Rules of Play

1. Choose 15 celebrities who you believe may die in the calendar year 2009. Number 15 on your list must be aged under 50.
2. Email that list to h2g2deathlistgame(at)googlemail.com ASAP
3. If you discover that you have erroneously included someone already dead, or one of your nominees dies in 2008, you may have a free substitute.
4. You will be awarded 10 points per correct prediction. If your prediction is unique, then you receive 15 points.
5. You will be awarded 5 bonus points by a death caused 'not by natural causes', in other words a suicide, murder or accident.
6. You will be awarded 5 bonus points for a celebrity who dies on the 13th of the month. 10 bonus points if it's Friday the 13th.
7. Assuming you have followed Rule 1 correctly, then you will be awarded double points for the correctly-predicted death of Number 15 on your list (all bonus points are also doubled). Only Number 15 is eligible for this bonus, no matter how many under-50s are on your list.
8. The definition of 'celebrity' is someone well-known enough to have their death reported on the websites of BBC News or any of the British Broadsheets. No report; no points.
9. Any complaints about the poor taste of this game should be addressed to Mu Beta, and then self-inserted, rectally.
10. 10) Watch this space for news of The Deathlist 2009 homepage. "Very sincere thanks to Emmily - this game might well have died a death (boom! boom!) without her."(Well, I had to add that too )

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1. Leslie Philips
2. Michael Foot
3. Rose West
4. Ronald Arthur Biggs
5. Courtney Love
6. Elizabeth Taylor
7. Fidel Castro
8. Conrad Black
9. Robert Mugabe
10. Bhumibol Adulyadej
11. Ian Paisley (snr)
12. Norman Wisdom
13. Tony Hart
14. Bruce Forsyth
15. Paul Gascoinge (Under 50)

Beatrice

1. JD Salinger
2. Gough Whitlam
3. Sir John Mortimer
4. General Jaruzelski
5. Roy Mason
6. Larry Gelbart
7. Fats Domino
8. James Garner
9. Basil D'olivera
10. Robert Novak
11. Liam Cosgrave
12. Jacques Chirac
13. Vaclav Havel
14. Muhammed Ali
15. Paul Gascoigne (Under 50)

B'Elana

1. Mikhail Gorbachev
2. Helmut Schmidt
3. Hugh Hefner
4. Ozzy Osbourne
5. Zsa Zsa Gabor
6. Doris Lessing
7. Margret Atwood
8. Prince Philip Mountbatten
9. Juan Carlos I
10. Jean-Paul Belmondo
11. Jackie Chan
12. Kirk Douglas
13. Gary Glitter
14. Amy Winehouse
15. Michael J Fox (under 50)

Ben

1. Doris Lessing
2. Tom Baker
3. Tony Benn
4. George Cole
5. Duke of Edinburgh
6. Oscar Niemeyer
7. Jimmy Carter
8. Paul Gascoigne
9. Tony Curtis
10. Ozzie Osbourne
11. Ian McKellan
12. Chuck Norris
13. James Randi
14. Joanna Lumley
15. Amy Winehouse (under 50)

Clive the flying Ostrich

1. Mickey Rooney
2. Dick Van Dyke
3. Henry Allingham
4. Zsa Zsa Gabor
5. Clive Dunn
6. Patrick Moore
7. Fidel Castro
8. Jetsun Gyatso/14th *Dalai* Lama
9. Steve Jobs
10. Oliver Sacks
11. Robert Duvall
12. Claude Levi-Strauss
13. Al Martino
14. Gerald Scarfe
15. Alain Robert (under 50)

coelacanth

1. Elizabeth Taylor
2. Ronald Biggs
3. Patrick Moore
4. Liza Minnelli
5. Tony Hart
6. Nancy Reagan
7. Liz Dawn
8. Edmundo Ros
9. Allan Arbus
10. Olivia De Havilland
11. Michel Legrand
12. Herbert Lom
13. Norman Wisdom
14. Ravi Shankar
15. Kevin Federline (under 50)

Croz

1. Ariel Sharon
2. Fidel Castro
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Jalal Talabani
5. Jack Klugman
6. Adam West
7. Robin Williams
8. Tom Clancy
9. Roger McGough
10. Quentin Blake
11. Vint Cerf
12. Gordon Moore
13. Tim Berners-Lee
14. Ringo Starr
15. Katie Holmes (Under 50)

Dai the Death

1. Michael Foot
2. Donald Sinden
3. Lionel Jeffries
4. Ray Bradbury
5. Deanna Durbin
6. Herbert Lom
7. Helmut Schmidt
8. John Forsythe
9. Ernest Borgnine
10. Peter Vaughn
11. Richard Todd
12. Karl Malden
13. Norman Wisdom
14. Stanley Baxter
15. Kerry Katona (under 50)

Deakie

1. Christopher Lee
2. George Martin
3. Richard Attenborough
4. Sir David Attenborough
5. Franco Zeffirelli
6. Kirk Douglas
7. Margaret Thatcher
8. Ronnie Biggs
9. Dick Van Dyke
10. Rev Ian Paisley
11. Liza Minnelli
12. John Forsythe
13. Betty Ford
14. Fidel Castro
15. Lindsay Lohan (under 50)

Demon Drawer

1. Jerome David Salinger
2. Fidel Castro
3. Helmut Schmidt
4. Walter Cronkite
5. Sid Caesar
6. Betty White (Golden Girl)
7. Sir Bobby Robson
8. Val Doonican
9. Kirk Douglas
10. Michael Foot
11. Wendy Richard
12. Ted Kennedy
13. Ricardo Montalban
14. Olivia da Havilland
15. Michelle Obama (under 50)

Emmily

1. Graham Crowden
2. Mary Higgins Clark
3. Karl Malden
4. Sir Jimmy Young
5. June Whitfield
6. Frank Thornton
7. Tony Curtis
8. Doris day
9. Rosamunde Pilcher
10. Douglas Reeman
11. Roy Clarke
12. Geoffrey Bayldon
13. Sir Donald Sinden
14. Edward Woodward
15. Britney Spears (under 50)

Galaxy Babe

1. Wendy Richard
2. Vera Lynn
3. Seve Ballesteros
4. Sir Bobby Robson
5. Prof Stephen Hawking
6. Christopher Biggins
7. Sir Roger Moore
8. Nigel Lawson
9. Eddie Kidd
10. Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins
11. Leslie Phillips
12. Blake Edwards
13. Ronnie Biggs
14. Norman Wisdom
15. Jade Goody (under 50)

GreyDesk

1. Patrick Swayze
2. Edward Kennedy
3. Gore Vidal
4. Richard Attenborough
5. Patrick Moore
6. Wendy Richard
7. Alan Osmond
8. Steve Jobs
9. Seve Ballesteros
10. Claude Choules
11. Les Paul
12. Claude Levi-Strauss
13. Hamid Karzi
14. Muqtada al-Sadr
15. Blake Fielder Civil (under 50)

Groob Roghan Josh

1. Vincent O’Brien
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Norman Wisdom
4. Anna Wing
5. Mikhail Kalashnikov
6. Donald Hewlett
7. Malcolm Allison
8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
9. Benoit Mandelbrot
10. Peter O’Sullevan
11. Cliff Michelmore
12. Whispering Ted Lowe
13. Colin Bean
14. Ronald Neame
15. James Atkin (EMF)(Under 50)

Icy North

1. Dave Brubeck
2. Felix Bowness
3. David Croft
4. Windsor Davies
5. Michael J Fox
6. Jimmy Perry
7. Ray Galton
8. Michael Knowles
9. Wendy Richard
10. Sir Bobby Robson
11. Alan Simpson
12. Mollie Sugden
13. Patrick Swayze
14. Frank Thornton
15. Jeremy Clarkson (Under 50)

King Bomba

1. Edvard Shevardnadze
2. Bernard Ingham
3. Ian Paisley
4. Johnny Ball
5. James Pickles
6. John Le Carre
7. Jack Charlton
8. Helmut Kohl
9. Bill Cosby
10. Maya Angelou
11. Ronnie Wood
12. Eric Sykes
13. Graham Crowden
14. Duke of Edinburgh
15. Macaulay Culkin (under 50)

loonycat

1. Prince Phillip
2. Vera Lynn
3. Norman Wisdom
4. Russ Abbott
5. Fidel Castro
6. Michael Heseltine
7. Amy Winehouse
8. Delia Smith
9. Ian Smith (Aussie actor)
10. Michael Douglas
11. Wendy Richard
12. Paul Gascoigne
13. Michael Foot
14. Seve Ballesteros
15. Lindsay Lohan (under 50)

Magwitch

1. Ted Nugent
2. Ursula LeGuin
3. Neil Armstrong
4. Richard Chamberlain
5. Margaret Thatcher
6. Richard Attenborough
7. Norman Wisdom
8. Dick van Dyke
9. Michael Foot
10. Eli Wallach
11. Zsa Zsa Gabor
12. Peter Falk
13. Gilbert O'Sullivan
14. Barbara Windsor
15. Amy Winehouse (Under 50)

Mazin'MadFiddler

1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Michael Douglas
3. Paul Gascoigne
4. Fidel Castro
5. Jong Kim Il
6. Christopher Lee
7. Harry Patch
8. Prince Michael, Duke of Kent
9. Sir Richard Attenborough
10. Keith Richard
11. Michael J Fox
12. Stephen Hawkins
13. Tony Curtis
14. Pete Doherty
15. Barak Obama(under 50)

McKay The Disorganised

1. Jean Alexander
2. Rev Iain Paisley (Snr)
3. Oscar Niemeyer
4. Dick Van Dyke
5. Liz Dawn
6. Vera Lynn
7. Fidel Castro
8. Wendy Richard
9. Sir Bobby Robson
10. Michael Barrymore - Awight !
11. Ray Davies
12. Bill Maynard
13. John Prescott
14. Jonny Walker
15. Johnny Vegas (under 50)

Mol

1. Tom Baker
2. Michael Barrymore
3. Alan Bennett
4. Elisabeth Beresford
5. Barbara Bush
6. Rolf Harris
7. Tony Hart
8. D King-Smith
9. Bill Pertwee
10. Prince Philip
11. Jimmy Saville
12. Elizabeth Taylor
13. Margaret Thatcher
14. Kenneth Kendall
15. Pete Doherty (under 50)

Mu Beta

1. Richard Attenbrough
2. Tony Curtis
3. Fats Domino
4. Kirk Douglas
5. Michael Foot
6. Dick Francis
7. BB King
8. Maurice Jarre
9. Sidney Lumet
10. Leslie Phillips
11. Yitzhak Shamir
12. Ravi Shankar
13. Donald Sinden
14. Richard Todd
15. Martin Bashir (under 50)

Noth€r

1. Julie Andrews
2. Colin Friels
3. Michael Frost
4. Berry Gordy
5. Hugh Hefner
6. Elton John
7. Keith Richards
8. Mickey Rooney
9. June Smith
10. Patrick Swayze
11. Margaret Thatcher
12. John Travolta
13. Shirley Temple
14. Edward Woodward
15. Paul Gascoigne (under 50)

Orcus

1. Sir Bobby Robson
2. Fidel Castro
3. Richard Baker
4. Peter O'Toole
5. Kirk Douglas
6. Wendy Richard
7. Henry John (Harry) Patch
8. Tony Curtis
9. Val Doonican
10. Boutros Boutros Ghali
11. Lauren Bacall
12. Kenneth Kendal
13. Peter Sallis
14. Frank Thornton
15. Fernando Alonso (under 50)

Pedro

1. Ernest Borgnine
2. Claude Levi-Strauss
3. Yitzhak Shamir
4. Betty Ford
5. Ronald Coase
6. Norman Tebbit
7. Margaret Thatcher
8. Kirk Douglas
9. Patrick Moore
10. Sir Bobby Robson
11. Murray Gell-Mann
12. Jake La Motta
13. Ariel Sharon
14. Les Paul
15. Frank Bruno (under 50)

Pingu

1. Axl Rose
2. Britney Spears
3. Fidel Castro
4. Chris Moyles
5. Kylie Minogue
6. Bill Oddie
7. Wendy Richard
8. Jeremy Clarkson
9. Heather McCartney
10. Mikhail Kalashnikov
11. David Jason
12. Ian Huntley
13. Rolf Harris
14. Bruce Forsyth
15. Lewis Hamilton (under 50)

Psycorp Six-Oh-Three

1. Elizabeth Taylor
2. Sir Bobby Robson
3. Prince Philip
4. Nelson Mandela
5. Fidel Castro
6. Margaret Thatcher
7. Sir Jimmy Saville
8. Wendy Richard
9. Ian Brady
10. Peter Sallis
11. Sir Norman Wisdom
12. Sir Patrick Moore
13. Ariel Sharon
14. Liz Smith
15. Paul Gascoigne (under 50)

Radox The Green

1. Sir Clement Freud
2. Michael Jackson
3. Mae Young
4. George Cole
5. Richard Attenborough
6. Harry Patch
7. Janet Waldo
8. Honor Blackman
9. Howard Lew Lewis
10. Roy Hudd
11. Ken Dodd
12. Liz Smith
13. Jimmy Savile
14. Frank Thornton
15. Hayden Panettiere (under 50)

Reddyfreddy

1. Bhumibol Adulyadej
2. Julie Andrews
3. Richard Attenborough
4. George Bush (Senior)
5. Ken Dodd
6. Margaret Thatcher
7. Helmut Kohl
8. Christopher Lee
9. Philip Mountbatten-Windsor
10. Doris Lessing
11. Michael Parkinson
12. Jalal Talabani
13. Tomoji Tanabe
14. Elizabeth Taylor
15. Richard Hammond (Under 50)

sweetKateKat

1. George Bush senior
2. George Bush junior
3. Sharon Shoesmith
4. Zsa Zsa Gabor
5. Jimmy Hill
6. Tony Blair
7. Shimon Peres
8. Ehud Olmert
9. Ariel Sharon
10. Mahmoud Abbas
11. Khaled Meshaal
12. Hosni Mubarak
13. Kerry Katona
14. Jordan (Katie Price)
15. Victoria Beckham (under 50)

SWL

1. Ariel Sharon
2. Fidel Castro
3. Alan Williams MP
4. Norman Wisdom
5. Hugh William Mackay
6. Michael Foot
7. Tom Laughlin (actor)
8. Kirk Douglas
9. Burt Kwouk
10. Henry Allingham
11. Ronnie Biggs
12. James Whitmore
13. Gore Vidal
14. Dominic Chianese
15. Amy Winehouse (under 50)

Thatprat

1. Makhdoom Amin Fahim
2. Katsuhiro *tomo
3. Tom Jones
4. David Bradley
5. Bilawal Bhutto
6. Jeremy Clarkson
7. Muqtada al Sadr
8. Russell Brand
9. Jeremy Vine
10. Ian Blair
11. Kate Robbins
12. Judi Dench
13. Ian Smith
14. Anne Charleston
15. Alexandra Burke (Under 50)

Toy Box

1. Buzz Aldrin
2. Jean-Paul Belmondo
3. Benedict XVI
4. Ray Bradbury
5. Ann Nixon Cooper
6. Israel Gelfand
7. Wojciech Jaruzelski
8. Claude Levi-Strauss
9. William Link
10. John McCain
11. Magali Noel
12. Nancy Reagan
13. Helmut Schmidt
14. Charles Hard Townes
15. Bill Kaulitz (under 50)

tzjin_anthony_ks

1. Steve Jobs
2. Zsa Zsa Gabor
3. Adam West
4. Aage Bohr
5. Nick Nolte
6. Abe Vigoda
7. Kirk Douglas
8. Eddie van Halen
9. Gloria Stuart
10. Henry John "Harry" Patch
11. Tomoji Tanabe
12. Henry Allingham
13. Margaret Thatcher
14. Amitabh Bachchan
15. Michael J Fox (Under 50)

van-smeiter

1. Sir John Mortimer
2. Mickey Rooney
3. David Attenborough
4. Ian Brady
5. Tom Finney
6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
7. Nancy Reagan
8. Dick Francis
9. Dowager Duchess of Devonshire
10. Sir Clement Freud
11. Lucian Freud
12. Jimmy Carter
13. Kirk Douglas
14. Baroness Thatcher
15. Paul Gascoigne (under 50)