This list was submitted by USER02016 on Wednesday, December 31st, 2003 at 8:38 PM PST for The 2004 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
| Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
| 9 | Yasser Arafat | November 11th, 2004 | 75 |
| 8 | Charlton Heston | April 5th, 2008 | 84 |
| 7 | Patty Duke | March 29th, 2016 | 69 |
| 6 | Kim Jong-il | December 18th, 2011 | 70 |
| 5 | Mickey Rooney | April 6th, 2014 | 93 |
| 4 | Arthur Clarke | March 19th, 2008 | 90 |
| 3 | Ariel Sharon | January 11th, 2014 | 85 |
| 2 | Ralph Stanley | June 23rd, 2016 | 89 |
| 1 | Mikhail Gorbachev | August 30th, 2022 | 91 |
| 9 points | 1 hit |
She was the first black woman to star in a TV show (in 1968) in a non-servant role. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress. She worked with women at the LA Mission for decades. And she survived breast cancer. All of that is incredibly impressive, but there's just no getting around it: that is a RIDICULOUS way to spell Diane.
(d) October 4th, 2019