# 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:** 57
**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:** [September 6, 2007, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1121 "2007-09-06T11:48:05Z")
A cherry for Luciano, 29 points for me! ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1122 "2007-09-06T12:00:48Z")
Oh my! Of course, Pavarotti had been on my DP list for the past couple of years, but still…! So sad that his great voice has been silenced. Now … where is that Kevin Federline doll now … and where are my voo doo needles?! 😉 ---
**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:** [September 6, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1123 "2007-09-06T14:44:32Z")
[Miyoshi Umeki](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/05/AR2007090501484.html), who had a good stage and movie career but was best known as Mrs. Livingston on "The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, died on August 28th at the age of 78. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1124 "2007-09-06T18:07:49Z")
I don’t play, but I noticed that there’s been no mention of [Jennifer Dunn](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20616231/), senator from Washington state, who died a couple days ago from a pulmonary embolism. I guess no one had her on their list. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1125 "2007-09-07T17:39:36Z")
[Madeleine L’Engle](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/books/07cnd-lengle.html?hp) is dead. This is a sad day. Maybe I’ll start another thread about it elsewhere. ☹ ---
**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:** [September 8, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1126 "2007-09-08T00:57:21Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] [Jennifer Dunn](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20616231/), senator from Washington state [/QUOTE] Former member of the House of Representatives, actually, and **Sternvogel** mentioned her passing. Not likely that anyone had him, but financial commentator [Seth Tobias](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aKtyZElKwBc4&refer=us) was found dead on the 4th, at the age of 44. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1127 "2007-09-09T21:17:28Z")
[SOOOOOOOO close …yet so very far](http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/09/09/algeria.blast/index.html) Is my number 6 draft pick this year: > [@](#): > > 6.Abdeloziz Bouteflicka: (1932) Algerian President. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1128 "2007-09-10T16:44:34Z")
[Jane Wyman](http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/10/obit.wyman.ap/index.html) movie star and Reagen’s first wife, dead at 93. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1129 "2007-09-10T22:09:13Z")
hey, **a(numbers)**, aren’t we due for an update? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1130 "2007-09-10T22:56:00Z")
[Anita Roddick](http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4197926a10.html), founder of The Body Shop has died ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1131 "2007-09-12T13:34:53Z")
I don’t know what surprised me more - [Joe Zawinul being 75 or being sick.](http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/11/obit.zawinul.ap/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:** [September 13, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1132 "2007-09-13T01:35:03Z")
[Sir John Compton, who spent 30 of the last 43 years as chief or prime minister of St. Lucia, died in office on the 7th, at the age of 82](http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/08/news/CB-GEN-St-Lucia-Obit-Compton.php) ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1133 "2007-09-13T12:10:50Z")
Add [Madeleine L’Engle](http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/09/07/obit.lengle.ap/index.html) to the list of those that have gone before us. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1134 "2007-09-13T12:54:47Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] Add [Madeleine L’Engle](http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/09/07/obit.lengle.ap/index.html) to the list of those that have gone before us. [/QUOTE] See post 1125. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1135 "2007-09-13T14:09:29Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] See post 1125. [/QUOTE] Wow. I thought her death was more recent than that. Sorry about that, Chief. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1136 "2007-09-13T14:36:48Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] Wow. I thought her death was more recent than that. [/QUOTE] It’s that darn wrinkle in time again. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1137 "2007-09-13T19:22:39Z")
[Sheik Abdul Sattar Abu Risha,](http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/13/iraq.killing/index.html?iref=mpstoryview) who headed the coalition of Iraqi Sunni tribes known as the Anbar Salvation Council, was assassinated today when a bomb struck his convoy. At least two of the sheik’s bodyguards were also killed in the attack, for which al Qaeda is being blamed. ---
**Author:** ![Secret\_Volcano\_Lair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Secret\_Volcano\_Lair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Secret_Volcano_Lair)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1138 "2007-09-15T20:36:00Z")
Rally driver [Colin McRae](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_McRae) (some of you may know him from his video games) has been killed in a helicopter crash. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1139 "2007-09-15T22:48:50Z")
From [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN1244756020070912) > [@](#): > > Cuban Culture Minister Abel Prieto said Castro was not at death’s door and dismissed rumors in Miami of his demise as “wishful thinking” by exiled opponents. > > Prieto said he had no inside information on Castro’s medical condition, but deduced from the 81-year-old leader’s regular essays and columns that he is not dying. His writings are getting published in the newspapers. How could he be dead? > [@](#): > > “He suffered an intestinal accident, from which he is recovering after several operations,” The dreaded intestinal accident. I hate it when that happens. The **qwest** theory: The guy hasn’t been seen in public for over a year. He’s either a gorked out vegetable or he’s keeping a slab cold. I humbly request that my 19 points be held in escrow until Castro appears in primetime - [cue spooky music] _Dead or Alive!!!_[/sm] ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1140 "2007-09-17T08:54:19Z")
The author [Robert Jordan](http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=90) has gone to the great wheel in the sky. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=58)