# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![AS123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@AS123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AS123)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/141 "2025-12-13T22:24:21Z")
There, I fixed it! - Charles III ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/142 "2025-12-13T22:28:00Z")
Reprising my list of entertainers over 90 years old for the ninth time. I helped keep all but three of this year’s aged picks alive for another full year. In 2025, Joan Plowright, Gene Hackman, and Lune Lockhart gave me a total of ten whole points, and I’m hoping for another low score next year to avoid losing any more of these great talents. As always, I’m playing the odds, not going for points. The maximum I could earn, if all of these wonderful actors dropped dead in early January, is 37. Eva Marie Saint is already 101, Dick Van Dyke turned 100 today, and Attenborough and Brooks will turn 100 in 2026. They’re listed in descending age. Eva Marie Saint Dick van Dyke David Attenborough Mel Brooks William Daniels Rosemary Harris Lee Grant Estelle Parsons James Ivory James Hong Tippi Hedren Robert Wagner Joanne Woodward Clint Eastwood Alternates: William Shatner Barbara Eden Rita Moreno ---
**Author:** ![AS123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@AS123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AS123)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/143 "2025-12-13T22:28:58Z")
There, I fixed it! Charles III Akihito Joe Biden Donald Trump David Zaslav Bob Iger Hélène Desputeaux Chris Gifford Frank Welker George W. Bush Ted Turner Queen Margrethe II Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Alternate: Elon Musk Does that work well? ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/144 "2025-12-13T22:43:59Z")
It seems you’re overthinking this. Try keeping it simple: one candidate, one line, no empty lines in between candidates 😉 ---
**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:** [December 13, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/145 "2025-12-13T22:53:32Z")
Here is AS123’s list, properly formatted: Charles III Akihito Joe Biden Donald Trump David Zaslav Bob Iger Hélène Desputeaux Chris Gifford Frank Welker George W. Bush Ted Turner Queen Margrethe II Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Alternate Elon Musk ---
**Author:** ![AS123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@AS123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AS123)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/146 "2025-12-13T23:00:20Z")
That’s what I was trying to do, but thanks! I tried it do it on copying it on notepad but when I paste it it keeps doing it. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/147 "2025-12-13T23:39:28Z")
Okay, I suppose committing now is as good a time as any. Quentin Blake Brian Blessed Billy Connolly Phil Collins Morgan Freeman Richard Gere Rhod Gilbert Kamahl Miriam Margolyes Ian McShane Kate Micucci Cliff Richard John Williams **BACKUPS** Rita Moreno Timothy Omundson Bruce Willis _Annotations for those you may be unfamiliar with:_ Quentin Blake is a UK children’s book illustrator Rhod Gilbert is a UK comedian Kamahl is an Australian singer ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/148 "2025-12-14T00:54:30Z")
I don’t want Brian Blessed to die!!! Did you see him as Augustus in I, Claudius? ---
**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:** [December 14, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/149 "2025-12-14T01:24:45Z")
It’s not a request list. I don’t want any of them to die. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/150 "2025-12-14T01:26:16Z")
I know, I know. Myfavorite role of his was as the king of the Hawkmen in Flash Gordon. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/151 "2025-12-14T01:32:15Z")
My favourite was in the first series of _The Black Adder_. [![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWjelCaFin4Rqm7tHPyoW0x_mfYCCsUUmZHjgGxyGIDrr69EEyS7S3jVKXG125L8OxI9C2QIXGdatK_nxV6fIEAPkjksrsQtMFo_SewsDG1E9N9zwA06pJNirklhUlMuZcXzhjSSewinzDW8U4Y-cCzq-PeWME_eGIPEnfk6oISlhgt_mvddMOyFDO/s1397/blacka1.png) ](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWjelCaFin4Rqm7tHPyoW0x_mfYCCsUUmZHjgGxyGIDrr69EEyS7S3jVKXG125L8OxI9C2QIXGdatK_nxV6fIEAPkjksrsQtMFo_SewsDG1E9N9zwA06pJNirklhUlMuZcXzhjSSewinzDW8U4Y-cCzq-PeWME_eGIPEnfk6oISlhgt_mvddMOyFDO/s1397/blacka1.png) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/152 "2025-12-14T11:35:02Z")
Delete. I seem inadequate to play this year. ---
**Author:** ![CrashEdit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@CrashEdit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrashEdit)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/153 "2025-12-14T14:17:28Z")
Newbie here, let’s see how this goes… Andy Dick Ariana Grande Justin Beiber King Charles III Donald Trump Dave Coulier Britney Spears Eric Dane Sean Combs Bruce Willis Pete Davidson Jim Carrey Ghislaine Maxwell **Alternates:** Finn Wolfhard John Mulaney Christina Applegate ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/154 "2025-12-14T15:10:17Z")
D’oh! I miscounted, and put 14 people on the list. Please move Clint down to the alternates and Rita off the list. Thanks, and sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/155 "2025-12-14T19:49:32Z")
No problem ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/156 "2025-12-14T19:50:14Z")
That’s not necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Izzy.B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc8723/32.png) [@Izzy.B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Izzy.B)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/157 "2025-12-15T15:22:21Z")
Jeremy clarkson, Donald trump, r Kelly, Cher, James may, Sharon Osborne, Morgan freeman, Elton john, arianna grande, Stevie wonder, Joe Biden, bob dylan Judi dench ---
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/158 "2025-12-15T15:27:21Z")
@Baker - I hate doing this, as it just creates more work for you, but my wife accused me of keeping someone alive. Would you mind swapping out Tatiana Schlossberg for Donald Trump on my list? Out Donald Trump In Tatiana Schlossberg ---
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/159 "2025-12-15T15:29:11Z")
Before Baker comes back - any change you could resubmit that as a single-spaced list? ---
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/160 "2025-12-15T15:30:18Z")
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