# 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:** 61
**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:** [June 21, 2023, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1201 "2023-06-21T02:06:16Z")
[Max Morath](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/max-morath/), ragtime pioneer. Also… > **[Donald Triplett, the 1st person diagnosed with autism, dies at 89](https://www.npr.org/2023/06/17/1182967726/first-autism-donald-triplett-dies)** > > The Mississippi man known as "Case 1" was the first person to be diagnosed with autism. Triplett was the subject of a book and documentary titled In a Different Key and many medical journal articles. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2023, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1202 "2023-06-21T02:09:27Z")
From the themed thread: > [@2023 \[THEMED\] Celebrity Death Pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-themed-celebrity-death-pool/975921/103): > > She is not on my sitcom actor list, but nonetheless I will place her article here. Angela Thorne, actress known best from To The Manor Born, has died aged 84. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1203 "2023-06-21T11:59:22Z")
I hadn’t heard he was missing, and coincidentally, I just last night watched an episode of _Medici_ in which his character, Piero (the Gouty) de’ Medici, dies. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1204 "2023-06-22T15:32:25Z")
Former NFL player and Super Bowl champion [Clark Haggans](https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/sport/clark-haggans-dies-aged-46-spt-intl/index.html) has died at 46. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2023, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1205 "2023-06-24T11:19:06Z")
Actor Frederic Forrest has died at 86. > **[Frederic Forrest](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Forrest)** > > Frederic Fenimore Forrest Jr. (December 23, 1936 – June 2023) was an American actor. Forrest came to public attention for his performance in When the Legends Die (1972), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. He went on to receive Academy and Golden Globe Award nominations in the Best Supporting Actor category for his portrayal of Huston Dyer in musical drama The Rose (1979). > Forrest portrayed Jay "Chef" Hicks in Francis Ford Coppola's epic war f... ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1206 "2023-06-24T12:36:13Z")
He got out of the boat. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1207 "2023-06-24T17:07:40Z")
Never get outta the boat. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2023, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1208 "2023-06-25T03:27:57Z")
> **[Human remains are found in California wilderness near search area for actor...](https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/entertainment/julian-sands-california-search-human-remains-found/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2023-06-25T03%3A26%3A01)** > > Human remains were found Saturday in Southern California near the area where investigators have been searching for missing British actor Julian Sands, according to authorities. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1209 "2023-06-25T17:18:09Z")
> **[Teresa Taylor, Butthole Surfers Drummer and 'Slacker' Star, Dead at 60](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/teresa-taylor-death-obituary-butthole-surfers-drummer-slacker-star-1234774295/)** > > Taylor, a.k.a. “Teresa Nervosa,” was a drummer for the seminal psych-punk band. They shared she died “peacefully this weekend” of lung disease > **[H. Lee Sarokin, judge who freed 'Hurricane' Carter, dies at 94](https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lee-sarokin-judge-freed-hurricane-carter-dies-94-100349069)** > > The federal judge who freed boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and famously said tobacco companies engaged in a “vast” conspiracy to conceal the dangers of smoking has died in California > **[Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who wrote 'Fiddler on the Roof,' dies at 99](https://www.npr.org/2023/06/23/530733109/sheldon-harnick-died-fiddler-on-the-roof)** > > The Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist was one of the last masters of Broadway's Golden Age. His career extended over 60 years. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2023, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1210 "2023-06-25T18:05:39Z")
I met Teresa once. She was nice, considering the dirtbags she hung out with. RIP ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1211 "2023-06-25T19:56:24Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lee-sarokin-judge-freed-hurricane-carter-dies-94-100349069](https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lee-sarokin-judge-freed-hurricane-carter-dies-94-100349069) I attended the Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue concert to benefit Ruben Hurricane Carter in the Houston Dome (was that the Astrodome?) in January 1976. It was so awesome; so many musicians came and collaborated together. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1212 "2023-06-26T20:19:14Z")
> **[John Goodenough, Nobel laureate and battery pioneer, dies at 100](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/john-goodenough-nobel-laureate-battery-pioneer-dies-100-2023-06-26/)** > > Nobel laureate John Goodenough, a pioneer in the development of lithium-ion batteries that today power millions of electric vehicles around the globe, died on Sunday just a month short of his 101st birthday. not even no points for Baker ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1213 "2023-06-26T20:34:15Z")
But I didn’t have him at all. On one list though, those with people born on my own birthday, I do have the Nobel laureate Avram Hershko. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1214 "2023-06-26T20:36:50Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > But I didn’t have him at all. That is what I said: as nearly pointless as your list may be/is, you missed one there. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1215 "2023-06-26T20:59:55Z")
💓 😄 I once had a list of people all over 95 years old. I got three points that year. One of my picks had the gall to die the following January 2nd. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1216 "2023-06-27T00:34:59Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > > [@Baker](#): > > > > But I didn’t have him at all. > > That is what I said: as nearly pointless as your list may be/is, you missed one there. He just wasn’t…. Oh never mind. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2023, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1217 "2023-06-27T01:34:48Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > He just wasn’t…. … current? ---
**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:** [June 27, 2023, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1218 "2023-06-27T02:14:26Z")
I think Loach was going for “good enough”. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1219 "2023-06-27T02:37:46Z")
Of my remaining picks one is 85, one is 86, one is 91, one is 95, one is 96, three are 97, one is 98, two are 99. and one is 100. I picked the two youngsters because they are special and when and if they pass I want to put their name out there again. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/1220 "2023-06-27T04:40:54Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > 💓 😄 I once had a list of people all over 95 years old. All of my picks in the Celebrity Death Pool since I started playing six or seven years ago have been [performers over 90 years old.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/99) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831.md?page=60) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831.md?page=62)