Celebrity picks for Derby Dead Pool 2023: V

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Vacano, Jost Born 15 March 1934  (Osnabrück, Germany) German cinematographer at the side of Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, and behind the camera of Das Boot (THEME) Perfect 10

Vaccaro, Brenda Born 18 November 1939  (New York, USA) American stage, television, and film actress who won an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Once is not Enough. Also had the pleasure of being Michael Douglas's partner for 7 years well before Catherine Zeta Jones was on the scene (THEME) Last Christmas

Valente, Caterina Born 14 January 1931  (Paris, France) Italian singer and guitar player. (THEME) St. Peter’s Warblers (THEME) Vive la France... et la mort

Valentine-Morton, Marc Born in Hove, East Sussex, UK  (exact date unknown) Opera singer from Brighton The B-Team

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)'. BALDY FOREVER Equatic Doom (THEME) Funk Pop a Roll (THEME) Great Gig In The Sky Encore Huddled Masses Not at All Well Pistonbroke (THEME) Rockers who Rolled to the graveyard (THEME) Shake, Rattle, Roll Over and Play Dead

van Acker, Luc Born 6 October 1961  (Tienen, Belgium) Belgian singer. (THEME) Wishing (I Had an Obituary of You)

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". (THEME) 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. The Really, Really Rottens

Van Doren, Mamie Born 6 February 1931  (Rowena, South Dakota, USA) Actress & former sex symbol. Zombie Dance Party (THEME) MST3K Massacre

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'. 2nd time's a charm 5 Feet and 1 to Go Ah, the ol’ team And they all died Bladerunner BLIMEY! Worm Fodder Aye, they're off the fags alright (THEME) Comedy Cremations (THEME) Complete Phallusies Couldn't Think of a Team Name Crofty's Coffin Crew Dai YaB'stards Darling Did You Forget to Take A Breath? Dave's Dead, Aye Dead Drunk Deader than a Dead Thing Deadies 8 Dead Last? Dead Right! DEAD LOSS Deadpool Surprise Deadwig Death Becomes Them Death Stinks Deathlist.net  Death Stalks United Death to the Future Departures Board Diana Rots Diego Don't Eat The Figs Down Under Death Merchants drunkasaskunk Equatic Doom  Eternity Tours (THEME) Exiting The Stage Falling Off The Perch Final Curtain Calls Frail or cancerous Girlfriend In A Coma Headstone Hunters Heaven or Hell? His and Hearse Huddled Masses I Cannot Believe They're Not Deader Wisconsin Reaper Beater 2.0 & It's a Good by from me I've Been Dying To Play This VIRUS? WHAT VIRUS? CORONA'S A BEER! Now That's What I Call Emeli Sande's In Memoriam JoeRam Julia Elston Just Fade Away  They're Loving Angels Instead Trumps Disinfectant Chumps (THEME) Laughing in the face of Death. Lidders Late Lamentables Living in a Box LL's Pool Long Lived the Queen LW's Czech Out Weakend at Bernies Mortem Omnibus Mr Shadrack’s Apparatus Much Ado About Snuffing Naked Florida Gravediggers (THEME) Nearly Dead Kennedys Noah Reason and the Youth in Asia (THEME) Norman Lear and All His Friends NoSoup4U! Not at All Well No Weddings and Twenty Funerals Old People Smell Of Piss ONE BAR GAS FIRE AND A TIN OF DOG FOOD Over The Rainbow Permanent Kip Pistonbroke Pool Ghoul Powder Picks Em Off Prowlers Goners Pull my finger Reaping the Benefits The Honey Trap SeasideEssexXile See You In Heaven Shame Thatcher Can't Die Twice SHORTER OF BREATH, ONE DAY CLOSER TO DEATH Spectre of Death Forgotten But Not Gone Steve's Stiffs Still_Drunkasaskunk Sweeney Todd's Nutritional Information (THEME) Syndication Zombies Tentoesup The Colnbrook Coroner The Crowdsourced Deathlist (THEME) The Dead Kennedys Funeral Director 2023 The Long Awaited Return Of The Blackpool Jury The Old Ones are the Pests The Spanners They Might All Die  Tiny and Ellie's Pick of the Drops (THEME) Turn Off That Telly and Go to Bed! Who Turned out the lights? (THEME) YOU'LL DIE LAUGHING Zipline

van Gaal, Louis Born 8 August 1951  (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Former football player and manager. Coach of AZ Alkmaar, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, FC Barcelona, Dutch National team. 20 Random Guys Part 1 Neither There Nor Thereabouts

Van Impe, Lucien Born 20 October 1946  (Mere, Belgium) Tour De France winning belgian cyclicst excelling in the mountains (THEME) On yer bike!

Van Rooyen, Basil Born 19 April 1939  (Krugersdorp, South Africa) South African racing driver. Died in September mostly unnoticed. Most Unique Picks 2023

Vanda, Harry Born 22 March 1946  (Voorburg, Netherlands) Easybeats guitarist whose frenetic classic "Friday on My Mind" was one of the first Aussie rock tunes to make an international splash. (THEME) Dick Smith's OzEDeath List

Vargas Llosa, Mario Born 28 March 1936  (Arequipa, Peru) Preuvian novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. (THEME) Literarily Dead

Vasiliou, George Born 20 May 1931  (Famagusta, Cyprus) President of Cyprus from 1988-1993. (THEME) ARTHUR'S THEME

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". Most Unique Picks 2023

Velasco, Concha Born 29 November 1939  (Valladolid, Spain) Spanish actress of film, stage and television. (THEME) Hispanics and Lati-no's

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 Policies Of Benjamin Netanyahu

Venables, Terry  Born 6 January 1943  (Dagenham, London, England) Died 25 November 2023  (Great Britain) Age at death: 80  (read death notice) Former England football player & manager and screenwriter, who wrote the ITV detective series Hazell. Lord Football's Usual List of Ill People Manuel's Stiffs

Vendetta, Dayna Date and place of birth unknown Porn star. (THEME) Scrubber Out

Venetiaan, Ronald Born 18 June 1936  (Paramaribo, Suriname) Twice President of Suriname. (THEME) ...and its goodnight from him

Ventura, Jesse Born 15 July 1951  (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) Professional wrestler turned politician. (THEME) Francis Of Wrestle-Easy 2023

Venuti, Maria Born 7 March 1941  (Australia) Australian entertainment veteran who had a stroke in 2016 after discovering an intruder in her house. Roasting Bodies In Redcar

Vera, Julia Born in Laredo, Texas, USA  (exact date unknown) Mexican-American character actress, the spiritual successor to the late great Lupe Ontiveros. Zero Hit's Wishlist

Vere Cole, Tristan de Born 16 March 1935  (Redruth, Cornwall, England) Director with the BBC whose credits include 'Doctor Who' and the first episode of 'Emmerdale'. The former Royal Navy Officer is also one of painter Augustus John's illegitimate children. (THEME) The Gallifrey Regeneration Game

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

VERSTAPPEN, Max Born 30 September 1997  (Hasselt, Belgium) Formula 1 racing driver, the youngest ever to compete and score points. even one's a win

Vialli, Gianluca  Born 9 July 1964  (Cremona, Italy) Died 6 January 2023  (London, England) Age at death: 58  (read death notice) 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. 2024? – no thank you! I’ll leave before 6 Feet (Down) Under Alternative Observations 2023 Amanita virosa Are You Still Dying, Darling? ARSE-IN-HOLE A Submarine Torpedoes and Sinks The Love Boat Banana's Peel Slippers  Bastard Must've Died Ben-Hur and Messala Were Lovers Bennington & Speight's Aerial Silk Workshop Cancel My Appointments  Aye, they're off the fags alright Carkers Convention 2023 Chelski Pensioners  c. a. daver Cobbled on the Eve The Love Boat  I Like to Cease Beside the Seaside Darling Did You Forget to Take A Breath? Day in the Death  DDP Tofoa Dead And Dusted Dead Ends Dead Last? Dead Right!  Deadpool Surprise Dead Ringers  Dead Wait Death Becomes Them Death Can Be Funny Deceased Hose Die Now....Die Now....Show Us You've Pegged Droller Coaster  drunkasaskunk Ethnic Cleansing Skate Dumpers Evil Grimace Expiry Date 2023 Exu's Exiteers Fade to Black Faster Than A Dead Horse Faucheuse’s main list David Quantick's Showbiz Pals  Funeral Furore  Bucket Of Blood (THEME) God's Gonna Gettem  Going Underground Grave Danger  GUN Fishing Haben die Spaten Headstone Hunters Heaven or Hell?  I'm Sorry For Your Trouble And Now His Watch Is Ended It's A Grim World After All  I Will Not Die, it's the World that Will End! Jackie Treehorn  Jellydead Jimmy Savile's Paedo FunHouse and Grill Jumptheshark V 14.0 (now living in Derby) (THEME) KICKING BUCKETS INSTEAD OF BALLS They're Loving Angels Instead Lard Bazaar Long Lived the Queen Lord Football's Usual List of Ill People Madonna's Hand Of Bod Matt Hancock's Unwashed Cock The Misers  Moldy Oldies Mortem Omnibus Mr Shadrack’s Apparatus Much Ado About Snuffing Octopus of Odstock  Once You Go Black ONE BAR GAS FIRE AND A TIN OF DOG FOOD One Eyed Jacks Pan Breed  Pazuzu United pedro's catacomb ensemble  People I Think Might Die In 2023 United Phantom's Pick 'n' Mix Plan B from Outer Space  A Trophy For Atrophy Pretty Noose Beat the Cost of Living Crisis with One Simple Trick!  Sad News FC Salmon Mousse SAMSONS AND DELILAHS SeasideEssexXile See You In Heaven  Shaun of the Dead 69 Shovelful of Dirt Smart Beta Southerners Stiffs  (THEME) Sportspeople I Think Might Die in 2023 United  Star Dust Stone Dead Cert  (THEME) Sudden Death  Sweeney Todd's Nutritional Information Team Cat AIDS Heading Nowhere  The Sunday Supplement's Premature Review of 2023 The Award for Best Original Decomposition goes to...  The Beatles Are Dying In The Wrong Order The Choir Invisibule The corpse list The Crowdsourced Deathlist THE DEAD C**T SCROTS The End of the World As We Know It Funeral Director 2023 The Grim Actuary The Living End  The Master of Unlocking  the old lady  There is no spoon  The Sound of the Underground  The Walking Dead This Mortal Coil Thomas Jefferson Survives  Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Die  Today's the day the maggots have their picnic To Kill A Gabor Sister  Windsor the Troll Worm Farmer You Dirty Rotten Swine, You Deaded Them! You Have 1 Year To Die…Your Time Starts Now  Zipline

Vilas, Guillermo Born 17 August 1952  (Mar del Plata, Argentina) Title-winning Argentine tennis player, who couldn't quite outshine contemporaries Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors Zero Hit's Wishlist

Villagran, Carlos Born 12 January 1944  (Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico) Mexican actor best known for playing "Quico" in "El Chavo del 8" (THEME) International Dying Festival

Vincent, Fay Born 29 May 1938  (Waterbury, Connecticut, USA) Former MLB Commissioner from 1989 to 1992. And Now His Watch Is Ended

Vine, Jeremy Born 17 May 1965  (Epsom, Surrey, England) BBC Radio 2 presenter. William Hague's Special Friend

Vinge, Joan Born 2 April 1948  (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) American SF writer. Winner of the 1981 Hugo award for 'The Snow Queen' and former wife of Vernor Vinge. Suffered brain damage in an accident in 2002 but recovered to resume writing in 2007. (THEME) Bibliogryphon's Bookworm Food

Vinoly, Rafael  Born 1 June 1944  (Montevideo, Uruguay) Died 2 March 2023  (New York City, New York, USA) Age at death: 78  (read death notice) Architect from Uruguay, resposible for the terrible pencil tower 432 Park Avenue in New York (THEME) The Politicorpses

Vinson, Nigel Born 27 January 1931  (Kent, England) Lord Vinson. Former Tory peer. Diana Rots

Vinson, Roger  Born 19 February 1940  (Cadiz, Kentucky, USA) Died 1 April 2023  (United States) Age at death: 83  (read death notice) American judge currently serving as senior judge for the Northern District of Florida. Cancel My Appointments

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. (THEME) 20 Crooners Croakin' Equatic Doom (THEME) Great Gig In The Sky Encore Soylent Green Is You (THEME) St. Peter’s Warblers

Viren, Lasse Born 22 July 1949  (Myrskylä, Finland) Finnish former long-distance runner, winner of four gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics (THEME) Thanks for being a Sport

Virgil, (wrestler) Born 13 June 1962  (Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, USA) Born Michael Jones, former professional wrestler and actor. (THEME) Grappling with Mortality

Virgo, John Born 3 March 1946  (Salford, Lancashire, England) Snooker player, turned TV commentator & presenter. (THEME) snooker loopy c*NTS are we

Vitale, Dick Born 9 June 1939  (Passaic, New Jersey, USA) Prolific US basketball sportscaster known for his exuberant commentary. Fat Kids Always Win at Seesaw Jellydead Jumptheshark V 14.0 (now living in Derby) The Misers

Vithoulkas, George Born 25 July 1932  (Athens, Greece) Greek homeopathic practitioner and teacher. (THEME) Alternative in Death - The Right Deadlihood Award

Voight, Jon Born 29 December 1938  (Yonkers, New York, USA) Oscar-winning film actor who starred in the films 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Deliverance'. Father of Angelina Jolie. Dead Is Dead

Volkov, Esteban  Born 7 March 1926  (Moscow, Soviet Union) Died 16 June 2023  (Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico) Age at death: 97  (read death notice) Mexican chemist, part of history as grandson of Leo Trotzki (THEME) Rolls Off The Tongue

von Dohnanyi, Christoph Born 8 September 1929  (Berlin, Germany) German conductor, spent over two decades with the Cleveland Orchestra. (THEME) The Fat Lady's singing...

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. Will plastinate his own body for display when he dies, which could be soon as he has advanced Pa 20 Random Guys Part 3 Eddie's Parade of Darkness and Despair Exu's Exiteers

Von Trotta, Margarethe Born 21 February 1942  (Berlin, Germany) German film director, a preeminent figure in New German Cinema. Most Unique Picks 2023

Vong, Tep Born 1 December 1932  (Siem Reap, Cambodia, French Indochina) Cambodian Buddhist monk, the incumbent Great Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia. (THEME) Not Gone Yet, But Still Forgotten

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. (THEME) Waiting for Ugo

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