# 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:** 30
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/585 "2020-03-29T15:47:20Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Looking at that footage, seeing the spacing and the long 3’s, and I’m realizing the Globetrotters were just 40 years ahead of the game. 😉 > > RIP, Curly. I remember seeing a TV show about the Globetrotters that showed a practice, where he hit one of those amazing long-distance threes from half-court. While sitting down. :eek: ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/586 "2020-03-29T16:41:05Z")
Another COVID-19 casualty. Alan Merrill had a long and interesting career in music but will probably be known for writing and first performing “I Love Rock and Roll.” > **[Mar. 29, 2020: Alan Merrill, 'I Love Rock 'N Roll' Writer, Dies - Best...](https://bestclassicbands.com/alan-merrill-i-love-rock-n-roll-arrows-obituary-3-29-200/)** > > He recorded the song with his UK-based band, the Arrows, in 1975. Joan Jett first saw them perform it on TV while visiting England with the Runaways ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/587 "2020-03-29T17:25:44Z")
Folks, I always check each name presented here. But if I could ask a favor, if you present a name that you yourself get points for, could you put it in the post? Thanks! ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/588 "2020-03-29T17:39:22Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Folks, I always check each name presented here. But if I could ask a favor, if you present a name that you yourself get points for, could you put it in the post? Thanks! If that happens you shall hear the trumpets. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/589 "2020-03-29T20:34:54Z")
Country musician Joe Diffie dead at 61 from covid-19. Will be propped up beside the jukebox later tonight. > **[Joe Diffie, Nineties Country's 'Pickup Man,' Dead at 61 From Coronavirus](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/joe-diffie-country-singer-dead-obituary-974556/)** > > Singer of hits like “John Deere Green” and “If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)” tested positive for COVID-19 last week ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/590 "2020-03-29T23:22:20Z")
David Schramm, a theater actor and star of the sitcom Wings, has died at age 73. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/591 "2020-03-30T02:58:16Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > David Schramm, a theater actor and star of the sitcom Wings, has died at age 73. This one bothers me. Loved him on “Wings,” and he’s a local boy. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/592 "2020-03-30T04:54:34Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Country musician Joe Diffie dead at 61 from covid-19. > > Will be propped up beside the jukebox later tonight. > > [Joe Diffie, Nineties Country's 'Pickup Man,' Dead at 61](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/joe-diffie-country-singer-dead-obituary-974556/) He might be joined soon by John Prine. ☹ [https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/entertainment/john-prine-coronavirus/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/entertainment/john-prine-coronavirus/index.html) ---
**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:** [March 30, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/593 "2020-03-30T12:44:26Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > He might be joined soon by John Prine. ☹ > > [https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/entertainment/john-prine-coronavirus/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/entertainment/john-prine-coronavirus/index.html) Oh, now that just pisses me off. Get well, John! ☹ ---
**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:** [March 30, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/594 "2020-03-30T13:06:59Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Oh, now that just pisses me off. Get well, John! > > ☹ Hopefully his [flag decal](https://youtu.be/JSdNFHvzZx4) will keep him safe. ---
**Author:** ![Team\_Dirt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Team\_Dirt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Team_Dirt)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/595 "2020-03-30T23:37:52Z")
A hit for at least one team… > **[Former anti-Nazi Greek resistance fighter and MEP Manolis Glezos dies aged 97](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/former-greek-nazi-resistance-fighter-and-mep-manolis-glezos-dies-aged-98)** > > Former prime minister Alexis Tspiras said Glezos was a ‘symbol of a fighter’ ---
**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:** [March 30, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/596 "2020-03-30T23:47:38Z")
CBS journalist Maria Mercader, 54, coronavirus > **[CBS journalist Maria Mercader dies at 54 of coronavirus | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/us/maria-mercader-death-trnd/?iid=ob_mobile_article_readmore_pool)** > > CBS News producer and talent executive Maria Mercader died of Covid-19 in New York Sunday, CBS said. She was 54. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/597 "2020-03-31T18:21:34Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Oh, now that just pisses me off. Get well, John! > > ☹ [John Prine is improving, his wife says.](https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/singer-john-prine-stable-condition-wife-69878185) Yay! ---
**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:** [March 31, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/598 "2020-03-31T19:24:35Z")
[Harriet Glickman](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/harriet-glickman/), who convinced Charles Schultz to add Franklin to his Peanuts comic. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/599 "2020-04-01T00:19:09Z")
This guy was not really famous, but that’s a nebulous measure anyway. UK Dialect Coach and actor in The Force Awakens [Andrew Jack](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-52111530) died of COVID-19 at age 76. His partner, Gabrielle Rogers, is an Australian Dialect Coach, [seen here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbEsYf5i944) with Conan O’Brien when he was touring. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/600 "2020-04-01T22:20:13Z")
Fountains of Wayne songwriter Adam Schlesinger dies of coronavirus complications at 52. He also wrote “That Thing You Do” for the Tom Hanks movie. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/601 "2020-04-01T23:25:38Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Fountains of Wayne songwriter Adam Schlesinger dies of coronavirus complications at 52. He also wrote “That Thing You Do” for the Tom Hanks movie. The coronavirus vibe isn’t as much fun as the radiation vibe. ☹ ---
**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:** [April 2, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/602 "2020-04-02T01:21:44Z")
Vincent Marzello, actor, [dead at 68 from cancer](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/vincent-marzello-death-james-bond-witches-movies-age-cause-cancer-wife-a9438486.html). ---
**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:** [April 2, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/603 "2020-04-02T14:57:25Z")
Jazz pioneer Ellis Marsalis, 85. Coronavirus > **[Ellis Marsalis, Jazz Pianist and Music Family Patriarch, Dies at 85...](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/arts/music/ellis-marsalis-dead-virus.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage)** > > The father of Wynton and Branford Marsalis and a prominent performer and educator, he succumbed to complications of the coronavirus. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/604 "2020-04-03T14:42:12Z")
Not such a ‘lovely day.’ Bill Withers dead at age 81. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=31)