Margaret Truman Daniel

(February 17, 1924 — January 29, 2008)

Occupation: President's daughter, Singer, Author
Cause of Death: Living in Chicago (just kidding, I guess it was some mysterious undisclosed illness)
Trivia: Only child of Harry and Bess Truman.

Celebrity Death Pool '08

I forgot to publish this as of the turn of the year...

Celebrity Death Pool Short List

W. Mark Felt
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I.M. Pei
Phyllis Diller
Betty Ford
Billy Graham
Mickey Rooney
Carol Channing
Monty Hall
Fyvush Finkel
Ernest Borgnine
Fidel Castro
Jack Kervorkian
Dick Clark
Bob Barker
Margaret Thatcher
Wilford Brimley
Elizabeth Taylor
Sheryl Crow
Kirk Douglas
Charlton Heston

2 for 1?!

Greece's Orthodox Church leader, Archbishop Christodoulos, has died.

Gordon B. Hinckley, 97, American President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Non-celebrity death

Maybe he is a celebrity and I just don't know it. But, I don't think CHILD of a celebrity really counts as a "celebrity death." In any case, our hearts go out to Christian Brando, 49, dead from pneumonia. :(

The Big Four I missed

1/11/2008 Sir Edmund Hillary
1/15/2008 Brad Renfro
1/17/2008 Bobby Fischer
1/19/2008 Suzanne Pleshette

The List: Updated

Heath Ledger

April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008


OH MY GOD!!!! This just in, no cause of death yet... poor Heath Ledger. 10 Things I Hate About You is one of my all-time favorite movies.

Sigh...

MSNBC.com Newsmaker (Celebrity) Farewells

Click here for MSNBC.com's slideshow of some of the most notable expirations of 2007. We love you Tammy Faye, Anna Nicole, and Ladybird Johnson.

Benazir Bhutto

21 June 1953 - 27 December 2007

This is incredibly sad. I'm not sure how many of you out there know about her or the political landscape of Pakistan, but this is a terrible setback to democracy and free elections in the country. Pakistan must not be overrun by religious fanatics.

The photo above appears courtesy of Getty images and MSNBC.com. It's from her political rally this morning hours before she was killed.

Perry Kucinich

Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich's brother was found dead today, Age 52, died allegedly of natural causes, although Lynn Samuels predicts Rush Limbaugh will try to blame the Clintons.

Donda West

1949 to November 10, 2007.

No one told me! But, check this out, she had a heart attack a day after a tummy tuck and liposuction. That f*cking sucks.

Brian Sean Griffith aka Shawn Eric Eckardt

(c. 1967 – December 12, 2007)
aka, that guy in charge of clubbing Nancy Kerrigan at the olympics!

Occupation: Thug/Goon/Former Tonya Harding bodyguard
Age: 40
Cause of Death: Natural Causes?? How about being slightly corpulent?

So does this finish our group of three for the time being? Ike, Dan, and Tubby.

Dan Fogelberg

August 13, 1951 to December 16, 2007

Occupation: Singer/Songwriter
Cause of Death: Prostate Cancer
Trivia: Comedian Denis Leary once suggested he sue Dan Fogelberg and James Taylor for turning him soft in the 70s.

Ike Turner

Well here goes something, our first installment of celebrity deaths.

Ike Turner dies at 76

Who's next?!

And, the official celebrity death patrol tracker spreadsheet

Welcome

Baron von Reaper welcomes you to Celebrity Death Patrol. This blog is dedicated to the world-wide phenomenon of celebrities dying in groups of threes, and my personal fascination with celebrity death pools. Feel free to contact me at vonreaper@gmail.com with your picks for Reaper Rumble 2008, and tell me who you think will kick the bucket in the New year. Only 24 days left in the year!