# 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:** 6
**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:** [December 17, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/102 "2015-12-17T22:32:53Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Death Poolers, for the mere pittance of one thousand USD per person, I will not put Joey Feek on my list. > > Let’s see if this works. I’d start a bit lower. Say, five bucks. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/103 "2015-12-17T22:51:58Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I’d start a bit lower. > Say, five bucks. We’ll split the difference and say $502.50. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/104 "2015-12-17T23:02:35Z")
ya know, what I’d really like to see here is entries! I have the feeling a lot of people are waiting to see if a certain celebrity dies before the start of the year. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/105 "2015-12-18T01:10:54Z")
I have a clarification question concerning the Manner of Death. There must be a Latin phrase for that, but I digress. Concerning the terrorists on some lists, death by execution does not make points, but I take it that death by assassination or armed drone accident does. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/106 "2015-12-18T09:53:28Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I have a clarification question concerning the Manner of Death. There must be a Latin phrase for that, but I digress. - Modum mortis\* I think. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/107 "2015-12-18T10:59:55Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > ya know, what I’d really like to see here is entries! I have the feeling a lot of people are waiting to see if a certain celebrity dies before the start of the year. Nah, that’s what alternates are for. Or amended lists. 🙂 For me, things have just been a blur the past four weeks. Life’s been crazy, work’s been crazy, all of a sudden Christmas is a week away and I haven’t taken care of stuff I should have done a week or two ago. So the Death Pool list has been pushed back until after Christmas. That’s just life. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/108 "2015-12-18T22:03:20Z")
Clint Eastwood Kirk Douglas Zsa Zsa Gabor Jimmy Carter George HW Bush Dick Cheney Fidel Castro Betty White Nancy Reagan Kylie Kardashian Dan Rather Dennis Hastert Charlie Sheen ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/109 "2015-12-18T22:51:32Z")
My birth dates are written NZ style -day,month, year. & just to be clear, it’s just a game. I don’t wish death on anyone. OK ready Now. My birth dates are NZ style -day,month, year. & just to be clear, it’s just a game. I don’t wish death on anyone. Kang Kek Iew or Comrade Duch 17/11/42 Ok maybe I wish death on one person. I’m just back from a holiday in SE Asia, & the Killing Fields & S-21 prison moved me more than anything else I saw there. Monster. Sinead O’Connor 8/12/66 Phil Judd 20/3/53 Founding member of both The Swingers & highly influential NZ band Split Enz. CK Stead 17/10/32 New Zealand’s most eminent poet Keri Hulme 9/3/47 Author of The Bone People Zayn Malik 12/1/93 This year’s young burnout Gordon Lightfoot 17/11/38 Yoko Ono 18/2/33 Marianne Faithfull 29/12/46 Alain Delon 8/11/35 Martin Crowe 22/9/62 Harry Lyon Ricky Ball Rolf Harris 30/3/30 Ok maybe I wish death on two people Bridgette Bardot 28/9/34 It doesn’t seem possible that BB is 81! Forever young. Lisle Kinney Lyon, Ball & Kinney are the surviving original members of NZ band Hello Sailor after Brazier & McArtney’s deaths I imagine they are eating chia seeds, drinking herbal teas & consulting health practitioners, but these guys didn’t worry about pesky little details like getting famous before they became the Wild Men of Rock. There aren’t any birthdates on line but they would all be around 64. Kang Kek Iew or Comrade Duch 17/11/42 Ok maybe I wish death on one person. I’m just back from a holiday in SE Asia, & the Killing Fields & S-21 prison moved me more than anything else I saw there. Monster. Sinead O’Connor 8/12/66 Phil Judd 20/3/53 Founding member of both The Swingers & highly influential NZ band Split Enz. CK Stead 17/10/32 New Zealand’s most eminent poet Keri Hulme 9/3/47 Zayn Malik 12/1/93 This year’s young burnout Gordon Lightfoot 17/11/38 Yoko Ono 18/2/33 Marianne Faithfull 29/12/46 Alain Delon 8/11/35 Martin Crowe 22/9/62 Harry Lyon Ricky Ball Rolf Harris 30/3/30 Ok maybe I wish death on two people Bridgette Bardot 28/9/34 It doesn’t seem possible that BB is 81! Forever young. Lisle Kinney ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/110 "2015-12-18T22:59:31Z")
I forgot about the short edit window here Clean List Kang Kek Iew Sinead O’Connor Phil Judd CK Stead Keri Hulme Zayn Malik Gordon Lightfoot Yoko Ono Marianne Faithfull Alain Delon Martin Crowe Harry Lyon Ricky Ball Rolf Harris Bridgette Bardot Lisle Kinney ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/111 "2015-12-19T03:05:49Z")
> [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > Clint Eastwood > Kirk Douglas > Zsa Zsa Gabor > Jimmy Carter > George HW Bush > Dick Cheney > Fidel Castro > Betty White > Nancy Reagan > Kylie Kardashian > Dan Rather > Dennis Hastert > Charlie Sheen Forgot my alternates: Bob Barker Bill Clinton Glen Campbell ---
**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:** [December 19, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/112 "2015-12-19T14:15:01Z")
Kirk Douglas (12/9/16): He’s been on my list so long. I’ll miss him when he’s gone. Jimmy Carter (10/1/24): The best ex-president we ever had Ruth Bader Ginsburg (3/15/33): The Supreme Court Justice with the fanciest collars Glen Campbell (4/22/36): Country singer with Alzheimers Tommy Chong (5/24/38): Pot is not a cancer treatment Valerie Harper (8/22/39): Popular low-hainging fruit of years past John Hurt (1/22/40): Actor with pancreatic cancer Tom Brokaw (2/6/40): Former talking head for NBC Nightly News Malcolm Young (1/6/53): Former AC/DC guitarist with dementia Martin Crowe (9/22/62): Cricketer with lymphoma Bahar al-Assad (9/11/65): President of Syria, international low-hanging fruit Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (7/28/71): Terrorist bastard Joey Martin Feek (9/9/75): Popular low-hanging fruit CLEAN LIST Kirk Douglas Jimmy Carter Ruth Bader Ginsburg Glen Campbell Tommy Chong Valerie Harper John Hurt Tom Brokaw Malcolm Young Martin Crowe Basar al-Assad Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Joey Martin Feek ALTERNATES Pope Emeritus Benedict Prince Philip Queen Elizabeth II ---
**Author:** ![BlossomDrearie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BlossomDrearie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlossomDrearie)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/113 "2015-12-20T01:41:05Z")
**The White Dot** or **Star Dust** Betty White 1/17/1922 actor on “The Golden Girls,” “Life With Elizabeth” Bill Macy 5/18/1922 actor on “Maude” Carl Reiner 3/20/1922 tv comedy writer, novelist, performer on “Your Show of Shows” Caroline Aherne 12/24/1963 tv comedy writer, actor on “The Royle Family” Gloria Henry 4/2/1923 actor on “Dennis the Menace” Hugh Downs 2/14/1921 television journalist Janet Waldo 2/4/1920 voice of Judy Jetson Joyce Randolph 10/24/1924 actor on “The Honeymooners” June Foray 9/18/1917 voice of Rocky Squirrel Larry Storch 1/8/1923 actor on “F Troop”, “Ghost Busters” Noel Neill 11/25/1920 actor on “Superman” TV series Pat Harrington Jr. 8/13/1929 actor on “One Day at a Time” Valerie Harper 8/22/1939 actor on “Rhoda”, “Valerie’s Family” **The Clean List** Betty White Bill Macy Carl Reiner Caroline Aherne Gloria Henry Hugh Downs Janet Waldo Joyce Randolph June Foray Larry Storch Noel Neill Pat Harrington Jr. Valerie Harper **ALTERNATES** : Jerry Lewis Rose Marie Mazzetta Bill Dana ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Shaggy\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaggy_Z)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/114 "2015-12-20T07:44:51Z")
Mike Duffy (Canadian senator) Rob Ford (former Toronto mayor) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (ISIS leader) Bashar al-Assad (Syrian President) Joaquín Guzman (Mexican druglord) Kim Jong-un (leader of North Korea) Charlie Sheen (actor) Lindsay Lohan (actor and stuff) Stephen King (author) Ashraf Ghani (president of Afghanistan) Bill Cosby (actor etc.) Stephen Hawking (physicist) George RR Martin (author) ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Shaggy\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaggy_Z)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/115 "2015-12-20T07:53:02Z")
> [@Shaggy\_Z](#): > > Mike Duffy (Canadian senator) > Rob Ford (former Toronto mayor) > Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (ISIS leader) > Bashar al-Assad (Syrian President) > Joaquín Guzman (Mexican druglord) > Kim Jong-un (leader of North Korea) > Charlie Sheen (actor) > Lindsay Lohan (actor and stuff) > Stephen King (author) > Ashraf Ghani (president of Afghanistan) > Bill Cosby (actor etc.) > Stephen Hawking (physicist) > George RR Martin (author) Clean: Mike Duffy Rob Ford Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Bashar al-Assad Joaquín Guzman Kim Jong-un Charlie Sheen Lindsay Lohan Stephen King Ashraf Ghani Bill Cosby Stephen Hawking George RR Martin ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/116 "2015-12-22T02:22:22Z")
Glen Campbell (April 22, 1936), country singer Tommy Chong (May 24, 1938), comedian Valerie Harper (Aug. 22, 1939), actress Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka (May 18, 1943), wrestler Malcolm Young (Jan. 8, 1953), AC/DC guitarist The Amazing Jonathan (John Szelas) (Sept. 9, 1958), magician Vivian Campbell (Aug. 25, 1962), Dio/Def Leppard guitarist Martin Crowe (Sept. 22, 1962), cricketer Bashar al-Assad (Sept. 11, 1965), Syrian dictator Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (July 28, 1971), ISIS caliph/drone target Joey Feek (Sept. 9, 1975), country singer/bandwagon pick Lamar Odom (Nov. 6, 1979), basketball player/Kardashian-by-marriage Kseniya Sobchak (Nov. 5, 1981), ‘Paris Hilton of Russia’ turned critic of Putin’s government Alternates Slim Dunlap (Aug 14, 1951), replaced Bob Stinson in the Replacements. So if he gets bumped to the main list, he’ll be a replacement Replacement replacement. Andy Dick (Dec. 21, 1965), alleged comedian/confirmed fuck-up Rush Limbaugh (Jan. 12, 1951), radio pundit, potential death from myocardial infarction, oxycontin OD or head asploding when Hilary gets elected President Plain Jane version Glen Campbell Tommy Chong Valerie Harper Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Malcolm Young The Amazing Jonathan Vivian Campbell Martin Crowe Bashar al-Assad Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Joey Feek Lamar Odom Kseniya Sobchak Alternates: Slim Dunlap Andy Dick Rush Limbaugh ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/117 "2015-12-22T08:26:46Z")
Oh glorious mystical Death Mistress, could we please have a recap of the top celebs? Thank you so much. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/118 "2015-12-22T09:46:36Z")
This is a list of all celebs having been selected five times. Joey Feek 19 Valerie Harper 12 Jimmy Carter 11 George H. W. Bush 10 Glen Campbell 9 Bashar al-Assad 8 Charlie Sheen 8 Fidel Castro 8 Burt Reynolds 7 Lindsay Lohan 7 Stephen Hawking 7 Tommy Chong 7 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 6 John Hurt 6 Kirk Douglas 6 Martin Crowe 6 Muhammad Ali 6 Nancy Reagan 6 Dick Cheney 5 Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka 5 Malcolm Young 5 Mary Tyler Moore 5 Tom Brokaw 5 ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/119 "2015-12-22T11:49:46Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > This is a list of all celebs having been selected five times.\ The sharks smell blood… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/120 "2015-12-22T14:35:31Z")
Where’s Abe Vigoda? C’mon, people, he’s gotta die _sometime!_ Let’s have a little respect for tradition here! 😃 ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/121 "2015-12-22T21:05:13Z")
And Zsa Zsa. She’s still a point. It will give you a leg up over all of us that can’t get off the schnied. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098.md?page=7)