# 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:** 98
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1941 "2025-11-25T15:44:35Z")
This is directly from the article @Gyrate posted, though it is possible it was updated from your original read > In June 2024, the Oklahoma Supreme Court [dismissed a lawsuit](https://www.whatimreading.net/p/oklahoma-supreme-court-dismisses-tulsa-massacre) brought on by Mother Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle seeking reparations for the vicious attack.\*\* > > \*\*Randle, the last known living survivor of the 1921 race massacre, celebrated her 111th birthday on November 10. Hughes Van Ellis, Fletcher’s brother, died at 102 years old in 2023. Brian ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1942 "2025-11-25T15:47:48Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > This is directly from the article @Gyrate posted, Man, I totally missed that factoid. My reading comprehension just ain’t what it used to be. Thanks for the correction. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1943 "2025-11-25T16:25:51Z")
> [@Pheoinix](#): > > She’s a survivor because she survived the massacre. Similar to the way you can call someone a holocaust survivor even though they’ve now passed away. Exactly. Just because someone survived something (Holocaust, massacre, plane crash) and then died years later does not mean they are no longer a survivor _of that particular incident_. You can have survived something then and either be dead or alive now, but you are still a survivor. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1944 "2025-11-25T17:43:40Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > It would have been better to say ‘She was the sole survivor’ That would have been entirely worse. “Sole survivor” implies she was the only person to survive the initial incident. “Last survivor” is closer to the mark. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1945 "2025-11-25T18:41:26Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > “Last survivor” is closer to the mark. You are right. Mea culpa. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1946 "2025-11-26T02:35:44Z")
But she wasn’t the last survivor. “One of the two remaining survivors” is probably the best, though that doesn’t mention her age but IMHO that is less important. Brian ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1947 "2025-11-26T04:30:11Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > plane crash But if it crashed on the border of the U.S. and Canada, where would they bury the survivors? Uh…anyway. [Stephen Downing](https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/stephen-downing/)–AKA Michael Donovan AKA Sean Baine AKA Adrian Leeds is dead at 87. He was a police officer in South Central, Los Angeles who moonlighted as a writer for numerous police procedures and other TV shows such as Dragnet, Adam-12, Emergency!, Police Story, Kojak, Quincy, M.E., Get Christie Love!, S.W.A.T., The Rookies, The Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, and Police Woman. After retiring from police work he worked as a producer for T.J. Hooker, Knight Rider, F/X: The Series, and RoboCop, and most importantly the show runner for McGyver who decided that Mac would never carry a gun. Outside of his work in Hollywood, after retirement he also advocated for an end to the drug war, as well as opposing militarization of police and asset forfeiture laws. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1948 "2025-11-27T01:58:00Z")
> **[Ethan Browne, Model-Actor-Musician and Son of Jackson Browne, Dies at 52](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/ethan-browne-dead-jackson-browne-son-model-actor-musician-1236436539/)** > > He was the son of model Phyllis Major, who died in 1976. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1949 "2025-11-27T02:28:17Z")
That really sucks when a parent has to announce the death of a son. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1950 "2025-11-27T03:12:15Z")
Here is Ethan on the cover of the Rolling Stone (age 6 months): [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/2n1J7kc.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/2n1J7kc) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1951 "2025-11-27T18:44:11Z")
Fuzzy Zoeller, two-time major champion, has passed away at age 74. He won the 1979 Masters and the 1984 US Open. He won 10x on the PGA tour and twice on the PGA Senior Tour. Fuzzy is probably best known for racist comments he made as Tiger Woods was winning the 1997 Masters which haunted him for the rest of his life. > **[2-time major champion Fuzzy Zoeller dies at 74](https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/47120544/two-major-champion-golfer-fuzzy-zoeller-dies-74)** > > Fuzzy Zoeller, a two-time major champion and one of golf's most gregarious characters whose career was tainted by a racially insensitive joke about Tiger Woods, has died, according to a longtime colleague. He was 74. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1952 "2025-11-27T19:05:28Z")
Fuzzy waves the towel of surrender to Greg Norman, 1984 US Open: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ye6_Mx9YmgU/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGEgZSg2MA8=&rs=AOn4CLCdr-ShEAiGnfgWw3UbINKCbl6a3Q "1984 U.S. Open: Fuzzy and Norman Square Off") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye6_Mx9YmgU) ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1953 "2025-11-27T19:55:59Z")
He’s from my hometown. His comments about Tiger were really downplayed in this area. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1954 "2025-11-28T00:07:28Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Fuzzy Zoeller, two-time major champion, has passed away at age 74. He won the 1979 Masters and the 1984 US Open. One place I worked the department secretary was named Zoeller and when he won the Masters pointed the headline to her, “I didn’t even know you played golf, much less went by ‘Fuzzy.’” “I try to keep it a secret.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1955 "2025-11-28T06:51:08Z")
nevermi dnsk ---
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1956 "2025-11-28T07:53:58Z")
Then whose dnsk is it? ---
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1957 "2025-11-28T08:46:21Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Fuzzy is probably best known for racist comments he made as Tiger Woods was winning the 1997 Masters which haunted him for the rest of his life. I don’t really follow golf so was unaware of the comments, but reading them now - wow. That’s not a “joke” born of casual racism; to say what he felt comfortable enough to say requires something deep-seated. Wonder what his dad was like… ---
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1958 "2025-11-28T23:36:50Z")
Actor Spencer Lofranco, who appeared in such films as _Gotti_, _Unbroken_, and _Jamesey Boy_, has [died at 33.](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-11-21/spencer-lofranco-death-coroner-investigating-gotti-unbroken) The coroner is currently investigating his death. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1959 "2025-11-29T01:56:55Z")
There were online reports that Art Monk died. Apparently debunked and he is alive. That seems to be a very random person to start a death hoax about. For those who don’t know, he is a retired Hall of Fame NFL receiver best known for his time with the Washington Redskins in the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![LegendHasit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/legendhasit/32/8246_2.png) [@LegendHasit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegendHasit)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/1011010/1960 "2025-11-29T14:34:47Z")
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