h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hosni Mubarak, another staple although not selected this year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51630142

Diana Serra Cary ('Baby Peggy')
"The last living film star of the Silent Era of Hollywood".
http://variety.com/2020/film/news/baby-peggy-diana-serra-cary-dies-dead-1203514069/

Hosni Mubarak was picked 10 times in this game, first by sweetKateKat in 2009, and most recently by Logicus in 2016.

Mary Higgins Clark was picked four times - by Emmily between 2008 and 2011.

Icy

Jens Nygaard Knudsen, the creator of the LEGO mini-fig has passed away at age 78.
https://boingboing.net/2020/02/26/rip-jens-nygaard-knudsen-fat.html

Clive Cussler, novelist

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/26/clive-cussler-novelist-dies-88

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And Jahn Teigen, Eurovision 'Nul Points' legend

http://norwaytoday.info/culture/jahn-teigen-has-died/

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(some curating required today)

Freeman Dyson (previous pick of mine)

http://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/science/freeman-dyson-dead.html

He died from a fall, too, so it would have been 20 points

Yours was the only pick, in 2015.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/01/freeman-dyson-obituary

All missed JPDC!

So we did - well spotted! I’ll give some stats tomorrow.

This Covid-19 panic’s pushing these things to the bottom of the pile.

David Rainford, one of the "Eggheads" - known as "Tremendous Knowledge Dave", age 51
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tributes-paid-after-death-eggheads-17882735

Stats on Javier Peres de Cuellar

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/05/javier-perez-de-cuellar-obituary

He was picked 8 times in this game between 2008 and 2015, 6 times by Beatrice. He died on 4 March after turning 100 in January.

I always got him mixed up with Jaoa Havelange, FIFA president, who died in 2016 at the same age.

We're not good at picking diplomats. We also missed UN Sec-Gen Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 2016, who died at the age of 93.

We do have a diplomat on the current list: Henry Kissinger, picked by MMF. Another picked twice in the past is JFK's last surviving sibling, Jean Kennedy-Smith (92), former US ambassador to Ireland.

Icy

Max von Sydow: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51803195

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Never picked in this game, surprisingly.

Barney Eastwood, boxer Barry McGuigan's promoter

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-51523373


Richard Guy, recreational mathematician

http://aperiodical.com/2020/03/richard-k-guy-1916-2020/

We missed Christopher Tolkien: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-51143879

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Chef Michel Roux

http://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/mar/12/michel-roux-obituary

Never picked in this game, although his brother Albert was once, in 2013.

Icy

Pete Mitchell, DJ best known for the Pete & Geoff Show on Virgin Radio

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-51879429

Genesis P-Orridge

http://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/arts/music/genesis-breyer-p-orridge-dead.html

Roy Hudd
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51906543