# 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:** 96
**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:** [October 2, 2026, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1902 "2026-10-02T11:38:59Z")
Ladders will be lowered to half staff. > **[Mary Louise Weller of ‘Animal House’ Dies at 80](https://extratv.com/2026/10/01/mary-louise-weller-animal-house-obituary/)** > > Mary Louise Weller, remembered for playing sorority girl Mandy in the classic film “Animal House,” died October 1. She was 80. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1903 "2026-10-02T12:09:13Z")
A 32 year old sorority girl… ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1904 "2026-10-02T12:29:43Z")
This might be stretching ‘celebrity’ a bit, but Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s partner has been found dead. > **[Ken Urker, Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s Partner and Father of Her Daughter, Dies on...](https://people.com/ken-urker-gypsy-rose-blanchard-s-fiance-and-father-of-her-daughter-dies-on-birthday-12153433)** > > Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s fiancé Ken Urker has died, PEOPLE can confirm. He was found unresponsive at a Louisiana home on his birthday on Thursday, Oct. 1. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1905 "2026-10-02T13:50:46Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > A 32 year old sorority girl… The ages of the cast of Animal House at the time they were playing college students: John Belushi - 29 Tim Matheson - 31 Tom Hulce - 25 Peter Riegert - 31 Stephen Furst - 24 Bruce McGill - 28 Karen Allen - 27 James Widdoes - 25 Doug Kenney - 32 James Daughton - 28 Mark Metcalf - 32 Kevin Bacon - 20 Mary Louise Weller - 32 Martha Smith - 26 Sarah Holcombe, who played the 13 year old Clorette DePasto, was 20. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1906 "2026-10-02T16:00:50Z")
I saw this headline and had no idea who Gypsy Rose Blanchard was. How I wish I hadn’t looked her up. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1907 "2026-10-02T21:22:38Z")
A 33yr old who looks at least 45. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1908 "2026-10-02T22:20:27Z")
[I’ll never forget Hack-O-Lantern for trying to convince us this is a young man.](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRIGBT1JQvCvi_SMAnxW0cS04mQEbQyUv7xicGJnbVFkMyeOM6dX4BHgIg&s=10) ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1909 "2026-10-03T00:09:24Z")
# **Tony Reno, who guided Yale to 5 Ivy League titles, dies at 52**. ESPN No, not Tony Romo, former Cowboy, former CBS analyst, drunk driver. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1910 "2026-10-03T07:47:59Z")
If that wasn’t enough, Lifetime has two seasons of a reality show and a ‘documentary.’ 😶 ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1911 "2026-10-03T20:16:06Z")
> **[Das Ich co-founder Bruno Kramm dies at 58](https://www.side-line.com/das-ich-bruno-kramm-dies/)** > > Bruno Kramm, co-founder of German dark wave band Das Ich, has died at 58, hours after the band's September 25, 2026 concert in Granada, Spain. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2026, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1912 "2026-10-04T00:20:09Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Ladders will be lowered to half staff. imdb has her date of death as October 1st, the day before her birthday, so she would have been 79. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1913 "2026-10-04T06:58:53Z")
> **[Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94](https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/milt-windler-nasa-flight-director-who-helped-save-apollo-13-dies-at-94/)** > > Milt Windler, one of the leaders of Mission Control who directed the effort to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely, has died. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1914 "2026-10-04T14:32:42Z")
Has Marjoe Gortner died? I see Facebook posts, and Google AI and Wikipedia say he died on Friday; but I don’t see anything in the news. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1915 "2026-10-04T17:14:28Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Marjoe Gortner It appears to be true. > **[Marjoe Gortner, Child Preacher and ‘Earthquake,’ ‘Falcon Crest’ Actor, Dies...](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/marjoe-gortner-dead-child-preacher-earthquake-falcon-crest-1236721873/)** > > The subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, the Universal Pictures contract player also starred with Lynda Carter in ‘Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw.’ ---
**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:** [October 5, 2026, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1916 "2026-10-05T13:23:47Z")
Child molester Dennis Hastert is dead. > **[Dennis Hastert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert)** > > John Dennis Hastert (/ˈhæstərt/ HASS-tərt; 2 January 1942 – 5 October 2026) was an American politician who served as the 51st speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. > A member of the Republican Party, he represented Illinois's 14th congressional district from 1987 to 2007 and was the sixth longest-serving speaker in history, and the longest serving Republican. In 2016, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for financial offenses related to the sexual abus Fro... ---
**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:** [October 5, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1917 "2026-10-05T14:27:21Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Child molester Dennis Hastert is dead. > > [Dennis Hastert - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert) I saw a headline that did not immediately include this critical information. Forget everything else he did that was terrible. He’s an abuser/rapist. He will not be missed. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1918 "2026-10-05T21:22:15Z")
> **[‘Days of Our Lives’ star Robert Kelker-Kelly dies at 62](https://ew.com/robert-kelker-kelly-dead-days-of-our-lives-star-62-12159964)** > > Robert Kelker-Kelly, the actor known for playing Bo Brady on ‘Days of Our Lives,’ has died at 62. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2026, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1919 "2026-10-05T23:44:50Z")
> **[Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic dies in Belgrade](https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/former-bosnian-serb-leader-biljana-plavsic-dies-belgrade-136913752)** > > Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic has died in Belgrade at 96 ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1920 "2026-10-06T03:42:34Z")
Sexual creep Jim Bakker is dead. > **[Jim Bakker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker)** > > James Orsen Bakker (/ˈbeɪkər/; January 2, 1940 – October 5, 2026) was an American televangelist. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL Satellite Network, with his then wife, Tammy Faye. He also developed Heritage USA, a now-defunct Christian theme park in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Bakker was born in Muskegon, Michigan, and attended North Central University in Minneapolis, where he met Tammy Faye LaValley. The two ma... ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/1921 "2026-10-06T03:54:23Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Sexual creep Jim Bakker is dead I thought he died years ago. He won’t be missed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=95) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318.md?page=97)