# 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:** 22
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/422 "2026-01-07T21:41:03Z")
That was Paul Quarrington. My first ever points in my first year playing. Truly an Opening Kickoff Award! ---
**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:** [January 8, 2026, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/423 "2026-01-08T03:39:37Z")
Hall of Fame NHL goalie Glenn Hall, who played 18 seasons with Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis, couldn’t block the Grim reaper [at age 94.](https://www.nhl.com/news/hall-of-fame-goaltender-glenn-hall-dead-at-94) ---
**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:** [January 8, 2026, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/424 "2026-01-08T16:12:46Z")
> **[R.I.P. Béla Tarr, the arthouse godfather of slow cinema](https://www.avclub.com/bela-tarr-obituary)** > > R.I.P. Béla Tarr, the arthouse godfather of slow cinema ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/425 "2026-01-09T01:47:10Z")
> **[Elle Simone Scott, 'America's Test Kitchen' chef and cookbook author, dies at 49](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2026-01-08/elle-simone-scott-chef-americas-test-kitchen-death-ovarian-cancer)** > > Chef Elle Simone Scott, the first Black woman to join the cast of 'America's Test Kitchen,' has died after a long battle with cancer. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/426 "2026-01-09T01:49:25Z")
> **[Obit: Bruce Crawford, Longtime Omnicom Leader, Dead At 96](https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/411878/bruce-crawford-longtime-omnicom-leader-dies-at-96.html)** > > Crawford was Omnicom's President and CEO from 1989 until 1995, when he became Chairman and CEO. He was succeeded by John Wren in the CEO role in 1997 and remained chairman until stepping down in 2018. Outside of his advertising career, Crawford was a well-known and widely regarded patron of the arts. For decades he was deeply involved with the Metropolitan Opera, as a donor, executive, and opera buff. He served as an advisory director starting in 1976 and managing director from 1977 until 2008. ---
**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 9, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/427 "2026-01-09T22:29:39Z")
This farging icehole died. Happened back on December 18th but it wasn’t announced until now. > **['Johnny Dangerously' star Richard Dimitri dies at 83](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2026/01/08/johnny-dangerously-star-richard-dimitri-dies-at-83/88089950007/)** > > "When Things Were Rotten" and "Johnny Dangerously" actor Richard Dimitri has died at age 83 following a long battle with heart and lung illnesses. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/428 "2026-01-10T00:31:42Z")
Those bastiges! 😭 ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/429 "2026-01-10T00:58:12Z")
Oh, no! I liked Elle a lot. I noticed she had lost a lot of weight. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/430 "2026-01-10T14:18:29Z")
You never forget your first time! (Shelly Winters, 2006) ---
**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:** [January 10, 2026, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/431 "2026-01-10T18:24:35Z")
> **[Jewish woman whose baby photo was chosen by Goebbels as Aryan exemplar dies...](https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-woman-whose-baby-photo-was-chosen-by-goebbels-as-aryan-exemplar-dies-at-91/)** > > Fearing retaliation, Hessy Levinsons Taft and her family kept truth about the picture a secret until decades after leaving Nazi Germany ---
**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 10, 2026, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/432 "2026-01-10T23:21:22Z")
> **[Veteran actor T.K. Carter, known for 'The Thing' and 'Punky Brewster,' dies...](https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/veteran-actor-tk-carter-thing-punky-brewster-dies-129088636)** > > Veteran actor T ---
**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 10, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/433 "2026-01-10T23:52:32Z")
[Dead guitarist](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-weir-grateful-dead-dead-obituary-1234810106/) Grateful – 22 points and opening kickoff and unique pick for, I think, @Railer13 ---
**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:** [January 10, 2026, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/434 "2026-01-10T23:55:12Z")
That would be Bob Weir, cofounder of The Grateful Dead, dead at age 78. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/435 "2026-01-10T23:59:31Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > That would be Bob Weir I’m sorry to see him pass. I’ve been listening to his music for a long time. But I’m happy to win an award, and be in first place all by myself for the first time ever! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/436 "2026-01-11T00:56:01Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > That would be Bob Weir, cofounder of The Grateful Dead, dead at age 78. Was he the last original member standing? ---
**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:** [January 11, 2026, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/437 "2026-01-11T01:08:50Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Was he the last original member standing? I’m reading Bill Kreutzmann is the last founding member. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/438 "2026-01-11T01:28:10Z")
Eleven days to this first award! ---
**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:** [January 11, 2026, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/439 "2026-01-11T01:30:59Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Eleven days to this first award Isn’t today the tenth? ---
**Author:** ![zadscmc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@zadscmc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zadscmc)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/440 "2026-01-11T01:34:58Z")
> **[Bob Weir dead at 78: Grateful Dead guitarist passes after cancer fight](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15452749/Bob-Weir-dead-78-Grateful-Dead-founding-member-guitarist-passes-cancer-battle.html)** > > Grateful Dead guitarist and founding member Bob Weir has died at the age of 78, the news confirmed in a statement on his official Instagram account. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/441 "2026-01-11T01:54:42Z")
Hans Herrmann, Porsche’s first 24 Hours of Le Mans winner and the last surviving F1 podium finisher from the 1950s has died aged 97. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=23)