But I think a part of the reason for the rule is folks who are sorting through their list may have discounted Al because he was worth too few points. Had they known he would be worth more, it may have changed their choice. I personally avoid anyone worth less than twenty points. Al may very well had been on my radar had the later birth date been firm.
True enough but I think this is a special case. How many people lie about being 10 years older than they are? Especially celebreties. The rule is in there because there may be a legit descrepancy with someones age. In this case one of those ages is verified as not being true. IMHO we can’t use the age we know is wrong just because it is older. I will go with whatever a(plus abunch of numbers) says about it.
Well, we do have more than 9 months to sort it out …
I have no dog in the fight because I didn’t pick him (of course) but it definitely seems to me to be against the spirit of the rule to go with an age that is known to be incorrect simply because it was initially published.
At any rate, I’ll be surprised if the 10 points makes or breaks the game.
Is there any other thread anywhere in the whole wide world that could inspire (almost) heated debate over how old someone was when he or she died? It’s just oh so wrong, but somehow right.
The key word in the rule is uncertain. We can be certain that “Grandpa” wasn’t really 95 so out with it I say.
why do you say that? because 95 is so “old” that he couldn’t have done all he did at his age? Why, he’d have had to be in his >gasp< 50’s when he did The Munsters. Who ever heard of an actor being 50? 
Really - he very well could have been 95 this year
Yes, he could have been 95 but he wasn’t. His son says he was born in 1923, his birth certificate says the same thing (according to A&E’s “Biography”), as does his college application. He was a teller of tall tales and simply told that one repeatedly.
Not being a participant in your game but as someone who follows this sort of thing I’ll give you my unsolicited advice. He was 82 and whoever had him in the pool should be given 18 points for selecting him.
Kent
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Franklin Cover, the veteran character actor best known for his role as Tom Willis on the long-running sitcom The Jeffersons, has died at the age of 77. I saw him appear at the Cleveland Play House as Ed Devery in a 1988 production of Born Yesterday.
While checking to see if Cover’s death had been acknowledged on the site kentdoa linked above, I noticed that another familiar face from television had passed away. Jean Byron, who was 80, played Patty’s mother, Natalie Lane, on The Patty Duke Show.
Also, Sir Freddie Laker, whose launch of the Skytrain in 1977 ushered in the era of low-cost transatlantic air travel, was 83 when he died in Miami. Laker had served in the Royal Air Force during World War Ii before moving into a career in civil aviation.
Albert Golder, painter, died at the age of 89.
I love your website and have been using it for years. Sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night and just need to know if Telly Savalas is still alive.
ABC news just reported that author Peter Benchley has died.
How is he doing? Dead the last time I checked.
I’m glad you like the site. That’s exactly the sort of situation the site was created for. 
Sometimes you just need to know and it’s a pain when you can’t find out. Nothing more complicated than that.
And, yes, as of this date, Telly Savalas is still dead.
One more note about Al Lewis. The A&E Biography episode says his mother didn’t come to the US until 1913 when she was 16 years old. Since she met her husband (and Al’s future father here) it would have been very difficult for Al to have been born in 1910.
Kent
Twice even.
According to the thread I read in Cafe Society, Andreas Katsulas died at age 59
That’s three down and 10 to go.
Nice job. You’re still behind me and Rachm - by 5 points 
For sure going to Hell, but as least I will be going with my Celebrity Death Pool cherry popped!
The thoroughbred racing world started its day by mourning the loss of one of its most beloved owners and supporters. I see the news that Bob Lewis, the owner of many well known horses including Derby winners Silver Charm and Charismatic has died today. And all I can think of is “damn, I picked Roy Chapman,” another thoroughbred owner, and owner of Smarty Jones. Sick, sick, sick, I am very sick.
Then I see the news, another well known owner dies, it is Roy Chapman! And I actually let out a little yelp. Now I know I am really, really, sick, sick, sick.
I remember when I chose him, I was quite sure I would be the only one. But when scrolling through the picks later, I noticed someone else had picked him as well.
He has been ill for sometime. Even when Smarty Jones won the Derby, he was there in a wheelchair with an oxygen mask on. So I am trying not to feel guilty. But still, I should not be this excited about this event.
When I go to my horse message board, and join the others with my condolences for the families, and talking about what fun these two men must have had owning these wonderful horses, I will know I am hiding a dirty little secret. I will be thinking about my 21 points.
I imagine the Racing Gods will make me pay for my inappropriate reaction to these deaths. I expect to never win another bet again in my entire life. I only hope the Racing Gods don’t feel a need to punish the other co-owners of a horse I have running tomorrow. It would not be fair for my horse, and his other owners to have to pay for my misdeeds.
Punish me if you must Racing Gods, I deserve it, but please have pity on my horse running tomorrow. He is innocent in all this. After all, he is gelded, isn’t that enough punishment for one horse to endure?