# 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:** 84
**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:** [July 31, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1663 "2015-07-31T22:46:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [TMZ is reporting that wrestling legend Roddy Piper has died at 61.](http://www.tmz.com/2015/07/31/roddy-piper-dead-dies-wwe-wrestler-cancer/) Nobody else is reporting it yet, but they have been accurate in the past. Roddy was just quoted a couple of days ago on the Hulk Hogan news. [Variety confirms.](http://variety.com/2015/biz/obituaries-people-news/roddy-piper-dies-dead-wwe-wrestler-1201554513/) Dammit, I liked him. He was wonderful in _Hell Comes to Frogtown_ and _They Live._ I need some bubblegum. ☹ ---
**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:** [July 31, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1664 "2015-07-31T22:59:02Z")
I’m pretty sure I had him in the past but not this year. What a waste. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1665 "2015-07-31T23:02:43Z")
Nobody had him. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1666 "2015-07-31T23:31:31Z")
Let’s all get rowdy in his honor ---
**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:** [July 31, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1667 "2015-07-31T23:43:47Z")
Dang. I think I had him last year. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1668 "2015-08-01T00:16:53Z")
I checked and according to my records nobody had him in 2013 or 2014. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1669 "2015-08-01T00:24:12Z")
As best I can tell the last time he was a DP pick was for the 2010 game. It was a unique pick, although another player that year had him as an alternate. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1670 "2015-08-01T00:34:31Z")
“I have come to chew bubblegum and mourn the loss of an entertaining bad-ass, and I’m all out of bubble gum.” – “TV’s” Frank Conniff ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1671 "2015-08-01T11:25:36Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > “With word of Mullah Muhammad Omar’s death now getting out, most likely two years after the event, the world is catching up with a Taliban leadership crisis already in progress.” > > Probably, maybe two years ago so no points. Looks like it’s becoming accepted that he died in April 2013. It appears that nobody had him in 2013, so even if his death had become known in 2013, it wouldn’t have changed that year’s outcome. (Some 2013 players had Omar Al-Bashir, president of Sudan, and one had Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “blind sheikh,” but nobody had Mullah Muhammad Omar, as best as I can tell.) But even if someone had had him in 2013, his death didn’t become known within the one-day grace period at the beginning of 2014, so no 2013 points for Mullah Omar any which way. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1672 "2015-08-01T13:54:06Z")
Country singer Lynn Anderson, best known for her 1970 Grammy-winning crossover hit “Rose Garden,” [died](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/rose-garden-singer-lynn-anderson-dead-age-67/story?id=32813508) of a heart attack Thursday night at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She was 67 and had been hospitalized for pneumonia following a trip to Italy. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1673 "2015-08-01T14:04:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > As best I can tell the last time he was a DP pick was for the 2010 game. It was a unique pick, although another player that year had him as an alternate. Did you look under the name Roderick Toombs? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1674 "2015-08-01T17:25:20Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Did you look under the name Roderick Toombs? No, but I did just now and he wasn’t listed under that either. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1675 "2015-08-02T23:05:08Z")
I don’t know if anyone remembers her; I sure do. Cilla Black has died. > **[Cilla Black obituary](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/02/cilla-black)** > > One of the leading pop singers of the 1960s who went on to have a successful television career with Blind Date and Surprise, Surprise ---
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1676 "2015-08-03T21:22:06Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > No, but I did just now and he wasn’t listed under that either. Wow time flies. I just checked. I had him back in 2008. I didn’t see if I had him earlier. At the time he was said to be suffering from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. I took him off when it looked like he was in remission. I could have sworn it was more recent than that but I was wrong. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1677 "2015-08-04T19:00:25Z")
[Carol Brown Janeway](http://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2015/08/03/carol-brown-janeway-award-winning-editor-dead-at-71) [Dr. Forrest Bird](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/us/dr-forrest-bird-inventor-of-medical-respirators-and-ventilators-dies-at-94.html) has breathed his last. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1678 "2015-08-07T22:18:52Z")
[George Cole](http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/06/george-cole-actor-who-played-arthur-daley-minder-dies-aged-90), actor who played Arthur Daley in the British TV Show _Minder_, has died at aged 90 World Golf Hall of Famer and LPGA Founder [Louise Suggs](http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/louise-suggs-lpga-founder-hall-famer-dies-32955170) has died at age 91. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1679 "2015-08-08T18:28:08Z")
[Frances Oldham Kelsey, F.D.A. Stickler Who Saved U.S. Babies From Thalidomide, Dies at 101](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/science/frances-oldham-kelsey-fda-doctor-who-exposed-danger-of-thalidomide-dies-at-101.html?_r=0) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1680 "2015-08-08T20:55:04Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > [Frances Oldham Kelsey, F.D.A. Stickler Who Saved U.S. Babies From Thalidomide, Dies at 101](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/science/frances-oldham-kelsey-fda-doctor-who-exposed-danger-of-thalidomide-dies-at-101.html?_r=0) I’d never heard of this person, but reading the article makes me sorry I hadn’t. She is one of those people you don’t want to go, a living heroine. Any woman who was pregnant at that time in 1960-61 should be honoring her. Think of all the babies in this country that were spared what so many in Eirope went through. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1681 "2015-08-08T20:58:46Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Any woman who was pregnant at that time in 1960-61 should be honoring her. and anyone who was born in 1960-1961, like me. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1682 "2015-08-08T21:16:02Z")
I have a sister born in November of 1959. I shudder to think of what could have been if her birth had been just a little later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=83) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=85)