# 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:** 25
**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 23, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/485 "2020-02-23T19:24:21Z")
Mike Hughes seems to have failed to prove the shape of the Earth but has himself successfully taken on that shape. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/486 "2020-02-23T20:26:32Z")
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the parachute failed to take hold.” ---
**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:** [February 23, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/487 "2020-02-23T21:47:56Z")
Nice, **RTFirefly**! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/488 "2020-02-23T22:56:06Z")
Thanks! 🙂 ---
**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 23, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/489 "2020-02-23T23:29:01Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Mike Hughes seems to have failed to prove the shape of the Earth but has himself successfully taken on that shape. Oh my gosh, I heard a guy died on a rocket, but I did not put together that it was actually that flat-earth guy. We may very well have our Darwin-award winner for 2020, then. Embarassing to say the least. Did he get high enough to see the Earth is round? Man, you talk about a strange final moments if he actually saw the planet was round just in time to fall into it. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/490 "2020-02-24T01:41:36Z")
[Jeanne Evert Dubin](https://twitter.com/Tennis/status/1230888583000666112), a world-class tennis player and a member of one of the sport’s most accomplished families, has died at the age of 62 after a lengthy illness: Chris Evert’s younger sister. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/491 "2020-02-24T15:44:05Z")
Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician profiled in _Hidden Figures_, [has died at age 101](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-depicted-hidden-figures-dead-101-n1141566). ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/492 "2020-02-24T18:00:20Z")
Just in case anyone missed the MPSIMS thread, longtime Death Pooler **kopek** [passed away](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22155856&postcount=272) this morning. ☹ ---
**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 24, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/493 "2020-02-24T22:43:54Z")
Shit ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/494 "2020-02-25T13:53:30Z")
Hosni Mubarek will not be down for breakfast, 9 points ---
**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:** [February 25, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/495 "2020-02-25T13:54:13Z")
[Hosni Mubarak](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51630142&ved=2ahUKEwiKq67z7OznAhUplXIEHV9LACEQqOcBMAF6BAgGEAg&usg=AOvVaw3bABnRy_tNg0ldVcZqVuoq) dead at 91. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/496 "2020-02-25T15:08:33Z")
The world’s oldest living man, [Chitetsu Watanabe](https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/health/worlds-oldest-man-dies-japan-intl-hnk-scli/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2020-02-25T12%3A15%3A00), has passed away in Japan at the age of 112, the Niigata prefecture government said in a statement Tuesday. According to Wiki, Japan can still claim the World’s Oldest Living Woman. Kane Tanaka. She turned 117, earlier this year. UK now has the World’s Oldest Living Man, Robert Weighton who might turn 112 next month. > **[List of the verified oldest people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_people)** > > These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest people sorted in descending order by age in years and days.\[a\] > The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days.\[b\] The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/497 "2020-02-25T17:53:09Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > [Hosni Mubarak](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51630142&ved=2ahUKEwiKq67z7OznAhUplXIEHV9LACEQqOcBMAF6BAgGEAg&usg=AOvVaw3bABnRy_tNg0ldVcZqVuoq) dead at 91. Dammit. The year I drop him from my list. ---
**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 25, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/498 "2020-02-25T22:02:54Z")
[Elyse Rosenstein](https://www.dailystartreknews.com/read/elyse-rosenstein-early-star-trek-convention-organizer-has-died-at-69) has boldly gone. ---
**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 25, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/499 "2020-02-25T22:07:54Z")
I’m not even a Trekkie and to me, she’s the definition of a freaking hero. For no reason but love, she did massively popular things that brought herself and a shit ton of others joy. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/500 "2020-02-26T09:08:30Z")
1 phungi 107 3 1 2 Jeep’s Phoenix 67 2 0 2 RobotDevilDog 67 2 0 4 candide 44 1 0 4 CAMJAY77 44 1 0 4 Loach 44 1 0 4 The Vorlon 44 1 0 4 J-P L 44 1 0 9 arara123 39 1 1 10 MrKnowItAll 33 1 1 11 FavreCo 25 1 1 12 Cazzle 23 1 0 12 jeezums 23 1 0 12 Mahaloth 23 1 0 15 Snowboarder Bo 18 1 1 16 copmputergeek 9 1 0 16 zadscmc 9 1 0 18 Annie X-mas 8 1 1 19 commasense 0 1 0 19 Dancer Flight 0 1 0 19 Dr. Girlfriend 0 1 0 19 melondeca 0 1 0 19 Paul in Qatar 0 1 0 19 rosemurray 0 1 0 19 vivalostwages 0 1 0 ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/501 "2020-02-26T17:38:24Z")
Author Clive Cussler dead at 88, according to a family statement. ---
**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 27, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/502 "2020-02-27T21:17:57Z")
[Kazuhisa Hashimoto](https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/809622331/kazuhisa-hashimoto-creator-of-famous-konami-code-gaming-cheat-dies) has burned through all 30 of his lives and left either 39 or 21 points on the board. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/503 "2020-02-28T06:25:06Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Kazuhisa Hashimoto](https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/809622331/kazuhisa-hashimoto-creator-of-famous-konami-code-gaming-cheat-dies) has burned through all 30 of his lives and left either 39 or 21 points on the board. I see from the article that his age was inconsistently reported, but doesn’t that make it sound like he used a cheat code to raise or lower his age? ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/504 "2020-02-28T17:28:42Z")
Theoretical physicist and mathematician, Freeman Dyson, is dead at 96. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=26)