Death Pool statistics
I run a Death Pool, where people bet on which celebrities will die in the coming year. I’ve done this since 2003. In that time:
—I’ve correctly predicted 30 deaths.
—From my 2004 list, only one person is still alive: Gloria Stuart.
—I’ve only removed three people from old lists (all of which are still alive): Bil Keane, Annette Funicello and Jack LaLanne (back on the list now).
—2004 was a banner year for me, not just in quantity, but also from the fact that I got three correct guesses in one week: Fay Wray (Aug. 8), Julia Child (Aug. 13) and Czeslaw Milosz (Aug. 14).
—Yet I have not won the Death Pool since 2004, having been foiled every year since. Curses!
I’m incredibly morbid.
2009:
6. Carl Pohlad
9. Karl Malden
11. Ted Kennedy
15. Robert McNamara
2008:
1. Estelle Getty
3. Charlton Heston
9. W. Mark Felt – “Deep Throat”
15. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
2007:
1. Brooke Astor
2. Lady Bird Johnson
4. Gian Carlo Menotti
5. Michelangelo Antonioni
10. Kitty Carlisle
2006:
4. John Kenneth Galbraith
5. Gerald Ford
6. Augusto Pinochet
15. Iva Toguri – “Tokyo Rose”
2005:
1. Pope John Paul II
2. Simon Wiesenthal
3. Rosa Parks
2004:
1. Ronald Reagan
3. Julia Child
6. Queen Juliana
7. Estee Lauder
9. Fay Wray
15. Czeslaw Milosz
2003:
Katharine Hepburn
Bob Hope
Art Carney
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
2010 just started, which means a whole other year.
