# 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:** 62
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1222 "2021-01-06T10:10:53Z")
[Alelia Murphy](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alelia-murphy-oldest-living-american-has-died-at-age-114/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=77886250), the oldest living American, has died at age 114. Roller Skating? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1223 "2021-01-06T14:26:43Z")
It’s hard to believe that this weekend will see the beginnging of the 2020 DeathPool! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1224 "2021-01-06T17:33:16Z")
[Jonathan Miller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Miller), a British MD and science broadcaster, and occasional comedian amongst other things, has died aged 85. He came into my view when he wrote and hosted a documentary series called _[The Body In Question](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_in_Question)_, and an amazing one-off doc about [a man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing) who had a very short term memory of less than a minute. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1225 "2021-01-07T06:00:16Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Only 4 of us had James? I guess that’s what happens when you are on death’s door for 10 years. He survived the band wagon. > [@Registered\_at\_Last](#): > > Yup, my records show I last had him on my list in 2013 and he was my alternate for a number of years. Once he started apologizing for still being alive I figured he was actually immortal and took him off my list. Sad to hear him finally gone. And not just because I didn’t get points. Yeah, I had him in 2014 and 2015 (my first two years in the Death Pool), but I dropped him after that. Probably due to the combination of a diminishing number of potential points, and a seemingly low likelihood of his dying within the next year. And after awhile, I just plain forgot about him. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1226 "2021-01-07T06:34:58Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Yeah, I had him in 2014 and 2015 (my first two years in the Death Pool), but I dropped him after that. Probably due to the combination of a diminishing number of potential points, and a seemingly low likelihood of his dying within the next year. And after awhile, I just plain forgot about him. That’s why I kept Ariel Sharon on my list for so long. He wasn’t worth many points when he did kick off, but I the satisfaction of getting those points long after the bandwagon broke down was worth it. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1227 "2021-01-07T16:11:14Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Solo rock climber Brad Gobright [has died in a fall while climbing in Mexico](https://6abc.com/5725581/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook). He was 31. Note to self: Play a list of all free solo climbers. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1228 "2021-01-07T17:32:24Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > William Ruckelshaus, the Attorney General who resigned rather than fire Archibald Cox and thus triggered the “Saturday Night Massacre”, [has died at the age of 87](https://www.npr.org/2019/11/27/783492672/william-ruckelshaus-who-defied-nixon-in-saturday-night-massacre-has-died-at-87). He was on my 2018 Themed Deathpool list. (The theme was the Nixon administration.) If he had died a year earlier, I would have tied for third place. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1229 "2021-01-08T08:01:44Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Note to self: Play a list of all free solo climbers. That reminds me, I need to check my list of BASE jumpers over in the themed Death Pool. I had essentially the same thought a few years ago - a bunch of people overwhelmingly in their 20s and 30s participating in a very dangerous sport - but my themed list of BASE jumpers was 0-for-2018, and was enroute to 0-for-2019 when I checked it a few months back. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2021, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1230 "2021-01-09T03:48:55Z")
Shelley Morrison, perhaps best known as Rosario the maid on _Will & Grace_, has [died](https://www.tmz.com/2019/12/01/shelley-morrison-dead-dies-will-and-grace-maid-rosario/) at 83. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1231 "2021-01-09T11:49:40Z")
[Lil Bub](https://pitchfork.com/news/lil-bub-famous-internet-cat-dead-at-8/) crosses the Rainbow Bridge. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1232 "2021-01-09T19:51:20Z")
[Seymour Siwoff](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/sports/seymour-siwoff-dead.html), who knew the score for baseball and other sports, dies at 99. He was the head honcho for the Elias Sports Bureau for many many years. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2021, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1233 "2021-01-10T09:55:07Z")
And yet, if you had him, you only scored one point. ---
**Author:** ![irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2021, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1234 "2021-01-10T11:39:00Z")
[Dorothy Catherine “D.C.” Fonatana](https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/dc-fontana-dies-star-trek), one of the most important writers of the original STAR TREK and beyond, dies at 20 points. Sadly, she was my first alternate so I remain pointless for the year ---
**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 10, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1235 "2021-01-10T11:49:56Z")
> [@irritant](#): > > [Dorothy Catherine “D.C.” Fonatana](https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/dc-fontana-dies-star-trek), one of the most important writers of the original STAR TREK and beyond, dies at 20 points. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1236 "2021-01-10T12:48:22Z")
> [@irritant](#): > > [Dorothy Catherine “D.C.” Fonatana](https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/dc-fontana-dies-star-trek), one of the most important writers of the original STAR TREK and beyond, dies at 20 points. Sadly, she was my first alternate so I remain pointless for the year Dammit, I misspelled her name: it’s Fontana. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1237 "2021-01-10T13:24:46Z")
Death has tallied [Irving Burgie](https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/01/entertainment/irving-burgie-banana-boat-day-o/index.html) and his bananas. [Barbara Hillary](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/barbara-hillary/), first black woman to travel to the North Pole and first woman to travel to the South Pole (and by extension the first woman to travel to both poles) has now traveled to the SD Celebrity Death Pole…er Pool. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2021, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1238 "2021-01-13T11:58:29Z")
If somebody had picked the theme of Korean pop stars, they would be doing great in this game. Actor [Cha In-ha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha_In-ha) has died at the age of 27, following the deaths of singer [Goo Hara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goo_Hara), age 28, last week and singer [Sulli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulli), age 25, in October. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1239 "2021-01-13T17:26:16Z")
And their list of Korean pop stars would be fun to read too. Cha in ha goo hara sulli. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1240 "2021-01-14T08:45:16Z")
[Actor Ron Liebman dead at 82](https://apnews.com/20301453cde4c7eba65e22daf4c5a4af). RIP; you done good. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2021, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1241 "2021-01-15T11:07:27Z")
Ah, jeez. [Big Bird died](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/caroll-spinney-puppeteer-who-gave-life-to-big-bird-of-sesame-street-dies-at-85/2019/12/08/9a305ff0-402d-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html). ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=61) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390.md?page=63)