My first year! So no fancy commentary, just the list:
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
Robin Williams
Fidel Castro
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh
Queen Elizabeth the II of England
Muhammed Ali
Bryant Gumbel
David Hasselhoff
Hugh Hefner
Andrew Lloyd Weber
Pat Buchannan
Jimmy Carter
Kim Jong Il
Alternates: (Which I admit have a “please go away” wish attached to them)
Amy Winehouse
Lindsay Lohan
Britney Spears
twickster (for I think you are the mod most likely to see this), could you correct my date errors in the first post please?
Fixed the OP rules
Ellen Cherry
Game Room Moderator
Thank you.
Amy Winehouse
Nancy Reagan
Barbara Bush
Elizabeth Taylor
Tony Danza
Fred Phelps
Muhammed Ali
Loretta Lynn
Lindsay Lohan
James Garner
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Bob Newhart
Jimmy Carter
Alternates
Mary Tyler Moore
Angela Lansbury
George Herbert Walker Bush
Barbara Bush–former First Lady
Main list
Bob Barker
Fidel Castro
Dick Clark
Tom Cruise
Richard Dawson
Kirk Douglas
Hugh Downs
Stephen Hawking
Ozzy Osbourne
Nancy Reagan
Keith Richards
O. J. Simpson
Abe Vigoda
Alternate list
Wilford Brimley
Betty White
Angus Young
And we have our first Abe Vigoda nomination - didn’t you know that man is immortal?
Don’t be offended Abe - it’s nothing personal.
Alternate: Fran Tarkenton
Finally got to make a change on my list this year, thanks to Michael Jackson. Only the second time since 2003. 
Some of these people are getting so far up there, I won’t get any points if they do die. And apparently, Larry King and Margaret Thatcher are both immortal.
John Hartson
Clint Eastwood
Don Williams
Margaret Thatcher
Larry King
Bob Barker
Robin Williams
Dick Francis
Queen Elizabeth II
Newt Gingrich
Billy Graham
George Jones
Dan Rather
Wow, I thought Billy G had been shaking hands with Jesus for some time. I thought he bought it soon after his wife. Perhaps I am confusing my Evangelists. 
Probably thinking of Falwell. Surprisingly (or not, depending on your beliefs) he’s about the only one of the really, really (in)famous televangelists to have kicked off. For instance, I thought for sure Robert Schuller and Jimmy Swaggert were dancing with the angels, but nope, they’re still around.
Same list as last year, minus Ted Kennedy on my alternates list:
Amy Winehouse
Blake Fielder-Civil
Pete Doherty
Fidel Castro
Robert Byrd
Nancy Reagan
Michael Moore
Michael Mukasy
Ann Coulter
Pope Benedict XVI
Hutton Gibson
Fred Phelps
Dino De Laurentiis
Alternates:
Jimmy Carter
Michael Lohan
With three deaths so far this year (Ted Kennedy, Patrick Swayze, and North Carolina State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow), I need some new blood. Also, I’m sticking with my policy of going for at least ten points per pick, and thus dropping folk singer Pete Seeger, who turned 90 last May. However, I’m keeping the following around for at least 2010:
Abdelaziz Bouteflika – President of Algeria
Fidel Castro – First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
Art Donovan – Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle
Louis Farrakhan – Calypso singer turned National Representative of the Nation of Islam
Paul Gascoigne – English footballer with history of alcoholism, mental illness, suicidal thoughts, etc.
Jack Kevorkian – “Dr. Death” with a will to live
Ralph Kiner – Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder and longtime Mets broadcaster
Norodom Sihanouk – King-Father of Cambodia
Mort Walker – Cartoonist who created Beetle Bailey
And here are the newcomers:
Dick Clark – Host of American Bandstand and many different dollar-value versions of the “Pyramid” game. Diabetic, stroke victim, future holder of the title “America’s Oldest Dead Teenager”.
Roger Ebert – Film critic, screenwriter, thyroid cancer survivor
Bryant Gumbel – Sportscaster and television journalist who just announced he had undergone cancer surgery a couple of months ago
Alexa Ray Joel – Daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley recently hospitalized for a reported suicide attempt
Plaintext list:
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Fidel Castro
Dick Clark
Art Donovan
Roger Ebert
Louis Farrakhan
Paul Gascoigne
Bryant Gumbel
Alexa Ray Joel
Jack Kevorkian
Ralph Kiner
Norodom Sihanouk
Mort Walker
Oh, Sir, you are vile…
Long awaited by many, well, amarone anyway, respected by few, copied by none.
Oh, and there are thirteen selections guys, not ten.
Ahem
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Steve Jobs
Kim Jong Il
Elizabeth Edwards
Barack Obama
David Hasselhoff
Cokie Roberts
Lance Armstrong
Marilyn Horne
Fidel Castro
Robin Roberts
Brian Bonsall
Carl Kassel
Alternates
Edie Falco
Maccaulay Culkin
John Forsythe
The Literature.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A nice Jewish girl, needed by the Supreme Court and Liberals more than I, but
Pancreatic cancer is, after all, Pancreatic cancer
Steve Jobs
A nice Apple guy, but see above.
Kim Jong Il
We will all be better off
Elizabeth Edwards
Hey
Barack Obama?
If some racist offs him, will his feelings be hurt that he helped a nice Jewish boy
Win a contest?
David Hasselhoff
Meh
Cokie Roberts
The loss is NPR
Lance Armstrong
No way he can keep going.
Marilyn Horne
I am ashamed, but I need the points.
Fidel Castro
See Kim Jong Il
Robin Roberts
Something about cancer…
Brian Bonsall
He played Worf’s son Alexander, is into tattoos, piercing, drugs,
Beating up girl friends and beating other friends with chairs. He is now in custody,
But I’m picking him anyway.
Carl Kassel
I am so very ashamed, but he quit his day job on NPR
And is just staying on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. Bad vibes.
Alternates
Edie Falco
Cancer again.
Maccaulay Culkin
Lots of potential points there, to beat the Twix.
John Forsythe
Son of a gun looks healthier every day, gotta happen soon.
Confusion to the Twix!
No fanfare, just my list:
Plain text:
Mike Wallace
Boy George
Jon Voight
Ian Paisley
Scott Stapp
Frank Bainimarama
Martin Gardner
Sting
Asif Ali Zardari
Regis Philbin
Steve Swisher
Paul Gascoigne
Margaret Thatcher
Alternates:
Caril Ann Fugate
Paula Abdul
He what? Why did I not know about this? I’m a bad NPR listener.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and I hate to digress in someone else thread, but nontheless. 
The newscaster or the former baseball player?