2024 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool

César Luis Menotti, 85, has died.

Australian actor Brian Wenzel has transitioned into 6 points, which have winged their way into eternity and beyond the grasp of mankind.

Two-time European weightlifting champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko has died at 30 on the front lines of the Ukraine-Russia war.

Lynda Carter stunt double Jeannie Epper

Well, that was just asking for trouble.

There’s no way that a weightlifting champion wasn’t a huge target.

You need to put that guy in the back, throwing things at the enemy.

Put the marathon runners on the front lines.

Or throwing the enemies at things.

Here’s a post from Baker from this week’s MMP sharing that she broke her shoulder on Friday and is having trouble typing:

Thank you @Kitten_Mitten.
@Baker, I’m sorry you’re in pain! If it helps, I promise you no one on my list will die until you’re feeling up to snuff.
“Snuff”, HA!

Oh no! Feel better soonest, Baker! I’ll let them know over at the Giraffeboards.

RIP Patty Simcox of Rydell High.

“Isn’t that the most? To say the least”

“The very least.”

She probably wouldn’t have qualified as a valid pick since her celebrity as a columnist and philanthropist was directly a result of her cancer diagnosis at 24, but:

Holy shit Steve Albini died. Just about my age, too. Producer of a lot of music, including Albums by Nirvana and The Pixies, among many others. His own band Big Black was my introduction to noise music.

ETA: Hope you’re on the mend, @Baker

Ian Gelder dead at 74. I knew him best as Kevan Lannister in Game of Thrones.

Pete McCloskey, probably the most liberal member of the GOP that I can remember, passes at age 96.

phungi has graciously agreed to keep an eye on the game a sometime early my shoulder wii be replaced

Good luck, @Baker

And good on ya, @phungi

We have lost [James Gregory] (Comedy legend dead at 78 of cardiac complications - al.com) and I have no idea what’s wrong with this link.