# 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:** 13
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/241 "2025-01-01T20:54:26Z")
> [@Deanna\_D](#): > > I had my list ready, and was going to post last night…and…and…I…fell asleep and missed the deadline! And I had a couple of really good picks! I’m so disappointed in myself! 😭 You can always post it anyway and see how you would have fared. But you won’t be eligible for any awards. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/242 "2025-01-01T21:28:59Z")
Do you have a statistic at hand showing how well the top-thirteen-list performed last year? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/243 "2025-01-02T00:23:15Z")
Steve DiMeglio, a journalist who worked for a Golf Publication, passed away frokm Rectal Cancer but it is unclear whether it was Dec 31 or Jan 1 > **[Steve DiMeglio, Golfweek/USA Today golf reporter, dies at 63 after two-year...](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2025/01/01/steve-dimeglio-dies-cancer-battle-usa-today-golfweek-writer-obituary/77384517007/)** > > Well-known golf writer Steve DiMeglio dies after two-year cancer battle in which he fought to inspire others to have medical screenings. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/244 "2025-01-02T00:49:37Z")
Four out of the top thirteen passed in 2024. Bob Newhart, with 14 picks, Jonnie Irwin, with 18, Jimmy Carter, also with 18, and of course, Shannon Doherty, with 60. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/245 "2025-01-02T01:09:49Z")
oops, misread the numbers ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/246 "2025-01-02T01:19:15Z")
So 113 points for the wisdom of the masses , or 16th place I think . ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/247 "2025-01-02T01:31:38Z")
I’m getting 103 points: 50 for Irwin, 47 for Doherty, 6 for Newhart, and 0 for Carter. Still 16th place, though. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/248 "2025-01-02T01:58:03Z")
Yeah I fat fingered, absolutely did not fail to do simple arithmetic at all, no sir . ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/249 "2025-01-02T08:31:46Z")
Thanks for the information and all the other work too! It looks like the masses were wiser than me, damn it. The only thing they will never get is a unique pick. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/250 "2025-01-02T16:22:31Z")
That is a sad one to start: > **[Aleksey Bugaev: Russian footballer’s spiralling story ends with death in Ukraine](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/02/aleksey-bugaev-russian-footballer-death-in-ukraine)** > > Once one of the most talented defenders in Russia, Bugaev opted to fight in war rather than serve long prison sentence And a pointless death with ten olympic medals - five gold, three silver and two bronze medals in total: > **[Agnes Keleti, oldest living Olympic gold medallist, dies at 103](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/02/agnes-keleti-hungarian-gymnast-olympic-gold-medallist-dies)** > > Hungarian gymnast survived persecution of Jews in second world war and won five golds across two Games ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/251 "2025-01-02T20:30:57Z")
Wayne Osmond of The Osmonds has died at 73. > **[Wayne Osmond](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Osmond)** > > Melvin Wayne Osmond (August 28, 1951 – January 1, 2025) was an American musician. He was the second-oldest of the original Osmond Brothers singers and the fourth oldest of the nine Osmond children. > Starting in 1958, Wayne and three of his brothers (Alan, Merrill, and Jay in their respective age orders) began singing as a barbershop quartet. They were later discovered in 1961 by Jay Emerson Williams, the father of Andy Williams, at a performance at Disneyland which was being filmed for the Disn... ---
**Author:** ![billiefan2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@billiefan2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billiefan2000)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/252 "2025-01-03T05:07:03Z")
I figured Merrill or Alan would have passed first out of the Osmonds. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/253 "2025-01-03T19:05:04Z")
> **[Rosita Missoni, Co-Founder of Famed Eponymous Fashion House, Dies at 93](https://people.com/rosita-missoni-co-founder-italian-fashion-house-missoni-dies-at-93-8768207)** > > Rosita Missoni, co-founder of the fashion house Missioni has died at the age of 93. She co-founded the brand — famous for brightly colored zigzag designs — with her husband Tio after their 1953 wedding ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/254 "2025-01-03T19:11:58Z")
> [@billiefan2000](#): > > I figured Merrill or Alan would have passed first out of the Osmonds. I would have guessed Jermaine. But I don’t remember sixties pop bands very well. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/255 "2025-01-03T19:21:20Z")
Silly person. Jermaine was a Partridge. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/256 "2025-01-04T11:12:22Z")
World’s oldest person dies. Nobody had her, but judging by her picture she looked pretty goold. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/japan-world-s-oldest-person-tomiko-itooka-dies-at-116/ar-AA1wWKxb?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=9d5460dd20904c61d7f8e0f94e31dba5&ei=21](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/japan-world-s-oldest-person-tomiko-itooka-dies-at-116/ar-AA1wWKxb?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=9d5460dd20904c61d7f8e0f94e31dba5&ei=21) ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/257 "2025-01-04T13:56:26Z")
Just 7 days before her 104th birthday Agnes Keleti, Hungarian Jewish Olympic gymnast who wasn’t allowed to compete in the 1940 Olympics and had to hide during the Holocaust and subsequently won 10 medals in 1952 and 1956, died after being hospitalized for pneumonia. [Agnes Keleti](https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/02/agnes-keleti-holocaust-olympics-dead/) ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/258 "2025-01-04T14:33:39Z")
Told you so 😉 Two days ago. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/259 "2025-01-04T15:02:55Z")
Jeff Baena, indie filmmaker, 47 years old. > **[Indie Filmmaker Jeff Baena Has Passed Away At 47](https://deadline.com/2025/01/jeff-baena-dead-47-independent-filmmaker-1236246487/)** > > Indie Filmmaker Jeff Baena Has Passed Away At 47 ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/260 "2025-01-04T15:53:46Z")
oh heck, guess I missed that. Just saw it on my News feed this morning. Thought it was very interesting. Thanks for not being snarky about it. 🤗 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=14)