# 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:** 71
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1412 "2021-10-28T17:28:57Z")
You’re horrible! I love it! ---
**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:** [October 29, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1413 "2021-10-29T03:57:30Z")
[Arnold Hano](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/sports/baseball/arnold-hano-dead.html), author, best known for _A Day in the Bleachers_ about Willie Mays and “The Catch”. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2021, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1414 "2021-10-29T10:39:14Z")
[Robin McNamera](https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/lay-a-little-lovin-on-me-singer-robin-mcnamara-dies-at-74-gentlest-of-gentle-souls/ar-AAQ4cra?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531), who may be best known for his hit _Lay a Little Lovin’ On Me_ (video [here](https://youtu.be/rej_FjJ51pY)), and his role as Claude in the Broadway production of _Hair_, has died at 74. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1415 "2021-10-29T22:51:44Z")
> **['Below Deck Mediterranean' Captain Mark Howard Dead at 65](https://www.tmz.com/2021/10/29/below-deck-mediterranean-captain-mark-howard-dead-dies/?adid=social-twa)** > > Captain Mark Howard, a staple on the opening season of "Below Deck Mediterranean" has died ... TMZ has learned. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1416 "2021-10-29T23:02:45Z")
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that nobody had him on their lists this year. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1417 "2021-10-30T11:12:47Z")
Australian entertainer and TV host [Bert Newton has died](https://tvtonight.com.au/2021/10/vale-bert-newton.html), aged 83. As a newcomer to Australia myself, I mainly remember him as the jovial host of _Good Morning Australia_, but he was known for much more than that over the many years he was prominent on TV. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1418 "2021-10-31T16:31:12Z")
Jerry Remy dies and another 32 points for me. [https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/31/sports/jerry-remy-dies/%3FoutputType=amp](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/31/sports/jerry-remy-dies/%3foutputType=amp) ---
**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:** [November 3, 2021, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1419 "2021-11-03T04:29:39Z")
[Dr. Aaron Beck](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59124427), father of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, dead at 100. [Justus Rosenberg](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/justus-rosenberg/), Polish Jew who escaped to Paris during WWII after losing contact with his family following his expulsion from school for being Jewish, and then escaped to Toulouse following the fall of Paris, after which he joined the French resistance and aided in rescuing many other escaping Jews, which he stayed with until swept up in a mass arrest from which he also escaped, only to run into U.S. troops and join the U.S. Army as a reconnaissance scout and translator with his efforts earning him a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, and then following that emigrated to the U.S. where he discovered his parents and sister had survived WWII and went on to become a professor of literature and write a memoir about his experiences has also died at 100. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1420 "2021-11-03T12:55:31Z")
> **[Ronnie Wilson, founder of the Gap Band, dead at 73](https://nypost.com/2021/11/03/gap-band-founding-member-ronnie-wilson-dead-at-73/?utm_source=P6Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow)** > > His widow calls him “a genius with creating, producing, and playing the flugelhorn, trumpet, keyboards, and singing music, from childhood to his early 70s.” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1421 "2021-11-03T13:04:46Z")
Jo-Carroll Dennison, the oldest [no longer] living Miss America, has [hung up her sash](https://www.cnn.com/style/article/miss-america-jo-carroll-dennison-obituary/index.html) at the age of 97. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1422 "2021-11-03T16:13:43Z")
RIP Mr. Wilson; you done outstanding. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MjtOzLfebgY/hqdefault.jpg "The Gap Band - Outstanding") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjtOzLfebgY) I’m a huge fan; this kind of hurts. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2021, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1423 "2021-11-04T03:42:22Z")
Jazz guitarist [Pat Martino](https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051419471/jazz-guitarist-pat-martino-a-virtuoso-twice-over-dies-at-77), dead at 77. [Tom Matte](https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32543620/career-baltimore-colts-running-back-fill-quarterback-tom-matte-dies-82), Baltimore Colts running back (and fill in quarterback) dead at 82. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1424 "2021-11-04T18:07:37Z")
Who is doing the scoring currently? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1425 "2021-11-04T22:12:46Z")
I dunno, but IIRC, you had a couple of pretty decent corpses, pointwise, in October. Be nice to see a scoreboard that showed those 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:** [November 5, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1426 "2021-11-05T00:31:35Z")
[Sunao Tsuboi](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59060950), survivor of the Hiroshima nuclear bombing and anti-nuclear campaigner, dies at 96 of anemia. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1427 "2021-11-05T11:56:29Z")
that’s me… | Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | jeezums | 247 | 6(1) | | 2 | RTFirefly | 222 | 5 | | 3 | Registered at Last | 198 | 4 | | 4 | phungi | 191 | 5(1) | | 4 | psychonaut | 191 | 4(1) | | 6 | GIGObuster | 186 | 5(2) | | 7 | Team Dirt | 153 | 7(1) | | 8 | Happy\_Lendervedder | 152 | 5 | | 9 | Hal Briston | 145 | 5(1) | | 10 | Loach | 118 | 3(1) | | 11 | RobotDevilDog | 93 | 3 | | 12 | Mean\_MrMustard | 86 | 2 | | 13 | Superdude | 75 | 2 | | 14 | candide | 63 | 2 | | 14 | CreaseMunky | 63 | 2 | | 14 | Hoopy\_Frood | 63 | 2 | | 14 | It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery | 63 | 2 | | 14 | Rebo | 63 | 2 | | 19 | Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace | 51 | 2 | | 20 | Dung\_Beetle | 48 | 2 | | 20 | WolfpackJeep | 48 | 2 | | 22 | Mahaloth | 46 | 3 | | 23 | J\_P\_L | 43 | 2 | | 24 | smithsb | 40 | 2(1) | | 25 | GreaterZamboni | 37 | 2(1) | | 25 | imthjckaz | 37 | 2 | | 27 | xizor | 36 | 2 | | 28 | a35362 | 31 | 2 | | 28 | amarinth | 31 | 2 | | 28 | critter42 | 31 | 2 | | 28 | NotherYinzer | 31 | 2 | | 28 | Precambrianmollusc | 31 | 2 | | 33 | ataraxy42 | 30 | 1 | | 33 | BobLibDem | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Borborygmi | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Captain\_Klutz | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Catamount | 30 | 2(1) | | 33 | D\_Anconia | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Dr Girlfriend | 30 | 1 | | 33 | jenstvns | 30 | 1 | | 33 | JohnT | 30 | 1 | | 33 | kayT | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Little\_Nemo | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Lsura | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Maus\_Magill | 30 | 1 | | 33 | McDeath\_the\_Mad | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Mona\_Lott | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Ponch8 | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Reindeer\_Flotilla | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Stephe96 | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Tristan | 30 | 1 | | 33 | vivalostwages | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Wallet | 30 | 1 | | 54 | irritant | 29 | 1(1) | | 55 | Paul\_in\_Saudi | 28 | 3 | | 56 | zadscmc | 27 | 2(1) | | 57 | Snowboarder\_Bo | 23 | 2(2) | | 58 | Sapphiredragon76 | 22 | 1(1) | | 59 | Zero00 | 20 | 2 | | 60 | Hatchie | 17 | 1(1) | | 61 | Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle | 14 | 1 | | 62 | GuanoLad | 13 | 1 | | 62 | lel | 13 | 1 | | 64 | Pardel\_Lux | 12 | 1 | | 64 | Shoeless | 12 | 1 | | 66 | Baker | 10 | 1(1) | | 66 | commasense | 10 | 3(2) | | 66 | kitap | 10 | 2 | | 69 | ProfPepperwinkle | 9 | 1 | | 70 | Old\_Wench | 8 | 1(1) | | 71 | Biotop | 7 | 1(1) | | 71 | madsircool | 7 | 1 | | 73 | Dancer\_Flight | 1 | 1 | | 73 | Gatopescado | 1 | 1 | | 73 | SpoilerVirgin | 1 | 1 | ---
**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:** [November 5, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1428 "2021-11-05T12:06:30Z")
please post any points that I missed, and I will catch up… ---
**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:** [November 5, 2021, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1429 "2021-11-05T12:16:47Z")
I think you missed one for me. I had Jerry Remy and Christoper Ayres recently. I may have misspelled the latter. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1430 "2021-11-05T13:55:12Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Christoper Ayres Should be up to date… two Unique Picks this month | Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | jeezums | 247 | 6(1) | | 2 | RTFirefly | 222 | 5 | | 3 | Registered at Last | 198 | 4 | | 4 | phungi | 191 | 5(1) | | 4 | psychonaut | 191 | 4(1) | | 6 | GIGObuster | 186 | 5(2) | | 7 | Loach | 162 | 4(2) | | 8 | Team Dirt | 153 | 7(1) | | 9 | Happy\_Lendervedder | 152 | 5 | | 10 | Hal Briston | 145 | 5(1) | | 11 | RobotDevilDog | 93 | 3 | | 12 | Mean\_MrMustard | 86 | 2 | | 13 | Superdude | 75 | 2 | | 14 | candide | 63 | 2 | | 14 | CreaseMunky | 63 | 2 | | 14 | Hoopy\_Frood | 63 | 2 | | 14 | It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery | 63 | 2 | | 14 | Rebo | 63 | 2 | | 19 | Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace | 51 | 2 | | 20 | Dung\_Beetle | 48 | 2 | | 20 | WolfpackJeep | 48 | 2 | | 22 | Mahaloth | 46 | 3 | | 23 | J\_P\_L | 43 | 2 | | 24 | smithsb | 40 | 2(1) | | 25 | GreaterZamboni | 37 | 2(1) | | 25 | imthjckaz | 37 | 2 | | 27 | xizor | 36 | 2 | | 28 | a35362 | 31 | 2 | | 28 | amarinth | 31 | 2 | | 28 | critter42 | 31 | 2 | | 28 | NotherYinzer | 31 | 2 | | 28 | Precambrianmollusc | 31 | 2 | | 33 | ataraxy42 | 30 | 1 | | 33 | BobLibDem | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Borborygmi | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Captain\_Klutz | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Catamount | 30 | 2(1) | | 33 | D\_Anconia | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Dr Girlfriend | 30 | 1 | | 33 | jenstvns | 30 | 1 | | 33 | JohnT | 30 | 1 | | 33 | kayT | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Little\_Nemo | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Lsura | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Maus\_Magill | 30 | 1 | | 33 | McDeath\_the\_Mad | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Mona\_Lott | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Ponch8 | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Reindeer\_Flotilla | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Stephe96 | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Tristan | 30 | 1 | | 33 | vivalostwages | 30 | 1 | | 33 | Wallet | 30 | 1 | | 54 | irritant | 29 | 1(1) | | 55 | Paul\_in\_Saudi | 28 | 3 | | 56 | zadscmc | 27 | 2(1) | | 57 | Snowboarder\_Bo | 23 | 2(2) | | 58 | Sapphiredragon76 | 22 | 1(1) | | 59 | Zero00 | 20 | 2 | | 60 | Hatchie | 17 | 1(1) | | 61 | Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle | 14 | 1 | | 62 | GuanoLad | 13 | 1 | | 62 | lel | 13 | 1 | | 64 | Pardel\_Lux | 12 | 1 | | 64 | Shoeless | 12 | 1 | | 66 | Baker | 10 | 1(1) | | 66 | commasense | 10 | 3(2) | | 66 | kitap | 10 | 2 | | 69 | ProfPepperwinkle | 9 | 1 | | 70 | Old\_Wench | 8 | 1(1) | | 71 | Biotop | 7 | 1(1) | | 71 | madsircool | 7 | 1 | | 73 | Dancer\_Flight | 1 | 1 | | 73 | Gatopescado | 1 | 1 | | 73 | SpoilerVirgin | 1 | 1 | ---
**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:** [November 5, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/1431 "2021-11-05T14:22:14Z")
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