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...
NICHOLL SPENT Footballer Chris Nicholl has died aged 77. He was a club favourite during his runs with Aston Villa and Southampton, and played in all five of Northern Ireland’s matches during the 1982 World Cup. He later managed Southampton and Walsall. One of the sadly ballooning ranks of dementia-addled footballers, he was picked by […]
RED SHIRT Actor Kenneth Mitchell has died aged 49. He was best known for multiple Klingon roles in Star Trek: Discovery, with his latter characters using a hover chair to get by to accommodate for his 2018 ALS diagnosis. Other roles included Jericho and Captain Marvel. He was picked by Puzlman’s Passing Picks. Kenneth Mitchell25 […]
DATTA BITES Cricketer Datta Gaekwad toured England and the West Indies, captained Baroda, and was India’s oldest living test cricketer up to his death. The UK media had the right idea not QOing this boring guy, but the Telegraph had to spoil it all. He was 95 and picked by Exu’s Existeers. Datta Gaekwad27 October […]
PRISONS INSPECTRE Former diplomat and Chief Inspector of Prisons James Hennessey has died aged 100. He was noted for three unenviable years of having to play nice with Idi Amin as the UK’s high commissioner to Uganda. He was unique for Diana Rots. James Hennessey26 September 1923 – 25 February 2024, aged 100💀💀💀💀 + 👻 […]
HE’S BUTCHERED, I SAY, HE’S BUTCHERED Coronation Street stalwart John Savident has died aged 86. He was a regular of TV, film, and stage for decades, with his CV including A Clockwork Orange, Gandhi, Doctor Who, Yes Minister, The Battle of Britain, and the opening of Phantom of the Opera. However his defining role would […]
PARTY OF GRIEFS Vladimir Putin is a cunt. This is not an opinion. But there is very little risk to saying this on a niche deadpooling website whilst Putin is too preoccupied by his own deadpools that lack a “you can’t murder your picks” rule. Alexei Navalny, meanwhile, was the most vocal voice against Vlad […]
THE GAMBLER, HE BROKE EVEN Football maverick Stan Bowles has died aged 75. The star player of Queens Park Rangers in the 70s, he helped take the team to second place in the Football League First Division during the 1975-76 season. He was equally remembered for his colourful antics on and off the pitch, with […]
PRESLE’S KNELL French actress Micheline Presle has died aged 101. The last surviving star of pre-WWII French cinema, she quickly caught eyes with The Devil in the Flesh, where the plot of her nurse having an affair with a student while her husband was off at war provoked much conversation. She proved popular enough to […]
GONNIE CAMPBELL Former Labour MP Ronnie Campbell has died aged 80. The former miner represented Blyth Valley for 32 years, and often went against the grain in his party both good (always opposing the Iraq War) and bad (opposing same-sex marriage even as it became the party norm). A prior bout with stomach cancer meant […]
FITTIPALDI CROSSES THE FINISH LINE Racing driver Wilson Fittipaldi Junior has died aged 80. He participated in 38 F1 Grands Prix, and co-founded Copersucar Fittipaldi with his more successful younger brother Emerson. At his Christmas Day birthday bash last year, he choked on a chunk of food and never recovered. He was unique for Formula […]
