2024 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool

The Game Room
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Eugenia Cooney, Internet celebritiy, DOB 7/27/1994

Shannen Doherty, actress, DOB 4/12/1971

Fred Haise, astronaut, DOB 11/14/1933

Jim Lovell, astronaut, DOB 3/25/1928

Andy Taylor, musician in Duran Duran, DOB 2/16/1961

Johnnie Irwin, British tv personality, DOB 11/18/1973

Roger Corman, director, DOB 4/5/1926

Tori Kelly, singer, DOB 12/14/92

Ruth Buzzi, actress, DOB 7/24/36

Dick Vitale, sportscaster, born 1939

Joe Exotic, DOB 3/5/1963

Linda Ronstadt, singer, DOB 7/15/1946

Jimmy Carter, former president, DOB 10/1/1924

Alternates

Nick Nolte, actor, DOB 2/8/1941

Harrison Ford, actor, DOB 7/13/1942

Danny DeVito, actor, DOB 11/17/1944

Clean list:

Eugenia Cooney

Shannen Doherty

Fred Haise

Jim Lovell

Andy Taylor

Johnnie Irwin

Roger Corman

Tori Kelly

Ruth Buzzi

Dick Vitale

Joe Exotic

Linda Ronstadt

Jimmy Carter

Alternates

Nick Nolte

Harrison Ford

Danny DeVito

82

I always think that this time I’m going to be clever and strategic about it. And then I just get depressed about trying to predict who will die imminently for the purposes of gaining a few points in a meaningless internet game, and just make a list of whomever comes immediately to mind. Which is probably why I never do well at this.

Anyway:

Jimmy Carter (President)
Shannen Doherty (Actress)
Tom Baker (Doctor Who actor)
Bruce Willis (actor in the BEST CHRISTMAS FILM EVER)
Dionne Warwick (singer)
Norman Lebrecht (music critic)
Sam Neill (actor/dinosaur nemesis)
Mitch McConnell (politician/part-time turtle)
Geoff Hurst (English footballer)
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (not to be confused with QEII’s son Prince Edward, current Duke of Edinburgh)
Diana Ross (singer)
Tim Curry (actor/fucking legend)
Linda Ronstadt (singer)

Alternates:

Jeremy Paxman (UK newsreader)
Oleg Makarevich (Russian general in Ukraine)

Clean list:

Jimmy Carter
Shannen Doherty
Tom Baker
Bruce Willis
Dionne Warwick
Norman Lebrecht
Sam Neill
Mitch McConnell
Geoff Hurst
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Diana Ross
Tim Curry
Linda Ronstadt

Alternates:

Jeremy Paxman
Oleg Makarevich

83

Figured it wouldn’t hurt to post this again.

84

Thank you so much. Some people miss things I guess. Next time, for 2025, I will be specific.

85

Your entry is a perfect example of how I asked folks to be specific about their entries. I’d forgotten there were two Prince Edwards, and you made sure which one you meant. He is pretty old, the Queen’s cousin I think.

I remember when there were two Raul Castros. One was Cuban and one American. And on one of my lists I have a man named James Harrison. He’s an Australian, not the American football player.

86

@Baker - he has this spelled wrong, in case you didn’t catch it. I’m pulling for your list, @silenus !

87

I haven’t done this for a couple years so why not again now.

David Letterman
Paul Shafer
Doc Severinsen
Bob Newhart
Biff Henderson
Marv Albert
Chris Elliott
Richard Lewis
Jack Hanna
Tom Brokaw
Tom Hanks
Jane Pauley
Bob Costas

Alternates
Howard Stern
Connie Chung

88

Lukasz Gottwald
Donald Trump
Bashar Assad
Justin Bieber
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Yehya Sinwar
Jeremy Corbyn
Hassan Nasrallah
Steve Bannon
Wayne LaPierre
Louis Farrakhan
Roger Waters
Kanye West

Alternates:

Recep Tayyip Erdogan
James Taylor
Bob Seger

89

Zahara has died at age 36. I think I read her name on a few lists.

90

My list for 2024 is 80% the same as last year except for the removal of one celeb that shuffled off, one that has had a “miraculous recovery”, moving DvD to alternate, moving a couple of 2023 alternates to main list and adding Dolph Lundgren.

Andy Taylor
Toby Keith
Katie Couric
Al Roker
Donald Trump
Shannen Doherty
Jonnie Irwin
James Whale
Bruce Willis
Morgan Freeman
Jane Fonda
Christina Applegate
Dolph Lundgren

Alternates:
Robby Benson
Dick Van Dyke
Vladimir Putin

91

I enter not so much to win but for the extreme elation I shall feel if I score a single point.

Donald Trump Sr
Donald Trump Jr
Melania Trump
Eric Trump
Ivanka Trump
Jared Kushner
Margorie Taylor Greene
Loren Boebert
Jim Jordan
Rudy Guiliani
Ginny Thomas
Matt Gaetz
Clarence Thomas

Alternates
Mitch McConnell
Lindsey Graham
Bibi Netanyahu

92

Minor changes in my list this year. It is a mixture of ones I would hate to see go and a few who I won’t shed a tear for.

The Amazing Kreskin
Lou Holtz
Tina Louise
Terry Gilliam
Bill Oddie
Billy Dee Williams
Ozzy Osbourne
Peter Popoff
Woody Allen
Yoko Ono
Jon Bauman
Mary Berry
Peter Schickele

Alternates:
Alan Alda
Tim Curry

Notes: Jon Bauman’s stage name is Bowzer. Bill Oddie is from The Goodies. The Amazing Kreskin’s birth name was George Kresge.

93

@BobLibDem If I don’t win next year, I hope you do!

94

:grinning:

Would you give up winning if it means BobLibDem would?

95

I tried not to do this, really I did, but my inner pedant won:

*Lauren

That is all.

96

If you find yourself in need of another name, might I suggest Ted Cruz. If you need two, then second suggestion is Mike Johnson.

97

Both are sound selections. I could give the Grim Reaper a much longer list than the rules allow.

98

Andy Taylor
Shannen Doherty
Bruce Willis
Sam Neill
Donald Trump
Diana Ross
Dionne Warwick
Tony Danza
Alan Alda
Pete Rose
Bill Cosby
Ray Romano
Billy Joel

Ted Cruz
Brad Little
Mike Crapo

99

Gary Busey
Peter Cetera
Danny DeVito
Michael Douglas
Teri Garr
Rudy Giuliani
Gladys Knight
Patti LaBelle
Brenda Lee
Craig T. Nelson
John Rhys-Davies
Diana Ross
Danny Trejo

Alternates:

Donald Trump
George W. Bush
Dick Cheney

All my main list were born in 1944, so turn 80 this coming year.

100

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