# 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:** 79
**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:** [July 26, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1561 "2013-07-26T20:54:30Z")
virus? ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1562 "2013-07-27T14:15:29Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > virus? LOL ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1563 "2013-07-27T15:11:45Z")
Grammy winner song writer [JJ Cale](http://www.news9.com/story/22946526/grammy-award-winner-okc-native-jj-cale-dies-of-heart-attack) days are done, and he wants to run, Cocaine. Age 74. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1564 "2013-07-27T19:51:28Z")
Lindy Boggs, congresswoman and Democratic leader, dies at 97 > **[Lindy Boggs dies; congresswoman and Democratic leader](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lindy-boggs-congresswoman-and-democratic-leader-dies-at-97/2013/07/27/02f452ae-f6c8-11e2-aa2e-4088616498b4_story.html)** > > After succeeding her husband in U.S. House, Rep. Boggs served 9 terms and later became an ambassador. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1565 "2013-07-28T09:11:25Z")
Radio personality [David “Kidd” Kraddick](http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=19794773) has died rather suddenly it seems at the age of 53. No cause of death has been released yet. ---
**Author:** ![Kasper1014](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c89c15/32.png) [@Kasper1014](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kasper1014)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1566 "2013-07-28T16:30:12Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Radio personality [David “Kidd” Kraddick](http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=19794773) has died rather suddenly it seems at the age of 53. No cause of death has been released yet. I saw that last night. He was such a good man. ☹ ---
**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:** [July 29, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1567 "2013-07-29T17:53:42Z")
[Garry Davis, Man of No Nation Who Saw One World of No War, Dies at 91](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/us/garry-davis-man-of-no-nation-dies-at-91.html?pagewanted=all) On May 25, 1948, a former United States Army flier entered the American Embassy in Paris, renounced his American citizenship and, as astonished officials looked on, declared himself a citizen of the world [William Scranton, Former Pennsylvania Governor, Dies at 96](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/us/politics/william-scranton-former-pennsylvania-governor-dies-at-96.html?pagewanted=all) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1568 "2013-07-29T20:35:57Z")
[Former Red Sox George Scott](http://fenwayrefugees.com/rip-boomer-red-sox-slugger-george-scott-passes-away/) will never make it home again. ---
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1569 "2013-07-29T22:45:56Z")
Keeping the baseball theme going, former Cubs pitcher Frank Castillo dies at 44: [http://wgnradio.com/2013/07/29/former-cubs-pitcher-frank-castillo-44-dies/](http://wgnradio.com/2013/07/29/former-cubs-pitcher-frank-castillo-44-dies/) ---
**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:** [July 29, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1570 "2013-07-29T22:59:28Z")
> [@Tazmanian\_Devil](#): > > Keeping the baseball theme going, former Cubs pitcher Frank Castillo dies at 44: [http://wgnradio.com/2013/07/29/former-cubs-pitcher-frank-castillo-44-dies/](http://wgnradio.com/2013/07/29/former-cubs-pitcher-frank-castillo-44-dies/) Castillo? Who’s on first? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1571 "2013-07-30T01:55:01Z")
Loretta Lynn has died ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1572 "2013-07-30T02:00:44Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Loretta Lynn has died You sure they don’t mean her daughter Betty Sue? I think the news of Loretta’s death is a hoax ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1573 "2013-07-30T02:05:03Z")
Thanks **geek**! Just coming to correct this. Friend on Facebook mistyped earlier. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1574 "2013-07-30T02:05:07Z")
Indeed, it was Betty Sue Lynn, the oldest daughter of country singer Loretta Lynn, has died. She was 64. [http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/29/4376257/oldest-daughter-of-loretta-lynn.html](http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/29/4376257/oldest-daughter-of-loretta-lynn.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:** [July 30, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1575 "2013-07-30T19:51:26Z")
[Former Sen. Harry Byrd, 98, Dies](http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/07/30/former-sen-harry-byrd-98-dies) ---
**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:** [July 30, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1576 "2013-07-30T19:58:07Z")
[Actress Eileen Brennan, costar of ‘Private Benjamin,’ dies at 80](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-et-mn-actress-eileen-brennan-dies20130730,0,7264169.story) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1577 "2013-07-30T20:23:06Z")
Didn’t even realize Byrd and Scranton had made it into this decade. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1578 "2013-07-31T00:24:57Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > [Actress Eileen Brennan, costar of ‘Private Benjamin,’ dies at 80](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-et-mn-actress-eileen-brennan-dies20130730,0,7264169.story) She was in both _Clue_ and _Murder by Death_, the two funniest murder mystery movies ever. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1579 "2013-07-31T13:36:10Z")
[Ali Maow Maalin](http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/31/206947581/last-person-to-get-smallpox-dedicated-his-life-to-ending-polio), the last man on Earth who survived smallpox, dead at 59. Now no one living has ever had smallpox. Think about that. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/1580 "2013-07-31T17:20:24Z")
From the smallpox article (So far, the human race has eliminated just one disease in history: smallpox) Depending on how you parse that - it isn’t correct. [Rinderpest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderpest)has also been eliminated (though it doesn’t affect humans) Brian [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=78) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=80)