The Celebrity Death Pool 2007

Denver Broncos running back Damien Nash, dead at 24.

Fearsome Foursome lineman Lamar Lundy, 71.
Art Dealer Robert Noortman, 60.
Alt-country guitarist Kirk Rundstrom, 38.

I’m afraid to look; how many of them did you have?

Just two – Lundy’s worth only 29 points…

Source: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21300633-2,00.html

Arthur Schlesinger, historian, dead at 89.

Wait, did he ever write the second half of his autobiography?!?

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.

1972 Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton has died.

Clem Labine, 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.

Ernest Gallo, who built E & J Gallo Winery into one of the largest wineries in the nation, is dead at 97

Curiously Joseph E. Gallo, 87, the estranged brother who left Wine for Cheese, died last month.

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.

Did we log Robert Adler, inventor of the remote control?

John Inman from Are You Being Served.

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

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.

Brad Delp, lead singer of Boston.

:frowning:

Ernie Ladd has passed away from cancer. :frowning:

http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770311008

Comedian Richard Jeni has died, a likely suicide.