2024 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool

But is it as cool as Fatman Scoop?

The seventh?

He didn’t make it: Rapper Fatman Scoop dies after collapsing on stage during Connecticut concert (msn.com)

Joins the group of people to die on stage. Let’s see:

Dick Shawn

Tommy Cooper

Who else?

Country Dick Montana of the Beat Farmers.

G.G. Allin often promised that he was going to kill himself on stage during a Halloween concert. But Allin was frequently arrested and was always in jail on Halloween.

Dimebag Darrell? Ok maybe not what you are looking for.

Parkyakarkus AKA Harry Einstein AKA the father of Bob Einstein (who was AKA Super Dave Osborn) and Albert Brooks (AKA Albert Einstein) died just as he was ending a performance at the Friar’s Club.

Zero Mostel died on stage during a preview performance of a new play.

There is a whole list, which starts out with the French actor/playwright Molière back in the 17th century. One of the more notable performances of death was Karl Wallenda, which I remember seeing footage of on the news (though it was cut off before the actual fall).

There’s a long list:

Unsurprisingly, opera singers do it with style:

I wonder Wherowhero he’ll be buryburied?

Sorry…

Tiny Tim suffered a heart attack during a performance, but wasn’t pronounced dead until afterwards.

Sister Theresa Kane who pushed for ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/08/29/theresa-kane-nun-women-priests/

Leonard Riggio, who purchased Barnes & Noble in 1971 and built it into an empire over the next 25 years, has sold his last book at age 83.

Mark Sandman (of Morphine)

Abe Lincoln, technically in the audience, but close.

Linda Deutsch, AP correspondent who covered many of the famous trials during the last half-century, has filed her last story. Age 80.

She covered the trials of Sirhan Sirhan, Patty Hearst, Charlie Manson, O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, Phil Spector, and The Unabomber, among others.

Weirdly, I really liked his character on DS9.

…best known for his work on Gidget, T.J. Hooker and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine…

These days even when it’s a celebrity that I have heard of, most people remember them for things I have never seen** :slight_smile:

Mostly, I remember Darren for oldies songs on the radio, and appearances on talk/variety shows. Seeing his picture immediately made me think of his main character role in The Time Tunnel, and from The Guns of Navarone.

**I’m sure that I’ve seen Gidget, but it’s just fuzzy memory of any old beach movie in my mind.

In addition to being a prolific cartoon writer, he also did some voice work for the same, including as Nanny on Count Duckula.