# The Celebrity Death Pool 2007 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 2, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620 "2006-12-02T22:07:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 30
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/581 "2007-01-25T21:18:47Z")
Thanks, **Sternvogel,** for posting about Mike Mailway. I was thinking about doing it when I came in here. I saw a piece about him and his wife on _Evening Magazine_ about him about 5 or 6 years ago. They seemed like genuinely nice people. A couple of decades ago I found his original book, published in the mid-60’s, at a thrift store. I bought it but it later got lost during a move. I still wish I had it or that I could find another. Rest in peace, Mr. Boyd. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/582 "2007-01-26T21:58:02Z")
[QUOTE=Tikki] Thanks, **Sternvogel,** for posting about Mike Mailway. [/QUOTE] (Slightly) interesting story as to how I learned of his death. I used to read several comics on the King Features site, which stopped posting daily updates a while back. When Googling one of the strips (forget which one), I was directed to the _Post-Intelligencer_’s [Comics & Games](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/) page, and subsequently bookmarked it. I’d thus often seen the **Mike Mailway** link, but since I was unaware that it led to Boyd’s creation, I never clicked it. However, I did notice the headline when I visited the _P-I_ site yesterday. Another death to report: [Eleanor McGovern,](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/26/politics/main2400478.shtml) who gained fame while campaigning for husband George during his unsuccessful 1972 run as the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States, has passed away at the age of 85. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/583 "2007-01-28T23:54:12Z")
[Marcheline Bertrand](http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=181957), actress and mother of Angelina Jolie, has died of cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/584 "2007-01-29T18:40:05Z")
[Barbaro](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/01/29/barbaro.ap/index.html?cnn=yes) the Kentucky Derby winner who broke his leg during the Preakness has been euthanized ---
**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:** [January 29, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/585 "2007-01-29T22:52:34Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] [Barbaro](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/01/29/barbaro.ap/index.html?cnn=yes) the Kentucky Derby winner who broke his leg during the Preakness has been euthanized [/QUOTE] Sorry he was under 18 years old. Doesn’t count. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/586 "2007-01-30T04:36:27Z")
Emma Faust Tillman has died at 114, four days after becoming the world’s oldest living person. [http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/29/oldest.person.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/29/oldest.person.ap/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/587 "2007-01-30T05:39:33Z")
As **cazzle** stated, **Emma Tillman** was the world’s oldest living person for four days. As has been discussed previously on the SDMB, there seems to be a curse when that title is achieved. Is **Yone Minagawa** next? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/588 "2007-01-30T22:41:21Z")
[QUOTE=wolf\_meister] As **cazzle** stated, **Emma Tillman** was the world’s oldest living person for four days. [/QUOTE] She had also become the oldest living woman when [Julie Bertrand](http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/55618.html), 115, died in Montreal on January 18. [Here’s an obituary](http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070125/LOCAL17/701250465/1012/LOCAL17) for Emiliano Mercado del Toro, who was the current champion supercentenarian when he passed away last week in Puerto Rico. Yone Minagawa’s countryman, [Tomoji Tanabe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoji_Tanabe) (born 1895), succeeded Mercado del Toro as most elderly living male. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/589 "2007-01-31T01:41:26Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] …and now Fidel’s looking a little peakéd… [/QUOTE] Or not; [recent Cuban releases](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6315783.stm) suggest an upswing. That’s a bad sign for a whole bunch of people here with Castro. ---
**Author:** ![Squonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squonk)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/590 "2007-01-31T03:51:31Z")
Author [Sidney Sheldon](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16896461/) has died at age 89. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/591 "2007-01-31T12:23:46Z")
Sidney was still alive? I thought he died years ago. Thanks, Sidney, for introducing me to sex and convoluted plot lines. Mostly, thanks for Armand Assante in Rage of Angels. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/592 "2007-01-31T12:37:02Z")
I swear, **Shirley Ujest** and I have the same “I thought he/she died years ago!” way of thinking. I thought Sidney Sheldon was dead, too. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/593 "2007-01-31T16:16:11Z")
I always confused him with Sheldon Leonard – and now that they’re both dead, I probably always will. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/594 "2007-01-31T22:29:43Z")
[Stu Inman,](http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2749299) who joined the National Basketball Association’s Portland Trail Blazers organization as a scout in the team’s first year (1970) and helped build the club into the league’s 1976-77 champion, has died at the age of 89. As vice president of player personnel, he was responsible for selecting such stars as Bill Walton, Geoff Petrie, and Maurice Lucas in various drafts. ---
**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaucho)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/595 "2007-02-01T00:21:44Z")
Molly Ivins, dead at 62: [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Obit-Ivins.html](http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Obit-Ivins.html) ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/596 "2007-02-01T01:00:12Z")
Damn. I went with an all-female cast, but didn’t include Ivins because we needed her. Still do. ---
**Author:** ![Barely\_Adequate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58956e/32.png) [@Barely\_Adequate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barely_Adequate)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/597 "2007-02-01T21:45:15Z")
Italian opera composer, probably best known for “Amahl & The Night Visitors”, dead at age 95: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap\_en\_mu/obit\_menotti\_3](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_en_mu/obit_menotti_3) ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/598 "2007-02-01T23:42:42Z")
Oh look, my first points ever. Can’t say I’m too happy about it, though. ☹ I just horrified my roommate by saying, “Oh no, Menotti died! …but oo, I get five points in the SDMB Death Pool!” ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/599 "2007-02-01T23:49:57Z")
Wait a second, shit. I could have sworn Menotti was on my list. Never mind, no points for me. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/600 "2007-02-04T02:47:26Z")
[Tige Andrews,](http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-andrews3feb03,1,1077703.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true) the veteran character actor best known for his role as Captain Adam Greer on _The Mod Squad_, has died at the age of 86. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=31)