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Shari Lewis died in the predicted year,
but she was part of "Cindy's 1998 Addendum." It's a long story, so
just accept it.
3
Well, it turns out Billy Carter died back in 1988, but we didn't
quite learn about it until December 2001.
Clearly, we shouldn't have nominated him so late.
4 "Average age" on January 1 of the nomination year.
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Q: What do Michael Palin, Louis Gossett, Jr., Ed Koch, Don Ho, and Martha Quinn all have in common?
A: They were all predicted to die in 2005.
Every New Year's Eve until 2005, a select ghoulish coven compiled a list of about five famous (or once-famous) people whom we predicted would die in the upcoming year.
With the 2005 List, the Dick Clark List was closed.
It's not a wish list.
And it was not necessarily people we didn't like. This was an actual prediction, à la Jeane Dixon (R.I.P. 1997).
Only celebrities, however obsure, were eligible.
Ineligible:
The BEST predictions were young-ish and healthy (well, mostly healthy) people...
...like Phil Hartman, River Pheonix and John Ritter. Naturally, plenty of old and sick folk were welcome on the list, but we were looking for some real juicy ones like Michael Hutchence and John Denver.