# 2025 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010 "2024-12-01T05:01:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 108
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2141 "2025-12-29T21:51:36Z")
Hmm. I’ve had 3 people die-- someone besides the Dionnes. Did I have Bardot? I remember going back and forth with her-- likeliness vs. not many points, but don’t remember what I finally did. Is there a 2026 Death Pool up yet? ---
**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:** [December 29, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2142 "2025-12-29T21:56:59Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Is there a 2026 Death Pool up yet? Since Dec 1. > [@2026 Celebrity Death Pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318): > > It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!! The Rules: You pick 13 celebrities (that’s thirteen, not ten) whom you predict will die within the calendar year 2026. If any of your celebrities dies, you score 100 points minus their age at death. Whoever has the most points at the end of the year wins the undying snort admiration of the SDMB. All picks must be time- and date-stamped by midnight CST, Dec. 31st, 2025. (That’s U.S. Central time, which is six hours behind Greenwich.) Valid pic… ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2143 "2025-12-29T21:59:55Z")
Many Thanks! don’t why I couldn’t find it-- searched “2025 Death Pool,” and ever other death/life pool of any kind came up. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2144 "2025-12-30T06:08:30Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I should be as lucky as last year > > Annette Dionne > Cecile Dionne > Lynette Fromme > Clarence Thomas > Bruce Willis > Roman Polanski > Joni Mitchell > Yoko Ono > Brigitte Bardot > Linda Ronstadt > Kareem Abdul-Jabbar > Noam Chomskhy > Vanessa Redgrave > > Alternates: > Donald Trump > Charles III of England > Johnny Depp You had Bardot ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2145 "2025-12-30T11:43:52Z")
Thanks. Usually I don’t make it to the board at all-- this is the best I’ve ever done at the SDMB Death Pool. There was a freaky year when I actually _won_ over at Fathom, but I think maybe I used up my 15 minutes that year. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2146 "2025-12-30T17:07:36Z")
A true artist for the ages, Cecilia Giménez has died. > **[Cecilia Giménez, famed for ‘Monkey Christ’ mural mishap, dies at 94](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/cecilia-gimenez-monkey-christ-mural-dies-spain)** > > Spanish woman’s attempted restoration of church artwork was widely mocked but became lucrative tourist attraction ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2147 "2025-12-30T18:15:26Z")
It is very sad that she is still mocked for what she did. Here is a better take on her story (in Spanish, from the Guardian’s sister newspaper in Spain, the Guardian could have been fairer to her, they had the better sources but chose to mantain the charade) > **[Muere Cecilia Giménez, la borjana que inmortalizó el 'Ecce Homo'](https://www.eldiario.es/aragon/zaragoza/fallece-cecilia-gimenez-borjana-inmortalizo-ecce-homo_1_12313288.html)** > > Ha fallecido a los 94 años en la residencia del IASS de Borja, donde permanecía ingresada desde hace años Long story short: Cecilia Giménez was restoring a badly damaged picture in a godforsaken church in Aragón, where the central government does not help and people are poor and mostly old, because the young do not stay. She had done several such restorations. She was not world class, but she was OK. She was half-way through this one, when she went on a holiday. A small local newspaper ran a story on that unfinished work, an “influencer” took it up, someone translated that into English, and it became viral. When she knew about it, it made her sick. Literally. She was ridiculed, mocked, but was not allowed to finish her work. Then her work became a tourist attraction, and a source of money. [![](https://static.eldiario.es/clip/0a57fe17-5554-4ec1-8804-018f5110ba5f_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.webp) ](https://static.eldiario.es/clip/0a57fe17-5554-4ec1-8804-018f5110ba5f_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.webp) She had to fight to get her fair share. She got about 2,000 Euro per year for this merchandising: > **[De fenómeno a fin social: diez años del milagro económico del 'Ecce Homo' de...](https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/fenomeno-social-diez-anos-milagro-economico-ecce-homo-borja_1_9130008.html)** > > El polémico repinte de Cecilia Giménez ha generado más de 300.000 visitas desde 2012 y unos ingresos anuales en taquilla que se destinan a ayudar a ancianos sin recursos And then she got Alzheimer and could no longer take care of her son, who is handicapped. At least they managed to live together in the center where both were taken care of these last years. I hope he does well now she is no longer there for him. To translate the articles, if desired, I recommend deepl (dot) com. Much better than other services. I have barely scratched the surface of a complex situation. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2148 "2025-12-30T19:41:44Z")
She was just 2 days premature. How rude! > **[Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, dies at...](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/30/nation/tatiana-schlossberg-jfk-granddaughter-dies/)** > > Schlossberg revealed in November that she had received a terminal cancer diagnosis. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2149 "2025-12-30T19:41:50Z")
Well, that didn’t take long. [Tatiana Schlossberg](https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/30/politics/tatiana-schlossberg-dead), JFK’s granddaughter, dies at 35. Very sad. mmm ---
**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:** [December 30, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2150 "2025-12-30T19:44:22Z")
I don’t know who had her on this year’s list…but far too many had her on next year’s list. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2151 "2025-12-30T19:45:43Z")
No one had her for 2025. She only announced her illness in November. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2152 "2025-12-30T19:57:23Z")
Waiting for Trump to claim co-grandparentship. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2153 "2025-12-30T20:01:35Z")
Nah, she’s not his type. That would have been some massive Opening Kickoff Award! ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2154 "2025-12-30T21:48:18Z")
Can anybody scare up a restoration work by Cecilia Giménez besides _Ecce Homo_ (aka, _Monkey Jesus_)? In regard to the second story that she’s an experienced restorer who happened to leave an unfinished work, and we lowbrows can’t tell a partial restoration from junk, well, I just wanted to see for myself, but I can’t find anything. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2155 "2025-12-30T23:16:47Z")
Isiah Whitlock Jr has passed at 71. I didn’t see many of his roles, but he was very funny in all of them. > **[Isiah Whitlock Jr., ‘The Wire’ and ‘Veep’ Actor, Dies at 71](https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/isiah-whitlock-jr-dead-the-wire-veep-1236620750/)** > > Isiah Whitlock Jr., a character actor best known for his roles in 'The Wire,' 'Veep' and several Spike Lee movies, has died. He was 71. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2156 "2025-12-31T02:31:28Z")
Ben Nighthorse Campbell has died at 92. > **[Ben Nighthorse Campbell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nighthorse_Campbell)** > > Ben Nighthorse Campbell (born Benny Marshall Campbell; April 13, 1933 – December 30, 2025) was an American and Northern Cheyenne politician and U.S. Air Force veteran who served in both chambers of the United States Congress; representing Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993 and in the U.S. Senate from 1993 to 2005. He served as one of the 44 members of the Council of Chiefs of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe. During his time in office, he was the only Native Ameri... ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2157 "2025-12-31T04:00:34Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Isiah Whitlock Jr has passed at 71. I didn’t see many of his roles, but he was very funny in all of them. > [Isiah Whitlock Jr. Dead: 'The Wire' and 'Veep' Actor Was 71](https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/isiah-whitlock-jr-dead-the-wire-veep-1236620750/) Sheeeiitt ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2158 "2025-12-31T04:41:21Z")
Apparently comic John Mulrooney died. I saw some other comics post about it and his Wikipedia page has been updated. > **[John Mulrooney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mulrooney)** > > John Mulrooney was an American comedian, radio and TV show host, actor and writer. > Mulrooney was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He began his career on the NYC comedy scene at Pips comedy club in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn in 1979. Later performed at Rick Newman's Catch a Rising Star, Comic Strip, the Improv and Dangerfield’s in Manhattan. Mulrooney transitioned into television in the early eighties on a show called Comedy Tonight. In addition to his 13 stand-up appearances he also wrote a... ---
**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:** [December 31, 2025, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2159 "2025-12-31T05:13:17Z")
James Moylan, one of the greatest unsung heroes of our time! > **[James Moylan, Ford engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a...](https://www.autonews.com/executives/an-obituary-james-moylan-1223/)** > > James Moylan, the Ford Motor designer who invented the fuel gauge arrow indicating which side to refuel, died Dec. 11 at age 80. > **[Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first woman PM: A life of power and resistance](https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/12/30/khaleda-zia-bangladeshs-first-woman-pm-a-life-of-power-and-resistance)** > > The 79-year-old fought to restore democracy after military takeover in 1980s, but corruption claims tainted her legacy. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2025, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/2160 "2025-12-31T05:31:10Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Congressman Gerry Connolly has succumbed to cancer. > > [Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia dies after battling cancer](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/gerry-connolly-dies-cancer.html) @Baker I think you missed crediting Me and @GuanoLad for this death. I’ve only got 3 deaths recorded, but I have 4 (Ryne Sandberg, Linda Nolan, James Whale, and Gerry Connolly) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=107) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=109)