# 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:** 57
**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:** [November 30, 2020, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1122 "2020-11-30T09:39:45Z")
[John Clarke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clarke_(actor)), who originated the role of Mickey Horton and played him for almost 40 years, dead at 88. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1123 "2020-11-30T18:01:05Z")
Francis Tresham, designer of Civilization board game an 1829 (creating a whole family of train board games) draws a calamity card. > **[Francis Tresham (game designer)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Tresham_(game_designer))** > > Francis Tresham (1936 – 23 October 2019) was a British board game designer who produced board games since the early 1970s. Tresham founded and ran games company Hartland Trefoil (founded 1971), a company well-known for its Civilization board game, until its sale to MicroProse in 1997. His 1829 game was the first of the 18xx board game series and some of his board games inspired Sid Meier computer games such as Railroad Tycoon. > Francis Tresham was the first to introduce a technology tree into h... Brian ---
**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:** [November 30, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1124 "2020-11-30T18:14:49Z")
Damn, he was old. 😉 ---
**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:** [December 1, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1125 "2020-12-01T14:43:30Z")
Paralympian Marieke Vervoort has died in Belgium, taking her own life at the age of 40. She suffered from a degenerative spinal disease so painful that sometimes it limited her to ten minutes of sleep a night. > **[Paralympic Gold Medalist Marieke Vervoort Dies By Euthanasia in Belgium](https://www.tmz.com/2019/10/23/paralympic-athlete-dies-by-euthanasia/)** > > RIP ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1126 "2020-12-01T17:18:45Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I’m just happy to be in the top ten. > > Oh! dammit. Say, how is ‘paralymic’ athlete Marie Veroort doing these days? 😉 Looks like you’re in the top 10 after all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1127 "2020-12-01T19:50:51Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Say, how is ‘paralymic’ athlete Marie Veroort doing these days? 😉 > > Looks like you’re in the top 10 after all. 🙂 See, fellow Death Poolers, this is why I emphasize checking the spelling of names. I think we all know who the plant meant, so the points will be awarded there. 1 Registered at Last 333 8 1 2 RTFirefly 291 6 0 3 GIGObuster 287 6 1 4 Happy Lendervedder 266 6 0 5 CAMJAY77 250 5 1 6 Hoopy Frood 207 4 0 7 Its Not Rocket Surgery 199 5 0 8 carnivorousplant 196 4 0 8 jeezums 196 4 0 10 FavreCo 177 4 0 11 Little Nemo 173 3 0 12 bowler girl 159 4 0 13 Queen Annes Lace 155 4 0 14 RobotDevilDog 122 4 1 15 candide 116 2 0 16 melondeca 114 3 0 17 Mahaloth 99 3 1 18 amarinth 96 3 1 19 The Kraken 86 2 0 20 5-time champ 76 2 1 21 Mean Mr. Mustard 74 2 0 22 Jeep’s Phoenix 71 1 0 22 phungi 71 1 0 24 Loach 70 2 1 25 Kitten Mitten 65 2 0 25 Tangent 65 2 0 27 Cazzle 64 4 3 28 The Vorlon 49 1 0 29 Team Dirt 47 2 1 30 Captain Klutz 45 1 0 31 Bayaker 44 2 0 32 kayT 43 2 1 33 Spiff 40 2 0 34 Mona Lott 35 2 0 35 GuanoLad 27 2 1 36 Paul in Qatar 25 1 1 37 Borborygmi 20 1 0 37 Dr. Girlfriend 20 1 0 37 eschereal 20 1 0 37 imthjckaz 20 1 0 37 krondys 20 1 0 37 nearwildheaven 20 1 0 37 Stephe96 20 1 0 44 FlikTheBlue 19 1 0 44 kopek 19 1 0 44 Shoeless 19 1 0 47 justmeetee 18 2 1 48 Allecher 15 1 0 48 Dolores Reborn 15 1 0 48 J-PL 15 1 0 48 notfrommensa 15 1 0 48 zamboniracer 15 1 0 53 CreaseMunky 12 1 1 54 SpoilerVirgin 10 2 1 55 Andrew 21 9 3 1 56 zadscmc 8 1 1 57 commasense 6 2 1 58 Biotop 3 1 0 58 lel 3 1 0 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1128 "2020-12-02T02:48:43Z")
In second place, behind **Registered At Last**. It’s like _déjà vu_ [all](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18441596&postcount=1447) [over](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18444113&postcount=1452) [again](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18982419&postcount=2227). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1129 "2020-12-02T17:22:42Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > See, fellow Death Poolers, this is why I emphasize checking the spelling of names. I think we all know who the plant meant, so the points will be awarded there. I should have paid extra and sacrificed two chickens to Baron Samedi to jinx **Flytrap** — it would have been worth it. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1130 "2020-12-03T20:25:55Z")
The official announcement hasn’t been made yet but there are reports that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1131 "2020-12-03T20:32:31Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The official announcement hasn’t been made yet but there are reports that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. And nothing of value was lost… Although if confirmed it was not a pointless death, I had this guy on my list for ages, so if confirmed it will be one of the most happy points won. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1132 "2020-12-03T21:31:05Z")
Nothing of value? By this time tomorrow, I might be back in the top ten! ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1133 "2020-12-03T21:41:11Z")
ISIS leader al-Baghdadi believed to have been killed in a US military raid, sources say [https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/26/politics/white-house-trump-announcement-sunday/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/26/politics/white-house-trump-announcement-sunday/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1134 "2020-12-04T03:32:36Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The official announcement hasn’t been made yet but there are reports that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. How many times have I heard [that](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20269354&postcount=1316) one before? 😉 CNN is saying “_believed_ dead.” Not getting excited yet. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Klutz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captain_klutz/32/4993_2.png) [@Captain\_Klutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Klutz)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1135 "2020-12-04T05:53:52Z")
Serial killer [Ivan Milat](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-27/ivan-milat-dies-in-sydney/11342686) dies in prison aged 74. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1136 "2020-12-04T06:52:27Z")
Anybpdy got a reliable age cites for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? I’m having trouble with it. Wait, I just found a quote saying he is/was 48. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1137 "2020-12-04T08:39:51Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Anybpdy got a reliable age cites for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? I’m having trouble with it. > > Wait, I just found a quote saying he is/was 48. [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50198123) says he was born in 1971, and gives his original name. I have a birth date for him of July 28, 1971, but I can’t remember what my source was. Anyway, assuming the Beeb has it right, he’d be either 47 or 48. The latter agrees with your quote, and also the rule is if there’s a question about a celeb’s age, we go with the older age. The real question is, is he really dead this time? Much as I’d love to claim the points, I’m all for waiting until his death appears to be a sure thing. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1138 "2020-12-04T08:57:32Z")
> **[Donald Trump announced an ISIS leader was killed in a US raid. Who was Abu...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/27/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-dead-trump-announced-who-isis-leader/2478204001/)** > > Who was the Islamic State leader killed in a U.S. special operations raid over the weekend? > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump announced Sunday morning that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a special operations raid in northwestern Syria over the weekend. :dubious: Unfortunately, it is Trump, so we still need confirmation… 😉 I actually think in this case the military confirmed it to him, but I will let the judge determine if this is a confirmation. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1139 "2020-12-04T09:47:56Z")
Okay here’s what I’m going to do. I’ll get off work tomorrow sometime mid-afternoon. Assuming that nothing has been heard to the contrary, like a video of him alive with tomorrow’s headlines, I’ll go ahead and award the points for Baghdadi. I’ve actually already worked out the new points and rankings, and, you know what? We will have a new first and second place player. **IF** he is dead.🙂 ---
**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:** [December 4, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1140 "2020-12-04T13:42:41Z")
John Conyers dead at 10 points. > **[Former Rep. John Conyers dies at 90 | CNN Politics](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/27/politics/john-conyers-michigan-representative-dies/index.html)** > > Former Rep. John Conyers, a longtime Michigan Democrat who represented parts of Detroit for more than 50 years before his resignation in 2017, died Sunday at age 90, his son, John Conyers III, told CNN. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1141 "2020-12-04T14:36:52Z")
Totally off topic, and I have no idea who or what started it, but if you’re on Twitter, do a search for ‘#WaPoDeathNotices’. Some examples: Heinrich Himmler, passionate chicken farmer, dies unexpectedly at 44 Adolf Hitler, passionate community planner and dynamic public speaker, dies at 56. Jeffrey Dahmer, connoisseur of human delicacies, dead at 34 Jefferson Davis, community organizer and cotton agriculturist dies at 81. He loved his countries. And my favorite, thus far: Ted Bundy, unconventional pickup artist, dies, shockingly, at 42 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=58)