# The Celebrity Death Pool 2006 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632 "2005-12-01T22:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/21 "2005-12-02T12:40:40Z")
I did a little rearranging, but for the most part, this list is a continuation of the “They’ve all gotta go sometime” strategy (or stragedy if you’re Bugs Bunny) Gerald Ford (b. 1913) Lillian Jackson Braun (b. 1916) Kirk Douglas (b. 1916) Billy Graham (b. 1918) Mickey Spillane (b. 1918) Jesse Helms (b. 1921) John Glenn (b. 1921) Lee Iacocca (b. 1924) Dick Van Dyke (b. 1925) Jerry Lewis (b. 1926) Peter Falk (b. 1927) Stephen Hawking (b. 1942) ALTERNATES Anne Rice (b. 1941) Keith Richards (b. 1943) John Goodman (b. 1952) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/22 "2005-12-02T12:52:22Z")
My entries: Ed McMahon Wally Schirra Buzz Aldrin Mike Wallace Morley Safer Paris Hilton Queen Elizabeth II Helen Thomas Tom Brokaw Tom Snyder Ruth Bader Ginsburg Jimmy Carter Hugo Chavez ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/23 "2005-12-02T14:50:44Z")
**SpazCat** , you picked twelve. Who’s gonna be #13? Thanks, **amarone**. **FriarTed** , I’m assuming you’re posting a list later…? **Kilvert’s Pagan** , you’re welcome! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/24 "2005-12-02T14:57:26Z")
Lauren Bacall John Updike Lena Horne Princess Stephanie of Monaco Kate Moss Sandy Kofax James Earl Jones Mickey Hargitay Francois Truffaut R. Kelly Eddie Van Halen Studs Terkel Nelson Mandela ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/25 "2005-12-02T15:05:48Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > **SpazCat** , you picked twelve. Who’s gonna be #13? I’m using new math. No, really, I can’t count. **NEW LIST** Gerald Ford (b. 1913) Lillian Jackson Braun (b. 1916) Kirk Douglas (b. 1916) Arthur C. Clarke (b. 1917) Billy Graham (b. 1918) Mickey Spillane (b. 1918) Jesse Helms (b. 1921) John Glenn (b. 1921) Lee Iacocca (b. 1924) Dick Van Dyke (b. 1925) Jerry Lewis (b. 1926) Peter Falk (b. 1927) Stephen Hawking (b. 1942) Anne Rice (b. 1941) Keith Richards (b. 1943) John Goodman (b. 1952) ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/26 "2005-12-02T17:40:20Z")
Here we go: - Billy Graham - Jerry Lewis - Nancy Reagan - Agusto Pinochet - Kirk Douglas - Annette Funicello - Teri Garr - Richard Pryor - Art Linkletter - IM Pei - Stan Musial - Harmon Killebrew - Maria Tallchief ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/27 "2005-12-02T19:43:44Z")
1. Patrick Cranshaw (character actor – Old School, Bubble Boy) 2. Mike Tyson (ex- boxer, train wreck) 3. Ronnie Biggs (train robber) 4. Russell Johnson (The Professor) 5. Peter Tork (Hey, Hey, It’s the Monkees!) 6. Dennis Hopper (Heineken? F **k that s** t! Pabst Blue Ribbon!) 7. Paul Francis Gadd, a.k.a. Gary Glitter (nutcase) 8. Frank Oz (director of films is he) 9. Jamie Weisman, M.D. (author) 10. Calvert DeForest (Larry “Bud” Melman) 11. George Jones (C/W singer) 12. Margaret Thatcher (Dennis’s widow) 13. Robert Novak (conservative pundit) Alternate picks, to be used if anyone on my main list has the audacity to die before the new year arrives: 14. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (author) 15. William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor (PoW spawn) 16. Kate Moss (blow user) ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/28 "2005-12-02T19:43:44Z")
1. Patrick Cranshaw (character actor – Old School, Bubble Boy) 2. Mike Tyson (ex- boxer, train wreck) 3. Ronnie Biggs (train robber) 4. Russell Johnson (The Professor) 5. Peter Tork (Hey, Hey, It’s the Monkees!) 6. Dennis Hopper (Heineken? F **k that s** t! Pabst Blue Ribbon!) 7. Paul Francis Gadd, a.k.a. Gary Glitter (nutcase) 8. Frank Oz (director of films is he) 9. Jamie Weisman, M.D. (author) 10. Calvert DeForest (Larry “Bud” Melman) 11. George Jones (C/W singer) 12. Margaret Thatcher (Dennis’s widow) 13. Robert Novak (conservative pundit) Alternate picks, to be used if anyone on my main list has the audacity to die before the new year arrives: 14. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (author) 15. William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor (PoW spawn) 16. Kate Moss (blow user) ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/29 "2005-12-02T19:45:22Z")
Oops. That was my first double post in a long time, if not my first one ever. Anyway, the two lists are identical. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/30 "2005-12-02T20:26:52Z")
This is my first time participating in the Celebrity Deathpool! Huzzah! Before I post my list, I have a question: What do we do if there is ambiguity about whether or not the person is actually dead? For example, there have been news reports of late about the fact that [Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may or may not be dead](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4446084). * * * Here’s my list: 1. Saddam Hussein (b. 1937), bad person 2. Robert Downey, Jr., (b. 1965), actor 3. Gerald Ford (b. 1913), former POTUS 4. Osama Bin Laden (b. 1957), bad person 5. Andy Williams (b. 1927), crooner, Branson theater-owner, turtle-neck wearer 6. George Herbert Walker Bush (b. 1924), former POTUS 7. Frank McCourt (b. 1930), writer and memoirist 8. Bil Keane (b. 1922), cartoonist 9. Joseph Barbera (b. 1911), cartoonist 10. Darren McGavin (b. 1922), actor 11. Richard Starkey, aka Ringo Starr (b. 1940), former Beatle 12. Allen Stewart Königsberg, aka Woody Allen (b. 1935), esoteric film director 13. Tony Kushner (b. 1956), playwright (_Angels in America_) Alternates: Barbara Bush (b. 1925), former FLOTUS Thomas Erdelyi, aka Tommy Ramone (b. 1952), rock musician John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten (b. 1956), rock musician ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/31 "2005-12-02T20:32:21Z")
1. Eddie Van Halen 2. Gerald Ford 3. Nancy Reagan 4. Lady Bird Johnson 5. Fidel Castro 6. Muhammad Ali 7. Jimmy Carter 8. Richard Pryor 9. Billy Graham 10. Margaret Thatcher 11. Jim Nabors 12. Dick Cheney 13. Annette Funicello Alternates: Elizabeth Taylor Kirk Douglas Harry Morgan ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/32 "2005-12-02T20:55:15Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > …I have a question: What do we do if there is ambiguity about whether or not the person is actually dead? For example, there have been news reports of late about the fact that [Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may or may not be dead](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4446084)… Hmmm…I think we gotta have some major news organization type confirmation. Show me the body! ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/33 "2005-12-02T21:09:08Z")
1. Bob Barker (Old game show host) 2. Kurt Vonnegut (Author and smoker of unfiltered ciggs) 3. Dick Clark (Professional Old Guy) 4. Dick Cheney (I’m not really sure who this is, but he comes up in the news alot I think. :D) 5. Osama bin Laden (Though I’m not sure we’d hear about this right away) 6. Stephen Hawking (Quite possibily the world’s smartest man) 7. [Lillian Gertrud Asplund](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gertrud_Asplund) (oldest living Titanic survivor) 8. [Moses Hardy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Hardy) (oldest living WWI vet). 9. Ray Bradbury (Sci-Fi writer) 10. Ernest Gallo (Vinier) 11. Albert Hoffman (Synthesizer of LSD; first to trip on it) 12. [John A. Wheeler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler) (Scientist, and collaborator of Albert Einstein) 13. Stanley Kunitz (Former Poet Laureate of the US) ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/34 "2005-12-02T21:13:47Z")
Donald Rumsfeld Barbara Bush Jimmy Carter Ozzy Osborne Magic Johnson Cher Ann Margaret Jerry Seinfeld Ted Turner Gary Coleman Aretha Franklin Calvin Klein Ed Koch ---
**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:** [December 2, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/35 "2005-12-02T21:28:25Z")
1. [Gerald Ford](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford) - This will happen right before the November elections and give a push to the Republican party on election day. 2. [Billy Graham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Graham) - Sad to seem him go, but he’s 87 already. 3. [Harry Morgan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Morgan) - I love Col. Potter and will really feel bad about this one. 4. [江泽民](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Zemin) Unlikely, but it could happen and is worth 20-21 points. 5. [Luciano Pavarotti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Pavarotti) - He’s fat. End of story. 6. [Paul Wight](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Show) - Big Man = Big Points. 7. [Eli Wallach](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Wallach) - Had him 2 years ago. I figure he’s got to go. 8. [Peter Falk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Falk) - He smokes like a fish. Whatever that means. 9. [Lady Bird Johnson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson) - She’s still alive? 10. [Les Paul](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul) - Time to switch to electric harp, Les. 11. [C. Everett Koop](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Everett_Koop) Hey, had you smoked, you would not have made it this far. 12. [Glen Benton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Benton) I thought you were going to off yourself at age 33? And finally, my annual pick that I go with every single year for big points. 1. [Michelle Trachtenberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Trachtenberg) - I don’t want her dead. I just like the idea of getting big points off a random pick ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/36 "2005-12-02T21:33:57Z")
Albert Finney (actor) Mick Mars (musician, Motley Crue) Ringo Starr (musician) BB King (musician) Clive Cussler (writer) Scott Adams (cartoonist) Peter O’Toole (actor) Anne Rice (writer) Christopher Lloyd (actor) Lily Tomlin (actress) Betty White (actress) Joan Baez (musician) Maria Shriver (first lady California) ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/37 "2005-12-02T22:00:46Z")
I’ll play - this is my first time, too. And the entries are: Jimmy Carter Fidel Castro Nancy Reagan Andy Rooney Bea Arthur Billy Graham Keith Richards George Carlin (tho’ I hope not) Harry Morgan Willie Nelson Richard Petty Jerry Burns - Former Vikings coach Bud Grant - Another former Vikings coach Go me! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/38 "2005-12-02T22:24:18Z")
At least I got some points in 2005, for the first time. (I had the Pope along with the rest of you!) And thanks **a35362**. This is always fun! 1. Muhammed Ali 2. Lady Bird Johnson 3. Annette Funicello 4. Jerry Lewis 5. Richard Pryor 6. Ray Bradbury 7. Mickey Rooney 8. John Madden 9. Wilford Brimley 10. Willie Nelson 11. Keith Richards 12. Stephen Spielberg 13. Walter Cronkite Backups: Michael Jackson Michael J. Fox Arnold Palmer ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/39 "2005-12-02T22:32:57Z")
fun, if not a teeny bit morbid my first time playing - here’s my list - 1. Annette Funicello 2. Mary Tyler Moore 3. Liza Minelli 4. Abe Vigoda 5. Sadaam Hussain 6. Nancy Reagan 7. Hugh Downs 8. Marty Allen 9. Arnold ‘Red’ Auerbach 10. Joe Barbera (of “Hanna and” 11. Arthur C. Clarke 12. Claude Levi-Strauss 13. Mitch Miller ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/40 "2005-12-02T22:39:02Z")
What, you people have something against the Golden Girls? Sheesh! Okay, here’s my picks: 1. 50 Cent 2. Marion “Suge” Knight 3. John Madden (though I swear he’s already dead) 4. Tara Reid 5. LaToya Jackson 6. Willard Scott 7. Dick Clark 8. Donatella Versace 9. Don King 10. Andy Dick 11. Henry Winkler 12. Kenny Rogers 13. Dionne Warwick [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=3)