# 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:** 34
**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:** [February 3, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/662 "2016-02-03T17:55:19Z")
[Bob Elliott, of Bob and Ray Comedy Fame, Dies at 92.](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/arts/television/bob-elliott-of-bob-and-ray-comedy-fame-dies-at-92.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0) ---
**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:** [February 3, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/663 "2016-02-03T18:08:23Z")
DJ Big Kap, aka: Keith Carter, [dead at 45](http://radio.com/2016/02/03/hip-hop-community-mourns-the-passing-of-dj-big-kap/) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/664 "2016-02-03T18:58:56Z")
February isn’t looking any better than January. WTH is going on? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/665 "2016-02-03T20:30:31Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > February isn’t looking any better than January. WTH is going on? Pointless deaths, baby, for Lucan, Carter, and Elliott. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/666 "2016-02-04T14:19:05Z")
Joe Alaskey dies for 37 points. [Bugs Bunny speechless.](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/joe-alaskey-voice-bugs-bunny-daffy-duck-dead-age-63-article-1.2519738?utm_content=buffer8fd9f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer) ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/667 "2016-02-04T15:49:26Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > February isn’t looking any better than January. WTH is going on? I blame it all on \. ---
**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 4, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/668 "2016-02-04T15:53:22Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [Bob Elliott, of Bob and Ray Comedy Fame, Dies at 92.](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/arts/television/bob-elliott-of-bob-and-ray-comedy-fame-dies-at-92.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0) 92 is a good run but I’m still saddened by this. My father is long gone but he grew up in the Depression and still liked old style radio. Bob and Ray and Jean Shephard were still doing story telling and comedy when I was a little kid. I remember my father listening to them on the radio. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/669 "2016-02-04T18:14:03Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > A death certificate has been granted for [Lord Lucan](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35481376) at 19 points. But he was declared dead in 1999 - not sure which would count. There was similar issue with Steve Fossett – he died in 2007, but wasn’t declared dead until 2008. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/670 "2016-02-04T20:58:09Z")
The mother from the classic [Prince pasta commercial](http://www.boston.com/news/2016/02/03/the-mother-from-the-classic-prince-pasta-commercial-has-died/BApzpP1C19fxZaVIRlCP1N/story.html?s_campaign=bcom:gigya:facebook) has died. > [@](#): > > Mary Fiumara, the woman who shouted “Anthony! Anthony!” in an iconic Prince pasta commercial, died on February 2 at 88 years old. Fiumara’s son confirmed Fiumara’s passing to The Boston Globe . > > Anthony Martignetti—Fiumara’s son in the commercial—was 12 years old when he starred in the “Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day” commercial alongside Fiumara, according to the Globe . In the 1969 advertisement, Martignetti is seen running home for a pasta dinner after Fiumara shouts his name from a Powers Court apartment window. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/671 "2016-02-04T22:35:34Z")
Associated Press: Maurice White, the founder of Earth, Wind and Fire, has died at 74. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/672 "2016-02-05T00:25:10Z")
Extremely local to me celebrity [Marcus Turner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Turner) just died, aged 59. Not only was he commonly seen on children’s TV in New Zealand when I was a kid, he was a friend of my family. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/673 "2016-02-05T01:20:04Z")
Dave Mirra has apparently committed suicide: [BMX Legend Dave Mirra Dead At 41 Of Apparent Suicide](http://deadspin.com/bmx-legend-dave-mirra-dead-at-41-of-apparent-suicide-1757216822) ---
**Author:** ![Grsz11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grsz11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grsz11)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/674 "2016-02-05T03:09:11Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > Dave Mirra has apparently committed suicide: [Deadspin | BMX Legend Dave Mirra Dead At 41 Of Apparent Suicide ](http://deadspin.com/bmx-legend-dave-mirra-dead-at-41-of-apparent-suicide-1757216822) What the literal fuck! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/675 "2016-02-05T03:30:19Z")
Katie May, successful model and social media star, died after suffering a stroke on Monday, [leaving 66 points on the table.](http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/04/model-katie-may-dies-stroke/#ixzz3zGEVIVyK) ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/676 "2016-02-05T13:46:18Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > Dave Mirra has apparently committed suicide: [Deadspin | BMX Legend Dave Mirra Dead At 41 Of Apparent Suicide ](http://deadspin.com/bmx-legend-dave-mirra-dead-at-41-of-apparent-suicide-1757216822) Say WHAT? :eek: I lived in Greenville for about ten years. Mirra was well-known as the only famous person who’s ever come out of Pitt county. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/677 "2016-02-05T20:26:03Z")
[Edgar Whitcomb](http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/former-governor-edgar-whitcomb-dies-at-age-98), who served as Indiana’s governor from 1969 to '73, has died at the age of 98. Whitcomb was also a World War II veteran who twice escaped from prison camp while serving as a B-17 pilot in the Army Air Corps. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/678 "2016-02-05T20:55:33Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Edgar Whitcomb](http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/former-governor-edgar-whitcomb-dies-at-age-98), who served as Indiana’s governor from 1969 to '73, has died at the age of 98. Whitcomb was also a World War II veteran who twice escaped from prison camp while serving as a B-17 pilot in the Army Air Corps. Good on him! I once was introduced to a friend of my father’s who was in a German POW camp and escaped three times. “But” he said, “I always got caught fairly quickly, except for the one time I was out for two weeks.” ---
**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 5, 2016, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/679 "2016-02-05T21:05:28Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Good on him! I once was introduced to a friend of my father’s who was in a German POW camp and escaped three times. “But” he said, “I always got caught fairly quickly, except for the one time I was out for two weeks.” There was a certain etiquette to the art of escape, as I have been given to understand. One did not kill anyone, for example. They will be very, very angry when they look for you. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/680 "2016-02-05T22:09:29Z")
I never knew that. Interesting. The gentleman I mentioned said the two week time he was out was when he hid in a farmer’s barn. The farmer found him, but he and his wife let him stay, even fed him and let him come into the house one time. Of course when the guy I met was traced and found the farmer pretended to be shocked and angry, but that was to be expected I was told. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/681 "2016-02-05T22:22:13Z")
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