# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 100
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940/100 "2023-12-18T23:20:17Z")
Reprising my list of entertainers over 90 years old, for the seventh time. I helped keep all but two of last year’s aged picks alive for another full year. In 2023, Harry Belafonte and Tony Bennett gave me a few points, but I’m hoping for a low score again this year to avoid losing any more of these great talents. (Well, I wouldn’t be terribly sad to see Clint Eastwood go.) As always, I’m playing the odds, not going for points. The maximum I could earn, if all of these wonderful actors dropped dead in early January, is 53. They’re listed in descending age. Eva Marie Saint June Lockhart Dick van Dyke David Attenborough Mel Brooks William Daniels Rosemary Harris Lee Grant Estelle Parsons Bob Newhart Joan Plowright Tippi Hedren Gene Hackman Alternates: Robert Wagner Clint Eastwood James Earl Jones --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/993940)._