# 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:** 69
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1362 "2024-07-06T21:16:11Z")
Produced _Avatar_ and _Titanic_ - not bad. > **[Jon Landau Dies: ‘Avatar’ & Oscar-Winning ‘Titanic’ Producer Was 63](https://deadline.com/2024/07/jon-landau-dies-avatar-oscar-winning-titanic-producer-was-63-1236002580/amp/)** > > Jon Landau, the illustrious producer of the Avatar movies, Titanic and COO of James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment, has died at age 63. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1363 "2024-07-06T22:16:05Z")
> **[Judith Belushi Pisano dies at 73 - The Martha's Vineyard Times](https://www.mvtimes.com/2024/07/06/judith-belushi-pisano-passes/)** > > Judith Belushi Pisano, the wife of comedian and musician John Belushi, passed away on Friday night at 73 years of age after a long battle with cancer.  Pisano was an actress and producer and known for working on “The Blues Brothers” and... ---
**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:** [July 6, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1364 "2024-07-06T22:36:46Z")
So… not the same Jon Landau that was Springsteen’s longtime manager? I remember seeing his name in movie credits and always just assumed it was the same guy. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1365 "2024-07-06T23:07:21Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > not the same Jon Landau that was Springsteen’s longtime manager? Not the same one, no. The one mentioned above would have been about 13 at the time _Greeting from Asbury Park_ was released. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1366 "2024-07-07T21:43:43Z")
> **[Rob Stone, Co-Founder of The Fader, Dies at 55](https://pitchfork.com/news/rob-stone-co-founder-of-the-fader-dies-at-55/)** > > Stone, who had been living with cancer, co-founded the influential marketing agency Cornerstone in 1996 before launching the magazine ---
**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:** [July 8, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1367 "2024-07-08T00:34:35Z")
Labor activist and author Jane McAlvey dead at 59, with 41 points for me. Rest in power, sister! > **[Jane McAlevey](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_McAlevey)** > > Jane F. McAlevey (October 12, 1964 – July 7, 2024) was an American union organizer, author, and political commentator. She was a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and a columnist at The Nation. > McAlevey contended that only workers have the power, through organization, to force significant change in the workplace and in society at large. Her model, what she called whole-worker organizing, sees workers and the community... ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1368 "2024-07-09T02:06:06Z")
Actor Doug Sheehan has died at 75. > **[General Hospital’s Doug Sheehan Dead at 75](https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/general-hospitals-doug-sheehan-dead-at-75/)** > > ‘General Hospital’ star Doug Sheehan died at the age of 75 at his home in Big Horn, Wyoming, alongside his wife ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1369 "2024-07-09T18:04:53Z")
One less Republican asshole: [Former US Sen. Jim Inhofe dies at 89 | AP News](https://apnews.com/article/republican-senator-jim-inhofe-obit-2a3ac758737845c0aa2e05ae2036005b) ---
**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:** [July 9, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1370 "2024-07-09T18:48:29Z")
[Mildred Stahlman](https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/mildred-stahlman/), American neonatologist and professor of pediatrics and pathology who started the first neonatal intensive care unit in the world. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1371 "2024-07-10T00:57:12Z")
**Joe Bonsall, celebrated tenor in the country and gospel group the Oak Ridge Boys, dies at 76** [https://apnews.com/article/joe-bonsall-dies-oak-ridge-boys-87a2858ee6ca2517604c6d2fce79d663](https://apnews.com/article/joe-bonsall-dies-oak-ridge-boys-87a2858ee6ca2517604c6d2fce79d663) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1372 "2024-07-10T01:16:28Z")
Ah, so that’s why I heard Elvira on the radio today. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1373 "2024-07-10T01:47:36Z")
I’ve noticed that the last time an updated points list was posted was June 4 post 1245 and there’s been a number of point filled passings. I’m guessing that Baker is still in recovery mode and I’m hoping that phungi is just taking an extended siesta. So, I hope no one will mind or take umbrage if I post an updated list. Note: I don’t capture how many deaths each player has accumulated in my excel sheet. | Player | Score | Rank | | --- | --- | --- | | Registered\_at\_Last | 216 | 1 | | RTFirefly | 163 | 2 | | candide | 147 | 3 | | phungi | 144 | 4 | | jeezums | 132 | 5 | | Happy\_Lendervedder | 126 | 6 | | Mean\_Mr.Mustard | 109 | 7 | | Captain\_Klutz | 88 | 8 | | critter42 | 88 | 8 | | Kitten\_Mitten | 88 | 8 | | Loach | 79 | 11 | | GIGObuster | 72 | 12 | | Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace | 59 | 13 | | Superdude | 52 | 14 | | Dung\_Beetle | 50 | 15 | | Hoopy\_Frood | 50 | 15 | | It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery | 50 | 15 | | Little\_Nemo | 50 | 15 | | Lord\_Feldon | 50 | 15 | | RobotDevilDog | 50 | 15 | | J-P\_L | 38 | 21 | | xizor | 38 | 21 | | Cazzle | 24 | 23 | | JohnT | 24 | 23 | | ZamboniAce1000 | 24 | 23 | | Pardel-Lux | 22 | 26 | | MarkF2004 | 20 | 27 | | Allecher | 12 | 28 | | Biotop | 8 | 29 | | Stephe96 | 8 | 29 | | blue67ccm | 7 | 31 | | jdracingfan | 7 | 31 | | zadscmc | 7 | 31 | | irritant | 2 | 34 | | Monstera\_deliciosa | 1 | 35 | ---
**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:** [July 10, 2024, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1374 "2024-07-10T03:22:19Z")
Halfway through the year and I ain’t got diddly. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1375 "2024-07-10T03:51:04Z")
And I ain’t got squat. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1376 "2024-07-10T07:59:23Z")
I am magically keeping 13 peoplealive. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1377 "2024-07-10T10:42:56Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Labor activist and author Jane McAlvey dead at 59, with 41 points for me. Rest in power, sister! I don’t know that I’d heard of her before, but having read her Wikipedia bio, she’s clearly one who’s gone way too soon. It’s been said before, but one more time: _fuck cancer_. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1378 "2024-07-10T10:46:01Z")
I’d say I’m #2 but I try harder, except of course once the year begins, it’s “die or die not, there is no try.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Ducky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrs_ducky/32/6227_2.png) [@Mrs\_Ducky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Ducky)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1379 "2024-07-10T21:37:49Z")
I had Donald Sutherland as an alternate. That doesn’t count? ---
**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:** [July 10, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1380 "2024-07-10T21:56:21Z")
I don’t think so. You only get points for someone on your active list, not the alternate ones. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2024, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/1381 "2024-07-10T22:13:24Z")
Those are just for the earliest stage if someone on your list dies before the year officially begins. Or, as more often happens, if you accidentally included someone already gone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=68) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940.md?page=70)