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

OK, I tried this on - er - another website, and it didn't take off sufficiently to make it competitive.

The rules are simple. Pick 10 people who you think will die at some point this year (after you post, obviously). One of your list must be under 50. Most points wins.

The four entries so far...

My entry:

1) BB King
2) Michael Foot
3) General Pinochet
4) Stephen Hawking
5) Charlton Heston
6) Paul Gascoigne
7) Prince Philip
8) Gerald Ford
9) Ronnie Biggs
10) Dennis Norden

EV's entry:

1) Pete Doherty
2) Margaret Thatcher
3) Charlie Watts
4) Muhammad Ali
5) Norman Wisdom
6) Jimmy Carter
7) Vera Lynn
8) Gary Glitter (possibly not through natural causes)
9) Tony Curtis
10) Jeremy Clarkson (well, a man can dream...)

Fords' entry:

1. Ariel Sharon
2. Pete Doherty
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Gary Glitter
5. 50 Cent
6. Humphrey Lyttleton
7. Eric Sykes
8. Charlie Watts (I just have zis feeling, y'know?)
9. Ronnie Biggs
10.Muhammed Ali

DD's entry:

1. Gerald Ford (former US President)
2. Pope Benedict XVI
3. Mohammed Ali
4. Baroness Thatcher
5. Pete Docherty
6. Kate Moss (as I'm not sure which or if both will go in an overdose)
7. Patrick Moore
8. Shimon Peres (he is actually older that Sharon)
9. John Kenneth Galbraith (I was surprised to find one of my Economics pariahs as still alive earlier this week)
10. Barbara Bush (i.e. Wife of George H. W. not daughter of George W.)

Over to you, h2g2 public...

B

Do you know how wrong this is?

I can't come up with ten, but these are my guesses;

1. Sharon's not getting better, is he?
2. Thatcher (Maggie). Or has she already gone?
3. Random young 'un; One of the princes. Harry.

I personally think that Doherty will hang on against all the odds in an Ozzy Osborne style.

Please note: I don't want ANY of these people to pop their clogs, and ISIHAC will not be the same if Humph decides to shuffle of this mortal coil.

Jeez, mate. You don't have to want it.

It's a game of skill and personal forecasting, that's all.

B

Kind of morbidly fascinating?

Oh! So it's not like a wish list then? Damn!

*Goes back to rewrite list*

Ok, obviously not wishing this to come to pass on any of the following,

1 Margaret Thatcher
2 Ariel Sharon
3 Elizabeth Taylor
4 Courtney Love
5 Leslie Phillips
6 Mohammed Ali
7 Michael Foot
8 J D Salinger
9 Kirk Douglas
10 Shane Macgowan

None of you got Shelley Winters - who's just 'popped her clogs' at the age of 85

I just hope that BB King isnt an extra letter on my name

I didn't know BB King was still alive! Pleased he is though.

I'm pondering a list, but then I've been pondering it for a few weeks and haven't got anywhere.

Is Mohammed Ali particularly ill?

Glad to see I'm not the only one who has a sneaking feeling that Benedict won't last long.

1) Syd Barrett
2) Gerald Ford
3) Elizabeth Taylor
4) Ronald Biggs
5) Patrick Moore
6) Colin Farrell
7) Liza Minelli
8) Tony Hart
9) Nancy Reagan
10)Liz Dawn

NO! not Tony hart, he was my childhood hero along with Johnny Ball and Brian Cant, he can't die

1) Zsa Zsa Gabor
2) Alec Bedser
3) Ian Huntley - probably *not* due cancer or cardio-vascular disease
4) Lord Bill Deedes
5) Elizabeth Taylor
6) Michael J Fox
7) Margaret Thatcher
8) Alfredo di Stefano
9) Denis Healey
10) Kylie Minogue

Jeez this is both shocking and fascinating, I'm to see Ian Huntley thereI am torn between posting a list of ten I think, or a wishlist. Maybe I'll combine the two.

01) Ian Brady
02) Alex Higgins
03) James Garner
04) Clint Eastwood
05) Elizabeth Taylor
06) Kerry Katona (McFadyen)
07) Whitney Houston
08) Ariel Sharon
09) Patrick Moore
10) Charlton Heston

Given that he's already in a coma you've got to have
1) Ariel Sharon

as the most obvious but unbrave choice

2) Kirk Douglas
3) Michael Jackson
4) Jacquie Stallone
5) Keith Richards
6) Christopher Lee
7) Patrick Moore
8) Bernard Manning
9 Pete Waterman
10) Peter Stringfellow

Ooh a coffin club! Must join in..

1)Ariel Sharon
2)Barbara Bush
3)The Queen
4)Kris Kristofferson
5)Ken Russell
6)Maggie Smith
7)Harold Pinter
8)Pete Doherty
9)Leonard Nimoy
10)Pope Benedict

1) Ariel Sharon (yep, obvious)
2) Osama Bin Ladan (okay, unlikely !!)
3) Prince Philip
4) Lord Tebbit
5) Patrick Moore
6) Maggie Thatcher
7) Eric Sykes (if not dead already)
8) Gary Glitter
9) Dick Cheney (wishful thinking)
10) the Saudi ruler who's name escaped me

1 Herman Wouk
2 Richard Widmark
3 Ronnie Biggs
4 Albert Hofmann
5 Claude Levi-Strauss
6 Joseph Barbera
7 Kirk Douglas
8 General Pinochet
9 Olivia de Havilland
10 Frankie Lane

Oops. Forgot my under 50. I'll replace number 10 with Pete Doherty. (Assuming I can't have whales on the list )

Nobody got Wilson Pickett...