Maybe replace Joe Bugner with Ken Jennings? You know, for consistency.
mmm
2025 list
RIP to those that gave me points last year:
Chris Mortensen
Shannon Doherty
Kenneth Mitchell
Frank Fritz
Holdovers from last year:
Steve Gleason: former NFL player
James Whale: radio and TV host
Barton Cowperthwaite:TV and Broadway actor
New for this year:
Steve McMichael: former Chicago Bear
Jack Hanna: former wild animal snack on talk shows
Chris Hoy: two wheeled bandwagon
Wendy Williams: former talk show host
Lex Luger: real name Lawrence Pfohl, pro wrestler
Alan Dean Foster: splinter in my minds eye
Tyler Blevins: AKA Ninja, ask your kids…maybe your grandkids
Lou Koller: lead singer for Sick of it All
Nicole Eggert: running in a red one piece
Randy Moss: NFL great
Alternates all demoted from my 2024 main list
Erik Jensen
Lou Pinella
Sam Neill
Clean list
Steve Gleason
James Whale
Barton Cowperthwaite
Steve McMichael
Jack Hanna
Chris Hoy
Wendy Williams
Lex Luger
Alan Dean Foster
Tyler Blevins
Lou Koller
Nicole Eggert
Randy Moss
Alternates:
Erik Jensen
Lou Pinella
Sam Neill
An interesting list!
Rowan Williams is the former Archbishop of Canterbury. I knew who he was before that, as I was part of a book discussion group ca. 1997 that read and discussed his book Resurrection together.
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman astronaut.
Mostly recycling last year’s list:
Donald Trump
Mitch McConnell
Dick Cheney
Tom Brokaw
Michael J Fox
Bruce Willis
Robert Duvall
Clint Eastwood
William Shatner
George Takei
Tom Robbins
Phil Collins
Keith Richards
Alternate:
Paul McCartney
(Just in case someone on my list dies in the next 7 hours)
Ahm she was a cosmonaut!
Here’s my 2025 list (clean list below):
James Whale (5-13-51) Brit talk radio guy
Linda Nolan (2-23-59) Irish singer, actress
Ryne Sandberg (9-18-59) MLB star
Luděk Mikloško (12-9-61) soccer star
Jennifer Wexton (5-27-68) Congressperson
Jeanette Lee (7-9-71) “Black Widow” pool player
Ananda Lewis (3-21-73) TV host, carpenter
Chris Hoy (3-23-76) Cyclist
Randy Moss (2-13-77) former NFL star
James Van Der Beek (3-8-77) Dawson’s Creek, etc.
Steve Gleason (3-19-77) former NFL star
Criscilla Anderson (3-25-80) dancer
Kate Keltie (2-23-86) Australian actor
Alternates:
Andy Taylor (2-16-61) Duran Duran guitarist
Ronnie Atkins (11-16-64) Pretty Maids rocker
Clean list:
James Whale
Linda Nolan
Ryne Sandberg
Luděk Mikloško
Jennifer Wexton
Jeanette Lee
Ananda Lewis
Chris Hoy
Randy Moss
James Van Der Beek
Steve Gleason
Criscilla Anderson
Kate Keltie
Alternates:
Andy Taylor
Ronnie Atkins
Nigel Latta
Linda Nolan
Steve Gleason
Victoria Jackson
Ian Smith
Celine Dion
Chris Hoy
Jennifer Wexton
Steve Scalise
Eleonora Giorgi
Princess Bajrakitiyabha
Ananda Lewis
Noddy Holder
Alternates:
Ronnie Atkins
Erik Jensen
Bruce Willis
Here’s my baker’s (heh) dozen:
Donald Trump
Mitch McConnell
Chuck Grassley
Ryne Sandberg
Chet Lemon
Randy Moss
Luděk Mikloško
Gil Gerard
Mel Brooks
Victoria Jackson
William Shatner
Bruce Willis
James Van Der Beek
Alternates:
Sonny Jurgensen
Nancy Pelosi
Stephen Miller
Out of curiousity: Will there be a “wisdom of crowds / consensus” line in the death pool, consisting of the top 13 vote-getters? Kinda like the Mendoza line in baseball, something players could measure themselves against?
Potato, potahto vodka 
Could you specify who this Ian Smith is? The former Prime Minister of the former Rhodesia has been dead for nearly twenty years now.
He has been previously established. He’s an actor from the Australian soap Neighbours.
Thanks for clarifying that! I haven’t had a chance to look through everyone’s list, and Googling basically just turned up the Rhodesian guy.
My list; I think almost everyone on it has been mentioned already, so it’s just in clean form. Jeanette Lee is the pro pool player.
Michael Bolton
Dave Collier
Rhod Gilbert
Eleonora Giorgi
Chris Hoy
Sophie Kinsella
Jeanette Lee
Ananda Lewis
Randy Moss
Linda Nolan
Ryne Sandberg
Andy Taylor
James Whale
Alternates:
Kate Micucci
Phil Collins
Dave Coulier from Full House?
Bill Clinton
Paul Dooley
Alan Greenspan
Willie Nelson
Pope Francis
Hulk Hogan
Clint Eastwood
Gene Hackman
Keith Richards
Elle Fanning
Richard Chamberlain
Charles Dance
Noam Chomsky
@Baker, I’m revising my list, adding Nigel Latta (7-3-67), the New Zealand psychologist and author, and bumping Steve Gleason, the football player, down to alternate. (Sole alternate, since I expect one to suffice with three and a half hours to go.)
New clean list:
James Whale
Linda Nolan
Ryne Sandberg
Luděk Mikloško
Jennifer Wexton
Jeanette Lee
Ananda Lewis
Chris Hoy
Randy Moss
James Van Der Beek
Criscilla Anderson
Kate Keltie
Nigel Latta
Alternate:
Steve Gleason
Dick Van Dyke
Buzz Aldrin
Imelda Marcos
Bruce Willis
Mel Brooks
Mitch McConnell
Julie Andrews
Alan Greenspan
O Yeong Su
Martin Scorsese
Ozzy Osbourne
Kareen Abdul Jabbar
Vince McMahon
Alternates:
George Lucas
Robert Duvall
Prince Charles
There is nothing in the rules that sets how many alternates you may or may not have.
3 is conventional, but I had one year where I put out 5.
Welcome to this wonderfully sick, crazy game, @Axelwright! The rest of the board has a lot of good stuff going on too, so check it out!