Oh well might as well participate…My pick for 2007 (in no specific order)
Alternatives
14) Robert Jordan
15) Jack Vance
16) Arthur C. Clarke
Spose I better add an alternate or two, bumping Ed Balls and Amarillo Slim up to the active list replacing Pinochet and Ford.
New Alternates
1.Howie Schwab
2.Jack kevorkian
3.David Letterman
My picks for 2007
My alt. Jimmy Carter
:smack:
My new list:
1.Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (former evangelist)
2.Larry Hagman (actor)
3.Billy Graham (evangelist)
4.Estelle Getty (actress)
5.Walter Cronkite (former news anchor)
6.Fidel Castro (dictator)
7.Elizabeth Taylor (actress)
8.Jack Klugman (actor)
9.Kirk Douglas (actor)
10.Roger Ebert (movie critic)
11.Muhammad Ali (boxer)
12.Ariel Sharon (former Prime Minister of Israel)
13.Abe Vigoda (actor)
Alternates:
1.Willard Scott (weatherman)
2.Jimmy Carter (former POTUS)
3.George Bush (41st POTUS)
Alternates, should one of the above drop dead before Dec. 31 at midnight:
I’m down to one alternate, so I suppose I should list another one or two. Adding Saddam Hussein would be in poor taste, so… um…
Eli Wallach - actor
[ul]
[li]Ronnie Biggs[/li][li]Michael Heseltine[/li][li]Ian Brady[/li][li]Kate Moss[/li][li]Manuel Noriega[/li][li]Yoko Ono[/li][li]George Cole[/li][li]Nelson Mandela[/li][li]Mohammed Ali[/li][li]Dennis Norden[/li][li]Chuck Berry[/li][li]Leslie Nielson[/li][li]Ingmar Berman[/ul][/li]
Alts:[ul]
[li]Etta James[/li][li]Liz Taylor[/li][li]Ian Huntley[/li][/ul]
As my #1 had the audacity to kick off just a few days early, bump Peter Graves on to the list.
Re-posting what I said in the 2006 thread by mistake:
Now that Gerald Ford has died, I wish to replace him with Roger Ebert.
I’m making a few changes - this is my final list, good to go for 2007
Alternate is still Joey Lawrence.
Damn '353, we can make changes? Right up till New Year’s Eve CST? 
New list:
Curtis Jackson a.k.a. ‘50 cent’ - rap hip-hop wannabe musician - b. 1976 ( yo yo yo: this guy sucks )
Burt Bacharach - composer - b. 1928 ( looks like walking death in a recent tv commercial )
Dick Clark - tv legend - b. 1925 ( one more shot at New Yrs Rockin’ Eve will be his last )
B.B. King - blues music legend - b. 1925 ( don’t wish it on him but he’s about due to meet his maker )
Jim Cramer - stock market guru, host of ‘Mad Money’ on cnbc - b. 1955 ( loud and obnoxious - probable brain aneurysm - booyah )
Andrea McArdle - the original little girl singer in ‘Annie’ - b. 1963 ( just plain hate her voice - hope ‘the sun DOESN’T come out tomorrow’ - annoying bi-otch )
Oprah Winfrey - talk show snob - b. 1954 ( self righteous pig - I predict a stage lighting fixture will fall on her )
Scott Weiland - musician - b. 1967 ( in bands ‘Velvet Revolver’ & ‘Stone Temple Pilots’ - probable overdose candidate )
Lindsay Lohan - actress/party girl - b. 1986 (goin’ for that 80 point long shot)
Fidel Castro - cuban dude - b. 1926 ( after he’s gone, I may be able to visit glorious Cuba )
Jack Klugman - actor - b. 1932 ( going going gone ? )
Sarah Jessica Parker - actor - b. 1965 ( another potential 59 points )
Angela Lansbury - actor - b. 1925 ( it’s your time baby )
ALTERNATES -
A. Les Paul - music legend/inventor of multi-tracking - b. 1915 ( still plays in Nyc - hopes he lives to 100 …but you never know )
B. George Bush Sr. - head of the N.W.O. - b.1924 ( … )
C. Barbara Streisand - singer - b. 1942 ( it was either her or tony bennett )
almost alternates (you’ll get yours in 2008) :
Wilfred Brimley b.1934
Abe Vigoda b.1921
Henry Gibson b.1935 (laugh-in & actor in ‘blues bros’ film)
Betty White b.1810
Michael Nesmith b.1942 (thanks for the Monkees reunion, not)
Chuck Berry b.1926
Wilson B. Goode - politician ( thanks for the ‘move’ dude )
By posting these, I practically guarantee immortality to all named:
My 2007 picks:
Michael Jackson
Gordon B. Hinckley, president, Mormon Church
Gene Wilder
Suleiman Kerimov, russian billionaire and MP
Lady Bird Johnson
Bob Barker
Rowdy Roddy Piper, WWF legend
Fidel Castro
Eminem
Annette Funicello
Bill Walsh, coach
Bob Newhart
Kevin Federline
Alternates:
Art Linkletter
Elizabeth Taylor
Jack LaLanne
Dan Fogleberg
I was wrong again, my alternate didn’t make it to 2007. Time for the second change in my 2003 list. 
Alternates:
1 – Fidel Castro - Dictator
2 – Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman – Blind Muslim Cleric
3 – Rowdy Roddy Piper – Former wrestler
4 - Luciano Pavarotti – Opera Singer
5 – Robert Guillaume - Actor
6 - Prince Saud al-Faisal – Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister
7 - Larry Stewart – Midwestern Secret Santa
8 – Tammy Faye Messner - Hmmm
9 - Ronnie Biggs – Train robber
10 - Jane Tomlinson – Cyclist fundraiser
11 – John Ferguson Sr – NHL Scout
12 - Art Buchwald – Journalist
13 - Curtis Salgado – Blues Brothers inspiration
Alternates:
1 – John Goodman – Large actor
2 – Ozzy Osbourne – Aging rocker
3 - Alton Brown – Chef / Motorcycle rider
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Forrest J. Ackerman
Ray Bradbury
Sandra Day O’Connor
Buddy Guy
Kate Moss
George Carlin
Christopher Lloyd
Mary Tyler Moore
Ed Asner
Donald Sutherland
Walter Cronkite
Gene Wilder
B.B. King**
Alternates:
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Mike Wallace
Nancy Reagan
Michael J. Fox**
For the guests posting their lists - don’t forget you have to become a member or you can’t win any of the fabulous prizes (a lovely handbasket) and trips (Hell) if you should win.
My new list, with a replacement for Ford:
As another person who’d been hoping Ford would hang on another week, my final, last, no-bones-about-it-unless-Lindsay-Lohan-dies-in-the-next-three-days list.
Alternates:
Andy Rooney
Stan Lee