Rules of Play

1. Choose 15 celebrities who you believe may die in the calendar year 2025.
2. Number 15 on your list must be aged under 50 in 2025 (born after 1975).
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. Buzz Aldrin
2. David Attenborough
3. Stanley Baxter
4. Jeremy Clarkson
5. Pope Francis
6. Liam Gallagher
7. David Gentleman
8. Cleo Laine
9. Miriam Margolyes
10. Desmond Morris
11. Vladimir Putin
12. Esther Rantzen
13. Bill Rodgers
14. Dick Taverne
15. Max Verstappen (*under50)

Bluebottle

1. David Attenborough
2. Colin Bell
3. Mel Brooks
4. Bill Cosby
5. John Cruikshank
6. John Hemingway
7. Chris Hoy
8. June Lockhart
9. Geoff Roberts
10. Ann Robinson
11. Ian Smith
12. June Squibb
13. Dick Van Dyke
14. Dionne Warwick
15. Emelia Clarke (*under50)

coelacanth

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

Deb

1. Joe Biden
2. Queen Camilla
3. George Carey
4. King Charles III
5. Cher
6. Kenny Dalglish
7. Judi Dench
8. Merrick Garland
9. Boris Johnson
10. Paul McCartney
11. Liza Minnelli
12. Bill Nighy
13. William Shatner
14. Dick Van Dyke
15. JD Vance (*under50)

Galaxy Babe

1. Princess Beatrix
2. Sean Combs
3. Glenys Cour
4. Tim Curry
5. Neil Diamond
6. Berry Gordy Jr
7. Val Kilmer
8. Rod Laver
9. Imelda Marcos
10. Pete Murray
11. Mark Patton
12. Esther Rantzen
13. Prunella Scales
14. Bruce Willis
15. Max George (*under50)

Icy North

1. Ray Anthony
2. Stanley Baxter
3. Ethel Caterham
4. Dick Cheney
5. Marianne Faithfull
6. John Hemingway
7. Ivan Martynushkin
8. Brenda Milner
9. Eva Marie Saint
10. Jean-Pierre Serre
11. Nigel Starmer-Smith
12. Micky Stewart
13. Norman Tebbit
14. Joanne Woodward
15. Franco Colapinto (*under50)

Just Bob

1. Bashar al-Assad
2. Tom Baker
3. Dick Cheney
4. Graeme Garden
5. John Gummer
6. Gene Hackman
7. Elton John
8. Brenda Lee
9. Joni Mitchell
10. Hayao Miyazaki
11. Olivia Munn
12. Roman Polanski
13. Esther Rantzen
14. Bruce Willis
15. Chris Hoy (*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. Nicola Sturgeon
14. Sandi Toksvig
15. Greta Thunberg (*under50)

MMF

1. David Attenborough
2. Brigitte Bardot
3. Joe Biden
4. Eleanor Bron
5. Michael Caine
6. Leslie Caron
7. Joan Collins
8. Judi Dench
9. Michael Douglas
10. Katherine, Duchess of Kent
11. Ben Kingsley
12. Andrew Marr
13. Prince Michael of Kent
14. Keith Richards
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. Warren Beatty
2. Bill Beaumont
3. Joe Biden
4. James Bolam
5. Melvyn Bragg
6. Billy Connolly
7. Tracey Emin
8. Alex Ferguson
9. Danny Glover
10. Gene Hackman
11. Noddy Holder
12. Val Kilmer
13. Robert Redford
14. Prunella Scales
15. Catherine, Princess of Wales (*under50)

TC

1. Bashar al-Assad
2. Alan Bennett
3. Joe Biden
4. Melvyn Bragg
5. Andrew Bruce
6. Michael Caine
7. Harald V of Norway
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. Barbara Bain
2. Vincent Ball
3. Alfred Brendel
4. Mara Corday
5. William Daniels
6. Angie Dickinson
7. Roy Evans
8. Ray Hyman
9. Katherine Jackson
10. Cleo Laine
11. Robert Jay Lifton
12. Peter Lupus
13. Virginia McKenna
14. Dan Rather
15. Lucy Letby (*under50)

Not Picked This Year



1. Michael J Fox (29)

2. Paul Gascoigne (24)

3. Lindsay Lohan (14)

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