# 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:** 50
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/982 "2026-03-24T01:51:31Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > C.S. Lewis died on November 22, 1963. as well as [one other guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley) ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/983 "2026-03-24T02:03:52Z")
Are you saying that C. S. Lewis and JFK were the same person? ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/984 "2026-03-24T02:15:15Z")
I never saw the two of them together at the same time so it’s possible. 🙄 ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/985 "2026-03-24T02:35:37Z")
Points for me, but even with 18 more, I remain in second place. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/986 "2026-03-24T02:44:55Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > > [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > > > I feel bad for anyone who dies on the same day as Chuck Norris. It’s like when Farrah Fawcett died and was the lead story…until Michael Jackson died like an hour later. Imagine being upstaged at your own death. > > C.S. Lewis died on November 22, 1963. Another interesting coincidence is that Mahatma Gandhi and Orville Wright both died on January 30, 1948. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/987 "2026-03-24T03:11:08Z")
I know the death of beloved Australian author, Colin Thiele, would probably not have been the headline story on the evening news anyway when he died on 4 September 2006, but a certain documentarian/conversationist/zoologist/tv personality was filming a swim with the stingrays that day and… ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/988 "2026-03-24T09:06:58Z")
So this happened… > **[Charlie Kirk's Mentor Jeff Webb Dead After Pickleball Accident](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeff-webb-varsity-spirit-charlie-kirk-mentor-dead_n_69c15d85e4b0964b56ffd3fc)** > > The cheerleading tycoon and media mogul previously described Kirk as a "future president." ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/989 "2026-03-24T11:49:09Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Are you saying that C. S. Lewis and JFK were the same person? There had seemed to be some discussion about the news of one person’s death being overshadowed by another’s. I thought I was contributing to that discussion. Apparently I misunderstood? ETA: At any rate, when I was first reading C.S. Lewis, a little over seven years later, it took me awhile to determine whether or not he was still living, and I think part of that was that the news of his passing was totally drowned out at the time. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/990 "2026-03-24T11:58:47Z")
I’d have hardly thought one could get killed in a pickleball accident. I have little idea of how it’s played (my mind’s still going: _there’s a sport called pickleball? really?!_ even though it’s been years since I’ve first heard about it), but it seems to have really taken off among retired people. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/991 "2026-03-24T15:25:14Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I’d have hardly thought one could get killed in a pickleball accident. Pickleball involves running around on a concrete court. Apparently Webb tripped and struck his head on the concrete. Head injuries like that can be serious, even fatal. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/992 "2026-03-24T15:29:34Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > There had seemed to be some discussion about the news of one person’s death being overshadowed by another’s. I thought I was contributing to that discussion. Apparently I misunderstood? I believe Superdude was making a joke. Eschereal’s link was about Aldous Huxley’s death, which also occurred on November 22, 1963. By referring to Huxley as the “one other guy” who died on that date, you can see an implication that Lewis and Kennedy are being counted as a single person. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/993 "2026-03-24T15:31:23Z")
Yeah, exactly this. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/994 "2026-03-24T15:33:06Z")
And everyone forgets Aldous Huxley. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/995 "2026-03-24T15:35:08Z")
Who? . ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/996 "2026-03-24T15:39:29Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Pickleball involves running around on a concrete court. Apparently Webb tripped and struck his head on the concrete. Head injuries like that can be serious, even fatal. Okay - this makes sense. I guess I figured that pickleball was played on a softer court. Though “died in a bizarre pickleball accident” sounds like something that would have happened to a Spinal Tap drummer. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/997 "2026-03-24T15:54:43Z")
Yeah, it sounds funny, but it really just boils down to (probably) a head injury on a hard surface. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/998 "2026-03-24T16:01:10Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Yeah, it sounds funny, but it really just boils down to (probably) a head injury on a hard surface It’s like saying saying Bob Saget died from a cabinet or kitchen injury. Likely, he bumped his head really hard or tripped and fell and hit his head, laid down, and unfortunately died from the head trauma. Heads are tough, but it is scary how one can get a fatal injury easily. I’ve thought about my full bathroom and getting handles/supports installed. It has an odd shape and a hard counter, etc. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/999 "2026-03-24T16:03:47Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > And everyone forgets Aldous Huxley. Only after the soma kicks in. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1000 "2026-03-24T20:28:14Z")
The values of [Pockets Warhol](https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/pockets-warhol/)’s paintings are likely to increase now, though not as high as his namesake. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1001 "2026-03-24T21:10:44Z")
A 33 year old monkey who’d recently had a stroke. That sounds like the setup to a Norm Macdonald gag. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=51)