# 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:** 46
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/901 "2025-05-01T02:17:11Z")
I heard on the news this evening that Michael Bolton has been battling glioblastoma since late 2023, and its treatment has left him physically and mentally disabled. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/902 "2025-05-01T02:37:29Z")
Yes, I had heard he was battling brain cancer and that’s how he made my list. I wish him health and healing, and am only here to pick up any points he may drop if the worst happens. I’m helpful like that. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/903 "2025-05-01T03:29:36Z")
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the Funny or Die video where they spoof Office Space using the actual Michael Bolton to play the David Herman role from the movie. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03lrL9CFWxM&ab\_channel=FunnyOrDie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03lrL9CFWxM&ab_channel=FunnyOrDie) ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/904 "2025-05-01T03:46:15Z")
> **[Author Jane Gardam dies aged 96](https://www.thebookseller.com/news/author-jane-gardam-dies-aged-96)** > > The author Jane Gardam has died at the age of 96, her publisher has announced. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/905 "2025-05-01T12:52:49Z")
Manolo “el del Bombo”, that is, Manolo, the one with the big drum, supporter of the Spanish football team in ten World Cups, eight Europe Cups and countless qualifying and friendly games, has died aged 76. > **[Muere Manolo 'el del Bombo', icono de la afición de la selección española de...](https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/muere-manolo-bombo-icono-aficion-seleccion-espanola-futbol_1_12263566.html)** > > Manuel Cáceres Artesero ha fallecido este jueves a los 76 años: "Sabemos que seguirás haciendo retumbar nuestros corazones. Descansa en paz", le ha despedido la selección ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/906 "2025-05-01T14:11:36Z")
Julia Parsons, one of the few surviving WWII Navy codebreakers, dies at 104. [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/julia-parsons-dead.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/julia-parsons-dead.html) ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/907 "2025-05-01T23:59:18Z")
The world’s (formerly) oldest person has left us. > Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher who was the world’s oldest person, died on Wednesday just weeks short of turning 117, her religious congregation said. > She would have turned 117 on May 27. According to LongeviQuest, the world’s oldest person is now Ethel Caterham, a 115-year-old British woman. Link to [ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/brazilian-nun-worlds-oldest-person-died-116-121358524#:~:text=A%20lifelong%20teacher%2C%20among%20her,do%20Sul%2C%20her%20order%20said.) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/908 "2025-05-02T00:17:27Z")
Jill “I Kissed a Girl” Sobule died in a house fire, age 66. > **[Jill Sobule](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Sobule)** > > Jill Sobule (/ˈsoʊbjuːl/ SOH-bee-ull; January 16, 1959 – May 1, 2025) was an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads, a duality reminiscent of such 1970s American songwriters as Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson, Loudon Wainwright III, Harry Chapin, and Randy Newman. Autobiographical ele In 200... ---
**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:** [May 2, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/909 "2025-05-02T00:19:35Z")
Logically, this must happen frequently throughout the year. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/910 "2025-05-02T00:22:42Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > this must happen frequently throughout the year. Not necessarily in any given year. It won’t happen again until Ethel Caterham dies, which might be tomorrow, or it might not happen for a couple of years. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/911 "2025-05-02T02:32:03Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > The world’s (formerly) oldest person has left us. And we all move up a spot! ---
**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:** [May 2, 2025, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/912 "2025-05-02T04:09:20Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Jill “I Kissed a Girl” Sobule died in a house fire, age 66. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > Logically, this must happen frequently throughout the year. Okay, that juxtaposition looked strange. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/913 "2025-05-02T10:50:40Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > And we all move up a spot! Unless we’re way old, we’re moving tens of thousands of spots up the list every day. Googling tells me ~150,000 people die every day. Most of them are probably younger than me (age 71) but a sizable minority probably aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/914 "2025-05-02T10:57:38Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Okay, that juxtaposition looked strange. Didn’t it though! Certainly gave me a brief WTF moment. Reminds me of signs like “someone dies in a traffic accident every 13 minutes” and I think, “I’d sure hate to be that someone,” trapped in a perpetual cycle of being reincarnated after a traffic accident only to die in another one 13 minutes later. Yes, I’m weird. I hang out here, don’t I? ---
**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:** [May 2, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/915 "2025-05-02T13:40:25Z")
Ruth Buzzi is gone at 88. > **[Ruth Buzzi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Buzzi)** > > Ruth Ann Buzzi (/ˈbʌzi/ BUZZY; July 24, 1936 – May 1, 2025) was an American actress and comedienne. She appeared on stage, in films, and on television. She is best known for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973, for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received five Emmy nominations. > Buzzi was born at Westerly Hospital, Westerly, Rhode Island, the daughter of Rena Pauline and Angelo Peter Buzzi, a nationally recognized stone sculptor. Her fa... ---
**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:** [May 2, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/916 "2025-05-02T13:40:28Z")
I have both followed and conversed with her for years on Facebook, and I just heard from both her husband and Dr. Demento that she died yesterday-Ruth Buzzi, age 88. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/917 "2025-05-02T14:32:44Z")
Did she believe in the Hereafter? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/918 "2025-05-02T14:44:41Z")
Goddammit. Naturally, the one year I leave her off my list. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/919 "2025-05-02T14:59:59Z")
Dude, it was _you_ that was keeping her alive?!? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/920 "2025-05-02T15:02:11Z")
She was the coolest person born on my birthday. Well, the coolest _other_ person. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=47)