The following ‘celebrities’ have died this year, but haven’t got the required UK obituary as far as we can see, so no points have been awarded as yet.
Please let us know if you spot an obit for one of these people (or even just a passing mention of their death) in a British national news source as accepted below.
BBC*:
bbc.co.uk/news (and all subsections, including the previously banned local news pages)
bbc.co.uk/sport
bbc.co.uk/newsbeat
bbc.co.uk/news (and all subsections, including the previously banned local news pages)
bbc.co.uk/sport
bbc.co.uk/newsbeat
And from the UK versions of the following:
telegraph.co.uk
thetimes.co.uk
ft.com
theguardian.com
dailymail.co.uk
express.co.uk
dailystar.co.uk
thesun.co.uk (does not include The Scottish Sun)
mirror.co.uk
morningstaronline.co.uk
inews.co.uk
heraldscotland.com
thetimes.co.uk
ft.com
theguardian.com
dailymail.co.uk
express.co.uk
dailystar.co.uk
thesun.co.uk (does not include The Scottish Sun)
mirror.co.uk
morningstaronline.co.uk
inews.co.uk
heraldscotland.com
(As of 1/1/2018, the death announcements section of broadsheet websites, which members of the general public can pay for listings, are excluded)
…and from these news sites:
uk.reuters.com
news.sky.com/uk
skysports.com
itv.com/news* (this includes local news pages, and STV/UTV)
channel4.com/news
The notice of death must be in written English. Video links are only accepted if the strapline mentions the celeb’s passing.
| Name (click for biography) | Date of Death |
| Monica Coster-Molbeck | 2015 (!!!!!) |
| Ethmer Roten | 18th April 2019 (!) |
| Peggy Stewart | 29th May 2019 (!) |
| Robert Chef d’Hotel | 19th October 2019 (!) |
| Nicholas Amer | 17th November 2019 (!) |
| H&ley C&sey | 27th November 2019 |
| Doris Merrick | 30th November 2019 (!) |
| Paula Tilbrook | 1st December 2019 (!) |
| Neville Buswell | 25th December 2019 (!) |
| Irene Sinclair | 8th January 2020 |
| John Lysak | 8th January 2020 |
| Jack Van Impe | 18th January 2020 |
| Helma Holthausen-Krull | 20th January 2020 |
| Gudrun Pausewang | 23rd January 2020 |
| Thuy Thanh Troung | 25th January 2020 |
| Louis Nirenberg | 26th January 2020 |
| Lucy Jarvis | 26th January 2020 |
| Jorn Donner | 30th January 2020 |
| Lucien Barbarin | 30th January 2020 |
| Marge Redmond | 10th February 2020 |
| Christie Blatchford | 12th February 2020 |
| Sathudkar Chaturvedi | 27th February 2020 |
| Anton Coppola | 9th March 2020 |
| Tony Occleshaw | 9th March 2020 |
| Aarne Kainlauri | 11th March 2020 |
| Phil Phillips | 14th March 2020 |
| Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa | 25th March 2020 |
| Gertrude Ellison | 25th March 2020 |
| Anthony Faituna | 26th March 2020 |
| Hau Pei-tsun | 30th March 2020 |
| Ed Genson | 14th April 2020 |
| Bobby Lewis | 28th April 2020 |
| Guido Munch | 29th April 2020 |
| Tun Tin | 1st May 2020 |
| Monique Mercure | 16th May 2020 |
| Oliver E Williamson (really, British obit writers?) | 21st May 2020 |
| Albert Memmi | 22nd May 2020 |
| Hyun Soong-Jong | 25th May 2020 |
| Miguel Artola Gallego | 26th May 2020 |
| Anita Linda | 10th June 2020 |
| Marian Cisovsky | 28th June 2020 |
| Mark Nally | 6th July 2020 |
| Fi Munro | 7th July 2020 |
| Liz Clarke-Saul | 20th July 2020 |
| Joaquin Verrissimo Serrao | 31st July 2020 |
| Arthur Ashkin | 21st September 2020 |
| Carlisle Troust | 29th September 2020 |
| Tony Baylis | 2nd October 2020 |
| Mark Andrews | 3rd October 2020 |
| Vladimir Dolgikh | 8th October 2020 |
| Dave Munden | 15th October 2020 |
| Alan Stephenson Boyd | 18th October 2020 |
| Dr Bruce Reid | 27th October 2020 |
| Candido Camera | 27th October 2020 |
Updated to 14th July 2020 with help from Willz.