# 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:** 90
**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:** [September 2, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1783 "2015-09-02T04:38:45Z")
[James Flanagan](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/business/james-l-flanagan-acoustical-pioneer-dies-at-89.html), pioneer of computer voice recognition, dies at 89. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1784 "2015-09-03T00:14:27Z")
[Dean Jones](http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/02/entertainment/dean-jones-dies-disney-feat/) is going to find out if somebody up there actually likes him. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1785 "2015-09-03T00:32:17Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Dean Jones](http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/02/entertainment/dean-jones-dies-disney-feat/) is going to find out if somebody up there actually likes him. Bummer ---
**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:** [September 3, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1786 "2015-09-03T00:39:46Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Dean Jones](http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/02/entertainment/dean-jones-dies-disney-feat/) is going to find out if somebody up there actually likes him. Yeah, bummer. Herbie the Love Bug actually likes him. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1787 "2015-09-03T00:41:06Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Dean Jones](http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/02/entertainment/dean-jones-dies-disney-feat/) is going to find out if somebody up there actually likes him. Not enough for someone to have picked him.☹ I liked him in Blackbeard’s Ghost, but I liked Peter Ustinov even better. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1788 "2015-09-03T02:01:35Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Dean Jones](http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/02/entertainment/dean-jones-dies-disney-feat/) is going to find out if somebody up there actually likes him. > [@CAMJAY77](#): > > Bummer > [@Bullitt](#): > > Yeah, bummer. > > Herbie the Love Bug actually likes him. > [@Baker](#): > > Not enough for someone to have picked him.☹ I guess he’s no longer Being Alive ([www.youtube.com/watch?v=am8qrrZAtP4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am8qrrZAtP4)) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1789 "2015-09-03T02:22:48Z")
Oh, man, I grew up watching him in all those old Disney live action movies–the Herbie movies, The Shaggy D.A., Snowball Express, That Darn Cat! Thank you, Dean. Rest in peace. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1790 "2015-09-03T02:35:00Z")
I’d forgotten he was also in _Clear and Present Danger_ (1994). ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1791 "2015-09-05T00:31:22Z")
Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a Nepalese who according to Wikipedia was the shortest man in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence, died yesterday or today at the age of 75. His height was 0.546 m (1 ft 9 1⁄2 in). ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1792 "2015-09-05T16:25:31Z")
For a 75-year-old man, he lived a very short life. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1793 "2015-09-05T22:05:43Z")
Please, please, let me put **6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast** on my list next year. ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1794 "2015-09-05T22:38:26Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > For a 75-year-old man, he lived a very short life. Brilliant 😃 ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1795 "2015-09-05T22:54:01Z")
[Ruth Newman](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oldest-survivor-san-francisco-earthquake-1906-ruth-newman-dead-113-california/), oldest survivor of 1906 San Francisco earthquake, dies at age 113. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1796 "2015-09-06T03:50:09Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Please, please, let me put **6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast** on my list next year. I nearly died reading that **eschereal** - and now I have something to live for! ---
**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:** [September 7, 2015, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1797 "2015-09-07T08:46:46Z")
[http://www.vcstar.com/business/local/japanese-american-wwii-war-hero-ben-kuroki-dies](http://www.vcstar.com/business/local/japanese-american-wwii-war-hero-ben-kuroki-dies) "Ben Kuroki, who overcame the American military’s discriminatory policies to become the only Japanese American to fly over Japan during the second world war, has died. He was 98. Crew members nicknamed him “Most Honorable Son” and the War Department gave him a Distinguished Flying Cross. He was saluted by Time magazine in 1944 under the headline “HEROES: Ben Kuroki, American”. In 2005, Kuroki received the Army Distinguished Service Medal, one of the nation’s highest military honors. “I had to fight like hell for the right to fight for my own country,” Kuroki said at the award ceremony in Lincoln, Nebraska. “And I now feel vindication.” In 2010, he received the Audie Murphy Award, given by peers in the military. In a 2012 article in the American Valor Quarterly, Kuroki called the award “the most awesome moment in my life.” Doubt anyone had this fine gentleman but please read his story. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1798 "2015-09-07T13:04:08Z")
Bad co ordination between narration and the type of aircraft shown at the first. 🙂 Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1799 "2015-09-07T16:04:18Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Please, please, let me put **6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast** on my list next year. You are just jealous. I know I am. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1800 "2015-09-07T18:06:01Z")
Well, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1801 "2015-09-07T18:20:21Z")
Actor Martin Milner, star of “Adam-12”, is [Adam-86ed at age 83](http://variety.com/2015/film/news/martin-milner-dead-adam-12-route-66-1201587461/). ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1802 "2015-09-07T18:40:08Z")
**INRS** beat me to it, but … There is also some debate as to Judy Carne’s status, but the Telegraph (UK) has [this story](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11849234/Judy-Carne-actress-obituary.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=89) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=91)