# 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:** 33
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/641 "2007-02-25T13:42:24Z")
[Denver Broncos running back Damien Nash](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070225/us_nm/nfl_nash_death_dc_1), dead at 24. ---
**Author:** ![Rachm\_Qoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Rachm\_Qoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachm_Qoch)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/642 "2007-02-26T04:30:25Z")
[Fearsome Foursome lineman Lamar Lundy](http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lundyobit25feb25,1,3029648.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&track=crosspromo), 71. [Art Dealer Robert Noortman](http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2007/01/23/robert-noortman-sotheby-face-lead-cx_avb_0123autofacescan01.html), 60. [Alt-country guitarist Kirk Rundstrom](http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/16769012.htm), 38. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/643 "2007-02-26T04:33:42Z")
[QUOTE=Rachm Qoch] [Fearsome Foursome lineman Lamar Lundy](http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lundyobit25feb25,1,3029648.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&track=crosspromo), 71. [Art Dealer Robert Noortman](http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2007/01/23/robert-noortman-sotheby-face-lead-cx_avb_0123autofacescan01.html), 60. [Alt-country guitarist Kirk Rundstrom](http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/16769012.htm), 38. [/QUOTE] I’m afraid to look; how many of them did you have? ---
**Author:** ![Rachm\_Qoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Rachm\_Qoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachm_Qoch)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/644 "2007-02-27T04:33:32Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] I’m afraid to look; how many of them did you have? [/QUOTE] Just two – Lundy’s worth only 29 points… ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/645 "2007-02-27T20:32:28Z")
> [@](#): > > AUSTRALIAN rock legend Billy Thorpe has died this morning after suffering a major heart attack overnight. > > Thorpe, 60, died in the early hours of the morning after he was rushed to Sydney’s St Vincent’s Public Hospital at 2am (AEDT), a spokesman has said. > > – snip – > > Thorpe was born in England but migrated with his family to Brisbane in the 1950s. He moved to Sydney in 1963 and recorded his first song the next year with his band Billy and the Aztecs. They went on to perform at sell-out venues across Australia and had a string of hits in the 60s and 70s. > > Thorpe was best known for the track Most People I Know (Think That I’m Crazy), released in 1972, which reached No.3 on the national charts. Source: [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21300633-2,00.html](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21300633-2,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/646 "2007-03-01T12:06:38Z")
[Arthur Schlesinger, historian, dead at 89.](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/washington/01schlesinger.html?ei=5089&en=6c7613d2ed8b2282&ex=1330405200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1172750427-Q2KV9I5NYMzJGckAwyyB/Q) ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/647 "2007-03-01T14:36:09Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] [Arthur Schlesinger, historian, dead at 89.](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/washington/01schlesinger.html?ei=5089&en=6c7613d2ed8b2282&ex=1330405200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1172750427-Q2KV9I5NYMzJGckAwyyB/Q) [/QUOTE] Wait, did he ever write the second half of his autobiography?!? ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/648 "2007-03-02T20:18:57Z")
Doesn’t look like it. Krap. I had Schlesinger (and Molly Ivins) on my first list a few years back. Wish I’d thought of him this year, since he would have made my “old fogie” list. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/649 "2007-03-04T21:07:40Z")
[1972 Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton has died.](http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/4601210.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/650 "2007-03-06T21:42:27Z")
[Clem Labine,](http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/04/sports/LABINE.php) who compiled a 77-56 record while saving 96 games during his thirteen seasons as a Major League Baseball pitcher, has died at the age of 80. Labine spent most of his career with the Dodgers, helping the club to its only World Series championship (1955) as a Brooklyn-based team, as well as the 1959 title it won after moving to Los Angeles. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/651 "2007-03-07T02:13:48Z")
[Ernest Gallo, who built E & J Gallo Winery into one of the largest wineries in the nation, is dead at 97](http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=25147) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/652 "2007-03-07T03:46:44Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] [Ernest Gallo, who built E & J Gallo Winery into one of the largest wineries in the nation, is dead at 97](http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=25147) [/QUOTE] Curiously Joseph E. Gallo, 87, the estranged brother who left Wine for Cheese, died last month. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/653 "2007-03-07T05:29:09Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] Wait, did he ever write the second half of his autobiography?!? [/QUOTE] No he didn’t, unfortunately. He was one of my favorite people. I’m still not sure, but I believe he coined the phrase “in a world they never made.” I haven’t found any use before his, in the first Age of Roosevelt volume. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/654 "2007-03-07T05:35:11Z")
Did we log [Robert Adler](http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/adler.html), inventor of the remote control? ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/655 "2007-03-08T11:11:36Z")
[John Inman](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6429425.stm) from Are You Being Served. ---
**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/656 "2007-03-10T00:31:21Z")
Here are my picks: 1. Fidel Castro 2. Peter Graves 3. Jerry Falwell 4. Billy Graham 5. Whitney Houston 6. Elizabeth Taylor 7. Michael Jackson 8. Kirk Cameron 9. Leslie Nielsen 10. Courtney Love 11. Joan Rivers 12. Stephen Hawking 13. Ted Haggard ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/657 "2007-03-10T00:59:05Z")
[QUOTE=silver1] Here are my picks: [/QUOTE] You are about 3 months late for this Death pool, the entries closed on December 31st, 2006. But hang on to that list, entries for 2008 begin December 1st, 2007. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/658 "2007-03-10T01:28:28Z")
[Brad Delp](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/1403AP_Obit_Delp.html), lead singer of Boston. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/659 "2007-03-11T19:34:24Z")
Ernie Ladd has passed away from cancer. ☹ [http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770311008](http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770311008) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/660 "2007-03-11T19:43:54Z")
Comedian Richard Jeni has died, a likely suicide. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=34)