# 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:** 51
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1001 "2007-07-30T12:28:56Z")
Ingmar Bergman, and the radio is saying also Tom Snyder… ---
**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:** [July 30, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1002 "2007-07-30T12:38:58Z")
Wiki is stating that Synder died July 29th of leukemia: [Tom Snyder - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Snyder) ---
**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:** [July 30, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1003 "2007-07-30T13:22:37Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] From [NPR](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12343342) [/QUOTE] Huh. I thought he died years ago. ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1004 "2007-07-30T14:36:14Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Ingmar Bergman [/QUOTE] W00t W00t W00t!!! 😃😃 uh…i mean…my condolences to his family. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1005 "2007-07-30T17:51:45Z")
Snyder is confirmed through [www.laradio.com](http://www.laradio.com) - a subscription site I belong to. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1006 "2007-07-30T19:44:01Z")
[Former 49ers coach Bill Walsh dead at 75](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070730/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_obit_walsh;_ylt=Augqvg8MJ1HuivcsZSiiI30E1vAI) > [@](#): > > Bill Walsh, the groundbreaking football coach who won three Super Bowls and perfected the ingenious schemes that became known as the West Coast offense during a Hall of Fame career with the San Francisco 49ers, has died. He was 75. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1007 "2007-07-30T19:44:34Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] OK, who had Bergman? 11 points. [/QUOTE] Woo Hoo!!! My first hit, er I mean, my first points. Sorry about the loss, but I wanna spike the urn in celebration. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1008 "2007-07-30T22:42:28Z")
[Bill Robinson,](http://www.courant.com/sports/baseball/hc-extras0730.artjul30,0,970642.story) who played the outfield for four Major League Baseball teams during a career that lasted from 1966 to ‘83, has died at the age of 64. Robinson was serving as the Dodgers’ minor league hitting coordinator after being the hitting coach for two World Series champions and winning a Series ring as a player with the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1009 "2007-07-30T23:27:55Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] From [NPR](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12343342) [/QUOTE] That link expired. [del]To which Bergman is Alessan referring? Ingrid?[/del]Never mind ---
**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:** [July 30, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1010 "2007-07-30T23:32:10Z")
No problem. Ingrid Bergman is [still dead](http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1665), though. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1011 "2007-07-30T23:47:36Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] No problem. Ingrid Bergman is [still dead](http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1665), though. [/QUOTE] wow - she must have caught whatever Generalissimo Francisco Franco has ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1012 "2007-07-31T00:19:13Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] That link expired. [/quote] A thousand [pardons.](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12347936) ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1013 "2007-07-31T01:18:30Z")
I’m so excited that I finally got some points. Come on Ronnie Biggs! Come on Ronnie Biggs! ---
**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:** [July 31, 2007, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1014 "2007-07-31T11:46:18Z")
_looks at list of people who died yesterday_ Does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that the Grim Reaper has a quota to fill by the end of the month? ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1015 "2007-07-31T15:30:19Z")
[Michelangelo Antonioni has died at age 94](http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/31/antonioni.obit.reut/index.html). ---
**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:** [July 31, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1016 "2007-07-31T17:17:01Z")
[Houston-area investigative reporter Marvin Zindler is dead at 85](http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou070729_jj_zindlerobit.c389aa38.html) ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1017 "2007-07-31T17:31:28Z")
Zindler’s death has been big news here in Houston, but I wasn’t sure it was notable enough for this contest. He did have a character based on him in _Best Little Whorehouse in Texas_ – does that qualify him as a celebrity? ---
**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:** [July 31, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1018 "2007-07-31T18:25:11Z")
[QUOTE=cbawlmer] He did have a character based on him in _Best Little Whorehouse in Texas_ – does that qualify him as a celebrity? [/QUOTE] His reporting is responsible for that musical, and, yes, that’s why I felt he was notable enough for inclusion. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1019 "2007-07-31T20:11:42Z")
[Michel Serrault,](http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/30/obit.serrault.ap/index.html) the French actor best known for his role as a flamboyantly gay nightclub owner in the stage and film versions of _La Cage aux Folles_, has died at the age of 85. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1020 "2007-07-31T20:31:41Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] _looks at list of people who died yesterday_ Does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that the Grim Reaper has a quota to fill by the end of the month? [/QUOTE] Yep. Jeez, they’re dropping like flies! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=50) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=52)