I think that would be more like 3 years ago.
How would you even score that??? 
Rule 3a clearly states that you cannot chose someone who is already dead.
It would have to be applied to the player(s) in the '22 DP that chose him. A quick search of that thread suggests that no one chose anyone named Cortez, hence, it was 17 wasted points. If he had been a choice in this thread, the player(s) who chose him would get an alternate-promotion (which could result in getting points that they did not think they would get because their alternate died and now counts). However, again, no one seems to have chosen him in this year’s game.
Yeah, typo.
I’m not Baker, but my recollection is that in the past, the scoreboard has only been held open for a few days after the end of the year, and after that it’s final. Would an exception be made if a death in year N wasn’t made public until mid-January of year N+1? I don’t know.
But my personal, uncanonical thought about reopening the scoreboard from a previous year when a death comes to light years later is: if the person’s absence from this life went unnoticed for all that time, then the deceased wasn’t really that much of a celebrity anyway. Let it be.
You are speaking words of wisdom.
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I heard “The Happy Organ” for the first time in decades just the other day on Sirius XM’s '60s Hits channel – they’re not fussy about the decade’s borders
Looking at his entry on Wiki, it’s kind of sad.
Cortez subsequently left the music industry, which he did not feel respected within.[2] He led an extremely private life over the following decades, variously in New York City and Cincinnati.[2] His complete living and employment history is unknown, but at one point, he was the organist for a Cincinnati church.[2] In 2009, Norton Records co-founder Miriam Linna tracked him down and asked him to return to recording.[2] In 2011, after a 38-year hiatus, Cortez returned with a new album on Norton Records backed by Lonnie Youngblood and His Bloodhounds, including underground luminary Mick Collins of the Dirtbombs and the Gories.[2]
Cortez lived latterly in The Bronx, New York City. He had a daughter who he was not in regular contact with, though this was not due to estrangement, but because he was highly reclusive.[2] Thus, when he died at his home on May 31, 2022, at the age of 83, she only later learned of his death through Broadcast Music, Inc., which handled his songwriting royalties.[2] As no surviving family were available to claim the body at the time, he was interred in the potter’s field at Hart Island.[2] Cortez’s death was not publicly reported until July 2025.[2]
C’mon, Folks! It was just a joke! 
Just so this doesn’t get lost in the shuffle of other deaths. @Baker
Poet Andrea Gibson writes about death shortly before throwing 51 points away.
They always say to “Write what you know…”
Well played, sir! I admit I LOL’d.
You are indeed a frood who knows where his towel is.
David Kaff died. No confirmation that he died choking on vomit. Not his vomit. They don’t know who’s vomit it was. You can’t dust for vomit.
[being serious for a bit]Seems to me vomit would have significant DNA[/bsfab]
Brian
What?
LOL, my wife and I were watching some detective show recently (Vera?) where they were trying to get DNA from vomit at a murder scene. I couldn’t help but blurt out “You can’t really dust for vomit…”
Until his death, Singh (born April 1, 1911 per the Guardian link) was the ninth oldest living person, and the oldest living man. According to Wikipedia, there is currently just one man among the 50 oldest living persons.