# Celebrity Death Pool 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [January 9, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390 "2020-01-09T05:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 36
**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:** [July 5, 2020, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/702 "2020-07-05T11:38:18Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Red Sox player [Bell Buckner](https://www.npr.org/2019/05/27/727355557/former-red-sox-first-baseman-bill-buckner-dies-at-69) dead at 69. > > No matter how well he played the game, he’ll always be remembered for the one error that won the 1986 World Series…for the Mets. Remembered incorrectly by many since it didn’t win the series. The Mets had to come back and win game 7. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/703 "2020-07-05T12:26:10Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Remembered incorrectly by many since it didn’t win the series. The Mets had to come back and win game 7. Reminds me of the “Miracle on Ice” game for the US men’s Olympic hockey team in 1980. The win against the Soviets wasn’t the gold medal game. The US still had to defeat Finland for the gold. I misremembered this for decades! ---
**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:** [July 5, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/704 "2020-07-05T13:12:13Z")
[John Pinto](https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/senator-john-pinto-passes-away/2024944522), New Mexico Senator and Navajo Code Talker [Murray Gell-Mann](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/murray-gell-mann/), Nobel prize winning physicist who postulated the existence of quarks. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/705 "2020-07-06T10:39:23Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Murray Gell-Mann](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/murray-gell-mann/), Nobel prize winning physicist who postulated the existence of quarks. One of the greats of 20th century physics, and that’s saying something. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/706 "2020-07-06T14:06:44Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Murray Gell-Mann](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/murray-gell-mann/), Nobel prize winning physicist who postulated the existence of quarks. My mom met him (sort of). She worked as a secretary for a short time at the AEC for someone that Gell-Mann would come in to talk to. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/707 "2020-07-06T21:49:59Z")
Horror author [Dennis Etchison](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/295013/r-i-p-dennis-etchison-dark-fantasy-horror-author-has-passed-away-at-76/&ved=2ahUKEwjN4YbywMLiAhVQhuAKHV3yD2cQxfQBMA56BAgCEAM&usg=AOvVaw2E1VjedvbLTexh3CJSstrf) has died at 76. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2020, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/708 "2020-07-07T08:40:12Z")
Former Senate Appropriations chairman Thad Cochran has died aged 81 > **[Longtime Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran dead at 81](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/longtime-mississippi-republican-sen-thad-cochran-dead-at-81.amp)** > > Former Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, who served in Congress for more than 45 years and chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee, died Thursday. He was 81. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/709 "2020-07-07T08:57:56Z")
Another former resident of my list Leon Redbone has died. Since his official death announcement says he was 127 years old does that mean no points? > **[Singer Leon Redbone Dies at 69](https://variety.com/2019/music/news/singer-leon-redbone-dies-at-69-1203229012/)** > > Singer-songwriter Leon Redbone, who specialized in old-school vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley-style music, died Thursday, his family confirmed. No cause of death was given for the notoriously private … ---
**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:** [July 7, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/710 "2020-07-07T09:06:40Z")
31, according to wiki-thingy ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/711 "2020-07-07T09:07:31Z")
[Claus von Bulow](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/05/30/claus-von-bulow-cultivated-socialite-man-about-town-convicted/&ved=2ahUKEwjJ5vrk2MPiAhVEzlkKHXfvAk4QFjAYegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw24hEdPNibaG2vADalMN2W3) at 92 will face final judgement. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/712 "2020-07-07T09:20:55Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Horror author [Dennis Etchison](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/295013/r-i-p-dennis-etchison-dark-fantasy-horror-author-has-passed-away-at-76/&ved=2ahUKEwjN4YbywMLiAhVQhuAKHV3yD2cQxfQBMA56BAgCEAM&usg=AOvVaw2E1VjedvbLTexh3CJSstrf) has died at 76. If I recall correctly, Dennis got a lot of love from Stephen King in _Danse Macabre_. I read the books mentioned and, no disrespect, none of them affected me anywhere as close as they did King. DM was also how I found Harlan Ellison, whom I adored, if that matters to anything. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/713 "2020-07-07T10:47:51Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > 31, according to wiki-thingy Mr. Redbone was 69 when he stopped jammin’. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/714 "2020-07-07T10:52:15Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Mr. Redbone was 69 when he stopped jammin’. You’re thinking in years. eschereal is thinking in points. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/715 "2020-07-07T11:17:38Z")
I’ve heard of Leon Redbone forever, but can’t think of one song of his I might know. It looks like he did covers of old-timey songs. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2020, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/716 "2020-07-07T11:26:16Z")
If it helps, **Leaffan** , he also did the theme song to [Mr. Belvedere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-GML1pWkww). ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/717 "2020-07-07T11:44:16Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Another former resident of my list Leon Redbone has died. > > Since his official death announcement says he was 127 years old does that mean no points? > > [Leon Redbone Dead: Singer Dies at 69](https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2019/music/news/singer-leon-redbone-dies-at-69-1203229012/amp/) Very sad news. I’ve been a fan since his appearances in the first season of Saturday Night Live in 1976. I own all of his albums and have seen him in person more often than any other performer, perhaps a dozen times. I’ve spoken to some of musicians he performed with, and they all said he was no different off stage than he was on. People who have met him in real life, for instance, at the Martin guitar factory near his home in Pennsylvania, say the same thing. Was that really him, or was he the greatest performance artist of all time, making his whole life (at least outside the privacy of his own home) a work of art? We’ll never know, and clearly that’s how he wanted it. A true one-of-a-kind, and much missed. The world’s a less happy place without Leon Redbone. Riddle Films made a short film about him last year, and one of the filmmakers tells me they will probably post it on on their web site later today. They are also working on a longer version. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/718 "2020-07-07T11:59:20Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > If it helps, **Leaffan** , he also did the theme song to [Mr. Belvedere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-GML1pWkww). I’ve never seen an episode of that. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/719 "2020-07-07T12:49:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Mr. Redbone was 69 when he stopped jammin’. Are you calling Leon a liar? He said he was 127. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/720 "2020-07-07T12:55:01Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Are you calling Leon a liar? He said he was 127. In Cool Years, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/721 "2020-07-07T13:47:07Z")
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