# Celebrity Death Pool 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229 "2019-12-01T07:28:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/205 "2020-01-02T18:27:29Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > If so, it’s going to affect some of our scores for 2019. > [@Celebrity Death Pool 2019](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390/1): > > While all deaths garnering points must occur during the calendar year, I know that a death might go unreported for a day or so. So, I will not post official total points for 48 hours after 12/31/2019. If you find that one of your picks died, say, late on 12/31/2019, and you didn’t hear about it until Jan. 2, 2020(this is a not so subtle hint to check your lists)then post a cite by midnight, Jan. 2, 2020, and you will get your points. After that you will be out of luck. Better hurry - you’ve only got hours left to claim the points from RBG’s death! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/206 "2020-01-02T20:41:20Z")
Sam Wyche [Former Bengals coach Sam Wyche dead at 74](https://www.wlwt.com/article/former-bengals-coach-sam-wyche-dead-at-74/30382591) ---
**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:** [January 3, 2020, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/207 "2020-01-03T03:57:02Z")
[General Qasem Soleimani](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/qassem-soleimani-dies-head-of-irans-elite-military-force-dead-in-baghdad-air-strike-2020-01-02/), the 2nd most powerful man in Iran, discovers what an air strike feels like. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2020, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/208 "2020-01-03T05:25:24Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > [General Qasem Soleimani](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/qassem-soleimani-dies-head-of-irans-elite-military-force-dead-in-baghdad-air-strike-2020-01-02/), the 2nd most powerful man in Iran, discovers what an air strike feels like. Briefly. ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/209 "2020-01-03T11:33:04Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > [Movie producer David Foster](https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-12-29/movie-producer-david-foster-obituary) (_The Thing, McCabe and Mrs. Miller_) dead at 90. On Dec 23 so no points in 2020. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2020, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/210 "2020-01-05T06:19:41Z")
Australian actor [Tom Long](https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/australian-actor-tom-long-dies-report-20200105-p53ow3.html) has died at 51. I remember him from [The Dish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dish), but he was more well known to most from the Aussie TV series Sea Change. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/211 "2020-01-05T06:29:45Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > I wonder if we could have some sort of immortal contest where we have winners based on which posters did the worst. For example, I looked at my 2009 list and I have 8-alive and 5-dead. That’s from 11 years ago, and that’s how poorly I’ve done. > > We could have categories for “Worst Poster” or possibly the longest living person chosen on a death list or others I haven’t thought of. Lol, I just checked my 2001 list - 4 dead, 9 alive (no alts). Princess Margaret died 2002, but I didn’t check off the fourth until 2017 (Jerry Lewis). ---
**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:** [January 5, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/212 "2020-01-05T07:33:33Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > Lol, I just checked my 2001 list - 4 dead, 9 alive (no alts). > Princess Margaret died 2002, but I didn’t check off the fourth until 2017 (Jerry Lewis). You need to avoid putting really old people on your list: as others have said, those people have spent decades not dying, and, with all that practice, some of them have gotten quite good at that. ---
**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 7, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/213 "2020-01-07T17:09:25Z")
Elizabeth Wurtzul, author of _Prozac Nation_, has [died](https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-prozac-nation-author-who-spurred-a-memoir-boom-dies-at-52/ar-BBYHYZ0?ocid=spartandhp) at age 52. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/214 "2020-01-08T16:07:26Z")
Former Michigan State football coach George Perles has died at 15 points. Fifteen points that I won’t be getting because I revised him off my list at the last minute in favor of John Lewis. > **[George Perles, former Michigan State football coach and board member, dies at 85](https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state/spartans/2020/01/08/george-perles-dies-michigan-state-university/1909366001/)** > > George Perles, the former Michigan State football coach and board member, died Tuesday night in East Lansing. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Anne_s_Lace)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/215 "2020-01-08T19:21:53Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Former Michigan State football coach George Perles has died at 15 points. Fifteen points that I won’t be getting because I revised him off my list at the last minute in favor of John Lewis. > > [George Perles, prominent ex-Michigan State football coach, dies at 85](https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state/spartans/2020/01/08/george-perles-dies-michigan-state-university/1909366001/) And here I thought you knew something when I saw him on your list; I never noticed that you took him off for what you decided was low hanging fruit. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/216 "2020-01-08T19:45:41Z")
> [@Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace](#): > > And here I thought you knew something when I saw him on your list; I never noticed that you took him off for what you decided was low hanging fruit. Had him on my list last year, after he resigned from the MSU board due to health reasons. Dagnabbit; ---
**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 8, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/217 "2020-01-08T20:45:21Z")
[John Baldessari](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/arts/design/john-baldessari-art.html), artist ---
**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 9, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/218 "2020-01-09T03:19:53Z")
Comedian and writer [Buck Henry](https://deadline.com/2020/01/buck-henry-dead-saturday-night-live-the-graduate-get-smart-1202825337/) dies at 89. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/219 "2020-01-09T16:06:31Z")
Hugo winning science fiction author [Mike Resnick](https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/01/mike-resnick-dead/) - 77. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/220 "2020-01-09T18:48:58Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Comedian and writer [Buck Henry](https://deadline.com/2020/01/buck-henry-dead-saturday-night-live-the-graduate-get-smart-1202825337/) dies at 89. No! Not Colonel Korn! ---
**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:** [January 9, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/221 "2020-01-09T19:10:45Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Comedian and writer [Buck Henry](https://deadline.com/2020/01/buck-henry-dead-saturday-night-live-the-graduate-get-smart-1202825337/) dies at 89. Not Dick Lemon! You can’t have a Lemon party without old Dick! ---
**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:** [January 9, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/222 "2020-01-09T21:17:55Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Comedian and writer [Buck Henry](https://deadline.com/2020/01/buck-henry-dead-saturday-night-live-the-graduate-get-smart-1202825337/) dies at 89. We have lost a truly great mind from among us. ☹ ---
**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 10, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/223 "2020-01-10T02:29:57Z")
Former reality TV contestant Alexis Eddy (“Are You the One?”, which aired on MTV) has died at 23. > **[Alexis Eddy, Contestant on MTV's 'Are You the One?,' Dies at 23](https://www.thewrap.com/alexis-eddy-contestant-on-mtvs-are-you-the-one-dies-at-23/)** > > West Virginia police responded to a call Thursday morning about a female in cardiac arrest ---
**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 10, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/224 "2020-01-10T02:33:21Z")
Edd “Kookie” Byrnes (Vince Fontaine in “Grease,” “77 Sunset Strip”)) has died at 87 > **[‘Grease’ and ’77 Sunset Strip’ Star Edd Byrnes Dies at 87](https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/edd-kookie-byrnes-dead-87-grease-77-sunset-strip-1203462364/)** > > Edd Byrnes, star of the 1950s and ’60s TV hit “77 Sunset Strip” who went on to co-star in the 1978 smash “Grease,” has died, the actor’s son, Logan Byrnes, confi… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=12)