# 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:** 62
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1227 "2020-11-02T14:20:54Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Actor Eddie Haskell, 30, was [shot and killed](https://www.thewrap.com/eddie-hassell-shot-texas/). No, I heard it was Beaver Cleaver who was shot and killed. In Vietnam. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1228 "2020-11-02T14:23:54Z")
By Fred Rogers, I believe. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1229 "2020-11-02T15:12:59Z")
That reminds me of a cartoon where a soldier in the jungle is waving his arms as if to get the attention of a passing fighter jet and one of the other soldiers is yelling, “Stop that, it might be one of ours!” ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1230 "2020-11-02T15:21:36Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > By Fred Rogers, I believe. From 900 yards is what I heard. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1231 "2020-11-02T23:23:29Z")
Brazilian puppeteer Tom Veiga, the talent behind morning show parrot Louro José, suffered a stroke caused by an aneurysm at his home in Rio de Janeiro and died at age 47. > **[In Brazil, a parrot puppeteer’s death stirs the nation](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-brazil-rio-de-janeiro-birds-b128103e2c25305f503b99bb749de027)** > > RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In a time of so much loss, it is rare for an individual death to stir a country... ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1232 "2020-11-02T23:55:35Z")
[Nate Burrell](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8902969/60-Days-star-Nate-Burrell-33-shoots-dead-public.html), veteran and one of the stars of reality TV series “60 Days In” commits suicide at 33. [Dan Baum](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/dan-baum-died.html), journalist, author, and one of the pioneers of the “Twitter thread” concept, dead at 64. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1233 "2020-11-03T14:01:14Z")
[John Sessions](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54797823), British comedian and actor, has died at the age of 67 from a heart condition. He was a regular panelist on QI, and was just marvelous on it. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1234 "2020-11-03T19:16:22Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > [John Sessions](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54797823), British comedian and actor, has died at the age of 67 from a heart condition. I knew him mainly from QI and Whose Line Is it Anyway? Good friends with Stephen Fry, who I presume is crushed. ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1235 "2020-11-04T01:15:03Z")
Herb Adderley Oh, and screw all you paragons of journalism that show him is a Dallas uniform for your lead photo. (He refused to wear the Dallas super bowl ring–he always considered himself a Green Bay Packer.) [https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/herb-adderley-1939-2020-green-bay-packers-star-of-the-1960s/](https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/herb-adderley-1939-2020-green-bay-packers-star-of-the-1960s/) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1236 "2020-11-05T03:34:00Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Nate Burrell](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8902969/60-Days-star-Nate-Burrell-33-shoots-dead-public.html), veteran and one of the stars of reality TV series “60 Days In” commits suicide at 33. > committed suicide on Saturday night, fatally shooting himself out in public in downtown Allegan, Michigan. I don’t know the guy or what he went through but a suicide by shooting in a public place is a dick move. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1237 "2020-11-05T03:47:21Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I don’t know the guy or what he went through but a suicide by shooting in a public place is a dick move. Yeah, he really should have been more sensitive to the people around him. Whatever was he thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1238 "2020-11-05T12:16:27Z")
My visceral reaction to news of a suicide is still “that’s selfish” (especially those that affect other lives, like jumping in front of a train) - I then have to remind myself that if they were in a state of mind to consider this, they almost certainly wouldn’t be in a suicidal position in the first place. Suicide victims nearly always deserve our sympathy, not censure - railing on them makes about as much sense as berating a dementia sufferer for acting strangely. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1239 "2020-11-06T05:13:07Z")
You are correct. 100%. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1240 "2020-11-06T10:51:26Z")
Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet, but: Ken Hensley, the keyboard player and main songwriter of the rock band Uriah Heep has died at age 75. [https://www.loudersound.com/news/ken-hensley-ex-uriah-heep-dead-at-75](https://www.loudersound.com/news/ken-hensley-ex-uriah-heep-dead-at-75) ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1241 "2020-11-06T15:11:23Z")
Prolific British actor Geoffrey Palmer dies at 7 points: [Geoffrey Palmer, TV and film actor, dies at 93 - BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54838209) Perhaps best known to American audiences for his role as Rear Admiral Roebuck in Tomorrow Never Dies, where he fed Judi Dench’s M one of her best lines: Roebuck: “You know, M, sometimes I think you don’t have the balls for this job.” M: “Maybe. But that means I don’t have to think with them all the time.” Quoting from memory; E&OE. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1242 "2020-11-06T15:32:57Z")
Time stopped going by. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1243 "2020-11-06T15:38:31Z")
How prescient of you, since [Elsa Raven](https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/elsa-raven-back-to-the-future-actor-dies-at-91/ar-BB1aHMPw?ocid=msedgdhp), best known as the “Save the Clock Tower” lady from _Back to the Future_, just passed away at 91. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1244 "2020-11-06T22:36:09Z")
All but one of Raven’s scenes in Titanic were cut. She was the old lady on the bed with her husband, as their room flooded. I saw one scene where he wanted her to get on a lifeboat but she told him they’d been married for forty years and she wasn’t leaving him now. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1245 "2020-11-07T00:25:06Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > All but one of Raven’s scenes in Titanic were cut. She was the old lady on the bed with her husband, as their room flooded. I saw one scene where he wanted her to get on a lifeboat but she told him they’d been married for forty years and she wasn’t leaving him now. She was playing [Ida Straus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Straus), a real person. I remember Raven from the TV series _Wiseguy_, where she played the lead character’s mother. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1246 "2020-11-07T00:31:22Z")
I picked two adult movie actresses in my list but not the right ones. Reanna Rossi, who performed in adult movies under the name Jenteal, has passed away at 44. She reportedly died of complications from getting a tattoo (I am not making that up). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=61) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=63)