# 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:** 98
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1942 "2016-11-07T23:23:09Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > [Link for Janet Reno.](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/us/janet-reno-dead.html?_r=0) > > She was\* 6’1"?\* :eek: Yep, she was a tall one, but the former queen of Tonga, Salote Topou III, who died in 1965, had her beat. The following is from the Wikipedia article biography of the queen: _Queen Salote died 16 December 1965 at Auckland City Hospital, after a long illness. Her body was flown back to Tonga.[3] She was well known for her height, standing **6 ft 3 in (1.91 metres) tall** in her prime_ I aw her arrival in London in a 1953 documentary about the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Salote towered over everyone around her, including a British escort! ---
**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:** [November 8, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1943 "2016-11-08T20:50:49Z")
[Don Marshall](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/arts/television/don-marshall-who-made-casting-history-in-land-of-the-giants-is-dead-at-80.html) no longer lives among the giants. ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1944 "2016-11-09T15:30:10Z")
Pointless for me since he was an alternate … but there will be people nevertheless happy about the passing of [Clive Derby-Lewis](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37858789) at age 80. A nasty man who tried to extend the apartheid era of South Africa. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1945 "2016-11-09T18:04:49Z")
[And here you thought time marches on…](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-president.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-abc-region®ion=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region) ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1946 "2016-11-10T02:18:19Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1947 "2016-11-11T01:56:06Z")
Just got a text that Leonard Cohen has died. Looking for confirmation. eta: here’s the article [Leonard Cohen Dead at 82 – Rolling Stone](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1948 "2016-11-11T01:57:48Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Just got a text that Leonard Cohen has died. Looking for confirmation. > > eta: here’s the article [http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792) [Confirmed](http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/leonard-cohen-dead-1.3846669). ---
**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:** [November 11, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1949 "2016-11-11T03:46:40Z")
Sad, but not surprising. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2016, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1950 "2016-11-11T10:57:28Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > [Confirmed](http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/leonard-cohen-dead-1.3846669). 2016 can go fuck itself. ☹ ---
**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:** [November 11, 2016, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1951 "2016-11-11T13:14:47Z")
[Ed Bradley, dead at 65 (35)](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-ed-bradley-dead-at-65/) ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1952 "2016-11-11T13:22:54Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > [Ed Bradley, dead at 65 (35)](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-ed-bradley-dead-at-65/) 10 years ago. Wonder if anyone got points. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1953 "2016-11-11T16:05:05Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > [Ed Bradley, dead at 65 (35)](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-ed-bradley-dead-at-65/) I posted the same thing the other night, my wife read something on Facebook about it. Googled his name for a link and whoops, 10 years too late. Fortunately, I was able to change my post. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1954 "2016-11-11T19:09:25Z")
[The Man From U.N.C.L.E.](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/11/11/report-robert-vaughn-man-from-uncle-fame-dies-at-83.html)-age 83. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1955 "2016-11-11T19:46:15Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > **I’m fairly certain that Democracy died today.** > > [And here you thought time marches on…](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-president.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-abc-region®ion=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region) Not sure it would be worth any actual points – except, maybe toward the Inside Track award. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1956 "2016-11-12T00:32:02Z")
[Phil Georgeff](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-obituary-georgeff-1113-20161111-story.html) THEE voice of horse racing, crosses the finish line. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1957 "2016-11-12T10:06:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [The Man From U.N.C.L.E.](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/11/11/report-robert-vaughn-man-from-uncle-fame-dies-at-83.html)-age 83. Survived by [Illya Kuryakin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McCallum). 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 12, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1958 "2016-11-12T19:27:40Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [The Man From U.N.C.L.E.](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/11/11/report-robert-vaughn-man-from-uncle-fame-dies-at-83.html)-age 83. He was also the last of the original (US) Magnificent Seven as well, wasn’t he? ---
**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:** [November 12, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1959 "2016-11-12T19:51:57Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > He was also the last of the original (US) Magnificent Seven as well, wasn’t he? He was in the film. I believe Yull Brenner and Steve McQueen were the two who survived. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1960 "2016-11-12T20:53:25Z")
The Magnificent 7 were Steve McQueen: 1980 (50pts) Yul Brynner: 1985 (35pts) James Coburn: 2002 (26) Brad Dexter: 2002 (15) Horst Buchholz: 2003 (31) Charles Bronson: 2003 (19) Robert Vaughn: 2016 (17) and the bad guy Eli Wallach: 2014 (2pts) Only the good die young, I guess. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2016, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098/1961 "2016-11-12T21:05:54Z")
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