# 2023 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831 "2022-12-01T04:02:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 107
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2121 "2023-12-18T00:12:46Z")
Let the jokes fly, but AC/DC has always been rock solid in performance (with many songs about that, too). That the lead singer was a booze hound didn’t mean the other guys had any business being drunk, while on stage. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2122 "2023-12-18T06:20:44Z")
> **[Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf dies at 86, Sheikh Meshaal named successor](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/16/kuwaits-emir-sheikh-nawaf-al-ahmad-al-jaber-al-sabah-dies-at-86-state-tv)** > > Heir Sheikh Meshaal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, 83, replaces Sheikh Nawaf who had ruled for three years. > **[Ted Morgan, acclaimed author with a vivid past, dies at 91](https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/12/13/ted-morgan-author-dead/)** > > He served in the French army during the Algerian War, won a Pulitzer Prize as a young journalist and wrote more than two dozen books. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2123 "2023-12-18T19:11:06Z")
Eric Montross has scored his last basket. > **[Eric Montross, former UNC basketball star and NBA player, dies of cancer at 52](https://sports.yahoo.com/eric-montross-dies-age-52-cancer-former-unc-basketball-star-and-nba-player-152021707.html)** > > Montross was part of the 1993 championship team that beat Michigan's Fab 5, and was a first-round draft pick in 1994. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2124 "2023-12-18T20:35:17Z")
If every one of my picks dies right now, I’ll get 237 points. That would catapult me into first place from my current 53rd. I only mention this as a matter of interest, not intent. Pinky swear! ---
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2125 "2023-12-18T20:47:22Z")
We’re not going to have to invoke Rule 7, are we? 😉 ---
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2126 "2023-12-18T21:13:47Z")
No, no. I wouldn’t _dream_ of acting in my own interests. That would be wrong. Although winning would be nice. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2127 "2023-12-18T22:13:16Z")
Who would rid **NotherYinzer** of these troublesome picks? ---
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2128 "2023-12-18T22:16:44Z")
I suspect it depends on what @Reeses_Monkey would be offering in return. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2129 "2023-12-18T22:24:22Z")
I made rum balls ---
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2130 "2023-12-18T23:26:33Z")
I’m on 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:** [December 18, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2131 "2023-12-18T23:27:27Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Eric Montross has scored his last basket. Very sad. I’m a Michigan alumni and we “hated” this guy since he defeated Michigan, but by all accounts a very nice guy and that is far too young to die. Sad to hear. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2132 "2023-12-20T00:06:55Z")
[Dr. Guy Stern](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/guy-stern/), holocaust survivor and Ritchie Boy who has been featured in documentaries about WWII, the Holocaust, and the Ritchie Boys, dead at 101. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2133 "2023-12-20T02:35:18Z")
The New York Times has an article which compiles notable deaths by month for 2023. [Here’s a gift link](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/obituaries/notable-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HU0.XU7W.znHjLocr3m1W&smid=url-share). In reading through the list, I found that Mike Grgich died at age 100. He was the winemaker at Chateau Montelena, a California winery whose Chardonnay won a blind tasting in Paris in 1976, shocking the French wine world (the 2009 movie _Bottle Shock_ was based on that event). I haven’t had a chance to browse through the whole list, but I bet there are some other interesting/overlooked passings there. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2134 "2023-12-21T00:55:37Z")
> **[Dan Greenburg, Who Poked Fun With His Pen, Dies at 87](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/books/dan-greenburg-dead.html)** > > Women, sex and Jewish mothers were just some of the targets of his popular satirical writing in books, essays, screenplays and more. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2135 "2023-12-21T04:00:23Z")
Probably not famous in the way most people here know but he was followed by millions. Somehow I don’t think anyone here had Mitten Squad. > **[What happened to Mitten Squad? Tributes pour in as Joseph Robert Wilson's...](https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-what-happened-mitten-squad-tributes-pour-joseph-robert-wilson-s-molnar-funeral-home-obituary-surfaces)** > > News suggesting the death of popular Skyrim and Fallout YouTube content creator Joseph Wilson, better known as Mitten Squad, has been making the rounds on social media after an obituary from Molnar Fu ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2136 "2023-12-22T02:11:52Z")
Folks, it’s time to check your lists and making sure I haven’t screwed up and not given players their rightful points. I try to be accurate but I’m glad to have players who keep me on track. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2023, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2137 "2023-12-22T04:49:01Z")
> **[Cari Beauchamp (1949–2023), feminist Hollywood historian](https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/cari-beauchamp-1949-2023-feminist-hollywood-historian/)** > > Cari Beauchamp, Hollywood historian who spotlighted women in books like Without Lying Down, died December 14 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 74. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2023, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2138 "2023-12-22T06:23:25Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Folks, it’s time to check your lists and making sure I haven’t screwed up and not given players their rightful points. I try to be accurate but I’m glad to have players who keep me on track. FYI I won. No need to double check. Trust me. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2023, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2139 "2023-12-22T06:49:34Z")
I got three hits this year, more than I have ever achieved I think, and all unique, and yet I still don’t even reach the top 20. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2140 "2023-12-22T14:29:38Z")
Sorry, but two are unique, **kitap** also had David McCallum [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831.md?page=106) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831.md?page=108)