2026 Celebrity Death Pool

Just once I’d like to see a statement that someone died surrounded by his enemies.

mmm

Qaddafi?

Chad Gilbert ruining my 2017 list.

Or the rare obituary that reads something to the effect of “[Person] has died, was deeply horrible, and will not be missed.”

I look for that one daily.

That will be the orange guy.

Here’s a few of those.

You had him 9 years ago?

I see that several players had Rhod Gilbert, which is only two letters off. Kinda funny, that.

Presley Gerber, 27.

Son of Cindy Crawford. Cindy Crawford's Son Presley Gerber Dead at 27

Typo. 2027. I had him on my short list for next year.

While in rehab. Very tragic.

Among many other roles he played five different characters of 4 different species across multiple Star Trek shows. He died back in July but his family reported the information now.

Whoa there NY Daily News, we don’t need that detail in the opening blurb.

If you do not like dark weirdness, fail to read the story (I resorted to one sans paywall).

Unfortunately it now requires a site signup, but Sharon Begley’s obituary of James Watson (the DNA guy) was scintillatingly brutal. It is made more amazing by the fact that she had died four years before Watson and still got it ready to go for the occasion.

Australian singer Angry Anderson of the band Rose Tattoo has died aged 79. I was not very familiar with his music, but he was a known character across the country.

He was very well known in his heyday. Did a lot of advocacy work for disadvantaged young people. Can’t say I was politically aligned with him, but there were things I admired about his charity works and stance on child protection.

And, of course, he sang the Scott and Charlene wedding anthem for that famous Neighbours wedding in the 80s.

I was trying to remember where I knew him from. Turns out he was in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.