# 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:** 73
**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:** [June 13, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1441 "2015-06-13T14:47:07Z")
[http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/06/13/actress-voice-chiquita-banana-monica-lewis-dies-at-3/](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/06/13/actress-voice-chiquita-banana-monica-lewis-dies-at-3/) Actress, singer and voice of the Chiquita Banana cartoon character Monica Lewis has died. Her former manager, Alan Eichler, says Lewis died Friday of natural causes at her home in the Los Angeles area. She was 93. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1442 "2015-06-15T21:51:02Z")
Jean Doré, former mayor of Montreal, dead at 70 of pancreatic cancer. [Obituary: Jean Doré's accomplishments were so successful they're taken for granted | Montreal Gazette](http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/former-montreal-mayor-jean-dore-dies) ---
**Author:** ![candide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@candide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/candide)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1443 "2015-06-15T23:26:56Z")
Hmm… Mayors with pancreatic cancer… Perhaps that should be a theme for next year… ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1444 "2015-06-15T23:52:57Z")
RIP Blaze Starr, age 83. Former stripper and burlesque star. [http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci\_28318083/blaze-starr-burlesque-star-linked-governor-dead-at](http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_28318083/blaze-starr-burlesque-star-linked-governor-dead-at) > **[Blaze Starr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaze_Starr)** > > Blaze Starr (born Fannie Belle Fleming; April 10, 1932 – June 15, 2015) was an American stripper and burlesque star. Her vivacious presence and inventive use of stage props earned her the nickname "The Hottest Blaze in Burlesque". She was also known for her affair with Louisiana Governor Earl Kemp Long. Based on her memoir Blaze Starr! My Life as Told to Huey Perry (published in 1974), the 1989 film Blaze told the story of that affair starring Paul Newman as Long and Lolita Davidovich as Starr... ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1445 "2015-06-15T23:56:09Z")
> [@Registered\_at\_Last](#): > > Jean Doré, former mayor of Montreal, dead at 70 of pancreatic cancer. [Obituary: Jean Doré's accomplishments were so successful they're taken for granted | Montreal Gazette](http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/former-montreal-mayor-jean-dore-dies) And congrats on re-taking the lead! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1446 "2015-06-16T00:06:48Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > RIP Blaze Starr, age 83. Former stripper and burlesque star. > [http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci\_28318083/blaze-starr-burlesque-star-linked-governor-dead-at](http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_28318083/blaze-starr-burlesque-star-linked-governor-dead-at) > > [Blaze Starr - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaze_Starr) Wasn’t she the one that had the highly publicized scandalous affair with the then [Governor?] of [Louisiana?]? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1447 "2015-06-16T00:36:02Z")
1 Registered at Last 300 7 2 2 RTFirefly 296 6 0 3 Fear Itself 236 5 1 4 carnivorousplant 213 5 0 5 CAMJAY77 200 5 1 6 phungi 159 3 0 7 Sami41 143 4 0 8 VunderBob 139 3 1 9 It’s Not Rocket Surgery 133 3 1 10 bowler girl 126 3 0 10 Hoopy Frood 126 3 0 10 zoog 126 3 0 13 candide 124 3 0 14 Randy Seltzer 119 3 1 15 MadTheSwine 102 3 0 15 Quartz 102 3 0 17 Captain Klutz 92 2 0 17 critter42 92 2 0 17 GIGObuster 92 3 0 17 Happy Lendervedder 92 2 0 17 Hockey Monkey 92 2 0 17 irritant 92 2 0 17 Kitten Mitten 92 2 0 17 Little Nemo 92 2 0 17 minionkat 92 2 0 17 RobotDevilDog 92 2 0 17 Tim R. Mortiss 92 2 0 28 Jeep’s Phoenix 86 3 0 29 Duckster 85 2 0 29 Hal Briston 85 2 0 31 Dung Beetle 75 2 0 31 jeezums 75 2 0 31 Mahaloth 75 2 0 31 Rich Kitchen 75 2 0 35 notfrommensa 68 2 0 36 Fleetwood 67 3 0 37 Nurse Carmen 58 2 1 38 BACI 52 2 0 39 bassett hound 51 1 0 39 Dr. Girlfriend 51 1 0 39 Icarus 51 2 0 39 Loach 51 1 0 39 RivkahChaya 51 2 0 39 Squonk 51 1 0 39 Yllaria 51 1 0 46 Dusty Rose 47 2 0 46 Invisible Chimp 47 2 1 48 J-P L 44 1 0 49 Oakminster 42 2 1 50 5 time champ 41 1 0 50 a35362 41 1 0 50 Borborygmi 41 1 0 50 DinoR 41 1 0 50 Maus Magill 41 1 0 50 Sario 41 1 0 50 sir viks 41 1 0 50 Spiff 41 1 0 50 Tit Whistle 41 1 0 50 zadscmc 41 1 0 60 kopek 38 1 1 61 Charley 34 1 0 61 Lsura 34 1 0 61 Mr. Goob 34 1 0 61 PaulParkhead 34 1 0 65 Little Pig 33 3 2 66 Biotop 31 1 0 67 Cold Dish 27 1 1 68 Lok 25 2 1 68 Vashbul 25 1 1 70 El Famous Burrito 22 1 0 71 Clothilde 18 2 0 71 rucciface 18 1 1 73 Clothahump 17 1 0 73 Honey 17 1 0 73 Shoeless 17 1 0 76 Allecher 12 1 1 77 Dolores Reborn 11 1 0 77 littlespeedysuperbike 11 1 1 77 moldmonkey 11 1 0 77 Octarine 11 1 0 81 Grits and Hard Toast 10 1 0 82 missred 6 1 0 83 Catamount 5 1 0 83 wolf meister 5 1 0 85 BlossomDrearie 3 1 1 86 lel 2 1 1 87 Andrew21 0 5 5 ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1448 "2015-06-16T00:54:50Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Wasn’t she the one that had the highly publicized scandalous affair with the then [Governor?] of [Louisiana?]? Yes she was ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1449 "2015-06-16T09:59:00Z")
Here’s a list of deaths for credit in the Death Pool so far this year, with the number of points each death was worth. I think it’s complete, but let me know if I’ve left out any corpses that counted. Jan. 1 - Jeff Golub 41 Jan. 1 - Mario Cuomo 18 Jan. 2 - Little Jimmy Dickens 6 Jan. 6 - Ahuti Prasad 38 Jan. 6 - Stuart Scott 51 Jan.15 - Kim Fowley 25 Jan.15 - Isabel Rosado 0 Jan.23 - King Abdullah 10 Jan.25 - Don Guthrie 29 Jan.31 - Steve Hayner 34 Feb. 7 - Dean Smith 17 Feb.18 - Dana Rinehart 32 Feb.20 - Ahmad Givens 67 Feb.24 - Irving Kahn 0 Feb.27 - Leonard Nimoy 17 Feb.27 - Robert Benmosche 30 Mar. 1 - Daniel von Bargen 36 Mar. 9 - Gene (The Dancing Machine) Patton 18 Mar.11 - Sam Simon 41 Mar.12 - Terry Pratchett 34 Mar.16 - Andy Fraser 38 Mar.21 - Chuck Bednarik 11 Mar.23 - Roy Douglas 0 Apr. 1 - Misao Okawa 0 Apr. 4 - Elmer Lach 3 Apr. 6 - Gertrude Weaver 0 Apr. 8 - Ion Trewin 29 Apr.10 - Raul Castro 2 Apr.13 - Gunter Grass 13 Apr.14 - Percy Sledge 26 Apr.17 - Cardinal Francis George 22 Apr.21 - Steve Byrnes 44 Apr.26 - Jayne Meadows 5 Apr.27 - Verne Gagne 11 Apr.29 - Dan Walker 8 May 14 - B.B. King 11 May 24 - Bill Gallagher 45 May 26 - Dave Benton 48 May 30 - Beau Biden 54 June 7 - Christopher Lee 7 June 11 - Dusty Rhodes 31 June 11 - Jim Ed Brown 19 June 15 - Jean Dore 30 ---
**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:** [June 16, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1450 "2015-06-16T19:34:54Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > And congrats on re-taking the lead! 🙂 Thank you. With only 4 points between us and the rest of my folks seemingly doing well it looks like a horse race between us (and a few others not too far behind). The list of corpses missed Robert H. Schuller on April 2nd. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1451 "2015-06-16T20:05:26Z")
One of my favorite actors, John Hurt, has just announced he has pancreatic cancer. [http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/john-hurt-battling-cancer/ar-BBlcYwa](http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/john-hurt-battling-cancer/ar-BBlcYwa) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1452 "2015-06-16T20:26:26Z")
> [@Registered\_at\_Last](#): > > Thank you. With only 4 points between us and the rest of my folks seemingly doing well it looks like a horse race between us (and a few others not too far behind). Yeah, four points isn’t much - it’s what happens with the rest of our lists, rather than that four-point margin, that will determine which of us finishes ahead of the other. But really everyone at or over 200 points is within 2 deaths of the lead, and 2 deaths on one’s list can happen pretty fast, as I found out just a few weeks back.😃 So like you say, it isn’t just us. > [@](#): > > The list of corpses missed Robert H. Schuller on April 2nd. Thanks for pointing that out! I think at the time, I just missed the fact that anyone had him on their list. But now I see that **Allecher** ’s list of annoying evangelists included him. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1453 "2015-06-16T20:30:38Z")
Re-running the chronological list of corpses that count, to include Schuller: Jan. 1 - Jeff Golub 41 Jan. 1 - Mario Cuomo 18 Jan. 2 - Little Jimmy Dickens 6 Jan. 6 - Ahuti Prasad 38 Jan. 6 - Stuart Scott 51 Jan.15 - Kim Fowley 25 Jan.15 - Isabel Rosado 0 Jan.23 - King Abdullah 10 Jan.25 - Don Guthrie 29 Jan.31 - Steve Hayner 34 Feb. 7 - Dean Smith 17 Feb.18 - Dana Rinehart 32 Feb.20 - Ahmad Givens 67 Feb.24 - Irving Kahn 0 Feb.27 - Leonard Nimoy 17 Feb.27 - Robert Benmosche 30 Mar. 1 - Daniel von Bargen 36 Mar. 9 - Gene (The Dancing Machine) Patton 18 Mar.11 - Sam Simon 41 Mar.12 - Terry Pratchett 34 Mar.16 - Andy Fraser 38 Mar.21 - Chuck Bednarik 11 Mar.23 - Roy Douglas 0 Apr. 1 - Misao Okawa 0 Apr. 2 - Robert Schuller 11 Apr. 4 - Elmer Lach 3 Apr. 6 - Gertrude Weaver 0 Apr. 8 - Ion Trewin 29 Apr.10 - Raul Castro 2 Apr.13 - Gunter Grass 13 Apr.14 - Percy Sledge 26 Apr.17 - Cardinal Francis George 22 Apr.21 - Steve Byrnes 44 Apr.26 - Jayne Meadows 5 Apr.27 - Verne Gagne 11 Apr.29 - Dan Walker 8 May 14 - B.B. King 11 May 24 - Bill Gallagher 45 May 26 - Dave Benton 48 May 30 - Beau Biden 54 June 7 - Christopher Lee 7 June 11 - Dusty Rhodes 31 June 11 - Jim Ed Brown 19 June 15 - Jean Dore 30 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1454 "2015-06-16T22:46:44Z")
Here is the list of dead celebs, with how many players picked each one. Jeff Golub 1 Mario Cuomo 1 Little Jimmy Dickens 3 Ahuti Prasad 1 Stuart Scott 30 Kim Fowley 1 Isabel Rosado 1 King Abdullah 4 Dean Smith 2 Don Guthrie 1 Dana Rinehardt 2 Ahmad Givens 4 Leonard Nimoy 5 Robert Benmosche 1 Steve Hayner 1 Irving Kahn 1 Daniel von Bargen 1 Sam Simon 47 Terry Pratchett 16 Gene Gene the Dancing Machine 1 Chuck Bednarik 1 Andy Fraser 1 Roy Douglas 1 Misao Okawa 1 Robert H. Schuller 1 Elmer Lach 1 Gertrude Weaver 1 Ion Trewin 2 Raul Castro 1 Gunter Grass 1 Percy Sledge 1 Francis George 2 Steve Byrnes 7 Jayne Meadows 3 Verne Gagne 1 Dan Walker 1 B.B. King 7 Bill Gallagher 2 Dave Benton 5 Beau Biden 1 Dusty Rhodes 2 Christopher Lee 2 Jim Ed Brown 1 Jean Dore 1 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1455 "2015-06-17T01:07:29Z")
Australian Olympian and Gold Coast Mayor [Ron Clarke](http://m.heraldsun.com.au/sport/australian-athletics-legend-ron-clarke-dies-aged-78/story-fni2u98u-1227401673683) has died at age 78. He was a long distance runner. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1456 "2015-06-17T03:14:06Z")
[Jack King](http://www.denverpost.com/obituaries/ci_28308717/jack-king-84-was-voice-apollo), the “Voice of Apollo”, has had all the seconds of his life reach 0. [MC Supreme](http://time.com/3922372/rapper-mc-supreme-killed-in-car-accident/) is now “Dead in America”. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1457 "2015-06-17T16:07:56Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [MC Supreme](http://time.com/3922372/rapper-mc-supreme-killed-in-car-accident/) is now “Dead in America”. I never knew one could be dead in a particular jurisdiction - I thought that if you were dead, you were dead _everywhere._ But that could be useful! I wouldn’t mind being dead in America if I could simultaneously be alive on some pleasant Caribbean island. This would have been advantageous to Hotblack Desiato if his tax accountants could have utilized this. 😉 ---
**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:** [June 17, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1458 "2015-06-17T17:15:00Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I never knew one could be dead in a particular jurisdiction - I thought that if you were dead, you were dead _everywhere._ As with most things, it depends upon how much money you have. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1459 "2015-06-18T03:43:46Z")
[Nelson Doubleday, former NY Mets owner](http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/nelson-doubleday-jr-owner-mets-dead-81-article-1.2261959), a 19pt whiff. what the hell kind of name is “Doubleday” for a baseball team owner?? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1460 "2015-06-18T09:20:45Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > what the hell kind of name is “Doubleday” for a baseball team owner?? [Damned good question.](http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Abner_Doubleday) 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=72) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=74)