly Nursing Home Deader than a dead thing  Deadpool Surprise Deathly Steeds (THEME) Dick Smith's OzEDeath List Dinner Reservation for 20 eejit Ethnic Cleansing Every Death You Take Falling Off The Perch Fat kids always win at seesaw Feng Shui Pig Funeral Holmes Going Green (THEME) Gone in the land Down Under Grave Danger Hangman's XX Heaven or Hell? I'm Sorry For Your Trouble I'll sleep when you're dead Jackie Treehorn Bruce Forsyth's Rug Sale at Carpet Rite Jimmy Savile's Paedo FunHouse and Grill Now That's What I Call Emeli Sande's In Memoriam Joe pesci's team JoeRam Lard Bazaar LL's Pool Naked Florida Gravediggers (THEME) Nicked but not Dead Old People Smell Of Piss Only Fools and Corpses Open The Pearly Gates Pedro's Catacomb Ensemble  People I Think Might Die in 2020 United (THEME) P@F #metoo A Trophy For Atrophy (THEME) Pop goes the Wurzels Powder Picks em off Puzlman's Puzzling Picks Quebec's Predictions  Sad News FC Sicilian Actuaries Snorkeling (THEME) SING YOUR LAST SONG FOR ME Skeleton Crew Southerners Stiffs Statik Charge Stone Dead Cert Sweeney Todd's Nutritional Information Team Cat AIDS Tentoesup The Buckley Mystic The Choir Invisibule The Conqueror Worm The Death Stars The Douglas Bader Dance Troupe 2020 The End of the World As We Know It the gorge of eternal peril The Long Awaited Return Of The Blackpool Jury The National Union of Coffin Polishers THE OLD ONES ARE THE PESTS the old lady The Worst Acronym Team (THEME) They is nothing like a dame (and the Women who gives them it) Today's the day the maggots have their picnic Tom's Chainsaw Massacre Valar Morghulis Very Ill Turned Very Dead Vicky's heres hoping  Waiting for the Hearse Where's My Damn List?  @JonesEuro (THEME) Women's Deaths Matter Too Wormer, He's A Dead Man! Niedermier Dead! Marmalard Dead! Worm farmer You Might Be A King Or A Little Street Sweeper

Ng, Charles Born 24 December 1960  (Hong Kong) Serial killer born in Hong Kong, but committed between 11 and 25 murders with his accomplice Leonard Lake in California. Sentenced to Death in 1999, so only able to provide points if he dies of other causes. (THEME) Miscreants

Nice, Natasha Born 28 July 1988  (Fontenay-sous-Bois, France) French porn starlet, previously known as "Natalie Nutsdeep". (THEME) Scrubber Out

Nicholas, Mark Born 29 September 1957  (London, England) English cricket player and now commentator, who played for Hampshire from 1978 to 1995. (THEME) 2020 Exit Draft

Nicholl, Chris Born 12 October 1946  (Wilmslow, UK) Part of Northern Ireland's 1982 World Cup squad, later managed Southampton. (THEME) Waiting for Ugo

Nicholls, Sue Born 23 November 1943  (Walsall, UK) Has played Audrey Roberts in "Coronation Street" since 1979, and had a cancerous mole spotted by one eagle-eyed viewer in 2011. Down Under the Daisies

Nichols, Bobby Born 14 April 1936  (Louisville, Kentucky, USA) American golfer, who won the PGA Championship in 1964. (THEME) In the Hole!

Nichols, Nichelle Born 28 December 1932  (Robbins, Illinois, USA) Actress, Lieutenant Uhura from 'Star Trek'. (THEME) All Part Of The Show... Right? Grey Gardens (THEME) Gris Gris Headstone Hunters Mr Whit's Wonders  Not At All Well Only Fools and Corpses Owt To Stop Me Coffin? (THEME) She's A Goner (THEME) BatStarLord of the WhoTrekLock (THEME) Super Squirrels  (THEME) Syndication Zombies Tentoesup (THEME) Women's Deaths Matter Too

Nicholson, Jack Born 22 April 1937  (Neptune, New Jersey, USA) Star of such films as 'Chinatown', 'About Schmidt' and the Michael Douglas-produced 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'. Said to have retired from making films in 2013. Are You Still Dying, Darling? (THEME) DDP Tofoa Former Picks in the Elderly Nursing Home Death Nebula 3000 Headstone Hunters (THEME) Peace, Drugs, and Death (THEME) Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel Shame Thatcher Can't Die Twice - Est. 1937

Nicklaus, Jack Born 21 January 1940  (Columbus, Ohio, USA) Golfer, one of the all-time greats of the sport. (THEME) In the Hole! Riding the Jesus Train (THEME) Setting of the Age of Aquarius

Nicol, Lesley Born 31 December 1953  (Manchester, England, United Kingdom) very wooden actress (most recently in "Beecham House"), born ca. 1953 (THEME) God, you're annoying

Nicol, Steve Born 11 December 1961  (Troon, UK) Long-time Liverpool defender who went on to have the longest uninterrupted spell with a single club as MLS manager (New England Revolution, 2002 to 2011). (THEME) Welcome to heysHELL

Nieto, Augie Born in   (exact date unknown) Founder of the Life Fitness equipment change, been battling ALS since 2005. Born 1958. Finbarr Returns from the Dead

Nightingale, Annie Born 1 April 1942  (London, England) Long time Radio DJ on Radio 1 - the first female presenter in the station's history. Grey Gardens Fucked n' Dumped

Nighy, Bill Born 12 December 1949  (Caterham, Surrey, England) Acclaimed actor, star of 'Love Actually' amongst others. Was strongly rumoured to take the part of the 9th Doctor Who in 2005. Ultimately though, he featured five years later playing an art critic. (THEME) Monty Python's Dying Circus Wot The Deuce

Nile, Fred Born 15 September 1934  (Kings Cross, Australia) Australian politician, federal president of the Christian Democratic Party. (THEME) Dick Smith's OzEDeath List

Nirenberg, Louis Born 28 February 1925  (Hamilton, Canada) Canadian mathematician, died in January but did not receive a qualifying obit. (THEME) Death Is Intellectual

Nishonovich Nishonov, Rafiq Born 15 January 1926  (Gazalkent, Uzbekistan) Former First Secretary of the Uzbek Communist Party. (THEME) Gris Gris

Niven, Larry Born 30 April 1938  (Los Angeles, California, USA) American science fiction author. (THEME) Bibliogryphon's Bookworm Food

Noble, Lee Born in Yorkshire, England  (exact date unknown) English boxer with terminal cancer. Banana's Peel Slippers Cancerous Hatred Cancerous Hatred B Fade To Black The Beatles Are Dying in The Wrong Order The House of Extravaganza The Living End

Nogami, Teruyo Born 24 May 1927  (Tokyo, Japan) Script supervisor and confidante to Akira Kurosawa for 40 years. The Deadest Of The Dead

Nolan, Linda Born 23 February 1959  (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) Member of the Nolan Sisters, and a singer in her own right, occasional TV presenter as well. Amanita virosa ARSE-IN-HOLE Black Penguins of Doom BLIMEY! Aye, they're off the fags alright Chelski Pensioners (THEME) CLOG POPPERS Compost Corner Corpse, Like The Marines, Except Spelt Differently Crofty's Coffin Crew Dave's Dead, Aye Dead Drunk (THEME) DDP Tofoa Former Picks in the Elderly Nursing Home  Drunkasaskunk Fat kids always win at seesaw Finbarr Returns from the Dead Funeral Holmes Girlfriend in a Coma Grave Danger Grief Encounter Heaven or Hell? His and Hearse I'll sleep when you're dead Jackie Treehorn Jimmy Savile's Paedo FunHouse and Grill They're Loving Angels Instead Weakend at Bernies Neither There Nor Thereabouts Noah Reason and the Youth in Asia  No Weddings And Twenty Funerals Old People Smell Of Piss Open The Pearly Gates Oscar The Beast Partridge As Reaper Phantom's Pick 'n' Mix  Satan's Hootenanny Seasideessexxile (THEME) SING YOUR LAST SONG FOR ME  Skeleton Crew Stiffer Steaks The Choir Invisibule The Grateful Dead  McCririck's Last Hurdle The Rotting Corpses of the Undead (THEME) The Sick-bed of Cuchulainn The Walking Dead TINY and ELLIE's PICK of the DROPS Today's the day the maggots have their picnic Tomb It May Concern (THEME) Unpersons UTC Valar Morghulis Very Ill Turned Very Dead (THEME) Well Done if you got these at home @JonesEuro (THEME) Women's Deaths Matter Too You Must Be Croaking!

Nolte, Nick Born 8 February 1941  (Omaha, Nebraska, USA) American actor - 'The Prince of Tides', 'Hotel Rwanda'. (THEME) Weird with a Beard

Nord, John Born 18 October 1959  (St Cloud, Minnesota, USA) Better known as The Berzerker, popular brawling WWF pro-wrestler of the 1990s. Here's Who You Could Have Won

Norman, Floyd Born 22 June 1935  (Santa Barbara, California, USA) Animator who worked for Disney, Hanna Barbera and Pixar. (THEME) This Knee Ain't What It Used To Be

Norris, Chuck Born 10 March 1940  (Ryan, Oklahoma, USA) The straight-to-video actor and martial artist. (THEME) Weird with a Beard

Norris, David Born 1 July 1944  (Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo) Irish gay rights activist. The Forest Lawn Jockeys

North, Oliver Born 7 October 1943  (San Antonio, Texas, USA) Disgraced former Colonel of the US Marines, now a TV broadcaster. (THEME) Oh Ronnie, Where Art Thou...

Northampton, Marquess of Born 2 April 1946  (Northampton, England) AKA Spencer Compton, the 7th Marquess & a leading UK Buddhist. The Whipping Posts

Norvelle, Duncan Born in Hoton, Leicestershire, England  (exact date unknown) Comedian who pedalled an uamusingly camp persona to briefly capture fame in the 1980s despite being married with 3 kids. Born 1958. (THEME) Comedy Cremations Unusual Suspects (THEME) Well Done if you got these at home

Nott, John Born 1 February 1932  (Bideford, Devon, England) What most people remember of John Nott is an interview with Robin Day - Day asked Nott whether the public should believe the retiring MP's statements on defence cuts, since Day thought Nott was a "here today, gone tomorrow politician". Nott then stood up, LORD GRAVEDIGGER (THEME) No more expenses

Novak, Kim Born 13 February 1933  (Chicago, Illinois, USA) Actress, best remembered for her role in 'Vertigo'. (THEME) Dial D for Deadpool Predictor's Predictions I Couldn't Eat Another Bite (THEME) Jane's Antique Wrinklies Let Us Embalm You (THEME) She's A Goner

Nüsslein-Volhard, Christiane Born 20 October 1942  (Magdeburg, Germany) Biologist and co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for her work on embryonic development. (THEME) Nobel Loserettes

Nuttall, Laura Born in Lancashire, England  (exact date unknown) Young cancer victim. Banana's Bruises David Quantick's Showbiz Pals

Nye, Simon Born 29 July 1958  (Burgess Hill, England) TV writer who co-created Men Behaving Badly. Also wrote an episode of Dr Who called Amy's Choice which went down so well he's not been asked back in a decade. Well, I enjoyed it! (THEME) Simply Simon

Nylon, Judy Born in USA  (exact date unknown) Multidisciplinary American artist and former best pal of Patti Smith. Born 1948. Most Unique Picks 2020

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