Monday 25 January 2010

Team B

This is just for fun! We do not condone the death of anyone - celebrity or not.


I will update the list on a basis of how dead the person is. We have 2 teams - team A, and team B. Pick a side based on who you think will win. Final count will be in April 2010, good luck!!

Team B Selection
  1. Mickey Rooney (Died: April 6, 2014)
    (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award. Best known for his work as the Andy Hardy character, Rooney has had one of the longest careers of any actor.

    Age: 89
    Chances of final curtain call before April: 29%




  2. Kirk Douglas
    (born Issur Danielovitch or И́сер Даниело́вич; December 9, 1916) is an American actor and film producer recognized for his prominent cleft chin, his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches". He is the father of Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas. He was #17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time.

    Age: 92
    Chances of his last chin-ups by April: 21%



  3. Zsa Zsa Gabor
    (pronounced /ˈʒɑːʒɑː/; born February 6, 1917), also known as Princess von Anhalt, Duchess of Saxony, is a Hungarian-American actress, socialite and former beauty queen.




    Age: 92
    Chances of never going Hungary again after April: 15%




  4. Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr.

    (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He has received five Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards—including one for Favorite All-Time Motion Picture Star.

    Age: 79
    Chances of being an unlucky punk by April: 5%





  5. Harry Morgan (Died: December 7, 2011)
    (born April 10, 1915) is an American actor. Morgan is perhaps best known as Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H (1975-83), Pete Porter on both Pete and Gladys (1960-62) and December Bride (1954-1959), Detective Bill Gannon on Dragnet (1967-70), and Amos Coogan on Hec Ramsey (1972-74). He has appeared in more than 100 films.


    Age: 79
    Chances of being M.A.S.H ed by April: 10%




  6. Larry Martin Hagman (Died: November 23, 2012)

    (born September 21, 1931) is an American film and television actor, producer and director best known for playing J. R. Ewing in the 1980s primetime television soap opera Dallas and Major Anthony Nelson in the 1960s sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie.


    Age: 78
    Chances of being killed, but not as J.R by April: 16%






  7. David Michael Hasselhoff



    (born July 17, 1952, is an American actor, singer, television producer and businessman. He is best known for his lead roles as Michael Knight in the popular 1980s U.S. series Knight Rider and as L.A. County Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in the series Baywatch.

    Age: 57
    Chances of a final wave by April: 3%
  8. Peter Doherty
    (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician, writer, artist and poet. He is currently a singer and songwriter in the band Babyshambles, but first came to fame with indie band The Libertines, alongside Carl Barât. In 2005, Doherty became prominent in tabloids, the news media, and pop culture blogs because of his romantic relationship with model Kate Moss and his well-publicised drug use.


    Age: 30
    Chances of a last smack by April: 1%



  9. Lauren Bacall (Died: August 12, 2014)
    (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her husky voice and sultry looks.
    She first emerged as leading lady in the film noir genre, including appearances in, among other films, The Big Sleep (1946) and Dark Passage (1947), as well as a comedienne in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Designing Woman (1957).

    Age: 85
    Chances of life stage exit by April: 20%


  10. Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown

    (born February 5, 1969) is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B singer-songwriter and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a fusion of hip hop and R&B. His second album, Don't Be Cruel, included popular songs such as "My Prerogative". Brown is the ex-husband of R&B singer Whitney Houston and starred in the reality show Being Bobby Brown.
Age: 40
Chances of 'Houston we have a problem" by April: 5%

Deathlist 2009/2010 - Intro and Team A

This is just for fun! We do not condone the death of anyone - celebrity or not.


I will update the list on a basis of how dead the person is. We have 2 teams - team A, and team B. Pick a side based on who you think will win. Final count will be in April 2010, good luck!!

Team A selection
  1. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (Died: April 8, 2013)

    LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925) served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the only woman to have held either post.


    Age: 84
    Chances of slipping from the mortal coil before April: 15%




  2. Elizabeth II
    (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the Queen regnant of sixteen independent sovereign states known informally as the Commonwealth realms. She holds each crown separately and equally in a shared monarchy, as well as acting as Head of the Commonwealth, and Supreme Governor of the Church of England.

    Age: 83
    Chances of slipping from the throne to grave before Aprill: 1%




  3. Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams
    (born 13 February 1974) is a multi-BRIT Award-winning English singer, songwriter and musician. His career started in 1990, at the age of 16, as a dancer and singer with the pop band Take That. Williams left the group in 1995, after many disagreements with the management and certain group members, to launch his solo career.


    Age: 35
    Chances of flying away with the aliens before April: 5%



  4. George Michael
    (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, 25 June 1963) is a two-time Grammy Award winning English singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s, when he formed the pop duo Wham! along with his school friend Andrew Ridgeley. His's first solo single, Careless Whisper was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.

    Age: 46
    Chances of slipping into a skunk induced death grip beore April: 8%

  5. Sir Tom Jones
    (born Thomas Jones Woodward on 7 June 1940) is a Welsh singer. Since 1965, Jones has sold over 100 million records.
    Age: 69
    Chances of falling foul of Delilah by April: 3%







  6. John Leslie Prescott
    (born 31 May 1938) is a Welsh politician, who has been the Labour Member of Parliament for Hull East since 1970;from 1997 to 2007, he was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, also serving as First Secretary of State from 2001.
    Age: 71
    Chances of death by pie before April: 7%






  7. Dame Vera Lynn



    (born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917) is an English singer whose career flourished during World War II. Nicknamed "The Forces' Sweetheart", the songs most associated with her are "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover".

    Age: 92
    Chances of falling from the White Cliffs by April: 30%

  8. Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood

    (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and The Rolling Stones. He is known for his characteristic slide guitar style, and also plays lap and pedal steel guitar.

    Age: 62
    Chances of gathering moss by April: 7%






  9. Paul Daniels


    (born Newton Edward Daniels in 6 April 1938) is a British magician and television performer. He achieved international fame through his television series The Paul Daniels Magic Show, which ran on the BBC from 1979 to 1994.

    Age: 71
    Chances liking death, but not a lot by April: 12%





  10. Muhammad Ali
    (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion, who is widely considered one of the greatest heavyweight championship boxers of all time. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. After turning professional, he went on to become the first boxer to win the lineal heavyweight championship three times.

    Age: 67
    Chances of floating like a butterfly before April: 25%