# The Celebrity Death Pool 2005 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574 "2004-12-01T21:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/161 "2004-12-09T13:28:48Z")
1. Pope John Paul II 2. Bob Barker 3. Richard Pryor 4. Johnny Carson 5. Keith Richards 6. Bob Dylan 7. Walter Cronkite 8. Andy Rooney 9. Dick Clark 10. Barbara Streisand 11. Grace Slick 12. Fidel Castro 13. Michael Jackson Alternates (in order): 1. Jimmy Carter 2. Stephen Hawking 3. Nancy Reagan I replaced Jimmy Carter with Dick Clark, due to the recent news of his stroke. I also had not listed my alternates before, so I am including them now (one of whom is Jimmy Carter). ---
**Author:** ![smam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@smam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smam)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/162 "2004-12-09T16:23:46Z")
Ok, looks like I am going with most my picks from last year (and the year before). Honestly I don’t ask for much from my celebrities but hopefully they will see their way to giving a little back this year. 1. Abe Vigoda (actor) – Not dead yet. Born February 24, 1921. Fish on Barney Miller 2. Paul Newman (philanthropist/actor/race car driver) – Alive. Born January 26, 1925. 3. Keith Richards (Rolling Stone) – Alive. Born December 18, 1943. 4. Osama Bin Laden (terrorist/human stalagmite) 5. Rip Torn (actor) – Alive. Born February 6th 1931 6. Roger Moore (Bond actor) – Alive. Born October 14th, 1927 7. Eli Wallach (actor) – Alive. Born December 7, 1915. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. (My fave film ever) 8. John Kenneth Galbraith (economist) – Alive. Born October 15, 1908. 9. Pierre Cardin Alive. Born July 6, 1922. 10. Wilson “Bob” Tucker (writer) – Alive. Born November 23, 1914. 11. John Travolta (actor/lear jet flying fancy-boy) 12. Les Paul (guitar legend) – Alive. Born June 9, 1915. 13. Luciano Pavarotti (opera star/young wife) – Alive. Born October 12, 1935. My cite for these is the [Dead Peoples Server](http://www.dpsinfo.com/dps/index.html) . ---
**Author:** ![BadBadger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/163 "2004-12-09T16:48:54Z")
My picks: 1. Pope JP II 2. Liz Taylor 3. Maggie Thatcher 4. Charlton Heston 5. Prince Phillip 6. Patrick Moore (UK Astronomer - I sincerely hope not tho) 7. Ayad Allawi (interim Iraqi PM - I wonder how) 8. George Best (Irish footballer famous for booze and women) 9. Sir John Mills (Brit actor - again I hope not) 10. Peter Falk (columbo) 11. Jack Klugman (Quincy) 12. Micky Rooney 13. Ariel Sharon (Israeli PM) ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/164 "2004-12-09T17:00:32Z")
Here is my list for the 2005 edition: [ol] [li]Tammy Faye Bakker Messner[/li][li]Fidel Castro[/li][li]Ayad Allawi[/li][li]Mahmoud Abbas[/li][li]Hamid Karzai[/li][li]Mary-Kate Olsen[/li][li]Margaret Thatcher[/li][li]Courtney Love[/li][li]James Doohan[/li][li]Dick Clark[/li][li]Larry Hagman[/li][li]Pope John Paul II (of course…)[/li][li]Ricardo Montalban[/li][/ol] _Now they lay them down to sleep, I pray the Lord their souls they keep (until 1 Jan 2005, at any rate…) If some should die before they wake, These alternates for my list I take:_ Mickey Spillane BB King Viktor Yushchenko Richard Prior ---
**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:** [December 9, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/165 "2004-12-09T19:32:59Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Abe Vigoda (actor) – Not dead yet. Born February 24, 1921. Fish on Barney Miller > > 2. Paul Newman (philanthropist/actor/race car driver) – Alive. Born January 26, 1925. Holy shit Abe Vigoda is only 4 years older than Paul Newman! ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/166 "2004-12-09T19:46:07Z")
> [@Nightwatch Trailer](#): > > 1. Charlton Heston > 2. Lady Bird Johnson > 3. Jimmy Carter > 4. Fidel Castro > 5. Pope John Paul II > 6. Gerald Ford > 7. Nancy Reagan (ouch…two chiefs and two first ladies) > 8. Keith Richards (though if he’s not dead already, he may be immortal) > 9. B.B. King > 10. Yogi Berra (just looked him up…I didn’t even know he was still alive) > 11. Gordie Howe > 12. 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) > 13. Stan Lee I’m amending my list. Please replace #11, Gordie Howe, with Arthur C. Clarke. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/167 "2004-12-10T02:29:00Z")
This is my first time playing. I feel sort of evil, but here goes: 1. Matthew Perry 2. Pope JPII 3. Macauley Culkin 4. Pamela Anderson 5. Keith Richards 6. Harrison Ford 7. Sophia Loren 8. David Bowie 9. Bob Barker 10. Charlton Heston 11. Oksana Baiul 12. Raquel Welch 13. Nick Carter Alternates, in order: 14. Leonard Nimoy 15. Dick Clark 16. Lance Armstrong ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/168 "2004-12-11T02:26:16Z")
1. Rosa Parks 2. Andy Rooney 3. Bill Keene (_The Family Circus_ creator) 4. Louis Gosset Jr 5. Dick Clark 6. Fidel Castro 7. Don Knotts 8. Andy Griffith 9. Muhammad Ali 10. Kirk Douglas 11. Bruno Sammartino (Old school wrestler) 12. Martin Landau 13. Peter Falk A thank ya verra much. ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/169 "2004-12-11T04:40:08Z")
I’ve been lookiing forward to this all year. 1- Pope John Paul II 2- Gerald Ford 3- Andy Rooney 4- Bob Barker 5- Mary Kate Olsen 6- Sid Caesar 7- Dick Clark 8- Courtney Love 9- Nancy Reagan 10- Barbara Billingsley 11- Estelle Getty 12- Prince Phillip 13- Abe Vigoda Alternates 1- Queen Elizabeth 2- John Goodman 3- Stephen Hawking ---
**Author:** ![mikeargo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@mikeargo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeargo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/170 "2004-12-12T16:57:48Z")
First time participant, long-time lurker: 1. William F. Buckley, conservative columnist and bon vivant 2. William Rehnquist, Chief Justice, SCOTUS 3. Chuck Berry, rock legend 4. Gordie Howe, hockey god 5. Warren Buffett, Sage of Omaha 6. Pat Summerall, football broadcaster 7. Bob Guccione, porn king 8. Augusto Pinochet, fascist bastard 9. Elizabeth Taylor 10. Fidel Castro, aging commie 11. Norman Mailer 12. George Steinbrenner, Yankees owner 13. Kurt Waldheim ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/171 "2004-12-12T17:42:33Z")
OK, here we go. 1. Dick Cheney 2. Rosa Parks 3. Dick Clark 4. Jerry Orbach 5. Nancy Reagan 6. Pope JPII 7. Bob Barker 8. Liz Taylor 9. BB King 10. Paris Hilton ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/172 "2004-12-12T18:08:13Z")
**NotWithoutRage** – you get three more picks. ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/173 "2004-12-12T18:39:36Z")
Dang, LOL this is my first time playing… 1. Stephen Sondheim 2. Carol Channing 3. George Bush, the father ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/174 "2004-12-12T23:50:23Z")
1. Nancy Reagan 2. Rick Derringer 3. Anna Nicole-Smith 4. Annette Funicello 5. Karl Malden 6. Michael Stipe 7. Bruce Dern 8. James Garner 9. Alex Karras 10. Rush Limbaugh 11. Pat Morita 12. James Hong 13. Geoffrey Palmer ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/175 "2004-12-13T00:13:02Z")
1. David Carradine (Stroke) 2. Clint Eastwood (Cardiac Arrest) 3. David Letterman (Cardiac Arrest) 4. Bill Maher (Cardiac Arrest) 5. Al Roker (Cardiac Arrest) 6. Tom Brokaw (Cardiac Arrest) 7. Ashanti (Plane Crash) 8. Mary-Kate Olsen (Malnourishment) 9. Jeremy Piven (Stroke) 10. Eminem - (Marshal Mathers), (Plane Crash) 11. Oprah Winfrey (Malnourishment) 12. Donald Trump (I might even bet on it at his own casino) 13. Lara Flynn Boyle (Malnourishment) ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/176 "2004-12-13T13:10:49Z")
Iceland’s List of Those Who Shall Perish(having scoured the papers to see who’s nearly croaking it) 1.James Brown(in hospital for cancer) 2.John Inman(in hospital for hepatitis) 3.Ian Brady(must croak it soon) 4.Shelley Long(friends say she has the body of a 90-yr-old now) 5.Pope John Paul II(traditional) 6.Gerald Ford(just old) 7.Jim Callaghan(ditto) 8.Ian Huntley(already gone on hunger strike once.And he’ll rake in the points) 9.50 Cent(gotta be shot soon) 10.Eminem(ditto) 11.Vladimir Yushenko(already poisoned once.Next time they’ll finish him off) 12.Prince Philip(gotta be speared by an unhappy native soon) 13.Fidel Castro(already rather tottery) ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/177 "2004-12-13T13:55:06Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > 4.Shelley Long(friends say she has the body of a 90-yr-old now) [Shelley Long](http://web.ukonline.co.uk/david.dell/shelley/slong002.jpg) from Cheers!?!?! My neighborhood has the _wrong_ ninety year olds! ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/178 "2004-12-13T15:00:30Z")
[Shelly Long in September 2004](http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/51282463.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE7F9CD95D113652328D08DF85A69BBBDE621B2AC3A62513D3)… but she’s been hospitalised since then. Still, I think it would take something of Viktor Yushchenko proportions to give her the body of a 90 year old in three months. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/179 "2004-12-13T15:11:23Z")
Wow. Nice [pick](http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/1129long.html) **Iceland Blue**. It’s a pity you didn’t wait until 12/31/04 to pop that one in. You might just see her popping up on a few lists. _cough_ like mine _cough_ ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/180 "2004-12-14T21:21:41Z")
Since there’s still time to get in on the action: 1. Pope John Paul II 2. Tom Lehrer 3. Richard Pryor 4. Oliver North 5. Hulk Hogan 6. Rosa Parks 7. Walter Cronkite 8. Ed Bradley 9. Dick Clark 10. Fidel Castro 11. John Madden 12. John Wooden 13. Fifty Cent [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=10)