# 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:** 34
**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:** [January 21, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/661 "2015-01-21T03:30:19Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > And we watch again as the guy in black spins around, slicing the air with his _wakasashi_ in slow motion To be fair, I did a search on the name and nothing came up. Of course when people leave names out of the posts, it kind of makes it hard to search. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/662 "2015-01-21T03:47:00Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > To be fair, I did a search on the name and nothing came up. Of course when people leave names out of the posts, it kind of makes it hard to search. I don’t think it is too much to ask for a brief (non-cryptic) profile of a person that died. I had no idea who Tony Verna was until I clicked the link. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/663 "2015-01-21T05:08:36Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > [Hamama, Arab film icon, dies aged 83 - Newspaper - DAWN.COM](http://www.dawn.com/news/1157941/hamama-arab-film-icon-dies-aged-83) > Egyptian actress Faten Hamama, an Arab film icon and Omar Sharif’s former wife, died on Saturday at the age of 83, their son Tarek Sharif said. > > [Tony Verna, inventor of instant replay in sports, is dead at 81 – New York Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/instant-replay-inventor-tony-verna-dead-article-1.2083501) > The television sports producer who invented instant replay 51 years ago, has died. > > [http://www.immortal.org/4554/aap-yams-found-dead-26-cause-death-unknown/](http://www.immortal.org/4554/aap-yams-found-dead-26-cause-death-unknown/) > Steven Rodriguez, better known as A$AP Yams has passed away at the young age of 26 years old. According to a report by Rolling Stone on Jan. 18, there is no cause of death yet. Although A$AP had a drug problem in the past, he did enter a drug rehab facility in July of 2014. > > That does it, next year, my list is all rappers/hip hop. Another one has died : Canserbero [kills himself](http://www.latinpost.com/articles/32881/20150120/ak-canserbero-dead-rapper-tirone-gonz%C3%A1lez-cause-death-reportedly-suicide.htm) ---
**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:** [January 21, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/664 "2015-01-21T12:33:36Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > Another one has died : Canserbero [kills himself](http://www.latinpost.com/articles/32881/20150120/ak-canserbero-dead-rapper-tirone-gonz%C3%A1lez-cause-death-reportedly-suicide.htm) It would be really hard to pick all these people I never heard of till they died. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/665 "2015-01-21T14:52:54Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Fear not unless you have somehow attained celebrity status folks. Hey man, I’m a legend in my own mind. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/666 "2015-01-21T17:59:59Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Hey man, I’m a legend in my own mind. Only you and your other personalities know that however. Do we have a rule about that? ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/667 "2015-01-21T22:58:28Z")
after a fast start to 2015, it’s been 17 days since anyone “scored points”… it feels like 2014 all over again! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/668 "2015-01-21T23:53:34Z")
Lindsay Lohan has an incurable disease, [Chikungunya](http://www.tmz.com/2015/01/21/lindsay-lohan-virus-hospital-london-mosquito/) According to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya), 1 in 1000 sufferers dies. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/669 "2015-01-22T00:22:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Lindsay Lohan has an incurable disease, [Chikungunya](http://www.tmz.com/2015/01/21/lindsay-lohan-virus-hospital-london-mosquito/) > > According to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya), 1 in 1000 sufferers dies. Isn’t that the name of the Indian in the James Fenimore Cooper novels? Hell, one in 1,000 Democrats die. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Vashbul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Vashbul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vashbul)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/670 "2015-01-22T10:23:14Z")
[Kim Fowley.](http://ultimateclassicrock.com/kim-fowley-final-wish/) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/671 "2015-01-22T10:43:06Z")
A unique pick for you **Vashbul**. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/672 "2015-01-22T11:10:09Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > after a fast start to 2015, it’s been 17 days since anyone “scored points”… it feels like 2014 all over again! Ask and you shall receive, apparently. > [@CAMJAY77](#): > > Another one has died : Canserbero [kills himself](http://www.latinpost.com/articles/32881/20150120/ak-canserbero-dead-rapper-tirone-gonz%C3%A1lez-cause-death-reportedly-suicide.htm) And he and ASAP Yams were both only 26 years old. Kids these days: don’t they know they’re supposed to wait until they turn _ **27**?_ ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/673 "2015-01-22T20:42:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Yesterday, the 95-year-old CEO of Tootsie Roll Industries, Melvin Gordon, [died after what was described as “a brief illness.”](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-21/tootsie-roll-s-95-year-old-ceo-dies-his-wife-takes-the-reins.html) He had been in that job for more than 50 years, and he and his wife together own 49% of the company. After his passing, his wife, Ellen Gordon, will take over as CEO. She’s a relatively youthful 83 years old. [The 95-Year-Old CEO Of Tootsie Roll Industries Has Died – Consumerist](http://consumerist.com/2015/01/21/the-93-year-old-ceo-of-tootsie-roll-industries-has-died/) Bye, bye, Tootsie. Bye! Bye! At least it took 95 years worth of licks before the CEO was licked. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/674 "2015-01-22T23:31:37Z")
> **[Saudi Arabia's 'reformer' King Abdullah dies | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/middleeast/saudi-arabia-king-abdullah-dies/index.html)** > > Throngs of mourners gathered in Mecca early Friday just hours after Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud died. He was 90. Saudi Arabia’s king Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud has died. He was 90 ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/675 "2015-01-22T23:45:04Z")
According to the [BBC](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30945324) he was **about** 90. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/676 "2015-01-22T23:46:12Z")
Did anyone have [Leon Brittan](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30938755), dead at 25 points? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/677 "2015-01-23T00:03:28Z")
> [@computergeek](#): > > [http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/middleeast/saudi-arabia-king-abdullah-dies/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/middleeast/saudi-arabia-king-abdullah-dies/index.html) > > Saudi Arabia’s king Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud has died. He was 90 The new king is Abdullah’s half-brother Salman. Succession in SA apparently is to the old king’s senior near relation, not to his son. That’s a recipe for permanent gerontocracy. Salman is 79. Death-pool material. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/678 "2015-01-23T00:11:30Z")
Four people had King Abdullah. **Grits and Hard Toast** and **Icarus** lost their virginity to the king, and **Quartz** and **Mad the Swine** are now tied for second place. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/679 "2015-01-23T00:15:18Z")
1 It’s Not Rocket Surgery 92 2 1 2 MadTheSwine 61 2 0 2 Quartz 61 2 0 4 bassett hound 51 1 0 4 bowler girl 51 1 0 4 candide 51 1 0 4 Captain Klutz 51 1 0 4 carnivorousplant 51 1 0 4 critter42 51 1 0 4 Dr. Girlfriend 51 1 0 4 Fear Itself 51 1 0 4 Fleetwood 51 1 0 4 Happy Lendervedder 51 1 0 4 Hockey Monkey 51 1 0 4 Hoopy Frood 51 1 0 4 irritant 51 1 0 4 Kitten Mitten 51 1 0 4 Little Nemo 51 1 0 4 Loach 51 1 0 4 minionkat 51 1 0 4 notfrommensa 51 1 0 4 phungi 51 1 0 4 Registered at Last 51 1 0 4 RobotDevilDog 51 1 0 4 RTFirefly 51 1 0 4 Sami41 51 1 0 4 Squonk 51 1 0 4 Tim R. Mortiss 51 1 0 4 Yllaria 51 1 0 4 zoog 51 1 0 31 CAMJAY77 38 1 1 32 Vashbul 25 1 1 33 Little Pig 18 1 1 34 Grits and Hard Toast 10 1 0 34 Icarus 10 1 0 36 Dusty Rose 6 1 0 36 Lok 6 1 0 36 missred 6 1 0 ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Andrew\_21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_21)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/680 "2015-01-23T00:19:47Z")
[Isabel Rosado](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Rosado) died January 13; she was on my list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=35)