# Celebrity Death Pool 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993 "2014-12-01T02:10:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 101
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2003 "2015-11-12T05:04:38Z")
[Carol “Boom Boom” Doda, Pioneer of Topless Entertainment, Dies at 78](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/arts/dance/carol-doda-pioneer-of-topless-entertainment-dies-at-78.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0) ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2004 "2015-11-12T09:14:40Z")
> **[Nathaniel Marston, 'One Life to Live' Star, Dead at 40](https://www.thewrap.com/nathaniel-marston-one-life-to-live-star-dead-at-40/)** > > The actor was seriously injured in a car crash on Oct. 30 Nathaniel Marston, an actor on “One Life to Live,” has died after being involved in a devastating car accident last month, his mother, Elizabeth Jackson, posted on Facebook Wednesday. He was 40. - See more at: [http://www.thewrap.com/nathaniel-marston-one-life-to-live-star-dead-at-40/#.dpuf](http://www.thewrap.com/nathaniel-marston-one-life-to-live-star-dead-at-40/#.dpuf) ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2005 "2015-11-12T09:16:44Z")
> **[Andy White, Beatles' 'Love Me Do' Drummer, Dead at 85](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/andy-white-beatles-love-me-do-drummer-dead-at-85-56676/)** > > “P.S. I Love You” drummer and “Fifth Beatle” club member helped turn three-hour recording session in 1962 into music history Andy White, the Scotland-born session musician who played drums on the Beatles’ debut single “Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You,” passed away Monday in New Jersey after suffering a massive stroke. He was 85. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2006 "2015-11-12T12:32:59Z")
As usual, when the weather begins to get colder, people begin to die. Except the ones on my list. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2007 "2015-11-13T03:35:05Z")
[Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor](http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/12/former-motorhead-drummer-phil-taylor-dies-aged-61), dies at 61. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2008 "2015-11-13T14:15:15Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor](http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/12/former-motorhead-drummer-phil-taylor-dies-aged-61), dies at 61. And I have Lemmy. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2009 "2015-11-14T15:42:08Z")
Former NY Knick player Michael Wright found murdered Tuesday November 10th. The details are horrific, so the link is in a spoiler box. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! [NY Daily News link. And another warning](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/man-found-dead-suv-brooklyn-basketball-star-article-1.2431278) ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2010 "2015-11-16T00:24:30Z")
Vincent Roy Margera (July 3, 1956 – November 15, 2015), more commonly known as Don Vito, was an American reality television personality known for his appearances in Viva La Bam, Jackass, Haggard and the CKY videos alongside his nephew Bam. His career was ended with his conviction for child sexual abuse. [http://www.people.com/article/vincent-don-vito-margera-dies](http://www.people.com/article/vincent-don-vito-margera-dies) ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2011 "2015-11-16T05:35:26Z")
I’m picking Fidel Castro and Queen Elizabeth for next year. Nobody dies in my list so I’ll go for the immortals ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2012 "2015-11-16T11:06:04Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > I’m picking Fidel Castro and Queen Elizabeth for next year. Nobody dies in my list so I’ll go for the immortals Don’t forget Keith Richards, if that’s the way you’re leaning ---
**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:** [November 16, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2013 "2015-11-16T15:05:59Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > Vincent Roy Margera (July 3, 1956 – November 15, 2015), more commonly known as Don Vito, was an American reality television personality known for his appearances in Viva La Bam, Jackass, Haggard and the CKY videos alongside his nephew Bam. His career was ended with his conviction for child sexual abuse. > > [http://www.people.com/article/vincent-don-vito-margera-dies](http://www.people.com/article/vincent-don-vito-margera-dies) It wasn’t his [first time in a coma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9-hIaKF0Is). I thought he would pull through. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2014 "2015-11-16T17:30:11Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Don’t forget Keith Richards, if that’s the way you’re leaning It’s on. 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 17, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2015 "2015-11-17T03:27:23Z")
[Saeed Jaffrey](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34829751), Indian actor. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2016 "2015-11-17T09:28:29Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Saeed Jaffrey](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34829751), Indian actor. Oh that’s too bad. I didn’t know his name, but when I saw his picture, and saw listed some of the things he was in, I recognized him. Dang, he was in the business of acting forever! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2017 "2015-11-17T17:56:12Z")
P.F. Sloan, who wrote [a number of 1960s hit songs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._F._Sloan#Hits_and_charted_songs), either as solo author or together with Steve Barri, [died at age 70](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/p-f-sloan-eve-of-destruction-songwriter-dead-at-70-20151116). ---
**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:** [November 18, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2018 "2015-11-18T04:54:21Z")
So it’s been a bad month to be a drummer. Along with the drummers mentioned already there are these (not overly famous): [Eddie Hoh](http://ultimateclassicrock.com/fast-eddie-hoh-dies/) [Jose Luis Properzi](https://deadfamous.info/jose-luis-properzi-argentine-drummer-singer-died-at-48) [Brandon Carlisle](http://www.inquisitr.com/2553604/brandon-carlisle-drummer-for-punk-band-teenage-bottlerocket-dies-at-37/) [Bogdan Enache](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/08/bucharest-nightclub-blaze-death-toll-reaches-45-drummer-metal-band-dies) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2019 "2015-11-18T20:13:20Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [Carol “Boom Boom” Doda, Pioneer of Topless Entertainment, Dies at 78](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/arts/dance/carol-doda-pioneer-of-topless-entertainment-dies-at-78.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0) From the picture, I would have guessed the cause of death was being hit in the back by two rockets. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2020 "2015-11-19T02:28:57Z")
In the category of noteworthy deaths that probably don’t count in Baker’s Death Pool: [ESPN](http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14163864/former-nfl-quarterback-doug-flutie-parents-die-same-day) has an article that Doug Flutie’s father and mother died with a hour of each other, of heart attacks. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2021 "2015-11-19T09:47:17Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > In the category of noteworthy deaths that probably don’t count in Baker’s Death Pool: > > [ESPN](http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14163864/former-nfl-quarterback-doug-flutie-parents-die-same-day) has an article that Doug Flutie’s father and mother died with a hour of each other, of heart attacks. It doesn’t really count, but it is sad. It reminds me of the death of “Wierd” Al Yankovic’s parents, Nick and Mary, who died together in their home, of carbon monoxide poisoning. I saw a show Al did _before the funeral_ because he said as long as he was working he wasn’t crying. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2022 "2015-11-20T03:20:08Z")
Milton Pitts Crenchaw, a flight instructor who trained the Tuskegee Airmen — the first African-Americans to fly combat airplanes in World War II — has died in Georgia. He was 96. Likely no one had him but I like to recognize these individuals who made a difference. Full story - [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/original-tuskegee-airmen-instructors-dies-96-35280015](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/original-tuskegee-airmen-instructors-dies-96-35280015) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=100) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=102)