# 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:** 39
**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:** [March 19, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/761 "2023-03-19T19:24:50Z")
It’s okay if I stick pins in their bobblehead figures isn’t 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:** [March 19, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/762 "2023-03-19T20:31:38Z")
> **[Lynn Seymour obituary](https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/mar/12/lynn-seymour-obituary)** > > Ballerina who inspired new works from Kenneth MacMillan and Frederick Ashton and loved to dance with Rudolf Nureyev ---
**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:** [March 19, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/763 "2023-03-19T20:58:43Z")
Just in! An interesting new way to stop the top runner getting any more points. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/764 "2023-03-19T21:00:06Z")
I doubt anyone has him, but Australian actor Peter Hardy drowned, aged 66. > **[Drowning victim identified as Peter Hardy](https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebrity-deaths/peter-hardy-dead-australian-actor-identified-as-victim-of-drowning-in-western-australia/news-story/a869c8fef1161d31950df06153b3adb7)** > > Australian actor Peter Hardy has been identified as the man who drowned at a beach in Western Australia last week. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/765 "2023-03-20T15:58:30Z")
He played an Ewok, fyi > **[Star Wars actor Paul Grant dies aged 56](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11882027/Star-Wars-actor-Paul-Grant-dies-aged-56.html)** > > Star Wars Ewok actor Paul Grant has died at the age of 56, his family has confirmed.  ---
**Author:** ![zadscmc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@zadscmc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zadscmc)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/766 "2023-03-21T19:10:33Z")
> **[Knicks legend, HOF center Reed dies at 80](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35912570/new-york-knicks-legend-willis-reed-dies-80)** > > Willis Reed, the Hall of Fame center who helped the New York Knicks win two championships during the 1970s, has died. He was 80. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/767 "2023-03-22T02:39:32Z")
[Traute Lafrenz](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/traute-lafrenz/), the last surviving member of The White Rose, a resistance group formed to oppose the Nazis in Germany, dead at 103. Also, They finally came to take away Jerry Samuels / Napoleon XIV > **[Jerry Samuels, the Northeast Philly artist behind the 1966 hit novelty song...](https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/jerry-samuels-obituary-take-me-away-ha-20230311.html)** > > Mr. Samuels performed the unusual song under the stage name Napoleon XIV. It peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/768 "2023-03-22T14:22:06Z")
> **[Bobbi Kelly, featured in iconic Woodstock album photo, dies](https://nypost.com/2023/03/22/bobbi-kelly-featured-in-iconic-woodstock-album-photo-dies/amp/)** > > “She lived her life well, and left this world in a much better place. If you knew her, you loved her. She lived by her saying, ‘Be kind’,” her husband said. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/769 "2023-03-23T12:21:04Z")
I was wondering why we haven’t heard about Mitch McConnell’s recovery from his hospital stay. I came across this. > **[Mitch McConnell's silence about health after fall raises questions](https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-silence-health-fall-raises-questions-1789326)** > > The enduring silence about the Senate Minority Leader's recovery has sparked questions about the state of his health and speculation about his tenure as leader. A spokesperson for McConnell declined to give an update on his health to Wave News, a Louisville, Kentucky-based outlet, on March 15. However, Darryl Kaelin, a rehab clinic medical director, said his time in a rehabilitation center would be spent working “on his thinking, his balance, his coordination, his ability to take care of himself.” ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/770 "2023-03-23T18:26:54Z")
> **[Saliva Guitarist Wayne Swinny Dies at 59 After Suffering Brain Hemorrhage...](https://variety.com/2023/music/news/wayne-swinny-dead-dies-saliva-guitarist-brain-hemorrhage-tour-1235562764/)** > > Guitarist Wayne Swinny, a founding member of the rock band Saliva, died Wednesday at age 59 after suffering a brain hemorrhage the previous day in the midst of a tour by the group. Swinny was the o… ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/771 "2023-03-24T01:47:43Z")
That is certainly encouraging. I mean that he is getting medical care and back on the road to recovery of course . ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/772 "2023-03-24T03:05:47Z")
> **[Raphael Mechoulam, Israel’s ‘father of cannabis research,’ dies at 92](https://www.timesofisrael.com/raphael-mechoulam-israels-father-of-cannabis-research-dies-at-92/)** > > Esteemed scientist led pioneering research into psychoactive substance, with findings that helped ease its shift out of counterculture and into the mainstream ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/773 "2023-03-24T20:34:01Z")
> **[Parliament-Funkadelic’s Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins Dies at 81](https://pitchfork.com/news/parliament-funkadelics-clarence-fuzzy-haskins-dies-at-81/)** > > The vocalist and on-stage party-starter was an original Parliaments member who played in George Clinton’s ever-morphing outfit until the late 1970s ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecccb3/32.png) [@Old\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Wench)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/774 "2023-03-24T22:48:30Z")
Darcelle, the world’s oldest working drag queen, has died at 92. > **[Darcelle, world's oldest working drag queen, dies at 92](https://apnews.com/article/darcelle-drag-queen-death-portland-walter-cole-e187006c33c51d69e42e491024806964)** > > PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Walter Cole, better known as the iconic drag queen who performed for decades as Darcelle XV and a fearless advocate for Portland's LGBTQ+ community, has died of natural causes in Portland, Oregon. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/775 "2023-03-25T02:02:51Z")
They changed the name of NW Davis Street to NW Darcelle XV Street today in Portland. That was fast! ---
**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:** [March 25, 2023, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/776 "2023-03-25T02:34:07Z")
At least they were able to maintain the sequence. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2023, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/777 "2023-03-25T04:09:49Z")
> **[Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, prophet of the rise of the PC, dies at 94](https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-co-founder-gordon-moore-dies-94-2023-03-25/)** > > Intel Corp co-founder Gordon Moore, a pioneer in the semiconductor industry whose "Moore's Law" predicted a steady rise in computing power for decades, died Friday at the age of 94, the company announced. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2023, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/778 "2023-03-25T04:45:51Z")
that is just a few months short of 63 moores ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/779 "2023-03-25T21:49:16Z")
> **[Nicholas Lloyd Webber, Composer and Son of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dies at 43](https://variety.com/2023/theater/obituaries-people-news/nicholas-lloyd-webber-dead-andrew-lloyd-webber-son-1235564760/)** > > Nicholas Lloyd Webber, son of Andrew Lloyd Webber, died in Basingstoke, England on March 25, after an 18-month-long battle with gastric cancer. He was 43. The theater composer announced the news of… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/780 "2023-03-26T13:13:57Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > They finally came to take away Jerry Samuels / Napoleon XIV I can still recite the entire piece by heart. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831.md?page=40)