# 2024 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2023, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940 "2023-12-01T06:01:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 108
**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:** [November 5, 2024, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2142 "2024-11-05T04:30:11Z")
> **[Remembering Dr. Richard Cash: How a 'simple' intervention helped save...](https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/10/26/g-s1-29496/richard-cash-oral-rehydration-salts-cholera-diarrhea)** > > In the late 1960s, he went to Dhaka to work on cholera. There he became involved in the development of oral rehydration therapy — hailed as one of the most significant medical advances of the century. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2024, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2143 "2024-11-05T07:21:48Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > The Straight Dope: Learn Stuff, Like it or Not. Always. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2144 "2024-11-05T15:26:02Z")
[Home Depot co-founder and philanthropist-turned-old-man-shouting-at-clouds Bernie Marcus.](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/home-depot-co-founder-bernie-marcus-dies-rcna178788) I’d met him once, and had a lot of respect for the culture he’d inculcated into Home Depot (one of the first big-box retailers to offer benefits for same-sex couples), and the amount of money he gave away. But he _was_ a billionaire, and in his last years turned into a MAGAt, whinging about “wokeness” and “nobody wants to work anymore.” ---
**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:** [November 5, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2145 "2024-11-05T16:44:13Z")
He sure ain’t working anymore. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2024, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2146 "2024-11-06T06:09:54Z")
> **[Murray McCory, 80, Dies; JanSport Founder Created the School Backpack](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/business/murray-mccory-dead.html)** > > He brought lightweight packs to millions of students and transformed the way they carried their textbooks to school. > **[Joey Jay (1935–2024), first Little Leaguer to make the majors ](https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/joey-jay-1935-2024-first-little-leaguer-to-make-the-majors/)** > > Joey Jay, first Little League baseball player to rise to the majors, died September 27, 2024 in Lutz, Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2147 "2024-11-06T13:25:06Z")
[Former ABC13 anchor Chauncy Glover dies in Los Angeles](https://abc13.com/post/former-abc13-anchor-chauncy-glover-dies-age-39-los-angeles/15514470/) at age 39. Don’t think anybody had him - it would have been a whopping 61 points. No cause of has been released. He had a rough bout of covid a couple of years ago, but at that age I’m wondering if it wasn’t natural causes. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2148 "2024-11-07T00:49:27Z")
Judy Love has opened her last travel stop. > **[Judy Love, co-founder of Love’s Travel Stops dies at age 87](https://www.koco.com/article/judy-love-co-founder-of-loves-travel-stops-dies-at-age-87/62817661)** > > The co-founder of Love’s Travel Stops and a well-known philanthropist, Judy Love, died on Tuesday, company officials announced. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2149 "2024-11-07T21:22:54Z")
> **[Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL’s iconic greeting ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ dies at 74...](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/11/07/business/elwood-edwards-aol-youve-got-mail)** > > Elwood Edwards, a behind-the-scenes graphics and camera operator at local Cleveland television station WKYC whose voice was propelled to worldwide fame after he recorded AOL’s email greeting, ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ has died, according to his former... ---
**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:** [November 7, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2150 "2024-11-07T23:21:05Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > [Joe Bryant](https://people.com/kobe-bryant-father-joe-bryant-dead-at-69-8678587), former NBA player and father of Kobe Bryant, has died at 69. I know this was a long time ago, but I wonder how much grief and shock of his son’s death affected him. He was young to die at 69 and healthy for the most part. He had a major stroke. I’ve mentioned it before, but I have an acquaintance and his son was killed in the line of duty as a police officer. My acquaintance’s wife, the boy’s mother, died just about 1-2 years later. He insisted she never recovered from her son’s death and just deteriorated. I believe him. She was only in her 60’s as well. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2024, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2151 "2024-11-08T05:51:00Z")
> **[Geoff Capes obituary](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct/24/geoff-capes-obituary)** > > Britain’s greatest shot putter who twice won the World’s Strongest Man competition > **[Minneapolis musician Tyka Nelson, Prince's sister and only full sibling, dies...](https://apnews.com/article/tyka-nelson-obit-prince-11320c0b8de9032f785080a6e8474fbe)** > > Minneapolis musician Tyka Nelson, Prince’s only full sibling, died Monday. She was 64. Her son President Nelson says she died at a hospital in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2152 "2024-11-08T12:53:02Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’ve mentioned it before, but I have an acquaintance and his son was killed in the line of duty as a police officer. My acquaintance’s wife, the boy’s mother, died just about 1-2 years later. He insisted she never recovered from her son’s death and just deteriorated. I believe it. My mother, only 57, died a year and a half after my sister’s suicide. She wasn’t the healthiest, but I’m convinced her death was caused in part from the stress and grief. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2153 "2024-11-08T12:59:20Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > I believe it. My mother, only 57, died a year and a half after my sister’s suicide. She wasn’t the healthiest, but I’m convinced her death was caused in part from the stress and grief. Sorry to hear about this. There really is something that we can call “a broken heart” that I think can just collapse immune systems and create actual physical health problems. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2154 "2024-11-08T14:52:16Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > This is a huge year for me. The first time I had a unique pick, AND the first time I had more than one overall pick! All within the span of the last three weeks! I had zero one year and then Christopher Hitchens and Kim Jong Il died in rapid succession and I got two. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2155 "2024-11-08T18:26:53Z")
Model Georgina Cooper has died of a sudden illness at age 46. The exact nature of the illness isn’t clear but apparently she’s had ongoing health problems since a past bout with Covid. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2156 "2024-11-09T01:24:35Z")
Actress June Spencer has died at the age of 105. She played the character of Peggy Woolley on the British soap opera _The Archers_ from 1950 until her recent retirement in 2022 (at the age of 103). ---
**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:** [November 9, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2157 "2024-11-09T01:31:34Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Actress June Spencer has died at the age of 105. Thank you for these. I update the Life Pool when someone of this age dies. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2158 "2024-11-09T02:44:37Z")
**Tony Todd** , known for _Star Trek_, _Candyman_, and one of my favourite shows _Chuck_, dies aged 69. > **[Tony Todd Dies: ‘Candyman’ Star Whose Hundreds Of Credits Include ‘Final...](https://deadline.com/2024/11/tony-todd-dead-candyman-1236171521/)** > > Tony Todd, who played the killer in 'Candyman' and appeared in 'Platoon,' 'The Crow' and more than 240 other films and TV shows, died November 6 in L.A. at 69. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2159 "2024-11-09T02:56:53Z")
Oh my goodness it’s just about three weeks until the next picks can be posted. Let’s go all out for 2025! ---
**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:** [November 9, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2160 "2024-11-09T03:00:57Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > **Tony Todd** , known for _Star Trek_, _Candyman_, and one of my favourite shows _Chuck_, dies aged 69. Ooh, boy that one sucks. Loved Tony Todd in anything he was in. Way too young. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2161 "2024-11-09T03:51:35Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@GuanoLad](#): > > > > **Tony Todd** , known for _Star Trek_, _Candyman_, and one of my favourite shows _Chuck_, dies aged 69. > > Ooh, boy that one sucks. Loved Tony Todd in anything he was in. Way too young. He was one of those actors who shined in even the worst projects. I always thought he deserved better opportunities [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=107) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=109)