# 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:** 23
**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:** [February 7, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/441 "2018-02-07T03:14:11Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Has he been the biggest, or at least most universally known, celebrity so far? I’ve been noting to myself the lack of big stars this year. Loved him in Moonstruck and Say Anything ---
**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:** [February 7, 2018, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/442 "2018-02-07T05:00:52Z")
[Cyril Taylor](http://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/cyril_taylor.html), founder of the American Institute for Foreign Studies ---
**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:** [February 7, 2018, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/443 "2018-02-07T05:03:01Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Loved him in Moonstruck and Say Anything And he was delightfully corrupt in “Primal Fear” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/444 "2018-02-07T21:24:37Z")
Pope Benedict XVI wrote a letter saying he is preparing for “home”. How many have him? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/445 "2018-02-07T23:46:16Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Pope Benedict XVI wrote a letter saying he is preparing for “home”. > > How many have him? Seven, according to our Death Shroom in [post #216](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20699929&postcount=216). ---
**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:** [February 8, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/446 "2018-02-08T04:11:00Z")
Mickey Jones might not be a household name but he was the go to guy if you needed a biker type in tv and movies for decades. I had no idea that he was also a drummer in several big bands like First Edition and with Bob Dylan when Levon Helm wasn’t available. [https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-mickey-jones-20180207-story.html%3FoutputType=amp](https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-mickey-jones-20180207-story.html%3foutputType=amp) ---
**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:** [February 8, 2018, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/447 "2018-02-08T06:04:29Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Mickey Jones might not be a household name but he was the go to guy if you needed a biker type in tv and movies for decades. I had no idea that he was also a drummer in several big bands like First Edition and with Bob Dylan when Levon Helm wasn’t available. > > [Rock drummer and 'Home Improvement' actor Mickey Jones dies at 76](https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-mickey-jones-20180207-story.html%3foutputType=amp) Didn’t recognize the name, but that was immediately who I pictured! ---
**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:** [February 8, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/448 "2018-02-08T19:12:24Z")
“Joseph Polchinski, one of the most creative physicists of his generation, whose work helped lay the mathematical foundation for the controversial proposition that our universe is only one in an almost endless assemblage that cosmologists call the “multiverse,” died on Friday at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 63.” Brain cancer. > **[Joseph Polchinski, 63, Leading Theorist on Multiple Universes, Dies...](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/obituaries/joseph-polchinski-63-leading-theorist-on-multiple-universes-dies.html)** > > He helped lay the mathematical foundation for the startling idea that our universe is not alone. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/449 "2018-02-08T19:16:05Z")
“Dr. Victor Sidel, a leading public health specialist whose concerns ranged from alleviating the effects of poverty in the Bronx, where he worked for many years, to raising alarms about the potential impact of nuclear war, died on Jan. 30 in Greenwood Village, Colo. He was 86.” > **[Dr. Victor Sidel, Public Health Champion, Is Dead at 86 (Published 2018)](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/obituaries/dr-victor-sidel-public-health-champion-is-dead-at-86.html)** > > Dr. Sidel linked the health of populations to social and economic conditions and political choices, like putting nuclear arms ahead of medical care. Excellent read on his career. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/450 "2018-02-08T19:18:26Z")
"Leon (Ndugu) Chancler, a drummer whose crisp grooves and pinpoint fireworks of syncopation were heard on hundreds of albums — including Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” on which his drumbeat starts the song “Billie Jean” — died on Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 65. The cause was prostate cancer, his family said in a statement." Watch out drummers; things come in three’s. > **[Leon (Ndugu) Chancler, Versatile Drummer, Is Dead at 65 (Published 2018)](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/obituaries/leon-ndugu-chancler-versatile-drummer-is-dead-at-65.html)** > > Mr. Chancler played on hundreds of jazz, pop, funk, disco and country albums, including Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” ---
**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:** [February 8, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/451 "2018-02-08T20:18:24Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > “Joseph Polchinski, one of the most creative physicists of his generation, whose work helped lay the mathematical foundation for the controversial proposition that our universe is only one in an almost endless assemblage that cosmologists call the “multiverse,” died on Friday at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 63.” Brain cancer. > > [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/obituaries/joseph-polchinski-63-leading-theorist-on-multiple-universes-dies.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/obituaries/joseph-polchinski-63-leading-theorist-on-multiple-universes-dies.html) psst: see post #434 ---
**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:** [February 8, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/452 "2018-02-08T21:23:58Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > psst: see post #434 My bad. Couldn’t read the article and death / age wasn’t mentioned in the readable summary. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/453 "2018-02-09T02:27:52Z")
Those two posts actually exist in two different universes. We’ve conveniently cross-ripped between the two in honor of Dr. Polchinski ---
**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:** [February 9, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/454 "2018-02-09T02:49:29Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Those two posts actually exist in two different universes. We’ve conveniently cross-ripped between the two in honor of Dr. Polchinski They both exist and do not exist, until the wave function collapses. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/455 "2018-02-09T13:24:46Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Those two posts actually exist in two different universes. We’ve conveniently cross-ripped between the two in honor of Dr. Polchinski If two posts announce a Celeb death, yet no one thought to pick it, is this noise? ---
**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:** [February 9, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/456 "2018-02-09T20:32:08Z")
Anyone have rapper/DJ [Lovebug Starski(Kevin Smith)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovebug_Starski)-Age 57? ---
**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:** [February 9, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/457 "2018-02-09T20:36:24Z")
I’m inclined to say no ---
**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:** [February 10, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/458 "2018-02-10T01:27:15Z")
It’s raining corpses. Notable deaths but I don’t think they were picks. Reg Cathey 59. If you don’t know the name you know his face and great voice. From House of Cards and The Wire. [https://www.google.com/amp/variety.com/2018/tv/obituaries-people-news/reg-cathey-dead-dies-the-wire-house-of-card-1202694366/amp/](https://www.google.com/amp/variety.com/2018/tv/obituaries-people-news/reg-cathey-dead-dies-the-wire-house-of-card-1202694366/amp/) Craig MacGregor 68. Bass player for Foghat. > **[FOGHAT Bassist CRAIG MACGREGOR Dies At 68](https://blabbermouth.net/news/foghat-bassist-craig-macgregor-dies-at-68)** > > FOGHAT bassist Craig MacGregor died earlier today (Friday, February 9) after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 68 years old. "On behalf of Craig MacGregor's family and the FOGHAT family, it is with great sadness that we are letting you know that... John Gavin 86. Film actor(Psycho, Spartacus), ambassador to Mexico under Reagan, screen actors guild president. [https://www.google.com/amp/variety.com/2018/film/news/john-gavin-dead-dies-psycho-spartacus-1202694312/amp/](https://www.google.com/amp/variety.com/2018/film/news/john-gavin-dead-dies-psycho-spartacus-1202694312/amp/) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/459 "2018-02-10T07:12:23Z")
I was trying to place Reg Cathey. I never watched _The Wire_ or _House of Cards_. He’s Marcus from _Airheads_. I love that movie. “‘Pie-hole.’ What’s that, some kind of cracker slang?” ---
**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:** [February 10, 2018, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/460 "2018-02-10T08:18:39Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Anyone have rapper/DJ [Lovebug Starski(Kevin Smith)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovebug_Starski)-Age 57? No, didn’t have him in my themed Rapper list - dammmit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=24)