# 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:** 61
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1201 "2025-06-21T01:46:02Z")
First thing I thought of was _The Outsiders_. He was one of the guys that brought Pony, Johnny and Dallas to the hospital. “You shouldn’t smoke it’s bad for you.” “You’re smoking.” “Of course I’m smoking, I’ve been smoking a long time.” ---
**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:** [June 21, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1202 "2025-06-21T02:27:24Z")
> **[Kim Woodburn: Celebrity Big Brother and How Clean Is Your House star dies...](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd783228vvro)** > > The TV personality first found fame on Channel 4's How Clean is Your House alongside Aggie MacKenzie. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1203 "2025-06-21T11:46:12Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Wikipedia has him as 81 as well. It didn’t yesterday when I posted. There appears to be an edit war going on. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1204 "2025-06-22T17:59:30Z")
Missed Ngugi wa Thiong’o back in May. This makes me sad. I love his books. [https://www.npr.org/2025/05/29/nx-s1-5415596/ngugi-wa-thiongo-kenyan-writer-dead](https://www.npr.org/2025/05/29/nx-s1-5415596/ngugi-wa-thiongo-kenyan-writer-dead) ---
**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:** [June 22, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1205 "2025-06-22T18:35:24Z")
This was posted in the Abe Vigoda thread, but it certainly belongs here as well. Fred Smith has delivered his last parcel, age 80. > **[FedEx founder and former CEO Fred Smith dies aged 80](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgw6nllwlwo)** > > The Vietnam War veteran started the firm in 1973 with 14 planes before it became a global brand. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1206 "2025-06-22T18:40:59Z")
[Lynn Hamilton](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358026/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk), just mentioned in the “Abe Vigodas” thread, cashed in 5pts a few days ago. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1207 "2025-06-23T20:58:58Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Fred Smith has delivered his last parcel, age 80. I just learned that Smith’s son, Arthur, is the offensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1208 "2025-06-23T23:10:13Z")
Another rocker bites the dust. Mick Ralphs of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, passes at age 81. > **[Mick Ralphs Dies: Bad Company & Mott The Hoople Guitarist-Songwriter Was 81](https://deadline.com/2025/06/mick-ralphs-dead-bad-company-mott-the-hoople-1236440291/)** > > Mick Ralphs, founding guitarist and a key songwriter for rock groups popular Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, has died at 81. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1209 "2025-06-24T00:18:07Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Another rocker bites the dust. All the old dudes? ---
**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:** [June 24, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1210 "2025-06-24T00:35:23Z")
I guess he has become a shooting star. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1211 "2025-06-24T17:38:49Z")
> **[Bobby Sherman, Heartthrob Singer and TV Actor of the 1970s, Dies at 81](https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bobby-sherman-dead-singer-actor-1236439296/)** > > Bobby Sherman, a singer and actor who became a quintessential shaggy-haired teen idol of the late 1960s and early '70s, has died. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1212 "2025-06-24T17:48:37Z")
The day before yesterday I was singing “Julie Julie do you love me..” and thinking about how Bobby Sherman bought an airplane as his career waned and rented it out to 70’s rock bands, and how he’s one of the last surviving cast members from Here Come the Brides… So, yet another forgotten celebrity I’ve killed. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1213 "2025-06-24T17:51:17Z")
Aww… he was one of my first teen heartthrobs. 💔 ---
**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:** [June 24, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1214 "2025-06-24T17:59:36Z")
He, David Cassidy and Donny Osmond were The Bubblegum Trio. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1215 "2025-06-24T19:59:53Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > The day before yesterday I was singing “Julie Julie do you love me..” and thinking about how Bobby Sherman bought an airplane as his career waned and rented it out to 70’s rock bands, and how he’s one of the last surviving cast members from Here Come the Brides… > > So, yet another forgotten celebrity I’ve killed. “Easy Come, Easy Go” popped up on my Spotify playlist the other day. mmm ---
**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:** [June 24, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1216 "2025-06-24T20:18:37Z")
Are you trying to kill [Kip Winger](https://youtu.be/umeul5M4gSQ?si=Ob19BIWJZJovOI1b) now? ---
**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:** [June 25, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1217 "2025-06-25T13:16:12Z")
The lovely June Lockhart turns 100 today, and is thus Deathpool-proofed. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1218 "2025-06-25T13:23:08Z")
Thank you; wasn’t aware she is alive. Abe Vigoda thread! So the mother on Lost in Space is who she is? Wow, very impressed to learn she is alive. My brother and I used to watch re-runs of that in the 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1219 "2025-06-25T13:31:53Z")
June Lockhart will always be Lassie’s ‘mother’ to me 🙂 ---
**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:** [June 25, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1220 "2025-06-25T13:36:32Z")
I remember her has the mother of the “Aztec Princess” on _General Hospital_, also. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=60) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=62)