# The Celebrity Death Pool 2009 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262 "2008-12-01T23:40:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 37
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/721 "2009-03-03T21:07:58Z")
[Joao Bernardo Vieira](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5830298.ece), who had led the tiny West African nation of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999 and again starting in 2005, has been assassinated at the age of 69. Hours after Army Chief of Staff General Tagme Na Waie was killed by a bomb, President Vieira was killed while fleeing his home, which was under attack by a group of soldiers who believe Vieira was responsible for Na Waie’s death. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/722 "2009-03-04T01:12:34Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > For some people. Not so good for others. Wasn’t that his sign off? Or am I misremembering my radio personalities? ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/723 "2009-03-04T15:46:51Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Wasn’t that his sign off? Or am I misremembering my radio personalities? That would qualify as a wooosh. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/724 "2009-03-04T23:21:26Z")
[Tom Sturdivant](http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090302&content_id=3904420&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb), who compiled a 59-51 win-loss mark during a Major League Baseball career spent most notably with the New York Yankees, has died at the age of 78. Sturdivant won Game 4 of the 1956 World Series the day before teammate Don Larsen threw a perfect game en route to the Yanks’ Series triumph over the Brooklyn Dodgers. ---
**Author:** ![Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/725 "2009-03-05T16:03:36Z")
Screenwriter and playwright [Horton Foote](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-foote5-2009mar05,0,2604352.story) has died at 92. Foote is probably best known for having written the screenplay for _To Kill A Mockingbird._ The director and screenwriter have both recently died – Harper Lee, who wrote the novel, could be next. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/726 "2009-03-05T16:11:25Z")
> [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](#): > > Screenwriter and playwright [Horton Foote](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-foote5-2009mar05,0,2604352.story) has died at 92. Foote is probably best known for having written the screenplay for _To Kill A Mockingbird._ ☹ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/727 "2009-03-06T00:03:08Z")
Wow. I go away for a week, and I come back to a score. [del]Kewl[/del] My symathies to Wendy’s family and new spouse… ---
**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:** [March 6, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/728 "2009-03-06T14:36:15Z")
[Sydney Chaplin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Earle_Chaplin), son of Charlie, dead at 82. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/729 "2009-03-09T02:46:47Z")
Hall of Fame NBA basketball and Dream Team Olympic coach, [Chuck Daly](http://www.nj.com/nets/index.ssf/2009/03/former_new_jersey_nets_coach_c.html) is reportably battling pancreatic cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/730 "2009-03-09T14:17:07Z")
[Alan Landers](http://winstonman.com/) the picture of the masculine cigarette smoker has died of cancer. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/731 "2009-03-09T15:17:03Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Hall of Fame NBA basketball and Dream Team Olympic coach, [Chuck Daly](http://www.nj.com/nets/index.ssf/2009/03/former_new_jersey_nets_coach_c.html) is reportably battling pancreatic cancer. This must be the official year of pancreatic cancer. We’ve got a trifecta! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/732 "2009-03-10T01:09:09Z")
**Juana Tejada** , nanny and activist for immigrant caregiver rights in Canada (and one of my picks), has died at age 39. [http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/live/article/193291](http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/live/article/193291) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/733 "2009-03-10T12:53:38Z")
[Hank Locklin](http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-hank-locklin10-2009mar10,0,1287769.story), country music star and 47-year member of the Grand Ole Opry, at 91. He wrote “Send Me the Pillow You Dream On” and had a big hit with “Please Help Me I’m Falling.” ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/734 "2009-03-10T23:13:06Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > [Hank Locklin](http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-hank-locklin10-2009mar10,0,1287769.story), country music star and 47-year member of the Grand Ole Opry, at 91. He wrote “Send Me the Pillow You Dream On” and had a big hit with “Please Help Me I’m Falling.” I have an almost overwhelming urge to go find a honky tonk, play the juke box and cry in my beer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/735 "2009-03-10T23:55:16Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > **Juana Tejada** , nanny and activist for immigrant caregiver rights in Canada (and one of my picks), has died at age 39. > > [http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/live/article/193291](http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/live/article/193291) And that puts you into the lead. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/736 "2009-03-11T08:43:59Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > And that puts you into the lead. Although two other news reports I’ve read give her age as 40, rather than 39, so let’s go with that. > **[Global News - Breaking International News And Headlines | Inquirer.net](https://globalnation.inquirer.net)** > > Latest news from around the globe featuring top stories from around the world and breaking news, as it happens. > **[Cision | News Releases](https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/)** > > Current news releases distributed by Cision in Canada including multimedia press releases, investor relations and disclosure, and company news. 60 points for me. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/737 "2009-03-12T09:24:17Z")
No one on my list has died yet. Two people I deleted in favor of others have died (Ricardo Montalban and John Updike), and one has a somewhat terminal illness (Ruth Bader Ginsberg). ---
**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:** [March 12, 2009, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/738 "2009-03-12T09:54:15Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Although two other news reports I’ve read give her age as 40, rather than 39, so let’s go with that. > > [http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20090311-193494/Pinay-caregiver-dies-in-Canada-inspires-law](http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20090311-193494/Pinay-caregiver-dies-in-Canada-inspires-law) > [Cision | News Releases](http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2009/09/c7062.html) > > 60 points for me. Did we ever agree on that rule about being famous for being sick? This seems like a candidate. And no I don’t want to be the one that makes that call. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/739 "2009-03-12T10:21:58Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Did we ever agree on that rule about being famous for being sick? This seems like a candidate. > > And no I don’t want to be the one that makes that call. There are no rule changes for this year. Possible changes for next year were discussed in [another thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=499961), but no conclusions have been reached. I will continue this discussion in the other thread. ---
**Author:** ![Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/740 "2009-03-15T05:09:55Z")
Sammy Davis Jr.'s widow [Altovise](http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/03/71810/) died this afternoon. (I know, but it’s the most credible cite I could find.) Doesn’t look like anyone had her. (In the pool, I mean…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=36) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=38)