Alternates:
I’ll submit mine in a couple of weeks. Considering a theme of Brits, but probably will just use last year’s, with a couple of new ones substituting for my winning choices.
Paul Lepage
Eddie Lampert
Prince Phillip
Orrin Hatch
Jaromir Jagr
Damien Hess aka MC Frontalot
Justin Bieber
Hugh Jackman
George H. W. Bush
Steven King
Jeff Bezos
Bashar Al Assad
Stan Lee
You get to pick 3 alternates…
Ah, what the hell. I’ll make sure these people are safe another year…
Prince Phillip
Johnny Knoxville
Queen Elizabeth
Charlie Sheen
Steve-O
Travis Pastrana
Bam Margera
Andy Bell
Josh Todd
Bombshell McGee
Danny Bonaduce
Michael Schumacher
Max Verstappen
Again, a perverse pleasure in sandwiching the Queen between Knoxville and Sheen. 
If we PM or email our list to phungi, may we consider that he will consider all out picks and inform us it they do not meet the standard for celebrities?
I have in mind the 18 year old football player that I picked for 2017 that was found to not qualify. He was found to not have cancer, although I do hope that he steps in front of a truck before New Years Day.
Jimmy Carter
George Bush (Sr.)
Prince Phillip (Duke of Edinburgh)
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
David Prowse
Stephen Hawking
Hugh Downs
Robert Silverberg
Harlan Ellison
Ursula K. Le Guin
Noam Chomsky
Walter Mondale
Dan Gurney
Alternates:
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr.
Rosalynn Carter
Bobby Unser
Any “questionable” picks will be “held in check” until the first of the year, and then posted for debate. As stated, this is why we have alternates.
While I hope folks feel I am trustworthy, I comfortably state that maintain a list throughout the year, adding and subtracting, so will not “poach” from any others’ should they inquire.
As for the particular “pick” submitted by PM, my belief is that a professional athlete in a professional sports league passes the “muster” for “celebrity” even if they are not a “star player”, in as much as a weatherman from a town in CT passes muster for “celebrity” even though they are not know to many outside of that town.
I had hoped he would live until 1 Jan 2017, but he now seems immortal, although I am certain that he will drop dead if I leave him off.
Does phungi have the final say in such a ruling?
He is on two lists in the 2017 pool, including mine. That said, my “ruling” is that he, like Joe Simpson and Shannen Doherty appear to be immortal
Olivia de Havilland
Kirk Douglas
Nancy Reagan
Eva Marie Saint
William Coors
Al Franken
Henry Kissinger
Sidney Poitier
Mikhail Gorbachev
Danny Glover
Bob Dole
George HW Bush
Clint Eastwood
Alternates
Jaden Smith
Ariel Winter
Rachel Covey
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Kirk Douglas
Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Anita Jane Bryant
Dick Cheny
Bob Barker
Dolly Parton
Francine Joy Drescher
Henry Kissinger
Mel Brooks
Jimmy Carter
Hosni Mubarak
Larry King
Alternates
George HW Bush
Clint Eastwood
Congratualtions to all those who were nominated!
Tread, Nancy Reagan died in 2016. And Olivia de Havilland, Kirk Douglas, and William Coors are all over a hundred so they won’t score you any points.
Thanks Nemo
How I forgot Nancy… I dunno
STUPID ! STUPID !STUPID!!
REVISED
Olivia de Havilland
Kirk Douglas
Queen Elizabeth II
Eva Marie Saint
William Coors
Al Franken
Henry Kissinger
Sidney Poitier
Mikhail Gorbachev
Danny Glover
Bob Dole
George HW Bush
Clint Eastwood
Alternates
Jaden Smith
Ariel Winter
Rachel Covey
Yes some will not score points…
They are there to help with Quantity not Quality
Here’s my full list:
Paul Lepage
Eddie Lampert
Prince Phillip
Orrin Hatch
Jaromir Jagr
Damien Hess aka MC Frontalot
Justin Bieber
Hugh Jackman
George H. W. Bush
Steven King
Jeff Bezos
Bashar Al Assad
Stan Lee
Alternates:
Kim Kardashian
50 Cent
David Ortiz
George H.W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
John McCain
Buzz Aldrin
Joni Mitchell
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sandy Koufax
Wayne Shorter
Betty White
Woody Allen
Tony Bennett
Tom Wolfe
Philip Roth
Alternates:
Brian Wilson
Bob Dylan
Rip Torn
Kirk Douglas
James Ivory
Sumner Redstone
George H.W. Bush
John McCain
Peter Bogdanovich
Ginger Baker
Keith Richards
Charlie Watts
Ron Wood
Hal Holbrook
George Dzundza
Paul Dooley
Alternates:
Peter Fonda
Peter Strauss
Ozzy Osbourne
You get to pick 3 alternates…
Bill Cosby
Stephen Hawking
George HW Bush
Jerry Lee Lewis
Burt Reynolds
“Mac” Rebennack (Dr. John)
Tommy Chong
Valerie Harper
Garrison Keillor
Joanne Woodward
Rosalynn Carter
Tom Brokaw
Margaret Atwood
Richard Simmons
Henry Kissinger
Lawrence Tureaud (Mr. T)
“Alternates”? I don’t need no steenking Alternates!