# Celebrity Death Pool 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 2, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331 "2017-12-02T13:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/361 "2018-01-20T14:47:23Z")
> **[Paul Bocuse Is Dead at 91](https://www.eater.com/2018/1/20/16912646/paul-bocuse-dead-at-91)** > > The lion of modern cuisine was one of the world’s first celebrity chefs Paul Bocuse dead at 91. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/362 "2018-01-20T15:47:23Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > It’s a game, and I think we are on equal level with the NFL in defining “exactly what is a catch”, so lets’ move on… But if the corpse doesn’t manage to make one ‘football move’ after s/he dies, before fumbling a body part… 😃 ---
**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:** [January 20, 2018, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/363 "2018-01-20T21:46:06Z")
[http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-fredo-santana-dead-20180120-story.html](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-fredo-santana-dead-20180120-story.html) ---
**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:** [January 20, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/364 "2018-01-20T22:16:01Z")
Jim Rodford, founding member of Argent, long time bass player of the Kinks, and bass player of the reformed Zombies dead from a fall. Yes I’m aware he is a Zombie but it still counts. [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jim-rodford-kinks-and-argent-bassist-dead-at-76-w515670](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jim-rodford-kinks-and-argent-bassist-dead-at-76-w515670) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/365 "2018-01-21T01:33:40Z")
With the Cranberries singer, those are too many zombies popping up. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/366 "2018-01-21T13:00:50Z")
Apparently Rodford was a reformed zombie. It’s the orthodox that you have to watch out for. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/367 "2018-01-21T15:48:26Z")
Lots of deaths, none of them picks… ---
**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:** [January 22, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/368 "2018-01-22T18:25:42Z")
Actor Bradford Dillman, dead at age 87. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/369 "2018-01-23T15:39:34Z")
Naomi Parker Fraley, the original “Rosie the Riveter”-dead at 96. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/370 "2018-01-23T15:46:50Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Jim Rodford, founding member of Argent, long time bass player of the Kinks, and bass player of the reformed Zombies dead from a fall. Yes I’m aware he is a Zombie but it still counts. > [Jim Rodford, Kinks and Argent Bassist, Dead at 76](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jim-rodford-kinks-and-argent-bassist-dead-at-76-w515670) His voice was soft and cool, his eyes were clear and bright, but he’s not theeeeeere. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/371 "2018-01-23T16:58:11Z")
Jazz trumpeter [Hugh Masekela](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/23/579885226/hugh-masekela-father-of-south-african-jazz-dies-at-78) dies at 78. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/372 "2018-01-23T17:29:39Z")
John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, died [Saturday](https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/weather-channel-founder-john-coleman-dies) at 17 (unclaimed?) points. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/373 "2018-01-23T17:49:08Z")
No takers for Dollman, Fraley, Madekela, Coleman… ---
**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:** [January 23, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/374 "2018-01-23T17:59:25Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, died [Saturday](https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/weather-channel-founder-john-coleman-dies) at 17 (unclaimed?) points. I thought he made lanterns and camp stoves. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/375 "2018-01-23T22:49:28Z")
Someone I knew and treasured, Ursula K. Le Guin, is dead at age 88, ghoddamnit all to hell. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/376 "2018-01-23T23:42:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Someone I knew and treasured, Ursula K. Le Guin, is dead at age 88, ghoddamnit all to hell. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/377 "2018-01-23T23:44:17Z")
Even **ataraxy22** will probably be upset. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/378 "2018-01-24T00:12:22Z")
Country singer [Lari White](https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/lari-white-now-i-know-country-singer-dead-at-52-w515694), dead at 52 ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/379 "2018-01-24T01:27:04Z")
I had Ursula LeGuin on my lists the last several years. This year I decided not to play. I could’ve kept one of my favorite authors alive if I’d only known. RIP. Sent from my Moto E (4) using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/380 "2018-01-24T02:22:39Z")
She signed a book for me at an Audobon thing in Portland a few years ago. In pretty good shape for a woman her age. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=20)