Rules of Play

1. Choose 15 celebrities who you believe may die in the calendar year 2024.
2. Number 15 on your list must be aged under 50 in 2024 (born after 1974).
3. Email your list, with your h2g2 user name and U-number in the title, to icyUNDERSCOREnorthAThotmailDOTcom replacing the capital letters with your best guess.
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 2 correctly, then you will be awarded double points for the correctly-predicted demise 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. Other international quality broadsheets (e.g. The New York Times) will be considered, but the Organiser's decision will be final. No report; no points.
9. Any complaints about the poor taste of this game should be addressed to Mu Beta. He started it!

Bald Bloke

1. David Attenborough
2. Stanley Baxter
3. Jeremy Clarkson
4. Anthony Epstein
5. Pope Francis
6. Liam Gallagher
7. David Gentleman
8. Cleo Laine
9. Miriam Margolyes
10. Desmond Morris
11. Esther Rantzen
12. Bill Rodgers
13. William Russell
14. Dick Taverne
15. Max Verstappen (*under50)

Bluebottle

1. David Attenborough
2. Maria Branyas
3. Mel Brooks
4. Roger Corman
5. Bill Cosby
6. Shannen Doherty
7. Jonnie Irwin
8. Glynis Johns
9. June Lockhart
10. Juan Vicente Perez
11. William Russell
12. June Spencer
13. Dick Van Dyke
14. Dionne Warwick
15. Sophie Turner (*under50)

coelacanth

1. Sam Bankman-Fried
2. Mel Brooks
3. Tony Christopher
4. Tippi Hedren
5. John Hemingway
6. Wanda Jackson
7. Glynis Johns
8. Pete Murray
9. Bob Newhart
10. Jack Nicholson
11. Mildred Schutz
12. Christopher Walken
13. Gladys West
14. Brian Wilson
15. Hayden Panettiere (*under50)

Deb

1. David Attenborough
2. Joe Biden
3. Danny Devito
4. Clint Eastwood
5. Gary Glitter
6. Jonnie Irwin
7. Billy Joel
8. Madonna
9. Angela Merkel
10. Dolly Parton
11. Vladimir Putin
12. Cliff Richard
13. Diana Ross
14. Dick Van Dyke
15. Britney Spears (*under50)

Galaxy Babe

1. Tom Baker
2. Brigitte Bardot
3. Billy Connolly
4. Tim Curry
5. Shannen Doherty
6. Robert Duvall
7. Tracey Emin
8. Berry Gordy Jr
9. Imelda Marcos
10. Willie Nelson
11. Bob Newhart
12. Ozzy Osbourne
13. Prunella Scales
14. Patrick Stewart
15. Steven Frayne (*under50)

Icy North

1. Ray Anthony
2. Jimmy Carter
3. Dick Cheney
4. Shannen Doherty
5. Marianne Faithfull
6. John Hemingway
7. Graham Kerr
8. Ivan Martynushkin
9. Linda Nolan
10. Nigel Starmer-Smith
11. Jimmy Tarbuck
12. Norman Tebbit
13. John Tinniswood
14. Joanne Woodward
15. Jonathan Rhys Meyers (*under50)

Just Bob

1. Bashar al-Assad
2. Tom Baker
3. Jimmy Carter
4. Dick Cheney
5. Michael J Fox
6. Graeme Garden
7. John Gummer
8. Gene Hackman
9. Brenda Lee
10. Joni Mitchell
11. Hayao Miyazaki
12. Roman Polanski
13. Esther Rantzen
14. Bruce Willis
15. Peng Shuai (*under50)

Minichessemouse

1. Cherie Blair
2. Queen Camilla
3. Hilary Clinton
4. Judi Dench
5. Whoopi Goldberg
6. Theresa May
7. Angela Merkel
8. Helen Mirren
9. Kate Mulgrew
10. Michelle Obama
11. Jane Sanders
12. Jennifer Saunders
13. Maggie Smith
14. Nicola Sturgeon
15. Greta Thunberg (*under50)

MMF

1. David Attenborough
2. Brigitte Bardot
3. Michael Caine
4. Leslie Caron
5. Jimmy Carter
6. Joan Collins
7. Judi Dench
8. Michael Douglas
9. Katherine, Duchess of Kent
10. Andrew Marr
11. Prince Michael of Kent
12. Keith Richards
13. Maggie Smith
14. Donald Sutherland
15. Steve Thompson (*under50)

Mol

1. Michael Aspel
2. Tom Baker
3. Michael Barrymore
4. Shirley Bassey
5. Alan Bennett
6. Joe Biden
7. Joan Collins
8. Jilly Cooper
9. Clint Eastwood
10. Carole King
11. Joanna Lumley
12. Shirley MacLaine
13. Rupert Murdoch
14. Esther Rantzen
15. Pete Doherty (*under50)

Oblong Fish

1. Bill Beaumont
2. James Bolam
3. Michael Caine
4. Bill Clinton
5. Billy Connolly
6. Tracey Emin
7. Alex Ferguson
8. Danny Glover
9. Gene Hackman
10. Noddy Holder
11. Carole King
12. Nancy Pelosi
13. Robert Redford
14. Prunella Scales
15. Rob Burrow (*under50)

TC

1. Bashar al-Assad
2. Alan Bennett
3. Melvyn Bragg
4. Andrew Bruce
5. Michael Caine
6. Harald V of Norway
7. Glynis Johns
8. Ian McKellen
9. Queen Paola of Belgium
10. Jeremy Paxman
11. Roman Polanski
12. Gerhard Schroeder
13. Michael Schumacher
14. William Shatner
15. Greta Thunberg (*under50)

The Groob

1. John Astin
2. Hans Blix
3. Roy Clarke
4. Dabney Coleman
5. Kenneth Cope
6. Angie Dickinson
7. Sandy Gall
8. Jerry Hardin
9. Rosemary Harris
10. Don King
11. Virginia McKenna
12. Oliver Popplewell
13. Tony Soper
14. James Watson
15. Paul Aron (*under50)

Not Picked This Year



1. Paul Gascoigne (24)

2. Lindsay Lohan, Buzz Aldrin (14)

4. Liza Minelli (12)

5. Donald Trump, Kerry Katona, Kim Jong-un, Julie Andrews, Russell Brand (8)