# Celebrity Death Pool 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2016, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517 "2016-12-01T07:00:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 48
**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:** [March 17, 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/941 "2017-03-17T07:04:24Z")
Royal Robbins has climbed [his last mountain](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/royal-robbins-celebrated-rock-climber-who-left-no-trace-of-his-ascents-dies-at-82/2017/03/16/25d041b8-09a0-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html?utm_term=.9549aa97a648f). I had a friend who swore by his [climbing shoes](https://www.google.com/search?q=royal+robbins+shoes&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJho7q-9zSAhVH42MKHdahAoUQsAQIOg&biw=1600&bih=721#imgrc=9EqojbUQ3PE0JM:). ---
**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:** [March 17, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/942 "2017-03-17T17:55:07Z")
[Derek Walcott has died at 13 points](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/17/511608932/derek-walcott-who-wrote-of-caribbean-beauty-and-bondage-dies-at-87). Points that will remain unclaimed since no one had him. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/943 "2017-03-18T06:07:02Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > [Derek Walcott has died at 13 points](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/17/511608932/derek-walcott-who-wrote-of-caribbean-beauty-and-bondage-dies-at-87). Points that will remain unclaimed since no one had him. [Yes I did](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19880867&postcount=242) ---
**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:** [March 18, 2017, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/944 "2017-03-18T10:08:04Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > [Yes I did](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19880867&postcount=242) Jealous, party of me. Knew I should have gone with Nobel Prize winners instead of the Pulitzer. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/945 "2017-03-18T14:24:15Z")
**Invisible Chimp** joins the ranks: ```auto Rank Name Score Picks 1 Quartz 176 3(1) 2 basset hound 158 4(1) 3 Andrew 21 125 4 4 carnivorousp 121 2 4 RTFirefly 121 2 6 jeezums 113 3 7 bowler girl 105 3 7 Rocket Surgery! 105 3 9 Registered@Last 87 2(1) 10 motu 86 2 11 GigoBuster 82 2 11 notfrommensa 82 2 13 Team Dirt 66 2 14 42fish 55 1 14 Captain Klutz 55 1 14 Hockey Monkey 55 1 14 Hoopy Frood 55 1 14 lel 55 1 14 minionkat 55 1 14 Tangent 55 1 21 Biotop 47 2(2) 21 RobotDevilDog 47 2 23 RivkahChaya 43 2 23 Tit Whistle 43 2 25 TexCat* 39 1(1) 26 cardboardbox 37 1(1) 27 QueenAnneLace 36 2(1) 28 DeaderThanDead 31 1 29 Dr. Girlfriend* 27 1 29 FavreCo 27 1 29 Idle Thoughts 27 1 29 Jeep's Phoenix 27 1 29 Labtrash 27 1 29 Loach 27 1 29 Martonio 27 1 29 Superdude 27 1 37 amarinth 23 1 37 Borborygmi 23 1 37 DigitalC 23 1 37 freckafree 23 1 37 Jack Batty 23 1 37 kopek 23 1 37 Lancia 23 1 37 Mahaloth* 23 1 37 Yllaria 23 1 46 Avarie537 20 1 46 Bayaker* 20 1 46 Clothahump 20 1 46 computergeek 20 1 46 Dolores Reborn 20 1 46 kayT 20 1 46 Maus Magill 20 1 46 Mona Lott 20 1 46 panache45* 20 1 46 Paul in Qatar 20 1 46 septimus 20 1 46 Spiff 20 1 46 swampbear 20 1 46 Two Many Cats 20 1 60 Randy Seltzer* 18 1(1) 61 InvisibleChimp* 13 1(1) ``` ---
**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:** [March 18, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/946 "2017-03-18T22:01:54Z")
St. Louis news media reporting Chuck Berry has died. Looking for verification. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/947 "2017-03-18T22:09:52Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > St. Louis news media reporting Chuck Berry has died. Looking for verification. [http://fox2now.com/2017/03/18/legendary-rock-n-roll-musician-chuck-berry-dies-at-90/](http://fox2now.com/2017/03/18/legendary-rock-n-roll-musician-chuck-berry-dies-at-90/) ---
**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:** [March 18, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/948 "2017-03-18T22:46:52Z")
The drought has ended, the gates have opened… Points for **RandMcnally** and **rucciface** , who join the leader’s board: ```auto Rank Name Score Picks 1 Quartz 176 3(1) 2 basset hound 158 4(1) 3 Andrew 21 125 4 4 carnivorousp 121 2 4 RTFirefly 121 2 6 jeezums 113 3 7 bowler girl 105 3 7 Rocket Surgery! 105 3 9 Registered@Last 87 2(1) 10 motu 86 2 11 GigoBuster 82 2 11 notfrommensa 82 2 13 Team Dirt 66 2 14 42fish 55 1 14 Captain Klutz 55 1 14 Hockey Monkey 55 1 14 Hoopy Frood 55 1 14 lel 55 1 14 minionkat 55 1 14 Tangent 55 1 21 Biotop 47 2(2) 21 RobotDevilDog 47 2 23 RivkahChaya 43 2 23 Tit Whistle 43 2 25 TexCat* 39 1(1) 26 cardboardbox 37 1(1) 27 QueenAnneLace 36 2(1) 28 DeaderThanDead 31 1 29 Dr. Girlfriend* 27 1 29 FavreCo 27 1 29 Idle Thoughts 27 1 29 Jeep's Phoenix 27 1 29 Labtrash 27 1 29 Loach 27 1 29 Martonio 27 1 29 Superdude 27 1 37 amarinth 23 1 37 Borborygmi 23 1 37 DigitalC 23 1 37 freckafree 23 1 37 Jack Batty 23 1 37 kopek 23 1 37 Lancia 23 1 37 Mahaloth* 23 1 37 Yllaria 23 1 46 Avarie537 20 1 46 Bayaker* 20 1 46 Clothahump 20 1 46 computergeek 20 1 46 Dolores Reborn 20 1 46 kayT 20 1 46 Maus Magill 20 1 46 Mona Lott 20 1 46 panache45* 20 1 46 Paul in Qatar 20 1 46 septimus 20 1 46 Spiff 20 1 46 swampbear 20 1 46 Two Many Cats 20 1 60 Randy Seltzer* 18 1(1) 61 InvisibleChimp* 13 1(1) 62 RandMcnally 10 1 62 rucciface 10 1 ``` ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/949 "2017-03-18T23:26:49Z")
I hope Chuck’s cousin Marvin doesn’t take the news too hard… ---
**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:** [March 19, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/950 "2017-03-19T00:02:57Z")
Dave Stallworth, an all-American forward at Wichita State before joining the Knicks, was on his way to a fine pro career when he was sidelined by a heart attack near the end of his second N.B.A. season. Doctors doubted he would play again. But Stallworth rejoined the Knicks in October 1969 after missing two full seasons. When he died last week at 75 in Wichita,… > **[Dave Stallworth, Bulwark for Knicks’ First N.B.A. Title, Dies at 75...](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/sports/basketball/dave-stallworth-dead-knicks-forward-in-1970s.html)** > > Stallworth, an all-American forward at Wichita State, helped the Knicks slow Wilt Chamberlain in the 1970 N.B.A. finals after an injury to Willis Reed. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/951 "2017-03-19T00:05:09Z")
The poet and playwright Derek Walcott, who moulded the language and forms of the western canon to his own purposes for more than half a century, has died aged 87. His monumental poetry, such as his 1990 epic Omeros, a Caribbean reimagining of The Odyssey, secured him an international reputation which gained him the Nobel prize in 1992. > **[Nobel laureate, poet and playwright Derek Walcott dead, aged 87](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/17/nobel-laureate-poet-and-playwright-derek-walcott-dead-aged-87)** > > Walcott, who died in Saint Lucia, was famous for his monumental body of work that wove in Carribean history, particularly his epic Omeros ---
**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:** [March 19, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/952 "2017-03-19T00:09:41Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > The poet and playwright Derek Walcott, who moulded the language and forms of the western canon to his own purposes for more than half a century, has died aged 87. > > His monumental poetry, such as his 1990 epic Omeros, a Caribbean reimagining of The Odyssey, secured him an international reputation which gained him the Nobel prize in 1992. > > [Nobel laureate, poet and playwright Derek Walcott dead, aged 87 | Derek Walcott | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/17/nobel-laureate-poet-and-playwright-derek-walcott-dead-aged-87) See [#942](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20073955&postcount=942). 😉 ---
**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:** [March 19, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/953 "2017-03-19T14:37:24Z")
Acclaimed newspaper columnist and best-selling author Jimmy Breslin has died at age 88. Also dead is legendary illustrator and comic book artist Bernie Wrightson at age 68. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/954 "2017-03-19T14:54:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Acclaimed newspaper columnist and best-selling author Jimmy Breslin has died at age 88. > Also dead is legendary illustrator and comic book artist Bernie Wrightson at age 68. Breslin’s former employer, the New York Daily News, has his age as 86. [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/legendary-daily-news-columnist-jimmy-breslin-dead-86-article-1.3002601?utm\_content=buffera8a26&utm\_medium=social&utm\_source=twitter.com&utm\_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/legendary-daily-news-columnist-jimmy-breslin-dead-86-article-1.3002601?utm_content=buffera8a26&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw) ---
**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:** [March 19, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/955 "2017-03-19T15:41:14Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Acclaimed newspaper columnist and best-selling author Jimmy Breslin has died at age 88. > Also dead is legendary illustrator and comic book artist Bernie Wrightson at age 68. Neither were picked ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/956 "2017-03-19T21:26:56Z")
Comics artist Bernie Wrightson has died at 68. > **[Famed Comic Book Artist Bernie Wrightson Dies at 68](https://gizmodo.com/famed-comic-book-artist-bernie-wrightson-dies-at-68-1793421051)** > > Bernie “Berni” Wrightson, a comic book artist known for his iconic Frankenstein illustrations and co-creating DC’s Swamp Thing, has passed away after battling brain cancer. The news was shared on his website by his wife, Liz Wrightson. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/957 "2017-03-19T21:47:30Z")
Hey, I hear Bernie Wrightson has died. Anybody got any confirmation on that? 😉 ---
**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:** [March 20, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/958 "2017-03-20T14:25:02Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Hey, I hear Bernie Wrightson has died. Anybody got any confirmation on that? 😉 fake news! ---
**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:** [March 20, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/959 "2017-03-20T17:59:32Z")
[David Rockefeller dies at 101](http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-david-rockefeller-dies-obit-20170320-story.html). No word if he was able to take any of it with him. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/960 "2017-03-20T18:17:44Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Hey, I hear Bernie Wrightson has died. Anybody got any confirmation on that? 😉 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/03/20/bernie-wrightson-co-creator-of-swamp-thing-elevated-the-art-of-horror-in-comics/?utm\_term=.a9b380b98a6e](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/03/20/bernie-wrightson-co-creator-of-swamp-thing-elevated-the-art-of-horror-in-comics/?utm_term=.a9b380b98a6e) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517.md?page=47) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517.md?page=49)