This list was submitted by USER01862 on Thursday, December 30th, 2004 at 2:19 PM PST for The 2005 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Max Schmeling | February 2nd, 2005 | 99 |
9 | Rosa Parks | October 24th, 2005 | 92 |
8 | Brooke Astor | August 13th, 2007 | 105 |
7 | James Doohan | July 20th, 2005 | 85 |
6 | Simon Wiesenthal | September 20th, 2005 | 96 |
5 | John Galbraith | April 29th, 2006 | 97 |
4 | Richard Pryor | December 10th, 2005 | 65 |
3 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
2 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
1 | Michael DeBakey | July 11th, 2008 | 99 |
39 points | 6 hits |
This leader of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, and onetime prime minister of the Black Panthers, left the United States for Africa in 1969, taking the name Kwame Ture. In the late '70s, he moved again and began calling himself Johnny Bravo. Finally, just before his death, he retired to a nursing home in Redondo Beach, and settled on the name Gidget.
(d) November 15th, 1998