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...
GOODBYE VIETNAM Singer-songwriter Tom T Hall has died aged 85. He wrote 1968 country hit single Harper Valley PTA, which reached number 1 on the US billboard Hot 100, and well as the Australian charts, and even made 12 in the UK charts. Overall, Hall wrote 12 US number one songs. Johnny Wright’s use of […]
STREET FIGHTER FATALITY Japanese actor Sonny Chiba has died aged 82. The karate black belt was a martial arts expert and regular in Japanese film before The Street Fighter became internationally renowned. He became a regular in cult Asian made films of the 1970s on, and in 2003 he appeared as expert sword craftsman Hanzo […]
BUDGET SURPLUS EXPERT MEETS LIFE DEFICIT. New Zealand politician Michael Cullen has died of lung cancer aged 76. Deputy Prime Minister from 2002 to 2008, Cullen was the New Zealand version of John Prescott: a left wing bruiser who had a habit of drawing attention to policies the government didn’t want attention drawn towards. […]
American baseball player Bill Freehan has died after a long battle with dementia aged 79. Freehan played 15 seasons with the Detroit Tiges, during which time he helped them roar to the 1968 World Series title. With 200 home runs under his belt, and holding the highest fielding percentage record for over 30 years, Freehan […]
So yes, the modern Derby Dead Pool relies on a constant stream of fresh energy to keep it going, and after 2 years, mine is starting to run out. If The Man in Black taught us anything, its that 7 years in charge of any part of the DDP is far too much, and the […]
DER BOMBER, Entschärfte Gerd Muller, one of the most successful strikers in football history, has died after a long battle with dementia aged 75. Gerd Muller played 15 years for Bayern Munich, during which time he scored over 400 goals and won four Bundesliga titles, 3 European Cups and 1 Cup Winners Cup. He was […]
OTHER VOICES, OTHER GRAVES Folk and country singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith has died after a long battle with cancer aged 68. The Texan singer, who won a Grammy in 1994 for her album Other Voices Other Rooms, was a frequent performer with the Blue Moon Orchestra. Griffith was inspired to write many of her songs about […]
DEATH DID US PART Actress Una Stubbs has died aged 84, slightly surprisingly, after a short illness. Stubbs was a rarity in being primarily a TV actress who became a household name with 3 successive generations. In the 1960s, she was Rita, daughter of Alf Garnett, in the classic comedy Till Death Us Do Part. […]
NORTHERN SOUL Choral composer Stephen Wilkinson has died aged 102. He served in the Navy in the Atlantic during World War Two before complete a music degree at Cambridge. In fact, he suffered all his life from injuries suffered when the ship he was on exploded, but he did earn mentions in dispatches for that […]
CORDLESS DDP Actor Alex Cord has died aged 88. Best known for his role as Arcangel in Airwolf, he also appeared in Stagecoach and the stranger to fortune titled The Dead Are Alive. No, no they are not. Cord was also in Chosen Survivors, list of which he is presumably no longer on. He was […]
