The Celebrity Death Pool 2013

virus?

LOL

Grammy winner song writer JJ Cale days are done, and he wants to run, Cocaine.

Age 74.

Lindy Boggs, congresswoman and Democratic leader, dies at 97

Radio personality David “Kidd” Kraddick 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. :frowning:

Garry Davis, Man of No Nation Who Saw One World of No War, Dies at 91
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

Former Red Sox George Scott will never make it home again.

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/

Castillo?
Who’s on first?

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

Thanks geek! Just coming to correct this. Friend on Facebook mistyped earlier.

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

Former Sen. Harry Byrd, 98, Dies

Actress Eileen Brennan, costar of ‘Private Benjamin,’ dies at 80

Didn’t even realize Byrd and Scranton had made it into this decade.

She was in both Clue and Murder by Death, the two funniest murder mystery movies ever.

Ali Maow Maalin, the last man on Earth who survived smallpox, dead at 59.

Now no one living has ever had smallpox. Think about that.

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. Rinderpesthas also been eliminated (though it doesn’t affect humans)

Brian