The Go Actuary 2022 Celebrity Death Pool

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Mikhail Gorbachev: DEAD!

Gorbachev was a Russian and Soviet politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev recurrently employed the term perestroika, encompassing a complex series of reforms to restructure society and the economy. He was concerned by the country’s low productivity, poor work ethic, and inferior quality goods; he feared this would lead to the country becoming a second-rate power. In the second year of his leadership, Gorbachev began speaking of glasnost, or “openness”, or “greater openness and candor in government affairs and for an interplay of different and sometimes conflicting views in political debates, in the press, and in Soviet culture.” Eventually the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and he resigned as General Secretary of the Soviet Union. He died yesterday at age 91.

soyleche and LastExamDone each get their first hit of the year.

Standings:

contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
Maphistos_Sidekick 4 2 1 72
ArthurItas 4 1 2 71
hotkarl 2 1 0 40
traina 3 1 2 39
Patient Zombie 4 1 2 36
twig93 1 1 0 33
frummie 1 0 0 13
soyleche 1 0 0 8
Ted_Hoffman 1 0 1 6
LastExamDone 1 0 0 2
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Bill Turnbull: Former BBC Breakfast presenter dies aged 66

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Apparently QE2’s kids and grandkids are headed to Balmoral as doctors report that they are “concerned about her health”.

EDIT: Drat. I don’t have her on my list this year. Hope she makes it to January.

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If you don’t have a Times subscription, here’s the AP version.

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And she’s passed.

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Bill Turnbull: DEAD!

Turnbull was an English television and radio presenter and journalist, whose broadcasting career spanned over four decades. He began his career working for radio stations including Radio Clyde and BBC Radio 4’s Today. He presented BBC News 24 and BBC Radio 5 Live before taking on his most notable role as one of the main presenters of BBC Breakfast, a position he held for fifteen years between 2001 and 2016. Later in his career, he presented the religious series Songs of Praise and game show Think Tank, as well as being a presenter on the radio station Classic FM. He died August 31 at age 66

hotkarl, Patient Zombie and Maphistos_Sidekick all get hits.

Standings:

contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
Maphistos_Sidekick 5 2 1 83
ArthurItas 4 1 2 71
hotkarl 3 1 0 46
Patient Zombie 5 1 2 45
traina 3 1 2 39
twig93 1 1 0 33
frummie 1 0 0 13
soyleche 1 0 0 8
Ted_Hoffman 1 0 1 6
LastExamDone 1 0 0 2
Keep watching those obits!
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Uh…

The Queen is dead. Long live the king.

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Queen Elizabeth II: DEAD!

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, AKA Queen Elizabeth II was the niece of King Edward VIII. When King Edward abdicated the throne to marry a divorcee, her father became King and she the presumptive heir to the throne. She ascended to Queen at age 25 upon the death of her father, King George IV. She was married to Prince Phillip for 73 years and was Queen of England for 70 years, Britain’s longest reigning monarch. She died today at age 96.

hotkarl, traina, soyleche, twig93 and LastExamDone all get hits.

Standings:
contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
Maphistos_Sidekick 5 2 1 83
ArthurItas 4 1 2 71
hotkarl 4 1 0 53
traina 4 1 2 52
Patient Zombie 5 1 2 45
twig93 2 1 0 44
soyleche 2 0 0 22
LastExamDone 2 0 0 16
frummie 1 0 0 13
Ted_Hoffman 1 0 1 6
Keep watching those obits!
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Marsha Hunt

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Marsha Hunt: DEAD!

Ms. Hunt was an American actress, model, and activist, with a career spanning nearly 80 years. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism. She appeared in many films, including Born to the West (1937) with John Wayne, Pride and Prejudice (1940) with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, Kid Glove Killer (1942) with Van Heflin, Cry ‘Havoc’ (1943) with Margaret Sullavan and Joan Blondell, The Human Comedy (1943) with Mickey Rooney, Raw Deal (1948) with Claire Trevor, The Happy Time (1952) with Charles Boyer, and Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun (1971). In the midst of the blacklist era, she became active in the humanitarian cause of world hunger and in her later years aided homeless shelters, supported same-sex marriage, raised awareness of climate change, and promoted peace in Third World countries.She died September 7 at age 104.

Maphistos_Sidekick gets a pool leading 8th hit and Arthur Itas is still in the Hunt at second place with a hit.

Standings:

contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
Maphistos_Sidekick 6 2 1 87
ArthurItas 5 1 2 73
hotkarl 4 1 0 53
traina 4 1 2 52
Patient Zombie 5 1 2 45
twig93 2 1 0 44
soyleche 2 0 0 22
LastExamDone 2 0 0 16
frummie 1 0 0 13
Ted_Hoffman 1 0 1 6

Keep watching those obits!

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Sacheen Littlefeather: DEAD!

Ms. Littlefeather was an American actress, model, and Native American civil rights activist. Littlefeather was born to a Native American (Apache and Yaqui) father and a white mother. During the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz, she became involved in the Native American activist community. Littlefeather represented Marlon Brando at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973, where she—on Brando’s behalf—declined the Best Actor award that he won for his performance in The Godfather. The favorite to win, Brando boycotted the ceremony as a protest against Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans and to draw attention to the standoff at Wounded Knee. After the Academy Award speech, Littlefeather worked in hospice care. She continued her activism for health-related and Native American issues, and produced films about Native Americans. The grim reaper gave her an offer she couldn’t refuse as she died October 2 at the age of 75.

PatientZombie gets a unique hit.

contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
Maphistos_Sidekick 6 2 1 87
ArthurItas 5 1 2 73
Patient Zombie 6 1 3 60
hotkarl 4 1 0 53
traina 4 1 2 52
twig93 2 1 0 44
soyleche 2 0 0 22
LastExamDone 2 0 0 16
frummie 1 0 0 13
Ted_Hoffman 1 0 1 6

Keep watching those obits!

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I just read about this. TIL. Seems to me like the feds violated the Sioux treaty rights… again. (Though I am hardly an expert.)

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Angela Lansbury is a hit for me and probably others.

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Angela Lansbury: DEAD!

Ms. Lansbury starred on stage and on the small and big screens in a career spanning eight decades. She was the recipient of numerous accolades, including six Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award), six Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and the Academy Honorary Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, eighteen Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Broadway credits include “Sweeney Todd” as the ghoulish baker. She played many roles on screen, famously voicing Mrs. Potts in “Beauty and the Beast”. In perhaps her most famous role, she was the lead playing a sleuth in “Murder, She Wrote” on TV for 12 seasons.

soyleche, Ted_Hoffman and twig93 all get hits.

Standings:

contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
Maphistos_Sidekick 6 2 1 87
ArthurItas 5 1 2 73
Patient Zombie 6 1 3 60
twig93 3 1 0 58
hotkarl 4 1 0 53
traina 4 1 2 52
soyleche 3 0 0 34
Ted_Hoffman 2 0 1 18
LastExamDone 2 0 0 16
frummie 1 0 0 13
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Charley Trippi: DEAD!

Mr. Trippi was an American professional football player for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) from 1947 to 1955. Although primarily a running back, his versatility allowed him to fill a multitude of roles over his career, including quarterback, defensive back, punter, and return specialist. A ““quintuple-threat””, Trippi was adept at running, catching, passing, punting, and defense.

Trippi attended the University of Georgia, where he played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs from 1942 to 1946, with an interlude in 1944 while serving in the military during World War II. As a sophomore, he guided Georgia to victory in the 1943 Rose Bowl and was named the game’s most valuable player. As a senior in 1946, he won the Maxwell Award as the nation’s most outstanding college football player, was named the Southeastern Conference’s player of the year, and earned unanimous first-team All-America recognition. In the NFL, he led the Chicago Cardinals to the NFL title in 1947. Trippi was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1959 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968. He died October 19 at age 100.

Ted_Hoffman has a second straight hit, and ArthurItas is a little closer to the top.

Standings:
contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
Maphistos_Sidekick 6 2 1 87
ArthurItas 6 1 2 76
Patient Zombie 6 1 3 60
twig93 3 1 0 58
hotkarl 4 1 0 53
traina 4 1 2 52
soyleche 3 0 0 34
Ted_Hoffman 3 0 1 27
LastExamDone 2 0 0 16
frummie 1 0 0 13
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I’ve got an outside shot at catching Maphisto’s Sidekick but it would be really lucky at this point.

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The Rebel Forum/Go Actuary 2023 Celebrity Death Pool link is up!

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Clare Marx: DEAD!

"Dame Clare Lucy Marx was a British surgeon who was president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from July 2014 to July 2017, the first woman to hold the position, and former chair of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. From January 2019 through July 2021, Dame Clare was chair of the General Medical Council, the first woman to hold this role.

She had worked as an orthopaedic surgeon at Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust from 1993. X marx the spot of her grave as she died on November 27 at age 68."

PatientZombie has a unique hit.

Standings:
contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
Maphistos_Sidekick 6 2 1 87
ArthurItas 6 1 2 76
Patient Zombie 7 1 4 74
twig93 3 1 0 58
hotkarl 4 1 0 53
traina 4 1 2 52
soyleche 3 0 0 34
Ted_Hoffman 3 0 1 27
LastExamDone 2 0 0 16
frummie 1 0 0 13

Keep watching those obits!