# Celebrity Death Pool 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098 "2015-12-01T05:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/402 "2016-01-06T14:38:25Z")
Classical music composer and conductor [Pierre Boulez](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/arts/music/pierre-boulez-french-composer-dies-90.html?_r=0) dies at age 90. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/403 "2016-01-06T15:31:40Z")
So did I win yet? ---
**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 6, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/404 "2016-01-06T16:26:10Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I officially have my first name for my 2017 list. No I’m not telling. 😃 Most of us had our first names for the 2017 list years ago. And the 2018 list… 😃 ---
**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 6, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/405 "2016-01-06T17:20:00Z")
The cricketer [Michael Hobden](http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/06/matthew-hobden-family-new-year-sussex) has died, age 22. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/406 "2016-01-06T19:13:36Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > The cricketer [Michael Hobden](http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/06/matthew-hobden-family-new-year-sussex) has died, age 22. Given the number of points he’d have been worth, and his absence from my list, I’m relieved to see that this is the sole mention of this late luminary in this thread. 🙂 ---
**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:** [January 6, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/407 "2016-01-06T20:32:20Z")
Pierre Boulez, Leading Figure of Classical Music, Dies at 90. The French conductor and composer died peacefully Tuesday at his home in Baden-Baden, Germany, said his assistant Marion Thiem. He was 90 and had been unable to conduct recently due to eye trouble, she said. [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/01/06/world/europe/ap-eu-germany-boulez-a-life.html?\_r=0](http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/01/06/world/europe/ap-eu-germany-boulez-a-life.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:** [January 6, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/408 "2016-01-06T22:24:38Z")
William “Fridge” Perry hospitalized. [http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/william-the-refrigerator-perry-hospitalized-in-chicago-report-says/ar-AAgqUdq?li=BBnb7Kz](http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/william-the-refrigerator-perry-hospitalized-in-chicago-report-says/ar-AAgqUdq?li=BBnb7Kz) ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/409 "2016-01-06T22:56:49Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > William “Fridge” Perry hospitalized. > > [MSN](http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/william-the-refrigerator-perry-hospitalized-in-chicago-report-says/ar-AAgqUdq?li=BBnb7Kz) NO!!! I took him off my list Dec. 31st. Get well soon! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/410 "2016-01-07T11:19:00Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > William “Fridge” Perry hospitalized. > > [MSN](http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/william-the-refrigerator-perry-hospitalized-in-chicago-report-says/ar-AAgqUdq?li=BBnb7Kz) For the Fridge, [his Super Bowl ring size](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Perry_(American_football)) is the largest of any professional football player in the history of the event. He’s also suffering from [Guillain–Barré syndrome.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain%E2%80%93Barr%C3%A9_syndrome) He was fun to watch, especially when he tried to throw Walter Payton over the goal line. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/411 "2016-01-07T12:56:46Z")
For Hallowe’en one year, I made a cardboard refrigerator, sandwich board style, painted it in ChiBears colors, with a big 72 on the front and Perry across the back. ---
**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 7, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/412 "2016-01-07T15:14:52Z")
So do we have an opening kick off winner? I’m hearing Pat Harrington died. ---
**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 7, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/413 "2016-01-07T15:41:17Z")
[Confirmed](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/pat-harrington-jr-schneider-of-tvs-one-day-at-a-time-dies-at-86/2016/01/07/fb8cf232-b54c-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html). Schneider down the drain. I knew that plunger would come in handy. Looks like 4 players got 14 points. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/414 "2016-01-07T19:25:37Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > So do we have an opening kick off winner? Yes, on January 2: > [@Baker](#): > > Whoa! We have a winner! **guylevesque** wins the Opening Kickoff award, with Michel Delpech. Thirty-one points, not too bad. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/415 "2016-01-07T19:30:47Z")
[Florence King](http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/429353/florence-king-obituary), author of _Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady_, among other classics, died yesterday. ---
**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 7, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/416 "2016-01-07T19:51:21Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Yes, on January 2: Damn missed it. But now 5 people on the board. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/417 "2016-01-07T20:36:03Z")
1 guylevesque 31 1 1 2 BlossomDrearie 14 1 0 2 bowler girl 14 1 0 2 Happy Lendervedder 14 1 0 2 Team Dirt 14 1 0 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/418 "2016-01-07T20:51:53Z")
Woohoo! I’m tied for sixth!! 😃 ETA: **Team Dirt** is such a perfect username for a Death Pool player. C’mon team, take those dirt naps! 😉 ---
**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 7, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/419 "2016-01-07T21:10:53Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Woohoo! I’m tied for sixth!! 😃 Yeah, it’s crowded Move over, dammit, I can’t reach the chips. ---
**Author:** ![bowler\_girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@bowler\_girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bowler_girl)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/420 "2016-01-07T21:58:29Z")
Whoop, whoop! Nice to get those first points out of the way early! ---
**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 7, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/421 "2016-01-07T23:14:08Z")
January and I’m in third place. It’s looking up already! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=22)