# 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:** 108
**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:** [December 13, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2144 "2015-12-13T00:50:33Z")
Rose Siggins, who appeared on _American Horror Story: Freak Show_, died on Saturday morning [at the age of 57 points.](http://www.people.com/article/rose-siggins-american-horror-story-freak-show-actress-dies-43) ---
**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:** [December 13, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2145 "2015-12-13T00:55:16Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Rose Siggins, who appeared on _American Horror Story: Freak Show_, died on Saturday morning [at the age of 57 points.](http://www.people.com/article/rose-siggins-american-horror-story-freak-show-actress-dies-43) Psst! Look 2 posts above yours ---
**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:** [December 13, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2146 "2015-12-13T01:50:47Z")
Eh, Rick Kitchen was off by 10 posts on Dolph Schayes. No matter, still dead. I’m a slow typist sometimes and other times - it’s a massive brain fart when I’ve sworn someone’s death wasn’t posted. Or else it’s a stealth post conspiracy promulgated by the mods to make us look [del]stupid[/del] stupider. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2147 "2015-12-17T01:30:56Z")
I would be really surprised if anyone had him, but author[Peter Dickinson](http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2015/12/16/peter-malcolm-de-brissac-dickinson/) has died. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2148 "2015-12-18T01:16:26Z")
Looks like we missed [Lillian Vernon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Vernon_(businesswoman)) slipping away on the 14th. She was 88. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2149 "2015-12-18T01:29:44Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Looks like we missed [Lillian Vernon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Vernon_(businesswoman)) slipping away on the 14th. She was 88. To use a quaint phrase,\* I heard that on NPR!\* ---
**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:** [December 19, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2150 "2015-12-19T19:42:34Z")
> **[Jimmy Hill: footballer and Match of the Day legend dies aged 87 after...](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/12059618/Jimmy-Hill-dies-age-of-87-after-suffering-with-Azlheimers-Disease-latest.html)** > > World of sport mourns as former footballer and broadcaster Jimmy Hill has died at the age of 87 after suffering with Alzheimer's Disease Jimmy Hill, who has died aged 87, will be best remembered as presenter of Match of the Day and as an opinionated football analyst for the BBC for 25 years; he was also one of the chief architects of the modern game in Britain. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2151 "2015-12-19T19:48:04Z")
> **[Former New York Philharmonic conductor Kurt Masur dies at 88 | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/19/living/kurt-masur-philharmonic-conductor-dies-feat/)** > > Kurt Masur, the legendary German music conductor credited with transforming the New York Philharmonic into an orchestra of international renown, died Saturday. Kurt Masur, the legendary German music conductor credited with transforming the New York Philharmonic into an orchestra of international renown, died Saturday in Greenwich, Connecticut, at age 88, the Philharmonic said. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2152 "2015-12-21T23:16:41Z")
> **[Dickie Moore, Hall of Famer and Habs 'warrior,' dead at 84 | CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/dickie-moore-montreal-canadiens-dead-1.3373374)** > > Montreal Canadiens great Dickie Moore is dead at 84, the team said Saturday. Montreal Canadiens great Dickie Moore is dead at 84, the team announced Saturday. The team says Moore died Saturday morning in Montreal. The Hall of Famer spent most of his 14-year NHL career with the Canadiens, wearing number 12. Moore played left wing for the Habs from 1951 to 1963, winning six Stanley Cups and the Art Ross Trophy for the most regular season points twice, in 1958 and 1959. Moore scored 261 goals and had 347 assists in 719 regular season games over his career. He added 110 points — 46 goals and 64 assists — in 135 career playoff games. There was no immediate word on the cause of death. _Another source has pancreatic cancer_ ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2153 "2015-12-22T02:19:17Z")
More dead. I realize you’re all are busy tweaking 2016 lists but the bodies are piling up.😉 [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/patricia-elliott-tony-winning-actress-for-a-little-night-music-dies-at-77-376444](http://www.playbill.com/news/article/patricia-elliott-tony-winning-actress-for-a-little-night-music-dies-at-77-376444) Patricia Elliott, a stage actress who won a Tony Award in 1973 for her portrayal as the comically embittered Countess Charlotte Malcolm in the original production of the Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s musical, A Little Night Music, died on Dec. 20 at her home in Manhattan. The cause of death was a rare cancer, Leimyloma sarcoma, said her niece, Sally Fay. She was 77. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2154 "2015-12-22T08:27:49Z")
Yeah sure. Bodies piling up. None of them from my list. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2155 "2015-12-22T21:51:41Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Yeah sure. Bodies piling up. None of them from my list. Yet it is a very _cute_ list. 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 23, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2156 "2015-12-23T00:23:28Z")
[Brooke McCarter](http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3374209/r-i-p-brooke-mccarter-paul-of-the-lost-boys-dies-at-52/), who played Paul in _The Lost Boys_, has died from a genetic liver condition. He was 52. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2157 "2015-12-23T21:34:05Z")
n/m - old news ---
**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:** [December 25, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2158 "2015-12-25T20:43:16Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > [Brooke McCarter](http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3374209/r-i-p-brooke-mccarter-paul-of-the-lost-boys-dies-at-52/), who played Paul in _The Lost Boys_, has died from a genetic liver condition. He was 52. The Lost Boys = Fun movie ---
**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:** [December 26, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2159 "2015-12-26T18:53:53Z")
George Clayton Johnson has gone where [all men have gone before.](http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/george-clayton-johnson-writer-first-star-trek-episode-dies-86-n485996) ---
**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:** [December 26, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2160 "2015-12-26T20:43:04Z")
[http://www.people.com/article/william-guest-of-gladys-knight-and-the-pips-dies-74](http://www.people.com/article/william-guest-of-gladys-knight-and-the-pips-dies-74) William Guest, an original member of Gladys Knight and the Pips, died Thursday at the age of 74, the Associated Press reports. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2161 "2015-12-27T14:52:33Z")
Robert Spitzer, “most influential psychiatrist,” has died at 83. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2162 "2015-12-27T17:58:17Z")
Former MLB player Dave Henderson dead at 57 [MLB Major League Baseball News, Expert Analysis, Rumors, Live Updates, & more - Yahoo Sports](http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/dave--hendu--henderson-dies-at-57-163604146.html) ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2163 "2015-12-27T19:11:15Z")
The Easybeats lead singer Stevie Wright has died. Horrifying what happened to him earlier. > **[Stevie Wright](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Wright_(Australian_singer))** > > Stephen Carlton Wright (20 December 1947 – 27 December 2015) was an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Called Australia's first international pop star, he is best known for being the lead singer of the Easybeats, who are widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s. > Born in Leeds, Wright migrated with his family to Australia at the age of nine, living in Melbourne and later Sydney at the Villawood Migrant Hostel, where he met his future bandmates and formed the E... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=107) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=109)