# 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:** 15
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/282 "2024-01-01T05:22:51Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > You should get a prize, you are the 100th player Is that me? I’ll take it! I can use any prize I can get. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/283 "2024-01-01T05:28:33Z")
That’s you! You want cookies? ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/284 "2024-01-01T05:35:38Z")
No, thank you. I’ll just take the undying admiration of the SDMB. 😉 ---
**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:** [January 1, 2024, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/285 "2024-01-01T05:40:56Z")
Nigel Starmer-Smith Linda Nolan Andy Taylor Eleonora Giorgi Paul John Gascoigne Shannen Doherty Toby Keith Katie Micucci Frank Caprio Chris Evart Bruce Willis Eric Idle Jonnie Irwin Alternate: John McVie ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/286 "2024-01-01T05:44:30Z")
Happy New Year! Happy Birthday to our dearDeathMistress! Let see if this list is better than last years … Shannen Doherty Linda Nolan Steve Gleason Jonnie Irwin Rocket Norton Ronnie Atkins Erik Jensen Celine Dion Bobby Hehir Jason Smith Corey Williams Eleonora Giorgi Princess Bajrakitiyabha **Alternates:** Maria Menounos Noddy Holder Jeanette Lee Notes: Jason Smith: Newcastle Councilor Corey Williams: nickname: “Homicide” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/287 "2024-01-01T05:46:03Z")
Well, we have at least 10% more players than last year! ---
**Author:** ![candide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@candide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/candide)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/288 "2024-01-01T05:47:56Z")
There is nothing to celebrate in 2023. I scored two, but those two were the youngest two on my list. Faye Fantarrow and Johnny Ruffo never got to live a full life. I suspect next year I will be going for the “Quantity, not Quality” prize, as if that were not gruesome enough. “Quality,” after all, means young. I will get the “Robbing the Cradle” prize for 2023, but when it involves a girl who died of brain cancer when her life was just beginning, it makes me wonder…. Happy New Year Everyone!! Andy Taylor – Duran Duran drummer. Gi’tis Baggs (Grant Littler) – former guitarist for the Go Rounds. Jonnie Irwin – Home improvement TV host. James Whale – TV presenter and recent MBE Jack Hanna – Celebrity zookeeper. Toby Keith – Red Cup afficionado Shannon Doherty – 90210 Actress. Erik Jensen – “The Walking Dead” actor Sam Neill – New Zealander Actor who was not in LOTR Rob Burrow – Former Rugby player Theo Burrell – Antiques Roadshow (UK) Presenter Sean Wallace – Southern University Assistant Football Coach Bam Margera – Celebrity Skateboarder Alternates: Tim O’Brien – Novelist Jeanette Lee – Pool Player Clean List: Andy Taylor Gi’tis Baggs Jonnie Irwin James Whale Jack Hanna Toby Keith Shannon Doherty Erik Jensen Sam Neill Rob Burrow Theo Burrell Sean Wallace Bam Margera Alternates: Tim O’Brien Jeanette Lee ---
**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:** [January 1, 2024, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/289 "2024-01-01T05:51:56Z")
I will be just keeping the same random bunch of people alive in '24. [Boris Spassky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Spassky) [Philippe Druillet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Druillet) [Raúl Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Castro) [Werner Herzog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog) [Geezer Butler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler) [Violetta Chamorro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violeta_Chamorro) [Aung San Suu Kyi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi) [Muhammad Saeed al Sahhaf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf) [Joseph Kabila](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kabila) [Dalai Lama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama) [Akihito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihito) [Gérard Depardieu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Depardieu) [Peter Weir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weir) ---
**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:** [January 1, 2024, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/290 "2024-01-01T05:58:53Z")
**Dirty list:** James Whale- British media personality Steve McMichael- former NFL player Michael Tilson-Thomas- conductor and pianist Jane McAlevey- author and labor activist Dai Henwood- New Zealand comedian Shannen Doherty- actress Bobby Hehir- hockey player Princess Bajrakitiyabha- Thai royal Linda Nolan- Irish actress and singer Bruce Willis- actor Neale Daniher- Australian rules footballer Jonnie Irwin- British media personality Nadine Koutcher- Belarusian opera singer I’m including alternates on the off-chance any of my main-listers kick it late but don’t get reported until after midnight. Alts 1. Dame Esther Rantzen- British journalist 2. Bao Xishun- Chinese herdsman, world’s tallest man 3. Joan Bakewell- British media personality, member of the House of Lords **Clean list:** James Whale Steve McMichael Michael Tilson-Thomas Jane McAlevey Dai Henwood Shannen Doherty Bobby Hehir Princess Bajrakitiyabha Linda Nolan Bruce Willis Neale Daniher Jonnie Irwin Nadine Koutcher Alts Dame Esther Rantzen Bao Xishun Joan Bakewell ---
**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:** [January 1, 2024, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/291 "2024-01-01T06:01:54Z")
Happy murderin-- I mean, good luck everyone! ---
**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:** [January 1, 2024, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/292 "2024-01-01T10:36:12Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > I’ll just take the **undying** admiration of the SDMB. ISWYDT ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/293 "2024-01-01T11:38:03Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Happy murderin Isn’t that against rule 7? ---
**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:** [January 1, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/294 "2024-01-01T13:02:11Z")
And we’re off. Polish politician Iwona Elżbieta Śledzińska-Katarasińska has died at the age of 82. I was going to pick her but I didn’t know how to do those accent marks. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/295 "2024-01-01T13:34:40Z")
If the person you search is in Wikipedia you can type the name without accents, diacritical marks or whatever and the search engine usually finds the correct entry. Searching for “Elzbieta Sledzinska-Katarasinska” I am routed to: > **[Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwona_%C5%9Aledzi%C5%84ska-Katarasi%C5%84ska)** > > Iwona Elżbieta Śledzińska-Katarasińska (3 January 1941 – 1 January 2024) was a Polish journalist and politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 23,119 votes in 9 Łódź district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list. > In People's Republic of Poland she was a journalist of "Głos Robotniczy" press organ of Polish United Workers' Party in Łódź. Inspired by communists during 1968 Polish political crisis she wrote many anti-Semitic texts. > Śledzińska-Katarasińska was ... ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/296 "2024-01-01T14:26:31Z")
> [@candide](#): > > Sam Neill – New Zealander Actor who was not in LOTR Oh good - I’m not the only one that confuses him with Hugo Weaving. 🙂 ---
**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:** [January 1, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/297 "2024-01-01T16:39:32Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > If the person you search is in Wikipedia you can type the name without accents, diacritical marks or whatever and the search engine usually finds the correct entry. I was joking. I can even spell Spın̈al Tap correctly when needed. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/298 "2024-01-01T17:01:43Z")
I was going to pick Sean Wallace, but could not find a birthdate or any documentation of his age… not claiming this is an invalid pick, but I didn’t feel he passed the low bar… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/299 "2024-01-01T20:34:08Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I will be just keeping the same random bunch of people alive in '24. > > [Boris Spassky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Spassky) Boris Spassky’s still alive? Holy cow - it’s been over 50 years since Bobby Fischer beat him for the world championship! ---
**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:** [January 1, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/300 "2024-01-01T21:15:31Z")
I thought about replacing him with Anatoly Bugorski, but he skates on the edge of being famous for being sick: he was the guy who took a cyclotron beam through the head, several decades ago. ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/301 "2024-01-01T22:39:21Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Boris Spassky’s still alive? Holy cow - it’s been over 50 years since Bobby Fischer beat him for the world championship! 50 years isn’t that long, Iris Cummings is still alive and she competed in the Berlin Olympics (1936) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=16)