Celebrity picks for Derby Dead Pool 2024: Z

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Zadora, Pia Born 4 May 1954  (Hoboken, New Jersey, USA) Child star actress, who later went into modelling and singing. Moldy Oldies

Zagallo, Mario  Born 9 August 1931  (Maceio, Brazil) Died 5 January 2024  (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Age at death: 92  (read death notice) Former player and coach for the Brazilian national team, winning the World Cup as a player in 1958 and 1962 and again as manager in 1970. A Pelican In The Wilderness Ben-Hur and Messala Were Lovers Droller Coaster drunkasaskunk (THEME) Elton Welsby's Sporting Triangles Funeral Furore Haben die Spaten (THEME) Pazuzu XP Plan B from Outer Space

Zamir, Zvi  Born in Poland  (exact date unknown) Died 2 January 2024  (Tel Aviv, Israel) Age at death: 98  (read death notice) Director of the feared Mossad Israeli secret service from 1968-74. Born 1925 The Policies Of Benjamin Netanyahu

Zanardi, Alex Born 23 October 1966  (Bologna, Italy) Accident prone but resilient former F1 driver who lost both legs after a crash in an Indy Car race and then won 4 gold medals in paralympics before suffering another serious accident and then a fire in his house. (THEME) Thanks for being a Sport

Zavorotnyuk, Anastasia Born 3 April 1971  (Astrakhan, Russia) Russian soap actress. John Key's List Stiff Competition

Zeira, Eli Date and place of birth unknown Former major general in the Israel Defense Forces. Born 1928. Sitting Ducks

Zeldin, Lee Born 30 January 1980  (East Meadow, New York, USA) Relatively successful republican in the state of New York, but also too dependent on Trump to advance further (THEME) Dying Probably's Twitter Page

Zelenskyy, Volodymyr Born 25 January 1978  (Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)) Former comedian now president of Ukraine leading country in a war/special military operation against Russia I'll sleep when you're dead Oscar The Beast Tumbling Dice

Zeman, Milos Born 28 September 1944  (Kolin, Czechoslovakia) Third President of the Czech Republic, from 2013 to 2023, before retiring. (THEME) Decomposing Blubber Grobler's Stiff Ones House Of Soon To Be With The Lord Phantom's Pick 'n' Mix STAYING ALIVE!! Tiny and Ellie's Pick of the Drops You Might Be A King or a Little Street Sweeper

Zerbe, Anthony Born 20 May 1936  (Long Beach, California, USA) US film actor, for example as a Henchman in License to Kill and as the Star Fleet admiral who gets facelifted to death in Star Trek IX (THEME) Quinn -v- Curtis ZZ Topped: Heaven, Hell or Houston

Zhorobekov, Zholbors Born 15 October 1948  (Rajon Nookat, Kyrgyztan) Kyrgyz political scientist who writes books and does stuff (THEME) Not Gone Yet, But Still Forgotten

Zia, Khaleda Born in Jalpaiguri, Bengal Presidency, British India  (exact date unknown) Former PM of Bangladesh. Born 1945. Alternative Observations 2024 Carkers Convention 2024 Funerals start with 'Fun' (THEME) Hell to the Chief (THEME) Ruling The Afterlife

Zimbardo, Philip  Born 23 March 1933  (New York City, New York, USA) Died 14 October 2024  (San Francisco, California, USA) Age at death: 91  (read death notice) Psychologist, perhaps best known for conducting the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which he assigned a group of students the roles of guard and prisoner and observed extreme reactions on both ends. Perhaps' Pointless Punts Powder Picks Em Off

Zmuda, Bob Born 12 December 1949  (Chicago, Illinois, USA) American performance artist and friend of Andy Kaufman. (THEME) Cesar Romero's Orange Wedges

Zoff, Dino Born 28 February 1942  (Mariano del Friuli, Italy) Legendary Italian international goalkeeper. Captained the Azzurri to the World Cup in 1982 at the age of 40. (THEME) KICKING BUCKETS INSTEAD OF BALLS

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