Heath Ledger

Who saw that coming??

Welcome to the Celebrity Death Pool 2008!

Greetings all, to the pool of ill-wishes. You've made your lists, now sit back and let nature take its course.
I'll sign in to update the point totals periodically, but the real tally will occur in December.
If anyone is wondering about the status of Abe Vigoda, check www.abevigoda.com for up-to-the-minute updates. For all other inquiries, the wikipedia 2008 deaths page is an excellent resource.
No points so far from a quick survey, so the field remains wide open!
See everyone's lists below, and feel free to comment.

Lenny L.

Ed McMahon
Muhammad Ali
Henry Kissinger
Stephen Hawking
B.B. King
Greg Louganis
Bob Dylan
Keith Richards
Toni Morrison
Chuck Berry
Norman Lear
Sherman Hemsley
50 cent
"Mean" Joe Green
Bob Vila
Jimmy Carter
Arnold Palmer
Bob Charles
Peter Gammons
Walter Cronkite
Amy Winehouse
Farrah Fawcett
Pete Doherty
Britney Spears
Nick Nolte
Kirk Douglass
Felix Baumgartner
Donald Sutherland
James Earl Jones
Bob Barker
James Garner
Barbara Walters
Starr Jones
Mary Kate Olsen
Jodi Sweetin
Dick Clark
Ross Perot
Alan Greenspan
Barbara Bush
Elizabeth Taylor
Bilawal Bhutto
Horatio Sanz
Jerry Lewis
Gary Coleman
Leslie Nielson
Janice Dickinson-Model
Jack Nicholson
Rue McClannahan
James Caan

Angela L.

Dick Clark
Ed McMahon
Bob Barker
Don Rickles
Ernest Borgnine
Barbara Bush
George Bush Sr.
Nancy Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Dick Cheney
Queen Elizabeth
Prince Harry
Sen. Robert Byrd
Sen.Ted Stevens
Justice John Paul Stevens
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Roger Ailes
Rupert Murdoch
Michael J Fox
Hugo Chavez
Fidel Castro
Britney Spears
Amy Winehouse
Nicole Richie
David Hasselhoff
Axl Rose
Slash
Aretha Franklin
Bob Dylan
Keith Richards
Charlie Watts
Jerry Lee Lewis
Ringo
Nouri al-Maliki
Jalal Talabani
Tariq al-Hashimi
Adel Abdul Mehdi
Mahmoud Abbas
Mullah Bakht Mohammed
Kim Jong-il
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Ariel Sharon
Steven Baldwin
Donald Trump
Eminem (why not?)
Michael Jackson
Peter Orlovsky
Michael McClure

Tom M.

Ernest Borgnine
Keith Richards
Roger Ailes
Osama Bin Laden
Sparky Anderson
Fidel Castro
Neil Armstrong
Walter Cronkite
Jalal Talabani
Horatio Sanz
Purvez Musharraf
Peabo Bryson
William F. Buckley Jr. - 2/27/08, age 82 (18 points)
Barbara Bush
Jimmy Carter
Stephen Hawking
Dick Cavett
Ozzie Osborne
Bob Feller
Bobby Doer
Rowdy Roddy Piper
Oral Roberts
Kirk Douglas
Betty Ford
JD Salinger
George Foreman
Stan Musial
Yogi Berra
Fats Domino
Bob Dylan
Ric Flair
Whitey Ford
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Billy Graham
Jesse Helms
Charlton Heston - 4/5/08, age 84 (16 points)
Henry Kissinger
Ed Koch
Art Linkletter
Brian Wilson
Lawrence Taylor
Gene Wilder
Margaret Thatcher
Mike Tyson
Leonard Nimoy
John Madden
Ralph Nader
Darryl Strawberry
Bob Uecker
Sid Caesar

Jonny M.

Lindsay Lohan
Paris Hilton
Nicole Richie
Artie Lange
Conor Oberst
George Bush
Courtney Love
Amy Winehouse
Danny Bonaduce
Carrot Top
Pamela Anderson
Haley Joel Osment
Ashley Olson
Mary Kate Olsen
Terrell Owens
The Game
Bob Dylan
Joe Rogan
Lara Flynn Boyle
Hugo Chavez
Luke Wilson
Wes Anderson
Steven Hawking
Noam Chomsky
Dustin Diamond
Eddie Izzard
David Crosby
Jim Breuer
Hillary Clinton
Jeff Tweedy
Brian Wilson
Ghostface killah
Dick Cheney
Michael Jackson
Liam Gallagher
Mario Batali
David Copperfield
Kate Moss
Hamid Karzai
Charlie Sheen
Tom Green
Colin Farrell
Osama Bin Laden
Richard Branson
Matthew Barney
Rupaul
Horatio Sanz
Tom Arnold
Fidel Castro

Jeremy M.

Robert Downey Jr
Pervez Musharraf
Nicole Richie
Pete Doherty
50 Cent
Sean Combs
Kate Moss
Courtney Love
Snoop Dog
Dick Cheney
Johnny Depp
James Earl Jones
Yassar Arafat
Ted Haggard
Farrah Fawcett
Magic Johnson
Roger Ebert
Tony Snow
Elizabeth Edwards
Rush Limbaugh
John Forsythe
Lance Armstrong
Greg Louganis
Nancy Reagan
Ozzy Osbourne
Betty Ford
Elizabeth Taylor
Arlen Specter
Peter O’Toole
Osama Bin Laden
Nouri al-Maliki
Muqtada al-Sadr
Salman Rushdie
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Fidel Castro
Raul Castro
Hugo Chavez
Nawaz Sharif
Fred Phelps
Bo Diddley - 6/2/08, age 79 (21 points)
Alex Trebek
Mario Lemieux
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jim Ryan
Mr. T
Michael J. Foxx
Paul Azinger
Andres Galarraga
Steven Hawking
Nate Dogg

Jackie L.

Michael J Fox
Philip Roth
Prince Philip
Ariel Sharon
Ray Bradbury
Robert Byrd
Lou Reed
Stevie Wonder
Chuck Berry
BB King
Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy)
Diana Ross
Smokey Robinson
Courtney Love
Amy Winehouse
Walter Cronkite
Richard Branson
Barbara Bush
Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton
George Steinbrenner
Harry Kalas (philadelphia phillies announcer)
John Glenn
Andy Griffith
Ed McMahon
Jerry Lewis
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Bea Arthur
Phyllis Diller
Dick Clark
Keith Richards
Jimmy Carter
John Goodman
Dan Aykroyd
Robert Downey Jr.
Monty Hall
Ed Asner
Kirk Douglas
Andy Rooney
Mickey Rooney
Shirley Temple
Lena Horne
Rowdy Roddy Piper
Betty Ford
Robert Mugabe
Regis Philbin
Carol Channing
Yogi Berra
Ted Danson
John Updike

Jim C.

Abe Vigoda
Abel Ferrara
Andy Griffith
Andy Rooney
Aretha Franklin
Ariel Sharon
B.B. King
Billy Graham
Bob Barker
C. Everett Koop
Charlie Watts
Charlton Heston - 4/5/08, age 84 (16 points)
Courtney Love
Dick Van Dyke
Donald Sutherland
Eartha Kitt
Eli Wallach
Elizabeth Taylor
Ernest Borgnine
Farah Fawcett
Fidel Castro
George Steinbrenner
Harold Pinter
Henry Kissenger
Hugh Hefner
Jack LaLanne
Jerry Lewis
Jessie Helms
Jimmy Carter
Joe Namath
Kirk Douglas
Larry Flynt
Lauren Bacall
Les Paul
Little Richard
Liza Minnelli
Margaret Thatcher
Martin Landau
Mickey Rooney
Muhammad Ali
Nancy Reagan
Osama Bin Laden
Pat Robertson
Paul Newman
Peter O'Toole
Phyllis Diller
Stephen Hawking
Tony Curtis
Warren Buffet
Whitney Houston

Ben B.

Michael J. Fox
Stephen Hawking
John Mayer
Matt Roloff (The father from “Little People, Big World”)
Francis Ford Coppola
Bod Dylan
Woody Allen
Greg Allman
Ray Manzarek
Eric the Midget (from the Howard Stern Show)
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Karl Malden
Eli Wallach
Studs Terkel
Dennis Hopper
Dick Clark
Candice Bergen
Bo Diddley - 6/2/08, age 79 (21 points)
Mel Brooks
Hugh Hefner
Muhammad Ali
Lou Reed
Judd Hirsch
John Madden
Louie Anderson
John Goodman
Farrah Fawcett
Henry Kissinger
Raul Castro
Fidel Castro
Nancy Reagan
Brian Wilson
Charlie Watts
Kirk Douglas
Charlton Heston - 4/5/08, age 84 (16 points)
Fats Domino
J.D. Salinger
Betty Ford
Jerry Lewis
Mike Nichols
Claude Chabrol
Alain Resnais
Roger Corman
Arthur Penn
Richard Atenborough
Blake Edwards
Walter Mondale
Sandra Day O’Connor
Elizabeth Taylor

Dom G.

Les Paul
Roky Erickson
Tony Bennett
George Steinbrenner
Johnny Carson
Ed McMahon
Charlton Heston - 4/5/08, age 84 (16 points)
Sean Connery
Vanilla Ice
Scott Weiland
Bob Weir
Kirsty Alley
Chris Robinson (Black Crowes)
Axl Rose
Marv Albert
Edna Parker (oldest person in the world)
Maria de Jesus
Arbella Ewing
Gertrude Baines
Tsuneyo Toyonaga
Clementine Solignac
Catherine Hagel
Kaku Yamanaka
Elizabeth Stefan
Tommy Lasorda
George Bush Sr.
Jimmy Carter
Nancy Reagan
Barbara Bush
Macauly Culkin
Max Casella (Doogie Howser)
Tom Arnold
Dave Coulier
Tom Selleck
Bronson Pinchot
Jaleel White
Penny Marshall
Sophia Loren
Olympia Dukakis
Phil Spector
Paul Westerberg
Kate Bush
Rupert Murdoch
Elizabeth Taylor
James Earl Jones
Kirk Douglas
Sidney Poitier
Malcom McDowell
Peter Fonda
Roger Corman

Davis W.

Abbado, Claudio
Abdullah, King
Aldrin, Edwin "Buzz"
Arness, James
Baker, Kenny
Billingsley, Barbara (Beaver)
Boulez, Pierre
Bradbury, Ray
Castro, Fidel
Connors, Mike (Mannix)
Corey, Professor Irwin
De Laurentiis, Dino
Douglas, Kirk
Downey, Robert
Ebert, Roger
Edwards, Blake
Eszterhas, Joe
Fawcett, Farrah
Ford, Betty
Funicello, Annette
Graham, Billy
Hagman, Larry
Harryhausen, Ray
Harvey, Paul (Radio)
Hawking, Stephen
Jacobi, Lou
Johnson, Russell (Professor)
Korman, Harvey - 5/29/08, age 81 (19 points)
Landau, Martin
Lee, Christopher
Linkletter, Art
Lom, Herbert (Pink Panther)
Malden,Karl
McCarthy, Kevin (Bodysnatchers)
Miller, Mitch
Morgan, Harry (M*A*S*H*)
O'Toole, Peter
Rickles, Don
Rooney, Mickey
Russell, Jane
Schultz, Klaus
Schwartz, Sherwood
Sharon, Arial
T, Mister
Takei, George
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, Rod (Time Machine)
Vigoda, Abe
Widmark, Richard - 3/24/08, age 93 (7 points)
Zimbalist Jr., Efrem

Katie L.

mary-kate olsen
james caan
andy rooney
jamie lynne spears
ozzy osbourne
Ghostface Killah (aka Dennis Coles)
GZA (Gary Grice)
Inspectah Deck (Jason Hunter)
Masta Killa (Elgin Turner)
Method Man (Clifford Smith)
Raekwon the Chef (Corey Woods)
RZA (Robert Diggs)
U-God (Lamont Hawkins)
Aretha Franklin
James Gandolfini
farrah fawsett
barbara walters
mel gibson
nick nolte
sir ian mckellen
hulk hogan
sir elton john
matt roloff (little people, big world on TLC)
james brown
warren buffet
pete doherty
amy winehouse
scott weiland
michael jackson
axl rose (william bruce rose, jr.)
jerry lewis
sir paul mccartney
walter cronkite
the queen of england (elizabeth the II)
elizabeth taylor
carrot top (scott thompson)
abe vigoda
robert goulet
vern troyer
scott baio
starr jones
liza minelli
pamela anderson
dick clark
frank gifford
regis philbin
bob barker
zsa zsa gabor
art linkletter (gordon arthur kelly)

Sean M.

50 Cent
Suge Knight
P. Diddy
Jay-Z
Nas
DMX
Dizee Rascal
Cam'ron
Akon
Eminem
Kanye West
Snoop Dog
Sean Paul
Run
DMC
Young Jeezy
OJ Simpson
Martin Lawrence
Whitney Houston
Bobby Brown
Ozzy Osbourne
Michael Jackson
Dick Clark
Courtney Love
Charlton Heston - 4/5/08, age 84 (16 points)
Fidel Castro
Pervez Musharaf
Hamed Karzai
Obama Barak
Hillary Clinton
Ehud Olmert
Ariel Sharon
Osama Bin Laden
Nancy Reagan
Phyllis Diller
Muhammad Ali
Abe Vigoda
Elizabeth Taylor
Alain Robbe-Grillet - 2/18/08, age 85 (15 points)
Britney Spears
Paris Hilton
Nicole Richie
Lindsay Lohan
Boy George
Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri
Hani abd al-Latif al-Tilfah al-Tikriti
Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti
Rukan Razuki abd al-Ghafar Sulayman al-Majid al-Tikriti (A.K.A. Rukan Razuki abd al-Ghafar Sulayman al-Nasiri)
abd al-Baqi abd al-Karim al-Abdallah al-Sadun