Once again: For this particular annual death pool (now in its fourth year!), points are awarded for each “correctly” chosen person at a rate of 100 minus age at death. This may account for some skewing youthward. There were 31 entries this year.

Last year, the pool correctly predicted the deaths of Kim Jong-il (13 lists), Elizabeth Taylor (13 lists), Amy Winehouse (10 lists), Steve Jobs (6 lists), Christopher Hitchens (5 lists) and Gerry Rafferty (4 lists). It was wrong in the cases of Michael Douglas (37 lists), Aretha Franklin (32 lists), Lindsay Lohan (17 lists) and a whole bunch more. So then, who will “mark” this year?

Bill Jankow: 3 lists
Bob Barker: 3 lists
Ethan Zohn: 3 lists
Fidel Castro: 3 lists
Gary Carter: 3 lists
Michael Lohan: 3 lists
Prince Philip: 3 lists
Queen Elizabeth II: 3 lists
Roger Ebert: 3 lists

Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi: 4 lists
Courtney Love: 4 lists
Dick Clark: 4 lists
Gary Busey: 4 lists
George Michael: 4 lists
Hugo Chávez: 4 lists
Joe Paterno: 4 lists
Margaret Thatcher: 4 lists
Pete Doherty: 4 lists
Whitney Houston: 4 lists

Billy Graham: 5 lists
Kirk Douglas: 5 lists

Dick Cheney: 6 lists
Michael Douglas: 6 lists

Nancy Reagan: 7 lists
Penny Marshall: 7 lists
Robin Gibb: 7 lists

Lindsay Lohan: 9 lists
Muhammad Ali: 9 lists

Charlie Sheen: 10 lists

Aretha Franklin: 11 lists
Zsa Zsa Gabor: 11 lists

Etta James: 16 lists

Rick Paulas really, literally, could not have done this without the assistance of Excel spreadsheet wizard m. berru.