# 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:** 75
**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 30, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1487 "2020-12-30T04:58:00Z")
[‘Columbo,’ ‘Murder, She Wrote’ co-creator William Link dies at 87.](https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-b743e3398f371966c2c6b1dd54765d0b) ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1488 "2020-12-30T10:20:41Z")
I’m pretty sure the butler did it… ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1489 "2020-12-30T11:16:23Z")
…in the study. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1490 "2020-12-30T19:22:54Z")
Dawn Wells (Maryanne) [died at 82 from COVID](https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/dawn-wells-dead-gilligans-island-mary-ann-1234876755/) ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1491 "2020-12-30T20:38:49Z")
Ginger (Tina Louise) is now the only surviving member of the crew and passengers of the S.S. Minnow. ---
**Author:** ![Allecher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Allecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allecher)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1492 "2020-12-30T21:00:49Z")
That is because she is on my list. You’re welcome Tina. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1493 "2020-12-30T22:30:12Z")
I am surprised at how sad that makes me. Farewell, Mary Anne. ---
**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 30, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1494 "2020-12-30T22:42:09Z")
Or, as Boston said “… I see my Mary Ann going away…” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1495 "2020-12-30T22:44:23Z")
I have Tina Louise on another list. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1496 "2020-12-30T22:53:40Z")
Alto Reed, saxophone player for the Silver Bullet band, passes at age 72. His work in ‘Turn the Page’ was nothing short of amazing. Listen to it [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GONmFCkCGCc). > **[Alto Reed, longtime saxophone player with Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet...](https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2020/12/30/alto-reed-dies-obituary/4088034001/)** > > Reed, the high-energy showman whose sax work put a distinctive stamp on much of Seger's work, died Wednesday after a battle with colon cancer. (No, that wasn’t his real name. He was born Thomas Neal Cartmell.) ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1497 "2020-12-31T02:41:35Z")
Samuel Little, perhaps the most prolific serial killer in US history, dead at 80. > **[Samuel Little, most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, dies](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/samuel-little-most-prolific-serial-killer-u-s-history-dies-n1252581)** > > Little, 80, confessed to over 90 murders and was serving multiple life sentences. He was pronounced dead Wednesday at a California hospital. ---
**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 31, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1499 "2020-12-31T16:03:17Z")
Russian sumo wrestler [Dzhambulat Khatokhov](https://people.com/sports/dzhambulat-khatokhov-dead/), once named “world’s heaviest child” by Guinness, dies at 21 ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1500 "2020-12-31T16:19:36Z")
Years ago I saw a documentary about Khatokhov, filmed when he was around 10 years old. I gave him a little over 10 years left, and was proven right. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1501 "2020-12-31T16:25:24Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Dawn Wells (Maryanne) [died at 82 from COVID](https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/dawn-wells-dead-gilligans-island-mary-ann-1234876755/) Mary Ann Summers was easily the most famous person from Winfield, Kansas, and she wasn’t even real. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1502 "2020-12-31T16:32:16Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > His work in ‘Turn the Page’ was nothing short of amazing. Listen to it [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GONmFCkCGCc). Not criticizing his musicianship, but that song’s definitely in my “strongly prefer to never hear it ever again” bucket. ---
**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 31, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1503 "2020-12-31T23:34:45Z")
[Former Pennsylvania Governor and US Attorney General Dick Thornburgh has died; 88 years old.](https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-pittsburgh-dick-thornburgh-746fe9abb81012e54d20ee94da078fe3) ---
**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 31, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1504 "2020-12-31T23:41:39Z")
[Phyllis McGuire, the last surviving member of the three singing McGuire Sisters who topped the charts with several hits in the 1950s, has died. She was 89.](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-las-vegas-c7d585af47ea4eea4a020e4edc64d864) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1505 "2020-12-31T23:50:14Z")
Right now I imagine Loach is keeping their fingers crossed. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1506 "2021-01-01T00:41:11Z")
It looks like Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah died in September - which is 9 points for me. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/1507 "2021-01-01T02:01:12Z")
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