The Rebel Forum/Go Actuary 2025 Celebrity Death Pool

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/nx-s1-5288793/uruguay-jose-mujica-dies

Pepe went pew.

Seemed like a good guy in the end

José Mujica: :skull: DEAD! :skull:

Mr. Mujica was a Uruguayan politician, revolutionary and farmer who served as the 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former guerrilla with the Tupamaros, he was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s. A member of the Broad Front coalition of left-wing parties, Mujica was the minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries from 2005 to 2008 and a senator afterwards. As the candidate of the Broad Front, he won the 2009 presidential election and took office as president on March 2010. While in office, Mujica was described as being “the world’s poorest president” due to his austere lifestyle and his donation of around 90 percent of his monthly salary to charities that support low-income individuals and small entrepreneurs. He died May 13 at age 89.

ArthurItas moves into second place with a unique hit.

Standings:

contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
PatientZombie 6 0 3 53
ArthurItas 4 0 1 35
Hotkarl 3 0 0 34
Ted_Hoffman 2 0 0 25
Macroman 3 0 0 21
Ezekial_Cumberland 2 0 0 20
Maphistos_Sidekick 2 0 1 18
LastExamDone 1 0 1 16
traina 1 0 1 12
frummie 1 0 0 7

Keep watching those obits! :skull:

RIP Sly Stone.

He’s been on my “didn’t quite make the cut” list in recent years.

Got hit #8 out of 20 picks in my money dead pool with Brian Wilson.

Marita Camacho Quirós: :skull: DEAD! :skull:

Mrs. Quiros served as First Lady of Costa Rica from 1962 to 1966 during the presidency of her husband, Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich. At the time of her death, Camacho Quirós was the oldest living Costa Rican and the oldest former first lady in the world. She died June 20 at age 114.

ArthurItas and Ted_Hoffman score.
Standings:

contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
PatientZombie 6 0 3 53
ArthurItas 5 0 1 36
Hotkarl 3 0 0 34
Ted_Hoffman 3 0 0 31
Macroman 3 0 0 21
Ezekial_Cumberland 2 0 0 20
Maphistos_Sidekick 2 0 1 18
LastExamDone 1 0 1 16
traina 1 0 1 12
frummie 1 0 0 7

Keep watching those obits! :skull:

David Gergen: :skull: DEAD! :skull:

Mr. Gergen was an American political commentator and longtime presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. He was later a senior political analyst for CNN and a professor of public service and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen was also the former editor at large of U.S. News & World Report and a contributor to CNN and Parade Magazine. He was twice a member of election coverage teams that won Peabody awards: in 1988 with MacNeil–Lehrer (now PBS News Hour), and in 2008 with CNN. He died July 10 at the age of 83.

PatientZombie extends his lead.

Standings:

Standings:
contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
PatientZombie 7 0 4 57
ArthurItas 5 0 1 36
Hotkarl 3 0 0 34
Ted_Hoffman 3 0 0 31
Macroman 3 0 0 21
Ezekial_Cumberland 2 0 0 20
Maphistos_Sidekick 2 0 1 18
LastExamDone 1 0 1 16
traina 1 0 1 12
frummie 1 0 0 7

Keep watching those obits! :skull:

The good news for everyone is that PZ is running out of people to die. Until then, everyone needs at least 2-3 of theirs to climb back towards a shot at the top.

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Live to 114 (allegedly), die from being hit by a car

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Points for me!

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I’ll post an update by the weekend

Score-check: Arthurias was shown at 35 after Jose Mujica died, but then shows at 29 thereafter. I have him at 36, he should have received 6 for Mujica [was #10 on the list] + 1 for the unique.

Re: # of hits - I have PZ at 7, Arthurias with 5.

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Thank you! I am fixing in the upcoming update.

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Fauja Singh: :skull: DEAD! :skull:

Mr. Singh was a British Indian marathon runner. Later in life, he became a marathon runner, participating in marathons all over the world. He beat a number of world records in multiple age brackets, but none of his times were ratified as records. His personal best time for the London Marathon (2003) was 6:02, and his marathon best, claimed for the 90-plus age bracket, was 5:40 at the claimed age of 92, at the 2003 Toronto Waterfront Marathon. He died in Punjab in 2025, in a hit and run incident at age 114.

Hotkarl gets a unique hit and moves closer to first place.

contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
PatientZombie 7 0 4 57
Hotkarl 4 0 1 40
ArthurItas 5 0 1 36
Ted_Hoffman 3 0 0 31
Macroman 3 0 0 21
Ezekial_Cumberland 2 0 0 20
Maphistos_Sidekick 2 0 1 18
LastExamDone 1 0 1 16
traina 1 0 1 12
frummie 1 0 0 7

Surprised this hasn’t been already added.BBC News - ‘There will never be another Ozzy’: Stars pay tribute to rock legend

Unique for me

For some reason I was looking at Chuck Mangione’s profile for my 2025 list but I didn’t pick him. He is gone

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Ozzy Osborne: :skull: DEAD! :skull:

Ozzy was an English singer, songwriter, and media personality who co-founded the heavy metal band Black Sabbath in 1968, and rose to prominence in the 1970s as its lead vocalist. During this period, he adopted the nickname “Prince of Darkness”. The band pioneered heavy metal music, particularly with their critically-acclaimed albums Black Sabbath, Paranoid (both 1970) and Master of Reality (1971). He then began a successful solo career with Blizzard of Ozz in 1980 and released thirteen studio albums, the first seven of which were certified multi-platinum in the United States. In the 1980s, Osbourne drew controversy for his antics both onstage and offstage, and was accused of promoting Satanism by the Christian right. Osbourne achieved greater celebrity status via his own brand of reality television. The Osbournes, a series featuring the domestic life of Osbourne and his family. The program became one of MTV’s greatest hits. It premiered on 5 March 2002, and the final episode aired on 21 March 2005. Osbourne died at his home in Buckinghamshire on July 22 at age 76, 17 days after his final live performance at the Back to the Beginning farewell concert.

traina moves up the standings with a unique hit.

Standings:

contestant Normal Deaths Tragic Deaths Unique Deaths Total Points
PatientZombie 7 0 4 57
Hotkarl 4 0 1 40
ArthurItas 5 0 1 36
Ted_Hoffman 3 0 0 31
traina 2 0 2 23
Macroman 3 0 0 21
Ezekial_Cumberland 2 0 0 20
Maphistos_Sidekick 2 0 1 18
LastExamDone 1 0 1 16
frummie 1 0 0 7
Keep watching those obits! :skull: