# 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:** 68
**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:** [June 7, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1342 "2026-06-07T22:39:22Z")
Mentioned upthread by @Biotop ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1343 "2026-06-07T22:47:27Z")
But did it include the Barry column? ---
**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:** [June 7, 2026, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1344 "2026-06-07T22:50:18Z")
Not to my knowledge, I’ll concede. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1345 "2026-06-08T00:31:26Z")
I can’t find it. The page numbers are too tiny on my phone. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2026, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1346 "2026-06-08T00:38:06Z")
The column itself is not about Packwood. It does have this typical Barryesque digression > I’m hiding this topic because I’ve learned over the years that some newspapers tend to censor > this column when it deals with sensitive issues.To cite one of many examples, back in 1990 I > wrote s column about politics, and the Portland Ore., Oregonian cut out a crucial section in > which I explained how snails have sex. Thus, because of one newspaper’s squeamishness, Oregon’s voters were deprived of information that would have helped them make informed decisions, which probably explains why Oregon is the only state in history ever to have elected Bob Packwood. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1347 "2026-06-08T15:27:59Z")
Prof. Richard Scolyer [dead at 59](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14yz5jg476o). Points! ---
**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:** [June 8, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1348 "2026-06-08T16:18:12Z")
a unique pick that moves you into first place ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1349 "2026-06-08T21:08:03Z")
> **[Gordon S Wood, Pulitzer-prize winning historian, dies after being struck by a...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/gordon-s-wood-pulitzer-prize-historian-dead)** > > A renowned academic, Wood was hit by a car as he was crossing a supermarket’s parking lot and later died of the injuries > Wood, 92, won the Pulitzer [in 1993](https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/gordon-s-wood) in the history category for The Radicalisation of the American Revolution, a landmark tome that advanced the theory of the break with Britain being at least as much of an internal social and political transformation as a desire to be rid of colonial masters… > > His other prominent books included The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, which was written in 1969; Empire of Liberty, an account of the early years of the United States; and Revolutionary Characters, a biography of the founding fathers who shaped the new republic. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2026, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1350 "2026-06-08T23:47:56Z")
He was also mentioned in _Good Will Hunting,_ in the bar scene towards the beginning of the movie, when the guy with the pony tail (Clark) tries to show up Ben Afflleck in front of two girls. Matt Damon says, “you’ll be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood talkin’ about, you know, the pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.” ---
**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:** [June 9, 2026, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1351 "2026-06-09T00:22:11Z")
[Robert Coles](https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/robert-coles/), Pullitzer Prize-winning author and psychiatrist who counseled Ruby Bridges and her family after the forced desegregation of New Orleans schools. Also, the remaining co-discoverer of comet Hale-Bopp dies. > **[Alan Hale, Astronomer Who Co-Discovered Comet Hale-Bopp, Dies at 67 - That...](https://www.thatericalper.com/2026/06/07/alan-hale-astronomer-who-co-discovered-comet-hale-bopp-dies-at-67/)** > > Alan Hale, the American astronomer who co-discovered one of the most spectacular and widely observed comets in human history and spent the rest of his career using science as a tool for breaking down barriers between people and nations, died on June... ---
**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:** [June 9, 2026, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1352 "2026-06-09T00:31:02Z")
/\> Insert Gilligan’s Island joke here. \< ---
**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:** [June 9, 2026, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1353 "2026-06-09T05:20:23Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > > Insert Gilligan’s Island joke here. \< Yeah, no, I think that joke is a skipper ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1354 "2026-06-09T05:29:56Z")
If you’re talking about the Dave Barry column, you won’t be able to read it on a phone. You’ll need a desktop screen. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2026, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1355 "2026-06-10T04:04:31Z")
> **[He Mortgaged His Home to Mass-Produce the 'Windsurfer'](https://www.newser.com/story/390664/windsurfing-pioneer-hoyle-schweitzer-dies-at-93.html)** > > Hoyle Schweitzer, who co-created design of sailboard and popularized windsurfing, dies at 93 ---
**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:** [June 11, 2026, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1356 "2026-06-11T04:28:12Z")
> **[Carlos 'Indio' Solari, a legend of Argentina's rock scene, dies at 77](https://apnews.com/article/argentina-rock-music-indio-solari-obit-b7b9c748e23b6c719d2e8e8c4caf57c3)** > > Carlos Alberto Solari, the Argentine singer-songwriter known as “the Indio” who led Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota, one of the most popular and influential Argentine rock groups of the 1970s-1990s, has died outside the capital of Buenos... ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1357 "2026-06-12T05:51:45Z")
Princess Bajrakitiyabha of Thailand has finally been pronounced dead at the age of 47. She was in a coma for three years. > **[Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha dies after more than three years in coma](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzzndx780o)** > > Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the king's eldest daughter, collapsed in December 2022 while exercising her dogs. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2026, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1358 "2026-06-12T09:50:16Z")
Just announced: British artist David Hockney has passed away. > **[Celebrated British contemporary artist David Hockney dies at 88](https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260612-celebrated-british-contemporary-artist-david-hockney-dies-at-88)** > > British artist David Hockney has died at 88, his PR agent said on Friday. Hockney was one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries who worked in a range of mediums but was known… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1359 "2026-06-12T10:12:04Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > David Hockney One of those “I thought he was already dead” guys. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2026, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1360 "2026-06-12T10:56:01Z")
We went to see one of those [immersive “lightroom” shows based on his work](https://lightroom.uk/whats-on/david-hockney/). The stuff around his theatrical designs was fascinating. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2026, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1361 "2026-06-12T11:05:53Z")
Man I had her on my list for two years but figured we’d never actually find out if/when she died, so I finally took her off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=67) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=69)