# 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:** 110
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2182 "2024-11-14T23:45:09Z")
You bet it was. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2183 "2024-11-14T23:53:32Z")
And for the computer nerds here: > **[In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024](https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/)** > > CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024. [co-inventor with John Kemeny of the BASIC language and associated time-sharing system which some posters here may remember from college] ---
**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:** [November 15, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2184 "2024-11-15T00:33:33Z")
       96 END ---
**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 15, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2185 "2024-11-15T04:19:18Z")
> **[Frank Auerbach: British-German painter dies aged 93](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l9p45w9zvo)** > > Auerbach died peacefully at his home in London on Monday morning, his representatives confirmed. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2186 "2024-11-15T06:03:59Z")
I have been checking these names and have not found point givers. If I have made a mistake please inform me. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2187 "2024-11-15T15:28:56Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > 96 END I understood that reference (cue up the Captain American meme). Also, Baker, you’re doing great! ---
**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 15, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2188 "2024-11-15T17:52:47Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I have been checking these names and have not found point givers. If I have made a mistake please inform me. I have another 137 points. Trust me, no need to verify ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2189 "2024-11-15T19:15:59Z")
Hmmm, that would put you way into first place. 😆 😅 🤣 😂 ---
**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 17, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2190 "2024-11-17T01:24:30Z")
[Bela Karolyi has died.](https://www.yahoo.com/sports/bela-karolyi-led-nadia-comaneci-001014852.html) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2191 "2024-11-17T17:44:20Z")
Dammit… I had him in my themed list years ago but took him off. ---
**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 18, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2192 "2024-11-18T23:55:43Z")
Not necessarily a celebrity, but the country’s second-oldest resident has passed away. > **[Herlda Senhouse, the second-oldest US resident, dies at age 113](https://www.kmbc.com/article/herlda-senhouse-the-second-oldest-us-resident-dies-at-age-113/62942766)** > > Herlda Senhouse, who founded a jazz dance group to raise money for Black students in the 1950s and lived to become the second-oldest person in the U.S., has died. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2193 "2024-11-19T01:15:33Z")
I believe the cause of death was listed as “answered prayer.” ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2194 "2024-11-19T03:08:59Z")
> **[Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95](https://apnews.com/article/arthur-frommer-died-7293814296854079a3a10f05d02faf44)** > > Travel writer Arthur Frommer, who revolutionized leisure travel for ordinary Americans with his guidebook “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day,” has died. He was 95. ---
**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 19, 2024, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2195 "2024-11-19T06:04:59Z")
Celeste Caeiro, the Portuguese woman who handed out carnations to soldiers rebelling against a fascist dictatorship in a 1974 coup that became known globally as the Carnation Revolution is dead at 91. [https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/portugals-carnations-lady-who-gave-name-1974-revolution-dies-91-2024-11-15/](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/portugals-carnations-lady-who-gave-name-1974-revolution-dies-91-2024-11-15/) ---
**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 19, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2196 "2024-11-19T23:25:26Z")
Saafir (aka Reggie Gibson), rapper and actor, has died at 54. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2024, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2197 "2024-11-20T03:41:12Z")
Former [Chicago Bulls](https://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/chi/chicago-bulls) star forward Bob Love died Monday following a long battle with cancer. He was 81. Love was a three-time All-Star who spent nine of his 11 NBA seasons with the Bulls. He joined Hall of Famer Jerry Sloan in becoming the second member of the Bulls to have his jersey retired by the organization in 1994. From ESPN ---
**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 20, 2024, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2198 "2024-11-20T05:46:54Z")
> **['One Tree Hill' Actor Paul Teal Died After Battle With Pancreatic Cancer](https://www.tmz.com/2024/11/18/one-tree-hill-actor-paul-teal-died-from-pancreatic-cancer/)** > > Paul Teal, famous for his work on "One Tree Hill," died 7 months after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer ... TMZ has learned. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2199 "2024-11-20T17:54:18Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > [Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95 | AP News](https://apnews.com/article/arthur-frommer-died-7293814296854079a3a10f05d02faf44) We used Frommer’s guidebook to Mexico back in the late '70’s. If memory serves, it was Mexico on $10 and $15 a Day. Very helpful. Also, Pancreatic Cancer sucks big time!!! I had a former co-worker who was a great guy be diagnosed in February a few years ago and he passed 3-1/2 months later. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2200 "2024-11-20T18:07:22Z")
John Kinsel, 103, has died. One of the last Navajon code talkers. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/john-kinsel-us-marine-who-used-his-native-navajo-tongue-as-code-to-outfox-the-japanese/ar-AA1uqgI8?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=40a701b276454da2f2a9f2f63e89f703&ei=23#comments](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/john-kinsel-us-marine-who-used-his-native-navajo-tongue-as-code-to-outfox-the-japanese/ar-AA1uqgI8?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=40a701b276454da2f2a9f2f63e89f703&ei=23#comments) ---
**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:** [November 20, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/2201 "2024-11-20T18:10:15Z")
I keep seeing “one of the last”. How many are left? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=111)