My adjusted list, updated from post #52 …
Alternates:
Andy Griffith
Andy Rooney
And just for the sake of the unlikely trifecta, Andy Dick.
**Meat Loaf ** (aka Marvin Aday - singer / actor)
Ringo Starr (ex Beatle)
Stephen Hawking (physicist and author)
Keith Richards (ex Rolling Stone)
Gerald Ford (ex US president)
Ozzy Osbourne (Prince of Darkness)
John Goodman (actor)
Yogi Berra (ex NY Yankee)
Phyllis Dilller (comedian)
Ed McMahon (US television personality)
Pete Rose (ex baseball player)
Charles Manson (ex cult leader)
JD Salinger (author)
alternate: Zsa Zsa Gabor
She just passed on December 8 (but it was only just announced).
Alternates:
Why don’t we all just take 20 points and choose someone other than Castro? 
Finally, after much deliberation and in consultation with my 24 yo daughter, here are my picks for the Celebrity Death Pool 2007:
Alternates: Joan Kennedy, Mary Kate Olsen, Nancy Reagan
I should note that the first five are hold-overs from last year’s list - some are even two-year hold-overs. Farrah has what might be colorectal cancer. Pamela Anderson has hepatitis that is going to end her life early. Joey, as noted, is (I think) the last of the old Rat Pack. Nicole Richie - do I really need to point out how anorexic she is? Kevin Federline is one of my daughter’s contributions - she thinks he’ll have a tragic accident in the wrestling ring. Fidel, I think, has cancer and it’s bad. Anna Nicole has had tragedy and stress, and Peter Graves I added in a perverse twist as he is the brother of James Arness.
The alternates are, of course, just in case someone on the list croaks before the end of the year, but I think they’re probably fairly solid picks for 2007.
Well, now they can all be pretty much assured of making it to 2008!
Man, you are truly making some serious negative waves.
May I submit a list of folks for you to mediatate on?
In no particular order (I started out by recycling part of last year’s list…):
If I’ve kept track correctly we now have 72 lists posted. Of the top 13 selected so far, Fidel Castro leads with 39 selections, just edging out Gerald Ford, who has 36.
Keith Richards has moved into the top 13, finishing it out at 10 selections, in a three way tie with Margaret Thatcher and Dick Clark.
It will be interesting to keep track of how the most popular choices actually fair in the final outcome. I am betting we as a group are terrible at guessing who shuffles off the mortal coil each year.
Well, one person in the 2006 thread seems to have been dead-on-balls accurate (to quote Marisa Tomei in “My Cousin Vinny”)
Baker, sweetie, I cannot believe you are actually keeping track of this. How morbid! How sick! How, well, just weird!
Sigh, if it weren’t for the gay thing on my part I think I’d start stalking you. 
A1 Elizabeth Taylor
A2 Nancy Reagan
These are my picks.
alternates
Sally Field
Chuck Berry
Jerry Lewis
I’m imaging Keith Richards in a three way with Margaret Thatcher and Dick Clark…Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! :eek:
Depends how specifically you define the term. Bishop is the last survivor of the five-man core, but of the “female participants”, Shirley MacLaine and Lauren Bacall are still around, as is “mascot” Angie Dickinson.
It gets more bizarre.
With the latest two lists, Keith has moved ahead of Thatcher and Clark, and is now in a tie with Dick Cheney.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! Make it stop!!! Bleach! I need bleach! Geez Annie! :eek:
Haha…thanks for the suggestion, CP! It’s a good idea, actually. It is kind of morbid to be pondering on the demise of these people, I do admit to that. BUT…as I noted in the last paragraph, since they’re on my list and I’ve only had one person in the last three years (Pope John Paul II, no less!), that pretty much assures that they will make it to 2008. 
Now that I’ve added my picks, I’ve assured that they will all escape the grim reaper for another year