# 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:** 66
**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:** [July 5, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1301 "2025-07-05T02:18:48Z")
Mark Snow, X-files composer, has died. > **[Mark Snow, ‘X-Files,’ ‘Ghost Whisperer,’ ‘Blue Bloods’ Composer, Dies at 78](https://variety.com/2025/artisans/news/mark-snow-dead-x-files-ghost-whisperer-blue-bloods-1236447489/)** > > Mark Snow, the veteran television composer who turned "The X-Files" theme into an unlikely chart hit in the 1990s has died. He was 78. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1302 "2025-07-05T20:06:44Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > > [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > > > He played the Prime Minister of Australia Stephen Roos in Netflix’s “The Residence.” > > I didn’t notice that he looked sick. Yeah, he looked perfectly healthy. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1303 "2025-07-05T20:33:57Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Don’t want to derail this, but _The Residence_ was a one-and-done, so it was not so much cancelled as concluded. The story was but the character had possibilities of being in more of them, rather like Benoit Blanc in _Knives Out_ and _Glass Onion_. Granted, it would be tough to top the White House as a setting. Alas, we will never find out how Detective Cupp was making a living in between the big gigs as a consulting detective. Bird-watching can’t pay too well. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1304 "2025-07-05T22:13:23Z")
My expectation is the ‘cancellation’ is not to say there won’t be more Cordelia Cupp mysteries, just that this was not the original plan, as the book it was based on is a non-fiction about life in the White House, and not a murder mystery at all. It’s an unusual origin story for a show, and therefore not a typical cancellation. Any further adventures will be, by necessity, a separate production. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1305 "2025-07-05T23:49:33Z")
Former MLB pitcher Bobby Jenks dies at age 44. Stomach cancer. He threw the final out of the World Series the White Sox won. > **[Bobby Jenks dies at 44: Baseball world mourns loss of former White Sox...](https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/mlb/news/bobby-jenks-death-mlb-tribute-white-sox/e8efd0bbbeb9c3aa0c66d886)** > > Jenks nabbed two All-Star appearances and a World Series crown during a seven-year big-league career. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1306 "2025-07-05T23:52:13Z")
Ozzy Osbourne. Just saw a video of him singing at a concert from last night or so. He was sitting the entire time, in a black throne. Is he…frail? Sick? ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1307 "2025-07-06T00:09:26Z")
He’s 76 years old, has had spinal surgery and has [Parkinson’s disease](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51191615). ---
**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:** [July 6, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1308 "2025-07-06T00:16:20Z")
BBC coverage of the event references his Parkinson’s diagnosis. > **[Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath go out on a high at farewell gig](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg565mk8jxo)** > > More than 40,000 fans and an all-star line-up of rock legends pay homage at the "heavy metal Live Aid". ---
**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:** [July 6, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1309 "2025-07-06T01:39:10Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Former MLB pitcher Bobby Jenks dies at age 44. Stomach cancer. He threw the final out of the World Series the White Sox won. > > [Bobby Jenks dies at 44: Baseball world mourns loss of former White Sox closer, World Series champion | Sporting News Canada](https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/mlb/news/bobby-jenks-death-mlb-tribute-white-sox/e8efd0bbbeb9c3aa0c66d886) Guess I can cross him off my 2026 list. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1310 "2025-07-06T20:13:49Z")
Probably best known as Dr. Christian Troy on _Nip/Tuck_ I love that show. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1311 "2025-07-06T23:32:44Z")
And before that he was Balthazar (who later absorbed and became “The Source (of all Evil)”) on Aaron Spelling’s Charmed. Kept doing the bad-guy-to-good-guy-to-bad-guy thing like he was a pro-wrestler or something. ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1312 "2025-07-08T12:14:14Z")
> **[Norman Tebbit: Former cabinet minister and Thatcher ally dies aged 94](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gk98ng4e8o)** > > The Conservative politician served in ministerial jobs throughout the 1980s. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1313 "2025-07-09T21:04:55Z")
> **[Take Me Out Playwright Richard Greenberg Dies at 67](https://playbill.com/article/take-me-out-playwright-richard-greenberg-dies-at-67)** > > The 2002 play made Mr. Greenberg, already a Pulitzer finalist, a Tony winner. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1314 "2025-07-10T01:06:11Z")
Joe Coleman, who was the #3 pick in baseball’s first ever amateur draft in 1965, passed away today, age 78. He became the first player to reach the majors after being drafted. > **[Ex-Senators, Tigers RHP Coleman dies at age 78](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45705049/joe-coleman-no-3-pick-first-mlb-draft-1972-al-all-star-dies)** > > Joe Coleman, a lanky right-hander who won 142 games in 15 major league seasons and was an All-Star in 1972 with Detroit, died Wednesday morning, his son said. He was 78. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1315 "2025-07-10T05:44:49Z")
A possible 14 points coming my way..? [Ray Stevens cancelled performances after having a “mild heart attack” last week.](https://www.al.com/life/2025/07/country-music-icon-suffers-heart-attack-cancels-performances.html) ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1316 "2025-07-10T17:07:49Z")
Scoring alert! Pokemon voice actor James Carter Cathcart dead at 71. 29 points for moi. > **[James Carter Cathcart](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Carter_Cathcart)** > > James Carter Cathcart (March 8, 1954 – July 8, 2025), also known as Jimmy Zoppi, was an American voice actor, script adaptor, voice director, pianist and vocalist known for providing the English voice for Gary Oak and later James, Meowth and Professor Oak in the Pokémon franchise. > Cathcart has been playing with bands since high school, including The Laughing Dogs who released two albums on Columbia in 1979-80 and has been the vocalist of the Carter Cathcart Band since 1981. Cathcart also co... ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1317 "2025-07-10T21:29:34Z")
(Crosspost from the current MLB thread) Former Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs manager Lee Elia has [died at 87](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45711822/lee-elia-manager-cubs-phillies-dies-87). ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1318 "2025-07-11T18:25:18Z")
> **[Rebekah Del Rio, Mournful Singer of ‘Mulholland Drive’ Fame, Dies at 57](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/arts/music/rebekah-del-rio-dead.html)** > > Her pivotal role performing a Spanish-language cover of Roy Orbison’s “Crying” in the 2001 David Lynch movie raised her profile, but her career was marked by misfortune. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1319 "2025-07-11T22:07:52Z")
David Gergen dead at 83. > **[David Gergen](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gergen)** > > David Richmond Gergen (May 9, 1942 – July 10, 2025) was an American political commentator and former presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. He was later a senior political analyst for CNN and a professor of public service and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen was also the former editor at large of U.S. News & World Report and a contributor to C Gergen j... ---
**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:** [July 13, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1320 "2025-07-13T05:26:04Z")
Died two years ago, but not announced until recently. > **[Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez, Pop Music Pioneer, Died at 83 in 2022, Label Just Learned](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/dave-baby-cortez-dead-83-happy-organ-instrumental-dies-1236018578/)** > > Dave 'Baby' Cortez, reclusive composer of first No. 1 Hot 100 instrumental hit 'The Happy Organ, has been reported dead at 83 after passing in 2022. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=65) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=67)