# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/121 "2005-12-12T17:48:48Z")
Here’s my list, though I expect to alter it and flesh out a couple more before it’s said and done. Last year I held my list until the end not wanting to commit too early, but of course I forgot to submit it before the deadline. Not letting that happen this year. Here’s my sports heavy list. 1. Red Auerbach 2. Byron Nelson 3. Jack Kevorkian 4. Hugh Downs 5. Pete Doherty 6. Buddy Ryan 7. Eddie Curry 8. Muhammad Ali 9. Sydney Poitier 10. Mark Felt 11. Betty Ford 12. Boris Yeltsin 13. Jerry Lewis Alternates 1. Barrett Robbins 2. Whitney Houston 3. Earl Campbell ---
**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, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/122 "2005-12-12T22:14:39Z")
(Without looking at everyone else’s picks so as not to influence my choices) 1. Robert Guillaume 2. Michael J. Fox 3. Anna Nicole Smith 4. Robert Mugabe 5. Abe Vigoda 6. Alan Greenspan 7. Nelson Mandela 8. James Hong 9. Michael Stipe 10. Pete Doherty 11. Jack Palance 12. Prince Philip 13. Annette Funicello Alternates: 1. Louie Anderson 2. Robert Downey Jr. 3. Morton Downey Jr. ---
**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 12, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/123 "2005-12-12T22:43:02Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Alternates: > 3. Morton Downey Jr. A little [late](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey,_Jr.) , I’m afraid. Pardon the pun. ---
**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, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/124 "2005-12-12T22:45:36Z")
Geez. I’m in the loop, eh? 1. Robert Guillaume 2. Michael J. Fox 3. Anna Nicole Smith 4. Robert Mugabe 5. Abe Vigoda 6. Alan Greenspan 7. Nelson Mandela 8. James Hong 9. Michael Stipe 10. Pete Doherty 11. Jack Palance 12. Prince Philip 13. Annette Funicello Alternates: 1. Louie Anderson 2. Robert Downey Jr. 3. Kim Il Jong ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/125 "2005-12-13T01:05:33Z")
> [@Wallflower](#): > > 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 replace #8 with Elizabeth Taylor ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/126 "2005-12-13T11:32:20Z")
> [@Boulter's Canary](#): > > My first death pool - Yee-hah! > > 1. Muhammad Ali > 2. Margaret Thatcher > 3. Stephen Hawking > 4. Arthur C Clarke > 5. Bob Dylan > 6. Ray Harryhausen > 7. June Whitfield > 8. Michael Jackson > 9. Alan Bennett (The author of \*\*‘The Madness of George III’ \*\* not any other celeb named Alan Bennett) > 10. Keith Richard > 11. Ex-President James Carter > 12. Nelson Mandela > 13. Tony Benn Just in case Thatch doesn’t make it to the start line: 1st Reserve - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/127 "2005-12-13T12:49:53Z")
Every year I say I’m gonna play and every year I’ve waited too late. Not this time! 1. Gerald Ford 2. Dick VanDyke 3. Estelle Getty 4. Oral Roberts 5. Lady Bird Johnson 6. Elizabeth Taylor 7. Courtney Love (She’s gotta go sometime and soon, ya just know it!) 8. Jerry Lewis 9. Charles Manson 10. Yoko Ono 11. Walter Cronkite 12. Mercury Morris 13. Billy Graham Alternates: Dick Clark Eddie Van Halen Bob Newhart ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/128 "2005-12-14T03:32:25Z")
OK, here goes, it is remarkably difficult to find thirteen sure things: 1. Tammy Faye Bakker Resner 2. Gerald R. Ford 3. Billy Graham 4. Zsa Zsa Gabor 5. Jerry Lewis 6. Shelly WInters 7. Jerry L. Falwell 8. “Lady Bird” Johnson 9. Jackie Mason 10. Robert Mugabe 11. James Earl Jones 12. James Earl Carter 13. Nancy Reagan Alternate: Darryl Strawberry Good luck to all the nominees! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/129 "2005-12-14T04:08:36Z")
Well, so far 2005 has been a wash-out for me. Lucky for my picks, I guess. Here are my picks for this year: 1. Bea Arthur 2. Kirk Douglas 3. Andy Rooney 4. Gerald Ford 5. Curtis Jackson, aka Fifty Cent 6. Chizuo Matsumoto, aka Shoko Asahara (Yes, I understand the death penalty rule) 7. Conrad Bain (“Mr. Drummond” from Diffrent Strokes) 8. Russell Johnson (“The Professor” from Gilligan’s Island) 9. Kiichi Miyazawa (former Japanese PM) 10. Gavin MacLeod 11. Nikolai Karachentsov (Russian actor) 12. Louie Anderson (the comedian who hosted Family Feud) 13. Mickey Rooney If any of the above should die before Dec. 31, my alternates are as follows: 1st alternate: Ahmad Chalabi 2nd alternate: Mike Wallace (60 minutes) 3rd alternate: Harry Dean Stanton ---
**Author:** ![Purple\_Scottie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Purple\_Scottie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purple_Scottie)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/130 "2005-12-14T12:03:44Z")
1. Stephen Hawking 2. Billy Graham 3. Don Knotts 4. Andy Griffith 5. Holly Johnson (singer from Frankie Goes to Hollywood) 6. Michael J. Fox 7. Joseph Breen 8. Angela Lansbury 9. Magic Johnson 10. George Lopez 11. Stephen King 12. Anne Rice 13. Alex Trebek Alternates: 14. Robert Downey, Jr., 15. Greg Louganis ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/131 "2005-12-14T16:35:19Z")
I forgot all about this last year. Not again! Here’s my list: 1 Tammy Faye Bakker Messner 2 Gerald Ford 3 Bob Newhart 4 Scott Weiland 5 Fiddy Cent (Curtis James Jackson) 6 Debbie Reynolds 7 Muhammad Ali 8 Eunice Kennedy-Shriver 9 Dick Cheney 10 Fidel Castro 11 Billy Graham 12 BB King 13 Steven Cojocaru Alternates: 1 Elizabeth Taylor 2 James Brown ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/132 "2005-12-15T03:12:47Z")
Death Pool 2006 1. Courtney Love 2. Mike Wallace (60 minutes) 3. Robert Downey Jr. 4. Coretta Scott King 5. Dick Clark 6. Gerald Ford 7. Abe Vigoda 8. Estelle Getty 9. Keith Richards 10. Jimmy Carter 11. Nancy Reagan 12. Fidel Castro 13. Margaret Thatcher Alternates 1. Kirk Douglas 2. Wilford Brimley 3. Jerry Lewis ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Andrew\_21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_21)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/133 "2005-12-15T22:22:53Z")
[ol] [li]Gerald Ford (July 14, 1913)[/li][li]W. Mark Felt (August 17, 1913)[/li][li]Augusto Pinochet (November 25, 1915)[/li][li]Arnold “Red” Auerbach (September 20, 1917)[/li][li]Norodom Sihanouk (October 31, 1922)[/li][li]Tom Snyder (May 12, 1936)[/li][li]Tony Mundine (June 10, 1950)[/li][li]Akbar Ganji (1958)[/li][li]Maria Capovilla (September 14, 1889)[/li][li]Elizabeth Taylor (February 27, 1932)[/li][li]Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (March 7, 1942)[/li][li]Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash (1953)[/li][li]Dana Reeve (1961)[/li]Alternates [li]John Paul Stevens (April 20, 1920)[/li][li]Margaret Thatcher (October 13, 1925)[/li][li]Walter Cronkite (November 4, 1916)[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![BadBadger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/134 "2005-12-15T22:38:34Z")
My picks 1. Maggie Thatchers (ex PM) 2. Richard Briers (UK sitcom actor) 3. Peter O’Toole 4. Pete Doherty (singer ex Libertine) 5. Charlton Heston 6. Ted Heath (ex PM) 7. Nancy Reagan 8. Kirk Douglas 9. Mohammed Ali 10. Liz Taylor 11. Keith Richards 12. Nelson mandela 13. Mickey Rooney ---
**Author:** ![extrasharpcheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@extrasharpcheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/extrasharpcheese)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/135 "2005-12-15T23:06:09Z")
My brother has been telling me about this forum for many many months. In no particular order. Some of these are wishes… Mark Cuban - All round B!@#$%^ and Maverick owner Scott Thompson aka Carrot Top - bad comedian Michael Moore - fattie Ray Romano - comedian Rosie O’Donnell - comedian Tim Allen Dick aka Tim Allen - comedian Lawrence Harvey Zeiger aka Larry King - old guy Pat Robertson - old guy Roderick David Stewart aka Rod Stewart - old guy Peter Brian Gabriel aka Peter Gabriel -old guy Jenna Welch Bush aka Jenna Bush - wild child Nicole Camilla Escovedo aka Nicole Richie - addict John Stephen Goodman aka John Goodman - actor alt Louis F. Davis, Jr. aka Chip Davis aka Mannheim Steamroller - 'nuff said ---
**Author:** ![dirtdoctor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/54ee81/32.png) [@dirtdoctor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtdoctor)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/136 "2005-12-15T23:12:32Z")
it puts the lotion on its body… Paris Whitney Hilton aka Paris Hilton - airhead Lisa Ling - journalist Jason Priestly - talentless Paul Harvey Aurandt aka Paul Harvey - very old guy Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor aka Queen Elizabeth II - very old gal Keith Richards - the living undead David Van Cortland Crosby aka David Crosby - old music guy Larry Martin Hageman aka Larry Hagman - old actor guy Madonna Louise Ciccone aka Madonna - Faux Brit Warren Edward Buffett aka Warren Buffett - old rich guy Martha Stewart - old advice gal Harvey Pekar - author (My Fave) Stephen Edwin King aka Stephen King - Author ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Andrew\_21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_21)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/137 "2005-12-15T23:34:57Z")
> [@BadBadger](#): > > My picks > > 1. Ted Heath (ex PM) Heath died in July. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/138 "2005-12-16T05:05:49Z")
I’ve updated my list…again. Dick Cheney has been bumped down to Alternate Status and I’ve replaced him with former Houston Oiler head coach, Bum Phillips. My list: Oral Roberts Jerry Lee Lewis Margaret Thatcher Walter Cronkite Tammy Faye Baker Messner Charlton Heston Oail Andrew “Bum” Phillips, former head coach of the Houston Oilers Peter Falk Holly Johnson, singer Frankie Goes To Hollywood Nelson Mandela Elizabeth Taylor Gary Glitter Pete Doherty, singer Babyshambles Alternate 1: Courtney Love Alternate 2: Keith Richards Alternate 3: Dick Cheney ---
**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 16, 2005, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/139 "2005-12-16T05:23:24Z")
All right, I still need to update my list after the passing of Richard Pryor. Old list with change in bold: 1. BILL KEANE. Family Circus cartoonist. I mean, I love the FC but this guy has GOT to go soon. Same with: 2. Don Knotts. Talk about lasting for a long time. **3. Kirk Douglas** 3. Louis Gossett Jr. Again, another person I pick every year and always seems to hang in there. I saw him a movie a couple years ago and mannn, he looked pretty old. Can’t see him living much longer. 4. Betty White. (although I hope not) 5. Gerald Ford. Still hanging in there. He’s like the “Bob Hope” of presidents. 6. Jerry Lewis. Although his Telethon will never die. speaking of which 8. Jerry LEE Lewis. 7. Elizabeth Taylor 8. Jack Klugman 9. Mickey Rooney 10. B.B King 11. Ashanti Gotta have a random youngin’ singer in there! Thank you for doing this, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/140 "2005-12-16T10:31:31Z")
I’ve lurked since January, so I missed this year’s one by _this_ much. Figured I’d register to take part this time around, even if I may not end up ponying up the cash to see it through to the end. Here goes, in no partiular order: 1. Nelson Mandela: former President of South Africa 2. Dick Cheney: surliest Vice-President of USA ever 3. Steve Irwin: Aussie crocodile food 4. Luciano Pavarotti: tub of lard with a fantastic voice 5. Charlton Heston: Moses, gun-nut 6. Keith Richards: Rolling Stones zombie guitarist 7. Holly Johnson: Frankie Goes To Hollywood singer 8. Peter Falk: Columbo 9. Pete Doherty: drug addict, Kate Moss’ S.O. and singer for Babyshambles 10. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner: God-botherer 11. Stephen Hawking: wheelchair-bound genius 12. Fred Phelps: hatemonger 13. Muhammad Ali: ailing former boxing champ Alternates, should any of the above not be able to perform their duties, in order of inclusion: 1. Larry Hagman: Actor, oil magnate, Jeannie’s master 2. Magic Johnson: HIV-infected basketball player 3. Ruben Studdard: American Idol Winner and heart-attack waiting to happen 4. Sandra Day O’Connor: ex-Supreme Court Justice [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=8)