Dead Pool 2020

Nobody's started this yet...

Rules still are generally the same as in previous years...

Post in this thread a list of 15 celebrities or other notable people. Please try to be reasonable with the notoriety and species.

If a Wikipedia search on one of your picks directs to a disambiguation page or to someone else with the same name, please indicate which one you mean by appending the person's profession in parentheses, e.g. "(actress)" or "(football player)."

As usual, points are awarded based on the formula (100 - [age at death]). So picking Mason Ramsey (13) would get you a lot more points than picking Betty White (97), were both to die.

Please post your lists to this thread by January 9 2020. No lists will be accepted after that date. If someone dies before Jan. 9, only the people who have already submitted lists will be able to collect points. You may also revise your list at any time before Jan. 9; after that, you'll be locked in.

here's the deathlist 2020, for reference

If I must.

Nobby Stiles
Roy Chubby Brown
Genesis P-Orridge
Terry Jones
Jake "The Snake" Roberts
Joe Thompson (footballer)
Angus MacDonald (footballer)
Frankie Banali
David Dinkins
Dick Cheney
Olivia Newton-John
George R. R. Martin
Prince Andrew
Dave Davies
Donald J Trump

(xp) That's a whole heap of People You Thought Were Dead right there.

I find it touching that the OP of this annual thread still follows the template I set 10+ years ago (when the examples of young celebs worth lots of points were Dakota Fanning, Abigail Breslin, and Willow Smith).

Nobody on my 2019 list died, so I'll stick with all of 'em. (Yes, I'm one of those people who always plays the same lottery numbers.)

Chris Brown (woman-beating R&B singer)
Jimmy Carter
Ron Carter (jazz bassist)
Pete Davidson (Saturday Night Live castmember)
Kirk Douglas
Blake Judd (leader of metal band Nachtmystium)
Jerry Lee Lewis
George R.R. Martin
Iggy Pop
Little Richard
Keith Richards
Wayne Shorter
McCoy Tyner
Donald Trump
Queen Elizabeth II

jerry sandusky
larry nassar
dick cheney
paul williams (boxer)
chief keef
tekashi 6ix9ine
r kelly
harvey weinstein
rudy giuliani
larry flynt
donald rumsfeld
lil xan
flava flav
bobby brown
aaron carter

Sérgio Mendes
James Caan
Howard Hesseman
Richard Simmons
Sally Jessy Raphael
Quincy Jones
Norm Macdonald
John Schnatter
Madeleine Albright
Henry Waxman
John Lewis (I really hope not!)
Wanda Jackson
Sally Kellerman
Kate Jackson (the Charlie's Angel)
Matthew Broderick

Do you get negative points if Kirk Douglas dies?

Trump
Zuck
Cher
Charo
Madonna
Houllebecq
Berdimuhamedow
Garth
The Queen
Manafort
Kissinger
Mamet
Rush
Stern
Jagger

Lindsay Lohan
Bill Clinton
Mark Thatcher
Madonna
George Clooney
George W Bush
Macaulay Culkin
Paul Keating (former Australian PM)
The Queen
Paul Manafort
Peng Liyuan
Henry Kissinger
Haruki Murakami
Sean Quinn (Irish businessman)
Paddy Prendergast (last surviving member of 1951 Mayo Gaelic football team)

Last year's survivors

Donald Trump
6ix9ine
Olivia Newton John
Bill Turnbull
Linda Nolan
Paul Gascoigne
David Jason
Glenn Hoddle
Jimmy Greaves
Michael Schumacher
Pele

With four new names:

Harvey Weinstein
Tina Turner
Celine Dion
Linda Evans

Trippie Redd
Prince Philip
Genesis P-Orridge
Ady Barkan
Candi Staton
Val Kilmer
Ian McKellen
Olivia Newton-John
Jason Becker
Shannen Doherty
Ryan O'Neal
Shirley Williams
Stephen Fry
Rod Laver
Cynthia Nixon

Alex Trebek
Tom Smith (rugby union, born 1971)
Genesis P-Orridge
Leon Spinks
Rudy Giuliani
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Tobey Maguire
Larry King
Elon Musk
Grimes
Tony Cox (actor, born 1958)
John McAfee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"Mad" Mike Hughes
Post Malone

Sly Stone
Willie Nelson
Dean Stockwell
Gene Hackman
Bill Murray
William Shatner
Glen Danzig
Dolly Parton
Neil Young
Donald Rumsfeld
Paul Manafort
Recep Erdogan
Henry Kissinger
Jair Bolsonaro
Donald J Trump

I find it touching that the OP of this annual thread still follows the template I set 10+ years ago (when the examples of young celebs worth lots of points were Dakota Fanning, Abigail Breslin, and Willow Smith).

putting RBG on your list is a bridge too far, gang. bad juju.

Dead Pool 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell
Tom Robbins
Terry Jones (Python)
Little Richard
Heather Locklear
A. J. Foyt
Phil Spector
Freeman Dyson
Olivia Newton-John
John Boorman
Genesis P-Orridge
Larry Storch
Imelda Marcos
Frank Borman
Farah Pahlavi

Terrence Stamp
Ahmad Jamal
Imelda Marcos
Irmin Schmidt
Jimmy Carter
David Attenborough
Yoko Ono
Gary Glitter
Duane `dog the bounty hunter' Chapman
Anna Ford
Gene Hackman
Sonny Rollins
Honor Blackman
Nicholas Parsons
Sheila Hancock

Pete Davison
Henry Kissinger
Kirk Douglas
Michael Douglas
James Earl Jones
William Shatner
Jimmy Carter
Ethel Kennedy
Alex Trebek
Pat Sajak
Donald Trump
Bob Dole

Charo

What age do you use to calculate points???

paz de la huerta
alec baldwin
demi lovato
elizabeth wurtzel
6ix9ine
olivia newton-john
artie lange
chrissie hynde
charlie sheen
benny mardones
george papadopoulos
bella thorne
shane macgowan
lil wayne
henry kissinger

1980 benny mardones or 1989 benny mardones

Epstein flight logs edition!

Ghislaine Maxwell
Prince Andrew
Donald Trump
Bill Clinton
Tony Blair
Kevin Spacey
Larry Summers
Alan Dershowitz
Ralph Fiennes
Charlie Rose
Mike Wallace
David Blaine
Alec Baldwin
Ehud Barak
Steven Pinker

Mike Wallace

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/business/media/mike-wallace-cbs-pioneer-of-60-minutes-dead-at-93.html

already a winner!!!

uhh replace him with Chris Tucker

Remind me not to get on Simon H's bad side o_O

goddamn Maura's already on the board. Weezy and Demi Lovato better watch their asses.

woah

aside from the one who is clearly already dead I don't want to jinx any of them. so here is the "list of people who will appear on celebrity masterchef (and/or die)

prince phillip
brian wilson
harry gregg
zane lowe
angela rippon
david essex and leo sayer
greg torode
bernard sumner and sting
bob carolgees
jacob rees-mogg
derek acorah ( masterchef only)

Gene Hackman
Bill Cosby
Jimmy Carter
Phil Spector
Jerry Lee Lewis
Larry Flynt
Harvey Weinstein
Raul Castro
Sean Connery
George Soros
Jean Luc Godard
Barbara Walters
Max Vin Sydow
Hosni Mubarac
Larry King

It seems Trump is pretty popular here (?!)

anybody nominating themselves

xp if he dies we all win

ffs Maura - I'll send you some money through paypal ... plllease don't put me on your list!

Lev Parnas
Jose Canseco
Prince Andrew
Joni Mitchell
Warren Buffett
Chevy Chase
John Madden (American Football)
Harvey Weinstein
Selena Gomez
John Mellencamp
Macaulay Culkin
NBA YoungBoy
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Francis Ford Coppola
Tim Curry

"elizabeth wurtzel"

damn did you have some inside knowledge on this one?

Wurtzel's cancer was known and it's a common strategy in this game to pick cancer sufferers

RIP

yeah she wrote about having cancer

-3 points for akm and unperson!

Parsons' looking green as well!

The Queen
Manafort
Kissinger
Mamet
Rush
Stern
Jagger

Got it either way.

I didn't actually expect or want Harry Gregg to die! 13 points? Is that right?

36 points for abanana: Daredevil Mad Mike Hughes dies while attempting to launch a homemade rocket

Mubarak RIP

from my list: Trebek, Genesis P-Orridge, RBG

stuff I noticed from other lists: Connery, McCoy Tyner, John Lewis (big RIP to Lewis)

Tom Smith (rugby union, born 1971)

this is a curious entry from your list!

I was thinking of adding Connery this year, flush with the success of getting Roger Moore right a few years back. But I had him down as a centenarian

Every year I look for minor celebrities with cancer. Also dwarfs, I've had success with dwarfs.

these pick up artist tips get worse and worse

lol! wb darragh!

oh, i got benny mardones. he was 75

73 i mean

so far I have

Nobby Stiles (22)
Genesis P-Orridge (30)
Terry Jones (23)
Frankie Banali (32)
David Dinkins (7)

is 114 points enough to win this horrible competition?

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/B60AAOSw0K5eUrvd/s-l640.jpg

you might need to collect your prize!

I think my only "win" this year is Nicholas Parsons and I swear the BBC must have a shitload of pre-recorded eps of Just A Minute because it still seems to be on R4 every day ffs.

In 2021, you need to have a "live pool", where you get points for the oldest people who survive the year. Less nihilistic.

I can still make it nihilistic by nominating Donald Trump.

I can still make it nihilistic by nominating Donald Barron Trump.

suggesting that, instead of a dead pool 2021 you guys do a first trump out of the pool pool

In the end I had:

Terry Jones (23)
Little Richard (13)
Freeman Dyson (4)
Genesis P-Orridge (30)

For a non-winning total of 70 points.

I only got GP-O. Who won?

Anyone get more than 114?

Kirk Douglas is older than 114 amirite

did anyone nominate Kirk Douglas?

unperson in the 6th post

might just nominate the 10 oldest people in the world this year

As explained in the first post of every thread tho you score 100-n points for a correct prediction, Douglas would have got you -3 points

yeah, it would be done in order to mock the game and also death.

it was a dumb “joke”, should’ve included some emojis

I got 99.

75 for me

xp
Barbara Feldon is still alive, you ghoul!

Yeah she never got 86'd