# 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:** 59
**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:** [December 11, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1162 "2020-12-11T13:35:30Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > He did not see this coming. > > [https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/11/03/entertainment/walter-mercado-dies-trnd/index.html](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/11/03/entertainment/walter-mercado-dies-trnd/index.html) Cause of death to be announced later. If there is any justice in this universe, he would have died of [the flu](http://origins.osu.edu/connecting-history/top-ten-origins-flu). ---
**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:** [December 12, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1163 "2020-12-12T09:02:58Z")
[Gert Boyle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Boyle), President of Columbia Sportswear and World’s Toughest Mom-95. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1164 "2020-12-12T18:50:18Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > He did not see this coming. > > [https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/11/03/entertainment/walter-mercado-dies-trnd/index.html](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/11/03/entertainment/walter-mercado-dies-trnd/index.html) For searching purposes, the link refers to astrologer Walter Mercado ---
**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:** [December 13, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1165 "2020-12-13T13:58:47Z")
[Gert Boyle](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/gert-boyle/), former president and CEO of Columbia Sportswear company (and board chairperson until her death) who was the first woman to run a sportswear company. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1166 "2020-12-16T12:06:16Z")
Happy birthday Norman Lloyd at 105. ---
**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 16, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1167 "2020-12-16T14:09:36Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Happy birthday Norman Lloyd at 105. Now he’s just taunting us. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1168 "2020-12-17T04:52:20Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Now he’s just taunting us. Well, [like you said a couple years ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20694125&postcount=131), > [@](#): > > The problem with picking people this age is that they’ve spend decades not dying and they’ve gotten really good at it. 😃 ---
**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:** [December 17, 2020, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1169 "2020-12-17T09:50:36Z")
[Robert Freema](https://1010wins.radio.com/articles/ap-news/beatles-album-cover-photographer-robert-freeman-dies-82)n, best known for photographing Beatles’ album covers, dead at 82. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1170 "2020-12-17T15:33:36Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Happy birthday Norman Lloyd at 105. On another board I have a list of all really old people. Mr. Lloyd tops my list. Two of my picks have had the grace to finally give me some points. Norman Lloyd Olivia de Havilland Kirk Douglas Vera Lynn Earl Cameron Marsha Hunt Nehemiah Persoff Lewis Gilbert Carol Channing Betty White Bill Macy Janis Paige Dilip Kumar ---
**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:** [December 17, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1171 "2020-12-17T15:43:09Z")
I don’t remember Vera Lynn, or how she said that we would meet again, some sunny day. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1172 "2020-12-18T04:24:18Z")
[William Wintersole](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/william-wintersole-dead-dies-young-and-the-restless-1203397175/&ved=2ahUKEwjWwryhy9_lAhWxxVkKHd7IBNUQFjAXegQICxAB&usg=AOvVaw32Du5B2ujI8n5iaFGmF0ry), best known for playing Mitchell Sherman on _The Young and the Restless_ for twenty+ years has died at 88. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1173 "2020-12-18T09:13:38Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > On another board I have a list of all really old people. Mr. Lloyd tops my list. Two of my picks have had the grace to finally give me some points. > > Norman Lloyd > Olivia de Havilland > Kirk Douglas > Vera Lynn > Earl Cameron > Marsha Hunt > Nehemiah Persoff > Lewis Gilbert > Carol Channing > Betty White > Bill Macy > Janis Paige > Dilip Kumar We should have a reverse Death Pool - you get points for however much older they are than a hundred. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1174 "2020-12-18T09:54:10Z")
Yes, the youngest on that list is a month away from his 97th birthday. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1175 "2020-12-18T10:03:07Z")
You left out [Beverly Cleary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Cleary), a children’s author whose books I read in elementary school! Still alive at 103 1/2. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1176 "2020-12-18T10:29:45Z")
[Charles Levin](https://pagesix.com/2019/11/07/actor-charles-levins-dead-body-was-found-naked-partially-eaten-by-vultures/), possibly best known as Vera’s husband on the series _Alice_. Before clicking the link, note the url: you might not want to read about what was missing. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1177 "2020-12-18T11:55:31Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Well, [like you said a couple years ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20694125&postcount=131) > > > [@](#): > > > > The problem with picking people this age is that they’ve spend decades not dying and they’ve gotten really good at it. > > 😃 I think I’ve mentioned this quote from George Burns (after he was 100): > [@George Burns](#): > > If you get to be 100 years old, you’ve got it made, because very few people die past 100. > [@Baker](#): > > On another board I have a list of all really old people. Mr. Lloyd tops my list. Two of my picks have had the grace to finally give me some points. > > Norman Lloyd > Olivia de Havilland > Kirk Douglas > Vera Lynn > Earl Cameron > Marsha Hunt > Nehemiah Persoff > Lewis Gilbert > Carol Channing > Betty White > Bill Macy > Janis Paige > Dilip Kumar Great minds think alike. [Here are my entries this year](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21404927&postcount=175). > [@me](#): > > Norman Lloyd > Olivia de Havilland > Kirk Douglas > Marsha Hunt > Carol Channing > Betty White > Carl Reiner > Doris Day > Eva Marie Saint > Dick van Dyke > June Lockhart > Angela Lansbury > Mel Brooks > > Alternates: > Sidney Poitier > Joe Turkel > Conrad Janis > [@Rebo](#): > > We should have a reverse Death Pool - you get points for however much older they are than a hundred. 😃 Or just change the rules of this one to allow for that. Although I guess it would mean no points if they are exactly 100. 😕 ---
**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 18, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1178 "2020-12-18T12:07:35Z")
Broadway actress Laurel Griggs has died at [13](https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/broadway-actress-laurel-griggs-dies-at-age-13/ar-BBWye8T?ocid=spartandhp). ---
**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 19, 2020, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1179 "2020-12-19T08:53:18Z")
Former Detroit Lions WR Charles Rogers has died at [38](https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/charles-rogers-former-michigan-state-football-detroit-lions-star-dead-at-38/ar-BBWAPO6?ocid=spartandhp) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1180 "2020-12-19T10:06:14Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > We should have a reverse Death Pool OK, just don’t call it The Celebrity Life Pool. That sounds like something Gwynneth Paltrow is trying to promote. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1181 "2020-12-19T16:42:37Z")
Folks, don’t forget, it’s less than three weeks until the 2020 DeathPool Thread starts. Got your lists in order?😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=58) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=60)