# 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:** 39
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/761 "2009-03-22T12:09:43Z")
> [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](#): > > Famous for being famous (and not much else) Brit TV star Jade Goody has just shuffled off this mortal coil. > > [BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Reality TV star Jade Goody dies](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7925719.stm) > > Age 27. If anybody had her, they’ve got quite a score. Six people did, including me. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/762 "2009-03-22T18:22:49Z")
Yeah, Jade was quite the low-hanging fruit this year… ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/763 "2009-03-23T01:33:13Z")
I’m not a participant, but I thought I’d pass this along: [Nicholas Hughes, Sylvia Plath’s son, commits suicide.](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5956380.ece) ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Andrew\_21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_21)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/764 "2009-03-23T10:04:44Z")
[Alex Macomber](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008717639_obitalex07.html) died January 28. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/765 "2009-03-23T11:56:52Z")
> [@Andrew\_21](#): > > [Alex Macomber](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008717639_obitalex07.html) died January 28. 82 points to two people. Discussion of the future validity of this pick over [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10963517#post10963517). ---
**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 23, 2009, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/766 "2009-03-23T12:24:14Z")
[George Weber](http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--radioreporterslay0323mar23,0,7897888.story), NYC local radio news anchor ,found stabbed to death in his apartment. Today would have been his 48th Birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/767 "2009-03-23T12:31:22Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > Six people did, including me. Wow - Only six? She was the number one hit on Google last December for “Celebrity Cancer”. ---
**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 23, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/768 "2009-03-23T13:03:52Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [George Weber](http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--radioreporterslay0323mar23,0,7897888.story), NYC local radio news anchor ,found stabbed to death in his apartment. Today would have been his 48th Birthday. I found this a little shocking. I can hear that voice in my head right now. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/769 "2009-03-23T22:27:13Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Wow - Only six? She was the number one hit on Google last December for “Celebrity Cancer”. Maybe because she was largely unknown in America (I’m English). ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/770 "2009-03-24T19:55:43Z")
[Howard “Butch” Komives](http://www.sent-trib.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12675&Itemid=81), who starred for Bowling Green’s basketball team in the early 1960’s and went on to a ten-season NBA career, has died at the age of 67. During the 1963-64 NCAA campaign, Komives led the nation by averaging 36.7 points per game. ---
**Author:** ![MarkF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MarkF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkF)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/771 "2009-03-25T12:25:23Z")
> [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](#): > > Famous for being famous (and not much else) Brit TV star Jade Goody has just shuffled off this mortal coil. > > [BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Reality TV star Jade Goody dies](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7925719.stm) > > Age 27. If anybody had her, they’ve got quite a score. Way to pop that cherry huh! 😃 \>does happy dance\< (at cherry pop of course…) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/772 "2009-03-25T16:56:30Z")
[George Kell](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4011970), Hall of Fame third baseman for multiple teams died yesterday at age 86. He was also a broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/773 "2009-03-26T01:59:53Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [George Kell](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4011970), Hall of Fame third baseman for multiple teams died yesterday at age 86. > > He was also a broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers. All the kids I knew growing up in Michigan in the 1960s did a George Kell imitation. “Thanks, Larry, and good afternoon, everyone”. Great great broadcaster, we’ll miss him. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/774 "2009-03-26T14:04:28Z")
[John Hope Franklin](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iiE7469Xf8fnEbaylDWq3jUfBCSQD975EAGG0), whose 1947 book _From Slavery to Freedom_ is considered by many to be the most significant text on the black experience in U.S. history, has died at the age of 94. Franklin, who served as a history professor at several institutions, also contributed research to the NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall-led team that won the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision in the United States Supreme Court. The case heralded the end of the “separate but equal” doctrine which had long allowed the segregation of schools not only in Topeka (the Kansas capital which was home to both the named plaintiff and defendant) but in much of the country. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/775 "2009-03-26T14:20:03Z")
In the “not dead yet” category, one of my picks, [Lt. John Finn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Finn) was well enough yesterday to take part in a [wreath laying ceremony](http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=61611) with several other Medal of Honor recipients, and President Barack Obama. At 99 years of age, Lt. Finn is the oldest living recipient of the Medal of Honor, and the only surviving recipient from the attack at Pearl Harbor. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/776 "2009-03-26T18:48:53Z")
Country Singer [Dan Seals dies at 61](http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1607787/dan-seals-singer-of-bop-love-on-arrival-dies-at-61.jhtml) following treatments for lymphoma. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/777 "2009-03-26T19:21:40Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > Country Singer [Dan Seals dies at 61](http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1607787/dan-seals-singer-of-bop-love-on-arrival-dies-at-61.jhtml) following treatments for lymphoma. Also known as England Dan (England Dan and John Ford Coley). 1970s pop hits: “I’d Really Love To See You Tonight”, “Love Is The Answer”, “Nights Are Forever Without You”, and “We’ll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again”. Country hits: “Bop”, “Meet Me In Montana”, “Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)”, “You Still Move Me”, “I Will Be There”, “Three Time Loser”, “One Friend”, “Addicted”, “Big Wheels in the Moonlight”, “Love on Arrival”, and a cover of Sam Cooke’s “Good Times”. We lost a good one. RIP, Dan. ---
**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 27, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/778 "2009-03-27T16:11:07Z")
NBC journalist Irving R. Levine has died at the age of 86. No link yet. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/779 "2009-03-27T19:23:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > NBC journalist Irving R. Levine has died at the age of 86. No link yet. [Now there is.](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-fQ-HruUlzJZ0n-m0Y6cTnc4F_wD976I0U83) ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/780 "2009-03-28T13:11:10Z")
[Shane McConkey](http://outdoors.fanhouse.com/2009/03/26/shane-mcconkey-legendary-skier-killed-during-jump-in-italian-d/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main%7Cdl5%7Clink5%7Chttp%3A%2F%2Foutdoors.fanhouse.com%2F2009%2F03%2F26%2Fshane-mcconkey-legendary-skier-killed-during-jump-in-italian-d%2F) dies in a BASE jumping accident at 39. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=40)