# The Celebrity Death Pool 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655 "2012-12-01T05:59:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 61
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1201 "2013-04-17T16:27:25Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > [Dallas News concurs.](http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/dallas-cowboys/headlines/20130416-nfl-broadcaster-local-icon-pat-summerall-dies-at-age-82.ece) Pat Summerall dead at 18 points. Damn and double damn. I had considered adding Summerall this year but didn’t. He was on my short list for 2014. _scratches out Summerall, pencils in Madden for next year_ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1202 "2013-04-17T20:34:57Z")
[Here is an obituary](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-george-beverly-shea-20130417,0,2435273.story) for George Beverly Shea, whose death was announced by **notfrommensa** upthread. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1203 "2013-04-17T21:45:24Z")
Richard LeParmintier Vader choked at 66. > **[Star Wars actor Richard LeParmentier dies aged 66... 35 years after he was...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2310111/Star-Wars-actor-Richard-LeParmentier-dies-aged-66--35-years-choked-Darth-Vader.html)** > > The actor had appeared in more than 50 movies and TV shows but was best remembered for his role as the arrogant Admiral Motti, commander of Vader's planet destroying Death Star. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1204 "2013-04-17T22:24:59Z")
[Rita MacNeil](http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2013/04/17/rita_macneil_cape_bretons_first_lady_of_song_dies_at_age_68.html) Croons no more. Country/Folk Singer from Nova Scotia Canada. 32 points for anyone that picked her. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1205 "2013-04-17T22:45:03Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Here is an obituary](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-george-beverly-shea-20130417,0,2435273.story) for George Beverly Shea, whose death was announced by **notfrommensa** upthread. Wow, -4 points. Wow. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1206 "2013-04-18T23:43:31Z")
Things are not looking good for Dick Van Dyke. Several organizations have recently given him Lifetime Achievement awards, which is often a sign that rumors are circulating. And his publicist has just announced Van Dyke won’t be able to attend one of the award ceremonies because of his declining health. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2013, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1207 "2013-04-19T00:02:22Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Things are not looking good for Dick Van Dyke. > > Several organizations have recently given him Lifetime Achievement awards, which is often a sign that rumors are circulating. And his publicist has just announced Van Dyke won’t be able to attend one of the award ceremonies because of his declining health. First Valerie Harper and now Dick Van Dyke? Mary Tyler Moore might be bumping off all her old costars. Someone warn Cloris Leachman and Betty White. ---
**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, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1208 "2013-04-19T00:53:53Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Things are not looking good for Dick Van Dyke. > > Several organizations have recently given him Lifetime Achievement awards, which is often a sign that rumors are circulating. And his publicist has just announced Van Dyke won’t be able to attend one of the award ceremonies because of his declining health. Lo and behold, this news story: [Van Dyke undergoing tests for “cranial throbbing”](http://news.yahoo.com/van-dyke-undergoing-tests-cranial-throbbing-200120291.html) Choose your own joke! ---
**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:** [April 19, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1209 "2013-04-19T04:53:36Z")
Dick is throbbing? Well, it won’t be long now. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1210 "2013-04-19T07:04:27Z")
What a way to [get my hopes up](http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/reuters-accidentally-publishes-george-soross-obituary_718044.html). ---
**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, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1211 "2013-04-19T16:54:07Z")
George Soros died at age 82 for a few minutes according to Reuters - he has come back to life however. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1212 "2013-04-19T17:36:06Z")
[Storm Thorgerson](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22210378) has died. I suspect almost every one of us owns some of his artwork. ---
**Author:** ![Sario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sario/32/18580_2.png) [@Sario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sario)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1213 "2013-04-19T17:56:39Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > [Storm Thorgerson](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22210378) has died. I suspect almost every one of us owns some of his artwork. This is incredibly sad for me. His work was a big part of my childhood and always inspired my imagination to run off in the most beautifully random directions. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1214 "2013-04-19T18:32:48Z")
[Dick Hart](http://www.pgatour.com/news/2013/04/18/dick-hart-obituary.html), former PGA Tour golfer who won one tournament, has died at age 77. Presumably it will be an open casket. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1215 "2013-04-19T21:50:38Z")
[Errol Mann](http://www.freep.com/article/20130417/SPORTS01/130417026/detroit-lions-errol-mann-dies-missoula), an NFL placekicker who spent most of his career with the Detroit Lions (1969-76), has died at the age of 71. ---
**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 22, 2013, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1216 "2013-04-22T06:09:40Z")
Chrissy Amphlett from Australian band the Divinyls has [died](http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/chrissy-amphlett-dead-20130422-2ia30.html), aged 53. Her band’s most famous song that did well internationally was [I Touch Myself](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv-34w8kGPM) and you may also know my favourite, [Pleasure and Pain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aYzQb6cc5E). ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1217 "2013-04-22T06:45:23Z")
Wow. _I Touch Myself_ was a big hit–it’s one of those songs that takes me instantly back to my high school days. 😃 No, really, it takes me right back to the early 90s. ---
**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 22, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1218 "2013-04-22T14:07:15Z")
[E.L. Konigsburg dies: Children’s author who won top book award twice dead at 83](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312748/E-L-Konigsburg-dies-Childrens-author-won-book-award-twice-dead-83.html?ito=feeds-newsxml) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1219 "2013-04-22T14:55:51Z")
Sad. I read _Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth_ many times as a child. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1220 "2013-04-22T16:32:46Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > [E.L. Konigsburg dies: Children’s author who won top book award twice dead at 83](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312748/E-L-Konigsburg-dies-Childrens-author-won-book-award-twice-dead-83.html?ito=feeds-newsxml) “…twice dead at 83” Does that mean 17 points or 34 points, or 0 points because isn’t there an “alive” clause in the rules? :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=60) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=62)