# 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:** 81
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1601 "2025-09-04T14:07:19Z")
Giorgio Armani has tailored his last suit, age 91. Yahoo [link](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/italian-fashion-designer-giorgio-armani-131826340.html) ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1602 "2025-09-04T14:32:08Z")
> **[CBS News' Mark Knoller, veteran White House correspondent, dies at 73](https://apnews.com/article/mark-knoller-cbs-news-dies-obituary-84e3fe25e7c3d000d7060de4175560e9)** > > Mark Knoller, a longtime White House correspondent for CBS News, has died at 73. He was known for prolific reporting across eight presidential administrations, including his encyclopedic knowledge of the White House and the presidency, earning him... > **[Patrick Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's last surviving child, dies at 97](https://apnews.com/article/patrick-hemingway-dead-ernest-5129b65cfbc04689ae568773ac1640b7)** > > Patrick Hemingway, the last surviving child of Ernest Hemingway who in emulation of his father lived for years in Africa and later oversaw numerous posthumous works by the Nobel laureate, has died. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1603 "2025-09-04T14:48:15Z")
Another link to Armani: > **[Giorgio Armani latest: Legendary Italian fashion designer dies aged 91](https://news.sky.com/story/giorgio-armani-latest-legendary-italian-fashion-designer-dies-aged-91-13424946)** > > The Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died at the age of 91. Follow the latest as tributes come in. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1604 "2025-09-04T14:54:19Z")
Yep, that was me: this morning I was remembering those jackets with the sleeves scrunched up ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1605 "2025-09-05T19:13:24Z")
> **[The Duchess of Kent dies aged 92, Buckingham Palace announces](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy5v4lgkqpo.amp)** > > The duchess was known for handing out trophies at Wimbledon but also worked as a music teacher in Hull. I had her husband on my list last year. Maybe I’ll put him back on for next year if he’s still around. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1606 "2025-09-05T20:32:59Z")
Mark Volman, co-founding member of the Turtles, is dead at 78. This is weird timing for me. I’ve recently been learning/playing “Happy Together” on the piano, which led me to get nostalgic about my Flo & Eddie album. [Mark Volman Dead: Turtles Co-Founder, Singer on Happy Together Was 78](https://variety.com/2025/music/news/mark-volman-dead-turtles-happy-together-1236509450/) mmm ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1607 "2025-09-05T21:28:28Z")
> **[Beloved Slap Shot actor Stephen Mendillo passes away](https://www.hockeyfeed.com/videos/beloved-slap-shot-actor-stephen-mendillo-passes-away)** > > It’s a sad day in Slap Shot world… Gone, but never forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1608 "2025-09-05T21:40:06Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > This is weird timing for me. I’ve recently been learning/playing “Happy Together” on the piano, You just reminded me of when my little sister was obsessed with the 45 and would play it nonstop on the stereo for seemingly _hours_ at a time. {{shudder}} ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1609 "2025-09-06T13:03:05Z")
6 time Stanley Cup winner, 5 time Vezina trophy winner, Canadian MP and author [Ken Dryden](https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/46171948/hall-fame-canadiens-goaltender-ken-dryden-dies-age-78) has passed away too young at the age of 78. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1610 "2025-09-06T19:07:11Z")
Davey Johnson, former 2B for the O’s and Braves and later manager of the 1986 World Series winning Mets (+ a few other clubs afterwards), [gone at age 82](https://www.mlb.com/news/davey-johnson-passes-away-at-82). ---
**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:** [September 6, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1611 "2025-09-06T22:59:20Z")
> **[Joseph McNeil, known for 1960 lunch counter sit-in protest, dies aged 83](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/04/joseph-mcneil-lunch-counter-protest-dies-aged-83)** > > Later a general in the air force reserves, McNeil was one of four students who sat at a North Carolina Woolworth’s ---
**Author:** ![zadscmc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@zadscmc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zadscmc)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1612 "2025-09-07T01:27:29Z")
> **[Legendary Mets manager and Orioles All-Star Davey Johnson passes away](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-15072327/Davey-Johnson-passes-away-82-Mets.html)** > > Davey Johnson, the man who managed the New York Mets to their last World Series title, has passed away. He was 82. SNY, the Mets' cable network, announced his death Saturday morning. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1613 "2025-09-07T20:48:02Z")
Ron DiMenna the founder of Ron Jon Surfshops has died. He successfully expanded selling surfboards out of his trunk into a multistore empire. Along the way he collected drug, weapons and DUI arrests. As a kid we would go to the original location at the beginning of each years vacation to get bathing suits. > **['Surf pioneer': Founder of Ron Jon Surf Shop dies at age 88](https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2025/09/07/ron-jon-surf-shop-founder-dies-jersey-shore-cocoa-beach-surfing-retail-florida/86027300007/)** > > Ron DiMenna opened the first Ron Jon Surf Shop in 1961 on Long Beach island on the New Jersey shore. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1614 "2025-09-07T21:15:05Z")
That man clothed me in college. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1615 "2025-09-08T00:36:18Z")
This one _Bloody Well Sucks_! _Goodbye Davies_ > **[Rick Davies, Supertramp Co-Founder Who Wrote and Sang ‘Bloody Well Right’ and...](https://variety.com/2025/music/news/supertramp-rick-davies-bloody-well-right-dead-1236511107/)** > > Supertramp Co-founder Rick Davies, who wrote and sang such hits as 'Bloody Well Right' and 'Goodbye Stranger,' has died. He was 81. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1616 "2025-09-08T08:51:50Z")
Damn damn damn. Just heard about this. Great loss. One of my favorite bands. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1617 "2025-09-08T12:41:20Z")
I was going to make a joke about him being murdered by his girlfriend after she finally listened to _Breakfast in America_ but that’s more Roger Hodgson (who remains unmurdered). ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1618 "2025-09-08T15:09:55Z")
This is not the conductor I had on my list, but 95 is a good run. He would have been 96 today. > **[Obituary: Legendary Conductor Christoph von Dohnányi Dies at 95 - OperaWire](https://operawire.com/obituary-legendary-conductor-christoph-von-dohnanyi-dies-at-95/)** > > On Sept. 6, 2025, Christoph von Dohnányi died at the age of 95. > [@](#): > > Born on Sept. 8, 1929, in Berlin, Germany, he was the grandchild of pianist and composer Ernst von Dohnányi. Throughout his childhood, his father, uncle and other family members participated in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and were arrested and detained in several Nazi concentration camps before being executed in 1945, when Dohnányi was 15 years old. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1619 "2025-09-08T20:12:08Z")
More baseball players sliding home. Carlos Lezcano > **[Former Cubs Outfielder Passes Away](https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/former-cubs-outfielder-passes-away-2125867)** > > After parts of two seasons at the MLB level in the Windy City, the Puerto Rico native went on to enjoy a long and decorated career as a minor league manager. Brian Dayett > **[Former Yankees, Cubs Outfielder Passes Away](https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/former-yankees-cubs-outfielder-passes-away-2126503)** > > The outfielder played five seasons in Major League Baseball with the Yankees and Cubs, before moving on to Japan and returning as a minor league coach. Jim Marshall > **[Original Mets Outfielder, Former Cubs Manager, Dies at 94](https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/original-mets-outfielder-former-cubs-manager-dies-94-2126586)** > > After playing for five teams over five major league seasons, the original Mets outfielder managed the Cubs for three seasons and the Athletics for one. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1620 "2025-09-08T22:54:14Z")
Damn. Sad day in Chicago. All three had ties to the Cubs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=80) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010.md?page=82)