# 2026 Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 2, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318 "2025-12-02T04:28:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![SirCreep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sircreep/32/20434_2.png) [@SirCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirCreep)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/342 "2026-01-01T01:40:07Z")
> [@SirCreep](#): > > Princess Bajrakitiyabha - Thai Princess > Cindy Birdsong - The Supremes > Jason Collins - NBA (basketball) > David Dwinell - WWE referee > Rob Hirst - Midnight Oil > Russell Hoult - UK football goalkeeper > Rev. Jesse Jackson - Rainbow Coalition > Denny McLain - (MLB) baseball > Esther Rantzen - UK presenter > Ben Sasse - Former Nebraska senator > Randy Singer - Author > Richard Sterban - Oak Ridge Boy > David Webb - Corporate whistleblower activist > > ## Subs: > > Rev. Jesse Jackson - Rainbow Coalition > Steve Gleason - (NFL) American football > Georg Koch - German football goalkeeper > Jerry Sandusky - Creepy coach > > Princess Bajrakitiyabh > Cindy Birdsong > Jason Collins > David Dwinell > Rob Hirst > Russell Hoult > Rev. Jesse Jackson > Denny McLain > Esther Rantzen > Ben Sasse > Randy Singer > Richard Sterban > David Webb > > Subs: > Steve Gleason > Georg Koch > Jerry Sandusky > > Good Luck everyone! I decided John Absey wasn’t enough of a celebrity, so I swapped him out for Jesse Jackson. This is my only and final change. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/343 "2026-01-01T01:53:48Z")
George W Bush Dana Carvey Kassie DePaiva Michael Douglas Richard Dreyfuss Shirley Jones Elizabeth Marvel Gerald McRaney Liza Minnelli Johnny Mathis Frankie Muniz Randy Travis Donald Trump Alternate: Elizabeth Ashley ---
**Author:** ![Deanna\_D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Deanna\_D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deanna_D)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/344 "2026-01-01T02:08:01Z")
I’ve been thinking about this all day, and I think I’ve got a few that’ll cough up some points in 2026! Here we go: Barry Manilow Ben Sasse Bill Cosby Bruce Willis Celine Dion Chris Hoy Donald Trump Gary Busey Joey Buttafuoco Kanye West Kathy Griffin King Charles Mitch McConnell 🤞 ---
**Author:** ![CreaseMunky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@CreaseMunky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CreaseMunky)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/345 "2026-01-01T02:08:28Z")
Bruce Willis Jeanette Lee Johnny Knoxville Judy Blume Michael J Fox Jim Kelly Tommy Chong Donald Trump James Van Der Beek Bonnie Blue Bill Cosby Tim Curry King Charles III ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/346 "2026-01-01T02:11:33Z")
Please please please post in the proper format. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/347 "2026-01-01T02:19:20Z")
You must have changed it while I was posting. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/348 "2026-01-01T02:48:53Z")
Final list: Linda Ronstadt Ben Sasse Jason Collins Ron Jeremy Scott Adams Chris Hoy Rev. Jesse Jackson Valerie Perrine Milo Yiannopoulos Eric Dane James Van Der Beek Michael Bolton Theo Burrell Includes bandwagon pics, although I did plan to have Scott Adams early on. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/349 "2026-01-01T03:28:41Z")
Dick Cavett Pat Priest Richard Bach Baron von Raschke Sam Donaldson Herp Alpert Engelbert Humperdinck F. Murray Abraham Don King Ronnie Schell Rich Little David Burke Rex Reed Alt: Joan Collins Dustin Hoffman Bob Packwood * * * Dick Cavett: TV Talk Pat Priest: Actress Richard Bach: Author Baron von Raschke: Wrestling Sam Donaldson: TV News Herp Alpert: Music Engelbert Humperdinck: Entertainer F. Murray Abraham: Actor Don King: Boxing Promoter Ronnie Schell: Actor Rich Little: Impersonator David Burke: Actor (BBC Sherlock Holmes, 1st Watson) Rex Reed: Critic Alt: Joan Collins:Actor Dustin Hoffman: Actor Bob Packwood: Oregon politician Fixing the wrong spelling of Dick Cavett’s name. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/350 "2026-01-01T03:46:18Z")
We have had a lot of posters new to the board playing. At this point we have four more players than last year ---
**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:** [January 1, 2026, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/351 "2026-01-01T03:50:28Z")
[Philippe Druillet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Druillet) [Raúl Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Castro) [Werner Herzog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog) [Geezer Butler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler) [Aung San Suu Kyi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi) [Muhammad Saeed al Sahhaf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf) [Joseph Kabila](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kabila) [Dalai Lama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama) [Akihito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihito) [Gérard Depardieu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Depardieu) [Peter Weir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weir) [Anatoli Bugorski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski) [Javier Milei](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei) ---
**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:** [January 1, 2026, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/352 "2026-01-01T03:53:07Z")
Oh, happy **Baker** , birthday ---
**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:** [January 1, 2026, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/353 "2026-01-01T04:00:25Z")
Chris Hoy Dermot Murnaghan Ben Sasse Sergio Peris-Mencheta Luděk Mikloško James Van Der Beek Magda Szubanski Tannishtha Chatterjee Scott Adams Brad Arnold Teddi Mellencamp Esther Rantzen Jordan Brunoli Alts: Ian Smith Michael Tilson-Thomas Bruce Willis ---
**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:** [January 1, 2026, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/354 "2026-01-01T04:01:39Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Oh, happy **Baker** , birthday Don’t look now but I think eschereal’s been hitting the Champagne coolies. ---
**Author:** ![FrostyKmart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/85e7bf/32.png) [@FrostyKmart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrostyKmart)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/355 "2026-01-01T04:14:19Z")
I can’t believe you do this every year. I’m running one on another site and we’re at 90+ players. The data entry suuuuucks ---
**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:** [January 1, 2026, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/356 "2026-01-01T04:17:35Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Dick Cavatt > Pat Priest > Richard Bach > Baron von Raschke > Sam Donaldson > Herp Alpert > Engelbert Humperdinck > F. Murray Abraham > Don King > Ronnie Schell > Rich Little > David Burke > Rex Reed I was going to point out that Don King died years ago but instead, holy shit Don King is still alive? Only the good die young. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/357 "2026-01-01T04:18:43Z")
So you see why I hate entries that are not properly formatted. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/358 "2026-01-01T04:18:56Z")
I didn’t do anything to the formatting. Sorry. I’m really debating if I want to trade someone for Jon Kyl in these last forty minutes… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/359 "2026-01-01T04:20:26Z")
Hour and forty I do it on CST ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/360 "2026-01-01T04:20:47Z")
Brad Arnold Michael Bolton Phil Collins Eric Dane Rhod Gilbert Rob Hirst Chris Hoy Barry Manilow John Mara Maria Menounos Ben Sasse Andy Taylor Gerry Turner Alts: Scott Adams Kate Micucci ---
**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:** [January 1, 2026, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/361 "2026-01-01T04:23:06Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > We have had a lot of posters new to the board playing. At this point we have four more players than last year I’m lookin’ at all the ones who last posted ten or twelve months ago. Vultures, I say. Vultures the lot of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=19)