# 2021 SDMB \[THEMED\] Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 2, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026 "2020-12-02T17:24:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RobotDevilDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@RobotDevilDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobotDevilDog)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/41 "2021-01-01T01:33:44Z")
Same list, for the fourth year. I am so pleased to have never gotten any points. Back to the Future Michael J. Fox Christopher Lloyd Lea Thompson Thomas F. Wilson Crispin Glover Claudia Wells Elisabeth Shue Marc McClure James Tolkan Charles Fleischer Mary Steenburgen Robert Zemeckis Bob Gale ---
**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:** [January 1, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/42 "2021-01-01T02:14:08Z")
NFL/FIFA ALL-ALS/CTE Team Steve Smith August 30, 1964 Kerry Goode July 28, 1965 Steve Gleason March 19, 1977 OJ Brigance September 29, 1969 Tim Shaw March 27, 1984 Tim Green December 16, 1963 Tony Dorsett April 7, 1954 Jim McMahon 21-Aug-59 Wayne Clark May 30, 1971 Leonard Marshall October 22, 1961 Juan Carlos Unzue April 22, 1967 Fernando Ricksen July 27, 1976 Hakan Sukur September 1, 1971 Steve Smith Kerry Goode Steve Gleason OJ Brigance Tim Shaw Tim Green Tony Dorsett Jim McMahon Wayne Clark Leonard Marshall Juan Carlos Unzue Fernando Ricksen Hakan Sukur ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/43 "2021-01-01T03:41:39Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Fernando Ricksen July 27, 1976 [Ricksen died in 2019.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Ricksen) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/44 "2021-01-01T04:40:51Z")
Switching from wrestling to what I hope will be a more fertile ground: Theme: The “I will read their obituaries with great pleasure” the hall of the infamous. Dick Cheney Rush Limbaugh Harvey Weinstein Bernie Madoff Kathy Shaidle Henry Kissinger Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Alexander Lukashenko Donald Trump Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi Rupert Murdoch Abdelaziz Bouteflika Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/45 "2021-01-01T04:54:30Z")
My list is pretty similar to last year. Here goes: **The Canadians:** Jim Carr Gino Odjick Stu Schwartz Anton Kuerti Paul Henderson Tommy Chong Michael J Fox Neil Crone Mary Barry Abdullah the Butcher Joni Mitchell Rick Chiarelli Diane Deans **Alternates:** Alexa McDonough Brian Mulroney ---
**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:** [January 1, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/46 "2021-01-01T14:54:57Z")
the perils of DP procrastination! ---
**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:** [January 1, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/47 "2021-01-01T16:34:19Z")
34 Players, 397 “Celebs”, below are all those with 2+ picks (the themed pool usually has mostly Unique Picks) | Celeb | Picks | | --- | --- | | Donald Trump | 4 | | Rudy Giuliani | 4 | | Steve Gleason | 4 | | Carol Burnett | 3 | | Mike Pence | 3 | | Mitch McConnell | 3 | | OJ Brigance | 3 | | Raquel Welch | 3 | | Rush Limbaugh | 3 | | Tim Green | 3 | | Alan Arkin | 2 | | Brett Kavanaugh | 2 | | Candice Bergen | 2 | | Christopher Lloyd | 2 | | Cloris Leachman | 2 | | George Takei | 2 | | Janet Jackson | 2 | | Jim McMahon | 2 | | Jon Voight | 2 | | Leonard Marshall | 2 | | Michael J Fox | 2 | | Michael Schumacher | 2 | | Mike Pompeo | 2 | | Patrick Stewart | 2 | | Ringo Starr | 2 | | Robert Duvall | 2 | | Rupert Murdoch | 2 | | Shirley Jones | 2 | | Stephen Miller | 2 | | William Barr | 2 | | William Shatner | 2 | ---
**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:** [January 1, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/48 "2021-01-01T16:36:02Z")
Players and Themes: | Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | Theme | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | amarinth | 0 | 0 | Sitcom Moms | | 1 | Baker | 0 | 0 | New Year’s Eve babies | | 1 | Bayaker | 0 | 0 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show Universe | | 1 | Biotop | 0 | 0 | Dark Shadows | | 1 | Borborygmi | 0 | 0 | Lawyers | | 1 | candide | 0 | 0 | A List About Nothing. | | 1 | Catamount | 0 | 0 | Doctor Who vs. The Master! | | 1 | Cazzle | 0 | 0 | surviving cast of the 1994 movie Clean Slate. | | 1 | commasense | 0 | 0 | Destroyers of Democracy IV | | 1 | Dancer\_Flight | 0 | 0 | Star Trek III - The Search for Points | | 1 | Dr.Girlfriend | 0 | 0 | The 10th annual All-Star Sports Edition | | 1 | GIGObuster | 0 | 0 | “I will read their obituaries with great pleasure” | | 1 | GuanoLad | 0 | 0 | Double Initial Alphabet | | 1 | Happy\_Lendervedder | 0 | 0 | Lou Gehrig List | | 1 | Hoopy\_Frood | 0 | 0 | Former NFL players diagnosed with CTE | | 1 | J-P\_L | 0 | 0 | Former Race Car Drivers | | 1 | kayT | 0 | 0 | Women Writers (mostly mysteries) | | 1 | Kitten\_Mitten | 0 | 0 | peeps born in 1940. | | 1 | Little\_Nemo | 0 | 0 | The Cast of Catch-22 | | 1 | Mahaloth | 0 | 0 | MASH movie and show living cast. | | 1 | Old\_Wench | 0 | 0 | Carol Burnett and Friends | | 1 | Pardel-Lux | 0 | 0 | German players in the 1966 and 1972 FIFA World Cups | | 1 | phungi | 0 | 0 | NFL/FIFA ALL-ALS/CTE Team | | 1 | Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace | 0 | 0 | Shawshank Redemption: “I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.” | | 1 | Railer13 | 0 | 0 | 1967 and 1968 St. Louis Cardinals World Series Rosters | | 1 | Registered\_at\_Last | 0 | 0 | The Canadians | | 1 | RobotDevilDog | 0 | 0 | Back to the Future | | 1 | RTFirefly | 0 | 0 | 1969 Washington Senators (“a whole new ballgame in 1969”) | | 1 | Shoeless | 0 | 0 | Original Twilight Zone series | | 1 | smithsb | 0 | 0 | Republican Cultists | | 1 | SpoilerVirgin | 0 | 0 | What’s My Line? (Celebrities who appeared as the Mystery Guest on the original version of What’s My Line?) | ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/49 "2021-01-03T19:17:16Z")
Merseybeat legend and leader of Gerry and the Pacemakers Gerry Marsden dead at 78 after a short illness. (No, I didn’t have him on my Beatles-themed list, damn it) ---
**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:** [January 7, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/50 "2021-01-07T22:47:57Z")
[Marion Ramsey - the little lady(“Hooks”) in Police Academy, has died at 27 points.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Ramsey) ---
**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:** [January 8, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/51 "2021-01-08T17:45:32Z")
[Tommy Lasorda](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30674374/hall-fame-los-angeles-dodgers-manager-tommy-lasorda-dies-93) dead at 7 points… Kick-off goes to **Dr.Girlfriend** | Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | | Theme | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Dr.Girlfriend | 7 | 1(1) | | The 10th annual All-Star Sports Edition | ---
**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:** [January 8, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/52 "2021-01-08T18:11:41Z")
Yeah I had Tommy. Last year. I guess if I’d kept him on this year he’d still be alive…sorry, Tommy. You were the best. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/53 "2021-01-09T01:03:46Z")
Wow… two years in a row with the Opening Kickoff. Starting to scare myself. Rest in Peace, Tommy. You were awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/54 "2021-01-10T02:05:04Z")
Actress Diana Millay has died at 85. She played villainous Laura Collins on Dark Shadows. 15 points this way. > **[Diana Millay](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Millay)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Diana Claire Millay (June 7, 1934 – January 8, 2021) was an American actress. She primarily worked in television, guest starring in nearly 100 prime time shows, and played continuing roles on two daytime soap operas, Dark Shadows and The Secret Storm. > Millay was born in Rye, New York, and started her career as a model, first as a child for the Montgomery Ward catalogue, and later as a top Conover model for John Robert Powers. ---
**Author:** ![Wallet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e99b99/32.png) [@Wallet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallet)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/55 "2021-01-10T02:30:55Z")
Someone killed off my list (Theme: Evil and its Minions) … 🙂 ---
**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:** [January 10, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/56 "2021-01-10T15:26:26Z")
We have a new leader, and apologies to **Wallet** and **Woolfpackjeep** : | Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | | Theme | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Biotop | 15 | 1(1) | | Dark Shadows | | 2 | Dr.Girlfriend | 7 | 1(1) | | The 10th annual All-Star Sports Edition | | 3 | amarinth | 0 | 0 | | Sitcom Moms | | 3 | Baker | 0 | 0 | | New Year’s Eve babies | | 3 | Bayaker | 0 | 0 | | The Mary Tyler Moore Show Universe | | 3 | Borborygmi | 0 | 0 | | Lawyers | | 3 | candide | 0 | 0 | | A List About Nothing. | | 3 | Catamount | 0 | 0 | | Doctor Who vs. The Master! | | 3 | Cazzle | 0 | 0 | | surviving cast of the 1994 movie Clean Slate. | | 3 | commasense | 0 | 0 | | Destroyers of Democracy IV | | 3 | Dancer\_Flight | 0 | 0 | | Star Trek III - The Search for Points | | 3 | GIGObuster | 0 | 0 | | “I will read their obituaries with great pleasure” | | 3 | GuanoLad | 0 | 0 | | Double Initial Alphabet | | 3 | Happy\_Lendervedder | 0 | 0 | | Lou Gehrig List | | 3 | Hoopy\_Frood | 0 | 0 | | Former NFL players diagnosed with CTE: | | 3 | J-P\_L | 0 | 0 | | Former Race Car Drivers | | 3 | kayT | 0 | 0 | | Women Writers (mostly mysteries) | | 3 | Kitten\_Mitten | 0 | 0 | | peeps born in 1940. | | 3 | Little\_Nemo | 0 | 0 | | The Cast of Catch-22 | | 3 | Mahaloth | 0 | 0 | | MASH movie and show living cast. | | 3 | Old\_Wench | 0 | 0 | | Carol Burnett and Friends | | 3 | Pardel-Lux | 0 | 0 | | German players in the 1966 and 1972 FIFA World Cups | | 3 | phungi | 0 | 0 | | NFL/FIFA ALL-ALS/CTE Team | | 3 | Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace | 0 | 0 | | Shawshank Redemption: “I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.” | | 3 | Railer13 | 0 | 0 | | 1967 and 1968 St. Louis Cardinals World Series Rosters | | 3 | Registered\_at\_Last | 0 | 0 | | The Canadians: | | 3 | RobotDevilDog | 0 | 0 | | Back to the Future | | 3 | RTFirefly | 0 | 0 | | 1969 Washington Senators (“a whole new ballgame in 1969”) | | 3 | Shoeless | 0 | 0 | | Original Twilight Zone series | | 3 | smithsb | 0 | 0 | | Republican Cultists | | 3 | SpoilerVirgin | 0 | 0 | | What’s My Line? (Celebrities who appeared as the Mystery Guest on the original version of What’s My Line?) | | 3 | Stephe96 | 0 | 0 | | Beatles | | 3 | Wallet | 0 | 0 | | Evil and its Minions (IMHO) | | 3 | WolfpackJeep | 0 | 0 | | nutters, grifters, and scoundrels who cloak themselves with religion: | ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/57 "2021-01-12T19:31:14Z")
I imagine there are several people who are now regretting not picking Sheldon Adelson. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/58 "2021-01-13T02:23:18Z")
Missing the points - yes. Regrets - no. With only thirteen choices plus three alternates - I had a plethora of named darts to throw. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/59 "2021-01-17T16:24:32Z")
“Wall of Silence” Music producer, convicted murderer Phil Spector dead at 81. Another pick that could’ve worked in my Beatles-themed list, damn it! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026/60 "2021-01-17T16:40:39Z")
That was one advantage of my theme. It was a small enough group that I didn’t have to do a lot of deciding over who I would include and who I would leave out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-themed-celebrity-death-pool/927026.md?page=4)