Death happens. Why not make it interesting?
The online competition to guess which famous people won't make it to the end of the current year. If they're elderly, ill, or just live a high-risk lifestyle, stick 'em in your team, and for each one whose death you correctly predict, you'll score points. DDP was dreamt up in Derby, England (hence the name...) by Big Iain back in 1996. Other hosts: Siegfried Baboon and Rude Kid (2003-7), Octopus of Odstock (2008-9), The Man in Black (2010-17), Spade Cooley (2018-19), msc (2020-21), Grim Up North (2020-22), and Reptile (2020-23). Now the Committee of DI (2022), time (2024), and Banana (2023) oversee the biggest deadpool going...
Danish pianist Bent Fabric, who had a good name, has died aged 95. The musician won a Grammy in the early 1960s for Alley Cat, a hit across the world that sold over a million copies. He also composed the scores for many films in his homeland of Denmark. He was a unique hit for […]
LA CAUSE DES MORT French feminist lawyer Gisele Halimi has died aged 93. She was known for defending womens rights and human rights alike in the court room, and co-wrote a book with Simone de Beauvoir. In the 1980s she was a socialist French MP for Istres, and campaigned for abortion and contraception rights in […]
OH WELL Shall I tell you about his life, they say he’s a man of the world. Peter Green, to my mind one of the finest guitar players of the 20th Century, has died aged 73. Green was a standout figure on the British blues circuit before creating the band Fleetwood Mac in 1967 with […]
GOT TO FALKIRK Footballer David Hagen has become the latest victim of ALS. Hagen played briefly early on for Rangers, before an even brief stay at Hearts. However, it was Falkirk he became best know for, with a six season and 139 league game stay which led to silverware with Hagen scoring the only goal […]
REGIS MEETS FINAL UNDERTAKER US TV icon Regis Philbin has died aged 88. Former Tonight Show aide turned frequent guest Regis was instantly known to American viewers for multiple shows: Regis and Kathy Lee (the US version of This Morning with Philip Scofield), as well as hosting America’s Got Talent (the US version of […]
CARDIACS ARREST Tim Smith, the front man of cult rock band The Cardiacs, has died from a heart attack. Sometimes these things just write themselves. See also Brian Pillman dying from an overdose of pills, and Dick Trickle’s death from… no, wait, he shot himself. Anyhow, they had one top 100 hit in the UK […]
NO ONE BUT HER After a lifetime of bucking the odds, Annie Ross has died a mere 4 days before her ascension to the true pantheon of the great. Yes, that’s right, a spot on the Genarians website! Ross was the last surviving third of regarded jazz trio Lambert, Henricks and Ross, and collaborated with […]
Actress and singer Maggie Fitzgibbon died in June to provide another DDP success. On British TV, she starred in early BBC soap The Newcomers, as well as World War Two drama Manhunt (in which you can see future Fenric bad guy Alfred Lynch do a remarkable impression of future Doctor Who Matt Smith). The Newcomers […]
BIG SIX LEWIS DEEP-SIXED John Lewis was the last of the great civil rights leaders of the 1960s who worked with Martin Luther King to push non-violent disobedience. As a student, Lewis became one of the Big Six civil rights leaders who led the March on Washington in 1963. He lead the 1965 march for […]
EARL NOW NEVERWHERE Earl Cameron has lost his final battle with life, shortly before his 103rd birthday.Born in Bermuda, Cameron worked in the British Merchant Navy before winding up in London in 1939. Due to race relations at the time, he struggled to find work and had to take on any odd job that was […]
