# 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:** 73
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1447 "2020-12-17T22:06:37Z")
Jeremy Bulloch, aka Boba Fett, [dies at 75](https://twitter.com/i/events/1339687140838391808). ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1448 "2020-12-18T00:47:26Z")
But not in a sarlacc pit. Pretty soon after David Prowse. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1449 "2020-12-18T14:28:25Z")
That’s what you get for mouthing off at Vader. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1450 "2020-12-18T19:17:28Z")
Nobel physicist [Jack Steinberger](https://home.cern/news/obituary/cern/jack-steinberger-1921-2020) has his final collision, yielding a shower of particles and one point. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1451 "2020-12-18T21:15:56Z")
He was my first physics prof at Columbia College, long long ago. Not so much a brilliant teacher as a kind and generous man, obvious even via the rather distant perspective of physics lectures. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1452 "2020-12-20T11:11:12Z")
Minnesota Timberwolves announcer [Tom Hanneman](https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/tom-hanneman-dies-fsn-studio-host-and-minnesota-timberwolves-broadcaster-was-68/ar-BB1c4vtm?ocid=msedgdhp) has died at 68. ---
**Author:** ![CSFQ70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@CSFQ70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CSFQ70)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1453 "2020-12-20T20:47:52Z")
Regis is dead ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1454 "2020-12-20T21:12:22Z")
This is the **Prof** ’s 2020 list, or people he/she thought was going to die in 2020. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1455 "2020-12-22T14:25:52Z")
[K.T. Oslin, country singer of ‘80’s Ladies,’ dies at 78](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-coronavirus-pandemic-kt-oslin-country-music-ed98bdcbc64653d85a43240c94214959). ---
**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:** [December 22, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1456 "2020-12-22T16:37:03Z")
> [@CSFQ70](#): > > Regis is dead Long live Regis ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1457 "2020-12-23T14:45:34Z")
He still lives in our hearts. Welcome, CSFQ70! ---
**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:** [December 23, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1458 "2020-12-23T23:31:38Z")
Stella Tennant, [super-model and face of Chanel in the late 90s](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55425816), has died unexpectedly at the age of 50. No cause of death given. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1459 "2020-12-24T00:15:05Z")
Mountain’s Leslie West, Who Belted ‘Mississippi Queen,’ Dead at 75 – Rolling Stone ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1460 "2020-12-24T00:16:47Z")
[Leslie West,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_West) guitarist of the Mississippi Queen band, Mountain, died today. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1461 "2020-12-24T03:28:15Z")
[Tony-nominated Broadway star Rebecca Luker dies at 59](https://apnews.com/article/rebecca-luker-danny-burstein-laura-benanti-a29cc8a28beea8eaf46b08850853b8b6). ---
**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:** [December 25, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1462 "2020-12-25T15:10:20Z")
[Violinist Ivry Gitlis has died at 98](https://apnews.com/article/music-classical-music-jazz-france-paris-29f82fd94fe23af7feedfa9eaae4b484). > [@](#): > > France’s culture minister announced his death Thursday, hailing him as “a magnificent performer, a generous musician” who dedicated his life “to serving all kinds of music.” The cause of death and plans for funeral arrangements were not immediately announced. > > Recognizable in recent decades by his long white hair and distinctive caps and scarves, Gitlis began playing in the 1920s and performed into the 2010s. The Paris Philharmonic celebrated “one of the longest and most prolific careers in the history of music.” ---
**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:** [December 25, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1463 "2020-12-25T18:32:38Z")
[Xin Xing](https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-xin-xing-giant-panda-dead-20201223-7wsgumdthvghnn3d4sdci34k6i-story.html), the world’s oldest Giant Panda in captivity dies at 38. (Not eligible for the contest, obviously.) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1464 "2020-12-25T19:40:07Z")
I want to make one last request, for people to review the vital status of those on their lists. I do try to keep up on keeping the scores accurate, but a little help is never amiss. Merry Christmas! ---
**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:** [December 25, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1465 "2020-12-25T21:17:42Z")
K.C. Jones, former coach and player for the Boston Celtics, has [died](https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/former-celtics-player-coach-k-c-jones-passes-away/ar-BB1cevB1?ocid=msedgdhp) at 88. ETA: in his 9-year career as a player, he won 8 NBA titles. He ranks behind only Bill Russell (11) and Sam Jones (10) for most titles won by a player. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1466 "2020-12-26T04:29:08Z")
Plus two more titles as a coach. Plus two NCAA championships. Plus an Olympic gold medal: in fact, K.C. Jones is just one of seven players in history to have won an Olympic gold medal, an NCAA championship and an NBA title. And I _think_ he is the only person to do all that AND coach a team to an NBA title. The guy is truly a basketball legend. RIP Mr. Jones; you done awesome. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=72) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=74)