# The Celebrity Death Pool 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2010, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523 "2010-12-01T09:16:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 55
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1082 "2011-04-19T11:32:42Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Italian chocolate tycoon Pietro Ferrero, 47, [has died in a biking accident in South Africa.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110418/wl_africa_afp/italysafricabusinessfoodchocolatecompanyferrero) I first read that as “baking accident” ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1083 "2011-04-19T12:04:02Z")
Marathoner Grete Waitz dead at 57. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1084 "2011-04-19T13:14:38Z")
Mason Rudolph, professional golfer has passed at age 76. [Mason Rudolph, 1959 PGA Tour rookie of year, dies](http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/04/18/mason-rudolph-15-pga-tour-rookie-year-dies/) . Qualified for the US Open at age 16. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1085 "2011-04-19T14:04:32Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Former Baltimore mayor and Maryland governor [William Donald Schaefer](http://www.npr.org/2011/04/19/135534159/former-md-gov-william-donald-schaefer-dies-at-89) does what Zsa Zsa cannot. He’s acting?!? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1086 "2011-04-19T14:05:51Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > He’s acting?!? The reviews on his latest performance: “He’s a little dead…” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1087 "2011-04-19T14:23:26Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Former Baltimore mayor and Maryland governor [William Donald Schaefer](http://www.npr.org/2011/04/19/135534159/former-md-gov-william-donald-schaefer-dies-at-89) does what Zsa Zsa cannot. I have a punch line involving “stump speech”, but I can’t come up with the rest of the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1088 "2011-04-19T16:26:12Z")
[Grete Waitz](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/sports/othersports/20waitz.html?hp) Norwegian marathon runner, 57. I always knew she would die in the long run. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1089 "2011-04-19T16:34:32Z")
[Michael Sarrazin](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/la-me-michael-sarrazin-20110419,0,2109907.story) dead of cancer at 70. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1090 "2011-04-19T20:33:36Z")
First the Brigadier, now [Sarah Jane](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13137674)☹ ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1091 "2011-04-19T20:54:15Z")
Oh, no! Not Sarah Jane! :eek: ☹☹ ---
**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:** [April 19, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1092 "2011-04-19T21:00:03Z")
Dammit! Sarah Jane was one of the few Women Who Did Things in science fiction back in the day! No one could say “Doctor!” in as many different ways as she did. Often in the same episode. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1093 "2011-04-19T21:24:44Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Dammit! Sarah Jane was one of the few Women Who Did Things in science fiction back in the day! > > No one could say “Doctor!” in as many different ways as she did. Often in the same episode. All that, and she was my first TV crush as an adult, too. This is one celeb assuming room temperature that truly leaves me saddened. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1094 "2011-04-20T02:27:19Z")
> [@arnesw](#): > > [Grete Waitz](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/sports/othersports/20waitz.html?hp) Norwegian marathon runner, 57. > > I always knew she would die in the long run. WOW. Really? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1095 "2011-04-20T02:59:28Z")
He made a joke. Marathon runner. Long run. Joke. Note this thread is full of jokes about recent deaths. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1096 "2011-04-20T03:22:46Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Note this thread is full of jokes about recent deaths. Well, yes. Otherwise we’d have to admit to being a bunch of sickos. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1097 "2011-04-20T15:46:16Z")
[Harry Blauvelt](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-bay-bridge-victim-20110419,0,494441.story), retired USA Today Golf Reporter, dies in a traffic mishap, Age 70. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1098 "2011-04-20T18:59:10Z")
[Tim Hetherington, co-director of ‘Restrepo,’ killed in Libya at age 41](http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/20/libya.journalists/). Reminds me of a specialized death list for next year – war correspondents. BTW, is there a rule against submitting more than one death list? 'Cause, ya know, my list of lists is growing. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1099 "2011-04-21T01:35:53Z")
[Derryn Hinch](http://www.optuszoo.com.au/news/state/herald-sun/derryn-hinch-in-cancer-setback/339174) update…or downgrade. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1100 "2011-04-21T02:38:32Z")
[William A. Rusher](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-william-rusher-20110420,0,5455656.story), who took over as publisher of _National Review_ two years after the magazine was founded by William F. Buckley Jr., has died at the age of 87. In 1964, Rusher was a key player in the movement to draft Barry Goldwater as the Republican nominee in the U.S. presidential election. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1101 "2011-04-21T13:15:07Z")
[Gerald Smith](http://www.imdb.com/news/ni9809862/) bassist for TV on The Radio dies of lung cancer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=54) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=56)