# 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:** 23
**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:** [February 17, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/445 "2020-02-17T14:20:39Z")
Fair enough. Not that big a deal to me. I’m not going to champion the cause. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/446 "2020-02-17T14:47:32Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Cheryl Sanders, who was injured badly in a Back the Future Part II stunt, was killed by her ex-husband. Age 59.](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/back-future-part-ii-stuntwoman-193510690.html) > > [Read about the deadly(almost anyway) stunt that they did in BttF2.](https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-hoverboard-scene-in-back-to-the-future-2-nearly-kil-1713294885) The story now is that she went to her ex-husbands house with her new husband and ambushed him. She was killed while trying to kill her ex. It’s a bizarre story but so far no arrests and the ex who fired the shots is free and able to give a press conference. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/447 "2020-02-17T15:26:53Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I’d feel pretty uncomfortable about getting rid of that rule. A cutoff age doesn’t really matter to me - I was just scratching my head over the reasoning. It’s not likely that I would have heard of any very young celebrities, so ninety points for a ten year old kicking off would go to somebody else’s list anyhow 🙂 ---
**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:** [February 17, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/448 "2020-02-17T17:14:48Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > A cutoff age doesn’t really matter to me - I was just scratching my head over the reasoning. > > It’s not likely that I would have heard of any very young celebrities, so ninety points for a ten year old kicking off would go to somebody else’s list anyhow 🙂 To me the reasoning is any child who is picked most likely is very ill. Who is hoping for a child to die? ---
**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:** [February 17, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/449 "2020-02-17T17:21:19Z")
Jason Davis who was famous enough to be on _Celebrity Rehab_ but not famous enough for me to have ever heard of him is dead at 35. > **['Recess' voice actor Jason Davis dead at 35](https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/recess-voice-jason-davis-dead-35)** > > Jason Davis, best known as the voice of Mikey Blumberg on Disney Channel’s animated series “Recess,” died at age 35 in Los Angeles according to reports. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/450 "2020-02-17T19:16:08Z")
[British music producer and DJ Andrew Weatherall, who helped bring the underground sounds of acid house to a mass audience, has died. He was 56.](https://apnews.com/75e9d7890bdf7a3a255dde6f23749812) [Former UAW President Owen Bieber dies aged 90](https://apnews.com/a790c9fa49f412836bbc0b7fd38ceb06) ---
**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:** [February 17, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/451 "2020-02-17T19:36:33Z")
Founder of the South African musical group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, [Joseph Shabalala](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/02/11/ladysmith-black-mambazo-founder-joseph-shabalala-dies-78/4729418002/), age 78. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/452 "2020-02-17T21:41:19Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Founder of the South African musical group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, [Joseph Shabalala](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/02/11/ladysmith-black-mambazo-founder-joseph-shabalala-dies-78/4729418002/), age 78. Post 431 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/453 "2020-02-17T21:52:23Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > The story now is that she went to her ex-husbands house with her new husband and ambushed him. She was killed while trying to kill her ex. It’s a bizarre story but so far no arrests and the ex who fired the shots is free and able to give a press conference. Of course, that’s the story of the ex and his current wife. After all, Sanders and her husband aren’t around to give their side of the story. But it seems pretty clear that they showed up armed at the ex’s house, which doesn’t exactly speak well of their intentions. Yellow Springs, Ohio seems like a really weird place for something like this to happen. It’s best known as being the home of Antioch College, a place that definitely puts the ‘liberal’ in ‘liberal arts education.’ ---
**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:** [February 17, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/454 "2020-02-17T23:56:09Z")
I just scored on my themed list(cast of MASH) for Kellye Nakahara. She died at 28 points(age 72). Played Nurse Kelly on the show and, memorably to me, the cook in the movie Clue. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/455 "2020-02-18T00:22:25Z")
Charles Portis, author of True Grit, [dead at 86.](https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/feb/17/arkansas-author-charles-portis-who-wrote-true-grit/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon%202-17-20&utm_content=Afternoon%202-17-20+CID_cd78efb820dfc9655ead1dfa166f6a7c&utm_source=Email%20Marketing%20Platform&utm_term=Arkansas%20author%20Charles%20Portis%20who%20wrote%20True%20Grit%20dies%20at%2086) An Arkansas author, he was known for going to award ceremonies held for him, and sneaking out before he had to speak. _True Grit_ was a major film for John Wayne. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/456 "2020-02-18T00:23:28Z")
Keeping with the MASH theme, I failed to realize Gene Reynolds died as well. He produced it and was 96. Died almost two weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/457 "2020-02-18T18:56:30Z")
Players, I know I am behind on checking deaths, but my keyboard got fritzed, long story. I’m getting a new one ASAP, I WILL catch up. I’m on a computer at the library now. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/458 "2020-02-18T21:29:56Z")
[Esther Scott](https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/esther-scott-actress-in-boyz-n-the-hood-hart-of-dixie-dies-at-66/ar-BB108nRA?ocid=spartandhp), actress from _Boyz In the Hood_, has died at 66. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/459 "2020-02-18T21:35:11Z")
Double post ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/460 "2020-02-18T21:40:27Z")
I was looking over my list(s) and realized I misspelled one of my picks. Just to clarify Jim Carr (Canadian member of Parliament) was who I intended by Jim Karr (apologies for such a tardy correction, and I fully understand if you wish to not accept it) ---
**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:** [February 18, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/461 "2020-02-18T21:45:10Z")
[Paula Kelly](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/theater/paula-kelly-dead.html), stage and screen actress. [George Coyne](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/george-coyne/), Priest and Science Author who espoused that intelligent design has no business being taught in schools and that science and religion aren’t necessarily opposed. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/462 "2020-02-18T21:47:52Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Ordained minister [Dyanne Thorne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyanne_Thorne)-gone at age 83. I don’t know whether it is good or bad that nobody recognized her name. 😃 ---
**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:** [February 18, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/463 "2020-02-18T22:43:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I don’t know whether it is good or bad that nobody recognized her name. 😃 Well, hey, she was in _The President’s Analyst_ and _Real Men_ and _A Piece of the Action_ (one of the more amusing episodes of _Star Trek_), so she did do some [del]serious[/del] stuff that people might have seen. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/464 "2020-02-18T23:33:23Z")
> [@Registered\_at\_Last](#): > > I was looking over my list(s) and realized I misspelled one of my picks. Just to clarify Jim Carr (Canadian member of Parliament) was who I intended by Jim Karr (apologies for such a tardy correction, and I fully understand if you wish to not accept it) No problem, as long as he hasn’t garnered points for someone by dying already!😃 Oh, I’m typing from home now, see my previous post. When I mentioned at work that I needed a new keyboard and was going to buy one online, a coworker told me she’d seen keyboards for sale at a local resale shop, one of my favorites, called God’s storehouse. I went there after work and found they had half a dozen, priced from $2 to $4. What a deal, I’d seen one online for $13 and thought that wasn’t bad. So I bought two boards, one as a spare for the next time my cat or dog messes up one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=24)