# 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:** 46
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/901 "2015-02-28T06:22:19Z")
I’ve said before that Abe should be named the patron Saint of this game. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/902 "2015-02-28T12:12:59Z")
[Irving Kahn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kahn) passed away on Tuesday at the age of 109. He was, until his death, the oldest active investment professional, in addition to being one of the oldest men in the world. (The list of [supercentenarians](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_people#Verified_living_supercentenarians) - persons living past their 110th birthday - is almost exclusively female.) He and his three siblings all lived past 100, which made them of interest to scientists studying longevity. His older sister Helen also lived to the age of 109. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/903 "2015-02-28T12:20:21Z")
> [@Mr.Goob](#): > > I’ve said before that Abe should be named the patron Saint of this game. He’d be a good choice. He’s been on people’s Death Pool lists as long as there’s been a SDMB Death Pool. I’m convinced his purpose in life is to tease Death Pool players. ETA: The top of a new page is a good place to link to Wikipedia’s [Deaths in 2015](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2015) page. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/904 "2015-02-28T13:56:05Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > ETA: The top of a new page is a good place to link to Wikipedia’s [Deaths in 2015](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2015) page. Just so you know, not everyone gets a page break at the same place; it depends how you have your options set. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/905 "2015-02-28T15:04:36Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > [Leonard Nimoy has died.](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?_r=1) [He’s dead, Jim.](http://www.allmystery.de/i/tdba88f_hes-dead-jim.jpg) Will this hit Sheldon harder than Professor Proton’s death? ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/906 "2015-02-28T15:12:55Z")
My first points of any Death Pool ever. Why did it have to e Leonard Nimoy? I wasn’t a Trekkie, but I loved In Search Of…☹ ---
**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:** [February 28, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/907 "2015-02-28T15:17:33Z")
Former New York Knick Anthony Mason dead at 52 points. This would have been a good year to have a basketball themed list. > **[Former Knicks fan favorite Mason dies at 48](https://www.espn.com/top/story/_/id/12397807)** > > Anthony Mason, a longtime NBA player who helped the New York Knicks reach the 1994 NBA Finals, has died at the age of 48. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/908 "2015-02-28T15:18:16Z")
Mrs. Plant (v.2.0), a Star Trek fan, would not let me add him five years ago. I never had the heart to add him later, just as I could not add Ann Francis or Koko Taylor. And besides, none of them were very many points, but, Points is Points. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/909 "2015-02-28T15:30:47Z")
_Star Trek_ was not the first time Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner appeared together on-screen. That was in a single episode of a 1964 episode of spy series _The Man From U.N.C.L.E._ called “The Project Strigas Affair.” Shatner played a freewheeling pest control owner, Michael Donfield, tasked with catching Communist spies like Nimoy’s character, Vladeck. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/910 "2015-02-28T15:48:22Z")
Vladeck. What a Commie name! 🙂 ---
**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:** [February 28, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/911 "2015-02-28T15:54:39Z")
> [@dba\_Fred](#): > > [He’s dead, Jim.](http://www.allmystery.de/i/tdba88f_hes-dead-jim.jpg) As I understand it, there was an episode of Mission Impossible where Nimoy’s character said that to Graves’ character (Jim Phelps). ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/912 "2015-02-28T18:53:24Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Just so you know, not everyone gets a page break at the same place; it depends how you have your options set. Tru dat, but I’ll bet most people just leave it on the default of 50. The rest of you can deal with us somehow; I have confidence in you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/913 "2015-03-01T16:29:21Z")
[Minnie Minoso](http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/03/01/chicago-1st-black-major-league-baseball-player-minnie-minoso-dies/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter), who hit a two-run home run in his first at-bat when he became major league baseball’s first black player in Chicago in 1951, has died, the Cook County medical examiner said Sunday. Minoso was 92 years old. Charlie Sifford, Earl Lloyd, Minnie Monoso. Three athletes who share a common bond of pioneering integration of their sport. All died within the last few weeks. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/914 "2015-03-01T21:52:49Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Minnie Minoso](http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/03/01/chicago-1st-black-major-league-baseball-player-minnie-minoso-dies/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter), who hit a two-run home run in his first at-bat when he became major league baseball’s first black player in Chicago in 1951, has died, the Cook County medical examiner said Sunday. > > Minoso was 92 years old. > > Charlie Sifford, Earl Lloyd, Minnie Monoso. Three athletes who share a common bond of pioneering integration of their sport. All died within the last few weeks. He was a good ball player. I remember when The White Sox brought him back when in his 50’s to play a little. ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/915 "2015-03-02T03:13:42Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Robert Benmosche, former CEO of American International Group (AIG), [dead at 30 points.](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/aig-announces-the-death-of-robert-h-benmosche-2015-02-27?reflink=MW_news_stmp) I had him a couple of years ago, so it’s my fault. Hooray for a tragic loss! > [@Baker](#): > > […] > 31 CAMJAY77 38 1 1 > 32 Vashbul 25 1 1 > […] Might have missed me because I listed him as “Bob”? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/916 "2015-03-02T15:21:05Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Minnie Minoso](http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/03/01/chicago-1st-black-major-league-baseball-player-minnie-minoso-dies/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter), who hit a two-run home run in his first at-bat when he became major league baseball’s first black player in Chicago in 1951, has died, the Cook County medical examiner said Sunday. > > Minoso was 92 years old. There’s some confusion regarding what year he was born. Some say 1922, others say '24, and some others say '25. > [@CAMJAY77](#): > > He was a good ball player. I remember when The White Sox brought him back when in his 50’s to play a little. [In 1993, and again in 2003, he became the oldest man to take the field in a professional baseball game.](http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=minoso001sat) ---
**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:** [March 2, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/917 "2015-03-02T17:13:11Z")
> [@Randy\_Seltzer](#): > > Hooray for a tragic loss! > Might have missed me because I listed him as “Bob”? Baker: He is in the scorekeeper as Bob, and listed under Randy Seltzer’s picks as Bob. Points are forthcoming… ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/918 "2015-03-02T18:04:34Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Minnie Minoso](http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/03/01/chicago-1st-black-major-league-baseball-player-minnie-minoso-dies/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter), who hit a two-run home run in his first at-bat when he became major league baseball’s first black player in Chicago in 1951, has died, the Cook County medical examiner said Sunday. Of the Going, Gone Sox. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/919 "2015-03-02T22:40:12Z")
I missed a unique one last month: Died: [Steve Hayner](http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2015/january/died-steven-hayer-66-columbia-seminary-president-emeritus-f.html), Former President of InterVarsity and Columbia Seminary at 66 ---
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