# 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:** 62
**Author:** ![jeezums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jeezums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeezums)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1229 "2021-09-08T03:18:27Z")
[Gerd Müller obituary](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/aug/16/gerd-muller-obituary) Nets me 25 points ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1230 "2021-09-08T03:42:23Z")
[Patricia Maginnis](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/patricia-maginnis-dead/2021/09/07/cedb7eda-0f18-11ec-882f-2dd15a067dc4_story.html), pioneering abortion rights activist dies at 93. [Edmond Fischer](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/edmond-fischer/), Nobel winning biochemist whose work on protein phosphorylation led to many breakthroughs in treatment of muscular dystrophy and other motor neuron diseases dead at 101. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1231 "2021-09-08T12:10:05Z")
Adlai Stevenson III, not to be confused with his great-grandfather Adlai the Vice President, or his father Adlai II the presidential candidate, dead at 90. Senator Adlai III was a senator and a pretty prominent politician in his own right. If you missed this Adlai there is still Adlai IV who is a journalist and he has a son Adlai V. > **[Former Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III Dies at 90](https://www.newsweek.com/adlai-stevenson-iii-former-illinois-senator-grandson-ex-vice-president-dies-90-1626917)** > > The former senator's wife of 67 years, Nancy Stevenson, and their son, Adlai Stevenson IV confirmed the death was a result of complications associated with Lewy body disease. "He just faded away," his son said. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1232 "2021-09-08T12:35:07Z")
Together they make up 93% of the world’s Adlais. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1233 "2021-09-08T15:20:22Z")
It was recently brought to my attention that if you are named after your father, your mother moaned your name during sex, probably hundreds of times. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1234 "2021-09-08T23:33:48Z")
Man, that’s one thought I’m extremely glad to not have running through my head. 😮 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1235 "2021-09-09T04:01:32Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Together they make up 93% of the world’s Adlais. Should be noted that it’s one of those instances where Adlai II was not a junior. The name skipped a generation. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1236 "2021-09-09T12:06:13Z")
Michael Constantine, or Room 222 and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, has died at age 94. > **[Michael Constantine, Father in ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding,’ Dies at 94](https://variety.com/2021/film/news/michael-constantine-dead-dies-my-big-fat-greek-wedding-father-1235059542/)** > > Michael Constantine, who played Gus, the father of Nia Vardalos’ Toula Portokalos in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” by far the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time, died on A… ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1237 "2021-09-09T17:41:05Z")
> **[Art Metrano, Stand-Up Comic and ‘Police Academy’ Actor, Dies at 84](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/art-metrano-dead-police-academy-stand-up-comic-1235010490/amp/?__twitter_impression=true)** > > He fractured three vertebrae in a near-fatal fall from a ladder in 1989 and starred in a one-man stage show about the experience. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1238 "2021-09-09T17:42:00Z")
[Phil Schaap](https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035132383/phil-schaap-nea-jazz-master-radio-dj-dies), radio host, record producer, teacher, and archivist of Jazz, dies at 70 of cancer. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1239 "2021-09-09T19:19:51Z")
😢 Mr. Metrano did one of the greatest comedy magic acts of all time. RIP Art; you done great. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_-SNrvHdZJE/hqdefault.jpg "ART METRANO IS WONDERFUL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-SNrvHdZJE) ---
**Author:** ![zadscmc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@zadscmc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zadscmc)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1240 "2021-09-09T21:26:14Z")
Big Daddy Graham Philly overnight radio host. > **[Longtime Philly sports radio overnight host Big Daddy Graham dies](https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/longtime-philly-sports-overnight-host-big-daddy-graham-dies)** > > Big Daddy Graham hosted overnight on SportsRadio 94WIP for about two decades. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1241 "2021-09-10T16:02:08Z")
Rusty Warren, “Knockers Up” comic, dead at 91. > **[Rusty Warren, pioneering and bawdy comic who made her name in Phoenix, dead...](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2021/05/27/rusty-warren-knockers-up-comic-out-phoenix-dead-91/7473428002/)** > > Rusty Warren turned a bawdy cocktail lounge act into a string of million-selling record albums. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1242 "2021-09-10T23:17:49Z")
An actor who spent much of his career doing 1 episode of this show or that show, [Alex Cord](https://nypost.com/2021/08/10/alex-cord-actor-from-1980s-show-airwolf-dead-at-88/), gave up 12 points to no one in particular a month ago, and we all seem to have missed it (based on a quick thread search). ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1243 "2021-09-11T17:35:02Z")
> **[Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan manager dies in freak accident](https://nypost.com/2021/09/11/rolling-stones-manager-mick-brigden-dead-at-73/amp/?__twitter_impression=true)** > > Mick Brigden died earlier this week following an accident as he was attempting to dig a grave for his family’s dog at his home. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1244 "2021-09-11T18:16:07Z")
Abimael Guzmán, also known as _[camarada Gonzalo](https://elpais.com/internacional/2021-09-11/muere-abimael-guzman-lider-de-sendero-luminoso.html)_, founder and ideological mastermind of the Sendero Luminoso ([Shining Path](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_Path)) terrorist movement died in prison in Perú, where he was serving a life-sentence since he finally got caught in 1992, at the age of 86. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1245 "2021-09-11T20:06:15Z")
I had to re-read that to determine that he was 86 when he died, not when he was caught in '92, because that would one damn old guy. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1246 "2021-09-11T20:09:56Z")
Eeeh… yes, that was a Spanish sentence, sloppily translated. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1247 "2021-09-12T01:54:05Z")
Mick Tingelhoff passed away Saturday at the age of 81. Tingelhoff started an incredible 240 games for the Vikings, the most in a row by any NFL center and second-most of any player in franchise history behind Jim Marshall’s 270 at defensive end. He also handled long-snapping duties in an era that predated such specialization. > **[Vikings Mourn Passing of Mick Tingelhoff](https://www.vikings.com/news/mick-tingelhoff-mourn-passing)** > > Minnesota Vikings Latest News ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1249 "2021-09-13T23:42:42Z")
Actor Don Collier has died at 92. He also did narration for the University of Arizona’s documentary series **The Desert Speaks**. [Article here](https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/don-collier-actor-on-e2-80-98the-high-chaparral-e2-80-99-e2-80-98outlaws-e2-80-99-and-many-other-westerns-dies-at-92/ar-AAOoWvE?ocid=uxbndlbing) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881.md?page=61) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881.md?page=63)