# 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:** 44
**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:** [April 20, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/861 "2023-04-20T01:50:44Z")
He was great as “Bert Schnick” in Shock Treatment. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/862 "2023-04-20T17:36:00Z")
> **[Todd Haimes Dies: Artistic Director Of Broadway’s Pioneering Roundabout...](https://deadline.com/2023/04/todd-haimes-dead-broadway-roundabout-theatre-company-artistic-director-was-66-1235332359/)** > > Todd Haimes, who built New York’s Roundabout Theater Company into one of the city’s – and country’s- leading nonprofit theaters, died today at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kett… ---
**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:** [April 22, 2023, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/863 "2023-04-22T11:37:28Z")
Chickens now counted. Australian comedian Barry Humphries, known for the characters of Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson, and also known for himself, one of the funniest comedians and most insightful minds of our lifetimes, has died aged 89. > **[Vale: Barry Humphries | TV Tonight](https://tvtonight.com.au/2023/04/vale-barry-humphries.html)** > > Legendary showbiz entertainer Barry Humphries has died, aged 89. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/864 "2023-04-22T15:42:32Z")
| 1 | phungi | 106 | 2 | 2 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2 | GIGObuster | 42 | 1 | 0 | | 2 | It’s Not Rocket Surgery | 42 | 1 | 0 | | 4 | jeezums | 29 | 1 | 1 | | 4 | Happy Lendervedder | 29 | 1 | 0 | | 7 | lel | 25 | 1 | 1 | | 8 | zadscmc | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 8 | Stephe96 | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 8 | Shoeless | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 8 | Railer 13 | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 8 | JohnT | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 12 | Allecher | 13 | 1 | 1 | | 13 | GuanoLad | 11 | 1 | 1 | | 13 | romansperson | 11 | 1 | 1 | | 15 | Biotop | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 15 | Borborygmi | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 15 | Spoiler Virgin | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 18 | Baker | 0 | 1 | 1 | ---
**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:** [April 22, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/865 "2023-04-22T17:01:55Z")
[Mark Stewart](https://pitchfork.com/news/the-pop-group-mark-stewart-dies-at-62/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&mibextid=Zxz2cZ), singer for the Pop Group, has died at 62. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/866 "2023-04-23T14:27:28Z")
I just saw this on CBS Sunday Morning. > **[Ken Potts, one of last 2 USS Arizona survivors, dies at 102](https://apnews.com/article/uss-arizona-survivor-dies-ken-potts-0e7356f931c397c8e94f7cc80d44d4c6)** > > One of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. Ken Potts was 102. Randy Stratton, whose late father, Donald Stratton, was Potts’ Arizona shipmate and close... ---
**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:** [April 23, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/867 "2023-04-23T23:17:47Z")
> **[Otis Redding III, who followed father into music, dies at 59](https://apnews.com/article/otis-redding-son-died-cancer-music-b7720a26c687fa63587ecd138960bc99)** > > Singer and guitarist Otis Redding III has died at age 59. He was the son and namesake of the legendary soul singer Otis Redding. The younger Redding's sister, Karla Redding-Andrews, said in a statement Wednesday on Facebook that her brother died from... ---
**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:** [April 24, 2023, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/868 "2023-04-24T09:09:36Z")
It’s the last dance for Len. > **[Len Goodman: Ex-Strictly head judge dies at 78](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65373373)** > > Goodman was a favourite on the show from its launch in 2004 until his departure 2016. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2023, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/869 "2023-04-25T01:32:56Z")
> **[Bruce Haigh, Australian envoy who aided apartheid-era escape, dies at 77](https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/04/12/bruce-haigh-australia-apartheid-dies/)** > > Mr. Haigh's role in helping a journalist flee South Africa was recounted in the film "Cry Freedom." ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/870 "2023-04-25T02:40:13Z")
Ginnie Newhart, wife of Bob, and reportedly the person who came up with the surprise ending for [Newhart](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ginnie-newhart-dead-bob-newhart-1235400983/), dead at 82. (Bob Newhart is 93.) ---
**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:** [April 25, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/871 "2023-04-25T12:22:22Z")
Aww, poor Bob. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/872 "2023-04-25T13:50:00Z")
Points incoming for somebody, I’m sure: > **[BREAKING NEWS: Singer Harry Belafonte dead at 96](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011757/Singer-Harry-Belafonte-dead-96.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailceleb)** > > American singer Harry Belafonte has died at the age of 96, his spokesman has confirmed. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/873 "2023-04-25T16:31:41Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Points incoming for somebody, I’m sure: > > [Harry Belafonte dead at 96: Barrier-breaking singer and actor passes away at home in Manhattan  | Daily Mail Online](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011757/Singer-Harry-Belafonte-dead-96.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailceleb) Of course he waits until he’s off my list to die. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/874 "2023-04-25T16:56:26Z")
took him more than half a century to reprise _The Angel Levine_ ---
**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:** [April 25, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/875 "2023-04-25T17:25:29Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Ginnie Newhart, wife of Bob, and reportedly the person who came up with the surprise ending for [Newhart](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ginnie-newhart-dead-bob-newhart-1235400983/), dead at 82. (Bob Newhart is 93.) Wow, never heard his wife came up with the idea. I was a kid and had not watched a lot of the show(just here and there), but I saw that final episode live and my Dad had to explain to me what had happened. I remember that “live on tv” moment forever. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/876 "2023-04-25T18:43:33Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I was a kid and had not watched a lot of the show(just here and there), but I saw that final episode live and my Dad had to explain to me what had happened. I remember that “live on tv” moment forever. Same here, although I was a regular watcher of Newhart with my mom. She had to explain what was so funny about the ending. But, yeah, it’s one of those tv-watching moments I still remember. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/877 "2023-04-25T19:35:54Z")
I remember him in _The World, the Flesh, and the Devil._ | 1 | phungi | 106 | 2 | 2 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2 | GIGObuster | 42 | 1 | 0 | | 2 | It’s Not Rocket Surgery | 42 | 1 | 0 | | 4 | jeezums | 29 | 1 | 1 | | 4 | Happy Lendervedder | 29 | 1 | 0 | | 7 | lel | 25 | 1 | 1 | | 8 | zadscmc | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 8 | Stephe96 | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 8 | Shoeless | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 8 | Railer 13 | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 8 | JohnT | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 12 | Allecher | 13 | 1 | 1 | | 13 | GuanoLad | 11 | 1 | 1 | | 13 | romansperson | 11 | 1 | 1 | | 15 | Biotop | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 15 | Borborygmi | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 15 | Spoiler Virgin | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 18 | commasense | 4 | 1 | 0 | | 18 | Paul Was in Saudi | 4 | 1 | 0 | | 20 | Baker | 0 | 1 | 1 | ---
**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:** [April 25, 2023, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/878 "2023-04-25T21:13:13Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Same here, although I was a regular watcher of Newhart with my mom. She had to explain what was so funny about the ending. But, yeah, it’s one of those tv-watching moments I still remember. I’d seen enough to get the jokes, but it was my Dad explaining to me that Bob Newhart had a previous show. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/879 "2023-04-26T01:14:57Z")
I feel old now. I _watched_ Newhart’s previous show. Nobody had to explain the joke to me. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2023, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/880 "2023-04-26T03:05:05Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I _watched_ Newhart’s previous show more than the later one, TYVM [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831.md?page=45)