# 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:** 74
**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:** [August 2, 2025, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1461 "2025-08-02T02:47:25Z")
I was walking down the sidewalk this afternoon and a guy coming the other way - could have been a homeless guy or just some hip older dude - but he was wearing an Ozzy Osborne t-shirt. I nodded, pointed and said, “Ozzy,” and flashed the horns. He flashed the horns back at me. Neither one of us even broke stride. It was a beautiful moment. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1462 "2025-08-02T02:56:23Z")
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1463 "2025-08-02T05:00:59Z")
Anyone who watched Burt Reynolds movies would recognize this guy: [Altoona graduate Alfie Wise, who appeared in Reynolds’ movies, dies at 81 | News, Sports, Jobs - Altoona Mirror](https://www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-news/2025/08/altoona-graduate-alfie-wise-dies-81/#:%5C%5C%5C~:text=Courtesy%20photo-,Alfie%20Wise,at%20the%20age%20of%2081). ---
**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:** [August 2, 2025, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1464 "2025-08-02T05:11:33Z")
I was not aware of [Seán Rocks](https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2025/07/31/sean-rocks-presenter-of-rte-radios-culture-show-arena-dies-aged-64/), but he was enough of a celebrity in Ireland to have his passing well noted. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2025, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1465 "2025-08-02T10:56:26Z")
> **[Funnybones author Allan Ahlberg dies aged 87](https://www.thebookseller.com/obituaries/funnybones-author-allan-ahlberg-dies-aged-87)** > > The author of the classic children’s picture book Funnybones (Puffin, 1980) as well as 150 "timeless" children’s books, Allan Ahlberg, has died at the age of 87.  My daughter loved _Funnybones_ when she was younger. A number of his books (including that one) were illustrated by his wife Janet. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1466 "2025-08-02T18:01:57Z")
Country singer Jeannie Seely had died at age 85. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1467 "2025-08-03T00:12:44Z")
Got a couple of calls that William Shatner died. Nope. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2025, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1468 "2025-08-03T05:42:58Z")
> **[Experimental Theatre Artist Robert Wilson Has Died at 83](https://playbill.com/article/experimental-theatre-artist-robert-wilson-has-died-at-83)** > > The avant-garde auteur behind Einstein on the Beach leaves a legacy of radical innovation and visually stunning productions. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1469 "2025-08-03T22:41:31Z")
WRIP in Cincinnati Loni Anderson dead at 79. > **[Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series 'WKRP in Cincinnati'...](https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/loni-anderson-actor-died-obituary-j35330)** > > Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station's empowered receptionist Jennifer on the hit TV comedy "WKRP in Cincinnati," has died. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1470 "2025-08-03T23:02:36Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > WRIP in Cincinnati OK, I’ll admit this made me smile. ---
**Author:** ![Allecher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Allecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allecher)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1471 "2025-08-04T02:30:35Z")
[Cecile Dionne, age 91](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/c%25C3%25A9cile-dionne-obituary-dionne-quituplets-1.7599411) was one of the famous quintuplets and is now survived by her last sister Annette. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1472 "2025-08-04T02:56:25Z")
Boy, did I misread that name at first. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1473 "2025-08-04T04:00:24Z")
You and me both. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1474 "2025-08-04T04:04:51Z")
Ditto. And Stephe96 beat me to making a WRIP joke. I was at the Dionne museum with my family around the time I turned 6. I would find out many years later as an adult how tragically those girls were exploited by their parents and the government. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1475 "2025-08-04T04:52:38Z")
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**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:** [August 4, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1476 "2025-08-04T13:32:02Z")
I had Loni Anderson in the Themed Pool, but only as an alternate. WRIP, indeed. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1477 "2025-08-04T14:10:56Z")
James Whale held on longer than even he expected, but today he gave a number of us 26 points [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James\_Whale\_(presenter)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whale%5C_(presenter)) ---
**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:** [August 4, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1478 "2025-08-04T15:17:52Z")
David Roach, frontman for the ‘80s-‘90s hard rock band Junkyard, has been scrapped. > **[David Roach, Singer of Eighties Hard-Rock Band Junkyard, Dead at 59](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/junkyard-singer-david-roach-dead-obituary-1235399429/)** > > David Roach, the singer of Eighties hard rock band Junkyard, died after a battle with cancer; he was 59. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1479 "2025-08-04T15:18:17Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > James Whale held on longer than even he expected, but today he gave a number of us 26 points > > [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James\_Whale\_(presenter)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whale%5C_(presenter)) I should move up a couple of spots. This was getting embarrassing ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1480 "2025-08-04T17:33:59Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > You and me both. Me three. That person’s heart apparently will go on a bit longer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=73) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=75)