# 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:** 50
**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:** [May 19, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/981 "2023-05-19T17:13:13Z")
The Grave Dancer has now gone to his own: > **[Sam Zell, billionaire real estate investor, dies](https://apnews.com/article/sam-zell-real-estate-billionaire-68dd59e71e5b4ad18308afa0b83c07f8)** > > Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate who earned a multibillion-dollar fortune and a reputation as “the grave dancer” for his ability to revive moribund properties has died due to complications from a recent illness. He was 81. Bearded and... ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/982 "2023-05-19T17:44:22Z")
Pointless deaths ---
**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:** [May 19, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/983 "2023-05-19T17:55:03Z")
You know who’s not a pointless death? [Timothy Keller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Keller_(pastor)). 28 (for meeeeee!) to be exact. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/984 "2023-05-19T18:17:49Z")
You and three others, | 1 | phungi | 106 | 2 | 2 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2 | Happy Lendervedder | 57 | 2 | 0 | | 3 | GIGObuster | 42 | 1 | 0 | | 3 | It’s Not Rocket Surgery | 42 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | jeezums | 29 | 1 | 1 | | 6 | ataraxy22 | 28 | 1 | 0 | | 6 | Hoopy Frood | 28 | 1 | 0 | | 6 | Queen Anne’s Lace | 28 | 1 | 0 | | 9 | zadscmc | 26 | 2 | 1 | | 10 | lel | 25 | 1 | 1 | | 11 | JohnT | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 11 | Railer 13 | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 11 | Shoeless | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 11 | Stephe96 | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 15 | J-P l | 16 | 1 | 0 | | 15 | Karl Gauss | 16 | 1 | 0 | | 17 | Allecher | 13 | 1 | 1 | | 18 | GuanoLad | 11 | 1 | 1 | | 18 | Mahaloth | 11 | 1 | 1 | | 18 | romansperson | 11 | 1 | 1 | | 21 | Biotop | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 21 | Borborygmi | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 21 | Spoiler Virgin | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 24 | commasense | 4 | 1 | 0 | | 24 | Paul Was in Saudi | 4 | 1 | 0 | | 25 | Baker | 0 | 1 | 1 | ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/985 "2023-05-19T19:25:12Z")
> **[All-time NFL great running back, social activist Jim Brown dead at 87](https://apnews.com/article/nfl-jim-brown-03d88c7da08840a0921ae8d8dd0a6aaa?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP_NFL)** > > NFL legend, actor and social activist Jim Brown has died at the age of 87. Brown shattered records during a relatively short NFL career, leading the Cleveland Browns to their last championship in 1964 -- and retired in his prime to become an actor.... ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/986 "2023-05-19T20:01:09Z")
I don’t follow football but that’s a name I recognize. Pointless though. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/987 "2023-05-20T22:35:14Z")
I thought he died in _The Dirty Dozen…_ ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/988 "2023-05-20T23:24:15Z")
> **[Martin Amis, era-defining British novelist, dies aged 73](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/martin-amis-era-defining-british-novelist-dies-aged-73?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks)** > > The celebrated author of Money and London Fields, whose works defined the 80s and 90s literary scene, died of oesophageal cancer on Friday at his home in Florida ---
**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:** [May 21, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/989 "2023-05-21T20:29:16Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > You and three others Yay! I’m on the board! ---
**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:** [May 21, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/990 "2023-05-21T21:34:12Z")
I’m doing two Death Pools this year and am not on the board for either of them. None of my celebs repeat. I have 26 chances and _nobody is doing me the favor of dying!_ Is that fair, I ask you? ---
**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:** [May 21, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/991 "2023-05-21T21:53:58Z")
I know! People are so inconsiderate. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/992 "2023-05-22T00:57:10Z")
I’m on the board, but have 0 points, just a unique pick. But believe it or not I’m sorry the gentleman has passed, and I wish him RIP ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/993 "2023-05-22T01:18:32Z")
I know I got my list in on time. Even with 0, would I show up? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/994 "2023-05-22T01:33:24Z")
Yes, you posted at 235 then 244. If, like the pick I mentioned, you had a celeb who was over 100, you would have zero points, and would show up. I’m surprised I’ve had only one. Nobody on my list is much under 90. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2023, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/995 "2023-05-22T10:18:22Z")
> **[Hinge and Bracket star George Logan dies aged 78 | ITV News](https://www.itv.com/news/2023-05-22/hinge-and-bracket-star-george-logan-dies-aged-78)** > > Logan was well-known for his performance as Dr Evadne Hinge alongside Patrick Fyffe's Dame Hilda Bracket. | ITV National News ---
**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:** [May 22, 2023, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/996 "2023-05-22T10:54:17Z")
After Barry Humphries and Paul O’Grady, it must be true after all, that comedy drag acts die in threes. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/997 "2023-05-22T18:09:06Z")
Ray Stevenson has died at age 58. [Ray Stevenson, Actor in the Thor Movies and ‘RRR,’ Dies at 58](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ray-stevenson-dead-thor-ahsoka-rrr-1235497816/) ---
**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:** [May 22, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/998 "2023-05-22T20:58:47Z")
58 is too young for someone who seemed to be in pretty good shape. He was a very popular genre actor, too. He is the main antagonist in the upcoming Star Wars _Ahsoka_ TV series. RIP Ray Stevenson. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/999 "2023-05-22T22:11:26Z")
> **[Pete Brown, countercultural poet, singer and Cream lyricist, dies aged 82](https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/20/pete-brown-countercultural-poet-singer-and-cream-lyricist-dies-aged-82)** > > British poet who wrote lyrics for Sunshine of Your Love, White Room and many more also had acclaimed solo career ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1000 "2023-05-23T08:23:45Z")
Man, between him and Lance Reddick, it’s been a bad year for tall, charismatic, underappreciated character actors. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831.md?page=51)