# 2021 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881 "2020-12-01T02:10:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 46
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/907 "2021-06-11T19:53:29Z")
So sorry for your loss, Baker. Take all the time you need. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/908 "2021-06-11T20:02:49Z")
I’m so sorry, Baker. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/909 "2021-06-11T20:14:09Z")
Don’t give us any thought. We’ll send some thoughts to you instead. I’m sorry to hear about your mom. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/910 "2021-06-11T20:37:47Z")
I’m so sorry, **Baker**. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/911 "2021-06-11T23:55:42Z")
So sorry for your loss ---
**Author:** ![RobotDevilDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@RobotDevilDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobotDevilDog)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/912 "2021-06-12T06:47:33Z")
I’m very sorry for your loss Baker. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/913 "2021-06-12T09:49:47Z")
☹ I’m so sorry for your loss, **Baker**. No need to apologize! You’re in our thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/914 "2021-06-12T11:21:40Z")
No need to apologize, **Baker**. We understand. You have my deepest condolences. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/915 "2021-06-12T12:38:03Z")
So sorry, Baker… ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/916 "2021-06-12T13:12:15Z")
Thinking of you, Baker. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/917 "2021-06-12T13:27:00Z")
I’m so sorry for your loss, Baker. Take all the time you need xx ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/918 "2021-06-12T17:21:18Z")
I’m so sorry to hear that, **Baker**. Sending love and light your way. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/919 "2021-06-13T12:13:55Z")
Notorious former Kansas Attorney General [Vern Miller](https://www.kansas.com/news/local/news-local-obituaries/article252077358.html) dead at 92. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/920 "2021-06-13T13:15:22Z")
[Sgt. Dot Cole died in January at 107.](https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article248472220.html) I’ll take my pointless points now. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/921 "2021-06-13T13:22:17Z")
Take it as you can, **Baker**. We understand. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/922 "2021-06-13T16:51:45Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Notorious former Kansas Attorney General [Vern Miller](https://www.kansas.com/news/local/news-local-obituaries/article252077358.html) dead at 92. I was going to post this, but I didn’t think anybody outside of Kansas would know (or care) who Vern Miller was! ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/923 "2021-06-13T16:53:10Z")
Jim ‘Mudcat’ Grant has thrown his last pitch. > **['Mudcat' Grant passes away at 85](https://www.mlb.com/news/mudcat-grant-dies-at-85)** > > Jim “Mudcat” Grant, the first Black 20-game winner in American League history and a key member of the 1965 Twins team that went to the World Series, has passed away at the age of 85, the club announced on Saturday. > “The Minnesota Twins are deeply... ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/924 "2021-06-13T18:47:08Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I didn’t think anybody outside of Kansas would know (or care) We cover a fair breadth of minor celebrities here, of whom many of us have never heard. Essentially, anyone who is nominally newsworthy (for something other than being ill) seems to be fair game, and some of us learn new stuff from some peripherally famous person’s exit. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/925 "2021-06-13T18:57:27Z")
I referred to him as “notorious” due to his over-the-top enforcement of Kansas liquor laws (which were pretty ridiculous at the time anyway), including trying to arrest airline or train passengers who were drinking as they passed over/through the state. But yeah I don’t know how well known he was outside of Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/926 "2021-06-13T20:27:49Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I referred to him as “notorious” due to his over-the-top enforcement of Kansas liquor laws (which were pretty ridiculous at the time anyway), including trying to arrest airline or train passengers who were drinking as they passed over/through the state. He first gained notoriety as sheriff of Sedgwick County (home of Wichita) by hiding in the trunk of an undercover cop’s car and springing out to make the bust as soon as the money changed hands. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881.md?page=47)