# 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:** 77
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1522 "2026-07-13T17:24:51Z")
Activist Mary Morello has died at 102. She was also Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello’s mom and often appeared with him on his Sirius XM radio shows. > **[Mary Morello](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Morello)** > > Mary Morello (October 1, 1923 – July 12, 2026) was an American activist who founded the anti-censorship group Parents for Rock and Rap in 1987. Morello was born in Marseilles, Illinois on October 1, 1923. In 1954, she earned a master's degree in African and Latin American/Peru history at Loyola University Chicago. She spent the rest of the decade teaching English in Germany, Peru, and Japan while once circling the globe on a freighter. From 1960 to 1963, Morello lived in Kenya, where she married ... ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1523 "2026-07-13T18:10:55Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > He was on my short list but it seemed like he was doing better so I didn’t pick him. Meanwhile, those I did pick All seem to be doing much better now. Cry me a river. I picked the wrong EMT-- I have Kevin Tighe, instead of Randolph Mantooth. Who’d’ve thought the young one would go first? ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1524 "2026-07-13T18:12:07Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Tom Morello’s mom and often appeared with him on his Sirius XM radio shows. I listened to her on that show. She seemed pretty cool. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1525 "2026-07-13T18:26:17Z")
She definitely gave off “Cool Mom” vibes, but she was sounding pretty frail for a while. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1526 "2026-07-13T22:24:23Z")
Political cartoonist Pat Oliphant has died at 90. > **[Pat Oliphant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Oliphant)** > > Patrick Bruce Oliphant (24 July 1935 – 13 July 2026) was an Australian-born American artist whose career spanned more than 60 years. His body of work primarily focused on American and global politics, culture, and corruption; he is particularly known for his caricatures of American presidents and other powerful leaders. Over the course of his long career, Oliphant produced thousands of daily editorial cartoons, dozens of bronze sculptures, and a large oeuvre of drawings and paintings. He retire... ---
**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:** [July 13, 2026, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1527 "2026-07-13T23:51:57Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Cry me a river. I picked the wrong EMT-- I have Kevin Tighe, instead of Randolph Mantooth. Who’d’ve thought the young one would go first? Despite their depiction in the show, Tighe only had 11 months on Mantooth. (Cf. Sean Connery and Harrison Ford who despite playing father and son were only 12 years apart). A good write-up of Mantooth done by Randy Cassingham who was an EMT and talks about how much inspiration Tighe and Mantooth had on establishing paramedic corps in many communities: [Randy “Randolph” Mantooth](https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/randy-mantooth/) > [@Gatopescado](#): > > > [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > > > Tom Morello’s mom and often appeared with him on his Sirius XM radio shows. > > I listened to her on that show. She seemed pretty cool. My partner met her in the early aughts while in college at a protest in Philadelphia to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. When she approached Morello and said how much of a fan she was, Morello smiled and said “Oh, sweetie, my son’s not here.” My partner responded that she was a fan of Mary having been raised in activism by people who had been mentored by Mary. Mary gave my partner a big hug for that. (Also, my partner was a fan of her son in his own right.) ---
**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:** [July 14, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1528 "2026-07-14T23:02:28Z")
I didn’t see this in a search, but former child actor Blake Garrett (_How to Eat Fried Worms_) [died in February at the age of 33](https://ew.com/how-to-eat-fried-worms-actor-blake-garrett-cause-of-death-revealed-12018735). According to authorities, he died of acute fentanyl toxicity. He’d been living in a sober living house in Tulsa. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1529 "2026-07-15T23:37:23Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > a sober living house So he hadn’t been sober. And he isn’t living. Is there any proof that this place is actually a house? ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1530 "2026-07-16T22:39:32Z")
Actor Hal Williams, perhaps best known as Marla Gibbs’ husband Lester Jenkins on _227_, has [died at 91](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/16/hal-williams-dies). Williams was also known for his 22 appearances on _Sanford & Son_, where he played Officer “Smitty” Smith. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2026, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1531 "2026-07-17T01:05:46Z")
I remember him as the drill sergeant in Private Benjamin. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2026, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1532 "2026-07-17T04:14:11Z")
> **[Zambia's Guy Scott, who was Africa's first white head of state in decades,...](https://apnews.com/article/zambia-guy-scott-president-africa-obit-afae246d995e14b1d90bd08e746da790)** > > Guy Scott, the Zambian politician who briefly served as acting president to become Africa’s first white head of state in more than two decades, has died. He was 82. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2026, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1533 "2026-07-17T14:58:13Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I remember him as the drill sergeant in Private Benjamin. He was pretty memorable as Big Dick Blaque in _Hardcore._ ---
**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:** [July 17, 2026, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1534 "2026-07-17T15:22:55Z")
Brenda Fricker, the Irish actress who played Daniel Day-Lewis’s mother in _My Left Foot_ (and won an Oscar for her performance), played the Pigeon Lady in _Home Alone 2_, and portrayed Mike Myers’s mother in _So I Married An Axe Murderer_, [has died at 81](https://ew.com/brenda-fricker-dead-home-alone-2-and-my-left-foot-star-dies-12021412). ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1535 "2026-07-17T19:36:03Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Mike Myers’s mother And wife. (It was a dual role, OK! Not for Fricker - for Myers.) ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1536 "2026-07-18T02:58:26Z")
Former MLB second baseman Ron Hunt, who still holds the all-time record for being hit by pitcher, has died with 15 at-bats remaining. > **[Ron Hunt, known for HBP records and unique spirit, dies at 85](https://www.mlb.com/news/ron-hunt-dies-at-85)** > > Ron Hunt, the combative second baseman who became the first Met to start in an All-Star Game, was runner-up to Pete Rose for the 1963 NL Rookie of the Year Award and who as an Expo set the astonishing Modern Era record of 50 hit-by-pitches in a... ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1537 "2026-07-18T04:06:16Z")
Actually, he’s 6th all-time, but holds the record for hit by pitch in a season. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1538 "2026-07-18T06:10:31Z")
And it was back when men were men, not armored knights at bat now. Before someone says they throw faster now, let me bring up Ryan Duren, Nolan Ryan, and Sydd Finch.😀 ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1539 "2026-07-18T21:16:21Z")
Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon has moved on to that great Palisades Park in the sky. [Freddy Cannon Dead: Early Rocker Who Sang 'Palisades Park' Was 89](https://variety.com/2026/music/obituaries-people-news/freddy-cannon-dead-palisades-park-rocker-1236815495/) ---
**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:** [July 19, 2026, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1540 "2026-07-19T05:03:43Z")
> **[Scott Bryce, Actor on ‘As the World Turns’ and ‘Popular,’ Dies at 68](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/scott-bryce-dead-as-the-world-turns-popular-murphy-brown-1236646612/)** > > A son of ‘Guiding Light’ star Ed Bryce, he also played the husband of Nancy McKeon on ‘The Facts of Life’ and Faith Ford on ‘Murphy Brown.’ ---
**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:** [July 19, 2026, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1541 "2026-07-19T05:07:38Z")
Actor Terence Donovan, aged 90. Known to Australian and UK TV audiences for his time on soap Neighbours, and for being the father of former Neighbours star Jason Donovan. [https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebrity-deaths/australian-actor-terence-donovan-dies-aged-90/news-story/cd59dd7ca6c8f69f1abe443eed15aae7](https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebrity-deaths/australian-actor-terence-donovan-dies-aged-90/news-story/cd59dd7ca6c8f69f1abe443eed15aae7) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=76) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=78)