# 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:** 50
**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:** [March 24, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/981 "2017-03-24T21:58:59Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > John “Sib” Hashian, who played the drums on arena-rock group Boston’s first two albums, has died at 67, TMZ and The Associated Press report. Apparently, he was performing on a cruise ship when he collapsed and died. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/982 "2017-03-25T03:50:07Z")
[Pete Hamilton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hamilton), winner of the 1970 Daytona 500 died at 74. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/983 "2017-03-28T16:34:35Z")
Darlene Cates, the mother from “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” has died at 69. > **[‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ Star Darlene Cates Dies at 69](https://variety.com/2017/film/news/darlene-cates-dead-whats-eating-gilbert-grape-died-69-1202017746/)** > > Darlene Cates, known for playing the mother in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” has died. She was 69. Cates’ daughter, Sheri Cates Morgan, announced in a Facebook post that he… Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/984 "2017-03-29T17:54:16Z")
> **[William McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winner 
who chronicled his decline into...](https://www.pressherald.com/2017/03/29/william-mcpherson-pulitzer-prize-winner-%E2%80%A8who-chronicled-his-decline-into-poverty-dies-he-had-written-two-novels-and-was-once-the-washington-post-book-world-editor/?)** > > He wrote two novels and was once the Washington Post Book World editor. Author William Mcpherson dead at 84. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/985 "2017-03-29T19:14:55Z")
[Todd Frohwirth](http://www.12up.com/posts/4779447-breaking-former-phillies-orioles-and-red-sox-pitcher-dies-at-54), whose submarine delivery allowed him to pitch for four teams during nine seasons in Major League baseball, has died at the age of 54. [Brian Oldfield](http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170327/news/170328945/), who once held the USA record for the shot put and finished sixth in the event at the 1972 Olympic Games, has passed away at 71. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Anne_s_Lace)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/986 "2017-03-30T01:57:33Z")
Former Big Ten Commissioner Wayne Duke dies at 88. [http://www.bigten.org/genrel/032917aab.html](http://www.bigten.org/genrel/032917aab.html) ---
**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 30, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/987 "2017-03-30T17:16:12Z")
Your favorite, warm and fuzzy anarchist [died](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/arts/william-powell-anarchist-cookbook-writer-dies.html), last July. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/988 "2017-04-01T00:19:07Z")
[Gilbert Baker](http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Gilbert-Baker-designer-of-the-rainbow-flag-dies-11042312.php), designer of the rainbow flag, dead at 65. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/989 "2017-04-01T18:28:06Z")
[Ruben Amaro Sr.](http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/Philadelphia-Phillies-Ruben-Amaro-Sr-dies-at-81.html), who won a Gold Glove as a shortstop for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1964, has died at the age of 81. His son, Ruben Amaro Jr., is the Boston Red Sox’ first-base coach. [Yevgeny Yevtushenko](http://www.rferl.org/a/russian-poet-yevgeny-yevtushenko-dies-84/28404937.html), the Russian poet whose most famous work was _Babi Yar_, passed away at 84. _Babi Yar_ condemned not only a Nazi massacre of Jews in Kiev, but also Soviet anti-Semitism and distortions of history. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/990 "2017-04-01T18:35:07Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Brian Oldfield](http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170327/news/170328945/), who once held the USA record for the shot put and finished sixth in the event at the 1972 Olympic Games, has passed away at 71. I remember him, because I followed that Olympics when I was in high school. And not just because of the massacre, or the scandalous ending to the basketball game. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/991 "2017-04-01T20:08:56Z")
[Francine Hughes Wilson](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/francine-hughes-wilson-whose-burning-bed-became-a-tv-film-dies-at-69/2017/03/31/a1799db8-161c-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.6555c2c1a442) the abused wife who killed her husband and subject of the book and movie The Burning Bed, dead at 69. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/992 "2017-04-01T20:45:01Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Francine Hughes Wilson the abused wife who killed her husband and subject of the book and movie The Burning Bed, dead at 69. Wow. We owe her the “battered women’s” defense to murder. That’s young to die, but at least she outlived her bastard husband by several decades. I read _The Burning Bed_. Cripes. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/993 "2017-04-02T13:10:12Z")
Richard Bolles, author of _What Color Is Your Parachute?_, dead at 90. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/994 "2017-04-03T00:01:10Z")
Doris DeLay celebrates her[95th](http://people.com/celebrity/doris-day-95-birthday-portrait-photo/) (not 93rd) birthday. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/995 "2017-04-03T04:20:25Z")
Damn! Another bad day for the B.L.U.E.S. [Lonnie Brooks](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/reich/ct-lonnie-brooks-obit-met-20170402-column.html), a symbol of Chicago blues, dies at 83. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/996 "2017-04-03T11:29:51Z")
And it’s goodnight from Ronnie Corbett. > **[Ronnie Corbett, best known for The Two Ronnies, dies aged 85](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35934024)** > > Comedian Ronnie Corbett, best known for his partnership with Ronnie Barker in The Two Ronnies, has died. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/997 "2017-04-03T11:36:45Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > And it’s goodnight from Ronnie Corbett. > > [Ronnie Corbett, best known for The Two Ronnies, dies aged 85 - BBC News](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35934024) You are a year late on that one. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/998 "2017-04-03T11:43:12Z")
So I am. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/999 "2017-04-03T21:27:56Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Doris DeLay celebrates her[95th](http://people.com/celebrity/doris-day-95-birthday-portrait-photo/) (not 93rd) birthday. Shouldn’t that be Doris **Day**? ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1000 "2017-04-03T22:10:48Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Shouldn’t that be Doris **Day**? I believe the Little\_Pig is making a joke. Perhaps she is on his list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517.md?page=51)