# 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:** 50
**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:** [August 22, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/987 "2020-08-22T03:51:32Z")
My condolences to the Banali family. But fourth place! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/988 "2020-08-22T14:35:59Z")
Number of players have been going down. In 2012 172 played, and in 2013 174 played. In 2019 96 played, and this year, as I said 99 played. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/989 "2020-08-22T15:16:12Z")
Woohoo! I’m tied with Bo in 17th place! ---
**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:** [August 22, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/990 "2020-08-22T16:09:09Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Number of players have been going down. In 2012 172 played, and in 2013 174 played. In 2019 96 played, and this year, as I said 99 played. I have the 2003 list and it looks like 73 or so of us played 17 years ago. [Here is the link to that year](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/369) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/991 "2020-08-22T17:13:34Z")
Yes, in the earllier years fewer played, but it went up as it became more noticed and popular. Now I think some of the oldtimers are gone. We need to pump it up! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/992 "2020-08-24T01:32:20Z")
Maybe if some of the picks I had back then had ever died, I would be playing it this year. 😡 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/993 "2020-08-24T10:23:39Z")
Checking in for the first time in awhile. I’d thought I had Kamala but didn’t, but had completely forgotten I had Banali, so it all evens out. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 24, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/994 "2020-08-24T12:33:18Z")
I knew I had Banali, but had forgotten that I also had John Lewis, so I’m doing better than average all of a sudden! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/995 "2020-08-24T15:15:14Z")
You need to come back. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2020, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/996 "2020-08-25T05:19:16Z")
[Allan Rich](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/allan-rich-character-actor-who-overcame-the-blacklist-dies-at-94), blacklisted character actor. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/997 "2020-08-25T15:07:55Z")
I forgot to get a list submitted this year. Which is stupid, because I could have easily recycled last year’s list - I think my only points last year were for Dick Dale. But I’ve got one ready to go for 2021 already - hopefully nobody on my new list dies before January! ---
**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:** [August 25, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/998 "2020-08-25T16:50:35Z")
[Writer Gail Sheehy, author of ‘Passages,’ dies at 83.](https://apnews.com/85aaa65d958eac9622f5a3bbcc88b5ad) ---
**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:** [August 26, 2020, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/999 "2020-08-26T04:49:11Z")
[Hal Singer,](https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/hal-singer/) musician and last male survivor of the Tulsa Massacre. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1000 "2020-08-26T16:46:43Z")
[Landon Clifford, of YouTube channel Cam&Fam, has died at 19.](https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/entertainment/landon-clifford-cam-fam-youtube-trnd/index.html) > [@](#): > > Clifford, a [19-year-old YouTube celebrity](https://www.instagram.com/p/B8rhA09ALd-/), died on August 13 after spending six days in a coma, his wife Camryn announced on social media. > > “He was an amazing husband and the best father those girls could of ever asked for. It saddens me deeply that they will never get to truly know him,” Camryn wrote on Instagram. “He was so young and had so much more life to live. This isn’t how things were supposed to go.” > > Camryn did not reveal the cause of Clifford’s death. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1001 "2020-08-27T01:56:24Z")
Several sites are reporting it was from [a brain injury](https://people.com/human-interest/youtube-landon-camryn-clifford-love-story/). ---
**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:** [August 28, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1002 "2020-08-28T03:17:57Z")
[https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wrestlingnews.co/wwe-news/wwe-hall-of-famer-bullet-bob-armstrong-has-passed-away/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiWzP3C97zrAhUpl3IEHYldDRAQ0PADMBd6BAgDEAI&usg=AOvVaw3yUV-NPJG1i-b7dzpn0hNt](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wrestlingnews.co/wwe-news/wwe-hall-of-famer-bullet-bob-armstrong-has-passed-away/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiWzP3C97zrAhUpl3IEHYldDRAQ0PADMBd6BAgDEAI&usg=AOvVaw3yUV-NPJG1i-b7dzpn0hNt) “Bullet” Bob Armstrong dead at 80. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1003 "2020-08-28T05:37:03Z")
Arizona basketball coach Lute Olsen has died at 85. > **[Lute Olson, Hall of Fame coach, Arizona icon, dies at 85](https://apnews.com/723063334a705dc168bbdc010666deff)** > > TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Lute Olson, the Hall of Fame coach who turned Arizona into a college basketball powerhouse and led the program to its lone national title in 1997, has died. He was 85. Olson’s family said he died Thursday evening. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2020, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1004 "2020-08-28T06:09:49Z")
Co-Creator of Scooby Doo and many other cartoons, Joe Ruby, dead at 87. > **[Scooby-Doo Co-Creator Joe Ruby Dies at 87](https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2020/08/27/scooby-doo-co-creator-joe-ruby-dies-at-87/24602199/)** > > Animation writer and executive Joe Ruby, who created cartoon series including “Scooby-Doo” along with his partner Ken Spears, died of natural causes Wednesday in Westlake Village, Calif… ---
**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:** [August 28, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1005 "2020-08-28T18:23:37Z")
Susan Ellison, widow of Harlan and writer of the column “Through the Lens”, [died on August 4th](https://locusmag.com/2020/08/susan-ellison-1960-2020/). She was 60 years old. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1006 "2020-08-28T18:26:22Z")
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