This list was submitted by FlamingoNut on Saturday, December 28th, 2002 at 4:34 PM PST for The 2003 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
9 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
8 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
7 | Ronald Reagan | June 5th, 2004 | 93 |
6 | Lester Maddox | June 25th, 2003 | 87 |
5 | Katharine Hepburn | June 29th, 2003 | 96 |
4 | Madame Chiang Kai-Shek | October 23rd, 2003 | 106 |
3 | Warren Zevon | September 7th, 2003 | 56 |
2 | Johnny Cash | September 12th, 2003 | 71 |
1 | Shelley Winters | January 14th, 2006 | 85 |
38 points | 7 hits |
Reportedly, he was so popular in the '40s that charging Japanese troops yelled, "To hell with Roosevelt, to hell with Babe Ruth, to hell with Roy Acuff!" Yeah, sure.
(d) November 23rd, 1992