2015 Dead Pool

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Link to 2014 Dead Pool

Link to 2013 Dead Pool

Link to 2012 Dead Pool

Link to 2011 Dead Pool

There are two “dead pool” lists.  One is just a random list of people who I think will pass in the upcoming year. The other is a competitive list where you pick ten (and only ten) people-to-die, and you score your points by subtracting their age-at-death from 100.  For example, Amy Winehouse was in my 2011 Dead Pool list, and she indeed did die that year.  Since she was 27, I received 73 points (100 minus 27).

So, let’s see how I did with my 2014 Dead Pool(s).

First, the generic list of people I thought might die:

  • Zsa-Zsa Gabor – still alive
  • Olivia de Havilland – still alive
  • Billy Graham – still alive
  • Eli Wallach – died 6/24/2014
  • Norman Lear – still alive
  • Yogi Berra – still alive
  • Lauren Becall – died 8/12/2014
  • Mickey Rooney – died 4/6/2014
  • Fidel Castro – still alive
  • Pete Seeger – died 1/27/2014
  • Nanette Fabray – still alive
  • Sid Caesar – died 2/13/2014
  • Rose Marie – still alive
  • Don Pardo – died 8/18/2014
  • June Lockhart – still alive

Not too bad, certainly compared to other years I’ve done this.  I guess I was due.

But I did pretty bady in my 2014 Competitive Dead Pool list:

  1. Eli Wallach (born 12/07/1915) – died 6/24/2014 at age 98
  2. Zsa Zsa Gabor (born 2/06/1917)
  3. Billy Graham (born 11/7/1918)
  4. Abe Vigoda (born 2/24/1921)
  5. Bob Barker (born 12/12/1923)
  6. George Bush (born 6/12/1924)
  7. Fidel Castro (born 8/13/1926)
  8. John McLaughlin (born 3/29/1927)
  9. James Garner (born 4/7/1928) – died 07/19/2014 at age 86
  10. Valerie Harper (born 8/22/1940)

So, two points for Wallach and 14 for James Garner, meaning I scored a total of 16 points.  That’s terrible, but not as bad as last year.

2013 points: 13
2012 points:  38
2011 points:  113 (thanks to the deaths of Amy Winehouse and Jeff Conaway)

Let’s see if I can do better.  For my 2015 general list, I’m just going to keep what I had, minus a couple of names:

  • Zsa-Zsa Gabor
  • Olivia de Havilland
  • Billy Graham
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Fidel Castro
  • Nanette Fabray
  • Dick Cheney
  • Michael Douglas
  • Pele
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Dick Van Dyke

And as for my competitive list, I’m tweak it a little and go a little younger.  I mean, even if Zsa Zsa Gabor dies, she’s only going to get me 2 or 3 points now.  So she’s off the list.

  1. Billy Graham (born 11/7/1918)
  2. Abe Vigoda (born 2/24/1921)
  3. George Bush (born 6/12/1924)
  4. Harper Lee (born 4/28/1926)
  5. Fidel Castro (born 8/13/1926)
  6. Roger Moore (born 10/14/1927)
  7. Jim Nabors (born 6/12/1930)
  8. Valerie Harper (born 8/22/1940)
  9. Pele (born 10/23/1940)
  10. Muhammad Ali (born 1/17/1942)