# 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:** 81
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1602 "2011-06-18T11:02:07Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Not sure what kind of football, American Football, Int’l football, or Aussie Rules football. Apparently none of the above - it was rugby football, both union and league. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1603 "2011-06-18T14:59:30Z")
Is Rugby football any different from Rugby? Not being snarky, I honestly do not know. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1604 "2011-06-18T16:28:09Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Is Rugby football any different from Rugby? Not being snarky, I honestly do not know. [Nope](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_football), it is just a more complete name than “rugby”. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1605 "2011-06-19T00:52:29Z")
[Clarence Clemons](http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/clarence_clemons_dies.html), Age 69. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1606 "2011-06-19T00:55:05Z")
☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1607 "2011-06-19T13:01:44Z")
Goodbye, Big Man. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1608 "2011-06-19T13:26:48Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Clarence Clemons](http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/clarence_clemons_dies.html), Age 69. Had to see the piece on [ESPN.com](http://ESPN.com) to realize who he was. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1609 "2011-06-19T14:58:07Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Had to see the piece on [ESPN.com](http://ESPN.com) to realize who he was. There is a thread on him over in Cafe Society. and his stroke was announced earlier in the week in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1610 "2011-06-20T15:20:11Z")
[Ryan Dunn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Dunn), of the Jackass show, died in a car accident. He was 34. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1611 "2011-06-20T15:50:51Z")
IIRC, Dunn is the first Jackass “star” to die. Surprised as they all seem to have a death wish. Drunk and driving at a high rate of speed according to the wiki entry. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1612 "2011-06-20T16:40:05Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > IIRC, Dunn is the first Jackass “star” to die. Surprised as they all seem to have a death wish. Drunk and driving at a high rate of speed according to the wiki entry. He tweeted a picture of himself drinking with friends awhile before his death. ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1613 "2011-06-20T16:59:49Z")
Bit surprised that nobody has mentioned the death of the author of \*A Time of Gifts \*and _From the Woods to the Water_, Patrick Leigh Fermor back on 10 June. He was also in the SOE during WWII and was the original for the character played by Dirk Bogarde in the 1957 film “Ill Met by Moonlight” about the abduction of a German General. I guess only being worth 4 points must have put you all off. > **[Patrick Leigh Fermor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Leigh_Fermor)** > > Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor DSO OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once termed him "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene". > Leigh Fermor was born in London, the son of Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, a dis... ---
**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:** [June 20, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1614 "2011-06-20T20:40:48Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > IIRC, Dunn is the first Jackass “star” to die. Surprised as they all seem to have a death wish. Drunk and driving at a high rate of speed according to the wiki entry. I always thought Steve-O would be the first to go. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1615 "2011-06-21T02:34:52Z")
[Yelena Bonner](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-yelena-bonner-20110620,0,5167114.story), who delivered husband Andrei Sakharov’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1975, has died at the age of 88. Sakharov had been denied an exit visa from the Soviet Union, so Bonner, who had been receiving medical treatment in Italy, traveled to Oslo for the ceremony. The dissident couple worked for human rights in their homeland and other Iron Curtain nations during the Cold War days. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1616 "2011-06-21T20:02:15Z")
[Frederick Chiluba](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-frederick-chiluba-20110622,0,1927069.story), who served as Zambia’s president from 1991 to 2002, has died at the age of 68. Chiluba began his term by expanding rights and opening up the country’s economy, but his tenure in office eventually became dogged by patterns of suppression and corruption. ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1617 "2011-06-22T17:51:00Z")
And another one from my long list dies: [Harley Hotchkiss](http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2011/06/22/calgary-harley-hotchkiss.html), former owner of the Calgary Flames, dies at 83 of cancer. If my calculations are correct, a unique pick by **Boyo Jim** ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1618 "2011-06-22T18:00:04Z")
> [@Registered\_at\_Last](#): > > And another one from my long list dies: > > [Harley Hotchkiss](http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2011/06/22/calgary-harley-hotchkiss.html), former owner of the Calgary Flames, dies at 83 of cancer. > > If my calculations are correct, a unique pick by **Boyo Jim** Yup, moving him into third place. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1619 "2011-06-22T18:17:34Z")
Whoo hoo! Except according to your June 1 update, I was already in 3rd place, and this moved me up to #2. Lemmie guess. Some one else had already slipped past me into 3rd with another death earlier in the month. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1620 "2011-06-22T18:20:27Z")
[Maria Gomes Valentim](http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=13894033), who had been the world’s oldest living person, has died at the age of 114. The Brazilian, who had been her country’s first resident to hold the title, is succeeded by Besse Cooper, a USA woman born 48 days after Valentim. [Here](http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/06/oldest-person-world-does-not-have-long-live/39106/) is a story on the frequency with which the “super-super-centenarian” crown changes hands. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/1621 "2011-06-22T18:47:16Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Whoo hoo! > > Except according to your June 1 update, I was already in 3rd place, and this moved me up to #2. > > Lemmie guess. Some one else had already slipped past me into 3rd with another death earlier in the month. You had dropped to 5th. Critical Mass took over first place with Brian Lenihan and Genaro Hernandez, and I moved up to 3rd with Lenihan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=80) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=82)