# 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:** 22
**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 19, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/422 "2024-01-19T19:14:03Z")
Outside the game, I would say that if you lived 36,520 days and then died, it might as well count as living a hundred years. But anyone who has you will gladly accept the point. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/423 "2024-01-19T19:46:17Z")
Well, may as well concede that one you’ve passed your 99th birthday, you’re in your 100th year. Props to @eschereal for including the leap-year days. Bringing to mind the almost-there case of Los Angeles’ Earl “[I’ll paint any car for $99.95](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PtjdHaMeiiQ&pp=ygULRWFybCBzY2hlaWI%3D)” Scheib. Although there are of course instances of people who died on their birthday, [including the famous](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/18-famous-people-died-birthday-164144137.html), Sheib’s mother birthed him on February 28, 1908; hours before leap day. He died on February 29, 1992. I believe that was almost a 30,681 to 1 shot. ---
**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 19, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/424 "2024-01-19T20:10:28Z")
Dave Mills, inventor of NTP (Network Time Protocol) dies at 85 > **[Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/)** > > Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985. Exact time of death not stated Brian ---
**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 19, 2024, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/425 "2024-01-19T20:25:02Z")
I was just observing that the actor Edward Faulkner, who was in a few John Wayne movies and some other stuff, will (probably) be celebrating his 23rd birthday in about seven weeks. It got me to wondering if there is an alternate scoring methodology for those rare leap-day outliers. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/426 "2024-01-19T20:41:19Z")
I am pretty sure we are counting years lived, not birthday parties thrown. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/427 "2024-01-19T20:58:40Z")
What? You mean this isn’t the Pirates of Penzance? ---
**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:** [January 19, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/428 "2024-01-19T21:00:17Z")
A paradox, a paradox This ain’t a freakin’ paradox ---
**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 19, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/429 "2024-01-19T21:10:10Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Props to @eschereal for including the leap-year days. [pedant] Maybe? Still got the numbers wrong though. If the website that I used to calculate days is correct (because why do it by hand when I have tools on the internet to do it for me) he was alive for 36,880 days. Also, if you live for 100 years and were born after 1900 (which wasn’t a leap year whereas 2000 was) you should have 24-26 leap days during that span (depending on where your birth/death fall), meaning that it should be at least 36,524 days. [/pedant] ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/430 "2024-01-19T21:54:07Z")
FWIW, I was not the one that gave props to @eschereal for including leap year days. That was @Slithy_Tove But I will now. In the immortal words of Peyton Manning in a Nationwide commercial, “I concur” ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/431 "2024-01-20T16:46:34Z")
[Oh, no! Oh, no!](https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225771790/mary-weiss-shangri-las-death) Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las leaves 25 points behind ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/432 "2024-01-21T00:17:45Z")
> **['California Soul' Singer Marlena Shaw Dead at 81](https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/20/marlena-shaw-singer-california-soul-dead-dies-rip-81/?adid=social-tw)** > > Marlena Shaw -- best known for her song "California Soul" -- has died ... according to her daughter. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/433 "2024-01-21T20:13:36Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I used to read the obituaries of people who died at ninety nine. One time a guy died only two days before his 100th. The obituary was standard, but the last line made it shine. > > _ **The party planned for his 100th birthday will go on as scheduled.** _ My great-uncle died in his sleep (unexpectedly to the extent that a 99 year old’s death can be unexpected) less than two months before his 100th birthday. I’m still pissed at my West Coast relatives for canceling the party. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/434 "2024-01-21T20:42:14Z")
My grandmother was less than a month from her 108th birthday when she passed. And as I’ve mentioned before, she had already voted that year(2012) I’m pretty sure she voted Republican, but I like to think that if she had voted in 2016 she would not have voted for the orange guy. She did really study the policies of candidates, way more than most people do. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/435 "2024-01-21T22:07:47Z")
My grandmother was born in 1918 and when Bill Clinton was president, he’d be on TV and she’d wag her finger and yell, “You wicked, wicked man! You wicked, wicked man!” I wish I could believe she would have seen Trump as about 1000x as wicked, but I think she might have supported him. Alas, she died in 2006. When she died, we found she was still donating monthly to tons of causes, including anti-communist groups. Uh, we don’t know what those groups would be doing in 2006…but they still cashed her checks monthly. We obviously shut all that down. In fact, I believe this was discovered a few months before her death when my Dad was, get this, trying to get her income/assets low enough to qualify for Medicaid. That’s right, socialism! ---
**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 22, 2024, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/436 "2024-01-22T03:30:52Z")
> **[‘Beverly Hills 90210,’ ‘Port Charles’ actor David Gail dead at 58](https://ktla.com/news/local-news/beverly-hills-90210-port-charles-actor-david-gail-dead-at-58/)** > > Actor David Gail, who starred in several episodes of “Beverly Hills 90210” as Shannon Doherty’s fiancé but is possibly better known for his run as Dr. Joe Scanlon on “Port Charles,” a spinoff of th… ---
**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 22, 2024, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/437 "2024-01-22T04:21:42Z")
Russian poet and Putin critic (who wasn’t defenestrated, but was hit by a car that apparently didn’t slow down). > **[Russian poet and Kremlin critic Lev Rubinstein dies aged 76](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/russian-poet-and-kremlin-critic-lev-rubinstein-dies-aged-76)** > > Key figure of Soviet underground literary scene and critic of Ukraine war dies days after being hit by car > **[Lev Rubinstein, a Devoted and Defiant Lover of Language](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/lev-rubinstein-a-devoted-and-defiant-lover-of-language)** > > The Russian poet and essayist was a founding member of the Moscow conceptualist movement, an “implausibly social” presence in Moscow, and a firm believer to the end in the possibility of living in Russia with dignity and decency. ---
**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 22, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/438 "2024-01-22T23:38:28Z")
Someone I didn’t realize was still alive now isn’t. > **[Norman Jewison, ‘Moonstruck’ and ‘In the Heat of the Night’ Director, Dies at 97](https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/norman-jewison-dead-moonstruck-in-the-heat-of-the-night-1235882301/amp/)** > > Norman Jewison, the Oscar-nominated director behind "In the Heat of the Night," "Moonstruck," "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Jesus Christ Superstar," has died. ---
**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 23, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/439 "2024-01-23T03:01:40Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Someone I didn’t realize was still alive now isn’t. He was the theme for my list on the other thread. ---
**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 23, 2024, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/440 "2024-01-23T03:03:36Z")
Dexter Scott King, son of Martin Luther King Jr, has died of cancer at the age of 62. ---
**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 23, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/441 "2024-01-23T03:10:37Z")
The Rumble of Thunder will peal no more. [Gigi Riva, Italy’s men’s all-time leading scorer, dies at 79 – NBC New York](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/soccer/gigi-riva-all-time-leading-scorer-for-italy-mens-national-team-dies-at-79/5064768/#:~:text=Gigi%20Riva%2C%20the%20all%2Dtime,He%20was%2079). > Gigi Riva, the all-time leading goalscorer for Italy men’s national team who was known as the “Rombo di Tuono” (Rumble of Thunder), has died. He was 79. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=23)