Celebrity picks for Derby Dead Pool 2021: O

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O, Henry Born 27 July 1927  (Shanghai, China) Elder Chinese Actor who is always there when you need someone to portray a Buddhist or Yakuza Ground Floor of the Bungalow (THEME) Quasimodo Predicted All This

O, Karen Born 22 November 1978  (Busan, South Korea) Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer. (THEME) What A Voice on Her!

O’Brien, Gray Born 11 August 1968  (Glasgow, Scotland) Scottish actor who appeared in Coronation Street and Casualty. Cancel My Appointments Dead Last? Dead Right!

Oakes, Trevor Born in England  (exact date unknown) Showaddywaddy co-founder. (THEME) #1 Hits

Obama, Michelle Born 17 January 1964  (Chicago, Illinois, USA) The current First Lady of the USA. BXBOY422

Obama, Sarah Onyango  Date and place of birth unknown Died 29 March 2021  (Kisumu, Kenya) Age at death: 99  (read death notice) President Barack Obama's 'grandmother' although that's not strictly true as she his paternal grandfather's third wife. Born 1922 The Old Ones are the Pests

Obermeyer, Klaus Born 2 December 1919  (Oberstaufen, Germany) Founder of Sport Obermeyer, Ltd. Obituarynotice

Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Teodoro Born 5 June 1942  (Acoacan, Equatorial Guinea) President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979. Death Stinks Wep 2.0 - World's Eternity Prophet Reloaded

O'Brien, Carl "Cubby" Born 14 July 1946  (Burbank, California, USA) Played a Mousketeer on the 1950s US TV show 'The Mickey Mouse Club'. Moldy Oldies

O'Brien, Edna Born 15 December 1930  (Tuamgraney, County Clare, Rep of Ireland) Irish novellist. (THEME) Cashier Number 91 please! Roasting Bodies In Redcar

O'Brien, Richard Born 25 March 1942  (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) The man behind 1975's 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show', who hasn't really done anything since, except present television series 'The Crystal Maze'. His real name is the rather plainer Richard Smith. Said to have based the Dr. Frank-N-Furter character on < Dai YaB'stards (THEME) Fireball's Play Your Cadavers Right

O'Callaghan, Gareth Born in   (exact date unknown) Irish radio DJ, diagnosed with multiple system atrophy in 2018. (THEME) The Sick-Bed of Cuchulainn

O'Connor, Sinéad Born 8 December 1966  (Dublin, Ireland) Singer, whose hits include 'Nothing Compares 2 U' and 'Troy' have been overshadowed by her controversial remarks & behaviour over the years. Zombie Dance Party Wisconsin Reaper Beater 1.0 ONE BAR GAS FIRE AND A TIN OF DOG FOOD

O'Connor, Tom  Born 31 October 1939  (Bootle, Merseyside, England) Died 18 July 2021  (Wexham, United Kingdom) Age at death: 81  (read death notice) Game show host and comedian - notably 'Crosswits'. Also a frequent guest on 'Countdown'. Dai YaB'stards Deader than a Dead Thing (THEME) Dey Do Die Don't Dey Doh Don't Eat The Figs Hydrangea The Anfield Iron You Could Have Waited, I've Just Put The Kettle On!

Oddie, Bill Born 7 July 1941  (Rochdale, Lancashire, England) Rochdale's most famous son apart from Cyril Smith, Oddie is one of the most respected names in the world of ornithology, but is perhaps most famous as one third of the popular 1970s comedy team The Goodie Living in a Box Grief Hijackers Perhaps' Pointless Punts

O'Donnell, Chris Born 26 June 1970  (Winnetka, Illinois, USA) Quintessentially 90s actor, star of Scent of a Woman and Batman Forever. Interesting fact: Chris O'Donnell, no mental handicap (THEME) Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel

O'Dowd, Dinah Born in England  (exact date unknown) Boy George’s mum, who wrote a best selling novel and thus surprisingly is eligible. Living in a Box

Oestreicher, Paul Born 29 September 1931  (Meiningen, Germany) Human rights activist priest once seen on Channel 4 if you were insomniac. (THEME) The curse of late September

O'Farrell, Frank Born 9 October 1927  (Cork, Republic of Ireland) Footballer with West Ham, Preston & Ireland, who later became a manager, most notably of Manchester United. Funeral Furore (THEME) KICKING BUCKETS INSTEAD OF BALLS (THEME) The Sick-Bed of Cuchulainn

Ogier, Bulle Born 9 August 1939  (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) a French actress who worked with Rivette, Bunuel and Fassbinder. The One's That Won't Go Away

Ogilvy, David Born 17 May 1926  (London, England) The current 13th Earl Of Airlie. Former businessman, and general toff. Dr Shipman's waiting room Gooseberry Crumble

O'Grady, Paul Born 14 June 1955  (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England) Comedian and actor better known as his cross-dressing alter ego Lily Savage. He suffered a heart attack in 2002 but went on to recover and appear as the Child Catcher in the stage musical of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. (THEME) Gay-Tes Of Heaven The Honey Trap  So Long Farewell Two Coins & A Punt

O'Hara, Mary Born 12 May 1935  (County Sligo, Ireland) Irish soprano and harpist who took a 12-year career break to become a nun in the 1960s. Waiting for the Hearse

Okada, Mariko Born 11 January 1933  (Tokyo, Japan) Japanese actress. (THEME) Easy Peasy Japanesey

Oldenburg, Claes Born 28 January 1929  (Stockholm, Sweden) Swedish sculptor whose works tended to be large versions of everyday objects. (THEME) All Death Is Consolation  (THEME) Ikea Nokia Lego

Oldham, Andrew Loog Born 29 January 1944  (London, England) Manager and producer of the Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1967, Down Under the Daisies

Oldham, Wilf  Born 28 August 1920  (Radcliffe, England) Died 27 November 2021  (Radcliffe, United Kingdom) Age at death: 101  (read death notice) Veteran of the Battle of Arnhem, got MBE for diplomacy career. CENTAURIANS

Oldman, Gary Born 21 March 1958  (London, England) Acclaimed British film actor, best known for his recurring role as James Gordon in the recent Batman trilogy. (THEME) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, DIE

Oliver, Ian Born in   (exact date unknown) Former Chief Constable of Grampian Police, who stood down in 1998 following tabloid revelations about his private life. (THEME) IT'S A COP-OUT 2021

Oliver, Tom Born 12 June 1938  (Fareham, Hampshire, England) British born actor, but best known in Aussie soap "Neighbours" as Lou Carpenter. (THEME) Stairway Tom Heaven

Ollerenshaw, Maggie Born 8 October 1949  (Ashton-On-Ribble, United Kingdom) British Soap actress Open All Hours (THEME) Last of The Summer Winos

Olmert, Ehud Born 30 September 1945  (Binyamina, Israel) Former PM of Israel & mayor of Jerusalem. (THEME) The Politicorpses

Olsen, Christopher Born 19 September 1946  (Los Angeles, California, USA) The kid in The Man Who Knew Too Much (Jimmy Stewart version) is now 73. Bet you feel old. (THEME) Dial D for Deadpool

Olsen, Niels Born 13 April 1954  (Denmark) One half of Danish duo Olsen Brothers, 2000 winners of the Eurovision Song Contest. Predictor's Predictions

Olson, Nancy Born 14 July 1928  (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) Actress, in many films in the 1940s & 1950s but has had a very low profile in recent years. Pearly Gates

O'Neal, Ryan Born 20 April 1941  (Los Angeles, California, USA) Actor who first made his name on TV, in US soap opera 'Peyton Place', before going on to appear in numerous Hollywood films such as 'Love Story' and 'Barry Lyndon'. Father of Tatum, Griffin and (by Farrah F Angela of Death Faster Than A Dead Horse Mr C (THEME) That’s… Death! The Hair Blair Bunch You Might Be A King or a Little Street Sweeper

O'NEAL, Tatum Born 5 November 1963  (Los Angeles, California, USA) Actress who is the youngest to win a competitive Oscar, for 'Paper Moon' in 1973. Dead And Dusted

ONO, Jiro Born 27 October 1925  (Tenryu, Shizuoka, Japan) Japanese sushi chef. Dinner Reservation for 20 (THEME) Easy Peasy Japanesey  (THEME) Trebek’s Final Jeopardy Season

Ono, Yoko Born 18 February 1933  (Tokyo, Japan) Widow of John Lennon and complete wibble hatstand nutter. Was married 3 times before she met Lennon, including twice in the space of 7 months to the same man, with an annulment in between. It's Grim Up North And they all died Are You Still Dying, Darling? Buttsoup Captain Hemlock's Twenty (THEME) CLOG POPPERS Find Me A Hole To Bury My Stiff I Like to Cease Beside the Seaside (THEME) Dead Continent Death Stinks (THEME) Death to all but metal and Dame Shirley Bassey Drop Dead Celebration Eternity Tours Faster Than A Dead Horse Funeral Furore Haben die Spaten I Couldn't Eat Another Bite I'm Sorry For Your Trouble I Hope You Had The Time of Your Life (THEME) Last Christmas Madonna's Hand Of Bod Much Ado About Snuffing Noz4news (THEME) Peace, Drugs, and Death P@F #metoo Quite Unwell Illustrious Mortals (THEME) The Year the Music Died (THEME) SING YOUR LAST SONG FOR ME (THEME) Snort the Ashes Spookygal 2 Statik Charge (THEME) That’s… Death! The Anfield Iron The Caulkhead Coffin Kickers The Crowdsourced Deathlist Still Life Sovereign-Reaper The Keys of Marinus This Mortal Coil Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Die (THEME) Trebek’s Final Jeopardy Season Twenty little roosters When your times up j0neseur0 Women's Deaths Matter Too You Dirty Rotten Swine, You Deaded Them!

Onyszkiewicz, Janusz Adam Born 18 December 1937  (Lviv, Ukraine) Polish mathematician, alpinist, politician, and all around renaissance man (THEME) Not Gone Yet, But Still Forgotten

Oosterhuis, Peter Born 3 May 1948  (London, England) English golfer who came down with early on set dementia in 2015. Still Life

O'Quinn, Terry Born 15 July 1952  (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA) Slaphead actor who played Locke in "Lost". (THEME) All these moments will be lost

Orban, Viktor Born 31 May 1963  (Szekesfehervar, Hungary) Right-wing Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010 and wannabe dictator handed widespread powers in 2020. Can’t see that going wrong. (THEME) Political Correctness Gone Mad

Orlando, Tony Born 3 April 1944  (New York City, New York, USA) Singer turned music producer who worked with some of the biggest acts of the 1970s incuding Barry Manilow and The Grateful Dead. Dead And Dusted 2

Ormsby, Brendan Born 1 October 1960  (Birmingham, UK) Former Aston Villa and Leeds United defender. The B-Team (THEME) Waiting for Ugo

Orr, Bobby Born 20 March 1948  (Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada) Ice hockey player considered one of their all time greats. (THEME) Body with No Arms No Legs Floating in Ocean (THEME) Thanks for being a Sport

Orton, Jr., Bob Born 10 November 1950  (Kansas City, Kansas, USA) Wrestler from a family of professional wrestlers including his father and son. (THEME) Grappling with Mortality

Osbourne, Jack Born 8 November 1985  (London, England) Like sister Kelly, came to fame through 'The Osbournes'. Has since lost a lot of weight and, again like his sister, has gone into TV presenting. Kicking down heavens door

Osbourne, Ozzy Born 3 December 1948  (Aston, Birmingham, England) Mumbling reality TV star and former lead singer of Black Sabbath, who once caught rabies after an on-stage bat-biting incident. The heavy drinker and heavy metaller was nearly killed in a quad-biking crash in December 2003. Amanita virosa Big Iain's Blumpkins Dave's Dead, Aye Dead Drunk Dinner Reservation for 20 Dolly’s Deadbeats Down Under Death Merchants For whom the bell tolls I Hope You Had The Time of Your Life Now That's What I Call Emeli Sande's In Memoriam Just fade away Trumps Disinfectant Chumps (THEME) Let there be Rot! Life Is A Highway, And You Shall Crash Not at All Well Only Fools and Corpses Oscar The Beast Pretty Noose (THEME) Rockers who Rolled to the graveyard  (THEME) The Year the Music Died STAB in the DARK (THEME) Super Squirrels The Caulkhead Coffin Kickers The Keys of Marinus The Whipping Posts You Could Have Waited, I've Just Put The Kettle On! Your Beating Hearts Shall Stop

Osbourne, Sharon Born 10 October 1953  (London, England) Wife and manager of Ozzy, she suddenly rose to prominence in 2002 as a result of MTV's 'The Osbournes', and was diagnosed with colon cancer around the same time. (THEME) God, you're annoying Old People Smell Of Piss (THEME) The Talking Dead

Osmond, Alan Born 22 June 1949  (Ogden, Utah, USA) The oldest of the Osmond singing siblings. From Here to Eternity

Osmond, Little Jimmy Born 16 April 1963  (Canoga Park, California, USA) Youngest of the Osmond family of entertainers and singers. Had the UK Christmas number one in 1972 with 'Long Haired Lover from Liverpool'. Neither There Nor Thereabouts (THEME) POPPED THEIR CLOGS

Osmond, Marie Born 13 October 1959  (Ogden, Utah, USA) Country & pop singer, part of the Osmond singing dynasty. (THEME) sid and marty coffin

Osmond, Tom Born 26 October 1947  (Ogden, Utah, USA) Non-performing member of the Osmond family who, like his brothr Virl, was born deaf. The Buckley Mystic

Osoba, Tony Born 15 March 1947  (Glasgow, Scotland) Scottish actor, best known as the tough inmate "Jock" McLaren in the classic 1970s sitcom 'Porridge'. (THEME) The Unprofessionals

Oste, Nemesi Marques Born 17 May 1935  (Cabó, Spain) Nemesi, you naughty boy! What did you do today? (THEME) Not Gone Yet, But Still Forgotten

O'Sullivan, Richard Born 7 May 1944  (Chiswick, London, England) 1970s sitcom actor (Father Dear Father, Man About the House, Robin's Nest). Only in his early 60s, but now in fragile health and a permanent resident of an old folks' home, due to three decades of heavy boozing and drug-taking. BREATHLESS IN SEATTLE Die Now....Die Now....Show Us You've Pegged Don't Eat The Figs drunkasaskunk Jellydead Krypton-Kid Mike Oxard's Showbiz 20 Stiffer Steaks Trojan Hearse  The Rotting Corpses of the Undead

OSWALD PORTER, Marina Born 17 July 1941  (Severodvinsk, Russia) Widow of alleged John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Zombie Dance Party

Ottman, Fred Born 10 August 1956  (Norfolk, Virginia, USA) Wrestler behind myriad gimmicks, including Tugboat, Typhoon and, of course, the man who shocked the world - THE SHOCKMASTER. (THEME) Grappling with Mortality

Owen, Geoffrey Born 16 April 1934  (United Kingdom) Former editor of The Financial Times 12 Lords A-Leaving, 8 Ladies Dying

Owen, Meg Wynn Born 8 November 1939  (Wales) Hazel Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs. People Who Could Die 2021

Owen, Tom Born 8 July 1949  (Brighton, Sussex, England) Actor son of the late 'Last of the Summer Wine' actor Bill Owen. Played his fictional son in the long-running sitcom. (THEME) Last of The Summer Winos

Oxenbury, Helen Born 2 June 1938  (Ipswich, United Kingdom) English illustrator and writer of children's picture books (THEME) Bibliogryphon's Bookworm Food

Oz, Frank Born 25 May 1944  (Hereford, Herefordshire, England) English-born American puppeteer, actor and film director. Unmistakable voice of Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy from 'The Muppet Show' and of Yoda in 'Star Wars'. (THEME) I Hear Voices Wisconsin Reaper Beater 1.0 IMGONESOLONG (THEME) Weird with a Beard

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