# 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:** 16
**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, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/302 "2024-01-01T22:51:55Z")
Yabbut even chess prodigies aren’t defending their world championship at age 15 that they won a few years earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/303 "2024-01-02T00:39:52Z")
And we’re off: Australian Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins. [https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/01/sport/melissa-hoskins-dies-hit-by-car-spt-intl/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/01/sport/melissa-hoskins-dies-hit-by-car-spt-intl/index.html) Edit: her husband has been “arrested and charged with causing her death.” ---
**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 2, 2024, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/304 "2024-01-02T00:50:02Z")
She died yesterday ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/305 "2024-01-02T01:50:09Z")
Well, piffle. ---
**Author:** ![Premislaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@Premislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Premislaus)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/306 "2024-01-02T09:37:51Z")
Died two months after failing to get reelected to the parliament for the first time in 30 years. Retirement curse is real. ---
**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 2, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/307 "2024-01-02T11:44:42Z")
> [@Premislaus](#): > > Retirement curse is real. Perhaps for people for which work is the most important thing in their lives and have neither friends nor hobbies, I would guess. Which could explain her ideology. When on top of that they are 83 years old, I doubt there is a profounder lesson to be learned here. Just lament that she was on nobody’s list, 18 wasted points and an Opening Kickoff Award postponed – just a matter of time. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/308 "2024-01-02T16:53:00Z")
> **[Peter Magubane, a South African photographer who captured 40 years of...](https://apnews.com/article/peter-magubane-dies-south-africa-apartheid-df712cd674807faf5e46c0355194a019)** > > Peter Magubane, a fearless photographer who captured the violence and horror of South Africa’s brutal apartheid era of racial oppression, and was entrusted with documenting Nelson Mandela’s first years of freedom after his release from prison, has... ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/309 "2024-01-02T17:53:31Z")
I keep checking in to see if there is an opening kickoff winner. Last year it was January 6, but once it was Jan 1. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/310 "2024-01-03T00:11:18Z")
Syndey Wolfe, US consumer health watchdog, dead at 86 [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/sidney-wolfe-longtime-us-consumer-health-watchdog-dead-86-2024-01-02/](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/sidney-wolfe-longtime-us-consumer-health-watchdog-dead-86-2024-01-02/) Brian (Cancer, not contaminated intravenous fluids) ---
**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:** [January 3, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/311 "2024-01-03T02:28:04Z")
> **[Ex-QB Ryan, who led Browns to last title, dies](https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39229703/ex-qb-frank-ryan-led-browns-last-title-dies-87)** > > Frank Ryan, the quarterback who led the Browns to their last NFL title in 1964, has died at age 87. On the 1st. Quite the person. "Just months after winning the '64 title – the last for any of the city’s three major professional teams for 52 years until the [Cavaliers](https://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/cle/cleveland-cavaliers) won the NBA crown in 2016 – Ryan got his Ph.D. from Rice, where he played college ball in his home state of Texas. He went on to teach math at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland and later at Yale and Rice. Ryan is also credited with helping create an electronic voting system that modernized the U.S. House of Representatives. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/312 "2024-01-03T05:10:34Z")
> **[Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri killed in Beirut suburb](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/2/top-hamas-official-saleh-al-arouri-killed-in-beirut-suburb)** > > At least six people killed in Israeli drone strike on Lebanese capital, state media report. ---
**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 3, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/313 "2024-01-03T12:56:54Z")
> **[Acclaimed Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía, voice of Mama Coco, dead at 90](https://www.npr.org/2024/01/02/1222552130/mexican-actress-ana-ofelia-murguia-voice-of-mama-coco-in-coco-is-dead-at-age-90?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20240103&utm_term=9187389&utm_campaign=news&utm_id=42039374&orgid=424&utm_att1=)** > > Murguía was a lauded actor with a decades-long career in film, television and theater. She's best known in the U.S. for voicing the elderly matriarch in Coco. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/314 "2024-01-03T14:17:55Z")
Please don’t ask me to pronounce her surname. Even after hearing it on the news, I can’t get it right. > **[Kids Company charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh dies aged 61](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/02/kids-company-charity-founder-camila-batmanghelidjh-dies-aged-61)** > > Family announces death of campaigner known for her charisma, colourful attire and outspoken pursuit of social justice for children ---
**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:** [January 3, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/315 "2024-01-03T16:08:54Z")
> **[Frank Ryan, the last quarterback to lead the Cleveland Browns to an NFL...](https://apnews.com/article/frank-ryan-browns-obituary-d6964b5635a8ea776b4d2179148493a3)** > > Frank Ryan, the quarterback who led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964, has died. He was 87. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/316 "2024-01-03T16:11:53Z")
Her death was actually December 31, so not this year. (I saw it Monday and went digging to see when it happened, wondering if she would bring anyone an Opening Kickoff award - though I don’t know if she was on anyone’s list.) ---
**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 3, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/317 "2024-01-03T16:12:39Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Frank Ryan, the last quarterback to lead the Cleveland Browns to an NFL title, has died at 87 | AP News](https://apnews.com/article/frank-ryan-browns-obituary-d6964b5635a8ea776b4d2179148493a3) Already reported by @smithsb, five posts ago. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/318 "2024-01-03T17:07:58Z")
General Gordon Sullivan who led the change of the US Army from the Cold War into a smaller more modern force died at 86. He was also acting Secretary of the Army under Clinton. > **[Retired Gen. Gordon Sullivan Dies](https://www.ausa.org/news/retired-gen-gordon-sullivan-dies)** > > Retired Gen. Gordon Sullivan, the 32nd Army chief of staff and former president and CEO of the Association of the U.S. Army, died Jan. 2. He was 86. “Gen. Gordon Sullivan was a true American hero and an Army legend. He was an inspirational leader of... ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/319 "2024-01-03T17:51:15Z")
So many pointless deaths. ---
**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 3, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/320 "2024-01-03T18:02:37Z")
Well, you cannot score until the opening kickoff. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/321 "2024-01-03T18:59:43Z")
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