# Celebrity Death Pool 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2013, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193 "2013-12-01T06:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 76
**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 25, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1501 "2014-07-25T18:10:51Z")
> **[Bear Stearns figure 'Ace' Alan Greenberg dies](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/07/25/alan-greenberg-bear-stearns/13159983/)** > > Greenberg, who presided over the expansion of Bear Stearns before its collapse helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis, has died at 86. Alan “Ace” Greenberg, who presided over the expansion of Bear Stearns before its collapse helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis, has died at 86, The New York Times reports. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1502 "2014-07-25T19:52:38Z")
Well, I’m home. As best I can tell none of the names presented since I left died. I just missed //////////, um, I would have liked to have met some of the people on my list, but they aren’t in Kansas, yeah, that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1503 "2014-07-25T19:53:18Z")
Welcome home, **Baker**! 🆒 ---
**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 25, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1504 "2014-07-25T20:01:27Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Well, I’m home. > > As best I can tell none of the names presented since I left died… 😕😕Actually all the names presented died - just no one had them.😛 And welcome home, heel-clicker. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1505 "2014-07-25T22:06:11Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > 😕😕Actually all the names presented died - just no one had them.😛 :smack: It’s the heat I tell you, it’s been around 100 Fahrenheit. ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1506 "2014-07-26T16:44:23Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Well, I’m home. \ Welcome home, whaddya bring us? I’m not naming names, but some of stayed up later than you said we could, some of us didn’t mind the babysitter like you said we should, some of us didn’t do our chores, and I didn’t make that mess in the bathroom. But we didn’t break any of the **Death Pool** rules. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1507 "2014-07-26T19:01:50Z")
> [@dba\_Fred](#): > > Welcome home, whaddya bring us? I heard a rumor she had baked up a Suicide-by-Chocolate. It was for someone else, though. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1508 "2014-07-26T23:15:51Z")
I was good while you were gone **DeathMistress** but **dba Fred** didn’t use a coaster. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1509 "2014-07-28T21:37:23Z")
Mambo legend Augustin Rodriguez, half of Augie and Margo duo, dead at 86 > **[Mambo legend Augustin Rodriguez, half of Augie and Margo duo, dead at 86 ](https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/mambo-legend-augustin-rodriguez-augie-margo-duo-dead-86-article-1.1882869)** > > Augustin "Augie" Rodriguez, who with his wife and partner Margo helped ignite the mambo craze of the 1950s, died July 18 in Deerfield Beach, Fla. A short clip: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jbjXdWA_nLo/hqdefault.jpg "Augustin Rodriguez and Margo Bartolonei - History of Mamba/Salsa") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbjXdWA_nLo) ---
**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 29, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1510 "2014-07-29T16:48:41Z")
[Robert Panara](http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-robert-panara-20140728-story.html), pioneering educator and scholar of the deaf. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1511 "2014-07-29T17:38:34Z")
[James Shigeta, Mr. Takagi in Die Hard, won’t be joining us…for the rest of his life.](http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a587093/die-hard-actor-james-shigeta-dies-aged-81.html#~oLqJYVu1Zfm3Dh) 19 points. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1512 "2014-07-29T18:48:07Z")
I feel a tiny bit bad for laughing, but that was perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1513 "2014-07-29T20:22:42Z")
[Sally Farmiloe](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2709694/BREAKING-NEWS-Former-Howardss-Way-actress-Sally-Farmiloe-passes-away-long-battle-cancer.html)has passed away at 60, moving the top three farther into the lead. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1514 "2014-07-30T01:25:59Z")
Theodore “Dutch” VanKirk, the last surviving member of the crew of the Enola Gay, the B-29 superfortress that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, [has died in Georgia.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/29/atomic-bomb-hiroshima_n_5631727.html) 7 points. ---
**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 31, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1515 "2014-07-31T10:47:03Z")
The pioneering documentary film-maker Robert Drew has died at the age of 90. In the 1960s, Drew gained prominence with two films about John F Kennedy, and went on to make dozens of others. > **[Pioneer of modern documentary Robert Drew dies aged 90](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28581041)** > > Robert Drew, the pioneer of fly-on-the-wall documentary style known as Cinema Verite, has died at the age of 90 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1516 "2014-08-02T20:27:08Z")
Former Atlanta Braves Broadcaster on TBS [Pete Van Wieren dead at age 69](https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/former-braves-broadcaster-pete-van-wieren-dies-at-69-162728546.html). ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1517 "2014-08-02T20:42:06Z")
American Idol finalist [Michael Johns](http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2014/08/02/american-idol-bits-former-atlantan-michael-johns-has-died-why-dexter-roberts-left-tour/) has passed away at age 35 ---
**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:** [August 2, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1518 "2014-08-02T21:40:14Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > American Idol finalist [Michael Johns](http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2014/08/02/american-idol-bits-former-atlantan-michael-johns-has-died-why-dexter-roberts-left-tour/) has passed away at age 35 Wow, I kind of remember that guy. Apparently, he had a minor ankle injury that developed a blood clot. Scary. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1519 "2014-08-04T01:48:00Z")
Wherever [Billie Letts](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/best-selling-author-billie-letts-dies-oklahoma-24825992) heart is these days, it’s not beating there. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1520 "2014-08-04T18:36:47Z")
> [@](#): > > (CNN) – James Brady, former press secretary to Ronald Reagan who was severely wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt on the President, has died, the White House said on Monday. He was 73. [http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/politics/james-brady-dies/index.html?hpt=hp\_t1](http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/politics/james-brady-dies/index.html?hpt=hp_t1) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=75) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=77)